The five men who aimed their guns at Mikey and Christina shoot.
[You can use your Dusk Step skill]
Dusk Step is the name of the skill which Mikey used to defeat the Ghost King.
Mikey appears behind one of the pirates and punches him in the head. The pirate goes flying into a wall and is knocked unconcious.
Meanwhile, Christina dodges all of the other bullets and shoots the pirates back, somehow, her pistol shoots at an incredibly fast rate and she's also extremely accurate with it. This reason for that must be her attribute.
All of the four pirates are unable to dodge and are hit with the bullets. All five pirates fall to the ground in about 2.5 seconds after shooting at Mikey and Christina.
"Heh, it's pointless, don't attack them." A large man with big black beard and a captain's hat appears out of the crowd. He looks like the other pirates, meaning he's not a human.
"Blackbeard? Did you set this up?" Christina asks him.
"Kind of, I wanted to see if you got rusty or not, but it seems that you still got it." The pirate known as Blackbeard answers.
Mikey comes up to Christina and asks her. "Who is this guy?"
"He's the only person on this island who can rival me. I am stronger than him, but he's got numbers." Christina whispers to Mikey and hides her gun.
"I've heard that you got defeated, I assume that the one who defeated you was that young man over there?" Blackbeard asks and looks at Mikey.
"Yeah, I defeated her, and now she's a part of my crew, you got a problem with that?" Mikey asks.
"Maybe I do, maybe I don't." Blackbeard says.
The entire street gets really tense, it feels like a fight could break out at any moment. After a few nervewrecking moments, Blackbeard laughs and says.
"Nah, don't worry about it, come with me."
Everyone in the street gets back to what were they doing.
"Well, that was really weird." Mikey says
"Watch out, we still might not be in the clear." Christina whispers to Mikey. "Pirates are calculative people." She adds.
Mikey and Christina follow Blackbeard through an alley which Christina didn't even know about.
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They look at eachother, expecting Blackbeard to strike at any moment.
Blackbeard turns around.
"Sorry guys, nothing personal, but there happens to be a big bounty on both of your heads." He says.
A ton of people can be seen peeking through windows of the houses that make up the alley. They're all pirates, holding guns and aiming them at Mikey and Christina.
"Hey guys! Are you sure you wanna do this?" Mikey asks very confidently.
A few of the pirates waver upon hearing Mikey's voice.
"You all probably know about Christina's strenght by now, she's incredibly fast and also a great shooter. But what if I told you that I am even stronger?" Mikey says with a smug on his face.
"Heh, you might be strong but you won't be able to deal with all of us." One of the pirate shouts, the other pirates join him. They quiet down in a few seconds.
"That's right, stop with the bluffs and get ready for a fight." Blackbeard says as he unsheathes a large sword at Mikey.
(Note: There's about five meter distance between Mikey and Blackbeard)
"Alright then. If you all shoot at once, you MIGHT be able to kill us, but what then? Captain Blackbeard here certainly doesn't look like he wants to split the bounty with you guys, you all are just his pawns afterall." Mikey says and points his duskblade at Blackbeard. Blackbeard's smile fades away and he gets somewhat angry.
Christina looks at Mikey with amazement, she didn't see this cunning side of his yet. What is he trying to do here?
[You can use your Dusk step now]
This is what Mikey was waiting for. Out of nowhere, Mikey uses his Dusk step to flash behind Blackbeard, he then punches him in head with full force. Blackbeard doesn't move an inch because of his huge body, but he falls over unconcious from Mikey's insane blow.
The other pirates are left in a shock. They all aim their weapons at Mikey.
"You sure you wanna shoot?" He asks them. "I can just use my teleportation again and again, I can wipe out all of you here." Mikey says and raises his sword in front of himself, he's obviously bluffing but nobody is aware of that. Not even Christina.
The pirates whisper to eachother and come to a conclussion. A bunch of them shout at Mikey things like. "You'll pay for this." Or. "You'll hear from us again." But they all end up leaving the place.
Mikey and Christina get going again.
"You think the others ran into the same problem as us?" Mikey asks Christina.
"Yeah, I am sure of it, mostly Lucy..." Christina says with somewhat worried expression.
"Why is that?" Mikey asks.
"Well, all of these pirates are nasty pigs and they're mostly men, I think you know where I am going with this." Christina replies.
"Oh, I see." Mikey says, he thinks for a moment and then continues. "Why didn't they hit on you tho?"
"Because they're scared of me, and also because you're here." She says.
"I get the part that they're scared of you, you have a lot of respect here afterall, but why would they be worried about me? They have more numbers afterall." Mikey asks.
Christina looks at him dead in the eye with a suprised expression.
"You think they wouldn't be scared of someone as big as you?" She asks him. "You don't even realize just how terrified I was when I first met you."
"Heh, I'll take that as a compliment I guess." Mikey says and smiles slightly. "But now you made me worry about Lucy." Mikey says.
"Nah, she'll be fine. Not only is she with Zoro and Ragnar, she can easily beat those pirates by herself." Christina replies
"I guess you're right."
(Meanwhile)
Lucy, Zoro and Ragnar are in the middle of the big market street, there are several pirates lying around them unconcious, they've beaten them up.
This occured because they noticed Christina's emblem on their shoulders, and also because they tried to abduct Lucy.
But, as you already know, the pirates highly underestimated them, and they all got swept away easily.
Lucy and the others are also worried about Mikey and Christina because they don't know their situation. Thankfully, they don't need to worry about anything, because they managed to reach Christina's hideout without running into anymore trouble.
"So Christina, I've been thinking, how did they already put bounties on our heads?" Mikey asks Christina who is thinking of what should she take with her, and what can she leave behind.
"Well, some pirates enjoy chaos, so they keep putting bounties on anyone who did something notorious lately. This applies to our case aswell." Christina answers.
"That's really strange." Mikey replies while looking around Christina's place.
"By the way, do you have any free space in your inventory?" Christina asks Mikey, and without waiting for an answer she hands him some leather, two stacks of tropical wood and three stacks of iron coins.
"You want me to hang on to it?" Mikey answers and puts the items into his inventory.
"Yep."
"Anyways, you ready to meet up with the others?" Christina asks Mikey.
"Yeah, I would also like to sell the relics I found." Mikey says.
"Let's meet up with the others then." Christina and Mikey leave her hideout. She leaves a bunch of explosives behind and makes the entire hideout explode.