บท 48: “Death blow”
At the aggressiveness of these guards, Tesoro looked at Yamamoto waiting for him to act.
"What's wrong? Respond!" shouted the guard losing his patience.
Yamamoto wasted no energy in answering him and disappeared from his place in an instant, he easily knocked out these two guards who were weaker than the marines he defeated on Warship Island.
"Let's move on" said Yamamoto as he entered through the large door guarded by the now unconscious guards.
As they were about to reach the main entrance of the castle, Yamamoto asked, "Where in this huge castle will the Celestial Dragon be located?"
"I don't know... he couldn't have gone very far, let's go to the throne room" suggested Tesoro.
Upon entering the castle they were greeted again by not so friendly guards who rushed straight at them when they noticed that they were unidentified persons. Yamamoto defeated them easily. One of the castle servants who observed this asked where the throne room was.
For fear of being beaten by this old man, he gave him directions to the throne room.
Finally, they came to a large marble double door that was carved with artistic drawings. As they stopped both Yamamoto and Tesoro could hear voices on the other side.
"It must be here!" said Tesoro anxiously, hoping to find Stella and that Pluming hadn't done anything to her.
Yamamoto with both hands pushed the gigantic marble door, not caring that he was about to interrupt in a throne room where very important people were meeting. The door opened with a creaking sound that attracted the attention of the people on the other side.
As he opened the door he noticed all the people in the room.
First of all, he noticed King Lucas with his big golden crown very striking, the curious thing is that he was not sitting on his throne. On the throne sat a middle-aged man of grotesque appearance, when Yamamoto noticed his attire he knew immediately that he was the Celestial Dragon.
He also noticed more people in expensive attire, most likely important nobles of the Kingdom of Ilisia, there were also many guards standing straight on the columns with swords.
What made him frown was seeing a person of great stature standing behind the Celestial Dragon. This person had a full white suit and was wearing a mask with strange patterns on it.
*I forgot about CP0...* thought Yamamoto, he knew immediately upon seeing his outfit and especially his mask that he belonged to this unit.
*In the series I never saw one fight, but his strength must be between the level of vice admiral and admiral* thought Yamamoto as he slowly walked towards the throne room while everyone looked at him with expressions of incomprehension.
Tesoro followed behind him with an angry expression. He could see how Stella was kneeling near Pluming with the steel chain and noticed that her cheek was red, showing that she had been beaten not long ago.
*That Celestial Dragon bastard!* thought Tesoro angrily.
Although Yamamoto knew he was facing a person who could be on the level of an admiral he was not afraid and walked calmly, as if he was taking a walk in the park.
"Who are you!? Why did the guards let you through?" exclaimed King Lucas angrily. If anything happened to displease Pluming his reign might end, worse he might even lose his head and no one would say anything.
"Don't you recognize me? I've been very famous this last while" Yamamoto replied in a calm tone while scratching his beard.
Before coming to the castle he had taken off his hood since his identity had been revealed anyway.
Hearing Yamamoto's comment, King Lucas and the other nobles began to observe Yamamoto more closely.
"Y-you are the Fire Demon!" exclaimed King Lucas in terror as he took a step backward.
The other nobles in the room were terrified and began to walk backward, trying to be as far away from Yamamoto as possible.
"What is the fire demon doing here!?" exclaimed a terrified noble.
Stella who was kneeling with her eyes crestfallen, looked up and was startled.
Not because of Yamamoto, but because of the person standing next to him, *Tesoro-san! What is he doing here?* Stella thought worriedly.
When she learned of Yamamoto's identity, her concern increased, *Why is he with such an infamous criminal?* thought Stella.
She hated criminals and knew the heinous crimes the Fire Demon had committed, so she didn't like Tesoro being with him at all, even if it was to save her.
"Why are they so scared? He's just an old man. Arno get him out of here" Pluming ordered with little patience, he didn't know who Yamamoto was.
"Protect Pluming-sama. He is dangerous" ordered Arno as he started down the throne stairs towards Yamamoto.
Arno's tone was serious, he knew very well who the old man in front of him was and the power he possessed. It even seemed to him that the bounty on Yamamoto's head was very low compared to his power.
He had been alerted a few minutes ago of the presence of the Ohara archaeologists in the Kingdom of Ilisia, although they did not know if Yamamoto was accompanying them, most likely he was. And here he could confirm it with his own eyes.
Because of the danger of this news and above all because of his mission to protect Pluming, he wanted to get him out of the Kingdom as quickly as possible, but Pluming did not listen. He even got annoyed and threatened him.
"Yes!" replied two bodyguards in unison as they protected Pluming with a straight face.
"Tsch why are they making such a fuss over a mere old man?" said Pluming with disdain totally oblivious to the situation.
"I would never believe that, on this journey, I would meet the Fire Demon himself" said Arno in a cold tone of voice.
"I also wouldn't have believed that on this trip I would meet such a nasty rat" replied Yamamoto as he looked at Pluming.
Hearing this comment a vein stood out on Pluming's forehead, "Kill him! That's the second time I've been insulted in a day! Unforgivable!" exclaimed Pluming angrily.
Pluming's voice boomed throughout the throne room, the King, the nobles, the guards and everyone else watched intently at the fight that was about to happen.
Before Arno launched his attack, Yamamoto extended his hand, pointing his palm outward. Meanwhile, the Lethal Strike card he got earlier materialized in his palm in a grayish color. This was not seen by anyone except Yamamoto himself.
A small vortex of fire began to form in his palm. Spinning counterclockwise, the vortex suddenly expanded and burst into a blinding fire with extremely high temperatures. The throne room became a furnace, the temperature rising higher every second.
When the fire reached its highest temperature, Yamamoto waved his palm in Arno's direction.
The large-sized vortex flew at a great speed towards Arno!
*Damn old man, attacking out of nowhere!* thought Arno as he prepared to intercept the vortex of fire.
Yamamoto's great attack had frightened everyone present who moved farther and farther away so as not to feel so much heat. Fortunately, Tesoro who was next to Yamamoto did not feel so much heat.
Arno's whole body concentrated a great amount of spiritual energy, he had used haki armament on his whole body like that time Zephyr. However, it was useless.
In the blink of an eye, the great vortex devoured Arno who was struggling not to be eaten by the fire.
Despite all his efforts the vortex began to burn him, the haki armament being useless. He started to feel a great pain all over his body.
BOOM!
Before he could feel any more pain, the vortex contracted and exploded turning his body into ashes, giving him an instant death. In the center of the throne room, a large crater was created and the fire splashed all over the castle, because of its high temperatures it was impossible for it to be extinguished. On the contrary, it spread more and more.
[ DING! You killed a CP0 member! Rewarded with 4 skill points and 400 merit points! ]
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