"What?" Everyone present was taken aback. Urouge couldn't help but blurt out, "Wait, what did you say? That's a Navy Admiral."
"Yes, it's Admiral Kizaru," X Drake confirmed. As a former Marine, he naturally recognized Kizaru.
"That's an Admiral? You're kidding, right?" Urouge stared at Kizaru lying in the crater. "Then how did he get beaten up like this? Who did it?"
"I have a bad feeling..." Hawkins, the magician, suddenly spoke up. "I advise you all to leave quickly, or something terrible might happen."
"Something terrible? What's that? You always speak in riddles. I don't understand. Do you know who beat up the Admiral?" Urouge asked.
"Ugh..." Just then, they heard a groan. Turning their heads, they saw Admiral Kizaru emerge from the crater. Although Kizaru looked battered and had clearly sustained injuries, he wasn't unconscious.
Seeing Kizaru awake, the Supernovas became alert again. But at that moment, Hawkins suddenly looked up. "He's here."
With a loud "boom," the entire ground shook. As everyone watched in astonishment, a black giant descended right in the middle of them. Its overwhelming presence made everyone, pirates and Marines alike, freeze, staring blankly at this terrifying being.
Indeed, Linton had caught up. There was no helping it. He hadn't expected that even after launching Kizaru with a punch, the guy wouldn't be defeated. The system didn't indicate the end of the battle, so he had to continue the pursuit. Although he could now control Susanoo to grab his own body, the problem was that he couldn't regain control of his body. He realized something: if he didn't defeat the target, he couldn't regain control, and if he let go, he would continue chasing Kizaru. That would be troublesome. Linton suddenly realized the danger. Fortunately, the previous enemies were defeated on the spot; otherwise, if they ran away, wouldn't he have to chase them to the ends of the earth?
Just like Kizaru, if he didn't deal with him and let him run back to Marine Headquarters, he would definitely charge in directly, and then who knows what would happen to the Paramount War. It was a headache. Just like that, the slight fondness he had just developed for Battle Princess disappeared. This was indeed a trap.
In short, there was no other way. He had to defeat Kizaru immediately. So Linton grabbed his body and flew straight into the air, pursuing him.
As soon as he landed, Linton saw several familiar faces. In addition to the PX model of the Pacifista Bartholomew Kuma, he also saw a few Supernovas, such as Drake, Urouge, Hawkins, and Scratchmen Apoo hiding nearby.
"Do you know this big shot?" Urouge asked Drake directly. After all, Drake had been in the Marines and might have more information.
"I don't know," Drake said, "but he doesn't look like a good guy."
Indeed, Linton's gaze towards these Supernovas was clearly not friendly. He completely regarded them as prey. After all, they were named characters in the original work, and fighting them should also earn him points. No matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat.
Of course, the Supernovas also sensed this blatant look. It was clear that besides the Marines, this guy wanted to fight them too. But they didn't want to fight Linton. This big shot who fought the Admiral, although they didn't know who he was, was probably not someone they could defeat now.
Of course, it wasn't up to them. Susanoo was controlled by Linton himself. Without a word, Linton threw a punch at the nearest Urouge.
"Am I the first? Let me see how strong you really are. I've already warmed up, and now's the..." Before Urouge could finish his words, Susanoo's punch sent him flying like a cannonball, crashing through all the surrounding buildings. In an instant, he disappeared from everyone's sight, and no one knew where he had flown off to.
"..." Drake and the others were speechless. The gap was a bit exaggerated.
Linton didn't know how Urouge was doing either. After all, the opponent didn't attack him, he was just actively hit, so there was no system prompt saying the battle was over. But the opponent had disappeared and probably wouldn't be back anytime soon. Looking around, he set his sights on Drake.
"Devil Fruit ability, Ancient Zoan type, Dragon-Dragon Fruit, Allosaurus model..."
With a "bang," Drake also went flying, crashing through buildings in the same manner.
"What's with the long name of the ability? Although it's common sense to announce the name of a move before using it, it can't be that long. If you give it a name with ten thousand words, do I have to listen to it all?" Linton complained.
The remaining few were speechless. That wasn't the name of the ability. He didn't even finish listening to Drake's Devil Fruit ability.
The next second, Linton targeted Apoo, who had been lying in wait. However, he was hiding on the roof, and Linton's Susanoo was much taller than the house, so he could easily see his position.
"Um... Big bro, I don't think we have any grudges, right?" Apoo thought for a moment and said, "Since we're both enemies of the Marines, why don't we cooperate and leave this place together?"
"Let me give you a ride?" Linton said.
Apoo understood what Linton meant, so he suddenly started to move. He hammered his chest a few times, making a drum-like sound. Then he started blowing on his fingers, making a flute-like sound. Not only that, but he seemed to start singing.
However, before he could turn his teeth into a piano, Linton suddenly controlled Susanoo to throw a punch, directly hitting Apoo who was still singing and rapping. In an instant, he was like the previous two, flying and disappearing from everyone's sight.
"This time, the skill casting time is too long. What kind of skill is this? Do I have to wait for you to charge up a big move for ten thousand seconds?" Linton said. "Is there anyone else who can fight normally?"
His gaze focused on the only remaining Hawkins. Yes, out of the four Supernovas, three were defeated with one punch each, leaving only Hawkins. Obviously, Linton wasn't interested in the surrounding small fry and only attacked these Supernovas.
As the Supernova with the highest bounty present, Hawkins was under the spotlight. Everyone wanted to see what this seemingly mysterious guy could do. Of course, at this point, they didn't expect Hawkins to win. It would be fine if he could escape safely, or even not get秒killed, which would be better than the previous three.
However, Hawkins calmly took out a few tarot cards and flicked them in the air. These tarot cards seemed to have magic, floating in the air. Hawkins glanced at the cards and said seriously, "Battle failure rate: 100%; Escape rate: 0%; Evasion and defense rate: 0%; Death rate: 0%."
After doing all this, Hawkins stood up. "It seems you are really powerful, but today is not the day I die. Come on."
Linton didn't intend to kill Hawkins either. After all, defeating him would earn him points, so their lives had nothing to do with him. Hawkins didn't intend to attack Linton at this time, which actually increased his chances of survival. If he took the initiative to attack, Linton didn't know what Battle Princess would do.
With a loud "bang," Hawkins was sent flying the next second. However, Linton was sharp-eyed and saw that as Hawkins flew out, a pirate not far from where he was standing suddenly exploded, turning into a cloud of blood mist. Linton then remembered Hawkins' Devil Fruit ability, which seemed to be able to transfer damage to others. It seemed that Hawkins was the only one who could escape unscathed from him.
But he had also flown away, and Linton was too lazy to chase after him. For now, he should first deal with...
Thinking of this, Linton almost forgot about Kizaru. These human-shaped points that suddenly appeared had attracted his attention. Turning his head, he saw that Kizaru had indeed gotten up. Given some time, he had recovered a bit, but he still looked quite battered.
"Clang!" A laser beam suddenly flashed, but it wasn't Kizaru who attacked him, but a larger guy on the other side. Linton looked down and saw that it was a PX model robot. However, its attack was really... ticklish. Susanoo didn't even move, just took the attack head-on, and was completely fine.
With a "bang," the entire PX robot was turned into碎片 the next second. This thing couldn't withstand a punch from Susanoo and was directly smashed into scrap metal. But this one-second delay allowed Kizaru to take action.
"Yasakani no Magatama!" Kizaru used this skill again, and another large swathe of light bullets attacked. Susanoo raised its arm to block. The light bullets did have power, but they didn't have much effect on Susanoo. Or rather, the damaged areas instantly recovered, only consuming a bit of Linton's magic.
However, Kizaru wasn't trying to defeat Linton with this move. In the next second, he used another skill.
"Yata no Kagami."
With a flash of light, Kizaru suddenly transformed into a beam of light, and after reflecting a few times in the surroundings, he suddenly shot off not towards Linton, but in the opposite direction. Everyone was stunned. Did... the Navy Admiral run away?
Linton was also taken aback, then immediately became nervous. 'Brother, don't actually run away! If you really run away, where will I chase you to?'
There was no time to worry about anything else now. Linton took off directly, chasing after that beam of light. Although it was said to be the speed of light, Kizaru's actual speed wasn't that terrifying. He didn't know if Kizaru was doing it on purpose or what. Anyway, Linton sped up and closely followed Kizaru's light.
(End of chapter)