Chapter 16: CHAPTER 16
Sweat began to fall on the forehead of Piper. Since the very first time he became a pirate, the last few days had been the unluckiest moments of his life. First, an old man destroyed and killed most of his crew and now the boogeyman of the Grandline was in front of him.
"Damn it. Look man, can we work something out? I have still had a lot of gold in my possession", Piper said as he tried to negotiate with Enzo. He's only remaining underling staying extremely close behind him.
"...."
"You know what, I have a bounty of 132 million berries. I'm not a cheap guy, I'll double that and you let me walk free. Okay?", Piper said as more sweat was beginning to form on his forehead.
"..."
Seeing that Enzo didn't respond scared Piper even more. He glances at his only remaining underling and he decided to take a chance to escape. He grabs the armpits of his underling and with every strength that he has in his body, he threw the underling at Enzo. He plans to use this time to run. To where? He has no idea. All he knew is that he needed to leave this place immediately, or else he would die.
"AH!!!", Piper's underling screams as he travels the air.
Enzo seeing what Piper did was quite amused. Pirates that know that death was in front of them would do everything they could think just to survive. But if Piper thinks that throwing an adult man in front of him will buy him enough time to run, he is surely mistaken.
Enzo receives the man with a powerful punch.
CRACK
A cracking sound could be heard as Enzo's right fist hit the spine of the pirate underling, but it didn't end there. Enzo used more than enough force that the unlucky man was propelled back towards Piper.
"BOOM!"
Piper was hit with his flying underling and the two of them crash into the house where they came from.
"BOOM!"
Rear Admiral Akehende who just arrived at the scene was shocked and impressed at the efficiency and brutality that Enzo was showing.
"You work fast", Akehende said to Enzo as he stayed on the sidelines. Enzo didn't say a word, he remained as cold as ever.
Out of the rumble came Piper, with a bleeding mouth as well as a decent size bruise in his stomach.
"HAHAHAHAHA! Looks like there is where I die, eh! Fool I won't die without a fight, give me your best shot Bloody Titan. I'll make sure it won't be an easy kill", Piper said with a crazed look in his eyes. He then proceeded to transform his body into that of steel.
This happens to quite a few pirates that Enzo has killed in the past. If you back someone into a corner, then it doesn't matter if they know they will die. They suddenly gain enough courage to fight the thing that they fear, even if death is a 100% outcome.
This is what Enzo wanted, he killed all the underlings so that he can focus on the captain. He wanted to make the captain gain the courage to fight him. Enzo wanted to break his will and make him suffer a painful death. He especially wanted him to beg.
Piper sprinted towards Enzo and he tried to land a punched in Enzo's face. Enzo easily dodges the punch, seeing this Piper tried more punches, roundhouse kicks, leg sweep, Piper didn't stop. He tried to land one hit at Enzo, but Enzo was too quick. With a calm expression on Enzo's face, he dodges all of his attacks.
It was quite pathetic to look at actually, Piper was fighting with everything that he got but Enzo was playing with him. Due to attacking non-stop, Piper took a moment of rest, he then received a punch in the stomach.
"AH!", Piper said as the air in his lungs and saliva was expelled from his mouth.
"Pathetic, I can't believe that a pirate like you has been able to escape my grasp for so long. I thought you were better than this. I guess your only talent is evading capture", Enzo said as held Piper by his throat and he lifts him up in the air.
"I want you to struggle more. I want you to feel what the people you killed felt become they were embraced by death", Enzo said as he threw Piper in the air. The moment Piper fell back down due to gravity, he receives a powerful kick from Enzo causing Piper to be propelled in the abandoned buildings in the side.
'He's proficient in the two forms of haki. Piper who doesn't even know what haki is being demolished. This is just sad to watch actually', Rear Admiral Akehende thought as he watched the beatdown that Enzo was delivering.
Out in the rubble came Piper, struggling to stand up, but he still went towards Enzo to try and punch him. Then the entire thing happened again, Piper attacks, Enzo dodges, Piper gets tired, Enzo attacks, Piper hits a building, Piper barely stands up, and the process repeated itself, for at least 5 more times.
Piper who couldn't stand up any more was lying on his back on the ground. Cuts and bruises, and bleeding through his entire body.
"I'll...be...your...underling", Piper said to Enzo in a hoarse voice. He now wanted to negotiate again.
Enzo didn't care about what he said. He took 4 steel poles from the rubbles that are found in the area and he began nailing Piper in the ground.
"AH! AH! AH! AH!"
Piper screamed as each steel poles was inserted through his limbs.
"Your crew killed my mother like that. I found her pinned in the table of my old house, with knives in her hand", Enzo squatted down in the side of Piper's face.
"You have two choices. Number 1, I'll leave you here to die a long death, who knows how long that will take, or number 2, beg, beg me to kill you", Enzo said.
".....ah...ah....", Piper could barely breathe at this point.
"How does it feel to be on the opposite side? How does it feel when someone has total control over your pathetic excuse of a life? Now choose, 1 or 2?", Enzo asked with a dangerous glimmer in his eyes.
"Please....I'll give you anythi----", Piper wanted to beg but Enzo stops him by slapping his face.
"Wrong answer", Enzo said as he stood up and place his foot in the face of Piper.
"Answer again, number 1 or number 2", Enzo said as he pushes Piper's face deeper in the ground.
"AH!!!", only the painful scream of Piper could be heard in the surroundings. Throughout the entire time, Rear Admiral Akehende was just on the sidelines, watching, but now it was clear that he was in deep thought. Suddenly he was removed from his musing when he got a call in his den den mushi. He decided to leave for a while so that he could answer the call somewhere less noisy.
"Number...2....I choose number 2", Piper said as tears began to flow out of his eyes.
Enzo was quiet and he raise his arm, he made a gun gesture, and suddenly something came out of his index finger. The projectile hit the chest of Piper and he slowly began to transform into an ice sculpture.
"A pathetic death for a pathetic life", Enzo said as he ingrained the image of Piper transforming into ice.
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