"Roy—"
A barely audible voice drifted through the dim underground prison.
"Roy… is it?" Fisher Tiger murmured, and his gaze gradually grew firm.
"I will definitely follow in your footsteps! Roy-sama!"
As Fisher Tiger made that vow in his heart, inside a small cell in one corner, three pairs of large eyes were also fixed on the direction Roy had left in, until his figure could no longer be seen.
"Onee-san, is that person called Roy?"
"Mm. I heard Roy too."
When the other slaves discovered that the keys Roy had left behind really could unlock the collars around their necks, every single one of them went wild.
They were ecstatic. They could not wait to open the restraints around their necks, and they scrambled over one another as they rushed out.
Roy repeated the same method, freeing the slaves in each prison cell. During that time, it was not as though no one stepped forward to stop him.
Unfortunately, in front of Roy, their strength truly was not enough to look at.
In the original version, although Fisher Tiger had caused a huge commotion, because Mary Geoise was packed with powerful fighters, he had not actually managed to release that many slaves.
Even among the slaves he did free, most were soon captured again.
Roy was different.
No matter how many powerful fighters Mary Geoise had, no matter how strong they were, could they be stronger than Roy?
As a result, the entire situation was not brought under control quickly. Instead, it moved further and further in an uncontrollable direction.
"Hurry! Put out the fire! Protect the World Nobles and evacuate them first!"
"And the slaves! Saint Donquixote specifically named his slaves. We can't let them escape!"
"Where are the guards? Where are all the powerful guards of Mary Geoise? Are they dead?!"
Mm. Quite a few of them really were dead.
"Hurry and notify the Marines! Call the Marine Admirals here!"
"Damn it! Who did this? Who did this?!"
The sound of hurried footsteps, splashing water, roars, and crying rang across the sky, loud enough to drown out the ears.
All of Mary Geoise fell into an unprecedented state of chaos.
…
"Mary Geoise was attacked. The Holy Land that the World Government was so proud of was burned to the ground. Its eight-hundred-year reputation has been destroyed in a single stroke. Tsk, tsk. I wonder what tomorrow's papers will report."
On top of a high tower, Roy propped his chin in one hand and looked at the chaotic scene before him.
"I don't know what tomorrow's papers will write, but I do know that you absolutely won't live to see tomorrow!"
A voice full of killing intent, carrying an eerie tone, rang out behind Roy.
"Oh? Is that so?" Roy did not look back. "I'd heard long ago that the World Government established three forces. The Marines have the largest numbers and the greatest strength, while the other two forces have never made any movement at all. Only today did I learn…"
Roy slowly turned around and looked at the expert before him. The man wore the attire of a Western knight, held a long spear, and radiated a powerful aura. Even in this world, he could be counted as a strong fighter.
"So the three forces refer to the Marines, the Army, and the Guard Army. And the reason the latter two aren't as famous as the Marines is because they're all serving as the World Nobles' bodyguards."
The knight expert's face was expressionless. He raised the long spear in his hand high, leapt forward, and thrust straight toward Roy at extreme speed.
"Oh? Haki?"
Roy spoke with interest. He could clearly sense that, the instant the other party lifted his spear, a special power was instantly applied to it.
Haki was colorless. Later, Eiichiro Oda only deliberately marked it with color to make it easier for readers to see.
"Ding!"
The knight's long spear stabbed directly into Roy's body. However, the scene he had imagined, where it pierced straight through Roy's entire body, did not appear. Instead, when the spear tip touched Roy's skin, it actually failed to pierce it at all.
"How is that possible?!"
The knight man's pupils suddenly shrank, and he spoke in disbelief.
Roy's body was the result of countless temperings through his Saiyan bloodline. Even without using Majin Buu's bodily abilities, his body could not be shaken apart even by a Kamehameha powerful enough to destroy a planet, let alone by a tiny long spear.
But the knight man did not know that. Seeing that his first move had failed, he immediately retreated.
On the surface, the knight man remained calm and collected, but in his heart, violent waves were rising.
As a member of the Guard Army, his duty was merely to protect the safety of the World Nobles, the Celestial Dragons. He had basically never been on a battlefield for a direct fight to the death. Compared with the iron-blooded Marines, his mentality was more than a level worse.
"Could it be…" The knight man's eyes moved, and he said to Roy in a deep voice, "You bastard, are you a Devil Fruit user?"
"A Devil Fruit user…" Roy thought of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and the Time-Time Fruit. "You could say that, I suppose."
"As expected. This guy must be a defensive Devil Fruit user similar to the Barrier-Barrier Fruit. Otherwise, he couldn't possibly block my Haki."
The knight man tightened his grip on the long spear in his hand, filling in the blanks by himself.
"No wonder he had the guts to come to the Holy Land alone and act so wildly. It looks like I alone may not be enough to take this man down. I need to wait for the Army to…"
"Hey, I'm saying…"
Roy suddenly spoke, cutting off the knight man's thoughts.
"With your strength, you should have quite a high status in the Guard Army, right?"
"Naturally. I am one of the strongest members of the Guard Army, and I hold the rank of quasi-admiral!"
"A quasi-admiral rank?" A smile appeared on Roy's face.
"Your strength and status are both decent. Looks like you can provide me with enough Success Points."
Success Points were the product of the Nen ability Roy had obtained from Ilo: Successful Killer.
Earlier, when Roy killed the guards and the others, and when he shattered the entirety of Wano Country, a fair number of Success Points had also come in.
And now, inside this Holy Land, it seemed there was also a pretty good treasure trove for providing Success Points.
"What Success Points? What are you talking abou—"
Before the knight man could finish speaking, he felt the entire world spin around him. The final thing he saw in this world was a headless corpse spraying blood.
Thud!
The head and the corpse hit the ground at the same time.
"Looks like this is a nice chance to accumulate some Success Points. The Army and the Guard Army, huh…"
An unreadable light flickered in Roy's eyes.
"If it weren't because I don't want to clash with Imu this early and make the game too boring, I really would like to wipe out that pack of Celestial Dragon scum. Still, if I punch straight through the entire Army and Guard Army, I should gain quite a bit, shouldn't I?"
A night of moon and fire painted a blood-colored darkness.
This night was destined to be far from peaceful.
…
"Hurry! Run! Get out of here!!!"
(End of Chapter)
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