Pirates: Martial Arts Masters on the Straw Hat Ship

"snort."

Zeff looked at Sanji, who was grabbing his collar, and a cold glint flashed in his eyes.

"How dare you grab the boss's collar?! This is outrageous!"

"call--!"

Zeff didn't even use the prosthetic leg.

He simply exerted force with his waist, and his arm, which contained terrifying power, instantly grabbed Sanji's wrist, executing a back throw using the force of the fall!

"BOOM—!!"

Sanji was thrown out like a cannonball.

He traced an arc through the air and landed squarely on Ronan and his companions' table!

The solid wood dining table shattered instantly upon impact, sending wood chips flying everywhere.

"Swish! Swish!"

Just as the dining table was about to collapse, two afterimages flashed by.

Zoro swiftly grabbed the half-finished bottle of wine with his right hand, while Luffy rescued the last piece of meat from the plate with astonishing speed.

The two exchanged a glance and continued eating and drinking as if nothing had happened, completely ignoring Sanji lying on the ruins of the table.

"Cough cough..."

Sanji struggled to prop himself up amidst the mess.

Although he was thrown hard, his superhuman physique meant he only suffered minor scrapes.

He raised his head, staring intently at Zeff's departing figure, his voice hoarse yet firm, echoing throughout the restaurant:

"No matter how you try to get rid of me... I will always be a chef at this restaurant!"

"Until...until you die!!"

This is a son's most awkward and profound confession to his father.

Zeff paused slightly in his steps.

He didn't turn around, but simply pulled his chef's hat down low to hide the fleeting emotion in his eyes, and stubbornly shouted:

"Hmph! I won't die! I'm going to live another hundred years!"

After saying that, he walked into the kitchen without looking back.

"What a... boastful old man!" Sanji spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva and scrambled to his feet, looking rather disheveled.

"Yay!"

Luffy stuffed the last piece of meat into his mouth, excitedly patting Sanji on the shoulder, completely oblivious to the sadness in the air:

"I'm so glad he approved! Now you can be a pirate! Hop on my ship!"

A "well" shape popped out of Sanji's forehead as he roared at Luffy:

"Yeah, right! Didn't you hear what I just said? I'm not leaving!"

……

In the afternoon, at the Barradi Restaurant.

Despite the farce, the restaurant's business remains booming.

After all, for diners at sea, the conflicts here are more like a performance to accompany the meal.

Luffy clung to Sanji like a leech, following him everywhere, even to the toilet, muttering, "Be my chef."

Ronan, Zoro, Nami, and Usopp sat by the window, enjoying a rare moment of leisure.

However, this calm did not last long.

"Why is it so dark?"

A guest sitting by the window suddenly looked up in confusion.

The bright sunlight seemed to be blocked by some huge object, and the light in the entire restaurant instantly dimmed.

A suffocating sense of oppression slowly approached as the shadows enveloped the area.

"That...that is..."

The guest pointed out the window, his pupils trembling violently, his voice distorted with extreme fear: "On either side of the skull... hang hourglasses, a show of force against the enemy..."

"That flag is... absolutely no mistake!!"

"The rulers of the East Blue! The Krieg Pirates!!!"

The restaurant erupted in chaos at the exclamation.

Ronan turned to look out the window.

On the sea, a massive, despair-inducing three-deck sailing ship was slowly approaching.

It was so big that the Merry looked like a toy in comparison, and even the enormous Barratier restaurant looked tiny in its shadow.

That was the flagship—the Delidono.

It's like a mobile sea fortress, blocking out the sky and completely enveloping the floating restaurant.

Although the huge black sails were tattered, the purple hourglass skull and crossbones flag painted on them still exuded a chilling aura of death.

"Why...why is the Krieg Pirates here?!"

"Run! You'll be killed!"

The restaurant was instantly thrown into chaos, with screams and the clatter of tables and chairs filling the air.

The chefs, who had been so arrogant just moments before, now all looked terrified.

"That's the leader of a fleet of five thousand soldiers and fifty pirate ships!"

Paddy's hand gripping the knife trembled. "Could it be that he came all this way specifically to get revenge on that pirate from earlier?!"

"This is bad, Luffy!"

Usopp's hand holding the binoculars trembled violently. He hid behind Ronan, his voice trembling with tears, "This is not even in the same league! We'd better run!"

Nami covered her mouth, her face pale: "How can this sailboat... be so big?"

Zoro placed his hand on the hilt of his sword, his eyes serious.

The visual impact of such a colossal object is truly extraordinary.

Luffy, however, clung to the window, his eyes wide, and exclaimed innocently, "Wow—! It's huge! Many times bigger than our Going Merry!"

He turned to Sanji beside him and asked, "Did that Gin guy come to repay a debt of gratitude?"

Sanji lit a cigarette, took a deep drag, and tried to remain calm:

"I don't think so."

Sanji's sharp gaze swept over the giant ship, his brow furrowed: "However... something's strange."

"Hmm?" Luffy tilted his head.

"The boat he was on... was really dilapidated."

Luffy also noticed the problem.

This once majestic and imposing warship now looks like a giant corpse floating on the sea.

The ship was riddled with holes, and its massive mainmast was broken in half, teetering on the brink of collapse.

The once magnificent ship's railings on both sides were completely destroyed, and the canvas was so tattered that it resembled a beggar's clothes.

"It doesn't look like it was attacked by cannons."

Sanji, being someone who makes a living at sea, immediately saw through the deception:

"If it were shelling, there would be charred marks and holes from the explosion. But the marks on this ship... are too clean."

"It doesn't seem like it was sabotaged by humans... or maybe it was hit by a tornado?" Luffy guessed.

......

However, just as this enormous creature came to a complete stop—

"Buzz—!!"

A sharp, high-frequency buzzing sound, even exceeding the limits of hearing, abruptly shattered the tranquility of the sea.

Ronan, Zoro, and Luffy, who were standing at the very front of the deck, suddenly had their pupils shrink to the size of pinpoints.

In their newly awakened and still somewhat immature perception of Observation Haki, the world seemed to have been put on pause.

Immediately afterwards, two terrifyingly incomprehensible streams of green light appeared, like divine punishment.

It instantly sliced ​​through the air, cut through space, and even cut through everyone's senses, passing over the Krieg Pirates' majestic flagship without any hindrance.

Fast, too fast.

It was so fast that even the sound was left behind.

"Snap—!!"

Only after the two streaks of light disappeared into the horizon did a deafening, ear-shattering sound erupt.

Before everyone's horrified eyes, the three-deck behemoth that could hold a thousand people burst open from the middle like butter sliced ​​with a hot knife!

The massive mast collapsed, and the sturdy keel broke.

Wood chips flew like rain, and seawater poured in like a waterfall.

Krieg and his crew, who were already starving on the ship, were wiped out in an instant!