Chapter 9: Life at Sea

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Seeing the whistling lead bullets coming his way, the childish Kong's expression crumbled. The bald-headed head sailor, Aleck, let out a furious roar, raising his massive axe the size of a millstone to block the incoming projectiles.

Clang, clang, clang...

Amidst the shower of sparks, the majority of lead bullets were blocked by the broad axe.

A few of them landed on Aleck's body, but his tense muscles stopped them in their tracks, leaving behind dark metallic scars on his skin.

The scorching lead bullets spread out, closely adhering to his flesh. The high temperature and impact filled Aleck's eyes with bloodshot veins. Letting out another furious roar, he used his axe as a shield and continued his charge!

Although the flintlock guns in this world were incredibly capable of rapid fire, their rate of fire wasn't very high.

The captain's room door was already broken, and Aleck was only a few meters away from the head sailor. With just one charge, he could take him down—

Bang, bang, bang!

However, at this critical moment, a sudden series of gunshots erupted from behind. Amidst the sound of familiar screams from his subordinates, the charging head sailor couldn't help but abruptly turn around.

?!

With just one look, the bald-headed head sailor's eyes almost popped out of their sockets!

The cabin at the front of the deck suddenly opened, and a group of sailors belonging to the navigators rushed out, attacking the head sailor's subordinates from behind with their flintlock guns.

Facing enemies on both sides, even if the head sailor had more men, they wouldn't be able to hold out!

Some of the sailors continued charging forward out of instinct, some turned around to return fire at the navigators, while others stood still, unsure of what to do...

"Charge with me!!"

At this crucial moment, the bald-headed head sailor played his expected role.

His furious roar snapped his subordinates back to reality, and they instinctively followed him, charging fiercely into the captain's room.

Since they were surrounded, they might as well take a gamble and charge into the captain's room first! They would take out the captain's men first, and then, relying on the terrain and weapons in the captain's room, they could turn around and deal with the navigators...

Although the bald-headed head sailor wasn't very intelligent, he had an instinctive understanding of the situation on the battlefield.

?!

As the bald-headed head sailor charged like a raging bull, the ship's crew in the captain's room couldn't help but tremble violently.

They were terrified to the extreme, but also shaken by the shockwave created by the charging man.

"Don't be afraid—"

In the captain's room, a sailor in the front shouted and unsheathed the cutlass at his waist, swinging it fiercely at the charging Aleck.

Faced with this "brave" retaliation, Aleck the head sailor disdainfully knocked the massive axe in his hand directly at the cutlass! The cutlass exploded in a loud bang.

Even the sailor's master was pitiful, as he was directly struck by hundreds of kilograms of metal.

Without even needing the axe's blade, just the axe's massive surface smashed the sailor backward!

Bang...

Amidst the muffled sound, the sailor spewed out a gush of blood in mid-air, twisting and breaking countless bones. He crashed back down like a cannonball, scattering the formation of the other sailors behind him.

"Anyone who blocks my way dies!!"

After sending the leading sailor flying back, Aleck flashed the blade in his other hand forward.

With his naturally tall and long-armed physique, combined with a specially-made scimitar over 1.5 meters long, he swept it horizontally like a giant spear!

Spurt...

Amidst the splattering blood, three sailors collapsed to the ground, bleeding profusely from their throats.

The remaining sailors' faces turned pale, and they involuntarily retreated, desperately trying to distance themselves from the situation.

Damn it, how did it come to this?!

The formation instantly fell into chaos. The noble captain, standing at the back, changed his expression. Although he knew there was a difference between him and his trusted head sailor, he didn't expect it to be so vulnerable.

The scimitar glimmered with silver light, and the massive axe swung wide open and shut. The bald-headed head sailor, wielding two weapons, created a bloody spectacle, like a feRosinanteous tiger among sheep. He easily routed the sailors who belonged to the captain, leaving them crying for their parents and in disarray.

If this were in the history of his past life, he would at least earn the title of "Great General of the Millennium!"

But in this world, he was just an ordinary head sailor on a small trading ship.

"Krahorn, die for me—"

Facing the head sailor, who was in a frenzy and seemed unscathed despite being hit by blades, bullets, and guns, the noble captain's face twitched.

Do you think you've won like this?

Sir Krahorn, who was full of killing intent and paid no attention to the blades and bullets that hit him, suddenly stopped hesitating. He quickly moved backward, and as the wall behind him slid open, a secret room was revealed.

?!

The noble captain swiftly retreated into the secret room, and as the iron door closed, he made a mouth shape from afar.

'Die!'

?!

In an instant, the head sailor, who was slaughtering everyone around, felt like he had been thrown into a world of ice and snow. A wave of coldness surged from his feet to his head! The instincts he had developed over years of fighting sounded like an alarm in his mind.

Retreat!

Retreat quickly!!

Bang—

With a push from his feet, the tall and muscular head sailor flew backward as if he had transformed into a "Rubber Fruit" user. He forcefully sent several of his subordinates behind him flying.

While these sailors were sent flying by their boss, they were left bewildered when a thunderous explosion silenced their complaints.

"What the hell..."

On the right side of the "Flat Tower" ship, where he was fixed to the hull with claws and a small knife, Rosinante trembled all over!

He had been hiding here and observing the situation:

First, the bald-headed head sailor led his men to attack the captain's room, and his tank-like frenzy surprised Rosinante.

Then, the cabin at the front of the ship opened, and the elegant navigator launched a surprise attack from behind! The head sailor's men were caught in a pincer attack.

Facing such a perilous situation, the head sailor directly launched a more reckless assault on the captain's room.

Although Rosinante, hiding quietly outside the ship, couldn't see it, the sounds of screams, flesh tearing, and metal breaking told him that the head sailor was killing everyone indiscriminately.

This made Rosinante wonder if that massive bald man could massacre the entire ship by himself.

But just at that moment, things took an unexpected turn:

First, the tall and muscular head sailor was suddenly thrown out of the captain's room, as if he had been "spat" out!

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In the next instant, flames and shockwaves followed closely behind, and everything in the captain's room expanded violently and was torn into pieces!

Boom—

A violent explosion swept through, and amidst countless wood chips and iron fragments, these ordinary pieces turned into deadly weapons! They were like countless shrapnel, wildly shooting in all directions with the impact of the shockwave.

At the same time, flesh and limbs mixed among the debris, coating the explosion in a layer of blood red!

Kashta—

Even Rosinante, who was hiding outside the hull, saw a thick bulkhead beside him torn open by whistling iron pieces, making his forehead twitch.

If it was slightly off-target and landed on his head...

Tsk, such a terrifying explosion, it's no less than the weapons from my past life!

Rosinante had no idea that this ship was smuggling "Dynamite Rocks" and was scared by the power of the explosion.

If it weren't for his instinctive use of the Silence ability to counteract the explosion's shockwave, he might have been in the same state as those guys on the deck.

What about Doflamingo?

Glancing towards the front deck, Rosinante saw that the sailors belonging to the elegant navigator were also in disarray. The massive explosion had particularly damaged their semicircular canals, making the sailors trying to get up stumble and wobble.

Doflamingo, lying on the ground, seemed to have not suffered any harm. He rolled to the side and took cover behind the mast, his short flintlock gun held protectively against his chest as he surveyed his surroundings cautiously.

"Ah ah ah ah!!"

Even the sailors who were farthest away were in such a sorry state. What about the other two waves of people who faced the explosion head-on?

Clang, clang,

A hulking figure covered in wounds and dripping with blood stood up from the blood-stained debris. He surveyed his surroundings:

A sailor with a broken knife embedded in his belly groaned in pain, another sailor with limbs torn off crawled on the ground, and there were more whose breathing was weak, exhaling the last of their air, and rapidly turning cold—lifeless bodies.

These were all his trusted subordinates. If they hadn't rushed into the captain's room together, they wouldn't have been blown up like this!

As for the sailors belonging to the captain? It was fortunate if they could piece together a complete corpse.

"Krahorn,"

"You beast!!!"

Shaken by the furious roar, the red-eyed head sailor's gaze fell upon the sailors on the front deck.

Who fired the gun?!

Facing the head sailor, the sailors belonging to the elegant navigator wore bitter expressions, wishing they could stab the person who had fired dozens of times.

In the next second, the head sailor, who was already filled with rage, turned and strode forward. Although he didn't know where his sailor's knife had flown off to during the explosion, he still had his heavy axe.

"Die!!!"

In the charge, the tall head sailor spun with both hands wielding the massive axe as if throwing a shot put.

Whoosh!

With the head sailor's axe swing, a terrifying gust of wind swept through the deck, sounding like the sound of a sail suddenly unfurling in a hurricane.

"Retreat!"

The sailor at the front shouted, ready to leap backward, but in the midst of the chaos, he fell to the side.

No, it was not the "whole person" who fell but a half!

"Ah ah ah!! Save me, save me—"

The "half" sailor, who fell to the ground, hadn't died yet and cried out, stretching his hands haphazardly. However, what awaited him was:

Bang!

A shot to "liberate" the half-cut sailor, and the navigator, Doflamingolansi, no longer had his usual elegance on his face, only cold killing intent.

"Go, kill this stupid guy, Alac, and this ship will be ours!"

After saying this, the navigator placed his hand on the hilt of his sword and quickly lunged forward—

Splitch,

The figure passed by, and a bloodline shot out from the waist of the heavily wounded head sailor.

"Although I'm not good at fighting," the swift and deadly stab was so quick that even Rosinante, who was secretly watching, only saw a flash of a figure and reacted belatedly to the attack.

"But dealing with a stupid half-fish bastard like you is more than enough!"

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