Chapter 392: Are you that bored?

Poisonous Sakura Island.

On the shore of the island was a large windless area, barely reached by cherry blossoms.

A large number of people were gathered here, each with a skull-shaped tattoo on their body, with two massive crossed tibias at the bottom and a wide inverted sickle over their teeth.

These were...

Whitebeard Pirates!

At this moment, there was a young Phoenix Marco, less than thirty years old, standing on the shore.

He looked through the telescope at the sea in the distance, "This is indeed the Black Pearl of John's Pirates..."

"Hey, go tell Dad!"

Marco lowered his telescope and spoke to a companion standing nearby.

The other nodded and immediately went deeper into the island.

There aren't many pirates in the vast sea that can make the Whitebeard Pirates serious.

These are Big Mama, Kaido the Beast and several other powerful New World pirates, including John.

"Looks like he's here because of us."

Vista, who was standing next to Marco, put his hands on the hilts of his swords, staring at the ship in the distance.

Jozu, who was sitting on a nearby rock, said rudely, "Hmm, this time we'll sink them to the bottom of the ocean if John dares to challenge Papa!"

"Maybe John didn't come looking for a fight..."

Marco raised his telescope again, looking at the pirate ship John, "John must be well aware that he won't get any benefit from fighting us, he's not crazy, unlike the Kaido Beast.... hmm?"

Marco suddenly interrupted himself and turned the telescope slightly to the left.

Not far from the Black Pearl, another ship was sailing.

On closer inspection, it turned out to be an ordinary medium-sized ship, with no identifying markings.

It did not appear to be a pirate ship, but a merchant ship of some kind.

Marco turned his telescope back to the Black Pearl of John's Pirates and noticed that they had adjusted their course slightly and were rapidly approaching the merchant ship.

"John's Pirates are going to attack a ship."

Marco lowered the scope and said, "I'm not sure.

Flower Blade Vista, Diamond Jozu and the other Whitebeard Pirates nearby also spotted the small ship, being quickly overtaken by the Black Pearl of John's Pirates.

"They are not of our people."

Vista's hands were clenched over the hilts of his swords.

Marco folded his arms and looked at Vista, "Looks like a normal merchant ship...they were very unlucky to run into the John Pirates."

The Whitebeard Pirates occupy some territories in the New World, but Poison Sakura Island isn't one of them, and the merchant ship doesn't have the Whitebeard Pirates flag, so it clearly has nothing to do with their allies.

Whitebeard pirates are usually quite poor, because they rarely engage in looting.

They usually steal from other pirates or the property of the Nobles of the World, trying not to touch ordinary civilians.

But they are certainly not kindhearted or heroes.

None of them were going to take on the John Pirates because of an ordinary merchant ship, especially since Whitebeard himself had not yet arrived, and the distance was too great to be able to help.

Vista took his hands off the hilts of his swords and shook his head, "If John really is targeting a merchant ship, then the crew can only regret their bad luck."

Under the supervision of the Whitebeard Pirates.

The distance between the two ships sailing in the direction of Poison Sakura Island was closing rapidly.

When the distance was reduced to a certain point, the Black Pearl opened fire.

Boom! Boom! Boom!!!!

A dozen shells were launched in the direction of Yeruashi's ship.

The fire was not too massive, because John's Pirates did not want to sink Yeruashi's ship, but to cause some damage so that he could not escape safely.

After that, they would have overtaken and looted the ship without worries.

Shelling!!!

The explosions from the shells that fell into the sea near the Yeruashi ship created a lot of foam, more than ten meters high.

Marco and the others shook their heads as they watched.

Marco turned to the Whitebeard Pirates behind him and said, not intending to continue watching such a spectacle, "Hey! Come on, the John Pirates are coming! All the cabin boys should get out of here immediately, this is not something you can deal with!"

And just as Marco called out to the crew members in the rear.

Flower Blade Vista, who was still looking out to sea in the distance, was very surprised, "Marco! Look! Something seems to be wrong!"

"Huh?"

Marco turned to look at the ships in the distance.

As the numerous splashes fell, he saw the entire, unharmed ship of the Yeruashi.

There was no damage to it at all!

But the strangest thing was the behavior of the shells, which were supposed to hit the merchant ship directly.

They simply froze in mid-air in front of the ship, as if they had hit an impassable invisible barrier, and then exploded noisily one after another!

"What?"

Captain John, who was standing on the forward edge of the Black Pearl's deck, was a little surprised to see what was happening in the distance, "Ah, looks like there's someone strong on this ship."

He drew his sword.

Apparently, Black Pearl's attack was blocked by some kind of Devil Fruit's ability.

To do something like that so easily, the person on the other side must have quite a bit of strength.

But, of course, John didn't care, because he.... He was Captain John!

One of the strongest pirates in the New World!!!!

There aren't many people in the vast expanse of the sea that could worry him!

John waved his sword forward sharply.

Whoosh!!!

A huge dark brown slash cut through the air.

This slash crossed hundreds of meters in the blink of an eye, about to split Yeruashi's ship in two!

But at this moment.

A human figure appeared on the edge of the ship's deck.

The man simply raised his hand and gently pressed his palm against the large gash that was about to split the ship in two, and then simply clenched his fingers.

Boom!!!

A huge brown arc-shaped slash, with enough force to cut several large ships in half at once, was firmly stopped by a small hand, like a boa constrictor that was grabbed by the neck with one hand, struggled and writhed violently, but could not escape.

When the man's palm squeezed, the huge brown slash immediately shattered, shattering into countless points of light that quickly scattered into the air.

"..."

At that moment, Marco's mouth opened wide and Vista froze in place.

Under the eyes of the Whitebeard Pirates.

Yeruashi slowly lowered his hand and looked at the Black Pearl, which was now about a hundred meters away, and then said casually to Captain John, who was standing at the bow of the ship, "Were you so bored that you wanted to find trouble unexpectedly?"