Buzz!
Before his palms even landed, the gust of wind stirred up was already making his cheeks cave inward. A-Long was shocked. His rich combat experience kicked in, and without even thinking, he hastily ducked down.
It was messy, but effective.
Boom!
Where his head had been, the air rippled violently. A-Long's eardrums felt like they exploded, and blood started flowing from his nose.
He couldn't help but feel horrified. If he had hesitated even half a second longer, even if he didn't die, his head would've been smashed flat.
No time to think. Shano's missed strike didn't end there. His palms immediately pressed downward, smashing straight toward A-Long's skull.
"You damn human!" A-Long, terrified to the extreme, turned furious. His savagery exploded as he suddenly opened his bloody mouth wide, aiming to bite Shano's arm.
Oh?
Seeing him stop dodging, Shano narrowed his eyes with a hint of interest and thrust his right arm forward to meet him.
Looking to die on your own?
A-Long's eyes twisted with a cruel glare.
Foolish human. He had no idea that his sharpest weapon wasn't the giant saw blade in his hand, but this mouthful of razor-sharp fangs!
Crunch!
Accompanied by the familiar salty taste, the sound of something shattering rang out sharply.
A-Long grinned — but before he could show a smug expression, he suddenly realized in horror:
it wasn't Shano's arm that shattered — it was his own teeth!
The large gush of blood that burst out wasn't from cutting Shano's muscles, but from his own torn gums.
"Bite, come on, keep biting."
Shano's face stayed expressionless as he forcefully pressed his arm deeper into the sharkman's mouth.
"Why aren't you biting anymore?"
"Ugh... ugh!"
A-Long struggled desperately, trying to spit out this steel-cast arm, but it was useless.
He could only watch helplessly as the arm pressed closer and closer toward his throat.
"I heard you can even bite through cannonballs fired from warships.
How come you're so weak today?"
Shano kept pressing in, his voice casual.
"Didn't have breakfast?"
"Here, I'll give you my arm! Full of protein — eat up, get your strength back!"
His calm voice gradually turned filled with violence.
A-Long's eyes rolled back, his lower jaw stretched to the limit.
Crack, crack... the sounds of his skull bones splitting faintly echoed out.
The powerful arm began twisting inside his mouth.
The few sharp fangs he had left, along with large chunks of gum and flesh, were squeezed out like dirty laundry in a washing machine.
"Ugh...!"
A-Long was almost suffocating now, his consciousness fading, moving purely on survival instinct. His claws scratched wildly at Shano's chest and arm.
But he couldn't even break the skin, only leaving behind some faint scratch marks.
"Let go of Big Brother A-Long!"
A sudden furious roar came from behind — it was Chu, leading three fishman officers, charging at Shano with blades raised.
Shano glanced back.
Strangely, though they were charging while roaring, their faces were full of fear and despair, looking very much like Commander Erwin.
Shano didn't care. He didn't even bother to look at them again.
Another scene about to repeat itself?
Chu looked at that terrifying back growing closer and closer.
But instead of hope, his heart was full of despair.
He had seen it clearly.
Even Hachi's six swords couldn't break through Shano's defense no matter how wildly he swung them.
Hachi was their ship's top swordsman.
Each sword weighed 300 kilograms.
If even Hachi couldn't do it, how could they possibly succeed?
But they couldn't just abandon Big Brother A-Long!
In that moment of chaotic thoughts, the three fishmen's blades had already slashed into Shano's back from different angles.
They pierced in!
Chu was overwhelmed with joy — but immediately, his expression changed.
No!
The places they stabbed were clearly where Shano had deliberately tensed his latissimus dorsi muscles, leaving folds for them to stab into!
Clang!
In the next instant, the thick muscles suddenly expanded outward, and the three sword blades were all ejected!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
The three fishmen, unable to dodge in time, were pinned straight onto the coconut trees, their throats pierced through. Blood streamed down the bark like little rivers.
No, no!
From the corner of his blurry vision, A-Long saw this and his heart shattered. Tears streamed uncontrollably down his face.
Run, just run, you idiot brothers!
Can't you see?
This human... no! This monster — isn't something you can fight against!
"You... are crying?"
Shano looked at him with interest.
"You're making me feel sorry for you. I almost wanted to let you go."
"But there's a saying — crocodile tears aren't worth pitying."
He looked off into the distance.
The remaining fishman pirates, seeing that all the officers were dead or dying and even A-Long had no way to resist, completely lost their courage.
They turned and ran madly toward the sea, wishing they had four legs to flee faster.
Shano lowered his head and softly whispered in A-Long's ear:
"Oh right, you're a shark, huh?
Whatever — close enough."
As the last word dropped, he grabbed A-Long's skull, flipped his giant hand over, and chased after the fleeing fishmen toward the dock!
He kept activating Soru over and over.
The scenery on both sides flashed by at crazy speeds.
A-Long's limp body smashed through trees one after another, his mind falling into total darkness.
Smack!
Finally, they arrived at the shattered pier. Shano stopped.
He looked down indifferently.
The purple-skinned fishman in his hand had been dragged hundreds of meters, his body torn and bloodied, leaving a winding bloody path across the dirt.
"Dead?"
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Shano frowned slightly, a hint of disappointed loneliness flashing across his face.
"So you… really were only at this level?"
Even now, he hadn't been able to force Shano to go all out — not even once.
Shaking his head, he tossed A-Long's corpse onto the beach like throwing out trash, and turned his gaze to the fishmen clumsily scrambling aboard the shark-themed pirate ship.
"Not good! That monster's coming over!!"
One fishman spotted him and let out a piercing shriek.
"What are you waiting for?! Move!"
"The ship can't turn in time!"
"Then jump! Swim for it! In the water, he can't catch us!"
Escape into the sea?
Shano sneered.
He wasn't the type to let the weeds grow back.
Geppo!
Tensing his arches, he stomped down hard — and in the blink of an eye, he appeared atop the tall mast.
The view was excellent.
Every fishman pirate was laid bare before his eyes.
Some fishmen were already scrambling over the railing, ready to jump into the sea.
Shano expressionlessly raised his right arm, pointing his index finger at one of the fleeing backs.
Shigan! (Finger Gun!)
A shockwave burst from his fingertip, instantly blasting open the fishman's skull.
Without even watching the brain matter fly, he calmly shifted his finger to the next target...
The sea breeze blew past, carrying with it a heavy smell of blood.
A-Jian's legs trembled as he carefully made his way over the blood-soaked pier, constantly looking around in fear.
It was the same scene as before — the broken dock, the battered dirt path —
except now, the ship's railing, the deck, even the sea was full of floating fishman corpses.
What happened here?
Could it be…
That the figure who rushed ahead earlier had already — all on his own — ended this entire battle?
"Sha… Shano?"
A-Jian cupped his hands into a megaphone shape and shouted, testing the waters.
"Where are you?! Are you alright?!"
"Up here, Uncle Jian."
The voice came from above.
Only then did A-Jian notice a figure sitting atop the massive pirate ship's mast, unmoving, quietly looking down at everything.
"Uncle, you seem a little late."
Shano raised his head, revealing a slightly tired face.
Not the weariness of the body, but the tension of a mind held taut for too long finally relaxing.
Looking at the stunned A-Jian, he smiled faintly:
"All the pirates have been killed.
Not a single one got away.
Kind of a pity — didn't even get to leave you, the policeman, any work."
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