In the distanitt Orl swooped down like a shadow, darting past a pirate ship with lightning speed.

  Before the pirates could react, deep gashes appeared on their bodies, blood spraying out as they let out painful cries.

  The other pirates, shocked, quickly rushed to defend themselves.

  "What’s happening?!"

  "What’s going on?!"

  Suddenly, several walnut-sized bck spheres fell onto the deck, rolling in all dires.

  The pirates were fused. "What are these?!"

  Before they could react, the bck balls exploded with a loud bang, releasing intense fmes and tless tiny steel balls.

  Chaos erupted on the deck as pirates screamed in pain and fmes spread across the sails.

  Only then did the pirates realize what had happehey rushed to put out the fire, shouting loudly.

  "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

  "They’re in the sky, stay alert!!"

  Some pirates drew guns and fired into the air, but Orl easily dodged their shots.

  These bck balls were the navy’s neons. Over the years, Smoker had grown close to the sce division, colborating on several ideas. The stists, iured neons on him.

  These bombs were a produoker’s creativity. Upoonation, they released shockwaves, fmes, and thousands of tiny steel pellets.

  Smoker had equipped Orl with these bombs. After all, who could resist the power of strategibing?

  Orl circled in the sky, his eyes glowing with excitement.

  "Smoker’s amazing! He even mao get these incredible bombs!"

  "With these, I’m really a main forow!!"

  "Oh, and this gun..."

  He pulled out a rge mae gun from behind.

  "I think it’s called a light mae gun... Time to use it!!"

  Orl dove again, firing rapidly as he unleashed a barrage of gunfire on the pirate ship.

  "At this rate... holding them off for an hour should be easy!"

  Not far away, on the Fang Pirates’ fgship, Captain Bender scowled as he watched Orl, with Vice Captain Mocha standing beside him.

  "Captain, the lookouts have firmed it’s just him! Let me go and take care of him!"

  Bender showed no for the pirates below.

  "Don’t rush. Dealing with a little bird out of e requires patience..."

  "With suteacks and such high-speed movement, even if he's a bird, he’ll get tired eventually. We’ll deal with him when that happens..."

  He looked at the wounded pirates on the ship, a smirk f at the er of his mouth.

  "Bringing these fools along is exactly why we’re prepared for this."

  ...

  Meanwhile, on the navy ship, Smoker stood at the railing, smoking a cigar, his brow furrowed as he stared out at the sea.

  Hina walked up beside him.

  "Smoker, I’ve just spoken to Zephyr. He’s ing to join us as soon as possible!"

  tally, Zephyr was out at sea with the css of elite cadets and was nearby. After hearing about the situation, he had rushed over.

  "Good... keep rep our position to Zephyr."

  Smoker didn’t look any more rexed.

  Right now, the problem wasn’t a ck of strength—Hina could single-handedly take down the Fang Pirates.

  The real issue was being out of reach. Even if Zephyr came, it might not make a difference.

  "Orl, you have to hang in there..."

  "Smoker, sir, Smoker, sir..."

  A soldier ran up urgently.

  "Report! Orl has ehe enemy and successfully slowed them down."

  "At this rate, we catch up before the pirates nd!"

  "Good job!"

  Smoker spped the railing, finally showing a smile. Hi out a sigh of relief.

  "Full speed ahead, don’t waste the opportunity Orl created!!"

  "Yes, sir!"

  "Report!"

  Just then, another navy soldier rushed up, holding a piece of paper, his face pale.

  "Smoker, sir, this is an encrypted message from Zephyr..."

  "Encrypted message?!" Smoker’s expression ged instantly.

  Here’s the revised version of the passage, with improvements to grammar, crity, and flow:

  Navy unications are divided into different levels of security. Ordinary messages don’t require encryption, but any encrypted message is always of great importance, ofteed to life-ah matters for a nation.

  On Flying Swallow Isnd, the encrypted message that Kira had sent through Law ended up in the hands of Virgo.

  "Give it to me!"

  Smoker snatched the order, his expression tense.

  What could be so important?

  Was it a monster in the New World causing chaos?

  Had a nation fallen into turmoil?

  Or was it a world-ending natural disaster?

  But as he read the tents of the paper, his expression ged drastically. First, ay, then shock, and finally anger.

  "Bastard, what kind of joke is this?!"

  "Orl is risking his life holding off the Fang Pirates!"

  "On Pumiso Isnd, tens of thousands of people are in immi danger!"

  "And now, for this? We’re supposed to stand by for three hours?!"

  Hina, who had just read the encrypted order as well, looked stunned, her face filled with disbelief and fear.

  "But... it’s... a god..."

  Several miles away, aboard aravagant and massive ship, an old man in a tight white suit and a transpare was furiously kig a sve.

  The sve y on the floor, beaten and ragged, his body battered and bloody. He didn’t dare make a sound, even as his wounds worsened.

  "You useless sve!"

  "You’re disturbing me from enjoying the view!"

  After kig the sve for a while, the old man was still unsatisfied. He pulled out a golden handgun and fired several shots.

  "Ugh..."

  The sve’s body vulsed violently as he let out his st breath. His eyes gzed over, but there was a hint of relief in them.

  The old man put the gun away and shouted to one side.

  "Throw this useless thing overboard! Bring me a stronger sve!"

  "Yes, Bancroft-sama!"

  From the shadows, a man in bck with suepped forward.

  He tossed the sve’s lifeless body into the sea like trash and brought over a new one.

  The new sve was muscur, and no matter how much Banoved, the man didn’t dare make a sound or move an inch.

  Bancroft nodded, pleased with the sve’s obedience.

  "Ger, tell me—who am I?"

  "You are the desdant of the twenty kings who fouhe Wover, from the great Izanbalon family. You are Izanbalon Bancroft-sama!"

  The old man was her than a Celestial Dragon, the highest noble in the world.

  Ger was his CP agent, serving him without question.

  Bancroft smiled at Ger’s answer.

  "Well said, Ger, very well said!"

  "The lowly ones below only ods like me. They don’t o think for themselves... just like this one!"

  With that, he kicked the sve in the back of the head. The sharp heel cut into his skull, blood p out instantly.

  The sve, however, didn’t move or even make a sound, biting down on his lip in agony.

  Ger, bowing slightly, replied, "As you say!"

  "Everything ahead is cleared, right?!"

  Bancroft hated seeing other ships in his line of sight. Earlier, he had sunk a small fishing boat just to clear the area.

  The previous sve had been killed after being struck by a onball’s impact, and that was why he unished.

  "Yes, Bancroft-sama."

  "We’ve thhly cleared this sea area. Whether it's pirate ships or fishing boats, they’ve all been sunk, and nothing will disturb your peaind."

  "In the distahere are two navy ships. We’ve ordered them to stay put."

  "Is this arra acceptable?"

  Suddenly, Bancroft drew his sword and sshed it across Ger’s face. The bde cut deep, leaving a rge wound across his cheek, injuring his left eye as well.

  "Master!"

  Ger quickly k, aced to enduring such treatment, with no trace of anger or rese.

  Bancroft sheathed his sword.

  "If you think I should be satisfied, why ask me?"

  "If you think I should be dissatisfied, who gave you the o disrespect a god?!"

  Ger immediately bowed lower. "You are right, it was my mistake!"

  "The area ahead is cleared. I swear with my life, there won’t be any mistakes!"

  "Hmph, this is the st time."

  "Yes, thank you for yrace!"

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