One Piece: Starting with Breathing Techniques

Chapter 147 How dare you?!

Schi took a deep breath to calm his excited emotions, then looked intently at Kilo and handed him a small tube of power rock.

"How is it?"

"Golden Lion is too old to cooperate with me anymore, and Vegapunk is too old-fashioned; he has no idea how to fully utilize these technologies!"

"Kilo, you're different!"

"You have even greater potential, and you've killed six Celestial Dragons—I see your ambition clearly!" Sci extended his right hand to Kiro with a sincere expression.

"How about it? Join me?"

"With your cooperation, the world will be completely in our hands!"

Faced with Sci's tempting invitation, Kiro remained silent for a moment before suddenly laughing.

Under Schi's expectant gaze, Kilo suddenly raised his hand and threw the kinetic rock high into the air.

The Dragon Slayer was instantly drawn, and a crimson sword aura traversed the air, landing precisely on the tube of power rock.

The dazzling crimson flames instantly expanded—"BOOM!!!"

The golden-red explosion cloud expanded rapidly in the air, and the dazzling light illuminated the astonished expression on Sitch's face.

The pirates present were all in an uproar, taking several steps back, their faces filled with shock.

"He—he blasted the Dynamic Rock apart?!"

"He rejected Boss Sitch?!"

Kiro calmly looked at the astonished and shocked Schi, "—I refuse."

"Are you misunderstanding something?"

The dragon-slaying sword flipped over, its sharp blade spewing sword energy, leaving crisscrossing deep pits in the ground.

"I just want to tear down those arrogant bastards in the World Government, but I'm not some tyrant who wants to rule the world."

"You want me to raze Mary Geoise to the ground with Dynamic Rock? To utterly destroy Marineford?"

Kiro scoffed, "Do you know how many casualties this will cause? How many innocent people will die?"

"To be fair, at least for myself, I would never lay a hand on an innocent person."

"I would overthrow the world government, but not in the way you do it."

Putting aside whether the dynamic rock could actually injure Im, Kiro would never agree to cooperate based solely on the cruelty and evil of this method.

When he forged his sword intent, he was determined to protect those around him and uphold his sense of justice to the very end.

However, if he were to actually use the Power Rock against the World Government, his actions would contradict his own sword intent, causing cracks to appear in his steadfast sword will.

Upon hearing Kiro's reply, Schi's outstretched hand froze in place, and the expression on his face gradually turned gloomy and cold.

He silently withdrew his right hand, carefully wiped it with a handkerchief, and then sighed.

"Kilo, I really had high hopes for you—but why are you so stubborn, like Vegapunk?!"

Mentioning Vegapunk, a flash of anger crossed Sci's eyes. "Why do you waste your talents to uphold some completely useless so-called principles?!"

"This way, no one has ever achieved anything like it before?!"

He shook his head, his voice tinged with regret.

"What a pity, Kiro, since you're unwilling to cooperate with me—"

"Then I'll have no choice but to accept your corpse!"

As soon as Siki's eyes flickered, the surrounding pirates, completely unafraid of Kiro who was radiating murderous intent, surrounded him.

Among the crowd were even several powerful individuals exuding an astonishing aura, including many Devil Fruit users.

They held swords and weapons, while the high-tech guns and cannons around the courtyard turned their barrels and instantly locked onto Kiro.

Faced with the encirclement that had been organized almost instantly, Kiro frowned and looked at Schi.

"—Since you know what I've done before, why do you think this small group of people can take me down?"

Schi, however, remained unfazed, letting out a cold laugh. "Enough with the nonsense, I'll make you pay for refusing me!"

At the same time, his right hand quietly pressed several switches inside his sleeve.

The surrounding pirates no longer hesitated and swarmed forward instantly. Several powerful pirates rushed to Kiro's side, and several blood-stained swords were already within reach, all imbued with strong Armament Haki.

Kilo took a deep breath, the force of which even left a white streak in the air.

The Dragon Slayer instantly ignited, and clusters of golden flames, seemingly real, instantly climbed up the sword's body. The extreme heat distorted and deformed the surrounding air.

He leaned slightly forward, his right hand suddenly gripping the hilt of his sword. "Burning Ring Slash!"

In an instant, a giant ring of blazing red sword energy appeared around Kiro, expanding outward at an astonishing speed, sweeping away the pirates who rushed at him in a moment that was almost imperceptible to the naked eye.

The blazing red sword energy passed through the bodies of the pirates present without any hindrance, easily splitting them in two. Even several powerful pirates who had experienced countless battles could not stop this domineering attack. They were all instantly blasted away by the sword energy, crashing backward and collapsing a number of buildings, raising clouds of dust.

Kiro had no intention of letting them go. In a flash, he appeared in front of them almost instantly. His sword energy intertwined into a net, gradually shattering their defenses as they resisted with all their might. Finally, a crimson sword mark was drawn in mid-air, slicing through their necks.

A few seconds later, Kiro turned around, and the several great pirates behind him all clutched their bleeding necks and collapsed to the ground, powerless.

He looked at Schi, whose eyebrows and eyes were somewhat gloomy.

"Is this your retaliation?"

Schi remained calm and instead chuckled.

"Don't you sense something's wrong?"

Kiro frowned, suddenly remembering a detail he had just overlooked.

Even though those pirates were strong enough to be counted as points, Kiro didn't receive any points after killing them.

Could it be—?!

He turned around abruptly and saw that the pirates, who were mortally wounded and had ferocious appearances, were getting up from the ground, stretching their limbs, and some even had their severed heads reattached to their necks.

The elite pirates he had been focusing on, clutching their rapidly healing necks, stood up again, grinning maliciously at Kiro.

Schi calmly wiped the blood that had splattered on his hands and smiled.

"The Spirit Fruit can turn any inanimate object into a living one."

Why do you think—a corpse—is unacceptable?

As soon as he finished speaking, Sitch clapped his hands, and the fortress behind him burst open, from which emerged a group of people with terrifying auras.

Compared to the pirates from before, these pirates were significantly more deformed, unlike normal people at all. They all suffered some fatal wounds that could not be healed, but they were still able to move around thanks to Suki's Devil Fruit ability.

A terrifying red light flashed in the eyes of the giant robot, and after a few quick blinks, it locked onto Kiro.

Schi smiled dismissively, turned and climbed onto the robot's arm, entering the main cabin and disappearing from Kilo's sight. His voice, amplified by some kind of amplifier, accurately reached Kilo's ears.

"How about it? It's not too late to back out now. I won't control you."

"If you agree to cooperate, all the treasure you just saw is yours!"

Despite Schi's attempts to persuade him to surrender, Kiro turned a deaf ear.

His body froze on the spot, his gaze fixed blankly on a familiar figure in the crowd, his pupils suddenly contracting and trembling.

A terrifying killing intent gradually spread from his body, and the surrounding pirates felt a blur before their eyes, their vision turning a faint red.

Kiro's voice turned icy cold, his tone no longer calm and composed, but filled with a chilling anger.

"you----"

"How dare you?!"