Chapter Ninety-Three: The Sunken Ship [Second Update]

Tina took a drag from her cigarette, a black long spear suddenly extending from her sleeve, firmly gripped in her hand. With a sharp cry, she thrust the iron spear straight forward.

The powers granted by Devil Fruits were truly troublesome—whether from the Logia or the Paramecia types, the ability to create matter out of thin air according to one’s will felt godlike.

Yet, facing a Navy Headquarters colonel, Shu Mingyuan dared neither to underestimate nor overestimate her.

“If you want to catch me, Marijoa should at least send a rear admiral, right?” he chuckled lightly. His arms instantly hardened as he parried Tina’s long spear with ease through several exchanges. The forceful impacts sent tingling sensations through Tina’s tiger’s mouth, nearly causing her grip to falter.

“Steel Feather Shackles!” Tina spread her arms wide, extending two iron bars from her forearms that tightly bound Shu Mingyuan—this was her ability: to imprison anything with iron bars.

“Ghost Hunter Monkey D. Shu Mingyuan, Tina declares that you are under arrest!”

Seeing the Ghost Hunter restrained, Tina exhaled in relief. Since acquiring her power, no one she had captured had ever escaped.

“Colonel Tina, that’s not so certain,” the young man replied with a radiant smile. Focusing his mind, violent currents of electricity surged through his body, flowing along the iron shackles and coursing into Tina’s form.

“Ah~ mm~ you bastard… stop… stop it…”

The raging electricity sent waves of intense tingling through Tina, her strength draining as if completely sapped. Her whole body trembled awkwardly, moans escaping from her lips like a seductive melody that flushed a rare blush upon her usually cold, pale face.

Unexpected—who would have thought such a tactic existed?

Shu Mingyuan rubbed his nose sheepishly, having merely considered that iron conducts electricity. Who knew Tina’s body was so sensitive? Her breathy moans and mature allure almost stirred his restless urges.

As the electric current ceased, Tina collapsed to her knees, utterly drained. A murderous gleam appeared in her eyes as she stared at Shu Mingyuan. “Ghost Hunter, you will pay for this.”

The iron shackles held him firmly, confident in their unbreakable grip.

“You think your shackles’ hardness can contain me?”

“Jutsu: Ultra Expansion!”

Under Tina’s watchful gaze, Shu Mingyuan’s arms began to swell, the black shackles straining under the pressure and groaning before snapping piece by piece!

By sheer brute force, the man wrenched himself free from the shackles. Was such strength truly within human limits?

Tina was shocked.

Shu Mingyuan’s massive palms reached out to grab her, but Tina’s agility was unmatched; she paused midair with a moonwalk step.

“Black Spear Formation!”

Over a dozen enormous black spears erupted from her body. Swinging her arms, Tina sent the gigantic spears hurtling through the air toward Shu Mingyuan with explosive force!

The spears were colossal, producing deafening sonic booms as they tore through the air. Such an attack could even pierce Sea Kings—Tina could pin them down without difficulty.

The overwhelming power of the ten-meter spears forced Shu Mingyuan to brace himself. Unlike Logia users, he could not simply turn his body into an element to evade; the vast coverage of this iron spear formation meant each strike carried immense destructive force.

His only option was to rely on sheer strength to withstand the assault.

“Armament Haki: Hardening!”

Suddenly, both his arms were cloaked in a black sheen, appearing indestructible. As the dozen spears stabbed fiercely, his giant thirty-foot arms swept left and right, knocking every spear aside.

Every spear struck the warship’s hull with tremendous force, causing the deck to shatter instantly. Debris flew everywhere, the bow of the ship was badly damaged, and seawater began to seep in through multiple breaches.

Marine soldiers previously paralyzed on the ground fled in panic; the destructive power of this battle was far beyond their ability to intervene.

“Damn it! This guy’s wrecked my ship! Unforgivable! Tina is furious!” Her eyes burned with rage, intent on eliminating him as soon as possible.

“All personnel abandon ship! Take essential supplies and board the lifeboats! I’ll deal with this guy!” Tina called out in a sharp, commanding voice. She knew the warship could no longer hold out; better to go all out now for a chance at victory.

Because this man was nothing short of a monster.

“Fighting and still distracted by other things?” The man’s mocking laughter echoed in her ear. Tina spun around, only to find the Ghost Hunter had silently appeared by her side.

“Lion Barrage!”

Shu Mingyuan unleashed a powerful kick, sending Tina crashing down from the sky onto the warship’s deck with brutal force. The main mast snapped and fell, smashing into the island structure and collapsing several buildings.

“My current power, without counting Shukaku, is at least at the rear admiral level—invincible at that rank. Against a Headquarters vice admiral, I might hold my own, but facing an admiral, I’d probably have to run,” Shu Mingyuan muttered to himself. “Of course, if I had time to prepare a Tailed Beast Orb, even a vice admiral would be reduced to scrap.”

“Alas, still too weak.”

If he were thrown into the Summit War, facing captains from the New World—all at least of admiral or commander rank—he wouldn’t make much of a splash.

He still had a long way to go before reaching the pinnacle of this world.

“Jutsu: Ultra Palm Push!”

His massive palm glowed with a faint blue chakra as he descended from above. The palm expanded beyond thirty feet, nearly the size of the warship itself.

The Ultra Palm Push slammed down, generating powerful wind pressure that whipped the sails on the secondary masts into disarray. The sea level around the ship dropped several meters under the force. The ship groaned under the strain, unable to withstand it.

To the eyes of the marines evacuating on lifeboats, the Ultra Palm Push crashed down with a deafening roar.

The deck, island, and masts shattered instantly, the destruction intensifying until the keel cracked in two.

The warship was split cleanly in half by Shu Mingyuan’s single palm strike!

Such destructive power was terrifying—the violent winds stirred waves several meters high, spreading outward.

Tina, struck so heavily, spat blood uncontrollably. This was only because Shu Mingyuan’s Ultra Palm Push hadn’t targeted her specifically—otherwise, she wouldn’t have survived.

Amid the fierce winds, Tina passed out as the broken warship slowly sank beneath the waves. As a Devil Fruit user, once immersed in seawater, she lost all her abilities and became helpless—a drowning duck without rescue.

Shu Mingyuan watched clearly before plunging beneath the surface himself, transforming into a swimming fish as he headed for the ocean floor.