Chapter 16: Premature Arlong Park Arc: Part 2
Presently, Nami had sank into depression. She took a knife and pointed it to the tattoo on her shoulder, willing to harm herself to remove any trace of Arlong.
BUZZZZ.... Cross traveled at lightning speed and arrived right in front of Nami. He knocked the knife from Nami before she could stab herself.
"Whaaa, h-he just teleported…."
"DEVILLL!" Everyone's eyes froze at the scene.
Cross went and grabbed Nami's arm and pulled her into his embrace.
Nami, who had been momentarily shocked from the teleportation, had tears roll out of her eyes once again. "S-Save me Cross...!" She said.
Cross allowed Nami to cry on his shoulder for some time, before pointing to the room in the top 5th floor of the pagoda.
"Is that the room you've drawn all your maps in Nami…?" He asked Nami with a relaxed smile.
"Y-Yes."
"Do you remember our promise Nami?. We'll always friends... and you'll make a map of the world one day. Allow me to destroy that room that you never wanted to be in... and then we can go out and achieve our dreams! "
Nami's whole body trembled when she heard Cross's words; she couldn't help but believe in Cross at that moment.
Cross dropped Nami to her family and started walking back in the park. He stared at the tall pagoda and marked all the fishmen in the area.
Lightning started writhing from his body, covering his entire body with devastating energy. Rumble… Rumble... Hundreds of thunder clouds gathered right above Arlong park… and they seemed to be forming into one giant thunder cloud.
The loud thunder noises in the sky in itself were enough to knock out the weak-willed people gathered in the area. Cross had become an entity that demanded fear and reverence at that moment.
Arlong's face paled, and he didn't even try to stop all the fishmen escaping from the park. This was the first time in a long while that Arlong felt fear due to a human. His entire childhood and his time with the Sun pirates flashed through his eye.
Arlong clenched his fist and... WOOSH… He rushed towards Cross with his Kiribachi, a giant saw-like sword.
"Don't get conceited human…! As if the mighty Arlong park could ever be destroyed by the likes of you inferior scum!"
The 3 officers: Chew, Kuroobi, and Hatchan gritted their teeth and followed behind him.
SWOOOOSH...All four fishman sent a flurry of attacks at Cross from different angles.
"It's all useless fishmen.... It may do you some good to reflect on your life instead." Cross just yawned at their efforts.
BUZZ… The attacks kept passing through Cross's Logia-body type.
Eventually, Cross felt pity for their futile efforts, and he just teleported high in the sky. Now the attacking fishmen could only stare vacantly at Cross and come to terms with their inability.
High in the sky, Cross closed his eyes.and activated his mantra. He accurately tracked the movements of everybody in the entire Arlong park.
"I, Cross, judge the sins of Arlong the Saw and his crew as unforgivable. For their ambitions, they'd decided to play with a young girl's emotions; oppressed and killed innocent people. May your ambitions and lives be forfeited from this moment onward"
Cross spoke in the most Chunibyo way possible that would have surely made his face red from embarrassment if he wasn't drunk.
EL THOR!!!!!! ZAAAP
A large cluster of lightning fell down upon the Arlong park.
One half focused on the pagoda, while the other half broke into smaller bolts and marked the scattered fishmen. When it became small enough to target one specific person, a hail of lightning rained from the sky.
BOOOOOM…. ZAPPPPPPPP
The huge pagoda started collapsed first , destroying years of hard work Arlong and Nami had put into it. Nami cried happy tears from a far when she saw that.
Arlong and rest of the fishman were electrocuted from inside out; their screams echoing in the entire island. A burning smell spread throughout the area as multiple fishmen caught on fire.
"C-Cross... stop! T-They're almost all dead!" Genzo screamed to the sky, his voice trembling from witnessing such a massacre. Unfortunately, the only response he got was the loud rumbling of thunder.
Soon when not even ash remained of the fishmen, Cross receded all the lightning surrounding the skies and his body. Cross slowly descended on the ground like a deity.
No one knew who started it, but almost all the villagers starting kowtowing to Cross.
Satisfied with their reaction, Cross's eyes gleamed from his achievements.
Even so…. Belch… vomit came out of Cross's mouth, and he fainted from alcohol poisoning.
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Near the Arlong Park, a marine ship laid dormant as they witnessed the horrific scene that took place. It was the 16th Branch of Marines, commanded by Captain Nezumi.
Everyone in his ship shivered from witnessing the destruction.
"S-Sir… should we go there now and take all the t-treasures and claim credit too."
BAMMM... Nezumi punched his subordinate.
"A-are you an idiot… do you want to challenge something like that… Just report his picture back to the base and leave... now!"
"YES SIR!" The marines got back to their station, and they ran away from the island.
The reason Nezumi was so generous today, despite his unscrupulous nature, was because he felt the devil himself had warned him about approaching. Just when Nezumi took the picture of the person responsible for Arlong Park's destruction, the person stared at the camera with a devilish grin.
Nezumi could swear that if he went ahead and approached the island, the entire ship would have been wiped out in a second. Moreover, he didn't doubt that someone who can murder the Warlord Jinbei's underling would hesitate much to wipe them out too.
He took a smart decision and decided to never mess with the village that man had protected.
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