One Piece: Honey Badger Speedruns the World

Although the fire rain had stopped, the air was still filled with damp moisture.

"Gah—!!!"

A giant albatross swept across Zou.

If someone gets a close look at this albatross, they will see that it has a clown-style skull painted on its body.

Just as it flew over the villa area, two black dots were detached directly from the bird's claws and fell silently downwards.

Two figures dressed in red and white striped bodysuits and with comical clown makeup landed on the roof of the villa in extremely contorted poses, like acrobats.

"Is it confirmed?" one of them asked in a high-pitched voice from under his mask.

"No doubt about it. Captain Bucky's intelligence network indicates that this is Barr's most secretive property; he'll definitely be hiding here."

"Hehehe... But why do it during the day?"

"Idiot! The fire-breathing rain just finished; this is when security is at its lowest. Besides..."

The man tossed three poison-coated daggers through his hand as if performing a juggling act: "For us at Pakistan Express, a daytime assassination is what gives our boss the power to intimidate us!"

"Quickly finish this. I'll draw his attention, you assassinate him from behind!"

Crash! The two of them smashed through the window like cannonballs, tumbling into the master bedroom on the second floor amidst a shower of flying glass shards!

"Mr. Baal! Your death is coming... eh?"

Before they could finish their opening remarks, they were abruptly cut off in their throats.

There was no panicked fat businessman in the room.

There is only one large bed.

A fur-blonde man with a silver buzz cut and a bare torso was sprawled out on the bed, happily munching on an apple.

Seeing two strangely dressed men barge in, Goss didn't even change his posture, just lazily chewing on his apple, his eyelids drooping:

"Whether it's insurance salespeople or deliverymen... I really dislike the way you come in."

"Oops? Sorry, we've gone to the wrong place."

The masked man on the left paused for a moment, then slapped his thigh hard, his tone filled with frustration.

With a forced smile, he bent down, picked up a piece of broken glass from the ground, and tried to put it back onto the window frame like a jigsaw puzzle.

"Sorry to bother you, sorry to bother you, I'll fix the window for you right away..."

"What's the point of fixing it?!"

His accomplice on the right slapped him hard on the back of the head, and the red nose on his mask trembled with anger.

"Idiot! Have you forgotten Captain Bucky's teachings? 'If you see a face, kill even a passing dog!'"

"Ah! That's right!"

The two exchanged a glance and, with perfect understanding, leaped backward.

"Since that's the case, then there's nothing I can do! I'm sorry for breaking your window, but please, just go die!"

"Now you'll see how terrifying the Pakistan Express's elite team is!"

The man on the left pulled three brightly colored bowling balls from his pocket and began frantically tossing and catching them: "Ultimate Skill - Acrobatics - Extra-Large Exploding Bowling Ball!"

The man on the right pulled out two daggers and began spinning in place like a top: "Secret Technique - Jujutsu - Invincible Deadly Spinning Top!"

"Combination Technique! [Death Circus Roulette!] Die!"

Whoosh! With a series of flashy whooshing sounds, the two of them, one throwing a ball and the other spinning around, rushed towards the bed like two out-of-control fireworks, leaving dazzling afterimages!

But at that moment, in the dark corner of the room, a pair of vertical pupils suddenly opened.

"roar--!!!"

Soton, who had been lurking in the shadows, suddenly sprang into action, its massive tail lashing out and slamming one of them against the wall.

Its gaping maw, full of sharp teeth, instantly snapped into another person's waist, the immense bite force combined with the crocodile's signature "death roll."

*Thud!* Before the assassin could even see what attacked him, his spine was snapped in a horrifying tearing sound, and he hung from Thornton's teeth like a rag doll.

"puff."

Thornton spat the assassin onto the ground as if he were spitting out a bad bone.

He straightened up, adjusted his neck (which lacked a bow tie), and coldly looked down at the dazed and confused assassin with his vertical pupils.

"Hey, you piece of trash."

Soton spoke fiercely in a childish voice.

"There are two rules in the Honey Badger Pirates."

He extended a sharp fingernail and lightly traced it across the assassin's cheek, leaving a bloody mark: "First, the captain's orders are absolute." "Second..."

Thorton turned his head and glanced at Mia's tightly closed door next door: "No matter who it is, any man who smells of sweat and dares to come within ten meters of that beautiful lady's room..."

Click!

"ah!!!"

He crushed the assassin's arm with one stomp, his tone as calm as if discussing the weather: "I'll just take every single bone in his body and use them as toothpicks."

"puff……"

A very short, sharp hissing sound came out of Goss's nostrils.

He suddenly turned his back, crossed his arms over his chest, seemingly gazing at the distant scenery, but in reality, his shoulders were shaking violently like a sieve.

Help... This is so out of place!

It was clearly the kind of horrifying torture involving bone-breaking, and it was clearly the kind of extremely cruel threatening dialogue.

But once paired with Soton's soft, sweet, almost childlike voice...

The feeling was like seeing a Godzilla dressed in a suit, three meters tall, with his pinky finger raised, asking you in the most innocent tone if you wanted to play house, and that if you lost, he would eat your head.

To maintain his image as captain, Goss took a deep breath, turned his back to Thornton, and said in a trembling voice:

"Cough... Thornton, hurry up. Don't let the blood stain the carpet."

Ten minutes later. In the villa's living room.

The surviving one-armed assassin knelt on the ground, his whole body trembling violently with fear.

The terrifying crocodile-man was standing behind him, his drooling mouth only centimeters from his head.

"Speak. Who sent you?"

Goss sat on the sofa, fiddling with the captured dagger.

"It's...it's Pakistani Delivery!"

"Buggy, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea... He feels that Baal has been overreaching in his dispatch business in the New World, taking away his share. So he sent us to take down Baal..."

"Bucky the Clown?"

Goss was somewhat surprised. He hadn't expected that he would already have crossed paths with this current Shichibukai and future Yonko before even setting sail.

"I see...that explains it."

That fat bastard Baal thinks he's made a brilliant move, doesn't he?

Finding a seemingly capable but naive target to live in the villa serves as both a free bodyguard and a way to draw attention away from him—a win-win situation.

"A pointless display of cleverness."

Just then, a commotion arose outside the villa.

Barr stormed in, panting, accompanied by a large group of fully armed bodyguards.

"Goss, brother! Goss, are you alright?! I came running as soon as I heard the commotion!"