The Greatest Disgrace in Marine History-Chapter 199 - 101: Should I Have Let Him Finish?

Germa 66 technology—Darren was more than familiar with it.

Back in the North Blue, he had tested its military-grade weaponry on his own body.

Electric shocks, fire blasts, heavy punches, rocket bombardments... Weapons deadly to ordinary men were nothing more than part of Darren's daily training routine.

Queen may have claimed to wield Germa's military science, but his true strengths lay in biomechanical augmentation and synthesizing lethal viral agents.

"Damn you... Why don't my attacks do anything to you?!"

From the crater where his head was embedded, Queen the Plague gasped and roared, bloodshot eyes staring in disbelief.

"I'm the Zoan-type here!!"

BOOM!!

As the words left his mouth, Queen's neck—long and serpentine—snapped back with a twist, dragging his massive frame into a spiraling charge straight toward Darren and Bullet.

Winds howled behind his bulk. Bullet sneered:

"Let me handle this!!"

Battle hunger blazed in his eyes as he activated the Clank-Clank Fruit.

Dirt, rubble, and steel fragments surged up like living things, coiling around him. In an instant, a massive three-meter arm formed at his severed shoulder.

WHOOSH!!

Armament Haki coated it in a deep violet-black sheen—cold and solid like metal.

His golden hair whipped wildly as Bullet bared his teeth and roared:

"You fat bastard... I've had it with you!!"

He threw a punch!

"Super Heavy Cannon!!"

BOOM!!

Like a mortar strike, his punch smashed squarely into Queen's gut.

With Haki and brute force unleashed at once, Queen's rotund belly—strapped in black-and-white suspenders—rippled like waves.

THUMP!!

Queen's body bent like a boiled shrimp. A white shockwave blasted from his back.

His face turned deathly pale. Blood spurted from nose and mouth.

He howled in pain, rolling madly across the ground, kicking up dust.

But he paid no mind. His pupils suddenly contracted to pinpoints.

Reflected within them:

A Haki-clad Marine boot, descending straight for his head!

"Damn it!! No way I'm losing to you two!!"

Queen screamed, his eyes glowing with red light.

Biubiubiu!!

Crimson laser blasts erupted like a hurricane, triggering a chain of massive explosions.

RUMBLE...

Red fire roared, black smoke poured.

A moment later—

Darren and Bullet shot backward from the smoke, landing firmly.

They patted out lingering flames and gently laid the unconscious Señor behind them, eyes narrowing toward the smoke where Queen slowly rose again.

Both men cracked cold smiles.

"Thick-skinned bastard... I may be injured and worn down, not at full power... But that lizard actually survived my full-force punch."

Bullet clicked his tongue in awe. Cracks spread across his stone arm before large chunks fell away, reducing it to normal size.

Five jagged stone fingers flexed—a prosthetic formed by the Clank-Clank Fruit, now grafted in place.

Darren glanced over, smirking:

"Functional? If not, I can whip up a metal one for you."

Bullet twitched, recalling their first encounter—and the pain. He scowled:

"Save that junk for yourself. I hate metal."

Clenching his new arm, feeling its strength, he muttered:

"Not perfect, but with Haki... it'll do."

Darren chuckled and turned back to the smoke-shrouded Queen, expression sharpening.

"That guy's a Zoan-type. Tough defense and insane recovery. Not easy to kill."

"Let's finish him off and get out, Bullet."

Bullet paused, fists tightening with reluctance.

"Fine."

He was a man who repaid grudges. Queen may have helped push his strength further, but the torment—viruses, confinement—wasn't so easily forgiven.

Still, this was Beasts Pirates HQ. Kaido or King could return at any moment. If they lingered, their escape would be blown.

"Retreat!?"

Queen's raspy voice rang from the smoke.

THUD!

He stepped forward. The ground quaked.

His massive frame pushed out a blast of wind, scattering the smoke.

The upright brachiosaurus panted heavily, bloodshot eyes locked onto his subjects. He roared:

"You think you can escape from here?!"

His voice thundered across the island.

"You destroyed an arsenal, slaughtered our crew, turned our base into chaos... No matter what, I'll crush you into pulp and kill you all!!"

In his hybrid form, Queen crouched low, limbs braced like a predator ready to pounce.

Click clack—

His massive, fanged jaws opened wide.

His mechanical arm split apart to reveal a dark barrel.

His segmented mechanical tail also swung out—barrel-tip revealed.

Mouth, arm, tail—all charged with suffocating yellow light.

The gathering energy radiated a destructive force that made everyone's skin crawl.

"That move!!"

"He's using the arm and tail cannons too!!"

"Those three are dead for sure!!"

"Only Kaido-sama can survive that attack from Queen the Plague!!"

...

The Beasts Pirates watching from afar erupted in cheers.

But none of them noticed that the Marine facing Queen wore a... peculiar expression.

Bullet's lips twitched. He glanced at Darren—and silently took two steps back.

"Muhahaha!!"

"Vanish under the genius Queen's firepower, fools!!"

"Escape?"

Queen laughed madly, arrogant to the end.

"Don't be ridiculous!!!"

"I am—"

Three dark-yellow beams merged into one.

"'Plague' Quee—eh?!"

A faint blue spark zipped across the air.

Queen's tail and arm barrels suddenly buckled, misaligned.

Queen: ???

His face froze. Smile stiffened.

BOOM!!!

Flames swallowed him whole—everything within a hundred meters engulfed.

A thunderous explosion shook the world, forming a massive fireball that pierced the sky!

Darren slowly lowered his finger, sheepishly scratching his head:

"Should I have let him finish his sentence?"

Bullet: "..."

Beasts Pirates: "..."

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To be continued...