Justice, Captain Corey’s Promise

"Shh!"

The black-haired girl in a white beret raised a finger and shushed Bai Cangshu forcefully. The sound she made was far louder than any sound Bai Cangshu had made.

Yet panic filled her face. After glancing at the patrols outside, which had once again imposed martial law, she grabbed Bai Cangshu’s uninjured left hand and tried to pull him into the pitch-black sewer.

She tugged twice and found that he would not budge. Only then did she look up and examine this miserable outsider, whose entire right arm had turned black like charcoal.

"Hey, big guy, if you don’t hide quickly, God will bring Divine Punishment down on you again!"

Though she kept her voice low, fear still spread through her eyes.

Main Mission Activated

Main Mission 1: Survive in God's Country for 30 days

Main Mission 2: Kill at least one member of any hostile team

Note: The second batch of teams will enter this world in 10 days

Note: The third batch of teams will enter this world in 20 days

Main Mission 3: Ensure that your team battle score is positive when the mission ends; current temporary team score: -7

Side Mission: Find the lost El Dorado

Bai Cangshu looked at the belated prompt from the Space, his muscles still spasming.

If there was anything with a divine speed that even Instant could not match, lightning was certainly one of them.

Although Bai Cangshu had anticipated the appearance of Enel and the Rumble-Rumble Fruit after obtaining the map of El Dorado: The Promised Land, the beach where he had appeared after entering, the distant sea, and the sky had all indicated that this was Blue Sea territory. Thus, when the battle began, he had not immediately realized what was happening.

The moment that extremely high voltage appeared, Bai Cangshu activated Third-Order Instant and fled at once. Even so, the lightning strike instantly carbonized his entire right hand.

The voltage had been so high that it was utterly incomparable to that so-called superpower activation device used in the Space.

In less than three seconds, Bai Cangshu had vanished from the beach and entered the woods. Then, relying on his powerful physique, he forcibly smashed open a path and disappeared.

At the same time, thanks to the Reincarnators brawling on the beach, Enel had not focused his attacks on him. Otherwise, Bai Cangshu probably would have had no choice but to forcefully activate an even higher order of Instant and flee toward the sea.

Bai Cangshu lowered his head and looked at the girl, who stood less than seventy centimeters tall. In his eyes, she was as fragile as a rag doll.

Yet this rag doll was stubbornly trying to pull him into the sewer.

Bai Cangshu’s ears twitched. He could indeed hear numerous shouts in the distance as people searched for something. He moved his feet and lightly jumped down through the pitch-black sewer entrance.

After carefully putting her beret into the bag at her waist, the girl struggled to drag the sewer cover back into place over the entrance before climbing down the pipe.

Splash!

The girl jumped down from the final section of pipe and landed in the filthy water with a splash. She seemed quite happy, deliberately stomping through the murky water a few more times before smiling sheepishly at Bai Cangshu, who stood to one side atop a strange circular pipe.

Naive. Childish.

That was how Bai Cangshu judged this Plot Character who seemed to want to "save" him.

"Come on, big guy. Are you one of those Marines too?"

"Or are you a pirate?"

She walked through the filthy water, deliberately taking large, noisy steps that splashed water everywhere. Bai Cangshu, as though he felt no pain at all, walked along the narrow pipe with excellent balance.

He gave only vague replies to the girl’s questions as he continuously organized his thoughts.

This world was clearly an extremely bloody "team battle world." The Main Mission directly required them to kill members of hostile teams and demanded a positive team score by the end.

It was a zero-sum game. The teams entering this world had no possibility of peaceful coexistence. One team had to become the sacrifice.

Moreover, there were an enormous number of teams in this world. It was the mission world Bai Cangshu had experienced with the greatest number of Reincarnators.

There had been seven or eight people in just the first batch, the ones who had appeared on the beach alongside Bai Cangshu.

Tch, the Space actually judged this scattered rabble as a single team?!

Although they had been given the advantage of entering the world first, no matter how he thought about it, a group of small teams would find it difficult to contend with real teams.

And because of that dreadlocked man’s actions, the moment they arrived, without any communication at all, the small groups had immediately fallen into a chaotic brawl and been wiped out by Enel.

Bai Cangshu had directly started with a score of -7.

"It really has… no bottom line."

Bai Cangshu had now realized that the dreadlocked man’s motives had most likely been questionable from the start. He had drawn his gun and attacked immediately because he wanted to disrupt everyone else’s conversation.

While fleeing, he had also deliberately fired at other teams that had not joined the brawl. That was how he had hit Bai Cangshu and ended up being hunted down.

But while Reincarnators might have all sorts of schemes and calculations, Plot Characters did not care about any of that.

At the end of the day, on this island, the Reincarnators did not hold the upper hand…

Enel was an early-game boss often criticized as being nothing without his Devil Fruit. But the problem was that his Devil Fruit was simply far too powerful.

The Rumble-Rumble Fruit possessed top-tier performance even among the most powerful early Logia-type Devil Fruits.

The speed to transform into lightning, the destructive power to casually summon lightning strikes exceeding a hundred million volts, and complete immunity to all attacks other than the sea, Seastone, and Haki.

It also possessed more derivative abilities, such as using electric shocks to restart the heart and forcibly revive himself, or using the intense heat generated by electrical currents to perform metallurgy and unleash high-temperature attacks.

Combined with Enel’s seemingly innate Observation Haki, which manifested as Mantra, Enel could almost completely sense the entire Skypiea. He could hear every person’s conversations throughout the vast nations spanning several islands. Of course, perhaps because he could not process such vast and miscellaneous information, Enel almost only paid attention to people who mentioned his name.

And in close combat, this Mantra could achieve the equivalent of complete mind-reading.

It could be said that Enel had become an extremely terrifying opponent by relying on this top-tier Logia-type Devil Fruit and developing it to a certain extent.

"Yo, kid, you rescued another piece of trash?"

A man wearing a Marine cap and a white Marine uniform stained with blood emerged from around the corner and mocked the girl.

The girl turned her head away and ignored him.

But the man was dissatisfied. He directly blocked their path and stood before the girl, looking down at her from above.

"Didn’t I tell you, kid? No Marines or pirates are coming here!"

"This is a kingdom that doesn’t exist on any map, not a World Government member state. Even if every last one of us dies here, there won’t be any reinforcements from above!"

He grabbed the girl by her clothes, lifted her up, and shook her repeatedly, as though he wanted to fling away his own fear along with her.

The girl suddenly twisted hard and punched him squarely in the high bridge of his nose. The man cried out in pain. As the girl dropped to the ground, she kicked his knee, then quickly ran behind him and waved vigorously at Bai Cangshu.

"Come on, big guy!"

"Don’t listen to him! Captain Corey will definitely bring people back to save us!"

"This is the promise he made to Team Member Cindy!"

As she turned and ran, the girl gave a military salute toward the distance. At that moment, Bai Cangshu saw that the torn back of her coat revealed a white shirt with the two crooked characters for justice written across it in black ink.

A friend came over from out of town, sorry, so today’s update was a little shorter. I’ll do my best to post ten thousand words tomorrow.

I recommend that everyone watch One Piece Special: Fan Letter. It’s really good.