Chapter 96: Marika VS Hina
In the street, a large batch of Marines pushed forward, while the remaining few subordinates nervously drew their weapons, aiming ahead.
Marika and Hina faced each other, one with a gentle smile, the other holding a cigarette, looking cool and aloof. Her breasts, neither small nor large, were quite grand, roughly the same scale as Marika's.
The two women, one above (implied on debris or roof) and one below, their gazes met. The air seemed to stagnate at this moment. Smoke rose from the cigarette Hina held, slightly obscuring her vision.
The next instant, the figure inside the window vanished.
Whoosh!
A strong gust of wind rushed towards her, blowing Hina's long pink hair. She narrowed her eyes, shifting her body sideways. A huge, broken stone pillar shot past her side, fiercely crashing into Fullbody and Jango behind her.
Boom!
The fierce impact almost knocked their eyeballs out. Their figures, along with the pillar, smashed into the Marines arriving behind them, creating a huge booming sound.
Hina turned her head, glanced at the fallen Marines on the ground, then turned back again, looking at Marika who had already reached the ground, exhaling smoke. "Seems like you won't surrender obediently. Hina is annoyed."
"Ara, how could pirates obediently surrender to Marines?"
Marika smiled slightly, walked towards Miote, and grabbed the black circle binding him. "Quite hard…"
She pulled it slightly, then immediately released her hand. "Miote, can you walk on your own?"
"Ngh!"
Miote nodded heavily.
Although his upper body was bound, his legs could still move.
"Take the subordinates and withdraw. Protect the looted treasure well. Otherwise, Sag will be even angrier."
Marika gave the order, then turned to Hina. "As for this young lady, I shall be your opponent."
Hina pushed her sunglasses up onto her hair, pulled her gloves tighter, and stood firm on the street with Marika.
Wind and sand blew from somewhere unknown, lifting her Marine cloak and the tips of Marika's hair.
Whoosh!
Just as this wind rose, Hina's figure moved instantly, quickly appearing in front of Marika, extending an arm and slamming it down.
"A very direct attack."
Marika smiled, raising her hand to strike back. But just as her arm contacted Hina's arm, Hina's arm suddenly lengthened, forming a layer of pitch blackness that trapped Marika's wrist and passed through towards her upper arm.
"Pass Through…"
Hina's arm slammed forward, about to penetrate Marika's body entirely. But just then, a foot directly kicked her torso.
Bang!
Hina's body flew backward and quickly landed, sliding backward on the ground for a distance. She bent over, tutted, and looked over. "Dodged? Hina is surprised."
Marika looked at the iron ring trapped on her forearm, then glanced at the position where her leg had just kicked. On her calf, a similar object made of the same material was also firmly imprisoned.
"A strange ability, able to penetrate my attacks."
If she hadn't changed her stance quickly just now, her arm might have been folded in half.
"Of course."
Hina said, "I ate the 'Ori Ori no Mi' (Bind-Bind Fruit), I'm a Fence Human. Any object I pass through will form a hard fence. Sooner or later, you'll be firmly locked by me."
No matter what the object was, she didn't care, because she could pass through it, turning it into the sturdiest cage.
"Next time, you won't dodge! Soru!"
As a top student of the Marines and Zephyr's disciple, whether it was Smoker or her, mastering a few Rokushiki moves was inevitable.
In the blink of an eye, Hina approached Marika, similarly extending her arm long, slamming it forward.
Just then, her extended arm was suddenly bound by several soft, black objects. Her limbs and neck were also entangled.
Hair?!
Marika opened her always-smiling eyes, revealing clear, cold pupils like the moon, and asked, "Can you penetrate this too?"
Waterfall-like black hair danced wildly from her head, rapidly extending around like twisting snakes. Several strands of hair firmly bound Hina, making her frown.
"This is… Life Return?"
Hina was startled. Before she could react, Marika's gentle voice sounded beside her ear.
"Shigan: Snake Thrust."
The hair dancing all around coiled at the tips into numerous spiral thrusts, stabbing extremely fast towards Hina's body.
Bang!
The highly penetrating hair pierced the ground, creating holes in the stone slabs paving the street. With a few clangs, the hair strands binding Hina fell empty, and several black iron rings slipped smoothly from the hair strands, falling to the ground.
"Even hair can bind, huh? Pity it's useless. Seems soft things…"
Marika paused slightly, took a deep breath. "Life Return: Condense."
The hands and feet locked by the iron rings became tiny at this moment. The iron rings binding her slipped off and fell to the ground. Just then, the thinned arms and legs returned to normal.
She looked at Hina, who had escaped the hair binding and landed further back, continuing, "You can't completely lock me."
"Hina is very surprised."
Hina also stared intently at Marika. "Life Return, that's a secret technique learned through meditation, mastery over the body to the extreme. I didn't expect you to know it. And that just now, was it Shigan?"
"Yes, it was."
Marika smiled gently. "Because the Captain really likes teaching people cultivation. Although I only like cuisine, with the Captain's expectations, I had to master some."
For someone who knew Life Return, learning Rokushiki was naturally not that difficult.
Even if Marika wasn't very interested, she still knew a few moves, besides Shigan…
"Soru."
Marika's figure disappeared from the spot, appearing in front of Hina. As she pulled her arm back, it brought an air-breaking sound, crashing towards Hina's body.
Hina's pupils contracted, subconsciously about to receive it with her palm. But just then, a mass of hair strands wrapped around Marika's wrist, forming a thick bracer made of hair.
"Tekkai: Hair Bracer."
A brilliance showed on the hair strands, solidifying them. With Marika's swing, it passed through Hina's arm and body, but the immense force directly exploded outwards, pushing Hina away, crashing her into a nearby building.
Boom!!
The huge force caused Hina to smash a hole in the building. The supporting pillar was shattered, bringing down half the building.
"Ara, even if you can pass through anything, it seems you can't penetrate something much larger than yourself."
Marika chuckled softly. The hair protecting her wrist softly detached. The black iron ring that had bound the hair bracer, due to its volume, could only slide off down her wrist.
She looked at the collapsed building and smiled, "Still want to continue fighting, Miss Marine?"
Boom!
Just as her voice fell, a pitch-black, long, strip-like object shot directly over, penetrating a hole through Marika's flying hair, and fiercely pierced into the building behind.
It was a black steel long spear.
A hand reached out from the ruins, pushed away the burying stones. Hina climbed out from inside, patted the dust off her clothes, took out a cigarette case from her pocket, drew out a cigarette, held it between her red lips, and lit it with a lighter.
"Hina is very angry."
She exhaled smoke. Both her hands opened, and black iron rods, shaped like long spears, extended from her arms.
The meaning revealed in her eyes was self-evident.
"Seems it won't end in a moment."
Marika smiled, the madly dancing black hair that had a hole opened in it, patched itself up again.
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