One Piece: Saving Hancock with the Batto Batto no Mi

Sabaody Archipelago, Grove 45, Commercial Street.

Over sixty pirates, with grim grins, brandished weapons in their hands and rushed into shops, looting indiscriminately. Seeing this situation, pedestrians on the street were instantly terrified and fled in a panic, screams filling the air. Many shop owners didn't even dare to stay in their own stores and quickly dashed out of the doors. It was essential to save their lives from the chaos unfolding.

"Hahaha! Brothers! Grab the money! Grab the provisions! I, Captain Quincy, am a man destined to become the Pirate King! These things will be a vital boost on my journey forward," yelled the speaker, a long-bladed pirate in a blue coat with a black skull mark above his head, named Walton Quincy, with a bounty of 51 million Beli.

Just at this moment, Sephiroth, clad in a black tracksuit and armed with his long sword, moved against the fleeing crowd and walked unhurriedly towards the pirates. Sephiroth's expression was indifferent, and the long sword in his hand waved swiftly. The blade appeared from thin air and disappeared again, looking incredibly strange and deadly. With every swing of his sword, pirates' necks were sliced open in the distance! The pirates covered their necks with both hands in an attempt to stop the gushing blood, but all this was futile! Eventually, they were left struggling, falling to the ground, and the world in their eyes gradually darkened, ending their lives.

"This... What does this mean?" Quincy watched his men die one by one, his eyes so wide that fear and unease filled his heart. Quincy quickly turned his head and looked around. Soon, he noticed the source of the anomaly: the silver-haired youth who was coming from behind him towards this location!

As the two men approached within three meters, the corner of Sephiroth's mouth lifted slightly, forming a cold, menacing arc. "King... What king will you be, exactly?" he uttered softly, his tone emotionless yet deadly.

Confronted with the immense fear brought on by the unknown, Quincy had no idea how to contend with Sephiroth, so he immediately turned and fled. Sephiroth stood there, watching calmly, until Quincy had run 39 meters away, when he swung his sword out of thin air. In an instant, Quincy felt a pain in his neck, and as his eyes flipped, he saw a headless corpse falling to the ground—it was his own body.

After doing all this, Sephiroth reopened the spatial door and returned to the gym at the Marine base. At this point, twenty Marine soldiers, already in neat formation, stood waiting outside the door, under Frank's shouts.

"Old rules, clean up the scene, calm the civilians, and maintain order!" Sephiroth commanded.

"Yes!" the twenty-one Marine soldiers shouted in unison, first saluting, then entering the spatial gate at a run, and heading towards Grove 45.

When everyone had left, Sephiroth placed his sword back in its scabbard, closed the spatial door, sat on the rest chair, and used his own mind to communicate with the Butcher's Blade in the darkness and spiritually.

Recently, while using the Butcher's Blade to compress Haki, in an attempt to temper his body, he suddenly tried to draw a small amount of life force from the long sword. Unexpectedly, he succeeded! From the beginning, Sephiroth knew that the sword had a consciousness of its own. However, even if the Butcher's Blade had absorbed his vitality and that of enemies, he hadn't thought of the sword in terms of a "living being," but rather regarded it as a weapon with special materials and craftsmanship.

When Sephiroth broke through the original limits of his thinking, his mind instantly became alive! The user of the Menmen Fruit was his sword, while he was its wielder. The Butcher's Blade could actually use life force to compensate for the consumption caused by using Devil Fruit abilities! What if he could allow the Butcher's Blade's consciousness to grow and condense a semi-permanent storage space?

Act on it as soon as you think of it. Under Sephiroth's mental induction during this period, the Butcher's Blade could already temporarily construct a small, unstable space based on its own instincts! Although this had no practical value for now, it was a good start!

Fast!

Sephiroth, who was sitting on his rest chair, sharply raised his head, and with a doubtful expression on his face, he muttered in a low voice, "How could they appear here?"

After thinking about it, he stood up, swung his sword out of thin air, opened the spatial door, and stepped inside.

Sabaody Archipelago, Grove 13, Lawless Zone.

On a street with people coming and going, four women walked side by side, one tall and three small. Among them was a tall, slender black-haired girl, dressed in a white T-shirt on her upper body, a pair of blue hot pants on her lower body, and two long, smooth legs. Her beautiful face, pure and wholesome, was incredibly stunning and breathtaking. The tall, slender black-haired girl attracted the attention of countless passersby along the street. To get another look at her, some people bumped into walls without even realizing it.

Even six men secretly followed the four women, all with malicious desires in their eyes. Some carried sacks, some ropes, some in their trouser pockets, preparing potions and handkerchiefs that could render people unconscious. They clearly had ill intentions.

"Shakky, can I petrify the people following me?" The long-haired black-haired girl's gaze subtly glanced behind her.

"Oops! Little Hancock, your charm is so dizzying!" Shakky pretended to have a distressed expression and her tone was full of teasing, but she still added, "Find a secluded alley later and get rid of them..."

"Okay!" With a calm face, Boa Hancock nodded gently and agreed.

Shakky looked at the street ahead, where a shop selling masks appeared, and instinctively advised her, "Alas! We might be staying here for a while, and if you don't want to get into too much trouble, I suggest you wear a mask when going out later! After all, it's the Lawless Zone in the Sabaody Archipelago, with bounty hunters, human traffickers, pirates, underworld gangsters. It can be said that it's a mix of fish and dragons!"

"Oh~! Okay!" Boa Hancock pouted, with a reluctant tone, showing a hint of dissatisfaction with the idea of hiding her beauty.

In this scene, even Shakky, who had long been seasoned by battle, almost felt like a deer caught in headlights—captivated by Hancock's charm. Fortunately, she reacted in time and quickly wrapped her entire body in bright, transparent Armament Haki, and the terrifying charm was greatly weakened. "Boa Hancock, in a sense, is too terrifying!" Shakky muttered in her heart.

At the entrance of the mask shop, the tall, slender black-haired girl took a fox mask from the shelf and twirled it in her hand. "Auntie! How much is this mask?"

The shop owner was a slightly plump middle-aged woman. After seeing the girl's beautiful face, her eyes suddenly turned into heart shapes. She said with a doting look on her face, "Ah! Such a beautiful beauty, if you like it, I'll give it to you!"

"Hee hee! Thank you, auntie, then!" Boa Hancock smiled and waved, about to turn away.

However.

The six men who had been following her saw an opportunity for the tall, slender black-haired girl to be alone, and rushed towards her quickly, looking like they wanted to kidnap someone.

"Mero Mero Mellow!" Sensing all this, Boa Hancock, with a cold face, turned quickly, and with her hands in a loving pose, released a loving ray of light that struck the six men.

In an instant! The figures of these six men were petrified on the spot and turned into lifelike stone carvings.

"She's a Devil Fruit user!"

"Run! Beware she'll go on a rampage!"

Those who had habitually stared at Boa Hancock with leering eyes were suddenly startled, and many of them turned and fled in fear.

However.

"Ah! What to do, even knowing she's dangerous, I can't help but feel my heart pound! Want to 'keep staring at her.'"

"Yeah! Yeah! I'll keep looking a few more times."

There were always some people who were ignorant and foolish, and they still stared straight at the tall, slender black-haired girl. In this regard, Boa Hancock had long been accustomed to it, and as long as those people didn't come to offend her, she didn't bother to pay attention to anything.

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