Chapter 211: Hancock’s Slave Battle
Hancock was startled, but at Alucard’s meaningful glance, she gritted her teeth and walked onto the arena stage. At only twelve or thirteen years old, Hancock looked like a baby compared to the tall, beast-man Mink on the other side.
"Oh my~ still abusing little girls like before? But this is a fighting arena. Are you intentionally trying to lose, my friend?" Saint Mjosgard saw that Alucard had sent out a small maid and couldn’t help but grin.
"Huh? Aptheim-sei, your slave isn’t wearing a collar. What’s going on?" Saint Rosward’s attention was on Hancock’s neck as he questioned him.
"Heh." Alucard let out a light laugh and didn’t answer. It wasn’t that rare for a slave not to wear a collar. In the eyes of the people present, that little girl would surely be killed by the Mink Tribe member very soon. But what exactly had that girl done to be executed in this manner?
"Hraaa!" The Mink Tribe member, who had the body of a tiger but stood on two legs like a human, let out a roar. He lunged at Hancock with one hand crackling with electricity.
Saint Hadilly habitually covered her mouth with her fan and said, "Since Aptheim-sei came up with such a great idea to help me catch so many fish-man slaves, let’s not count the money for this match."
However, the moment Saint Hadilly finished speaking, Hancock on the arena stage dodged the tiger-man’s attack. She bent her waist slightly and swept out with a kick. Due to the height difference, her kick only hit his knee, but it still managed to knock the tiger-man’s huge body down.
"Gasp..." Although Saint Hadilly’s mouth was covered by her fan, her wide eyes suggested that her mouth was wide enough to fit an egg inside.
"So, thanks for the 500 million Berries, Hadilly-gu?" Alucard added fuel to the fire.
Sandersonia and Marigold behind Alucard clenched their fists slightly and thought to themselves, ’Our onee-sama is the strongest among the younger generation on our island.’
"That Mink Tribe member was already exhausted. It’s nothing."
"No, the game isn’t over yet!" Saint Hadilly completely lost her composure in the next second and shrieked, "The bet isn’t over until he’s dead! The winner hasn’t been decided yet!"
"Oh... You want to bet that hard?" Alucard said with a sneer. He then said to Hancock on the stage, "Did you hear that? Kill him."
The tiger-man had already gotten back up and attacked again. When Hancock heard Alucard’s words, her eyes narrowed. A faint heat, which the Celestial Dragons there couldn’t see, rose from her feet. She slammed her foot hard into the tiger-man’s heart. She was a pirate, and even at her young age, she had already killed people.
Seeing that the tiger-man had stopped breathing, Alucard repeated what he had said before. "Thanks for the 500 million Berries, Hadilly-gu."
"Damn it, damn it! You’ve disgraced me! Aaaaah!" Saint Hadilly, who had lost her temper, took out a remote control from her clothes, just like Saint Rosward had done.
"Onee-sama! Run!" Sandersonia and Marigold saw this and knew that the collar around the tiger-man’s neck was about to explode. They quickly yelled at Hancock on the arena stage.
Hancock also backed away instantly. The tiger-man’s neck a short distance in front of her suddenly exploded. Some bits of flesh splattered on Hancock, causing a look of disgust to appear on her face.
"Don’t be so angry. It’s only 500 million Berries. It’s just you returning the money you won from me earlier." Saint Rosward said with a half-mocking tone. Saint Hadilly had won from him earlier, so now was the perfect opportunity to make fun of her.
Saint Hadilly knew that she had lost her composure and forced herself to calm down. "O-Of course, it’s only 500 million Berries. How could I not be able to afford it? Just take it."
"Now, I’m going to bring out a new slave I got from Fish-Man Island. I hope that slave girl doesn’t die too horribly." With that, Saint Hadilly waved her fan at one of her subordinates behind her.
He nodded in understanding and quickly turned to leave. In less than half a minute, he returned with a fish-man who was about three meters tall, with a sword-like nose and silver-blue skin.
"A fish-man, a Marlin species?" Alucard squinted at the fish-man slave, who also had a collar around his neck and chains on his hands.
Saint Hadilly boasted, "This is the strongest of the ten fish-man slaves I captured! He’ll pierce that lowly thing’s body with his sword nose!"
"Oh... then let’s begin," Alucard said, as if he didn’t care about Hancock’s life or death, and motioned for the match to begin.
"The rule of the arena is that if you don’t kill your opponent, you’ll be the one to die," a Celestial Dragon’s bodyguard reminded the Marlin fish-man after unlocking his handcuffs.
When the Marlin fish-man heard this, his face showed an abnormal amount of conflict, but in the end, he steeled himself and decided to kill the girl, who was only about thirteen years old.
The new round of betting began. The moment the starting bell rang, Alucard suddenly laughed. "How about we raise the stakes to one billion?"
Even for the Celestial Dragons, throwing around a billion was a lot, especially all at once. It made everyone feel a bit uneasy.
"Do you have that much faith in that girl?" Saint Hadilly asked, covering her mouth with her fan.
"I like to play for higher stakes." Alucard tilted his head and watched the match. He wasn’t going to be here for long, so if he didn’t spend a lot, wouldn’t he be disrespecting the dead "Saint Aptheim?"
It turned out that as a fish-man chosen to be part of the royal envoy team, he was strong. Although Hancock was still young, with her slightly developed Haki, she could barely be considered a pirate with a bounty in the millions. Even so, after more than fifty exchanges, the fight ended.
When the Marlin fish-man collapsed, Hancock was also leaning against a giant pillar by the arena, looking as if she would pass out at any moment.
"Take the billion! I don’t believe I can’t win a bet!" Saint Hadilly was humiliated again. If Hancock were her slave, she would have shot her out of anger, but since she was someone else’s slave, she could only resolve the issue in a way a Celestial Dragon would.
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