Pirates: Martial Arts Masters on the Straw Hat Ship

The smoke and dust slowly dissipated.

A huge crater, several meters deep, appeared on the ground.

At the bottom of the pit, Miss Valentine sat there looking completely bewildered.

And beneath her buttocks, instead of a bloody mess, was a man... still embracing her.

Sanji was like a radish, with half of his body deeply embedded in the hard rock, only his chest and above were exposed.

He held Miss Valentine's waist and her pale thighs tightly with both hands, a strange and satisfied smile on his face.

Although his nosebleed stained half his face, his eyes shone with an alarming intensity.

Unharmed.

Yes, aside from his clothes being a bit more torn and his hair being a bit messy, Sanji, who withstood an impact with the force of 10,000 kilograms of gravity, didn't even break a scratch.

This is the terrifying defensive power of the "Thirteen Protectors' Horizontal Training".

Protected by internal energy, with a body of steel and bronze, and with the potential unleashed by "love," Sanji managed to withstand the attack.

"This...how is this possible?!"

Miss Valentine jumped out of Sanji's arms in a panic, took several steps back, and looked at the man planted in the ground as if he were a monster.

"That's ten thousand kilograms! Ten thousand kilograms! Even steel would be flattened by that! You... what exactly are you?!"

"Hey."

Sanji braced himself with his hands on the ground, and with a sound of rocks cracking, he pulled himself out of the soil like a radish.

He dusted himself off and elegantly straightened his tie.

"To refuse a lady's advances is a grave offense against chivalry."

Sanji took a deep breath, his eyes glazed over, "And... it's really soft."

"You're a pervert!!" Miss Valentine screamed in despair.

At this moment, Ronan, carrying an ebony stick, slowly walked to the edge of the pit.

"You've come too, Ronan."

Sanji lit a cigarette and regained his serious expression (although he hadn't wiped the blood from his nose yet).

"That's natural."

Ronan spoke calmly, his gaze sweeping over the horrified Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine:

"Hurry up and take care of these two guys. Nami promised to make me a weapon."

"One by one...they're so arrogant!"

Mr. 5, who had been completely ignored, finally erupted.

Veins bulged on his forehead; as a senior agent of Baroque Works, he had never been so disrespected.

"Did you think you won just because you blocked Miss Valentine's Day's attack?"

Mr. 5 stuck his hand into his nostril and dug it out hard, a disgusting yet sinister smile spreading across his face:

"Then let's wipe you all out! Not even ashes left!"

Under the extremely disdainful gazes of Ronan and Sanji, Mr. 5 flicked his finger.

"Booger...cannonball!!"

The booger, imbued with explosive properties, hurtled straight towards Ronan's face with a sharp, piercing sound.

"That's disgusting."

Ronan's brows furrowed into a deep frown.

His Observation Haki had already been fully deployed, and in his perception, the trajectory of that booger was ridiculously slow.

He didn't dodge drastically, but simply turned slightly to the side.

"Whoosh—"

A booger flew past his hair and hit a rock behind him.

"boom!!"

An explosion rang out, and the flames illuminated Ronan's cold, stern face.

Just as the flames from the explosion lit up the sky, Ronan moved.

Moves like thunder.

Weiwei felt a blur before her eyes, and a gust of wind brushed against her cheek.

In the next instant, Ronan's figure had already traversed dozens of meters, appearing like a ghost in front of Mr. 5.

Mr. 5's sinister grin hadn't faded, and his fingers were still in a flicking motion, but his pupils suddenly contracted to the size of pinpoints.

It was too fast! So fast that his nerves didn't even have time to transmit the "fear" signal to his brain.

All he saw was the pitch-black ebony stick, tracing a simple yet violent arc in the moonlight.

"This blow is for my new gun."

Ronan whispered, his arms surging like a river flowing to the tip of his staff.

Xingyi (形意), explosive force.

*Smack!*

The sound was sharp and clear, neither like metal striking metal nor like a wooden stick hitting a tree, but rather a chilling sound, like a ripe watermelon being smashed by a hammer.

Red and white objects bloom under the moonlight.

Mr. 5 didn't even have time to let out a scream before his head was instantly smashed apart by a terrifying force.

The headless corpse swayed twice due to inertia before collapsing to the ground with a thud, like a puddle of mud.

The blood splattered on the dry sand and was instantly absorbed, leaving only a shocking dark red stain.

A deathly silence fell over the surroundings.

Only the sea breeze was still howling, dispersing the nauseating smell of gunpowder, replaced by a heavy stench of blood.

Vivi rode on Karu's back, her hands covering her mouth, her pupils trembling violently.

She stared in disbelief at the headless corpse that had fallen, then looked at Ronan standing beside it, who wasn't covered in a drop of blood.

"So...so strong..."

Vivi's voice trembled. This was not just strength, it was crushing, it was power from another dimension.

"...Mr. 5? That explosive man who struck fear into the hearts of countless people? Just like that... he's dead?"

Meanwhile, Miss. completely collapsed on Valentine's Day.

"Mr...Mr.5?"

Looking at her partner's gruesome corpse, her legs began to tremble violently, and her once exquisite makeup was distorted by fear.

Her prized Devil Fruit ability seemed utterly powerless in the face of the terror of death she felt at that moment.

"Monster...you're a monster!!"

Miss. let out a scream on Valentine's Day, her survival instinct making her react instantly.

"Light as a feather! Just one kilogram!"

Her body instantly lost its weight, and with the help of the sea breeze, she rose wildly into the sky like a startled balloon.

Ronan glanced up at Miss Valentine, who had already blended into the night and disappeared into the clouds, but made no move to give chase.

"They run pretty fast."

Ronan flicked non-existent dust off the ebony stick and turned to look at Vivi, who was staring in disbelief:

"Alright, although one escaped, the biggest threat has been eliminated."

Just then, a series of hurried footsteps came from the pile of rocks to the side.

"Huff...huff...damn it, is there no road here either?"

Zoro emerged from the side, carrying three swords and looking menacing, though he appeared quite disheveled.

He looked around and froze when he saw the headless corpse lying on the ground and the crater.

"Huh? Are you done?"

Zoro blinked, looking at Ronan and Sanji with a completely bewildered expression.

Sanji walked over from the edge of the pit, spat out the cigarette butt from his mouth, and looked at Zoro with disdain:

"Green algae head, you...you haven't gotten lost again, have you?"

"nonsense!!"

Zoro instantly bristled, his face turning red and his neck bulging as he roared, "I was just... just looking for the best time to enter the battlefield!"

"And the roads here are so poorly designed! This wretched island is full of the same stones, who can tell which way is which!"

"There's only one straight road, you idiot."

Ronan delivered the final blow mercilessly.