Chapter 261 Who Killed Erya
As long as the captain of the Universe Dark Matter Pirates is killed, the war can be completely ended. For this reason, even the Five Elders are ready to attack.

However, the arrival of Boros also boosted the morale of the pirates who were being suppressed by the Knights of God. This pirate was a terrifying existence who could suppress two pirate emperors at the same time. As long as Captain Boros took action, the Knights of God would not be worth mentioning at all!
“Something seems to be wrong…”

Arden Saint casually strangled a pirate who tried to fight back, but his eyes were fixed on the direction where Boros appeared.

Ever since that guy showed up, the pirates who had been fleeing in fear under their pursuit suddenly had the courage to resist.

Although they are still a mob no different from rats, there are also some Devil Fruit users who are proficient in dual-color domineering abilities among these rats. Once they have the courage to fight back, they can really cause them quite a bit of trouble.

“Oh, it’s the leader of these vile pirates. There’s nothing to worry about. Ancient Saint Green will quickly take care of him and end this war!”

Saint Leopold glanced in the direction of Boros with great arrogance, and felt relieved when he saw Ancient Saint Green confronting Boros.

No matter what kind of enemy it is, no one can be a match for Ancient Saint Green, let alone a mere despicable pirate leader.

“We can’t hold back the Ancient Saint Green. Let’s all work harder to wipe out these untouchables!”

Saint Garcia suggested.

Although they had to face thousands of pirates, the three divine knights did not take the pirates in front of them seriously at all.

Because they are all nature-type Devil Fruit users, they can be described as small fries crushers when facing enemies who are weaker than them. Even the cadres of BIG MOM or the Beasts Pirates cannot fight against these divine knights.

“That’s right. It’s been a long time since the last hunt. Let’s just treat these pirates as prey. How about each of them give a hundred high-quality female slaves as prizes? The winner takes all!”

Saint Leopold’s arrogance was only directed at the untouchables. When his companions from the Knights of God spoke, Saint Leopold immediately changed his expression.

Although the Five Elders had recruited all of the Celestial Dragons’ slaves into the Slave Corps as early as the Battle of Marijoa broke out, the orders of the Five Elders obviously only applied to ordinary Celestial Dragons, and the Knights of God still retained their slaves.

“One hundred high-quality female slaves. The area I’m stationed in isn’t very profitable. How about fifty high-quality female slaves and twenty female mermaids?”

Arden Saint pretended to be distressed but actually spoke in a boastful manner, saying that the high-quality female slaves mentioned by the Tianlong people were not ordinary goods. Each high-quality female slave could be easily sold at a sky-high price of tens of millions of berries at the auction, and were even more expensive than the giant slaves with explosive combat power.

However, compared with female mermaids, the sky-high prices of high-class female slaves are nothing. Their auction prices are merely the starting prices of female mermaids. For these female mermaids whose starting prices are as high as 70 million berries, it is not uncommon for them to be sold for hundreds of millions of berries.

It is not difficult to imagine how amazing the wealth of Saint Arden, a knight of God, is, as he was able to take out twenty female mermaid slaves as prizes at once.

“Very good! In that case, I will accept the prize you offer without hesitation! Lanlong!”

Saint Garcia laughed wildly and took the initiative. He was reluctant to give his slave girl to others, but he was still very interested in the slave girl in his companion’s hands.

“Asshole! Stop playing tricks!”

Saint Leopold could not help but curse out loud. Even though he took out a hundred high-quality female slaves while chatting and laughing, giving them away for nothing still made him feel sad for a long time.

However, when the three knights of God were about to start a killing spree, they were stopped by a hooded man and a woman with horns on her head carrying a mace.

“K…Katakuri-nii?!”

“Lord Katakuri!”

“Katakuri!?”

……

The pirates of the BIG MOM Pirates or the Charlotte Family couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise. Katakuri suddenly disappeared since the war started. However, considering the reality that their mother wanted to kill him with her own hands, the members of the Charlotte Family even hoped that Katakuri would not show up.

Unexpectedly, when the BIG MOM Pirates were in danger of survival, Katakuri would step forward regardless of his own safety and help his brothers and sisters stop the powerful enemy who was the Knight of God.

“Is everyone okay?”

Katakuri stared at Saint Leopold and Saint Arden in front of him and asked without even turning his head.

For Katakuri, who is an expert in Observation Haki, his combat effectiveness was reduced by at least 40% in this chaotic battlefield that was disguised as “Observation Killing”.

However, Katakuri really couldn’t bear to watch his younger brothers and sisters die at the hands of the Knight of God. In addition, his mother had temporarily ceased to be a threat, so he didn’t have to worry about his appearance bringing additional risks to his younger brothers and sisters. So Katakuri couldn’t hold back any longer and stood up.

Compared to the Beasts Pirates, which suffered heavy casualties or even almost all dead or injured, the BIG MOM Pirates, who had consciously retained their strength under Katakuri’s instructions from the very beginning, had significantly smaller casualties.

In particular, the members of the Charlotte family united together to protect the weak. Although it was inevitable that everyone was injured, no one had actually died in battle so far.

This is also the main reason why Katakuri has been able to endure until now. If it weren’t for the fact that the Knights of God were obviously going to kill them all, and the members of the Charlotte family were also on the verge of their limits, Katakuri would most likely continue to wait for the opportunity.

“My brothers and sisters are all fine. You have to be careful, Katakuri. These two guys are both nature-type ability users!”

Perospero, who had lost an arm and half of his shoulder at some point, answered while gasping for breath. In order to hold on until now, he had even used candy to seal his wounds, but if Katakuri did not take action, Perospero would probably have no way out.

“…I’ll help you, Katakuri-nii…”

Smoothie struggled to stand up. At this time, she was the only one in the Charlotte family who still retained a certain fighting power.

This was not because Smoothie had conserved his strength in the previous battle, but because he was using the power of the Devil Fruit to forcefully squeeze his body.

As a user of the superhuman “Squeezing Fruit”, Smoothie can not only extract water from various foods and even the human body, but also gain more physical strength by squeezing his own body.

However, as a price, Smoothie, who was originally only two heads shorter than Katakuri, who was over five meters tall, is now less than three meters tall. It is obvious that she has been straining her body more than once in the previous battles to gain extra strength. And as Smoothie walks towards Katakuri step by step, her figure is shrinking, and it is obvious that she is still straining herself.

“That’s too much, Smoothie…”

The corner of Katakuri’s eye twitched, and he suppressed his anger towards the Knight of God and his heartache for his sister, and spoke expressionlessly.

It is true that squeezing fruits can help the body gain extra strength, but the damage caused by this squeezing is irreversible. After all, even if the squeezed fruits are replenished with water, they cannot return to their original state.

It is no exaggeration to say that apart from the eldest brother Perospero who lost an arm, the person who suffered the heaviest loss in the Charlotte family in this battle was Smoothie.

“Don’t underestimate me, Katakuri-nii. I also have people I’m willing to protect with my life!”

Smoothie stood beside Katakuri without hesitation. At this time, Smoothie’s height had shrunk to less than two meters and five. Except for the pair of long legs unique to the long-legged tribe, he was almost no different from an ordinary person.

“Don’t try to steal the spotlight by yourself! Smoothie!”

Cracker, who rarely did not hide inside the Biscuit Warrior, staggered to the other side of Katakuri. Although the Divine Knight in front of him was someone he admitted he could never defeat no matter how hard he tried, Cracker had a reason to win this time, and that was for the brothers and sisters of the Charlotte family to survive!

“…Don’t be too stubborn, just hold your opponent back. I will deal with the other enemy as soon as possible!”

Katakuri subconsciously wanted to dissuade Cracker, but when he saw that Smoothie had shrunk to a size not much different from that of an ordinary person, he swallowed back the words that were on the tip of his tongue.

Cracker was certainly almost at his limit, but so was Smoothie. If no one helped, it would be impossible for Smoothie to hold off a Knight of God one-on-one.

Apart from Smoothie and Cracker, there were few members of BIG MOM who could stand out at this time. Even if they were willing to sacrifice their lives, it would be difficult for them to help in a battle of this level.

“Did I hear you right? Saint Arden, these lowly pirates seem to think they can stop us?”

Saint Leopold rubbed his ears in dissatisfaction. Although there were far more than one or two God’s Knights who fell, the God’s Knights who thought highly of themselves still did not think that they would be the next unlucky ones.

Especially since Saint Leopold is the user with the strongest survivability of the natural devil fruit. If he faces Kaido or Charlotte Linlin, he can still be more vigilant because of his title as the Pirate Emperor, but what can a mere Katakuri do?
Not to mention Smoothie and Cracker, who they had totally ignored before. Not to mention that these two big cadres of the Charlotte family were already at the end of their strength, even if they were still in their prime, they would still be dead facing the Knights of God.

“Don’t be too careless, Saint Leopold, don’t forget the lesson of Saint Nicholas…”

Arden Saint was much more cautious. Even though he didn’t think Katakuri would be his opponent, he was still prepared to give it his all.

After all, there was a precedent of Saint Nicholas being killed by the survivors of the Lunalia tribe of the Beasts Pirates. Who knows if a similar guy will pop up again in the BIG MOM Pirates.

“Hmph, let me take care of this guy! You go and deal with those two guys who don’t know how to live or die!”

Saint Leopold glanced at Smoothie and Cracker who were in poor condition, and because of his arrogant personality, he finally chose Katakuri, who was obviously much stronger, as his opponent.

“I know. Be careful.”

Saint Arden did not care too much and simply exchanged opponents with Saint Leopold. He did not care whether his enemy was a weakling or not and took the lead in launching an attack, rushing towards Smoothie and Cracker.

“Nutuan thrust!”

Katakuri saw this and ignored Saint Arden. He decisively turned into a shadow and attacked Saint Leopold.

He had to get rid of this divine knight as soon as possible before he would have a chance to save his brothers and sisters.

At the same time, on the other side of the battlefield, the remnants of the Beasts Pirates rubbed their eyes in disbelief, unable to believe that Yamato, the rebellious daughter of their governor, would stand up to save them at this time.

“Yamato? Didn’t the Governor leave you on the ship?”

The wounded Black Maria spoke in disbelief. Based on her understanding of Yamato, seeing Governor Kaido and the Beasts Pirates fall into such a situation, it would be good enough for her not to add insult to injury. How could she possibly stand up at this time?

However, seeing that there are only a few big and small fish left in the Beasts Pirates, Black Maria was overwhelmed with sadness and couldn’t help but burst into tears.

The three biggest figures of the Beasts Pirates, Jinn the Flame, Queen the Plague, and Jack the Drought, died in battle one after another, the Flying Six and Shin suffered heavy casualties, and even Kaido’s eldest brother’s life or death was unknown. This made Black Maria, who grew up in the Beasts Pirates, feel a sense of sadness that “her country was destroyed and her family was ruined.”

“Are you okay, Black Maria? Where’s Erya?”

Yamato did not answer Black Maria’s question, but asked without turning his head.

In the huge Beasts Pirates, Yamato’s only friend is Niga from the Barbarian Tyrant. The others either keep their distance from her because they know Yamato’s identity, or are dissatisfied with her because Yamato often disobeys Kaido.

The only exception is Niga, who has been ostracized by people around him since childhood because of his weird appearance. Only Yamato does not bully Niga and is willing to be friends with him.

Therefore, when Yamato saw the heavy casualties of the Beasts Pirates, she did not care too much, but instead asked about the situation of Niga, with whom she had the best relationship.

“Er Ya has also died in the battle…”

Black Maria bit her lower lip and answered awkwardly. Yamato had asked her to look after Niga, but the battle in Marijoa was too intense. A big guy like Niga, who only had size and brute force, would always become the target of concentrated fire.

Just to save her own life, Black Maria has already tried her best and has no extra energy to take care of the big guy Erya.

“I see… Do you know who killed Niga?”

The mace in Yamato’s hand knocked against her shoulder unconsciously a few times. Her only friend in the Beasts Pirates was already dead, and it seemed that there was no reason for her to participate in this war.

However, Yamato soon came up with a new excuse for himself. It is said that samurai will always seek revenge. If it were Oden, he would probably choose to avenge his friend, right?
(End of this chapter)