"This is bad, causing such a huge commotion… will I be implicated later? I need to persuade the commander…" Sommers said with a chuckle, turning to look at Kenji's battlefield.
Then, he only saw Kenji standing there alone, completely unharmed.
"Huh? Why is only that guy here? Where is the commander?" This scene almost made Sommers lose his composure.
He quickly looked around and finally saw Figarland on a rock wall further away. He was pressed against the wall, with a large pool of blood flowing beneath him.
From the surface, Figarland's body was stuck quite tightly, as if it couldn't be pried off.
"What on earth is going on?!" Sommers opened his mouth, almost speechless.
"Is this Admiral… that strong?"
Sommers's gaze moved back and forth between Kenji and Figarland on the wall, still unable to fully comprehend.
Under normal circumstances, with the strength of the Commander of the God's Knights, even if he couldn't defeat an Admiral, he wouldn't lose so miserably.
Moreover, the current Commander of the God's Knights was Figarland, a being whom Sommers himself had to look up to.
"This is… going to be difficult now." Sommers's smile gradually faded, and he no longer paid attention to Loki behind him.
He gripped his spiked club tightly, staring at Kenji.
At the same time, an invisible aura emanated from Sommers, pressing down on Kenji.
It wasn't because he intended to attack directly, but rather to help Figarland create a diversion.
After all, in battles of the same level, an additional strong enemy meant an additional threat, and the person being surrounded would naturally be distracted.
"Hmph! To be forced into a two-on-one against two God's Knights, does that guy think he's Roger?" Sommers sneered.
While he was releasing his intimidating aura to create a diversion, on the other side, Figarland, who was pressed against the wall, finally managed to get himself down and landed on the ground.
However, his condition didn't look good. Not only was he bleeding profusely, but his forehead was also covered in sweat.
He didn't know if it was from tension or some other reason.
"Sommers, prepare yourself." Figarland suddenly spoke, actually asking for support.
"This Marine is very strong!"
Just as the two of them locked their imposing auras onto Kenji, Kenji seemed completely oblivious, or rather, didn't care much, even raising a hand to signal them to "stop".
"Actually, I have no interest in fighting you." Kenji explained in a very genuine tone, and indeed, that was the truth.
The system had not triggered any missions related to the God's Knights before him, fighting these guys seemed to yield no benefits.
In fact, Kenji himself found it strange that no God's Knights-related mission had appeared.
He had thought about this just now, and after much pondering, he could only attribute it to: the system probably classified him and the God's Knights into the same faction.
In the system's timeline, he was currently just a small Marine Commodore, while the God's Knights belonged to the Celestial Dragons' forces, and were allied with the Five Elders, who held the world's power.
There was nothing wrong with a Marine Commodore and the God's Knights being in the same faction.
However, at this moment, seeing the flushed expressions of Sommers and Figarland opposite him, they clearly intended to continue attacking.
"It seems I have no choice but to act." Kenji rolled up his sleeves, clenched his fist, and Haki erupted like lightning.
These words and the scene before them caused Sommers and Figarland to pause slightly.
Among them, Figarland, after a brief moment of being stunned, suddenly seemed to realize something, and beads of sweat trickled down his forehead.
Only now did he suddenly realize that the Admiral opposite him seemed to have truly not made a move from beginning to end… or rather, had not attacked with his arms.
Previously, Kenji's multiple attacks were all Conqueror's Haki. Of course, that power was no less powerful than directly using one's fists.
"Sommers, be careful…"
Just as Figarland opened his mouth to warn. Kenji suddenly moved, his action completely without warning, and even Figarland's Observation Haki only detected it at the last moment.
In his horror, Figarland only had time to swing his sword horizontally to block in front of him. Then, a huge force violently slammed into the sword.
Kenji's heavy punch, wreathed in dark red light, carrying black lightning, collided with Figarland's horizontally-held sword.
Buzz—Boom!
Endless Haki erupted, and Figarland was struck by a massive, surging wave of Conqueror's Haki. Blood spurted from his entire body, and he was sent flying high into the air.
After one strike, Kenji's footsteps did not stop. With a single flash, he had already appeared before Sommers.
"Huh? That fast? I wasn't ready yet!" Sommers's face showed a look of horror.
However, when he saw Kenji's punch coming, a triumphant arc appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"Heh! I was tricking you!"
"Did you fall for it?"
At this moment, his body was already surrounded by thick thorns. At a glance, it looked as if he was in an ocean of thorns.
However, these thorns were invisible due to the devil fruit ability, making them difficult for others to see.
The next moment, under his intentional control, the surrounding thorn sea rapidly rushed towards Kenji, quickly blocking all paths in front, behind, left, and right of Kenji.
"Phew... It's finally done."
After doing this, Sommers smiled again, standing in place, waiting for the enemy to step on the thorns and fall down on his own.
Opposite him, Kenji's heavy punch moved forward, his entire body emanating Conqueror's Haki.
Immediately after, the invisible thorns that had enveloped him instantly "melted" and shattered like ice and snow meeting intense sunlight.
Kenji's footsteps did not falter in the slightest. The dark red light surged forward, quickly arriving in front of Sommers.
"Huh? So easily…?"
Sommers frantically gripped his spiked club with both hands. He didn't even have time to swing it in defense, simply holding the spiked club in front of him.
Boom!
The Conqueror's Haki-reinforced heavy punch shattered the spiked club, and the Conqueror's Haki vibrated through the air. Sommers's chest was pierced through, and his entire body was almost torn into two pieces.
"Ugh!"
He coughed up a large mouthful of blood, and as his body flew backward, it finally split into two pieces, the severed halves flying in different directions.
At this moment, a figure fell from above Kenji's head, smashing directly in front of him.
It was Figarland, who, after his body had previously collided with the wall above, had involuntarily bounced back down.
The specific landing spot was precisely where Kenji had already chosen for him.
Thud!
With a dull thud, Figarland's entire body was almost embedded into the rocky ground, still entangled with dark red currents, unable to control his body freely.
Kenji raised his foot and stepped on Figarland's head, then kicked him away.
"Commander… shouldn't we retreat?"
From a distance, Sommers's face almost crumpled into tears after seeing this scene.
(End of Chapter)
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