Free Web NovelChapter 194: Chapter 194
Chapter 194
"Hody! Why are you doing this?!" Fukaboshi shouted angrily while being restrained. "Not only do you hate humans, but you’re even merciless toward your own people! Don’t you feel any guilt?!"
No matter how much he struggled, the chains binding him remained firm.
"Hmph. How naive. Is the Neptune royal family always this naive?" Hody showed no remorse. Instead, he wore a arrogant smile as he looked down at Fukaboshi. "Even if they’re fishmen, anyone who gets along with humans must be executed. It’s that simple."
"Hody! So you’re the mastermind behind this rebellion?!" Jinbe’s voice came from above. "Release the three princes immediately and prepare to face King Neptune’s punishment!"
Jinbe leapt down from the sky and landed in front of Hody, confronting him directly.
"Jinbe..." "Even now, you still dare to come back? You, who sides with humans... you’re a disgrace to the fishman race." "You have such great power, yet you lower yourself to working as a tour guide. Are you trying to become a human’s dog?"
Jinbe’s arrival didn’t intimidate Hody. On the contrary, it only made him more arrogant. ƒreewebɳovel.com
"Hody! Watch your mouth!" Jinbe shouted angrily.
But Hody ignored him and turned his gaze toward the sky.
"A Devil Fruit user?" he muttered as he watched the floating piece of coral.
Soon after, Rorschach and the others descended on the floating coral and landed behind Jinbe.
Looking at Hody, none of the girls felt any sense of pressure. Their expressions remained relaxed.
Just as Rorschach had said — this guy was just a small fry. He wasn’t particularly strong.
"I didn’t expect it to be Rorschach’s crew, the same group connected to us. So you’re the ones who ruined Big Brother Arlong’s plans!" Hody sneered. "Perfect. Saves me the trouble of going out to find you. I’ll just take care of all of you right here."
"Heh~ You even brought Shirahoshi along. Hahahaha! You’ve saved me a lot of trouble."
Hody looked at the group with an extremely arrogant expression, completely unaware of the monsters standing in front of him.
"Jinbe... Rorschach-san..." "Shirahoshi too... Why did you bring her here? If anything happens to her, how am I supposed to face Mother...?"
Fukaboshi and his two brothers also noticed Rorschach’s group arriving. At first, when Jinbe appeared, hope lit up in their eyes. When the others arrived as well, that hope grew even stronger.
But the moment they saw Shirahoshi, panic and anxiety overtook them. Their little sister was their most precious person. They had promised their mother that they would protect her no matter what.
"Don’t worry," Jinbe reassured them. "With Rorschach and the others here, Princess Shirahoshi will be safe."
"Hmph. How annoying." Hody clicked his tongue in displeasure. "Hey, what are you all standing around for? Surround them!"
Dozens of fishmen began closing in on Rorschach and the others. Soon, the group was completely surrounded by a thick wall of fishmen. The surrounding fishmen all wore mocking smiles, as if they were looking at lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
"Ho~~~~~~" The fishmen let out strange, excited laughter.
Seeing this, Hody and his officers also burst into smug laughter.
Jinbe swept his eyes across the area. There were a few humans in chains, but the majority were fishmen — roughly thirty to forty thousand in total. While none of them were particularly strong, dealing with this many people would still be troublesome.
Nami and Nojiko noticed the Arlong Pirates tattoo on Hody’s arm. Their expressions shifted slightly. Electric sparks unconsciously began flickering around Nami’s hands until Nojiko grabbed her hand to calm her down.
"Hody! Are you trying to drag Fish-Man Island toward a future of destruction?!" Jinbe shouted furiously.
"Destruction? The ones who should be destroyed are these humans!" Hody declared loudly. "What I’m doing is raising the fishman race to the top of the world! Making fishmen the most noble beings on this planet."
"For that, I’ll first take the throne. Then, during the World Meeting two years from now, I’ll make these humans understand who the true rulers of this world are! Hahahahaha!"
Hody laughed with pure delight, completely looking down on everyone in front of him.
He had an army of forty thousand and several powerful officers. On top of that, he also had the legendary "national treasure" of the Ryugu Kingdom — the dangerous drug Energy Steroid (E.S.). In his mind, he was already invincible.
"What?!" Jinbe’s face filled with shock.
He wasn’t shocked by how brilliant Hody’s plan was — he was shocked by how ignorant and foolish Hody and his group were.
The World Meeting was held in Mariejois, the World Government’s headquarters. Countless powerful fighters guarded the Celestial Dragons there. Even Jinbe himself wasn’t confident he could survive if he went there, let alone Hody.
Yet this idiot actually planned to carry out his scheme in a place like that.
He was basically leading the entire fishman race to extinction.
It was a good thing Jinbe found out about this plan early. If Hody had actually been allowed to proceed, the fishmen might have been wiped out.
Only someone as ignorant as Hody Jones, a frog in a well who had never seen the true scale of the world, could come up with such a stupid idea.
"It seems I can’t let you live after all," Jinbe said coldly, his expression turning serious and icy. "You foolish man... you’ll never understand how vast this world truly is."
He raised both hands into a Fish-Man Karate stance as water droplets began forming in his palms.
"Hmph. So we’re doing this the hard way after all. Well, I expected as much. A traitor like you would never surrender obediently."
"Men! Attack! Whoever kills Jinbe or any member of Rorschach’s crew will be promoted to officer!"
Hody swung his arm down, ordering his subordinates to charge.
"HO~~~~~~!!"
The fishmen roared and charged forward with bloodthirsty excitement.
"Sorry, Jinbe-san! We used to be comrades, but now... if I can become one of Boss Hody’s officers, I’ll be able to live well in the kingdom. So I’ll have to ask you to die here!"
One fishman shouted arrogantly as he swung his sword straight at Jinbe’s head, showing no trace of their past relationship.
As expected, when personal gain was involved, old bonds meant nothing. This was the moment when true nature was revealed.
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