Chapter 07 : Bellmere

East Blue. Cocoyashi Village.

"Hahaha! This should be it! lowly humans should be dominated by the fishmen since the beginning!"

"You are the first one to be punished by Arlong-sama... For your two girls!"

Arlong, with his jagged nose, had one arm on his hip, and the other held a gun to the forehead of a human woman.

"Nojiko, Nami...I love you both."

Arlong put a gun against Bellmere's head and laughed cruelly. "Are you scared? Hahahaha, under my rule, all people without money will die!"

"Understand that! Lower races!!"

The eyes of the surrounding villagers showed fear and intolerance.

"Huh... If you love them that much, shouldn't you protect them well? Who will protect them if you die here?"

On the road in the distance, a figure slowly walked toward the crowd with a long sword in his hand. Bellmeree, who was bleeding from the corner of her mouth, was already waiting for death, but this lazy voice sounded like a heavy hammer hitting her heart.

"Ray Punishment!"

Before Arlong finished speaking, a white light shone in front of everyone's eyes, and then a vast arm flew up.

*BAAAM!*

"AAAAARGH!"

"Damn it!!! Damn it!!!"

A large amount of blood gushed out from the severed arm, before the surrounding fishmen and villagers could react, Dylan kicked Arlong to the ground and pressed Shura against his chest.

"A higher race? Huh?"

A salmon Fishman who was holding a wine bottle saw that Arlong was knocked down in an instant, and hurriedly shouted, "Hey! You bastard, our eldest brother is the seventh shichibu-"

Hearing this voice, Arlong's pupils shrank, "Don't mention his name, let's not rely on the reputation of that traitor!"

"Jinbei? That dead blue fat man, I heard that he never kept alive humans a few years ago? When I find him, I will call him to make fish head soup!"

"You..." Arlong spat out a mouthful of blood, and there was no sign of giving in in his expression, "Scared...scared hahaha, damn low race, you think this will make us, the great fishmen succumb?"

Dylan tilted his head slightly. "It didn't?"

The corner of Dylan's mouth raised, energy poured in from the handle of the sword, a ripple visible to the naked eye swayed, and the huge impact pressed Arlong's body directly into the ground.

"The Arlong Pirates attacked human villages and towns, killed civilians, and executed all of them..."

Everyone felt a blur in front of their eyes, and a black shadow that was difficult to recognize with the naked eye shuttled around, and at the same time, there was a slight cutting sound in the air.

When the surrounding sounds dissipated, except for Arlong and an octopus who were driven into the ground by Dylan, all the members of the original Arlong Pirates fell to the ground in pieces.

All of a sudden, the soaring bloody smell accompanied by the fishmen's unique stench filled the surrounding air.

"Hey, octopus, the name of Jinbei can't save you, why don't you try to ask Rayleigh to save your life?"

The octopus's mouth was like a trumpet and he couldn't speak in surprise, "Nu~~~You...you..."

Seeing the frightened octopus, Dylan turned around and ignored him, and returned to Arlong with the bloody Shura.

"What should I do? Higher race... Do you also use money to buy your life just like what you offered to this village? How much is the life of your octopus worth? Five or ten million berries? Or maybe more?"

"You bastard! Despicable human!! Fishmen will not give in!"

slap~

Dylan clapped Shura up next to Arlong's neck.

"It's an admirable courage, but it's a pity..."

Dylan grabbed the hilt of Shura's sword with his backhand. A black and red sword glow rose from the ground. Except for the head, Arlong's body disappeared without a trace in an instant.

"I cannot make a fine soup out of you."

The Octopus who is standing not far away was trembling with fright from the soaring sharp edge, and other humans also showed shocked expressions.

"Hey, octopus!"

Dylan raised his foot and kicked Arlong's head towards him. Seeing the ferocious head flying over, the octopus subconsciously wanted to avoid it, but his body froze in Dylan's eyes, and then he stretched out his hand to catch Arlong's still-angry head.

"Go back to the fishmen island, tell Jinbei and all the bastards in his crew," Asura returns to the sheath, with all the sharpness. "If I met even one so-called 'higher race' in the ocean doing this kind of shit again... I will level down the fishmen island for you!"

After the crowd cleaned up the corpses of the Arlong Pirates, everyone else left one after another. Only Bellmere and her two daughters stayed where they were and looked at the young man sitting on the stone.

"You... are you... Marine?" Bellmere swallowed, looking at the tall young man in white. Although he didn't attack humans, the aura he exuded just now almost made them faint.

"Ah... yes, it's Marine." Dylan raised his legs and placed Shura diagonally under the orange tree next to him.

"Then... May I ask who you are and why are you here?"

"I came here to get you," Dylan said, looking up at the pink-haired Bellmere. Bellmere noticed that he was looking at him, and looked at Dylan with some surprise, "You came to find me?"

"Well," Dylan leaned against the orange tree, and lightly clasped Shura's scabbard, "I personally invite you to join my team sequence and return to Marine."

"I..." Bellmere, who has been retired for nearly 10 years, is a little embarrassed. She has been away from the battlefield for too long, and Nami and Nojiko are still young.

"I'm Marine, not a pirate. I won't force you, and I won't coerce you with kindness. After all, it's the Marine's duty to protect civilians, isn't it?"

Bellmere hesitated for a moment, looked at the daughters beside her who were still in shock, and after hesitating for a moment, said, "Then I..."

"Just go!"

There was a loud shout from the side.

"You must join, Bellmere! I know, this is your dream, Nami and Nojiko will have me, and people in the village will also take care of them."

Genzo, the village's sheriff, said loudly, "Follow your dreams to your heart's content! And when you become stronger, remember to protect the village well."

Nojiko, who was older, also reacted, and even though she was tearful, she still tugged at the corner of Nami's clothes, and they walked up to Bellmere and hugged her together.

"Bellmere, thank you for raising us up, remember to come back to see us often when you return to Marine."

Nami also raised her small face and looked at Bellmere with an innocent expression. "Is it okay for me to go to Bellmere's ship and draw a nautical chart when I grow up?"

"Really..." Bellmere squatted down and hugged the two thin daughters tightly, then turned to look at Genzo. "Isn't it a man's business to protect the village?"

"It's not like you, Mel, didn't you say that women should be full of courage?" Genzo laughed, with a look of relief on his face.

"Hey, she is going to be a Marine, not to be imprisoned in Impel down, don't make the atmosphere so sad, we can come back often." Dylan next to him couldn't stand it and interrupted them as if they were parting from each other.

Bellmere laughed through her tears, "It's true, you are such a powerful man, as your subordinate, I'm afraid it would be difficult for me to die."

Bellmere patted the backs of the two little sisters to signal them to let go, then stood up. "Then, can I ask, why did you choose me?"

"Why?" Dylan smacked his lips and smiled at the woman in front of him. "Pirates need companions, and of course, Marines do too. As for why it is you... because of your 'courage', I believe this is the most incomparable potential."

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Puru puru~ Puru puru~

"Hi, I'm Dylan."

"Ah, have you reached East Blue yet? Rhode's head has been sent back to the headquarters for verification, and the headquarters has re-evaluated your achievements in East Blue. Congratulations, Rear Admiral Dylan."

"Hmm... Rear Admiral... Okay...."

"You are not happy? It's really troublesome. By the way, didn't the Den Den Mushi say that you met someone from the Charlotte family? How is it?"

Bellmere next to him heard Aokiji's nonchalant tone and his heart was already in turmoil. That was the rising star admiral, Aokiji?! Can this man communicate directly with Admiral?

"I wanted to chop their heads, but decided to let them go..."

"Let go?"

Dylan stood up and carried Shura on his shoulders. "Let go, now is not a good time to go to war with the New World pirates, so I made a deal with Linlin, and she bought her son."

"..."

There was silence on the Den Den Mushi, and Aokiji's voice sounded again after a long time. "You don't need to tell me about this kind of thing."

Dylan laughed. "Are you going to report me to Sengoku? If I really go back with Daifuku's head, Sengoku will go crazy."

"Ah...you really know Sengoku-san, forget it, just let it go, but won't the Charlotte family leak the news?"

"Don't worry, if the news leaks out, I will be expelled from Marine at worst, but the Charlotte family will lose face in front of other big pirates, they won't speak out, and that crocodile is not a fool, he knows how to close his mouth."

"It's good that you understand, by the way, now you are Rear Admiral, come back as soon as you finish dealing with East Blue's matter, and help me here..."

Boo!

Dylan closed the line immediately, not waiting for his boss to finish what he said. In Marineford, Aokiji was lost in thought as he looked at the Den Den Mushi with his eyes closed, a smile formed from the corner of his mouth.

"Aaah.. It is good to have a good subordinate like him.."