Chapter 198 Reliable Katakuri
Chapter 198 Reliable Katakuri
However, the Five Elders did not realize a crucial problem at that time. If it were not for the Holy Land Guard Corps commanded by Kong Gangke as bait, the pirates of the First Squad would have poured into Red Harbor.
In addition, the top warrior Sakaski forcibly slowed down the advance of the first team. Even with the incredibly powerful explosive rock, it would be difficult to cause such an incredible result at one time.
After all, the existence of Observation Haki means that this type of trap is unlikely to work on strong people, and the thing that the Universe Dark Matter Pirates lack the least is strong people.
If the battle between Sakaski and Esdeath had not inadvertently interfered with the observation Haki of many people, most of the high-level fighters should have been able to escape without any accidents.
Time goes back a few minutes further. At the moment when the explosive rock was activated, Katakuri, who had been paying close attention to the battle situation on the front line, suddenly changed his expression. His legs turned into extremely elastic sticky balls, catapulting him onto the pirate ship of the second team closest to Red Harbor.
The pirates of the former Big Mom Pirates are all ready here, waiting for the order from Boros to march towards Red Harbor.
The strong performance of the First Squad made the pirates of the Second Squad excited. They wished they could go back to before the battle and replace the First Squad. Maybe they would have a chance to become the first pirates to capture the holy land of Marijoa!
Among these people are Katakuri's brothers and sisters. As the core members of the Charlotte family, BIG MOM's children are naturally the absolute main force of the second team.
On the pirate ship closest to Red Harbor alone, there are three of Katakuri's younger brothers.
"Brother Katakuri! Are you going to lead us to attack the World Government yourself?"
Charlotte Kadanz said loudly and excitedly. He, Konte and Cavalette were the few members of the Charlotte family who had not eaten the devil fruit.
All three of them are proficient in Armament Haki and Taijutsu, and possess extremely strong physiques, so they were arranged to lead the assault team.
Although his mother has declared Katakuri a traitor to the Charlotte family, his brothers and sisters, including Kadantz, are more willing to stand on Katakuri's side.
However, Katakuku obviously had no time to deal with Kadantz at this time. The moment Katakuku stood firm, a huge mushroom cloud rose above Red Harbor, followed by an earth-shaking shock and a typhoon-like blast.
"Flowing Glutinous Rice Balls·Barrier!"
A large amount of rice cakes continuously gushed out of Katakuri's body, which turned into two big hands, one on the left and one on the right, and quickly closed in front of the pirate ship, forming an extremely thick rice cake barrier before the blast arrived.
'boom'
Almost at the moment when the rice cake wall was formed, a gust of wind came roaring, violently destroying the rice cake barrier in front of the pirate ship.
Fortunately, this gust of wind, which came and went quickly, failed to destroy the pirate ship, and even gave the pirate ship a push to quickly move backwards away from the coast.
The extremely tough rice cake barrier was severely damaged by the blast, but there was no sign of cracking.
Seeing this scene, the pirates who had just recovered from the shock of the explosion also breathed a sigh of relief. The most terrifying thing on the ocean has never been the sea king, but natural disasters such as storms and tsunamis.
The blast from the Red Harbor explosion certainly couldn't compare to a real storm in terms of duration, but its power in a short period of time was even greater.
However, when everyone on the pirate ship breathed a sigh of relief, Katakuri did not dare to relax at all. With his Observation Haki that could "foresee the future", the biggest test was coming!
"Rice cake octopus!"
Hot rice cakes gushed out from Katakuri's open palms, splitting in mid-air, like tentacles that penetrated deeply into the seabed below the pirate ship, firmly fixing the ship in its original position.
The pirates on the ship hadn't reacted to what happened the second before, but the towering 'water wall' that swept in from Red Harbor on the sea immediately made everyone's faces turn pale.
The members of the second team are all experienced and senior pirates. Just from the height of the "water wall" and the speed at which it swept in, they can judge its approximate destructive power.
Even the most slow-witted person would have realized by now that Katakuri's sudden arrival was probably just for this moment.
‘Boom! ’
Before Katakuri's younger brothers had time to sigh that their brother was still so reliable, the tsunami caused by the explosion had already swept away the large fleet of the Cosmic Dark Matter Pirates.
Hundreds of pirate ships from the First Squadron's fleet sank to the bottom of the sea in an instant. No matter how the pirates on the ships tried to save themselves, they seemed so powerless in front of the "might" of the sea.
Even the pirate ship that Katakuri is currently on, which is part of the second team, was almost swept to the bottom of the sea by the tsunami because it was too close to Red Harbor.
Fortunately, the rice cake 'tentacles' that fixed the pirate ship were strong enough to hold the ship firmly from beginning to end. Although many unlucky people were washed away by the tsunami, those people were not members of the Sherlock family. Katakuri, who only cared about his family, would not care about their life or death.
"Gu...what on earth happened in Red Harbor..."
Cavalette, who was as tall and strong as his brother Kadanz, couldn't help swallowing. Even if they were not users of devil fruits, if they were swept to the bottom of the sea by a tsunami of that magnitude, they would most likely lose some skin even if they didn't die.
"Brother Katakuri, should we continue the attack? Or should we wait and see?"
Looking at the huge mushroom cloud rising over Red Harbor, Charlotte Conte, who looked almost exactly like her two brothers, asked with some fear.
They are not rookie pirates and they just had a close call with death.
Even they who were so far away from Honggang were affected to that extent. It was not difficult to imagine what a hell on earth Honggang was like at that time. It was possible that the first team that had been fully deployed to the battlefield had been completely wiped out.
In this situation, they attacked Red Harbor as the second team. Who knows whether the World Government, which had already bombed Red Harbor once, has the super bomb to bomb it again.
Kadanz and Cavalet on the side also nodded repeatedly, and the three bearded faces were full of shock.
The three brothers were frightened by the madness of the World Government. It went without saying that no matter how strong their physique and armed color domineering were, they could not survive the explosion that almost destroyed half of Red Harbor.
Even monsters of the level of Kaido the Beast and their mothers might not be able to withstand the huge explosion just now!
"...Wait a minute."
Looking at the Red Harbor, which seemed to have been 'bitten' by something and whose entire coastline had almost disappeared, Katakuri, with a solemn expression, could not help but regret it. If he had known that this battle would be so dangerous, even a top warrior like Lady Esdeath who could compete with his mother would fail, he would have tried to arrange his brothers and sisters to the third or even fourth team.
He originally thought that the First Division had more than 100,000 New World pirates, and they could capture Marijoa even at the cost of human lives, but now it seems that he still underestimated the strength and determination of the World Government.
The fall of just the outskirts of Red Harbor was enough for the World Government to resort to such brutal means, not hesitating to destroy the still desperate defenders, invading pirates, and half of Red Harbor.
When they capture Red Harbor, what will be waiting for them?
The three admirals of the navy?
Ancient weapons?
Or is it the national treasure that Doflamingo once implicitly reminded me of, belonging to the Celestial Dragons?
But no matter how uneasy he felt, Katakuri did not dare to resist Boros's order. He could only pray secretly in his heart that the order for the second team to attack would come later.
“Oh shit oh shit! This is too f*cking scary. Luckily we were cautious and didn’t follow Boss Esdeath to be cannon fodder… Well, I mean to lead the charge, otherwise we would have been blown into Muggles by now!”
The passerby who stayed on the Overlord patted his chest in fear to calm himself down. If he had been a little greedy before, he would probably be dead by now.
Even though he seems to be doing well now because he has a devil fruit and is a mid-level general, he is just a small fry on the battlefield of Marijoa at this moment. Any one of those high-level fighters can pin him to the ground.
"...Mei'er, you should stay on the spaceship. The next battle is too dangerous."
When Xiao Yan saw the explosion at Honggang, his expression changed, but his eyes quickly became firm.
Now his motivation to become stronger is not only the three-year agreement with Nalan Yanran, but also the enemy who caused Yao Lao to fall to such a state.
Xiao Yan didn't think that those people would let the Xiao family go after knowing his relationship with Yao Lao. Whether for Xun'er or Xiao Mei, he needed to become stronger as soon as possible.
No matter how dangerous the upcoming battle is, Xiao Yan is unwilling to retreat at this time.
"Yes, I understand, Brother Xiao Yan."
Xiao Mei answered very obediently. She had a strong admiration for the strong, and she had had a crush on Xiao Yan for a long time.
After learning in the dimensional chat group that cousin Xiao Yan's "fall" was only temporary and that he would soar to great heights in the future, Xiao Mei naturally resumed her childhood admiration for Xiao Yan.
This is also the main reason why Xiao Mei can get along well with strangers in the chat group, because they are all thinking about currying favor with others.
"Little guy, you have to be careful too. If you are caught in an explosion of that magnitude, even I, as your teacher, may not be able to save you..."
Yao Lao's voice also sounded in Xiao Yan's mind at the right time. Although the Explosive Rock has been sealed by the World Government due to its poor stability, the power of the Explosive Rock is unquestionable.
Even a top-level warrior like the Navy Admiral would have to retreat when faced with the explosion of the dynamite rock.
Fortunately, most of the top powerhouses possess the same top-level observation Haki, and simple and crude traps like dynamite rocks are unlikely to pose a real threat to them.
"I see!"
Xiao Yan nodded with a serious expression. He just wanted to seize every opportunity to become stronger. It was not that he did not know his own capabilities. If he was not sure enough, Xiao Yan would not take the risk easily.
At this time, Boros, who was still sitting on the throne, only slightly opened his huge single eye when the Red Harbor exploded.
However, when his observation Haki that almost covered the entire Marijoa captured the existence of Esdeath, he no longer paid attention to the battle situation in Red Harbor, but turned to look at Tornado and Blizzard not far away.
After confirming that the few people Borsalino had asked him to look after were all right, Boros returned to silence again.
Compared to Esdeath, who gets excited no matter fighting against strong people or killing enemies, Boros, as the overlord of the universe, has no interest in small fry.
Even at this time, Sakaski and Cyborg Sora of Red Harbor found it difficult to cheer up Boros. After all, before this, he already had two high-quality sandbags, Kaido and Charlotte Linlin. The strong men of the highest level of fighters were not enough to satisfy Boros' desire for battle.
Of course, not everyone is as indifferent to the battle situation in Red Harbor as Boros, especially Charlotte Linlin, the commander of the second squad, who could not hold back and wanted to rush into Red Harbor and kill. Even the huge explosion that just happened in Red Harbor could not make the pirate emperor retreat.
Since joining the Cosmic Dark Matter Pirates, Charlotte Linlin has been living the most frustrating life since she became a pirate.
Not only was she beaten up by Boros from time to time, but she could only watch the traitor 'Katakuri' hanging around in front of her all day long.
"It's almost there... Mommy can't wait to see you again, Katakuri!"
Charlotte Linlin opened her bloody mouth wide, revealing an extremely ferocious smile, and her bloodshot eyes stared at the pirate ship where Katakuri was.
When on the Overlord, with Boros looking after her and Katakuri being cautious enough, Charlotte Linlin never had a chance to take action.
But once they are on the battlefield and out of the sight of that monster Boros, no matter how vigilant that rebellious son is, he is bound to die in her hands!
Perospero, who was standing by, was sweating profusely as he listened. He anxiously licked the candy cane in his hand, his eyes rolling around, thinking about how he could find a chance to remind Katakuri to be careful of his mother.
However, whenever Charlotte Linling's eyes swept over him, Perospero's little thoughts immediately disappeared.
Not everyone has the courage like Katakuri to resist Charlotte Linlin. Even Perospero, the eldest son, cannot withstand the prestige accumulated by Big Mom over the years.
"Mom...Mom, Lord Kaido is calling..."
At this moment, BIG MOM's fourth son Charlotte Owen came over carefully holding a Den Den Mushi. Having suffered the "betrayal" of Katakuri, the rebellious son, Charlotte Linlin began to be on guard against her children.
Even Snaggle, who was the first to stand up against Katakuri, could not gain BIG MOM's full trust.
(End of this chapter)