The explosive yellow laser beams were fired non-stop.
"Cannot be stopped!"
Sephiroth saw the future if he tried to withstand the attack with his swords. Hundreds of shots came in a rapid succession. He could deflect a few, or even a dozen, but Queen was like firing unlimited ammunition. This sent shivers down Sephiroth's spine.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Thanks to his Kenbunshoku Haki, Sephiroth avoided all the laser shots. The beams exploded on the ground, creating large holes. Queen's brutal attack did not hurt Sephiroth at all.
Instead, Queen's pirates who fainted from Sephiroth's Haoshoku Haki now became victims. Under Queen's indiscriminate firing, many of them turned into charred and torn corpses. Some of the luckier ones were only hit by the explosion and woke up from their fainting.
"Ahhhhh! It hurts!" "My arm!" "My leg!"
Howls were heard everywhere, but Queen didn't flinch. To him, subordinates were just tools that could be replaced.
Monet and Sugar, who were hiding behind a rock, watched all this in fear. They wanted to escape, but didn't dare. Queen had their lives in his hands. If they escaped, severe torture would await them.
"Sister, why don't we just get away?" Sugar whispered fearfully.
"No! If Queen knows we're running, he won't let us go easily. It's better to wait until the fight is over," Monet replied.
Sugar nodded. She thought, could the 500 toy soldiers she just made control the course of the fight? But, she saw the explosions and fire on the battlefield, and she felt that the toy soldiers would only be useless and destroyed by Queen's laser bombs.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The laser beams kept coming, and Sephiroth kept dodging. At the same time, he swung his Masamune sword and slashed toward Queen's neck.
Swoosh!
A dark red sword light shone. The sword easily penetrated Queen's neck, which was covered in Busoshoku Haki, but after entering a few centimeters, the sword hit metal, and couldn't go any deeper.
Because his sword was not effective, Sephiroth quickly pulled it back and avoided the laser. He again swung his sword at another part of Queen's body, making Queen scream in pain.
'How many parts of this guy's body are modified? A wound on the skin won't affect an Ancient Zoan user. Dozens of these wounds won't be fatal either. I could just keep my distance and let him bleed out, but that would take a long time. This is Beast Pirates territory. I don't know when reinforcements will arrive.'
'Hmm… Although Quinn wrapped most of his body with a special alloy bone… There's one place he can't possibly let be modified, if he's a normal man!'
A grin appeared on Sephiroth's face. The swords in his hands went into action.
Swoosh!
Queen, who was shooting lasers like crazy, suddenly felt pain in his crotch! He looked down. His large stomach blocked his view, but he heard a "crick!" sound and a few drops of blood.
With shaky legs, he tried to close his legs, and the horrible fact was confirmed.
QUEEN:(???)
"My teeth and my little balls were cut off!!!"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH! YOU BASTARD! I'M DEFINITELY GOING TO KILL YOU! KILL YOU!!"
Queen's eyes turned red, and he roared. A brutal and tyrannical aura exploded from his body. He had completely lost his sanity.
Sephiroth only smiled ferociously, staring coldly. Both of his swords were put into their scabbards. After a few attacks, he was sure of one thing: he would have a hard time penetrating the alloy bone with just a sword.
So, he decided to change his attack!
RAAAWR!
Sephiroth roared. He performed a human-beast transformation, his body enlarging from two to three meters.
Life Restitution: Muscle Reinforcement!
BOOM!
A cloud of red blood exploded from his body. His bones cracked as his body enlarged to more than six meters, filled with muscular muscles. His upper clothes were torn, and his lower pants became shorts. His arms and legs were blood red, with strange patterns spreading. A faint white heat rose from his body, forming a white ribbon-like cloud on both of his shoulders, making him look like a demon.
This was a technique he developed himself. By sacrificing speed, his body became completely dominant, freeing all muscles, and greatly increasing strength and defense. Because he was a swordsman, he never used this technique in a fight, because his large body made him unable to use swords nimbly.
However, Quinn was an exception. With the alloy bone defense, Sephiroth would have a hard time killing him with a sword. But, with his fists, the story was different! Compared to piercing with a sword, a blunt strike with a fist could channel a large amount of Busoshoku Haki to Quinn's internal organs.
"Just watch! I'm going to destroy you!"
Sephiroth roared, stomped his foot on the ground, and jumped. He swung his right fist, and Queen, who also countered, hit him.
BOOM!
The two collided, and a loud explosion shook the air. Queen, the "Plague," vomited blood from his mouth. He was thrown backward, floating in the air, and landed dozens of meters away.
Sephiroth didn't stop. He pressed Queen down with his left hand. An incredible Busoshoku Haki flowed from his fist, penetrating Queen's body to the earth.
"Die! Die!"
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The ground trembled every time Sephiroth hit. Large cracks appeared from Queen's body, and a large hole formed in the ground. Quinn's alloy bones kept deforming and returning to normal, but his internal organs had been destroyed by Sephiroth's punches.
Memories of that stormy night, when his father desperately reached for a lifebuoy for him on a cruise ship full of screams, came back to Sephiroth's mind. He punched blindly, venting a long-held hatred. The Haoshoku Haki locked in his subconscious also merged into his fists.
Crack!
"DIE!"
A dark red lightning twisted the void. Sephiroth's right fist, with monstrous power, hit Queen's chest. The punch broke the alloy endoskeleton in Queen's chest, penetrating it, and making a large hole with a diameter of more than one meter. The punch continued to travel hundreds of meters underground before disappearing. The hole around Queen's body also widened, reaching a diameter of more than 100 meters!
Doubt flashed through Queen's mind as he was being hit. 'Why… does this silver-haired young man have so much hatred in his eyes? His face is so terrifying… Shouldn't I be the one who hates him? After all, he cut off the most important thing from me!' Until he died, Queen didn't know.
All of this was the result of his actions seven years ago, when he was ordered by Kaido to hunt down a traitor. He found the traitor hiding on a cruise ship, and mercilessly burned, killed, and plundered, leaving no one behind. Sephiroth was the only weak ant who survived by chance from that bloody massacre.
In the gigantic hole, Sephiroth came to his senses. Queen had returned to his human form. He stared blankly at Queen's body below, which was vomiting blood, its head crushed, and a hole in its chest. Clearly, he was dead.
Sephiroth slowly pulled his blood-stained right hand from Queen's chest. He stood up, returned to his normal size, and released the Life Restitution transformation. A look of satisfaction appeared on his face. With the hatred that had long been lodged in his heart now avenged, he felt much more relieved.
He looked at his torn clothes. A black bat clone separated from his body, covering its surface and reforming the black suit. The blood stains on his body slid down.
Sephiroth spread his black wings, flapped them a few times, leaving the big hole, and flew into the air. As he was about to turn and leave, he saw Sugar and Monet hiding behind a large rock, preparing to sneak away.
"Hmm!? Why are they here?" he muttered.
Sephiroth flapped his wings and glided toward the two women. He landed about three meters in front of them.
Gulp!
Monet and Sugar swallowed. Their hearts trembled. They had just witnessed Sephiroth slaughter Queen with his bare hands. The young man's brutal demeanor really terrified them.
Suddenly, Sugar put on a crying expression and walked with short steps toward Sephiroth. "Waaah! Thank goodness! The Marines finally came to save us!" She extended her right hand and touched the leg of Sephiroth's pants.
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