Around Kai, for hundreds of meters across the sea, an overwhelming Conqueror's Haki erupted—sweeping out like an invisible storm.
The moment it spread, the nearest pirates—those desperate fools leaping into the ocean—froze.
BOOM!
Their spirits shattered.
Eyes rolled white, foam spilled from their mouths, and one after another they collapsed—like puppets with their strings cut.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Bodies dropped across the deck in droves.
Even those who'd almost reached the water lost consciousness mid-jump, plunging lifelessly into the sea with dull splashes.
The deck became a graveyard of fainted bodies.
Everywhere Kai's aura reached—no pirate could withstand it.
Even the wounded, who had been screaming moments before, were silenced instantly, their eyes rolling back as they slumped unconscious.
The vast ship fell into dead silence.
Meanwhile, in the sea around them…
Dozens of pirates who had thought they'd escaped suddenly froze, their grins wiped away as the Haki crushed their minds. They drifted like dead fish, floating belly-up on the waves.
Even the sea kings weren't spared.
Several small ones fainted outright, turning belly-up in the water. A few larger beasts managed to resist for a breath—before terror gripped their instincts and they fled in panic, vanishing beneath the waves.
The ocean was eerily still.
Everywhere the eye could see, bodies floated, motionless.
Only one figure remained standing.
Kai.
"…Done."
He walked calmly to the ship's railing, watching with satisfaction as the sea around him filled with drifting, unconscious pirates.
Then he turned his gaze back to the deck, where the rest of the crew lay scattered, senseless.
The White Ostrich Pirates—annihilated.
Slain, crippled, or knocked out cold.
A crew with a combined bounty of twenty million Berries, wiped out in less than half an hour by a single four-year-old boy.
Kai's chest rose with steady breaths. And for the first time, he began to truly realize…
"My strength… it's far beyond what I thought."
"A so-called 'big shot' with over ten million bounty… they can't even scratch me."
"Even a Zoan Devil Fruit user couldn't pressure me in the slightest."
A grin tugged at his lips.
"My power now… should already be close to those pirates worth twenty million."
And in this era, twenty million was terrifying.
Even the future Seven Warlords hadn't yet broken the hundred million mark. In this age, a bounty of twenty million placed a pirate among the true elites of the seas.
Meanwhile, one kilometer away…
A massive Marine battleship floated silently.
Hundreds of navy soldiers stood frozen on its deck, staring at the distant pirate ship as if struck dumb.
"Wha-what the hell?!"
"It's… over already?!"
"He wiped out the White Ostrich Pirates just like that?!"
"Are you kidding me? That was a twenty-million-berry crew! One of the most notorious in the East Blue!"
"And Kai… that four-year-old… he crushed them all alone?!"
Their voices shook with awe.
"Monster… he's a complete monster!"
Even young Ace was speechless, gripping the railing tightly, eyes wide as he stared at Kai's small figure still standing proudly on the pirate ship.
He had witnessed it all.
The massacre.
The Devil Fruit user tore apart in three punches.
The unstoppable wave of Conqueror's Haki that dropped an entire crew in an instant.
His throat felt dry. His fists clenched tight.
"That guy… Kai…"
"He's already… that strong?!"
The gap between them was like heaven and earth.
Standing beside him, Vice Admiral Garp's trusted aide, Bogard, turned trembling eyes toward his superior.
"V-Vice Admiral Garp, did you see it? That last attack… it wasn't just some aura…"
"Even the sea kings beneath the waves fainted!"
"That was… Conqueror's Haki!"
Garp's eyes narrowed. His jaw clenched.
Of course he knew the Conqueror's Haki. He'd seen it countless times.
But… hadn't Kai only awakened it a month ago? Barely scratching the surface, far from mastering it?
Normally, a person who first awakened a Conqueror's Haki would need months—if not years—of training and guidance before gaining real control.
Yet here they were.
A month later… Kai had done it alone.
"No one taught him. No one guided him. And in just one month… he's already mastered Conqueror's Haki."
Bogard's voice cracked with disbelief.
Garp exhaled heavily. His eyes remained locked on the boy standing proudly amid the corpses and wreckage.
"…I never expected this."
"I thought I'd take him to HQ, find an instructor, and slowly guide him step by step…"
"But this brat… his talent is terrifying beyond words."
"Just one month. All on his own. And he's already mastered Conqueror's Haki."
The old hero of the Marines—the man who'd fought the Pirate King—couldn't help but laugh bitterly, admiration in his voice.
"This brat Kai…"
"He may be the greatest monster I've ever seen."
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