Chapter Start Serial - Downtohell4 - Iron Pot Stewing Beauties
At the end of the passage lay a massive cauldron, its water bubbling and boiling, releasing billowing clouds of white steam. Haiyna stepped into it barefoot, as if entering a hot bath. He exhaled softly into the steaming mist and raised an eyebrow at the female Chief Warden standing at the cauldron's edge, as if inviting her to join him... The Chief Warden stood frozen, staring in stunned silence.
...…
"What was that...?"
The people in the restaurant stood frozen in shock.
A man and woman wearing brown sunglasses, looking like a couple on vacation, casually walked up behind Skullcrusher and Ghost Beard. The young man, over two meters tall, grabbed Skullcrusher's head as if he were holding a puppy and casually shoved him aside. The puppy... no, the Jackalman, slammed into the ground with a Bang!!! His head cracked the ground, creating a crater that quickly filled with blood.
'How funny... Skullcrusher's skull was crushed... No, no!'
'Was that an illusion?'
'How could Bilim.Nair, who was so fierce and terrifying moments ago, suddenly be so weak?!'
Liam, of course, was unaware of the thoughts of the onlookers hiding to the side.
Even if he knew, he wouldn't care.
'What's the difference between this little dog and those bounty hunters who were wildly swinging their swords when they saw me and Robin during their panicked retreat, only to be kicked away one by one?'
Liam kindly let the puppy pass and continued walking and chatting with Robin. "...This doesn't feel right. We came all the way to Sabaody Archipelago, but we haven't encountered any Celestial Dragons. Something must be wrong."
Watching the couple, who had just defeated their Captain, walk past talking and laughing without even glancing at him...
Ghost Beard Tantakos' eyes suddenly bloodshot. Gritting his teeth, he roared, "How dare you ignore me!!!"
He lunged forward, but missed.
'What?!' Tantakos couldn't believe it. How had the couple suddenly moved forward, perfectly evading his attack?
"Wait..." Inside the restaurant, someone was closely scrutinizing the couple's faces beyond their tea-colored sunglasses. Their expression suddenly changed drastically. "Could these two be...?!"
"You won't escape!"
Tantakos could no longer contain his rage. A thicket of crimson tentacles erupted from his body. "Speed is meaningless before my tentacles!"
Bang! Tantakos's crimson tentacles coiled around Liam.
"Struggle! Fight harder!" Tantakos cackled coldly. "The more you struggle, the tighter my tentacles will..."
He suddenly noticed that after being bound, the young man in the brown sunglasses had casually snatched the tentacle aimed at the woman beside him and pulled it into his embrace.
Liam glanced at the tentacle monster, his brown sunglasses sliding halfway down his nose to reveal wide, curious eyes. "Who gave you the courage to entangle me like this?"
Tantakos's expression shifted abruptly. "That face... you seem to be..."
Suddenly, a massive pulling force surged from the end of the tentacles.
This person is...
Giorno Giovanna...
Through the interconnected tentacles, Giorno was dragging Tantakos toward himself with overwhelming force. Tantakos was utterly powerless to resist.
Giorno's forehead rapidly loomed larger in the reflection of Tantakos's eyes.
400 million Belly... As this thought flashed through Tantakos' mind,
Bang!
Giorno yanked him forward in a headbutt, instantly sending a searing, tingling sensation through his brain. Everything before his eyes blurred into a pink haze of blood mist. Sound, sight, the entire world seemed to recede like a receding tide from Tantakos' senses, leaving only the name "Giorno Giovanna," his bounty number, and ripples of Hamon spreading outward from his wanted poster in a sea of blood…
His bounty is even higher than the young lord's...
Why... did we provoke such a Monster...?
"What a pathetic ability," Liam said, tearing away the limp, crimson tentacles that had wrapped around him.
Robin reminded him, "You said the Sand-Sand Fruit was useless last time."
"They're all useless," Liam stated with impartial evaluation.
The pair chatted casually, oblivious to the onlookers. The crowd that had gathered earlier had completely vanished, everyone desperately hiding from their line of sight, retreating into the depths of the restaurant.
"There's no mistake! It's that male and female duo from the JoJo Pirates!"
The man who had first recognized Liam now stood by the window, drenched in sweat, his back pressed against the wall. "Giorno Giovanna, with his 400 million Belly bounty, and Jolyne Cujoh, with her 330 million bounty... Six years ago, they were just teenagers when they first received their 100 million Belly bounty, making them Monster rookies. After years of silence, they reappeared on the Grand Line, stunning the world at the Sword Hero Tournament and even chasing the Shichibukai Sand Crocodile across the skies... That terrifying duo of pirates has finally arrived here..."
Everyone secretly swallowed, their hearts pounding with tension.
Even those who had once hunted Giorno Giovanna and sought to uncover the secret behind his ability to "steal Devil Fruit powers" were now completely deterred from their foolish ambitions after witnessing Giorno effortlessly take down two North Blue Great Pirates worth 120 million Belly and 90 million Belly respectively. What a joke! Giorno wasn't just powerful enough to steal Devil Fruit powers; he was terrifyingly capable of stealing lives!
"Hey..."
Just as Liam and Robin turned to leave, the small dog they had casually knocked down earlier rose unsteadily from the blood-soaked ground, its face covered in blood.
Screech! Bilim.Nair's claws sprang forth, his wolf eyes glowing a eerie green, saliva mixed with blood dripping from his fanged maw. His muscles bulged, his body swelling to two or three times its original size. Whack! His wolf tail whipped the air with a sharp crack. Bang! His paws slammed the ground, leaving afterimages as he charged forward at blinding speed, roaring, "Don't look down on me! I'm a...!" His claws, capable of shattering a hillside, slammed into Liam's back with a thunderous impact.
Boom! The air visibly rippled around the fist embedded in Liam's back, spreading outward like Hamon.
Robin watched as he stroked his chin, eyes closed, brow furrowed. 'No way... could that punch actually hurt him?'
Just as she was about to voice her astonishment, he muttered to himself, "Combat Power 1999... not even 2000. You're practically zero."
Robin put a hand to her forehead.
"Hmm?" A flicker of surprise crossed Rayleigh's eyes behind his spectacles on a nearby rooftop. "Could that be the Rokushiki Playful Skill: Hand-to-Hand Combat, the one that measures Doriki Value?"
The old man with white hair, holding an overturned wine bottle, shook his head. The wine was gone.
"Impossible..."
For the first time, the Jackalman Bilim.Nair's face finally showed fear. His full-force strike hadn't budged Liam an inch.
But Liam had already lost interest in him. The figure on the rooftop had leaped down and vanished without a trace.
"See you around, little dog."
Liam pressed a finger to Bilim.Nair's clammy forehead, smiling. "Next time, you should bring your dog owner along..."
"You... you wouldn't..."
Bilim.Nair's pupils constricted, but he only managed to stammer out a few words before a massive shockwave erupted from under Liam's finger.
After Giorno and Jolyne Cujoh left, the smoke from the massive shockwave finally began to dissipate. The people hiding in the restaurant cautiously peered out, their faces pale as they saw that nearly half of Grove 23 had been leveled.
'Could the difference between 400 million Belly and 100 million Belly really be this terrifying?!'
Following the elderly gentleman with long, graying hair, Liam and Robin soon noticed him turn a corner and slip into a casino.
(End Of This Chapter)
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