One Piece: Honey Badger Speedruns the World

"Captain! Look up at the sky!!"

Thornton suddenly pointed to the southeast sky and roared.

Goss looked up. Hundreds of meters in the air, a strange figure with black wings on its arms was flying erratically, desperately trying to escape.

Behind him, a petite white figure was riding a small boat launched by a thundercloud sphere, relentlessly pursuing him like an angry wild beast.

"That's...Modi?"

Goss squinted.

At this point, Modi had lost the arrogant demeanor he usually displayed with the Zou guards.

A head and wings grew out of his left arm in a bizarre way, but this did not prevent him from using this comical ability to escape through the air.

"Carrot! Stop chasing!"

Modi coughed up blood and turned around screaming in agony.

"Explain yourself! Modi! Why did you betray Zou?!"

Carrot's eyes were bloodshot, and the claws on her hands crackled with electricity, but as the altitude increased, the speed of the small boat slowed down noticeably.

The distance between the two grew further and further.

Watching the agile figure changing direction in the air, an inspiration flashed through his mind like lightning, instantly connecting him to the principle of the Navy's Six Styles of Shave.

By stomping the ground dozens of times in a short period of time, the reaction force is used to generate explosive speed...

If that's the case, what if we did the same thing in the air?

The light in Goss's eyes grew brighter and brighter.

If you step on the same spot of air dozens of times at high speed in a very short period of time, even invisible air will become as hard as the ground due to extreme compression!

If the reaction force is large enough, it will be enough to counteract gravity!

"I see, so this is the secret of Moonwalk."

Goss took a deep breath, his leg muscles tensed to the limit, and then—he took a series of powerful steps into the empty void!

boom!

A visible white gas explosion actually erupted in the air!

Using the powerful reaction force generated by stepping on the air, Goss did not land, but instead rose higher as if stepping on invisible steps, soaring straight into the sky!

"Six Styles: Moon Walk!"

"Wh...what?!"

Just as Modi was feeling relieved to have gotten rid of Carrot, he suddenly felt a blur before his eyes.

The next second, that cold face that terrified him to the core appeared in the air in front of him.

"You fly too slowly, Modi."

boom!!

A punch, imbued with the fury of thunder, landed squarely on Modi's stomach.

Before he could even scream, Modi's eyes rolled back, and like a dead bird shot by a hunting rifle, he plummeted straight down from the sky and crashed heavily onto the sea.

……

After a while.

Carrot landed back on the ship, panting as she stared at Modi, who was bound hand and foot, tears welling in her eyes.

"Cough cough...cough..."

Modi curled up on the deck and coughed up a large pool of black blood mixed with pieces of internal organs.

He trembled as he tried to prop himself up, only to find that his limbs were already as limp as noodles.

When he looked up in horror, what came into view was Soton's enormous shadow that blocked out the sunlight, Mia's cold blade, and Goss's eyes that were devoid of any warmth...

On that suffocating deck, his last line of defense completely collapsed.

"No...don't kill me...I don't want to die..."

Driven by the fear of death, before Goss could even ask a question, Modi began to speak incoherently:

"My pirate crew... was completely wiped out by the Beast Pirates, one of the Four Emperors of the New World! That power... that despair... you can't even imagine!"

"I joined them in order to gain power... I ate the SMILE artificial Devil Fruit they gave me..."

The crowd felt a chill run down their spines when they looked at Modi's deformed features.

"I returned to Zou...to find that person..."

Modi uttered the name with a trembling voice:

"Raizo of the Mist, a ninja of the Kozuki family! The Beasts Pirates' top lieutenant, Lord Jack the Drought, firmly believes Raizo is in Zou!"

"Raizo?!"

Baal and Carrot exchanged a glance, their shock barely concealed. So, someone really was looking for Raizo.

"Please... Goss... don't kill me!"

Modi suddenly burst into tears and frantically pounded his head against the deck, blood streaming down his face.

"As long as I live... as long as I truthfully report to Lord Jack that 'there is no Raizo in Zou,' someone as powerful as him won't waste his time in a place like this! Zou will be safe!"

"I'm useful! Keep me alive... I can save Zou!!"

The air seemed to freeze.

Carrot clenched her fists. Although she hated it, she hesitated when she heard that Zou could be saved.

Even Baal nodded subconsciously: "If we can really fool the Yonko's subordinates..."

however.

Without warning, an iron claw reached out and gripped Modi's nape like a pair of iron pincers.

Goss looked down at him, his eyes devoid of any emotion, only displaying a knowing and mocking gaze.

Fooling Jack? That's a joke.

That stubborn, reckless man actually possesses a Vivre Card that points directly at Raizo.

The source of that Vivre Card was the real mole who had been lurking within the Kozuki family all along—Kurozumi Kanjuro!

No matter what your report is, Jack will come.

Your existence is utterly worthless.

"You say you can save Zou?"

A slight smile curved at the corners of Goss's lips.

"Yes...yes! I didn't find any ninjas in Zou either. As long as I report the truth..." A glimmer of hope ignited in Modi's eyes.

"Don't be so naive in your next life."

Click.

A chilling, cracking sound.

Modi's pleas for mercy came to an abrupt halt.

His head was forcibly severed from his body by Goss and fell to the ground.

His eyes were still wide open, retaining the shock he felt before his death.

puff.

The headless corpse, gushing blood, lay limply on the deck.

"Dead...dead?!"

Barr took a step back in fright, his face turning deathly pale: "Goss, what if what he said is true..."

Goss ignored Bal, bent down, and expressionlessly grabbed Modi's hornless ram's head, lifting the head along with half of its neck.

At this moment, a strong wind suddenly rose on the sea, dark clouds loomed overhead, and a storm was about to break.

"Carrot".

Goss turned around and handed the still-dripping head in his hand to the stiff-bodied rabbit-eared girl.

"Take it."

Carrot trembled, her large eyes filled with fear and helplessness.

She had killed wild animals and fought bad people, but this kind of cruel execution... was completely beyond her comprehension.

"Goss...why did you...?"

"This is the world of pirates."

Goss's voice was cold, piercing through the wind and rain:

"Disgraceful people are left with nothing but bones on this vast ocean."

He pointed to the honey badger pirate flag that had just been raised on the towering mainmast, symbolizing "fearlessness".

"Go, hang it under our flag."

"Since you chose to go to sea, you should take responsibility for it!"

Even for a moment, don't show that pathetic expression!

Goss stared into Garrot's eyes and said, slowly and deliberately:

"This is a disgrace to me for allowing you to join!"

Since we're pirates, hang the enemy's head on the pirate flag!

"Or just go back to Zou!"

Rumble—!

Thunder roared, and then torrential rain poured down.

Rain soaked Carrot's fur as she looked down at the head of her former comrade, now a traitor, in her hands.

long silence.

Her body stopped trembling.

She remembered Pedro's words, the crisis Zou was facing, and her dream of going out to sea to see the world.

To live freely on this cruel sea... naivety is the greatest poison.

"I...I'm not going back."

Carrot suddenly raised her head, and her once clear eyes now held an unprecedented ruthlessness and determination.

She grabbed Modi's head, turned around, and nimbly jumped onto the slippery mast.

A few minutes later.

At the highest point of the battered Narwhal.

Beneath that menacing, laughing honey badger skull banner, the head of a traitor, swaying in the wind and rain, became the cruelest and most real footnote to this newly formed pirate crew.

Goss watched this scene, letting the rain wash over his face, and slowly closed his eyes.

Piracy is never child's play. The moment you raise the pirate flag, you have to gamble your life on it, both your own and your enemy's.