The entire venue fell silent.
Ace, Luffy, Sabo.
The three kids, the three kids who were just immersed in different emotions, now had surprisingly identical expressions.
Their mouths were all agape in an 'O' shape, wide enough to fit an egg.
Their eyes were wide open.
Their brains collectively crashed at this moment!
What just happened?
That Guard Captain... that menacing, obviously strong guy... just... flew away?
With one finger?
Just with one finger?!
Ace, who was hanging on White Night, froze. He turned his head with difficulty, looking at White Night's still expressionless profile, and his Adam's apple bobbed up and down.
He swallowed hard.
He knew this man was strong.
But he never imagined he would be this strong!
Luffy hugged White Night's leg even tighter. He looked up with his small face, and countless sparkling stars appeared in his black-bean-like eyes.
So... so amazing!
Even more amazing than Shanks!
Sabo was also completely stunned.
The tears on his face hadn't dried, but there was no longer any despair or pain in his red eyes.
Only overwhelming, indescribable shock remained!
"Useless!"
A hysterical roar broke the eerie silence!
Otriluk III's face was completely contorted with extreme anger, losing all trace of noble elegance.
He pointed at the guards who were too scared to move and cursed loudly.
"A bunch of useless people!"
"What are you all good for?! A Guard Captain, just like that, was sent flying by a commoner?!"
"The kingdom's face has been completely disgraced by you good-for-nothings!"
His eyes were bloodshot as he glared fiercely at the White-haired Youth, who was still leaning against the tree, not even changing his posture.
His gaze looked as if he wanted to devour White Night alive!
"What are you standing around for?!"
"Go!"
"Everyone! Go together!"
"Chop him into mincemeat!"
Under his roar, the remaining dozen or so guards, though filled with fear, dared not disobey orders.
They exchanged glances, seeing terror and a hint of ruthlessness in each other's eyes.
"Kill—!"
A dozen people roared to embolden themselves, rushing towards White Night from all directions, simultaneously brandishing their longswords!
The interwoven sword net sealed off all escape routes!
"Big Brother White Night! Be careful!" Ace cried out in horror.
However.
Facing this siege, which was enough to dismember a person instantly.
White Night merely yawned.
He rubbed his eyes, looking lazy as if he hadn't fully woken up.
"Sigh..."
He sighed, his tone filled with undisguised weariness at this farce.
"I'm not playing with you anymore."
He said lightly.
"It's too boring."
The moment his words fell.
Boom!
Behind him, without warning, eight colossal, inky-black shadows, like living creatures, suddenly burst forth!
What was that?!
Were those... octopus tentacles?!
Thick, grotesque, inky-black tentacles covered with suckers, like demonic claws reaching out from hell, danced wildly behind him!
The air solidified at this moment!
The expressions on the faces of the guards, who were halfway through their charge, instantly changed from ferocity to extreme terror!
They wanted to stop! Wanted to retreat!
But, it was too late!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Eight tentacles shot out like lightning, at a speed impossible for the naked eye to catch!
They precisely wrapped around the bodies, necks, and limbs of every guard!
One even bypassed everyone, swiftly coiling around Otriluk III, who was standing at the very back, his face filled with horror!
"Ugh—!"
"Ho ho ho..."
All the harsh screams and exclamations turned into suppressed, painful grunts the moment they were entangled!
A dozen people, along with that haughty noble.
At this moment, all of them were hoisted into mid-air by those grotesque tentacles!
The tentacles tightened abruptly!
Crack! Crack!
That was the sickening sound of armor being crushed and deformed, making one's teeth ache!
Those battle-hardened guards were as fragile as infants before these tentacles! They struggled desperately but couldn't budge an inch! They could only watch helplessly as their bodies were squeezed tighter and tighter, their faces turning purplish, their eyeballs almost popping out of their sockets!
White Night just stood there quietly.
The eight tentacles extending from him, symbolizing absolute power and destruction, danced wildly in the air.
They toyed with the so-called kingdom's elite, holding them in the palm of their hand.
Like a god, judging a group of ignorant ants.
"Wah ah—!"
Countless sparkling stars burst forth in Luffy's black-bean-like eyes!
He hugged White Night's leg even tighter, clinging to him entirely, looking up with his dirty little face, and shouted with all his might in admiration.
"White Night! You're so amazing—!"
"So cool!"
This heartfelt exclamation pulled Ace and Sabo, who were still in a state of petrification, back to reality.
Ace stiffly slid down from White Night's back, looking at the guards who were wrapped by tentacles in mid-air, struggling desperately but in vain, and that noble man who was once so arrogant but now had a ashen face.
He swallowed hard.
This man... this man named White Night... was so strong, he was practically inhuman!
White Night seemed unfazed by Luffy's flattery.
He lazily turned his head, his indifferent eyes falling on Ace's face.
"Hey."
He gestured with his chin towards the 'trophies' tied up in mid-air.
"How about it?"
"Client."
A playful curve appeared at the corner of White Night's mouth.
"Do you need me to help you... clean up all this trash?"
Kill them?
This light, airy question, like asking "do you want an extra egg?"
Made the three kids' bodies tremble violently!
The shock and excitement on Ace's face instantly faded, replaced by a deathly pallor!
Luffy's sparkling eyes also returned to normal. He tilted his head, his rubber brain feeling the chilling weight behind those two words for the first time.
Kill them... what did that mean?
Did it mean they would never be seen again?
Sabo's reaction was the most intense.
He suddenly looked up, the color draining from his tear-stained face!
He looked at his father in mid-air, whose face was turning purple from the tight grip of the black tentacles, and whose feet were kicking weakly.
Even though he was a scoundrel.
Even though he hated that man.
But he was still... his father!
"No... don't!"
Sabo didn't even think, almost instinctively rushing in front of White Night, his red eyes filled with pleading and entreaty.
"Please... don't kill him!"
His words were broken by fear, laced with a sob.
"Please!"
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