Chapter 165 - Chapter 167

In the land of Wano, depression used to be the word to describe the state of this country, but after Kenshin infiltrated the country, corruption started dissipating slowly. About the same time as Kaido died, Kenshin started the cleanse of Orochi and his corrupted politicians. It took him only one night to completely clean out Flower Captial where Orochi had his castle. Together with Annabelle, the clone woman from Amell's inner circle things went very smooth. Kenshin only had one big threat left, and that was Queen, Kaido's last powerful subordinate. The few Headliners that stayed behind on Wano with him ran away when the news came of Kaido's death. Only Queen and a few other pirates stayed behind to try and start the crew up again.

Somewhere on Wano a group of men walked around cheerfully and observed the beautiful scenery. "Captain, what the hell happened in this country? It's so depressing."One of the men said to the shirtless man with a hat covering his eyes as his head was lowered.

"That's to be expected though, Kaido just died, you can't repair a country overnight." Another man answered him. The captain of this little band still said nothing, he quietly observed the land.

"ACE!!" A young cute girl in kunoichi styled clothes came running from behind them with teary eyes. The men sighed out loud all at the same time, "Looks like she found us, Ace," a man known as masked Deuce said to his captain.

The captain named Ace turned around and looked at the girl that came running towards them. His expression went from stoic to a big happy smile in one second, "What are you doing here, Tama?" He asked the little girl that was exhausted from running from her village to catch up to them

"You left WITHOUT telling me! How DARE you!" She pointed at Ace with an angry pout.

Ace laughed, "I knew you were gonna start crying, and I don't need a crybaby slobbering all over me before I leave." His voice was cheerful as his laughter increased. His crew were all shaking their heads with smiles that said they had already given up with these two.

"I am NOT a crybaby! You are!" Her hand started shaking from how intensely she was pointing at him. Her pouting face transcended anger and entered the realm of adorable.

"You are already crying and I haven't even said goodbye yet, hopeless." Ace shook his head.

"You're mean! When I become a kunoichi I will beat you up!"

"Sure, sure, whatever you say!" Ace and his crew started laughing. Suddenly Ace dashed forward and scooped up Tama in his arms, and where she had been standing an arrow landed and cracked the ground.

"Haki?" Ace observed how the arrow was many times more powerful than any normal arrow. The only explanation he knew of was haki infused arrows.

"Guys, ready up, we're in for a fight." And how right he was. Further down the road stood a couple of dozen pirates, and behind them stood Queen, the man trying to revive the Beast pirates. Ace put down her and looked into her eyes, "Run home now, you can not be here, this will be tough even for us." His words caused worry to build up inside her.

"No, run with me, I don't want you to get hurt." She tried to drag Ace along with her, but his body wasn't moving.

"Sorry, kid, this is our fight. Now go on, run!" Ace pushed her away, and even though she didn't wanna leave, she still started running.

"Captain, do we run or fight? That's Queen, I don't know if we can win this. Plus, all of those pirates with him know at least rudimentary haki. This fight could lead to our deaths." Deuce would follow Ace anywhere, even into certain death.

"Might I suggest standing back." A voice rang out behind them that none of them recognized. Ace looked back and saw a man dressed in casual samurai attire and his brown hair tied into a bun. He had a calm-looking expression on his face and his stance was lax.

"Rurouni K-Kenshin! What are you doing here?" Deuce asked with a shaky voice.

"Queen is my prey, I can't let you steal my kill." His killing intent started to slowly leak out of him, and just from the small amount that escaped him, Ace and his crew started backing off. This was not a man they could compare with.

"He's all yours," Ace said and signalled for his crew to withdraw.

"Kenshin, so you finally dared to show your face to me. For all the damage you have done to the Best pirates, I will pay you back a hundred times over!" Queen pointed at Kenshin and yelled for his men to charge.

As the pirates started charging against him, Kenshin placed a hand on his sword, "The Beast pirates no longer exist." He took a step and appeared behind all of the charging pirates. As the sound of a sword sheathing was heard all their head slid off their shoulders showing a clean cut on all of them.

"I could have killed you anytime I wanted, but saving you for last sure made this more enjoyable." Kenshin dashed forward and planted a fist into Queen's stomach making him fly back hundreds of meters. Kenshin looked back at the men standing with their jaws on the floor. "Nice to meet you, Portgas D Ace. Your uncle says hello." After that, he disappeared.

"Uncle?" Ace stood confused and tilted his head, "Did he mistake me for someone else or something? I don't have an uncle." His crew showed just as much confusion as their captain.

Kenshin had arrived at Queen's location and watched as the giant fat man struggled to get up. "I was planning to take my time with you. But, I changed my mind. I feel disgusted being close to you, so I will end it now." Kenshin took one step forward. Queen pulled out a gun and fired, "DIE!" He yelled in one last attempt to survive. Kenshin disappeared into thin air and Queen felt a sword on his neck.

"Dimensional step," Kenshin said and sliced the throat of the last All-star. "You should feel honoured. Very few get the pleasure of seeing my greatest speed up close." Kenshin took much pride in the fact that he was known as the fastest man alive, His dimensional step ability was not many that knew off, but with it, he outclassed Kizaru by many times.

Kenshin took a well-deserved breath. "Finally, the era of lord Amell has begun. Let us see what fools dare to step in his way. I swear I will cut down anyone that stands in your way, my lord!" He looked up at the passing clouds and smiled cruelly.

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