Boom!
Alucard, who had been resting with his eyes closed, was suddenly jolted awake by the sound of a cannon. He opened his eyes and saw plumes of black smoke rising from the distant island of Dressrosa.
"What's going on? Is there a war?" Alucard stood up.
A young Hancock, standing on the bow of the ship a little ahead of Alucard, looked through her binoculars. "Master, it seems some pirates are looting the country. There are two pirate ships heading our way. We'll collide with them in less than ten minutes."
"You seem quite familiar with this," Alucard said, standing to Hancock's left.
"I… I was a member of the Kuja Pirates, too…" Hancock replied, a little embarrassed, as she didn't yet have her future prideful, narcissistic style. But in the next second, her demeanor changed completely. She waved her hands frantically. "O-of course, I am now a member of the Alucard Pirates!"
"I never said I formed an 'Alucard Pirates' crew," Alucard stated.
He returned to his seat and suddenly accelerated the ship toward Dressrosa. The three Boa sisters, who hadn't had time to react, stumbled and nearly fell over.
"Alucard-sama, what are you doing?!" Sandersonia cried out, seeing that they were about to crash into the pirate ships.
However, five seconds later, they didn't need Alucard to answer. They knew exactly what he was doing. He was genuinely using his ship to ram into theirs.
CRASH!
Alucard's ship smashed through the bow of one of the pirate ships, a red-hulled vessel, shattering it to pieces. The force of the impact sent the pirate ship spinning in a wide circle, scattering the pirates on board.
"Ahhh!!"
A pink-haired girl with an orange skirt, whose appearance was distinctly different from the monstrous-looking pirates, lost her footing, twisted her ankle, and fell hard to the deck.
Her body landed heavily, but unfortunately, no one had time for gallantry.
Alucard's ship stopped. He turned to the three sisters behind him. "Have you ever killed anyone?"
The three girls were stunned but nodded one after another. They were already candidates for the Kuja Pirates before they were captured as slaves, though their first voyage was cut short by human traffickers. But yes, they had killed before.
"Don't let a single person leave alive."
Alucard stepped onto the shattered, listing red-hulled pirate ship.
"Yes," the three sisters replied, leaping onto the other pirate ship.
Meanwhile, the pirates who had been thrown to the deck by the collision were beginning to regain consciousness. They looked around and saw their ship was in ruins, listing severely. It was only a matter of time before it sank.
Then, they looked again and saw a single figure had appeared on their ship.
As they sized up Alucard, he was sizing them up as well. After a moment, he spoke in a cold voice, "With this meager strength and this small a crew, how did you useless fools even make it to the New World?"
Alucard happened to be standing in front of the pink-haired girl with a braid. The girl, who looked about fifteen or sixteen, a bit older than Hancock, was still on the ground with a sprained ankle. She watched the crimson figure in front of her with a look of pure curiosity.
"What did you say, you motherf-"
"Wait! Captain!"
The short, chubby captain was about to retort when a headscarf-wearing pirate on the side stopped him.
"Huh? What's wrong?" the captain asked, annoyed.
"H-he, he's… is that… Alucard the Immortal?!" the headscarf pirate shrieked.
"What 'Alucard the Immor-"
The chubby pirate stuttered, stopping mid-sentence.
Alucard the Immortal...
After two seconds of recollection, the chubby pirate's calm face turned into a mask of cold sweat.
Alucard the Immortal. He was one of the "Three Monsters," no, the "leader of the Three Monsters"—a super-pirate with a bounty of 1.3 billion!
Rumor had it he disappeared after the battle in Mariejois six months ago. Why was he here?!
Comparing the face on the wanted poster to the man in front of them, many of the pirates instantly broke down, soiling themselves in fear. "W-w-w-why is a guy like this here?! C-can't he just go after a Marine Admiral or some other pirate with a huge bounty?!"
"Run!"
"How can we run?!"
"Jump into the sea, you idiots!"
Alucard spread his hands, and his shadow extended across the entire deck. Hands emerged from the shadow, grabbing the pirates' bodies and weapons, and crushing them to a pulp.
"AHHHH!!"
Blood splattered everywhere as all the pirates fell, leaving not a single intact body.
After a moment, Alucard spoke again in a cold tone, "Thirty-two people? How did such a small crew of weaklings get into the New World?"
He heard a sound behind him and turned to see a girl curled up in the corner of the ship.
When she saw him turn around, she panicked and backed away. Backed into a corner with nowhere left to go, she frantically waved her hands. "N-no, no! I'm not a pirate! Don't kill me, please don't kill me!"
Alucard stared at her for a while before asking abruptly, "Girl, are you...?"
"Huh?" The pink-haired girl looked utterly bewildered, with the same expression as Hancock back then, if not more confused. After all, Hancock was a pirate and had a much stronger will.
"I'm asking you. Are you a virgin?" Alucard's voice grew heavier.
'Is he going to... do that to me?'
The pink-haired girl despaired internally. But in her moment of crisis, she decided to tell the truth to survive. "Y-yes, I am!"
Alucard smiled faintly, walked over, and wrapped one arm around her waist while using the other to hold her chin. Without a word and before the girl could even react, she felt a sharp pain on the left side of her neck.
"Ahhhh…"
The girl let out a strange sound, a mix of a cry of pain and a moan. She was wearing a low-cut princess dress, so her neck was exposed down to her shoulder, which made it easy for Alucard.
"Scarlett-sama!!"
Just then, a man's deep voice boomed.
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