Those were clearly an adult's footprints. Slipping off their ship most likely had some purpose, and they should have investigated this kind of thing carefully.
But this useless officer didn't want to go out and just said the footprints belonged to a child.
The agent was very conflicted about whether to go out and look for the owner of the footprints… His officer was a very stupid guy. This guy would do anything for the sake of authority. If he went out to look for the trail, he might get reported to the agency by the other party for dereliction of duty.
When it came down to it, their main mission this time was to collect the agent's blood.
Sigh, forget it. What can you do when you're stuck with such a brain-dead officer?
Boom!!!
A violent explosion came from the icebreaker, and a huge hole was blasted open in the CP7 acting officer's room!
"Help! What happened!"
The acting officer was flung against the wall by the impact. After he fell, he crawled under the desk like a startled cat, shouting for help nonstop.
The agent who hadn't gone out yet stared seriously at the blasted opening. This wasn't damage that could be caused by natural forces.
Huff—huff—
The wind and snow found the gap and poured madly into the room.
Crack—crack—
Frost kept forming from the opening, and in just a few breaths the entire room was covered with a layer of ice.
No, even if the environment here was extremely cold, it was impossible to have such a big effect in just a few breaths!
Whoosh!
An even stronger icy gale rushed in, and everything in the room was blown away. The stupid officer was swept by the cold wind and instantly turned into half an ice statue.
"Sa-save…"
Vane flew in through the opening. At this moment, he had already entered his Blood Demon Art state.
Netherworld Demon Form.
"Nation-Slayer Vane!"
Vane's current appearance was exactly the same as on the wanted poster.
"Looks like I'm pretty famous now."
The agent didn't answer him. His whole body began to swell, and black-and-white fur appeared on his body.
"Moo!"
Ox-Ox Fruit, dairy cow form.
"Die!"
The agent somehow pulled out a spiked club and smashed it toward Vane.
"Looks like an unexpected gain."
Vane didn't draw his sword. Netherworld Mist wrapped around his palm to form a layer of ice, and then he wrapped it with Armament Haki.
Ice Gauntlet!
Boom!
The more imposing Zoan dairy-cow Fruit user was actually forced to stagger backward.
This dairy-cow Fruit user was the guy who would later fail his Zoan awakening and be thrown into Impel Down to watch prisoners—the jailer beast Minotauros.
Awakening a Zoan has risks. If you succeed, a black ribbon-like thing will appear and coil around your body.
If you fail, you become a human-beast hybrid with little rationality—thick-skinned, tough, and with strong recovery.
"Your future ending isn't great. You might as well give me some help."
Vane moved, so fast that the cow agent couldn't capture his figure at all.
He wildly swung his spiked club, trying to hit his opponent.
Bang! Boom!!
The room was beaten into severe deformation, leaking air everywhere.
The huge commotion also drew the other agents on the ship, but their strength, by comparison, was average.
"Enemy attack!"
"The 240,000,000 Belly bounty great pirate, Nation-Slayer Vane!"
"Rankyaku!"
"Rankyaku!!"
For a time, all the agents who could use Rankyaku launched their attacks.
"Bastards! Aim before you hit!"
The useless officer was affected by a Rankyaku impact. A lot of the frost on his body was shattered, but at least he could speak now.
After cursing, he began to look for a chance to escape. He saw the hole Vane had smashed through.
It was very cold outside, but right now the inside of the ship was the most dangerous place. If he escaped outside, he still had a chance to survive.
After all, he carried a portion of the great Celestial Dragon bloodline.
This useless officer's father was a Celestial Dragon, but his mother was a slave.
Among the Celestial Dragons, they uphold absolute blood purity—that is, inbreeding to produce offspring.
Those with absolutely pure blood can wear space suits in the Holy Land and enjoy themselves at will.
Children born of Celestial Dragons and slaves have relatively low status, but they still have the qualifications to be parachuted in as officers of World Government agencies. If their strength is sufficient, they can even enter the God's Knights.
If they have the chance to gain the favor of some pure-blood Celestial Dragon, then after the two combine, they can also obtain the status of a pure-blood Celestial Dragon.
He had been parachuted here just to pad his résumé. Whether or not he could obtain pure-blood Celestial Dragon status later, becoming a high official would let him enjoy life for a lifetime.
Who would have thought that a mission just to pad his résumé would run into something so dangerous.
He seized the opportunity and crawled out through the hole. In his sorry state, before he could climb up from the ice, he was lifted off the ground by a huge force.
"Caught a little mouse."
Burgess, who was waiting outside, grabbed this unexpected gain.
"Let me go! I have the blood of a great Celestial Dragon!"
"To hell with that."
Burgess slapped him once and then handed him over to Meowth to take in.
The castle inside Meowth could change freely under Meowth's control. The walls extended tentacles and directly hoisted the other party up and hung him on the wall.
...
Inside the icebreaker.
Vane turned into a howling cold wind and swept through it. Every agent he passed was turned into a frozen corpse. Apart from the leader "Minotauros," no one could withstand even a single move from him.
Minotauros wasn't doing well either. He had frostbite all over his body, and the damage was very obvious.
"You're still far from it!"
Vane appeared again, and fists like a violent storm kept raining down on Minotauros.
Wherever he was hit, frostbite would appear.
Boom!!
Minotauros's body was blasted away. He smashed through multiple layers of the ship's hull in succession, flew out onto the ice field, and rolled several times.
"After all, this isn't the full CP7."
The dairy-cow Fruit guy was completely no match for Vane in Blood Demon Art form.
Thump, thump! Thump thump thump!
Suddenly, in the wind and snow, the sound of a heartbeat came through—abnormally clear.
Vane directly locked onto the seemingly unconscious "Minotauros" on the ice field.
The other party's body kept swelling, especially the head and torso.
As for the legs, although they also changed, compared to his body they could only be described as "a small cart pulling a big load."
Boom!
Minotauros, whose body had swollen several times over, stood up gripping his spiked club.
There was no longer any human expression on his face, replaced by the dullness of an animal.
"Did this Zoan user's awakening fail?"
...
Check out my new story One Piece: Using the Barrier Fruit to Manifest Susanoo