Hege Town.
It seems like an ordinary town, but its residents live in fear and anxiety. There are many members of the Capone mafia roaming the town.
These mafias collude with the local powers in charge. They even have all kinds of insider deals with the Marine, so they often kill and set fires randomly, and the Marine only makes a symbolic inspection.
In the middle of a small town;
There is a plain building on the outside but an interior that is built with luxury.
On the highest floor of the building, a tall, obese man in a black suit was sitting there. He shook his head at an intelligence note that his men had just delivered, with a look of disdain on his face.
"The Marine is still as useless as ever. It's actually unable to take a pirate hunter despite having a siege layout in advance."
His name is Capone Leckie, one of several top leaders of the Capone mafia family. He is in charge of managing the expansion of the underground mafia within these seas.
A man in a black suit wearing glasses next to him spoke in a deep voice.
"Perhaps the strength of the Ghost Hand Ross is a bit beyond our grasp. Chief, do you think this will involve us?"
"So what if it is? I have checked the information of the Ghost Hand Ross. He has always been a loner, so how can he turn the world upside down alone? Even if our strength competes against the Marine Branch, we may not lose!"
Leckie shook his head in disdain and picked up a glass of wine from the table.
However;
Just as he put the red wine to his mouth, the whole building suddenly shakes, followed by a heavy blast, and the red wine in the glass spilled all over him.
Leckie burst into a rage, put down his glass, and stood up furiously.
"What the hell? What's going on?!"
"Chief Le... Leckie, it's not good! Someone is fighting in from outside!"
A Capone underling ran in from outside in a panic. He reported to Leckie with his face still a bit shocked.
As soon as the words came out, it suddenly tore the room's tension aside. The maid who was holding a silk scarf and trying to wipe Leckie's suit had a shaky hand, and her eyes showed panic.
Leckie was also shocked and said, "Who is the one that fought their way in? The Marine or the assholes from the Dupo Mafia? How come there is no news at all."
"No... it's not the Marine or the Dupo Mafia. It' s Ghost Hand Ross, he's storming in all by himself!"
The mafia member spoke with fear and tremble.
Leckie stared in disbelief.
"Ghost Hand Ross? Is he alone? What are you all doing to come in here alone? Why don't you go out and kill him?"
Just as he finished his words, a loud noise came from the doorway. The exquisite red oak door shattered with a loud blast, and a figure walked in amidst a flurry of sawdust.
"Who is... Capone Leckie?"
Ross's clothes are slightly wretched. However, the gaze revealed in those cold eyes makes people feel as if they had already been in frozen places as soon as they made contact.
There are a few people in the hall. Their eyes can't help but turn to Capone Leckie's body, and Ross's gaze also shifts with it.
"It was you guys who did what happened in Tarot Town, right?"
Ross stared coldly at Capone Leckie.
Capone Leckie was shocked by Roz's aura when he came into the room. However, he was, after all, one of the top leaders of the Capone family and quickly calmed down and said coldly.
"So what?"
As Capone Leckie's voice fell, a steady stream of members of the Capone Mafia rushed in. The hallways outside were densely piled with people.
"It's good that I didn't get the wrong person."
Ross did not care about the steady stream of Capone members who came over. After he nodded, he flicked his wrist and took out a pistol, firing six shots in a row and instantly killing six members of the mafia who rushed in.
The next step.
Ross dropped his pistol, and his whole body surged forward and rushed directly to Capone Leckie.
If hundreds of people with guns surrounded him, that situation would not be very friendly to Ross, so he did not intend to waste time.
"Don't get too cocky, kid!"
With cold fury in his eyes, Capone Leckie took out two pistols at a speed not inferior to that of Ross and rushed Ross to shoot him at point-blank range.
Ross's stance of charging forward gave a moment's pause. His foot stepped hard and performed a Rokushiki Soru. His whole body moved sideways sharply, avoiding the bullets fired by Capone Leckie.
"Damn it!"
Capone Leckie did not expect Ross to avoid his gunfire at such a close distance. After emptying his bullets, he pulled out a long sword at his waist, met the oncoming Ross, and slashed out of it.
With a cold gaze, Ross did not retreat, nor did he draw his sword. Instead, he clenched his five fingers into a fist and threw a fierce punch against Capone Leckie's sword.
Buzz!
Ross threw a fist without any Busoshoku Haki, but he wrapped it in the power of a distortion that resembles Whitebeard's Gura Gura no Mi. At the same time, the color is not white but rather dull and transparent, which seems to reflect the colorless flames that burn over the distorted air.
It is a new ability that Ross was able to perform after his proficiency points of Neji Neji no Mi reached 75.
He can attach the power of distortion directly to his fist. Although he can't throw it out for long-range attacks, he already has the ability to deal with swords with his bare hands!
Click!
When Capone Leckie's sword touches the distorted area, the entire sword is strangled in mid-air by a force that makes it difficult to move down an inch!
"Devil Fruit..."
Capone Leckie's pupils shrink, but at this time, he is already in a difficult position to hide, he shouted, and his hands clenched the hilt of the sword and fiercely slashed down.
But even though he slashed with all his might, the sword he held in his hand still distorted and broke at speed visible to the untrained eye.
Crack! Crack!!!
Eventually, the whole sword was distorted into a spiraled lump of iron.
Ross withdrew his fist grabbed the distorted sword with a snap of his hands in front of his body. The distorted sword was then crumpled into a ball of iron. He threw it at the door with his backhand, crushing the head of a gang member who rushed in.
"You..."
Capone Leckie finally showed a hint of panic on his face. His body retreated backward, trying to escape by jumping out of the window. However, Ross had already stepped forward before he could flee, pulled his collar, and pinned him to the wall.
"Tell your men to get out."
Ross spoke coldly.
As a top leader of the Capone family, Capone Leckie has endured many battles of all sizes, but this is the first time someone has stormed into the base single-handedly and taken control.
Feeling the hand that strangled his neck came over with a strange power, if any, thought of his sword just now was distorted into a spiral iron piece, the fear inside Capone Leckie began to grow.
"No, don't even come in here! Get out, all of you!"
He yelled.
Many mafia members looked at each other but finally left one by one.
Ross swept the doorway and slowly withdrew his gaze to look at Capone Leckie, who had his neck pinned to the wall by his own hands.
"No one is bothering us now."
Ross swept the doorway. Slowly, he withdrew his gaze and looked at Capone Leckie, who was choked and pinned to the wall by himself.
"What do you... you want to do? I can give you money if you want it!"
It is obvious to Capone Leckie that his own little life is still most important. Since Ross is a pirate hunter, what he wants, in his opinion, is nothing but money.
"No, I'm not interested in money."
Ross shook his head, turned loose of Capone Leckie, took a piece of paper out of his pocket, and casually handed out a recording device.
"I don't like to take the blame for others. I have nothing to do with what happened in Tarot Town. I need you to tell me what happened honestly and then inform the Marine."
Hearing Ross's words, Capone Leckie was slightly stunned, and he looked at the pen, and paper Ross had thrown on the ground and suddenly shook his head.
"So that's what you fought... I'm sorry, even if I did, it would be useless because I didn't control this matter."
"You didn't control it?"
Ross frowned slightly.
The corners of Capone Leckie's mouth rose slightly, and he said, "Want to know who set you up? I can tell... ahhhhhhh!!!"
Before he could finish a sentence, the muscles on his entire arm distorted into a horrible curve, and the horrendous sound of breaking muscles came vaguely.
"Who did this?"
Ross asked aloofly.
"Damn you..."
Capone Leckie's face showed carnage and anger, and a curse has shouted half, but when he contacted Ross's cold eyes, the other half was stuck in his throat.
He finally retreated before the threat of death, his tone softened, and he slowly spoke.
"It was Lieutenant Commander Leica from the Marine. This matter was offered by him, and all the specific things were done by the Marine side, and I had nothing to do with it."
The silence fell on the air.
"Marine... Lieutenant Commander Leica..."
Ross murmured in a low tone, and he could not describe his face in words. He looked to the side at Capone Leckie and suddenly twitched his wrist.
Crack!!!
One arm of Capone Leckie was instantly distorted into a nasty spiral with the bloody flesh splitting. The intense pain made him cry out in agony.
"I want to hear the truth."
Ross spoke coldly.
Under the severe pain, Capone Leckie couldn't help but curse out angrily and said, "You... you damned bastard! I am telling the truth!"
"Is that so?"
Ross gave a reverse pressure, and the other arm of Capone Leckie distorted it again. After so many times, only a piece of shattered flesh remained in the hall.
"It seems to be telling the truth."
Ross slowly withdrew his hand stepped around the corpse of Capone Leckie, and came next to the window opening. He looked out over the blue sea in the distance with his gaze changing.
The Marine leads this matter. Ross guessed from the start. After all, this kind of thing is flawed too much. If there is no one inside the Marine who tacitly agrees or even pushes, it is impossible to plant such things as the slaughter of the town to his head.
The problem today is that...
Is this matter is Leica alone or a dark side of the entire Marine?
Ross has been trying to avoid a frontal clash with the Marine because he really doesn't like the life of being wanted for bounties. However, that doesn't mean he's afraid of being wanted for bounties!
"That was a terrific job, Marine."
Ross laughed.
He intends to make a trip to the Marine base to make a final decision.
He does not want to be wanted for bounty, nor does he want to be a pirate. But if there is no other choice and you have to be a pirate...
Let us let the world turn upside down!