Kuina stepped forward, raising her sword slowly towards the rat.
Her movement this time was a little slow, as slow as an old person.
She wanted the rat to thoroughly taste the approach of death.
As Kuina raised her sword, the rat's body trembled more violently.
His gaze was fixed on Kuina's blade, the cold glint of the blade reflecting his current disheveled and terrified appearance.
Kuina's continuously rising right hand was like a black hole, firmly gripping his heart, causing his abdomen to churn.
Just then, he suddenly felt an uncontrollable urge to urinate.
Then he saw a wet patch gradually appear between the rat's legs. The patch slowly grew larger with time, finally bursting open like a flood, pooling beneath his buttocks, and flowing out like a small stream.
Clearly, the rat had been scared to wet himself by Kuina.
Kuina looked at the rat's pathetic state, her eyes full of disgust. With a flash of her sword, she brought her raised right hand down decisively, and with a clean cut, slashed towards the rat's neck.
The rat's trembling body instantly stopped.
He stared wide-eyed, his gaze fixed forward in terror, his eyes filled with a desire for life.
He tried desperately to move his body, but it was in vain, as his central nervous system had already severed its connection with his body.
He could already feel the boundless darkness approaching, pulling his soul down into the abyss of hell, bit by bit.
He had never felt time so long, so long that this moment felt like a century to him.
His eyelids grew heavier and heavier, until his soul was completely consumed by the boundless darkness, and the last glint of light in his eyes finally faded.
This fellow didn't know who was opposite him until his death, nor why he had to be killed, even if it meant being hunted.
Kuina stood her ground, flicked her sword back, and flung the bloodstains on her blade onto the rat.
It was this speck of blood that broke the stillness of the rat's body.
His head suddenly swiped backward, falling to the ground with a "thud!"
His headless body, like a row of dominoes, lost all support and instantly slumped to the ground.
Blood mixed with his urine, flowing like a stream into the nearby pool.
Kuina quietly watched the stream of blood flowing at her feet, the disgust in her eyes diminishing slightly.
This was likely the true depiction of the rat's filthy life!
The blood of this fellow was filled with dirty impurities.
Kuina indifferently glanced at the rat's corpse, then shifted her gaze to the two terrified marines behind him who had already fainted.
"What should I do with these two?"
"Kill them?"
She thought for a moment and shook her head.
"Never mind, I'll leave it to Kōta to handle!"
Then she turned her gaze to the remaining fish-men.
The fish-men felt that familiar, death-like cold gaze fall upon them again.
They knew that the female demon was about to deal with them.
At this moment, their instinct for survival temporarily broke through their fear, giving them an inexplicable surge of strength.
"Ah...!!!"
They roared, dragging their heavy bodies with their exhausted spirits, and rushed towards the pool with great difficulty.
There lay their only path to life.
Since seeing Kōta's slash, they no longer believed that their boss Arlong could return alive to save them.
Looking at the pool, their veins bulged, and they exerted a strength they had never used in their lives.
As long as they reached the edge of the pool and jumped into the sea, they could escape using their fish-man identity.
Seeing the fish-men on the opposite side trying to escape, Kuina quickly pushed off with her feet and "whooshed" past.
Just as they were about to reach the edge of the pool, much to the fish-men's despair, Kuina was already standing at the end of their only path to life.
All they could see in the end was a flash of sword light, and in a flash, all of them fell on the path to the pool.
Clearly, this was not their road to survival, but a road to hell.
From the pile of collapsed stone walls on the right.
Arlong lay there, motionless.
His head had been struck by a huge rock, preventing him from standing up immediately.
It was during these tens of seconds of confusion that the entire Arlong territory had become a sea of blood, and all his compatriots had fallen dead.
He shook his head and, amidst the rumbling sounds, crawled out of the pile of rubble.
He raised his head, opened his hazy eyes, and looked at the scene outside. His already dilated pupils contracted rapidly, and his brain instantly cleared.
Seeing the fish-man corpses scattered everywhere, especially the presence of Hachi, who had been split in two in the pool, he was filled with extreme rage.
He only regarded humans as lowly beings, but he was relatively friendly towards his own kind.
Especially these fish-men, who had all followed him out from Fish-Man Island.
They had come together to enjoy life and rule the seas.
Who would have thought they would all be dead now?
Even Hachi, a former member of the Sun Pirates, was dead, and in such a gruesome manner.
Arlong's eyeballs were bloodshot, turned completely red, emitting an extremely bloodthirsty glow.
The pupils in his eyes had shrunk to the point of being invisible, indicating his extreme anger.
He looked at Hachi, then suddenly thought of something. He turned to look at Kuina, suppressed the anger in his heart, and asked loudly.
"Did Kuroobi and Chew also get killed by you?"
According to the timing, Kuroobi and the others should have already returned, but they were nowhere to be seen.
Based on their course of action, their last stop was Cocoyasi Village, and the direction from which these two humans had come was from Cocoyasi Village.
Although it was almost certain that Kuroobi and the others were dead, he couldn't help but ask.
"Are you referring to those stinking fish-men who went to collect bounties!"
Kuina looked at Arlong coldly, her clear voice emerging from her lips.
"They should have been sun-dried into fish jerky by now!"
She did not sheath her sword and, carrying it, charged towards Arlong.
"Thinking about so much, you should think about yourself first!"
Seeing Kuina charging rapidly, Arlong's blood began to flow faster, his whole body turning red.
The bulging veins seemed like pythons, entwined around his entire body.
This caused his already tall physique to swell by another circle, making him look like a walking blood-red monster from afar.
He yanked out the large saw blade from the pile of rubble, gripped the hilt with both hands, quickly raised it above his head, and fiercely slashed towards Kuina, who had already gotten close.
"Die, you lowly human."
He believed that Kuina absolutely could not block this strike.
The power of this strike was nearly double that of his previous one, a strike where he was burning his life.
"Rage. Shark. Saw Blade!"
Looking at the large saw blade rapidly cutting through the air above his head, Kuina did not attempt to block it head-on.
She wasn't foolish; she indeed couldn't withstand the power of this strike, but dodging it was simple.
With a flash of red light in her eyes, Kenbunshoku Haki was silently activated. She deftly sidestepped to the left, allowing the blade of the large saw to graze past her nose and cut into the ground in front of her.
*Bang*—!!
The hard flagstones on the ground suddenly shattered into several pieces, scattering in all directions.
The large saw blade, its momentum undiminished, heavily gouged a large pit in the ground beneath the flagstones.