43- Ethan VS Kuro (2)

'Since he's moving fast on the ground, I'll use this then.' Ethan manipulated the ground around him and made it sprout nails made of rocks, the length of each nail is 18 cm.

Although Ethan isn't skilled at controlling the elements yet, he can do such simple things.

Kuro, who was moving quickly around Ethan, jumped backwards, away from the range of nails that came out of the ground.

"What kind of devil fruit did you have, why do you have different abilities. But it doesn't matter, do you think that once you get nails out of the ground you can stop me?" Kuro smiled and then disappeared from his place again, then started appearing in different places around Ethan and outside the range of nails. Every time he appears, Ethan attacks him with fire, but Kuro moves quickly and disappears again.

But the last time he disappeared he didn't appear for a long time, Ethan kept looking around trying to find his trace, Kuro suddenly appeared at Ethan and sent a powerful kick in the face, the kick is strong enough to throw Ethan ten meters away.

Ethan did not expect Kuro to enter the range of nails and walk on them as if they were not there and slowly approached him and sent a sudden attack.

Kuro looked at Ethan who had fallen to the ground and started to talk about how he got tired of being a pirate and wanted to live a quiet life and how he planned all this and how he faked his death, "Listen carefully, kid. This plan took me three years, I won't let it fail."

"My plan was almost completed, Kaya was killed, and I wrote her will that all her property would pass to me if she died. All I needed was for the pirates to attack the village to prove that it was the pirates who killed Kaya."

"There must be some pirates you defeated still alive, I will use them to attack the village, after I kill you and your crew." After Kuro finished speaking, he quickly ran toward Ethan, swinging his claws toward Ethan.

Ethan quickly got up and fended off Kuro's attack with his sword, then retreated, gripped his sword tightly, and wrapped the sword with the wind element, swinging it toward Kuro.

A wind blade came out of the sword and flew towards Kuro, the wind blade was invisible so Kuro didn't notice it and thought that Ethan just swung his sword in the air 'Is he so scared that he started swinging his sword randomly.'

The technique that Ethan used was not related to his skill with the sword because he was still not skilled enough with the sword to produce a wind blade. Ethan had manipulated the Wind Elemental and added it to his Sword skill to produce the current Wind Blade.

The wind blade reached Kuro and slashed his chest, blood started to flow and Kuro fell to the ground.

"How did this happen?" Jango was shocked when he saw that Kuro got hit out of nowhere and then fell to the ground.

When Zora and Kuina saw Ethan's technique, they were surprised, then their eyes flashed and a sudden inspiration came to them.

"The fight is finally over." Makino said gleefully, happy that Ethan won the fight without getting seriously injured.

But contrary to everyone's expectations, Kuro was not defeated and slowly stood up while spitting some blood from his mouth. He looked at his wound and thought 'Fortunately, that attack wasn't strong.'

'Damn it was a shallow strike that didn't penetrate his vital points.' Although he couldn't defeat him in that attack, Ethan wasn't disappointed by it, as he had another trump card.

After that, Kuro started using his leg technique again, quickly moved from his spot and disappeared.

Ethan took a deep breath and held both of his swords tightly and then using the fire element started to heat up his swords, both blades turned red as if they were going to melt due to the heat.

Ethan starts trying to sense the location of Kuro's upcoming attack as he heats up his swords. When Kuro reappeared and attacked him, Ethan had already prepared his attack.

Ethan swung his two swords crosswise toward Kuro. Ethan's attack was enough to cut the katana on the Kuro gloves like tofu and then cut Kuro in half.

After Ethan cut Kuro in half and the two swords he was carrying broke, he sighed, "Now he's definitely dead."

[During your fight against Kuro you gained

2 points on Strength

3 points on Stamina

3 points on Agility

1 point on Vitality]

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[Status]

•Name: Ethan Brown

•Level: 26(50,400/53,000 EXP)

•Strength: 80(+10%) = 88

•Stamina:58(+10%)=64

•Agility:70(+10%)=77

•Vitality:54(+10%)=60

•Status points you own: 124

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[You killed Kuro and his skill 'Stealth Walk' has been added to the shop]

After Ethan killed Kuro, the girls gathered around him, but no one was happy. Ethan looked at Kaya's body lying on the ground, then sighed, walked over to her body and then gently picked it up. He looked at the girls and said in a low voice, "Let's go back to the palace."

"What are we going to do with this guy, he's the only one alive." Alvida patted Ethan on the shoulder and pointed at Jango who was trying to escape. When Jango heard Alvida's words, his body stopped moving in fear.

"Kill him, I don't need him." Ethan said coldly as he walked toward the palace, but at this moment the Kaya that Ethan was carrying disappeared. Ethan and the girls were shocked by this.

"Please don't kill him, because I can use him." At this moment Kaya's gentle voice entered their ear, Kaya appeared right in front of Ethan with a beautiful smile on her face. There was a kind of warmth in her heart when she watched them mourn her death even though they had only met for one day.

"KYAAAAA, it's the ghost of Kaya." Nami cried out loudly as she hid behind Zora, tears were welling up in her eyes from fear. If she had a cross she would have held it tightly or if she had salt she would have thrown it at Kaya saying 'Soul, go to the afterlife in peace' but unfortunately she didn't have either.

Ethan didn't care about Nami's screaming, he just looked at Kaya and then wrapped his hand around her waist and hugged her tightly, "I really thought you were dead."

Kaya was shocked by the sudden hug and her face turned red from extreme embarrassment, but she did not resist the hug of Ethan, but rather hugged him and buried her face in his chest so that he would not see her face, which turned red.

'Does Ethan love me?' Kaya felt her heartbeat increase.