Just as Kallen breathed a sigh of relief, the blade of kusanagi, which had been falling straight down, suddenly swept across in a horizontal slash. He was horrified; he no longer had the ability to dodge. The blade had fallen too fast, and the horizontal slash was too sudden.
The blade, as sharp as a thin sheet of paper, passed through his body in an instant. It was over before he even had time to feel the pain!
After delivering two slashes in an instant, Raiden Ei quickly left her position. Several attacks followed, instantly obliterating the deck there. A continuous crackling sound filled the air, at one point even drowning out the sound of the waves.
Only then did Kallen slowly collapse. His body had been severed in two in that single moment. He tried to take a few breaths, but his mouth was already filled with blood, which trickled from the corners of his lips. His life had come to an end.
Bude and the other two were exceptionally furious at Kallen's death. Their eyes, Burning like fire, were fixed on Raiden Ei. They wished they could tear this woman apart with their bare hands to appease their rage, but it was all in vain.
Raiden Ei was not the least bit intimidated by their stares. She stood firm on one side of the deck, meeting their gaze: 'Well then, you are next.'
Bude's rage was nearly uncontrollable. He was just about to speak when a voice suddenly rang out, drawing everyone's attention.
'Someone! Come here! Where has everyone gone?' Chestatin, wearing a space suit and looking like a ball, slowly climbed up from the deck, shouting as he did.
Bude no longer had time to worry about Raiden Ei. He quickly deactivated his Hybrid Form and rushed to Chestatin's side, helping Saint Chesterton up from the ground: 'Lord Saint Chesterton, are you alright?'
'Where is this? Ah! Right, my forty-third wife—have you caught her yet?' Chestatin's first reaction upon coming to his senses was to ask Bude.
Bude hurriedly pulled him further away from Raiden Ei: 'Lord Saint Chesterton, we have not yet captured the opponent. You are currently in danger, please come with me.'
Hearing that his forty-third wife had not been caught, Chestatin kicked Bude, only to successfully trip himself and fall onto the deck. 'Thud.'
'You useless waste! Go and catch her right now! I'm going to turn you into a Slave! I'm going to kill you!'
Chestatin stood up from the deck in a rage, oblivious to the situation around him. He pulled a short gun from his pocket, aimed it at Bude, and pulled the trigger. 'Bang.'
Bude, with a gun pointed at him, normally wouldn't have dared to dodge. But now was not the time to apologize to Saint Chesterton; a formidable enemy was watching him from not far away, and he couldn't afford to get injured like this. With a swift movement, he easily dodged the bullet.
Bude pleaded urgently, not daring to take him away by force: 'Saint Chesterton, please come with me. It's dangerous here.'
Saint Chesterton threw the short gun directly at Bude and shouted at him: 'I don't care! I want my forty-third wife! I want my forty-third wife!'
Raiden Ei watched this scene from a distance, thinking that Bude and the others were truly pathetic. She wasn't angry at the ravings of a dying man; it would only make her strike more decisively when she killed him.
However, she didn't want this farce to continue. She had to hurry; she didn't want to run into an Admiral just yet: 'It seems you're quite relaxed! But this ends now.'
Her footsteps landed heavily on the deck as her figure rushed toward the two men guarding against her like a bolt of lightning. The kusanagi in her hand thrust straight toward Shidoga.
Seeing the long blade thrusting toward him at high speed, Shidoga coated his only remaining hand with Armament Haki and swung it with all his might at Raiden Ei. He couldn't step aside; Saint Chesterton was right behind him. He had to stop her even if it cost him his life.
'Shave!' Uesugi quickly flashed to the side to create distance, while simultaneously using 'Tempest Kick: Fury' to attack Raiden Ei's path, hoping to obstruct her.
The kusanagi thrusting forward in Raiden Ei's hand suddenly swung, crushing all the dense vacuum slashes that appeared in her path. Without slowing down, she lunged at Shidoga, determined to kill him in one strike.
'Hah!' Shidoga, already heavily injured, swung his fist. It collided with the lunging kusanagi for an instant, but Shidoga's weak punch provided no resistance at all. He was instantly knocked flying, and in the next moment, the tip of kusanagi sank into his chest.
Raiden Ei flung Shidoga, who was still struggling while impaled on kusanagi, away. 'Crash!' He knocked over some cargo to the side.
Hearing the loud commotion, Chestatin turned his head and finally saw Raiden Ei. He didn't care at all that she had just killed a CP agent responsible for protecting him: 'A beauty! She will be my forty-third wife! Haha, hahahaha!'
The Celestial Dragon, dressed like an astronaut, jumped for joy. He completely failed to notice that Bude had returned to his Hybrid Form, and he already considered Raiden Ei his property.
Raiden Ei frowned, and cold words escaped her lips: 'You are disgusting!' Without saying more, she swung the kusanagi in her hand, sending a Flying Slash toward Chestatin.
Bude was horrified and hurriedly blocked the path in front of Chestatin. His fists were coated in Armament Haki. 'Hah!' With a punch, he instantly shattered the slash.
As for Raiden Ei, she simply didn't want to look at such a disgusting person. After sending out the slash, she ignored him. Sensing Uesugi's location with Observation Haki, she quickly swept toward him. She planned to save Bude for last so she could obtain another Devil Fruit.
Uesugi was about to support Bude when he suddenly sensed an approaching crisis with his Observation Haki. With a'Shave,' he instantly distanced himself and appeared on the distant railing.
Raiden Ei didn't stop. She swung kusanagi, sending two slashes toward Uesugi's flanks, cutting off his idea of using'Shave' to leave again.
Seeing that both sides were blocked by slashes, Uesugi realized that if he wanted to leave, he could only use 'Geppo' to take to the sky or leave the ship for the sea. This was no time for hesitation; he stepped on the air and quickly ran into the sky.
Raiden Ei was waiting for this moment. She stomped hard on the deck. 'Crack!' The deck shattered, and her figure soared like a rocket, instantly appearing behind Uesugi, who had moved quite a distance from the deck. She swung kusanagi at him.
Uesugi sensed a fatal danger with his Observation Haki. He turned to see Raiden Ei behind him and was terrified. He tried to move away, but her speed was too great. He could only kick at her with a leg coated in Armament Haki.
He had thought that since she had only just learned 'Geppo,' she wouldn't be as fast as him in the air—a fact that had been proven earlier. But he hadn't expected this woman to jump so high from the deck.
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