Complete Chaos!
At this moment on God Valley island, it wasn't just the Celestial Dragons participating in the hunting competition.
There were Marines responsible for protection work.
And even more pirate crews who had come from all over the world, drawn by the news reports.
These pirates from various paths were attracted after seeing the incredibly rich prizes of the hunting competition in Morgans' World Economic Times.
Besides being attracted by the mountain-like piles of treasure,
And being attracted by the rare Devil Fruits,
They were even more attracted by the grand prize of the competition—Shakky!
It could be said that more than half of the chaos on this island now was thanks to Shakky.
Originally, the reason the World Government contacted Wang Zhi to kidnap Shakky was simply to use her as a gimmick to stir up competition within the Celestial Dragons.
But no one expected that a single person like Shakky could actually draw so many pirate crews from all over the world, traveling thousands of miles to get here.
Especially since there were two prehistoric giant sharks among them!
The Rocks Pirates and the Roger Pirates!
If the World Government had known beforehand that one Shakky could attract so many pirates, they probably wouldn't have kidnapped her at all.
However, things had already reached this point; no matter how much they regretted it, it was too late.
Facing the pirates swarming onto the island from all directions, the World Government and Marine side on the island fell into a completely one-sided disadvantage.
Even with God's Knights and Garp, who arrived just in time, helping out, they couldn't make up for the severe lack of top-tier combat power.
Never mind the other pirate crews of various sizes on the island.
Just the Rocks Pirates alone were enough to give them a hard time.
If it weren't for the fact that the pirates were not united and most were still caught in internal fighting while vying for treasure, the predicament of the World Government and the Marines would definitely be even more apparent.
Somewhere on the other side of the island.
Dragon, with his hat covering his head and his body hunched the whole way, didn't want to be seen—especially by his fellow Marines—carrying two infants in his arms.
Gasping for breath, he ran to the shore and looked out over the sea, trying hard to find a ship that could leave.
But as far as his eyes could see, there were only pirate ships haphazardly docked at the seaside.
There were no Marine warships.
This left Dragon somewhat disappointed and even more anxious.
Although he knew putting the infants in his arms onto a warship wasn't a wise move,
He was, of course, even less at ease putting them on a pirate ship.
Dragon didn't know the background of the two infants he was holding.
He didn't care about that.
But there had never been a moment where he wanted to save these two adorable infants as much as he did now.
These two infants, who had just lost their mother—a great mother.
They were his redemption!
They were the 'redemption' for him being an accomplice in a killing game without understanding the situation or distinguishing right from wrong, unintentionally yet directly causing the deaths of those innocent people!
Even if it meant risking his life!
"I must save you!"
Glancing at the pirates fighting on the beach, Dragon gritted his teeth, hugged the infants in his arms tighter, and set off with heavy legs that felt like they were filled with lead, running toward another part of the coast.
He didn't notice that at some point, not far behind him, an exceptionally voluptuous and tall woman appeared, squinting through her sunglasses at his sprinting back.
A member of God's Knights, Saint Thatcherz Mafie, bared her fanged mouth and exhaled a thick cloud of smoke, "Hehehe, I found them, the infants Gringu mentioned."
As she spoke, from a distance of dozens of meters, she suddenly opened her fanged mouth toward Dragon's back.
Within her wide-open mouth, a blinding light emerged.
In the next instant!
A thick laser beam shot out from Mafie's mouth, crossing dozens of meters in a flash and hitting Dragon's back.
To prevent hurting the infants in Dragon's arms,
Mafie deliberately aimed for Dragon's right shoulder.
*Pshhh!*
While running, Dragon's right shoulder was pierced from behind by this sudden laser beam.
Amidst the stench of scorched flesh, he opened his mouth wide in a pained expression, his body suddenly stumbling forward and falling.
As his body tumbled down, his right arm, which had lost strength due to the injury, instantly slumped down powerlessly.
One of the infants held by his right hand was immediately thrown out of his embrace, falling onto the ground behind Dragon.
The impact caused the infant, who hadn't been crying or making noise, to finally break into a wailing cry.
With his chin scraped and a heart-wrenching pain coming from his right shoulder, Dragon lay on the ground, desperately twisting his body to look at the crying infant behind him, reaching out his hand to pull the infant back into his arms.
However, he was unable to do so.
His injuries were too severe.
A large amount of blood was gushing out from the huge wound pierced by the laser, quickly staining his trench coat and the ground beneath him red.
The massive blood loss made Dragon's vision blur.
Yet he still desperately forced his eyes open, desperately reaching out his hand, trying to grab that crying infant.
"Stop! I must... protect... them!"
Mafie, smoking a cigar, walked up slowly and reached out to pick up the crying infant from the ground like picking up a pet dog.
The wailing infant was only slightly larger than one of her palms.
Mafie looked on with interest, "That brat Gringu actually has children? They look quite cute."
She looked down at the blood-covered Dragon.
"Tsk tsk tsk, still trying to snatch the infant back? You're quite persistent. Other pirates are snatching treasure, Devil Fruits, and women, but you, Little Brat, are snatching an infant. You really have a hole in your head."
"But do you know whose child this is? Doing things recklessly without knowing anything will lead to trouble."
Mafie bit down on the cigar in her mouth, drew the longsword from her waist with her free hand, and stabbed it down toward the back of Dragon's heart as he lay on the ground!
"Farewell, kid."
Powerless to resist and only able to lie on the ground, Dragon felt the cold wind brought by the sharp sword behind him.
He desperately moved the other infant hidden in his arms away from his heart to avoid being caught by the sword that would pierce through it.
At the same time, he prayed in his heart that the infant pressed under his body wouldn't make a sound at this moment.
He also worried that if he died here and the infant in his arms went undiscovered, the child's fate would be even more miserable.
Maybe he should just give this infant up too and let the woman behind him take it away?
After all, she seemed to only want to take them, not kill them directly.
Anyway... he was going to die... thinking of those innocent people who died in the killing game, there wasn't a trace of fear of death in Dragon's eyes, only guilt for being unable to save them, unable to save these two infants.
Behind him, the sword cut through the air! Death approached!
Just then.
*Swoosh!* A sharp cracking sound!
An unparalleled slash swept across from a distance, passing through the air three meters above the ground.
Everywhere the slash passed, the trees, small hills, and giant rocks around Dragon were all sliced in half.
*Clang!*
Half of a sword tip flew out.
Mafie, standing behind him, cried out in pain as her tall body was also severed.