Chapter 102: The Yakuza Boss
"W-What the hell is going on?! Sir Alpacaman is dead-" A guard started to yell, pointing frantically at the corpse of Alpacaman, but he didn’t get to finish.
After all, dead men can’t speak.
His head casually rolled off his neck, and I stepped past him, flicking my sword as flecks of blood rolled off it. I didn’t want to kill all of Kaido’s crew, as they were more useful alive and serving me than dead, but for someone like this?
I wasn’t exactly a good guy, but as far as conquerors go? I might as well have been a saint. But, that didn’t mean I had patience of one.
If I spared and tried to force every person who went against me to serve me, then I’d be here all day. It wasn’t like these were good people anyway - they were guards at what essentially was an enslavement camp, where they worked the prisoners to the bone and had the authority to kill whoever they wanted.
It wasn’t like they were being forced to work here either, as most of the guards were ’Waiters’ who were trying to climb the ladder of power to become Gifters, and the few Gifters here were loyal crewmates of Kaido. When Luffy had been sent here, the guards had been far from kind, instead having no problems with mocking and kicking an injured man while he was down.
So, I wouldn’t waste time being merciful here.
The first guard’s death only caused more panic as the other guards realized that there was an intruder, and all hell broke loose soon after.
"Intruder! Stop him-"
Or, all hell tried to break loose, but I was simply faster than the feeling of panic. In a split second, the roughly two-dozen guards in the open area, all of whom were dressed in the same leather jacket, belt buckle, and who looked like rather normal people otherwise, were dead.
Heads fell to the ground, breaths inhaled, and I casually took a more in-depth look around the area as the corpses around me flopped to the ground. To my right, there was an iron door that looked similar to the one I had broken down, and probably led to the interior portion of the prison.