Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Everyone was too slow to react, watching helplessly as the gun in Alucard's hand continued to tear holes in Judge's back.
After firing an untold number of shots, Judge's body collapsed heavily onto the pile of corpses. Is he dead?
The soldiers of the Germa 66 Kingdom were stunned, and the five children were even more so.
Their father, the man they most idolized and believed to be the strongest, had lost? And so quickly? So easily defeated in combat?
Alucard holstered his gun and kicked Judge's body over. From the front, it was clear that his stomach was riddled with several bleeding holes.
Alucard spoke in a teasing, playful tone, "Hey, hey, it's a bit too early to fall, Supreme Commander of the Vinsmokes."
Alucard leaned down, grabbing Judge by the collar with both hands and lifting him up. Their eyes met. "If you were to say, 'I don't want to fight anymore,' and beg for mercy on your knees, I wouldn't forgive you for making me travel all the way back from the New World for such a pathetic result. It's a sin, you know."
With that, Alucard let go with his right hand, but kept his left twisted in Judge's collar, holding him aloft.
Thump!
Alucard slammed a heavy fist into Judge's stomach. Blood, already trickling from the wounds, now spurted out like a fountain, staining Alucard's knuckles crimson.
Thump!
Alucard delivered another punch, and this time, blood began to pour from Judge's mouth. "What's the matter? Fight back! Come on, Science Combat Force!"
Thump!
Alucard punched the wound again, showing no signs of stopping. Thump! Thump! Thump!
Punch after punch landed, and even without Observation Haki, one could see Judge's face growing paler and his breathing becoming weaker.
"What a disappointment…"
Alucard lowered Judge slightly, his face etched with disgust and disappointment. "The one who seeks to conquer the Four Kingdoms of the North Blue has only this much power."
With that, Alucard dropped Judge onto the pile of corpses like a piece of trash, then pulled out the Casull once more.
"What are you doing?!"
Suddenly, Ichiji, the eldest son, exploded in a roar. "Go and save Father now!"
As he screamed, tears streamed uncontrollably from his eyes.
At the sound of his cry, the soldiers, who had been frozen in terror, finally snapped back to reality. Seeing the muzzle of the gun pointing at their Commander's head, they charged forward as one.
Alucard narrowed his eyes, glancing at the charging soldiers.
The shadows at his feet spread at an alarming speed, completely covering the ground beneath everyone.
"..."
Alucard drew out a monstrous laugh, and suddenly, countless white-gloved arms shot up from the ground, tearing the Germa 66 soldiers into shattered pieces.
When a severed hand landed near Alucard's foot, he looked down at it and feigned surprise. "You have no life, yet you still bleed the red blood of a human. I guess it's to be expected from someone who collaborated with Vegapunk on research?"
Whoosh!
A flurry of shadowy hands delivered a barrage of slashes. In less than two minutes, the entire Germa 66 army was annihilated. Their soldiers were reduced to chunks of flesh. Of the Vinsmoke family, the only ones still alive were the five siblings, the thick-lipped researcher beside them, and a barely-breathing Vinsmoke Judge at Alucard's feet.
In the midst of the chaos, blood splashed, landing on the faces and clothes of the five siblings. Although they had already experienced the brutality of the battlefield, this scene was too shocking for them.
"Cough… Cough!"
Suddenly, Judge, who was at Alucard's feet, let out a cough. Alucard looked down to see that he had opened his eyes.
"Oh, you're still alive. Is it the effect of that suit? Or have you undergone some kind of modification yourself?"
Alucard slowly lifted his foot, then stomped down hard on Judge's face.
Judge's head was slammed into the ground. The violent impact of his helmet hitting the earth made a dull thud, and the intense vibration almost knocked him unconscious.
"Still not begging for mercy?"
Seeing that Judge, despite his many injuries, remained silent, Alucard asked him. "...Haah...haah...haah..."
Judge took several deep breaths, then managed to speak in a fragmented voice, "If... if I... beg for mercy... will you... stop?"
Upon hearing this, Alucard was silent for two seconds. His eyes shifted slightly before he chuckled. "I don't know... why don't you beg first and we'll see?"
"Ugh, ugh..."
Ichiji and the others, watching from a distance, bit their lips hard, trying to hold back their tears. But they couldn't help it; large drops continued to fall.
Though Sanji was disillusioned with his father, seeing this scene, his complex feelings of worry outweighed any sense of satisfaction.
The researcher on the side held back Judge's five children, preventing them from doing anything reckless, or they would die too.
"I... I remember now!"
Suddenly, Judge's eyes widened. He spoke to Alucard, "You... are you a descendant of Dracula? The descendant of a North Blue noble family that was wiped out in my father's generation... Did you come here for revenge?"
Judge recalled the past. He never imagined that a descendant of a family his father had destroyed would come back to seek revenge.
Alucard was slightly surprised that Judge remembered this, but he quickly laughed softly. "That doesn't matter. Didn't I tell you? I just felt like killing you on a whim."
"But since you brought it up, it wouldn't be right not to avenge my family."
Alucard extended his right hand. A black-light-virus-infused plasma solidified in his palm, forming a giant sword in two seconds.
"Do you know why monsters like Redfield and Shiki, despite their horrific crimes, weren't executed immediately after being locked in Impel Down but were instead given a life sentence?"
Alucard placed the massive sword against Judge's right leg and suddenly smiled. "It's because death is too easy for them. They have to live and slowly feel the pain."
Slash!
Suddenly, Alucard twisted his wrist and, in front of Judge's five children, severed their father's right leg.
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