eurekapd Chapter 112: utterly vulnerable
Chapter 112: utterly vulnerable
The Grand Line.
Fishman Island.
Dragon Palace.
Inside the magnificent main hall of the palace, the tense atmosphere was suffocating.
"Your Majesty Neptune, my patience is limited."
A sharp, sticky voice pierced the deathly silence.
The speaker was a tall, thin man wearing a top hat and a yellow overcoat, with long, wavy hair. Most striking was his excessively long tongue, which was slowly and methodically twirling a giant, spiral-shaped candy stick.
The eldest son of the Charlotte family, the "Minister of Candy," Perospero.
He sat casually in the VIP section with his legs crossed, his gaze sweeping over the various expressions of the Fishman Island royals in front of him.
"Have you collected all the candy for this month yet?"
"Lord Perospero..."
The imposing King Neptune spoke in a deep voice, his massive fists clenching the armrests of his throne with a cracking sound.
"We...we Fishman Island simply can't gather ten tons of desserts..."
His voice was filled with suppressed humiliation.
Because the Whitebeard Pirates were attacking Marine Headquarters to rescue Ace, they had no time to protect Fishman Island!
In just a few days, the Big Mom Pirates' ship arrived at their doorstep, ostensibly to temporarily protect the Whitebeard Pirates, but in reality, they were extorting them.
"Oh? You can't collect them all?"
Perospero let out a strange laugh of "Perolin~", and his long tongue rolled around the candy stick again.
"I don't care about any of that. All I know is that Mom's tea party can't be without dessert."
His gaze moved coldly, finally settling on the trembling, enormous figure behind Neptune's throne.
A giant mermaid princess, so beautiful she seemed unreal, with long, dazzling pink hair, blue eyes brimming with tears, and a huge fish tail swaying restlessly.
Princess Shirahoshi.
"If you can't hand over the candy..."
Perospero's smile twisted, and he could no longer hide his malice.
"Mom might be more interested in something else."
"I've heard that Fishman Island has a mermaid princess who appears only once in a century, possessing the legendary power to communicate with sea kings..."
"Do you think giving her to Mom would be worth more than the candy we got this time?"
boom!
These words were a heavy blow, striking Neptune and the three princes where it hurts most!
"You dare!"
The eldest prince, Fukaposhi, instantly drew his sword, his eyes wide with rage.
"You bastard! You're not allowed to lay a finger on my sister!"
The second and third princes immediately assumed their fighting stances, exuding a murderous aura.
"Oh?"
Perospero chuckled lightly, his expression full of disdain.
Several cadres behind him stepped forward, their powerful auras instantly overwhelming him.
"With just you guys?"
Perospero licked his lips and spoke slowly.
"Don't forget who's protecting you now."
"Your Fishman Island is now the territory of our Big Mom Pirates."
"If you upset Mom, not only will Princess Shirahoshi be destroyed, but the entire Fish-Man Island will sink into the deepest abyss!"
"you……!"
Neptune trembled with rage, the massive trident humming in his hand.
As the ruler of a country, I have never suffered such humiliation!
But he dared not move.
Behind him are the millions of people of Fishman Island; he cannot, in a moment of impulse, plunge the entire country into a fire pit.
Even though he had just rescued the Whitebeard Pirates!
But at this moment, Fishman Island remains isolated and helpless.
Seeing her father and brothers' angry but silent expressions, Princess Shirahoshi could no longer hold back her tears, which fell silently one by one.
She was so scared.
She didn't want to be taken away, and she didn't want to implicate her father and the entire country because of her.
Despair, thick and impenetrable, enveloped the entire Dragon Palace.
Perospero enjoyed the scene; he loved seeing these royalty bowing their heads before him.
He stood up, pointing the candy bar at Shirahoshi.
"Alright, my patience has run out. Give me the candy, or give it to her? Give me an answer now!"
"Otherwise, I'll have to take it myself."
At that very moment, when tensions were high and the air seemed to freeze.
Om-!
A strange buzzing sound came from above the Dragon Palace without warning! The sound made the seawater tremble!
"Um?"
Perospero looked up in confusion.
What was that sound?
Then, everyone witnessed a scene they would never forget.
Beyond the massive coating of the Dragon Palace Castle, in the dark depths of the sea, two dazzling light sources suddenly shone!
One gold medal!
One blue!
That is not light.
It plummeted straight towards the Dragon Palace at a terrifying speed beyond everyone's comprehension!
too fast!
boom--!!!
Under everyone's horrified gaze, the two beams of light did not slow down at all and directly pierced through the outermost huge coating of the Dragon Palace City!
Strangely, the coating did not break; it simply caved inward, creating two violent ripples.
next second.
Boom!
Boom!
Two muffled thuds rang out almost simultaneously in the center of the hall.
In the center of the hall, the light dissipated.
Two figures appeared silently.
A man wearing a black overcoat and cloak stood tall and straight, with a calm to the point of being indifferent beneath his black hair.
His eyes were deep and profound; just by standing there, he became the center of the world.
The other man, with his signature pineapple haircut, wore an open purple shirt, hands in his pockets, sharp eyes, and a cold smile on his lips.
Chenye!
Phoenix Marco!
The moment they saw who it was, Neptune and the three princes were terrified and froze on the spot, then their eyes burst with unbelievable ecstasy!
The Whitebeard Pirates have arrived!
They're saved!
"Who goes there?!"
The cadre behind Perospero demanded an explanation, but his voice trembled uncontrollably.
No one answered.
Chen Ye didn't even glance at them; his gaze merely swept over Bai Xing, whose face was streaked with tears, and Neptune, who was filled with humiliation and anger.
Marco then turned his gaze to Perospero, his eyes instantly turning cold.
Then, an invisible yet terrifying Conqueror's Haki that could crush everything suddenly swept through the entire hall, centered on the two of them!
Pfft!Pfft!
The cadres brought by Perospero didn't utter a sound; their legs buckled, and they involuntarily knelt on the ground! Their whole bodies trembled violently, and cold sweat instantly soaked their backs!
Breathing has been taken away!
The entire hall was deathly silent.
The strange smile on Perospero's face had already frozen.
His pupils shrank to two black dots!
As the eldest son of the Big Mom Pirates and a powerful figure with a bounty of 700 million, he certainly recognized the two people in front of him!
Marco the Phoenix, the first division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates!
And another one...
Perospero's Adam's apple bobbed with difficulty, and a chill shot up from his tailbone, rushing straight to the top of his head!
That man who beat up the Five Elders and killed Marineford in the Marineford War, and who ultimately had a bounty of 7.5 billion!
Time and Space Chenye!
How...how did he get here?!
How could they...?!
Perospero's mind went blank. The words he had just been mocking—"The Whitebeard Pirates are too far away to help in a crisis"—now seemed like a huge joke, echoing wildly in his head.
Looking at the calm and unwavering man before him, Perospero realized for the first time how close death truly was to him.