Chapter 119: The Kidnapped Pair
After buying a large doll costume, Mont Blanc Cricket played the role of a laborer, carrying it while Perona walked ahead, satisfied.
"Hmm?" Mont Blanc Cricket, who had Observation Haki, noticed a few people following them from behind. Their outfits didn't look like tourists; they seemed more like bounty hunters.
"Tsk, have they come after us because the bounty is high now?" Mont Blanc Cricket glanced at Perona, happily walking ahead.
"Hey, don't get too far from me, we have 'guests' coming to welcome us," Mont Blanc Cricket warned.
At this moment, Perona, still young and not forced into intense training by Chiron and Scáthach , hadn't developed her Haki yet.
Upon hearing this, Perona obediently moved closer.
"We've been discovered! Attack!" A group of bounty hunters rushed forward.
"Is the target me? Negative Ghost!" From Perona's hands emerged two transparent, round-eyed, long-tongued ghosts, which flew towards the attackers.
The Negative Ghosts passed through the bodies of several bounty hunters ahead.
"Useless, I'm just no good this week, can't do anything right…"
"If only I could crawl into a hole and hide…"
"If there's a next life, I want to be moss, living in a dark corner…"
The bounty hunters behind, witnessing their comrades kneeling on the ground, murmured with deep negativity, shouted angrily, "What are you doing?!"
Perona arrogantly mocked, "Ho ho ho, is this all you've got, coming to catch me?"
She bent her upper body, looking at the kneeling hunters, "How does the taste of negativity feel?"
Mont Blanc Cricket saw that Perona was getting too close to the enemies and warned, "You should stay farther from them."
"Bang! Bang!" From the rooftops in the distance, two bounty hunters from the second squad fired at them from afar.
"Watch out!" Mont Blanc Cricket immediately stepped forward, shielding Perona from the rifle bullets.
"Ugh!" Unfortunately, his Armament Haki wasn't strong enough to fully block the bullets, and two lead bullets left bloody holes in his body.
"Ah!" Tourists around them screamed and fled the area.
"Uncle!" Perona was startled and rushed to check Mont Blanc Cricket's injuries.
Mont Blanc Cricket reassured her, "It's fine, I won't die."
"Well done! Splitting into two teams was definitely the right choice!" Seeing Mont Blanc Cricket injured, the morale of the bounty hunters' group surged.
"Nice shot! As expected, our best sniper!"
"Unforgivable!" Perona's previously cute loli voice suddenly turned into an angry, mature tone. "Mini Ghost—Ghost Bomb!"
From Perona's slender fingers, dozens of small, mini ghosts appeared. "Go!"
Following Perona's command, they charged towards the surrounding bounty hunters.
"What are these things?! Get them off me!" One giant man struggled to pull off the mini ghosts. He swung his axe at them.
"Pop! Pop!"
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Each time Perona snapped her fingers, one mini ghost exploded.
In the midst of the explosions, two unlucky bounty hunters were blown to bits, their body parts scattered around, and blood splattered everywhere.
The sturdier bounty hunters were thrown back by the shockwave, most of them losing consciousness.
They weren't protagonists, who could survive anything, always bouncing back with half health after a few minutes.
The bounty hunter who had charged forward had his axe handle snapped in two by the explosion, and the pieces were thrown high in the air before clattering to the ground.
The big-bellied man, lying on the ground, had thick fat and solid physical defense. He didn't pass out immediately but cursed in frustration, "Damn it!"
"No wonder Darren Eric 's crew is so formidable, even at such a young age…" The Long Snake Monster also felt discomfort as he picked the weakest-looking target but still couldn't defeat them.
"Now it's your turn!" Perona glared at the sniper on the distant roof, "It's this guy, it's this guy who hurt Uncle!"
"Super Ghost—Kamikaze Bomb!" Perona waved her right hand, and an enormous spherical al ghost appeared.
Perona yelled, her voice rough, "I'm going to blow you to pieces!!"
The sniper on the roof immediately moved from his original position.
"Pop!"
"Boom!"
The building was completely demolished by the Kamikaze Ghost.
"Damn, he escaped!" Perona spun around and tried to chase him.
"Wait, Perona," Mont Blanc Cricket quickly called out to her. "There might be traps. There are only two of us, let's go back and inform the captain. If we cause too much of a commotion, it might attract more enemies."
"Alright, let's hurry back," Perona agreed, bending down to support Mont Blanc Cricket.
Just then, a black figure appeared behind Perona.
Mont Blanc Cricket immediately shouted, "Watch out!"
"Wh—!" Before Perona could turn around, someone knocked her out with a wooden stick.
"Thud!" Perona collapsed to the ground, unconscious.
"Damn it!" Mont Blanc Cricket, ignoring his gunshot wounds, rushed forward with a punch.
"Too bad, your movements are slower after the injury." The opponent sneered and lowered his body, dodging Mont Blanc Cricket's punch, landing one directly on the gunshot wound in his lower abdomen.
"Ugh!" Mont Blanc Cricket gritted his teeth and swung his elbow at the attacker's lower body.
"Yo, nice moves!" The attacker dodged Mont Blanc Cricket's elbow effortlessly, grabbing Mont Blanc Cricket's arm with his wrist, and pushed forward with a left palm directly hitting another gunshot wound on Mont Blanc Cricket's body.
"Ugh!" Mont Blanc Cricket couldn't suppress the pain this time. The lead bullet still lodged inside his body added to the pain caused by the external impact.
The big-bellied man, still on the ground, screamed in shock, "Black Gramps?!"
"Huh?" The black-skinned bounty hunter turned around sharply, glaring at the big-bellied man.
However, now was not the time to deal with him. The black-skinned bounty hunter quickly turned back, using his brass knuckles to punch Mont Blanc Cricket in the stomach.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The sound of brass knuckles colliding with flesh rang out repeatedly.
"Not bad, you can take a hit…" The black-skinned man chuckled, his fists covered in Mont Blanc Cricket's blood as he licked his foul-smelling tongue.
"But you should be unconscious by now!" The black-skinned man looked at Mont Blanc Cricket, who was barely standing, and threw a powerful right hook to his chin.
Mont Blanc Cricket's chin snapped violently to the side, and the intense impact sent a wave of dizziness through his nervous system. Mont Blanc Cricket fell unconscious to the ground, his newly bought doll head also knocked far away by his body.
Seeing the two targets knocked out on the ground, the black-skinned bounty hunter turned and said, "Did you call me Black Gramps?"
"No, it wasn't me…" The big-bellied man sweated profusely, regretting Speaking too quickly.
"Wait!" The Long Snake Monster forced himself to stand up, "These two were the ones we found first. They're our prey. It's not right for you to steal them from us!"
"You're right," the black-skinned man said as he turned, "I only found them because I was tailing you. Normally, I should let you hunt them first, but... didn't you lose to them?"
"Well, thanks to you, you helped me attract their attention, so it was easier for me to catch them. I was planning to share some of the reward with you…" The black-skinned man smirked, his tone changing, "But since someone called me Black Gramps, I guess I don't need to share anything with you now, hahaha. After all, I am Black Gramps."
"My hometown has a 'Zero-Cost Purchase' event. As long as you're strong enough, you can grab as much as you want! I'm stronger than you, so I'm taking it all! Now, these two targets belong to me! Hahaha…"
He laughed arrogantly, leaving with the two unconscious people on his shoulders, swaggering as if he was determined to make the others die from frustration.
"Damn it!" The big-bellied man also got up, punching the ground angrily.
"Ugh, not only did we fail to catch the prey, but now 'Pickpocket' and 'The Skinny Guy' are dead too…" The Long Snake Monster sighed in frustration.
"Hah, who told him he's so strong and shameless. Wait…" The big-bellied man paused. "We can follow him, gather more bounty hunters, and steal the prey he caught!"
The big-bellied man suddenly came up with a new plan to make money.
(END CHAPTER)
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