Chapter 39: The Sin Skull Arrives
Satoru really was a person who couldn't stay still. One minute he had just taken out a whole group of slave traders, the next he had tested himself against Rayleigh. Even if his strength wasn't as great as Rayleigh's yet, he wasn't scared at all. Because if he wanted to run, no one in this world could stop him. Not even Kizaru. Unless he met someone with a Devil Fruit power that could trap space. But who knew if that kind of power even existed? And even if it did, he might never meet them. And if he did, who would be stronger in a real fight? That was hard to say.
After that clash, not only was Rayleigh's arm a little numb, Satoru's arm didn't feel too good either.
Luckily, he didn't run into any more trouble that day. He didn't meet any World Nobles. He didn't have the time or desire to go check out the slave auction house. With his personality, if he went there, the whole auction house might end up blown to pieces.
"The Sin Skull Pirates have been sighted. They are currently docking at the port in Area Seven."
Early the next morning, Chris's voice came through the small Den Den Mushi speaker in Satoru's room.
"Haah... I know. I'll head over right now," Satoru replied, yawning.
He got up, washed his face quickly, and then his figure vanished from the room. The next second, he was at the port in Area Seven.
Satoru was the last student to arrive. By the time he appeared, the Elite Class was already in a stand-off with the Sin Skull Pirates.
The mood between the two sides was completely different. The students of the Elite Class all looked very serious. They hadn't started fighting yet, but they could already feel the power of these pirates. Each pirate gave off a feeling of blood and violence. It was clear this was a crew that had survived many brutal battles.
The pirates, on the other hand, all looked very relaxed. It was as if the people standing in front of them weren't elite Marines at all. Most of them had looks of scorn on their faces.
Satoru's eyes instantly found the strongest person on the other side. The captain of the Sin Skull Pirates, the 'Blood Demon' Chermo. He was a Devil Fruit user. The reports said he had a Paramecia-type fruit: the Blood-Blood Fruit. It gave him the power to control blood.
When Satoru first heard about this power from Zephyr's briefing, he thought it sounded pretty nasty. The intel said the Blood-Blood Fruit could turn the user's own blood into a weapon, and also control the blood inside other people's bodies.
The first part was whatever. The second part was seriously troublesome. If he could control someone else's blood, he could just stop their heart or make their blood boil. That would be an instant kill.
But the reports said that move could only be used under specific conditions. What those conditions were, Marine Intelligence hadn't been able to figure out. Because everyone who might have known the conditions was already dead.
"Is the Navy so short on people?" one of the pirates shouted, a big man with a scar across his cheek. "They sent a bunch of little kids to deal with us? Did you brats piss off your bosses so they sent you here to die?"
As soon as they had docked, they realized they were surrounded by Chris and the others. They knew these Marines had been waiting for them.
"Hahaha! I wonder which stupid officer made that call! Then again, the Navy is full of idiots!"
Almost every pirate joined in, laughing and mocking. In their eyes, this fight might cost them a few men, but the Marines across from them were definitely going to be wiped out.
Just as Chris was about to give the order to attack, Satoru suddenly appeared right in the middle of the open space between the two groups.
"Is it starting now? Looks like I got here just in time."
Satoru's slightly teasing voice reached the ears of the students. Immediately, they all felt a wave of relief. They hadn't even seen him arrive.
Satoru hadn't planned to be so obvious. He was going to slip into the fight quietly and take out Captain Chermo himself. But after watching for a minute, he saw it wouldn't work. Chris and the others had zero fighting spirit. They were completely losing the battle of nerves before it even began. If they fought like this, fear would cut their strength in half. They'd just get slaughtered.
So Satoru decided to step right into the front line. He had to boost their morale.
"Where'd this shrimp come from?" the scar-faced pirate growled, looking Satoru up and down. "Don't tell me you're a Marine too?"
They were all a little stunned. There was nobody there a second ago, and now this white-haired kid had just appeared.
"Bingo. You guessed it. I'm a Marine," Satoru said, smiling.
"Hah! Hahahaha!" The pirate burst out laughing. "You've got to be joking! Is the Navy so desperate they're letting infants join up?"
He didn't hold back at all, mocking Satoru loudly.
This made all the Elite Class students look at the pirate with pity in their eyes.
Mocking Satoru was basically asking to die. After spending so much time with him, they knew what he hated most was being looked down on.
"It looks like you're the talker for your crew," Satoru said, his smile not fading. "So if you die, I guess your pirates will just be a bunch of quiet guys."
Nobody else had spoken. Just this one guy. Every crew probably had one loudmouth like him.
"Huh?" the pirate grunted, confused.
Before he could understand what was happening, he felt a terrible, twisting force around his neck. He tried to say something—maybe to beg, maybe to curse. But he never got the chance.
A fountain of blood shot from his throat. His head twisted completely around, then tore clean off his shoulders. It hit the ground with a wet thud.
The scene didn't just shock the pirates. It shocked their own side, too. They knew this was Satoru's power, but they had never seen his murderous side before. It felt like they were seeing a different person. They had to get to know this Satoru all over again.
(End of Chapter)
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