"What are these guys doing??"
On a giant spherical object on a tree trunk sat a spherical person.
This was Shadori, also known as Daigo, the one Gan Fall had mentioned. These spheres were traps he had set.
He could already sense the presence of the Qinghai people and was ready to fight.
But these fellows, for some reason, had stopped at the edge of the trial area and were chatting about something for so long.
Just as he was about to personally greet these people, he suddenly noticed they had started moving again.
Only when Kong Tai and his group had stepped into his trap did he control the sphere beneath him and drift towards Kong Tai and the others.
From afar, everyone heard this fellow's voice.
"Hahahaha, haha!!"
They saw a fat ball wearing orange-tinted glasses on top of a sphere, holding a red and white striped cane, spinning on the sphere and drifting towards them.
Everyone stopped and looked up at the胖子, a string of question marks floating above their heads.
"Why is this guy so happy?"
Before the crowd could ponder further, Shadori stopped spinning, pointed his cane at a sphere, and with a loud laugh, swung it towards Kong Tai and the others.
The sphere he pointed at, as if it were an extension of his hand, immediately flew rapidly towards Kong Tai and the others with the swing of the cane.
This guy didn't stop either. The cane became a conductor's baton in his hand, and the countless white spheres around him became his weapons. Wherever his cane pointed, that white sphere would fly towards Kong Tai and the others.
For a time, the white spheres blocked everyone's vision, making it impossible for them to see Shadori ahead.
All they could hear was his excited laughter.
But in that laughter, there was no joy, only mockery.
Looking at the many white spheres in the sky, the eyes of the crowd remained expressionless.
Without Kong Tai needing to say anything, A'Luo stepped forward, drew his Ming Gou, rested it on his shoulder, and stared ahead. A hint of killing intent flashed in his pupils, and then, without hesitation, he pulled the trigger with his right index finger.
*Pa—!*
The faint sound of a bullet leaving the barrel, so quiet it was almost inaudible, emerged from the spark at the bullet's tail.
Then, everyone saw a flash of white light. The sphere blocking the bullet instantly exploded.
*Boom—!*
Before the sphere could fully explode, just upon collision, the semi-transparent bullet seemed to teleport and appeared directly in front of Shadori's head.
The moment A'Luo aimed his gun at him, Shadori felt danger. His pupils contracted, and he turned his head to the right.
Although his reaction and movements were already very fast, he never expected A'Luo's bullet to be so quick.
So, even though he dodged it, his left ear was pierced by A'Luo's bullet.
*Boom—!!*
Then, a deafening explosion erupted behind him.
The shockwave arrived instantly, leaving him no time to worry about whether his ear was still there. He clung to the sphere and flew behind a tree, dodging the flames and shockwave coming from behind.
When the external shockwave subsided, he cautiously controlled his sphere and floated out.
"Urgh..."
Seeing the tree behind where he had stood moments ago, his throat felt as if something was constricting it, and he could no longer make a sound. His expression could no longer remain calm. His always smiling face was now devoid of any hint of a smile. The pupils behind his glasses shrunk to a pinpoint, and his face was filled with extreme terror.
"What is this! Such immense power?"
The tree behind him looked as if it had been bitten by something. One side was completely destroyed, while the other side had only a sliver of bark left, still supporting the giant tree.
But a gust of wind blew, and the giant tree instantly toppled to one side.
These were ancient trees, each one several times larger than his entire body. Moreover, the giant tree behind him could be considered a large tree even on this island.
Such a giant tree, under that small bullet just now, in one go…
It was pierced and broken in a single instant.
Thinking that the bullet had grazed his head, he couldn't help but tremble all over, and sweat beaded uncontrollably on his forehead.
Well! As for his ear, he couldn't feel any pain now.
"Hmm!"
Due to the explosion of the white spheres, the crowd couldn't see Shadori, but this obstruction couldn't stop A'Luo.
Red light flashed in A'Luo's eyes, and a look of surprise appeared on his face, "He dodged it??"
This was the first opponent who had dodged his bullet since he obtained the Ming Gou.
Cavendish earlier didn't count; he had taken it head-on, not dodged.
"Dodge?"
"Let's see how you dodge!"
A'Luo tilted his head towards the Ming Gou, his eyes fixed on the scope. Red light flickered in his eyes, and then a black, metallic-looking aura flowed like water from his fingers into the barrel of the Ming Gou, coiling around a bullet inside.
For the previous shot, he had not used Armament Haki.
As for why the power was so great, he figured it was the special geography of the sky island that had mutated the trees, making them larger, and of course, less dense.
A'Luo looked through the scope, his gaze seeming to penetrate the flames ahead, seeing Shadori behind the fireball. For the second time, he unhesitatingly pulled the trigger with his right index finger.
*Whoosh—!*
A black light cut through space, piercing the sea of fire, and for the second time, instantly appeared before Shadori.
Although Shadori sensed it immediately and made evasive movements, his body was not tempered through countless battles like those of seasoned fighters. Furthermore, the bullet shot by A'Luo's Ming Gou was no ordinary bullet, and it was even wrapped in Armament Haki.
Such a bullet not only had greater power than the first shot but also its speed had increased by nearly half an inch.
Let alone half an inch, even one inch more, and Shadori wouldn't have been able to dodge.
Looking at the bullet about to strike his forehead, Shadori felt as if time had stopped around him. This feeling of watching his own death approach consumed his heart like fear. His entire being, including his spirit, seemed to be drawn into the bullet before him, heading, incessantly, towards an unknown darkness.
*Puff—!*
Like everyone else who had faced A'Luo's bullet, this fellow had no means of evasion. The bullet entered his forehead effortlessly, and then his head, like a balloon, instantly swelled and cracks appeared. It looked as if fiery lava was flowing within the cracks, a horrifying sight.
Then…
*Boom—!!*
A second, even louder explosion sounded, bringing with it a larger conflagration and shockwave.
The surrounding spheres, without Shadori's control, stopped in mid-air and then, propelled by the wind from the shockwave, flew in all directions.
When everyone opened their eyes again, all they saw was the ravaged ground, the white spheres floating around, and the broken giant tree in the distance. Shadori's figure was nowhere to be found!
If one were to say what remained of him.
Besides a pile of charcoal.
There were only those two pairs of orange-yellow gloves containing impact shells!