Chapter 155 - Chapter 157

"Hey, Ginrummy, what's the matter with you?!" Sheepshead, another Headliner of the crew yelled and came up and grabbed her by the shoulders. "Wake up!" He slapped her across the face when he noticed that she seems completely lost in the void. After the slap, she came back to reality, but she didn't act like her usual self. She slapped his hands off her shoulders and quickly started backing off while mumbling, "We are gonna die! We are dead! We can't do this! I can't do this!" Her eyes were locked on Amell and for some reason, she couldn't look away from him. It was like she saw the world-destroying power behind those eyes and she felt completely trapped. She wanted to look away and escape but she couldn't do that at all, she was completely trapped, and Amell's terrifying figure kept growing in her eyes and it quickly became too difficult for her to stand up.

"Hey, Ginrummy, what's going on?! Tell me!!" Sheepshead yelled loudly, trying to bring her back, but she refused anything he did. It went so far that when Sheepshead tried to pick her up again, she punched him in the stomach with a haki infused fist. He went flying and bouncing on the ground while blood decorated the ground where he passed.

"I don't wanna die!" She yelled and started running back towards their pirate ships. She was looking down on the ground as she ran, so she didn't see Jack standing in her way, she ran straight into his leg and fell backwards.

"What is this? Mutiny?" Jack said angerly. He was furious over her behaviour since he hated cowards more than anything else in the world. Even the Gotei was below cowards on the list of things he hated.

"You're all gonna die!" Ginrummy said with despair. She knew she was dead now that Jack was here, so she didn't care what she said. "H-He's terrifying! We don't stand a chance. Flee!" She yelled at Jack. And at this, even King looked over in curiosity. Never before had anyone besides Kaido even dared to raise their voices at the three disasters, Jack, King, and Queen.

"A traitor and a coward! Nothing to do but to kill you!" Jack raised his foot and prepared to crush her. Amell that had seen all this smiled enigmatically and said softly, "Byakuya, don't let her die,"

"Yes, grandpa!" Byakuya took a single step and disappeared from view. Down by Ginrummy, Jack slammed down his feet to crush her while smiling sadistically, "DIE!" He yelled and felt his foot his the ice-cold ground and even put small cracks in it. But it felt nothing like crushing a human underneath his feet. So he removed his foot and inspected the spot where he slammed down his foot. Ginrummy was no longer there.

"Who did this? Where are you?" Jack roared out in anger, it was obvious someone had saved her at the last second before she would have died. He looked around but saw no one around him that could have done this. Amell still stood up on Cal's ship, looking down on him with a smile.

"I suppose you are my opponent now," From directly above him he heard a condescending voice. And when he looked up, he saw Byakuya carrying Ginrummy in a princess carry, though he had knocked her unconscious so she had no idea her enemy had just saved her life. Jack glared evilly at him and haki started forming around his arms. He wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, but he was smart enough to understand that Byakuya wasn't someone you could fool around with during a fight. Byakuya had once, many years ago fought the legendary Marine duo alone on somewhat equal ground. And everyone knew he was Amell's direct blood-related grandson, so that also spoke of his incredible power.

"Why are you hiding in the sky like a coward, Byakuya!" Jack yelled while taking out his weapons. He had his usual sadistic smile on his face.

"I'm not hiding, I'm observing a moron," Byakuya said while standing in the sky with his condescending expression visible for everyone to see. Under his foot, you could see a small pink flower petal that he used to stand on, so Byakuya wasn't flaying, he was literally standing in the air on that tiny petal.

"If you're not coming down, I'm coming up there!" Jack leapt up in the air with his weapons infused in haki. But Byakuya raised his index finger and pointed at Jack, and out from his sleeve came a stream of pink petals that all contained the sharpness of Byakuya's Katana. Jack was a veteran fighter so he didn't panic at this, he simply readjusted his centre of gravity and used his scythe blades to block the stream of petals. He managed to block them all without sustaining any injuries, but he was knocked down onto the ice-cold ground again.

"Patience, Jack," Byakuya said teasingly, "Give me a second, I'll be right back with you!" He disappeared and reappeared beside Amell. "I'm going again, grandpa," He bowed his head slightly to Amell before disappearing again. He appeared on the ground in front of Jack again, "Okay, let's continue," He said and slowly drew his sword.

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