Almost at the same time his voice fell.
In the dense fog in the distance, three pirate ships flying hideous skull flags broke through the fog and appeared in their field of vision.
"Finally... some fun!"
Hozuki Shio's pretty face, which always wore a playful smile, was now written with undisguised excitement.
She stuck out her tongue and licked her slightly plump lips. Her aqua-blue eyes were filled with the light of a shark smelling blood.
For a battle maniac who regarded fighting as art and teasing opponents as pleasure, the past few days of sailing had been sheer torture.
Endless dense fog, the monotonous sound of waves, and that ice-block brother beside her who kept a straight face all day and could only say "be quiet" and "shut up."
Now, finally, some blind fools had delivered themselves to her door.
"Brother! Look! It's pirates!"
Like a child who had discovered a new toy, Hozuki Shio tugged at Hozuki Umitsuki's sleeve, pointing at the rapidly approaching ships in the distance, her tone full of joy.
"Do you think they have delicious food on their ship? I heard pirates like to hide wine and dried fish on board!"
"..."
Hozuki Umitsuki didn't even lift an eyelid. He just quietly wiped the ninja sword in his hand, as if the menacing pirate ships before him were just a few pieces of driftwood floating on the sea.
"No drinking."
His cold voice poured a basin of cold water on his sister's restless heart.
"Tch, how boring."
Hozuki Shio pouted, but the excitement in her eyes did not diminish in the slightest.
"Pirates?"
Gen, leaning on his cane, stood at the bow, his cloudy old eyes narrowing slightly. Looking at the pirate ships flying skull flags, flanking them in a fan shape in the distance, there was not a trace of nervousness on his face.
"Lord Gen, do you need us to handle it?"
A Kirigakure Anbu responsible for vigilance appeared silently behind him, his voice cold.
"No need."
Gen waved his hand. He glanced at Hozuki Shio beside him, who was eager to try, her whole body's chakra restless, and a meaningful smile appeared on his face. "It's good to let the young people stretch their muscles. Save her from dismantling our ship again."
"Yes."
The Anbu ninja acknowledged the order, his figure blending into the shadow of the ship again, as if he had never appeared.
"Hehe, Lord Gen understands me!"
With Gen's tacit approval, Hozuki Shio was like a canary released from its cage, instantly spirited.
With a light flip, the girl leaped to the highest point of the ship—the lookout on the mast.
"Hey—! Listen up, you trash on the other side!"
Hozuki Shio's crisp and melodious voice clearly reached every pirate ship. She moved her wrists, her knuckles making a series of crisp sounds.
With her hands on her hips, the girl continued to shout in a provocative voice, "This lady is in a bad mood today, just right to use you as an appetizer! Will you jump into the sea yourselves, or do you want me to turn you and your ship into a sieve?"
A burst of laughter came from the pirate ship.
"Hahaha! Boss, look! There's actually a pretty chick on that ship!"
"That voice is quite exciting!"
The pirate leader at the front was a one-eyed man, burly, with a hideous scar on his face.
They operated in the waters near the Land of Hot Water all year round, burning, killing, looting, and committing all kinds of crimes.
Relying on their familiarity with the sea area and their large numbers, they even dared to rob merchant ships from some small countries.
Seeing such a lonely ship today, with seemingly few people on board, they were naturally delighted at the sight of prey.
The pirate leader looked greedily at Hozuki Shio standing on the mast with his single eye, then at their ordinary ship without any flag.
"Brothers! It seems we're lucky today! Not only a fat sheep, but also an exciting chick!"
The one-eyed man raised the scimitar in his hand and roared excitedly, "Boys, get them! Kill the men and feed them to the fish, the woman... hehehe, capture her to be the boss's wife!"
"Ooh—!!"
The pirates howled excitedly, maneuvering their ships to flank Gen and the others from three directions.
Looking at the greedy and ugly smiles on the pirates' faces, the playfulness on Hozuki Shio's face was gradually replaced by a cold disgust.
"Wife?"
The girl tilted her head, her aqua-blue eyes narrowing slightly, flashing with a dangerous light. "This joke isn't funny at all."
Hozuki Shio extended her fair hands and began to form hand seals at a dazzling speed.
Those ten slender fingers seemed to turn into two flying butterflies.
"Let you rats living in the gutter see what real water is."
"Water Release: Scattering Water Gun!"
With her delicate shout, countless water droplets visible to the naked eye instantly condensed from the air in front of her palms.
Immediately after, under the extreme compression of chakra, these water droplets turned into dozens of high-pressure water bullets harder than steel balls and sharper than senbon.
Shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo—!
In the next second, this death barrage composed of water bullets, covering a fan-shaped area of nearly a hundred meters in front, poured down like a heavy rain towards the pirate ship charging fastest at the front.
"What is that?!"
The people on the pirate ship watched the overwhelming water droplets pulling white air waves in the sky, and the smiles on their faces froze instantly.
They didn't have time to make any reaction.
Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft—!
A series of dense sounds rang out instantly.
The bodies of the pirates on the ship were easily pierced by those high-speed rotating water bullets, flesh and blood flying.
Some had their limbs directly broken, some had huge blood holes opened in their chests, and a few unlucky ones even had their heads blown apart directly.
The shrill screams lasted less than two seconds before stopping abruptly.
That pirate ship made of hard wood was as fragile as paper in front of Hozuki Shio's wide-range Water Release.
The hull, mast, deck... were turned into a sieve in an instant, with countless fist-sized holes appearing in every corner of the ship.
Seawater poured in frantically.
In just a few seconds.
That reasonably sturdy pirate ship, along with the dozens of pirates on board, was beaten into a pile of tattered wreckage under this terrifying barrage, and then slowly sank to the bottom of the sea.
Only a patch of blinding blood and some floating wooden debris remained on the sea surface.
The entire sea surface fell into a dead silence instantly.
The smiles on the faces of the pirates on the other two pirate ships completely froze.
They looked at the companion ship that disappeared instantly, at the sea water dyed red, their minds blank.
That seemingly harmless, even somewhat cute girl... what kind of monster was she?
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