Under the watchful gaze of everyone, Marco dashed forward like a firebird pouncing, charging straight toward Rosse.
"So eager, what are you trying to do?", Rosse chuckled lightly, and in the blink of an eye, had already made his move.
"So fast!"
Marco didn't even have time to be surprised before his right hand, transformed into a wing, was already grabbed by Rosse and forcefully yanked down.
At the same time, Rosse's Haki-imbued fist slammed into his chest.
"Wah!"
Marco spat out a mouthful of blood, his whole body like a cannonball, flew back at twice the speed he had arrived.
BANG!
His body crashed into a building, smashing through several houses before finally coming to a stop.
"That's it?", Rosse's lips curled into a playful smile, as he reached out and straightened his wind-tossed clothing, brazenly looking in the direction of Marco and the others.
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[Marco]
[Overall Rating: B+]
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The current Marco looked as immature as a toy.
If Rosse had used full strength, he could've pushed the opponent to the brink of death in a single blow.
"You're strong! Celestial Dragon!", Leviathan's expression was solemn as he walked out from the shadows, Vista with twin swords stood by his side.
Behind him, Carlo used bubbles to bring Marco back.
Although Rosse hadn't used full strength, in the short term, Marco couldn't be counted on to fight.
"Since you know I'm strong, why are you coming to cause me trouble?", Looking at Leviathan at the front, Rosse let out a sneer, "Answer me, First Division Commander of the Whitebeard Pirates, Leviathan!"
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[Leviathan]
[Overall Rating: A+]
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Good news: he's an A-level experience baby.
Bad news: not strong enough to reach S-level, just a substitute meal.
"Your existence hinders the development of pirates. The era Roger hoped for cannot be stopped by you," Leviathan said in a deep voice, stretching his limbs and stepping forward.
He was a pure martial artist, with no Devil Fruit assistance.
But because of that, he could better see how strong Rosse truly was.
One punch had crippled Marco, that was something even he would find difficult.
"Roger? Even people from the Whitebeard Pirates follow that?", Rosse laughed aloud. If they wanted a reason, they might as well say he was targeting Whitebeard.
In truth, he had no immediate intention of going after Whitebeard.
With Whitebeard's content and disciplined personality, even if there was a reckoning, it'd be left for last.
But this time, the opponent had dared to come cause trouble first.
"Words are useless. Let our hands prove it," Carlo, on the side, didn't want to waste more words. He raised both hands to the sky and let out a low shout.
Rumble!
In an instant, the entire ground of Fish-Man Street trembled.
Fish-Man Street was located at the bottommost part of Fish-Man Island, an area even the sunlight of the Sunlight Tree Eve could not reach.
And the entire Fish-Man Island was actually land wrapped in a giant bubble.
In this terrain, Carlo, with the Bubble Fruit ability, was the key to controlling the sea switch.
Carlo decisively opened the nearest bubble port of Fish-Man Street, and a massive surge of seawater flooded in, forming monstrous waves that swept toward this direction.
"Seawater! It's seawater!"
"Careful!"
"Hold on to something!"
"..."
The people of Fish-Man Street all cried out in alarm, and Jinbe and Otohime also began organizing the crowd for evacuation.
They actually weren't too worried.
After all, everyone was either fish-men or merfolks, fish can't drown.
"Quite the thorough preparation," Rosse let out a chuckle. Looking at the nearly destroyed Fish-Man Street and the giant waves sweeping in, he simply snapped his fingers.
Snap!
In an instant, calm returned.
Under everyone's shocked gaze, the once-surging tide instantly became incomparably calm.
The water level continued to rise, but the ferocity from before was gone.
"What kind of ability is this?", Carlo asked solemnly.
"Do you guys all have the habit of telling your abilities to enemies?", Rosse teased with mockery.
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[Carlo]
[Overall Rating: A]
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Carlo's strength still fell short of Leviathan's, but with the Bubble Fruit, in the unique environment of Fish-Man Island, he might perform even better than Leviathan.
"Too arrogant, Celestial Dragon!", Vista couldn't take it anymore. He charged over with his twin swords raised.
The few of them now stood on the rising surface of the water, and with Carlo's provided bubbles, there was no worry about movement or breathing.
As long as they could stall Rosse until the water completely submerged this area, Rosse would have nowhere to escape.
Rosse wasn't a fish-man. Having eaten a Devil Fruit, under ten thousand meters of sea, all he could do was wait to die.
"You really don't seem to like me," Rosse smiled faintly, lifting his finger effortlessly to block Vista's twin swords.
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[Vista]
[Overall Rating: B-]
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Even weaker than Marco, not the least bit interesting to him.
If Vista hadn't had that look of disgust, like someone who'd had his woman stolen, Rosse wouldn't even have bothered talking much.
Seeing his blades pinched by Rosse's fingers, Vista felt incredibly stifled and cursed angrily, "Bastard! What do you take a swordsman's honor for!"
As he spoke, he yanked hard on the sword, but it didn't budge a bit.
No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't take back the sword caught by Rosse.
"Oh, you're talking about the thing with Gion," Rosse suddenly realized, then regretfully shook his head, "Your strength is far inferior to Gion's. A swordsman's honor? That's just the wail of a weakling."
As he said this, he flicked his finger lightly.
Ding!
With a crisp sound, the sword in Vista's hand, covered in Haki, was actually snapped in half by Rosse's flick.
"You're kidding me. That was a meito sword," Vista's eyes widened, staring in disbelief at the scene, stunned.
His sword, wrapped in Haki, had been flicked and broken by Rosse just like that.
"Don't doubt that you're weak, and don't doubt that the sword was too fragile. At the core, it's because I'm too strong," Rosse let out a light laugh and reached toward Vista's other sword.
"Don't even think about it!", Vista saw through Rosse's move. That slow, casual gesture was no different than an insult.
But just as he tried to react, Rosse suddenly erupted with a domineering and overwhelming Conqueror's Haki. Caught in that close-range blast, Vista was completely stunned.
By the time he regained his senses, it was already too late.
Rosse's hand had leisurely rested on his other sword, and with a light tug, the sword flew from Vista's grip and ended up in Rosse's hand.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!", Vista roared in frustration.
The greatest disgrace to a swordsman was having their blade destroyed and taken.
And Rosse had done both right in front of him.
To him, it was no different from being NTR'd in front of his face.
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