Watching the light fade from Akainu's eyes, Ranzuki remained silent for a few seconds before standing up.
He looked around. At this moment, thousands of pirates had gathered here, filling the streets, rooftops, and trees.
Everywhere he looked, there were pirates.
The death of the Marine Admiral candidate Akainu had attracted almost all the pirates in the capital.
This was perfect.
They could all be said to have participated in the siege of Akainu, an event destined to shake the world.
However, now... the person surrounded by these people seemed to have changed from Akainu to him!
Akainu's matter was over, but the matter of the tree had just begun.
"What a pity, for a Marine Admiral candidate, to fall like this. But then again, who told him to be so uncooperative? Don't you think so, Ranzuki?" Charlotte Perospero spoke, his words carrying a hidden edge.
"Hmph, hand over the tree, or Akainu's fate will be yours!" Jack, unlike Perospero, looked at Ranzuki and spoke condescendingly.
The other pirates also looked at Ranzuki; they were also very interested in the tree.
Surrounded, Ranzuki didn't show any panic. He smiled calmly and then looked at Jack.
"Hand over the tree? No problem. But, you're not the only one who wants it. If I give it to you, will the others have any objections?"
As he spoke, Ranzuki looked meaningfully at the other pirates.
Jack's heart skipped a beat upon hearing these words.
Ranzuki's words gave him a bad feeling.
This was making him a target!
Normally, he wouldn't feel anything about it. Being a general target was fine; being besieged? He wasn't even afraid!
However, just now, although he didn't want to admit it, the Marine Admiral candidate Akainu, who was indeed stronger than him, had been besieged and killed by them.
If he were besieged, wouldn't it mean...
Thinking of this, Jack panicked. He was about to speak, but someone else spoke first.
"That's our business. Now, you just need to hand over the tree."
It was Charlotte Perospero. He saw through Ranzuki's plan at a glance and naturally wouldn't let him succeed.
To be honest, he still felt a sense of unreality about Akainu's death.
They had actually besieged and killed Akainu.
It felt unreal.
And the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.
At first, he didn't know what was wrong, until he saw one of Ranzuki's attacks, which startled him.
In this siege, the seemingly ordinary Ranzuki was the most fatal one to Akainu.
This guy was hiding his strength!
"Please hand over the tree first." Vista also spoke; he also noticed something was off about Ranzuki.
Seeing this, Jack breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hmph, hand over the tree if you don't want to die!"
He shouted, a terrifying aura erupting from his body and pressing towards Ranzuki.
The smile on Ranzuki's face disappeared. He looked at the people surrounding him and suddenly laughed again.
"What do you think the Marines' reaction will be if a Marine Admiral candidate was killed by members of the most powerful pirate crews in the New World?"
"Or, what would happen if the members of the most powerful pirate crews in the New World discovered that important figures on their crew were killed by the Marines?"
Upon hearing this, everyone's hearts skipped a beat.
"What... what do you mean?" A pirate asked, feeling a sense of foreboding from Ranzuki's words.
"It means..." Ranzuki slowly said, the smile on his face gradually disappearing.
"It means I'm going to kill you all!"
Psssch!!!
Without warning, a head flew into the air, blood spraying everywhere.
The pirate who had just spoken never imagined that he would be decapitated immediately after those words, departing from this beautiful world.
His face retained a look of shock even in death.
The other pirates felt their hair stand on end, a chill running down their spines!
"Impossible!!"
Someone exclaimed, their body rapidly retreating.
Charlotte Perospero and Vista's hearts sank completely, and they quickly retreated as well, not daring to approach Ranzuki.
"Ranzuki, you were the one who killed Akainu; you better prepatre for the Marines to hunt you down!"
A pirate shouted, intending to leave the capital directly.
"You want to leave now. Motherfucker? Hah, it's too late!" Ranzuki looked at the people around him, his hands beginning to form seals.
Then, he slammed a palm onto the ground.
"Sealing Technique: Nine Violet Flames Formation!"
The earth suddenly trembled, causing a commotion.
When the ground calmed down, people looked on in horror as they saw four gigantic red curtains appear in the distance, encircling them.
Subconsciously, everyone looked at Ranzuki.
"Ranzuki, what have you done?!"
"Damn it, I have a bad feeling. Quick, get out of here!"
"What happened?!"
"Why was there an earthquake?!"
The pirates cried out, countless voices making the place noisy.
"Shut up!!!" Jack roared in frustration, silencing the surroundings.
He looked at Ranzuki and lowered his voice, "Hozuki Ranzuki, what do you mean by all this?!"
Hozuki Ranzuki glanced around and then said, "The fuck? Are you deaf? Didn't I say it alredy? I mean to kill you all."
Ignoring the pirates' uproar, he continued, "See the barrier on all four sides? That's something I've carefully prepared for you."
"Damn it, what are you trying to do?!"
"What bullshit barrier? I'm leaving!"
Someone shouted and then quickly rushed towards the nearby port.
However, some of the pirates who were trying to return to their ships and leave the island lunged headfirst into the red curtain, only to be bounced back in full view of everyone, their bodies dissolving.
The pirates were horrified; they completely panicked.
"This barrier will slowly shrink until it finally converges into a single point. The time limit is...only half an hour. In other words, all of you present have half an hour left to live. Well then, enjoy your final moments."
Ranzuki spoke calmly, intensifying the terror in everyone's hearts.
"Hmph, what big talk! Whether we have half an hour left or not, I only know that you're going to die now!"
Jack said furiously, transforming into a gigantic mammoth and charging towards Ranzuki.
At the same time, Charlotte Perospero, Vista, and other powerful pirates also chose to attack.
The siege against Ranzuki began directly.
However, they seemed unaware of the disparity in strength between them.
Ranzuki's figure vanished from his original spot, appearing next to a powerful pirate with a bounty over 300 million in the next instant.
Tch!!!
Another head fell without warning.
"Impossible!!" Even the calm Vista was stunned by this scene and let out a cry of disbelief.
How could a human be so fast?!
"The impossibility in your understanding only existes because of your ignorance." Ranzuki said, because this was... the speed of a Sage!
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