The man's words completely exhausted Jake's patience.
He looked at the man and raised his hand.
In the next moment, with a force the man couldn't possibly react to, a tremendous power erupted from his face, sending him unconscious into the street's rubble.
Though the bastard's actions were despicable, Jake didn't kill him.
These were registered Marines - killing them indiscriminately would cause complications.
Despite his anger, Jake maintained basic rationality.
However, these men would undoubtedly be sent to prison later and now they would face his wrath firsthand.
Next, Jake appeared before the Marine who had earlier incited his comrade to kill him.
With the same measured pace, he asked.
"Why did you tell your comrade to kill someone whose identity wasn't even confirmed?"
"I... I was just joking! I didn't mean it! Please spare me, I was just running my mouth!"
The man spoke while squirming across the ground like a maggot, kowtowing repeatedly to Jake, begging for mercy.
Unlike the previous guy who might survive a slap, this man knew one strike from Jake would mean his death.
Jake simply shook his head at the groveling figure.
Electricity crackled in his palm before lashing out to strike the man.
A piercing scream echoed as the man collapsed, convulsing violently.
His trousers darkened with urine as the lightning strike caused involuntary muscle spasms, humiliating him completely.
After kicking the man aside, Jake moved towards the next instigator.
Enhanced by the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, his Observation Haki had recorded every word and action from earlier.
He would settle accounts with each of them, one by one.
As thunder reverberated through the streets, the woman Jake had earlier chased away crouched in a corner.
Watching his godlike display through streaming tears, she didn't know what fate awaited her - only the terror that Jake might turn his lightning against her next.
As the screams slowly faded, Jake tossed the unconscious soldier aside.
Before the woman could react, he was already by her side.
The next moment, before Jake could speak, the woman began frantically removing her clothes, sobbing and pleading.
"Please don't hurt me! I'll do anything! We're just here for work—someone paid 5 million Berries to book all of us. Please, I beg you!"
Watching her tears, Jake simply said softly.
"You're not a Marine, so this has nothing to do with you. There's no need to be so afraid. I'm Lieutenant Jake from Marine Headquarters. I came here because we received reports of extreme corruption at this branch base. Don't worry, none of them are dead—just severely punished. I'll be sending them to prison later."
Hearing this, the woman calmed slightly.
She looked at Jake, the terror in her eyes lessening.
Though still frightened, she could now speak coherently.
"So... you're a Marine too? You're... not what I imagined."
Jake glanced at the figures sprawled across the ground, his expression filled with disgust.
"These scum don't deserve to be called Marines. Your image of what Marines should be needs to change. These wastes are nothing but criminals."
"Can... can you really imprison all of them?" Her voice carried a note of hope that puzzled Jake.
"You seem eager to it?"
The woman didn't hide her feelings, immediately recounting everything she'd witnessed.
"If these bastards aren't all locked up, we'll never get our money—we might not even leave this place alive!"
"What do you mean?"
Her words deepened Jake's interest in this small branch base—its corruption ran far deeper than he'd thought.
The woman quickly explained.
"We arrived about a month ago—twenty of us. They paid 5 million Berries for us to stay two months, promising payment at the end. But I suspect when those two months are up, we won't get a single Berry. Worse, these Marine... these monsters might sell us to slave traders!"
She cast a fearful glance at the unconscious Marines littering the ground, then whispered.
"During our time here, we've seen the branch commander meeting repeatedly with slave ships. We even saw him bring out groups of chained prisoners from his quarters—including fish-men and other races. Every time those people disappeared, the Marines here would suddenly have money to splurge."
"If it were just once or twice, I might have been overthinking it, but it's been like this every time. Over the past two months, the same situation has occurred about five times. What terrified me the most was when I got a customer drunk once, and he told me in bed that he could only stay with us for two more months before watching us get taken away by slave traders."
"At that moment, I already had some suspicions in my heart, but when I tried to ask further, he had already fallen asleep. I didn't dare to wake him up to question him afterward. From that point on, I started discussing with the other sisters here about how to escape. But all the ships here are tightly controlled by the marines—we couldn't find any chance to flee."
As the woman spoke, Jake's expression grew increasingly grim.
His gaze turned towards the base commander's brightly lit private residence, his voice calm yet laced with chilling menace.
"Follow me and tell me everything you know along the way. Don't worry, you'll be safe. People might die today, but it definitely won't be you."
Electric blue arcs flickered around him, while inside the building, the base commander remained unaware of what was happening.
He was leering at the two slightly terrified women before him, his face twisted in a vulgar expression
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