Alucard twisted his neck. Due to the high collar, it was hard to tell, but he had used Armament Haki to defend himself just now. However, after feeling it out, he decided that this fighting style wasn't for him. He preferred to fight without defense.
"Hmm?" Alucard turned to look at Arlong, frowned, and then grinned maniacally. "What's wrong? Your blade just broke. Is it necessary to be so surprised?"
Suddenly, Arlong felt something shoved into his mouth. His eyes moved down and he saw that in less than the blink of an eye, one of Alucard's guns had been inserted into his mouth.
"If you're going to be surprised, you should wait until something like this happens first~" Alucard sneered. Just as he was about to pull the trigger, Tiger roared, and his punch arrived. "Fish-Man Karate: Three Thousand Brick Fist!"
Bang! Bang!
Two sounds rang out.
One was the sound of Tiger's punch blowing off Alucard's head, and the other was the sound of Alucard's gun shooting through Arlong's mouth.
"Master!!!" When she saw Tiger's punch blow off Alucard's head, Hancock couldn't help but shout in worry.
Tiger didn't immediately pursue the attack. He quickly helped up the bleeding Arlong, looked at his wound, and frowned. "If we don't treat this quickly, he'll die..."
"Aah, aah, aah~~" Arlong's tears splattered from his eyes, and blood gushed uncontrollably from his mouth and the back of his neck like a fountain. He made strange sounds with his mouth, and it was hard to tell if he was trying to say something or if it was just a cry of pain.
"Aladdin, hurry up and get him out of here," Tiger called out to another long-bearded squid fish-man. The man's eyes were wide as he mechanically pointed behind Tiger and said in a trembling voice, "B-B-Boss Tiger, behind you."
"Huh?" At the man's warning, Tiger looked back and saw that Alucard's body, which he had just punched the head off of, had been completely restored to normal. As he turned his head, he saw that the muzzle of the black gun was pointed directly at his eye.
"Death Wink!" The nearby Ivankov's head grew huge, and in the blink of an eye, a wave of air pressure, enough to shatter rock, came rushing over, crushing everything in its path and hitting Alucard, Tiger, and Arlong.
Alucard simply raised his hand to block it. The injured area, which had even a slight scratch, was instantly restored, showing a despair-inducing healing speed.
Meanwhile, Tiger quickly handed the already injured Arlong to a subordinate and instructed him to run and not look back. By now, most of the slaves had escaped, and the group of people fighting in front of the sea of fire was extremely conspicuous.
Ivankov's face returned to normal in two seconds. He watched Alucard's body, his forehead covered in cold sweat.
"We can't kill him by shooting him through the heart or blowing off his head. No wonder even Whitebeard and Kaido..." Inazuma asked Ivankov from the side, "Ivankov-sama, what should we do now?"
"At this point, there's only..." Ivankov's face was grim and serious, as if he were about to say something extremely important. But in the next second, he changed his tone, raised his hands, and shouted, "Run!"
This shout from Ivankov shifted the attention of the remaining people, including Tiger. Ivankov continued to shout, "We are no match for this guy! Split up and run! It's better to fall into the hands of the Marines than to fall into his!"
With that, Ivankov and Inazuma were the first to escape, running southwest. As Ivankov ran, the strong wind blew his afro, making a whooshing sound. He didn't dare to look back and couldn't help but complain, "Seriously, if Kuma were here, wouldn't we have been able to escape right away?"
"Ivankov-sama, please just run," Inazuma said as he ran beside him.
Indeed, the reason they were able to arrive at Mariejois in a very short time without anyone noticing was because of Bartholomew Kuma's ability. However, Kuma's technique could not be used on himself, so he couldn't come. Otherwise, it would have been an ability no less powerful than Shiki's Float-Float Fruit in terms of escape.
"T-Tiger-san..." Hachi looked at Tiger, who gave him an extremely serious look. "What are you waiting for?! Run!" After patting Hachi hard on the shoulder, Tiger and the rest of the fish-men escaped in the opposite direction from Ivankov, heading southeast.
"How boring. Giving up just like that?" Alucard crossed his left arm at a ninety-degree angle as a stand for his right hand, which held the gun Casull. He aimed down the sights at the group of fish-men who had already run a considerable distance.
Alucard knew that he had changed far too many things, and he couldn't judge things based on what happened in the original story.
For example, this slave liberation operation happened two to three years early, and also had the participation of the Revolutionary Army and other fish-men.
Although Alucard himself didn't believe that in the original story, Tiger alone, a fish-man with at most a Vice Admiral's strength, could so brazenly burn the palace, save the slaves, and then escape.
Bang!
Alucard fired a shot, instantly blowing off the head of a fish-man. The distance was over 800 meters.
"Kuroobi!" Seeing his companion being killed in front of him, Hachi couldn't help but let out a mournful cry.
"Don't get distracted! Hachi, it's every man for himself! Don't look back! Run!" Jinbe shouted from the side.
Hearing this, Hachi sniffled, wiped away his tears with his right hand, and sobbed, "Yes... I'm sorry!"
"Don't worry, you're next." Alucard aimed his gun at Hachi, a target over 1500 meters away. From this distance, he looked no bigger than a sesame seed. Even the best sniper would not be able to do this without some special ability or equipment. But that's for a human. Vampires are different.
Bang!
Casull's bullet smoked as it shot out of the muzzle, heading directly for the back of Hachi's head at an incredibly high speed.
Clang!
At that moment, a condensed blade energy descended from the sky. A flash of light sliced Alucard's bullet in two, with the pieces flying past either side of Hachi and embedding themselves in the distance.
Alucard lowered his hands and cocked his head slightly. "You still love saving people, don't you..."
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