The Pirate Djinn - Chapter 20 Captain Salazar

After deciding on their next course of action, Nate and Sasaki went towards the Marine Base in order to steal a marine ship while also taking care of any troubles.

“Shouldn’t we inform Rin about this?” asked Sasaki.

“Nah, Let her enjoy her shopping. We can take care of this mess by ourselves.” stated Nate.

They quickly made there way towards the base after asking for directions from the bystanders. The base was pretty fortified for the likes of East Blue. When they reached near it’s huge gates, they noticed few guards patrolling.

“I will take care of the soldiers, you take care of the gate.” said Nate as he rushed towards the Marines.

Before most of the Marines could react they were knocked out by Nate who blitzed past them. The result of the training can be clearly seen, one of the major improvements being his body, now he could use techniques like Bararaq Kauza with out any repercussion, and due to mastering Eternal Haki he could even increase the potency of the lightning.

While Nate was taking out the Marines, Sasaki walked up to the front gate and unleashed one of his techniques.

“Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū : Sōryūsen Ikazuchi!!” murmured Sasaki as he unleashed two diagonal strokes that seemed to form a compressed air slash in the form of a cross that reached the gates in an instant. With a loud explosion the gate was sliced apart into pieces, while the attack although weakened still continued on to strike the building behind.

“Ohh! So he can use compressed air slashes.” Nate was surprised by the attack, although he too wielded a sword and could be considered as a swordsman he isn’t skilled enough to use projectile slashes. “If he is able to use Haki, he might be almost at level of Zoro.”

Noticing the commotion, Marines started to gather and Nate sensed a strong presence among them and guessed that it might be the captain of this base. Nate and Sasaki walked into the Marine compound and saw about a hundred Marines in front of them.

“I hope you are prepared for your funeral. Pirate scums like you infested these seas for far too long.” said a man who seemed to be leading the Marines. His appearance reminded Nate of ‘Armando Salazar’ from the movies, he used to be a pirate hunter who had sworn to kill Jack Sparrow. Nate noticed that he seemed to have lost his left hand and right leg as he was sporting a peg leg in place of his lost leg along with a cane.

“Know that you died under the hands of Captain Salazar. Now men!! Fire!!!!” shouted Salazar.

It was followed by the Marines repeatedly firing their rifle at both of them, Nate used his lightning to repel them away while Sasaki deflected them using his sword. Noticing that the attacks were ineffective, Salazar ordered his soldiers to focus on attacking the swordsman while he will take care of the other one. He chose Nate after he noticed his lightning assuming that he might be a devil fruit user and knew that the Marines here aren’t strong enough to handle one.

“Rankyaku : Sen!!” shouted Salazar as he stomped at the direction of Nate causing the air to be blasted in the form of a bullet towards him.

While defending against the bullets, Nate was also using his Haki to keep an eye on his surroundings and he soon noticed the captain attacking him using something like Rokushiki of the CP9. Nate immediately activated ‘Bararaq Kauza’ almost instantaneously appearing elsewhere while dodging the attack.

Salazar knew his attack missed when he saw the young man standing to his right while surrounded by arcs of lightning. His years of experience made him realize that this pirate might not be an easy prey. He instantly used ‘Soru’ to close in on him and used ‘Rankyaku’ at almost point blank range.

Nate reacted to the attack by unsheathing his sword ‘Kurikara’ and parrying against the compressed air slash. After dissipating the attack, he charged his blade with lightning and rushed in with a slash. Salazar used his hand to defend against the attack while using ‘Tekkai’ and Haki, which stopped the slash but he was still affected by the lightning as he was send back few meters while his limbs started to get numb.

The entire exchange happened so fast that it was over within a second or two and all that the rest of the Marines saw was some blur and few bolts of lightning. While Nate and Salazar was crossing blades, Sasaki was surrounded by Marines as they attacked his from all sides.

“Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū : Ryūkansen Arashi!!” shouted Sasaki as he spin his sword in a circle causing a tornado of blades to form. It blew away more than half of the Marines, and all those who surrounded him.

Salazar noticed the twister of blades, but he was too preoccupied with Nate to help them. He was still feeling numb after the last exchange which puzzled him, usually when Haki is used it helps in dissipating the attack from the devil fruit users. As he wondering Nate attacked, seeing that he used his cane to block the attack.

As soon as the blade made contact with the cane, Nate knew that it was coated with Haki but he didn’t care as knew that his lightning would still be effective due to its ‘Eternal’ nature. Soon both of exchanged dozens of moves in the span of few seconds. But the situation got worse for Salazar as time went on, due to the lightning somehow managing to surpass his defense. He was once again send flying with a burst of lightning bolts, as they separated.

“Hmm.. It seems like Sasaki has finished already. How about we finished our little play too??” asked Nate with a smirk.

“Bararaq Harba!!” shouted Nate as he thrust his blade covered in lightning, which caused a spear of condensed lightning to shoot towards Salazar.

Salazar was shocked as he used when he saw the attack. He coated his hand with Haki until they turned black while using his ultimate technique.

“Sai Dai Rin : Rokuogan!!” shouted Salazar as he launched a devastating shock wave towards the spear of lightning with hopes of stopping it.

The lightning seemed tear through the shock wave as it traveled unimpeded and pierced through Salazar. While the remnant lightning bolts destroyed the surroundings.

Chapter end