"How does it feel?"
Asked Akuma, as he eyed the crowd of people from the town.
The people, Fish-Men and Merfolk, kneeled down and all looked devastated.
Their face showed terror and despair, some of them already gave up on their lives.
The number of town citizens here was almost 15 thousand but not one fought back.
Even if the number of pirates were only in a few thousands and not half theirs.
Because there was the Devil, watching them from the throne on top of a coral reef.
"I asked you, how do you feel?"
Repeated Akuma, yet not a single person replied to him.
But instead of getting angry, Akuma showed a smile rare to his face.
As soon as the pirates and Division Captains saw Akuma get up from the throne and walk to the crowd of people, they knew.
They knew that Akuma was gonna do something which is considered fun to him.
"Bring him here."
Akuma pointed towards a merman in the crowd, which caused some panic between them.
"No! Leave me!"
"Please! Not him! Please leave my husband!"
The merman was pulled by three pirates as he struggled. His wife also tried to protect her husband only to be smacked down.
"Ahh!"
The merman was made to kneel before Akuma with his forehead touching the ground.
"Say it. How do you feel?"
Akuma squatted down and stared at the merman with his eyes wide open.
The merman could only close his eyes as he felt that staring back would be his end.
"Say it!"
Akuma grabbed the merman by his hair and shook him as if the merman had no bones.
"Ahge!"
The merman gritted his teeth and slowly opened his eyes and looked at Akuma.
"You will have the worst death!"
His words silenced the entire area, the pirates felt their backs get cold.
Irish sighed and continued her work on the device in her hands.
Beauty bit her lips and closed her eyes. Lancelot shook his head, soon he heard the cracking sound.
"No! Ahh!"
The wife of the merman screamed as he rushed out of the crowd and came next to the dead body of the merman.
Akuma had crushed the merman's head with his hand using raw muscle strength.
Still with a smile on his lips, Akuma pointed the gun in his hand which he took out of the system at the wife of the merman.
"Don't forget to tell them that I was the one who killed you two. They might reduce the torture."
*Bang*
As the trigger was pulled, a bullet burst out of the gun and pierced through the merman's wife's head.
Her body fell on top of her husband's body, both of their bodies soon turning cold.
"Make sure you remember who I am. Whenever you talk about me, I will be watching you."
Turning around, Akuma headed towards the center of the Fish-Man island.
The three Division Captains followed behind while most of the pirates spread in the area.
* * *
Hard-Shell Tower___
"Okay. I am with her. Yes. Fine."
Joker ended the call and looked at Shirahoshi with a bitter face.
"I am sorry. But you are under arrest."
Joker grabbed the handcuffs from his waist and showed it to Shirahoshi.
"What?"
Shirahoshi was very confused as he stared at Joker and then the extremely small handcuffs.
"I am from the Devil's Pirates. We have captured your father and brothers. If you don't do as I say, we will kill them."
Joker seemed dead from his expression, he had faced such situations many times.
But it was a fact that Shirahoshi was very sweet and lovely. It was getting harder to control his emotions as he was growing old.
Joker took a deep breath and pulled out a handgun and waved at her.
"Follow me. Do as I say and nothing will happen to your father and brothers."
Joker came down the bed and walked out of the room. Shirahoshi with her pet Megalo followed behind silently.
She started having tears in her eyes as he hugged Megalo while trying to be as quiet as she could.
Everything was going so fast that she couldn't understand the situation completely.
Only now after she came out of her room did she see the three dead bodies of the guards in the corridor.
Her face paled out in fear, but she still followed Joker.
* * *
Fish-Man District___
"Ha… Ha…"
Hody Jones, a great white shark fish-man, the captain of the New Fish-Man Pirates and a former soldier of the Neptune Army.
Covered in blood, he looked at the person in front of him with fear visible in his eyes.
"M-Monster!"
He said with a stutter, he was clearly exhausted and unable to fight any longer.
Even after injecting all the Energy Steroids he had, he still couldn't match this person's strength.
No, it was not only about him. There were more than 50 thousand Fish-Man pirates here.
But now, none were left standing or with the ability to fight with him.
"Come. What are you waiting for?"
Said Rocky with a grunt, he was obviously wounded and injured but not that it can stop him from beating up Hody.
"As if I will fight you!"
Hody immediately ran to the other side away from Rocky to escape.
He would be crazy to fight Rocky even after all he saw how Rocky beat those 50 thousand pirates.
'I must run! Run for my life!'
Hody didn't care where he was heading, all he wanted was for him to get away from here.
Far away from Rocky.
"Like I will let you."
Hody stopped on his path, he raised his head and looked at the pair of cold eyes.
*Boom*
A punch landed on his face, breaking his nose and sending him flying back.
"Ahge!"
Coughing out blood, Hody barely maintained his consciousness before Rocky.
"I seem to have broken my knuckle."
Rocky checked his right hand knuckle and said with an unaffected voice.
"I-I have lots of money! Yes! Money! I will give you all but let me leave please!"
Hody tried to talk with Rocky but the latter just pulled out his revolver.
"I still have a bullet left. Also, why do you think I will need money?"
Rocky questioned Hody as he aimed the revolver at his head.
"Wait! N-No! I have lots of slaves! Human slaves! Most of them are women! They can be yours!"
Hody said with a loud voice trying his best ro make Rocky change his thoughts about killing him.
While he was talking, his hand was also moving behind his waist to grab a gun.
If he took Rocky by surprise, even if he would die from a bullet in the head.
But for Hody, Rocky already used his advanced observation haki to see a few seconds in the future.
*Bang*
A gunshot rang in the silent town, blood flowed out of Hody's forehead hole.
"Useless negotiation."