Chapter 36

Chapter 36

*clap*

The heavy atmosphere between Sunset pirates, marine, and cp-0 agents disappeared with a clap sound produced from Esdeath's right side. Drawing back her killing intent, Esdeath laughs a little before taking a deep breath. Everyone in the ship also begins to calm their mind with a clap from Senjumaru and they begins to pull themselves while Izumi is readying her Naginata.

"*taking a deep breath* ... Cipher Pol Agix Zero. As rumored, you would do everything in your arsenal to get the job done, huh? It was close. It was close. I almost snapped and kill you all." (Esdeath)

Esdeath's last words carry her sharpest killing intent which makes the one who received her killing intent to hallucinate about their death. It was a technique, Embra gifted to all his divine generals and of course, the former divine general Esdeath can use it really well. The evident can be clearly seen by looking at the sweats pouring from the two vice-admirals behind Garp and the increase in pressure emitting from Garp, Sengoku, and the three Cp-0 members. Her killing intent was formidale to the extent that, the experienced combatants have to become serious but, Esdeath does not move yet. Rather, she is smirking at the Cp-0 member, the short man with white make-up especially.

Garp, who was about to move to attack as he is fed up with this facade, stops in his track and at the same time, Izumi moves to the rear in a flash, thrusting her Naginata at a seemingly empty space. It only took a second for Garp to get out of the 'restraint' by putting haki on his leg and by the time he did that, a black suit man whose heart has been stabbed by Izumi's weapon falls down before he can make a move on Tsugumi, who is standing at the rear. The sneak attack of a Cp-0 agent, who utilized the best moment, failed because of Izumi's future vision and it was not well-received by other three Cp-0 members on the warship .

"*Ekkk*" (Tsugumi)

"An assassin with impressive stealth technique and invisibility DF on top. Quite a sneaky little rat." (Izumi)

Swinging her weapon to clean off the blood, Izumi assure Tsugumi by her eyes before kicking the body of a Cp-0 member off the boat. Esdeath who stopped Garp's attack by freezing the movement of his leg claps her hands in impressive manner,

"*clap* *clap* Amazing. To be able to break out from that in a second, as expected of a legend of old era. Not too shabby, ain't you, old man? And, on the other hand, we have shameless WG dogs who have to resort to sneak attack on a weak member of my crew. Shameless, aren't you guys? Oh!! Now I think I understand the reason why you wear mask. You do not dare to shows your face to thw world after everything you have done, so no face to lose, isn't it good?" (Esdeath)

To give back their own medicine, Esdeath tried to provoke the Cp-0 members but, she didn't succeed it as Cp-0 members are trained especially to be in control of their own emotions. So, Esdeath's provocation did not do a thing on them but, Esdeath merely smiles at her failed provocation.

Meanwhile Garp, whose attack has been stopped by Esdeath who is keeping her attention on Cp-0 members, is not feeling good and he would very much like to punch Esdeath in the face, if she were a 'man'. But, he just swallowed his anger and before any one could do anything, Grayfia who is also keeping her eyes on Cp-0 members jokingly said to Esdeath,

"Sister, don't you think we have been wasting time here, staring at each other? WHy don't we drew lots here on who to kill?" (Grayfia)

Sengoku and others are pissed off hearing Grayfia while the Cp-0 members are merely observing carefully. They could not move carelessly either as it has already shown that, someone who has an incredible speed has a future-vision Haki. They also do not know how Esdeath stop Garp's attack, which makes them a little hesitant in dealing with Esdeath and co, head-on.

On the other hand, Grayfia's words may sounds like she is joking but her words, especially 'drew lots', are clearly received by someone in control room and she has already put her hand on a circle on a screen. It was evident that 'drew lots' is a code, or more like an order, for the person in the control room and she is ready to touch that circle even though she is very much anxious.

On the deck, Esdeath heard Grayfia question and after thinking for a while, she said lightly like she is choosing an ice cream flavor,

"Oh, why not choose 'the Buddha'?" (Esdeath)

"!! You bastard! " (Sengoku)

Sengoku the Buddha tensed at the mention of his name and ready himself for an attack but, he was never a target in the first place. Before the encounter with the pursers, Esdeath put everyone in their own advantage position and Grayfia made 'codes' or 'hidden message' for everyone and, one of them is 'drew lots', which is meant for a person in the control room and the meaning is 'Ready the automatic sniper rifle'. And, another code said after that, will be the target of the sniper. They only have one shot as that sniper rifle is automatics and cannot fire after its position has been revealed, but on the bright side, it will surely hit because it was fired by a machine and there is no 'intent' on it.

And so, hearing the code of Esdeath, the person in the control room moves the circle on the screen and aims at the tallest person, as it is the meaning of the code. Locking on the tallest person, the person hit the button on the screen, which instantly makes an automatic hypersonic rifle, stationed at the crow's nest of the main mast, fired a bullet at 6500 feet per second, or, Mach 5.77 in velocity.

*gun shot*

The sound of the sniper rifle was loud, more than a normal gun shot but before any one could find where bullet will come from, a tall man with red mask, an angry expression as its design, falls down with a huge gaps in his head. The size of a hole on the Cp-0 agent's head can almost fits an apple. So, it is no doubt that, he has already been killed.

*thud*

Two Cp-0 agents looks back towards the sound and found their co-woker dead, with a huge gaping hole on its head. Instantly, they feels shivers at the fact that, they didn't even finds out the bullet. The feelings of panic and a little bit of fear in the two Cp-0 agent's heart is understandable because their observation haki which was trained to the limits, their countless amount of combat experience, and their own alertness were not enough to catch sight of the bullet which killed their co-worker.

No, it is not only them, even Tsuru whose haki is better than Garp and Sengoku is surprised to the extent that, her back feels cold. Everyone who saw a member of Cp-0 agent falling, also had the same expression on their face and before they can do anything a mocking laughs comes out from the three queens who are standing on Enterprise. However, it is evident to everyone that, their guards are not down for a second when they are talking,

*chuckle* (Three queens)

"Ahaha . Could you not see that slow one?" (Esdeath)

"Wow, so you could not even see a bullet from our least experienced sniper?" (Grayfia)

"That fact alone makes me want to laugh at you guys, Cp-0. And you want to catch us? You can continue dreaming on." (Senjumaru)

If one calmly listens and observe the smallest actions of the three queens, they would have notice that, they are bluffing but, it cannot be said the same for the people who just saw a person with a vice-admiral strength, falls down without being able to do anything. Especially, the man with white make-up on his face, who instantly let out all his fighting spirit, making some people suffocate and struggle to even breath.

Esdeath frown and before she can look back at the people behind her back, who are having trouble breathing, an angry voice comes from the man who is letting out astronomical amount of killing intent.

"You all are too dangerous to let you live, So, you all die here." (White make-up man)

As soon as the man's word's ended, Esdeath feels shiver on her whole body that, she instinctively use her trump card, 'Makahadoma'. Immediately, the surrounding become still and everything stops moving which gives Esdeath some breathing moment to looks around. A kick is already near her head, a kick which comes from the short man with the white make-up. Beside her, everyone is the motion of moving backward to avoid something. Senjumaru who saw the future earlier has already fired her spear at the man with white make-up.

'If it is other people, they would have died. I see, So, that's why Husband told us not to fight the Cp-0 agents. I admit it. They are stronger than me. NO, they are already monster, even for me. But, unfortunately, I got this power to stop time. As you have said, you are dangerous to let you live. So, Good bye. Let's not see each other again Cp-0.' (Esdeath's thought)

All in all, it took Esdeath 1.3 seconds to analyze the situation and think before she goes to the stance of sword drawing. She coated her sword in full haki and says,

"Breath of Ice, Sixth form, Freezing sword" (Esdeath)

An extremely fast sword draw or Iai technique is executed by Esdeath and her sword cut through the neck of the man who is aiming a kick at her neck. The sword technique Esdeath executed is a technique that combines all of her DF power and Haki, making the path that her sword traveled, freeze. Meaning, the air molecule, the blood, muscle, bones, and everything the sword cut through was separated by a layer of freezing DF. Which further means that, regeneration is no longer possible or more like even the contact between the separated parts are no longer possible as it is separated by a layer where everything is freeze.

Back to the scene, after cutting the neck of the man with white make-up, Esdeath moves on to the deck of the warship and similarly cut the neck of the man with yellow flowery beard. The man was about to shoot something from the tips of his finger but, in the world where time is frozen, his neck was cut by Esdeath.

And, 0.5 seconds before the 'Makahadoma' is disable, Esdeath moves to the back of Vice-admiral Tsuru and grip her neck with her haki coated left hand while her right hand is ready to swing the sword.

Makahadoma is disabled and before any one could register anything, Esdeath quietly said,

"I would not recommend you to move. Garp, Sengoku" (Esdeath)

Snapping their head at the direction of the voice, they saw that Esdeath is holding Vice-admiral Tsuru by the throat and before their surprise are answered, the loud sound of something crushing is heard. Glancing at the side, the two legend saw that the headless body of the man who let out the huge killing intent that made even them put on their guard, was crushed into the deck of Enterprise while blood spurt from his cut neck in huge amount.

"..." (Garp and Sengoku)

A thud sound can be heard again and this time, the last member of Cp-0 fall dead on the deck of the warship with his head rolling to the side. Blood is also polling from his cut neck and no one could register what happened. Except for the members of the sunset pirates, everyone is thinking the same thing,

'WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THEM?'