Riders on the Storm (Squelch/Flim)

[The Prettiest Squish]

"Ma'am, the children are afraid of your slice and dicing."

Rémi looked to her left and saw a man in a white sailor outfit standing a good distance away. She lowered the sword and propped the broad side of the blade on her shoulder before huffing a deep sigh. "You can see I'm doing my exercises, right?" She glared at him through her reddish argent eyes and blinked slowly. The young woman slowly glanced to the side where she then saw rows of adults covering the eyes of small children. The crowd hid behind beach chairs and umbrellas which slightly amused the sword girl.

Just then the man spoke up and bought back her attention, "Yes, I can see that ma'am. But this is a cruise meant for holiday and relaxation. And the other guests would like if their lives didn't feel threatened by your - er - training equipment." He eyed the jet black claymore resting on her shoulder with unease, judging by the quiver in his voice and nervous tapping of his feet. Rémi took one last stare at him before sighing and raising the sword above her head. The crewman flinched but the girl did not drop the blade his way. Instead she simply arced the steel to her back where it landed comfortably between an unhinged scabbard just before she clamped it shut with a latch.

"There, it's gone. Are we happy now?" She crossed her arms and raised a brow with discontent. The man nodded and bowed before anxiously jogging back to where he came from. Rémi on the other hand looked back to the horizon where she'd been facing all this time. A party of clouds gathered in the distance and she squinted suspiciously at the churning waters. Well at least I'm on a big ship this time. I wouldn't be caught dead on a rowboat in these waves. She breathed in the incoming winds and blew them out through her mouth. The air tasted salty and she licked her lips to compensate. Her eyes peered into the oncoming darkness again and her mind wandered to inauspicious places. Something tells me my sword swinging will be the least of these people's worries...

[Flame]

"Oi!"

The cat sitting on him scratched at him. An annoyance at the moment but he ignored it, there was not much he could do about it right now. With one hand he swatted at his feline friend. The cat took another step moving closer to his head. "OI!!"

Fiery pain roared from his ear as teeth bit down on its soft flesh. "OWWWW!" Kano yelped. His limbs swung in surprise at the attack. "WHAT THE HELL OLIVER??" He yowled at his feline friend. With the movement of his legs Kano was at once all over the place. "Ahh ..." The youth's voice came to a pause as he suddenly realized something.

The flames of rockets at his feet suddenly threw him quickly out of control. From his back Oliver's weight quickly slid away from him as he began to spin out. Immediately Kano's eyes were alive with energy, he blinked for a second eyeing the Grand Line below him with concern. "YOUUUUU!!!!" His friend's annoyed sped by him.

Blood rushed through his head as he whirled about. Alright then ... Kano took in a quick breath as the world spun about him. At once he turned off all of his burning rockets going into a free fall. A smile, a crazed highly amused grin plastered itself upon his face. His head tilted down as he pinpointed where his feline friend was falling. Rocketman ... Kano's lower body swapped into a burning firework accelerating him forward.

At once Kano sped up shooting towards the water. His arms swung out behind him as he headed downward. Blast he threw two quick explosions beneath him bending backwards as he tilted himself flat and started to turn. Going chest up he swung his arms out and scooped Oliver out of the sky with a smile. The soft spray of seawater sprayed against his head giving him a nice cooling feeling. Kano laughed as he aimed himself back upwards towards his cruising height. Sitting atop him Oliver looked down at Kano, the anger bubbled on the top of his face.

"Don't look at me, hehehe, you're the one who started that escapade." Kano said with a smiling shrug of his shoulders.

"Kano ..." Oliver's voice was biting. Raising a hand he pointed a paw out in front of him. Tilting his head backwards Kano looked forward into the wind to see a storm quickly moving towards them.

"Oh ..."

Oliver nodded "I think I saw a ship to the right of us before that ... debacle" The last word came out as icy as ever. Kano nodded looking right at the Grand Line expanding before him. He blinked as he continued to speed forward going on a soft bank to the right.

[The Prettiest Squish]

"I'll have a...Root beer please."

A shiny brown bottle slid across the bar where it eventually landed into the mittens of one Rémi Dermott. She nodded at the bartender with an awkward gaze as her hand brought the lip of the bottle to her mouth. The rush of sugar coated her palette and the gal nearly puked on the drink's overbearing sweetness. A family of four standing next to her began to scoot away once they noticed Rémi convulsing like a maniac.

She slammed the bottle down on the hard white counter and sighed with exasperation. "Fuck. I'd do anything for a glass of hard booze right about now..." The man behind the counter cleared his throat and attracted her attention. She looked up at him. "Uh. We do carry liquor on board, just to let you know. I can get you a shot if you want." But the gray eyed girl grimaced as she took another sip of the sweet stuff; her face shrunk when the syrup hit her tongue. Rémi waved his suggestion aside and groaned, "No thanks. I quit a while ago but I still get the thirst every now and then. The root beer should be fine...." He accepted that answer reluctantly and went back to serving the kids and parents beside her. Meanwhile Rémi looked to the skies to try and satiate her boredom.

Her lenses watched the clouds moving closer to that storm, growing darker by the minute only to explode with flashes of lightning. The other guests on the ship murmured amongst themselves when the first thunderclap rang in the air. However, the stoic sipper carried on begrudgingly drinking her beverage and keeping her eyes on the skies. She burped midway through a yawn and looked to a clock hanging nearby. "Welp, if I can't practice my swing here then I guess I can go to the gym downstairs. Thanks for the drink, by the way." She fished her pockets and took out a crumpled fistful of bills to place on the counter.

The girl stretched her arms and began to make her way to the stairs when a blazing dot in front of the pale clouds caught her eye. She paused and rubbed her pupils before taking another look. The dot grew closer and began to shine even brighter. "What in the hell is that thing?"

[Flame]

"There. Over there." Oliver said pointing a paw in a general direction. "Gotcha~" He responded following the paws aim to the shape of a ship rapidly closing before them. Seemed like a small ship, but anything was better than trying to ride out the storm that was quickly advancing towards Kano and Oliver. Already he could feel the wings picking up, they blew hard perpendicular to his movement. He'd casually adjusted the positioning of his arms to deal with it but as he moved his adjustments had continued.

But now with the ship closing in at speed he relaxed a little. Perhaps he'd put on a little more speed, "Switch to back." Kano said with a laugh, atop him Oliver cursed his paws scrambling upon his chest. The fiery boy grinned, he breathed in contracting his abdominal muscles. He did a quick pulse of his stomach flipping Oliver up into the air. Two bursts of rockets put Kano into a quick spin. Two spins and his feline friends landed on his back.

The ship was now closing fast, "Kano, slow down." Oliver said once. But Kano didn't notice, correcting his path he started descending downwards toward the ship. The air whipped against his face and roared by his ears. The cat atop him panicked, "KANO SLOW DOWN!!!!" Oliver yowled at the top of his lungs. But the fiery boy didn't react.

With not much choice left the cat bunched its brow for a moment then sighed into the wind. A set of sharp bodies latched themselves into Kano's back. At once the rockets at his legs burnt out the acceleration disappeared and he instead began to tumble through the air towards the deck of the ship. "AWAAWAWAWAAA" Kano laughed and yelped as he flew towards the ship with nothing to stop him. Vaguely he thought he saw someone on the deck as he neared it.

Then they were back, his powers returned and the biting feeling in his back disappeared. Immediately he created four fireworks letting them off immediately to slow down his hurtling body. He slowed but didn't stop as gravity and momentum pulled him the rest of the way to the ship. It was fateful, as Oliver jumped off his back in the nick of time. Kano would not be so lucky, impact was imminent.

[The Prettiest Squish]

She stood at the front of the deck with both hands crossed between her bosom. Is that a person?... The girl continued to gawk at this impending projectile with great curiosity, seeing as how nothing else on this cruise piqued her interest.

Rémi reached up to the top of her head, where a pair of dark violet sunglasses rested on a bed of bright cyan hair. The girl plucked the lenses and equipped them to get a better look at this strange object especially now that it approached at a faster rate and glowed brighter than before. Within the second she donned the glasses, her brows ascended with astonishment. "What the hell is a guy doing flying over the Grand Line?" A few second passed while she continued to watch the figure when suddenly it dawned upon her, "HOW the hell is a guy flying over the Grand Line in the first place!?"

At this point, the girl no longer stood in a neutral and observant stance. Her curiosity got the better of her and she had walked all the way to the railing separating her from the cliff above the waves. She leaned over the iron border and squinted at the accelerating mass. The figure was now almost overhead and dropped faster toward the ship like a flying missile. Rémi then remembered, "Oh yeah, there was that smug prick I met at Crescent who could fly like that. The fuck was his name? Koro Tano? Eh, whatever. Not like I'll see him again." She shrugged internally at the thought.

Instead her attention returned to the matter at hand and she now saw the figure plummeting to the sea at an alarming rate. This is it, She thought to herself. Whoever this person was, she'd be ready to face them if they were a threat. Her hand wrapped around the sword handle tied to her back. The blazing thing fell to the ship and - wait was that a cat? Rémi blinked. This felt like deja vu. She flinched with confusion. Wait...no. Just a coincidence, the sword girl pondered. It was probably just some dust or something right?... Then the fireworks came.

Rémi's curiosity faded to oblivion and her heart beat with a rage not felt in quite some time. "No fucking way..." Her grey eyes looked to the sky and saw a familiar face.

[Flame]

-THUD-

Kano came whirling in slamming into the ship with a heavy and resonant thud. His body protested as he hit the planks momentum pushing him all the way into the meeting of a wall and the deck and wedging him up against it. With his head against the ground his whole body rolled up the wall and fell back over him his arms a twist at his side.

"Egghh" the youth breathed through the pain, there felt as if there were splinters in his shoulders. The deck-wood on his final landing was rent and bent out of shape, so probably. Blinking red eyes looked out at where Oliver was casually padding about, the black cat's eyes were focused on other things.

"Well that's one way to do a landing ehh Oliver. Probably not my worst." The youth laughed at his last comment as he moved his hands to the ground at either side of him. He took a breath, his legs climbing through the air so that his body straightened up against the wall. "Hut- one, two." Hands squared besides his head Kano braced and pushed off at the same time kicking off with his legs.

His body turning about in the air he landed casually on his feet. Reaching up he grabbed his head. It was still bent out of place from the landing, with a quick movement he snapped it back into place. Relaxing as he did as the tension in his body melted away. "Much better." Kano brushed off whatever might've collected on his shirt, reaching towards his back to pick at what felt like splinters. Looking up as he did he paused.

The figure of a ... girl? was staring at him. He looked back bemused at the, blinking at the sense of deja vu he sensed. This was ... "Rimi? ... Romou? Wait!" He threw out an open faced hand between the two of them. "Give me half a second it'll come to me." Without a second thought names began to spew out of his mouth. Rhyming names, R-names, Long names, Short names, they came out of his mouth at speed.

Ahh! A light blinked in his head and he pointed a finger to her. "Its Mast-"

"It's Remi." Oliver interceded as he jumped up on a nearby crate. Kano paused to look at his feline friend, then his eyes suddenly widening he turned back his finger still a pointing.

"ITS REMI!!!"

[The Prettiest Squish]

She slowly removed the sunglasses from her face, with jaw agape as she did so. The shaded lenses dropped to her waist and the woman uttered one elegant word, "Fuck." There was no other word to describe the way she felt at this current time. Just a whole entire fuck.

From the crash site, a body slowly got up and readjusted itself. It cracked and cried as it started to put things back into their original places. In the corner of her eye, Rémi spotted the black cat again. It wasn't dust... The sword girl groaned and put a palm to her forehead, squeezing the locks of bright blue hair in between her fingers. All the while her eyes remained fixed on the man in the crater. And with every passing second, it became inevitably clear.

He stared at her. He shouted...something at her. Words reminiscent of her own name yet so far off. Veins in her head pulsed with rage. Her wide jaw now tightened with bare teeth. She could see him clearly now. The fool spat out more attempts until the black cat from before gave the right answer. She sighed with her eyes closed. Cat's smarter than he is? Yeah. It's him. The boy called her by her true identity which only caused Rémi to sink her face into her hands and let out a muffled scream. "FUUUUUUUCCKK!!! GODDAMMIT!! WHYYYYY!!!!? FUCKING WHYYYY!??"

[Flame]

Kano gave a vibrant smile in answer to the muffled screaming that had come from the former acquaintance of his. His smile of course teetered off with the response, she was not as jubilant to see him. Why was that? He hadn't the slightest idea, perhaps it wasn't her?

The youth tilted his head his eyes squinting in as he examined the one before him. But Oliver confirmed that it was Remi. It has to be her ... He shook his head for a moment there really was nothing to question. "Funny meetin you here! It's been ..." Kano said casually as he closed the distance between the two of them. The smile regrew on his face in a few short moments.

"How has it been goin? It's been a while since the scorcher back over at that Moon place. I've been, been through some amazing journeys!" He said thoughtfully as he looked back on what he'd been up to in the time since.

Beside them Oliver's ears perked up to the sound of something. His eyes turning the feline hopped off of the wooden box padding towards that sound. The cat's whiskers twitched curiously, or maybe he was just stretching his legs, he'd been sitting upon Kano for the last ... countless hours.

[The Prettiest Squish]

Rémi rubbed her rugged complexion up and down a few times before finally coming face to face with the man she met all those days ago, Kano Toro. Through a muffled mouth she muttered, "I-I. W-what are you even doing here? I never thought I'd see you on an island again, much less in the middle of the ocean!" The volume of her voice attracted a few of the spectators who watched Kano fly into the deck. Much like when Rémi spent her time practicing with her sword, they hid behind some chairs and umbrellas as if those would provide any sort of cover from a man who could shoot literal fireworks from his hands.

However, those people's fears did not concern the lone warrior and she felt an urgent need to separate herself from the oblivious bastard with haste. She turned around halfway so that only her side would be showing. Perhaps he'd get the message this way. "I don't know how you got here or how you found me but I want nothing to do with this madness. So go ahead and blow up the ship like you normally would but leave me out of it, okay!?" She looked down and saw the black cat that accompanied Kano back on the Daibukai's island. Her anger dropped for a moment as she waved to the feline, "Hey kitty." The pet's ears acted up and she assumed it heard what she said. Nonetheless, she looked to Kano one final time before turning completely away from him. I hope I never have to deal with that guy again.

But as luck would have it, Rémi took two steps away from the fiery fellow before the marching of feet approached their area. She froze in place and sighed. Several rows of white suited men came out from the ship and around the perimeter. A signature blue bird was embroidered on each of their clothes and the classic text that Rémi knew all too well spelled out that which she hated even more than the explosive animal standing behind her. "As if it couldn't get any worse..."

One man who stood taller than the others and wore a large white coat walked out front and center. He pointed a finger in their general direction and shouted for all to hear, "Well well, it's my lucky day. 70 million Beri, 'Wild Spark' Kano. You are under arrest for crimes against the World Government and its people!...As for you...Uh. Who exactly would you be, Miss?"

Rémi with blank eyes and an awkward smile answered, "No one important officer. Just a regular civilian. Absolutely nothing to worry about." She chuckled aloud to ease the tension. The only problem was that she was the only one making any noise at all. The guests stared at her. The Marines stared at her. She guessed that even Kano was staring at- wait. Her eyes widened with sheer terror at the realization. Don't. Fucking. Say it.

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Marine Officer: 91DCF0

[Flame]

"I'm here because of that." He said pointing to the storm clouds quickly gaining on the ship. "Oliver didn't want to brave the storm." Kano gave a mild shrug while Oliver made a hissing noise to express his displeasure.

"Can't really blame him, cat and all." He said as if there were something obvious behind those words. Standing there Kano looked over Remi, her face was the same though her everything else was quite changed now. He couldn't really decide if he liked it, it definitely had more flare than her previous outfit had. At least he was pretty sure of that. And the hair, the new hair was cool. That much he approved of.

"I mean, I'm not planning to blow up the ship ..." He said in an almost defensive manner. The implication that he usually blew stuff up was ... okay well it was right but normally he had good reason! He sniggered to himself, the normally might've been a bit of a stretch. The golden eyes of his cat eyed him firmly as his feline friend noticed his own laughing. It was then that the clomp of feet finally drew Kano's attention.

Marines, a group of them appeared from around the corner. In the middle one wearing a coat stepped forward pointing at Kano. This felt like a bit of a common occurence for Kano at this point so he paid the conversation no mind. But instead took offense to something else entirely. They didn't know who his friend Remi was! More over she was trying to downplay it all.

"Please ..." he placed a hand on Remi's shoulder. "Don't sell yourself short. You are THE REMI Der-" He paused snapping his fingers together in front of his head as if it might bring the name back to him. "Der-ig-i-ble?" He pieced together a word in confusion. "Der-iv-a-tive?" He shook his head again. The marines across from him were looking at Kano in their own sense of confusion. "Dermott! There we go. EXACTLY YOU ARE THE REMI DERMOTT!"

The marine officer blinked for a moment. "I'm sorry who?" Kano's fist came together. He stepped forward towards the marine. Kano took a breath, a deep one this time. But before he could do more one of the other marines stepped up beside the man and whispered something into his ear. The officer blinked his eyes widening and a light beginning to glisten in them. "Eighteen and Half Million Beri Remi Dermott. Even luckier. Well men, let's get paid."

[The Prettiest Squish]

Rémi froze like a statue when she felt the touch of a grasp upon her shoulder. Did this son of a bitch just put his hand on me?... She didn't even need to turn back to check once Kano began talking. In fact, she didn't need to do much of anything for him to start doing the one thing she didn't want him to do. Her jaw quivered, not with anxiety but with sheer unadulterated rage. At her waist, the girl's fists balled into dense stars of pure hatred. And all while this anger boiled up inside of her, the guy just kept talking and talking. He kept getting her fucking name wrong. How could he get her name wrong? She said it so clearly when they last saw each other! Was he just this boneheaded?!

While Kano continued to search for a name, the girl could see the puzzled faces on the sea of Marines in front of them. They have no idea what he's talking about. How could they? They don't speak moron!! Unfortunately for her, this moron's search for a name ended in success. Without any hesitation, he spoke the name with confidence, RÉMI DERMOTT. The poor lass sighed. She closed her eyes to pray for forgiveness; forgiveness for what she was about to do in front of all these little children.

She overheard the men whispering amongst themselves. She heard the officer in charge recite her own bounty value. The sword girl frowned and pouted then opened her eyes to the money hungry troops in front of her. "Kano," she whispered. She turned her head to look at the man who got her into this mess. "I fucking hate you." And with that, the woman unlatched her scabbard, unleashing the black blade to rise from her back. Her hand brought the cold steel to her center until its length split the view of Marines in half. 

"I just wanted to exercise, man."

[Flame]

The words 'I hate you' might've stung. Perhaps they would have had Kano not been so desensitized to them. One hundred, even probably one thousand times he had heard those words uttered. Most often from his feline friend's mouth. Oliver was plainly unconcerned by the debacle quickly unfolding and had simply extricated himself to a viewing area in what he considered safe distance from his more explosive companion.

And so the foolish boy cackled at that instead. He laughed straight and forward an innumerable number of laughs pouring from his chest. The flash of steel showed, both beside and before him blades were drawn. Next to him Remi spoke. At this as well Kano laughed, with no weapon to show he brought forth his hands casually cracking his knuckles. "This isn't exercise?" He questioned glancing at the marines for a moment.

Shrugging his shoulders "Suppose you're right, probably not even good enough for a warmup." In front the marine officer's face reddened. The marines milled before them, "You dare!" His voice bubbled with anger giving Kano a greater smile. "YOU DOUBT THE MIGHT OF THE MARINES! We are the forces of justice!" The officer declared his face fully flushed.

"GET THEM!" He declared with a swing of his sword forward. And at that his men came forward at a charge. Kano blinked as the first marine came sword bared charging down at him.

"Your form is off ..." he said casually as the sword was swung at his chest. With a quick sidestep the blade swung past him through the air. "And your reactions kinda slow man ..." Twisting his upper body he moved into an arcing kick that slammed into the side of the marine. A moment that man was planted into the wooden side of the ship.

Kano shrugged meaning the motion for Remi, "Yeah, not even a decent warmup."

[The Prettiest Squish]

As she stood surrounded by dozens of armed soldiers and stood beside a man she wanted decapitated by any means necessary, Rémi had to wonder just how she got here. Her pristinely dark blade, the claymore she obtained from a clash back on Heretic Cabal, glowed with an eerie luster in the sunlight. She tilted the edge slightly and could see the faces of the men reflected in its mirror polished surface. Another sigh of exasperation left her lips once she decided what to do with this wicked blade. And with the officer's call to charge, she looked from up her daydreaming and braced for attack.

The first ones came in a sprint, foolish enough to believe they could overpower the two of them with sheer numbers. Rémi was quick to notice in the corner of her eye Kano easily eliminating one of the fighters who came forth. As much as she despised the fool, he was still her superior in terms of combative skills. At least, that was how things were when they last met. Perhaps things have changed since then. She tightened her grip on the claymore's handle and bared a devilish grin. "Pffft. One man down doesn't impress me, Sparky. Besides, I've gotten stronger too."

As if to demonstrate her claim, half a dozen swordsmen came in from the side and charged at the bladed mistress in unison. She scoffed and held the sable edge in front of her with one arm. "I've known little girls who scare me more than you." All of the Marine swords came crashing down in sync only to be met with an immovable line of hardened black steel. The six men all flinched once they realized their advance was completely halted. Rémi stepped forward and pushed the party back despite their efforts to remain grounded. She smirked then laughed, "Y'know, on second thought. I should thank you, Kano. After all, I've always hated the Marines." The men behind the blades all whimpered from the harsh sting of the cyan sword's voice. She smiled then pushed the company backwards before swinging her sword behind her. They froze in place, floating off the ground and unable to evade her next move. Rémi's eyes gleamed with excitement, "They're just so damn annoying!!"

She slashed forward with enough force to cut through the chests of all six bodies in one clean cut, spewing blood from their clean white suits and falling to the ground in a limp pile. The dame retook her stoic stance then swept the blade of any blood before looking to the officer with a nasty sneer, "So much for the might of the Marines. I guess the goofball was right. You really aren't worth a warmup, huh?"

[Flame]

He belted out a quick laugh, "One man?" He gave a smile as he glanced at the multiple marines still arrayed before them. Giving them a quick count he opened his mouth again. Words he were about to say were strangled out by a bunch of mini bottle rockets gathering in his mouth. They clumped together almost seeming like they're bundled together.

"BMGHFGFG" Blast!

The mini rockets flew out of his mouth, spiraling through the air. Consecutive explosions cracked the air as each found its target on each of a half dozen more marines. Kano's red eyes gleamed as the burnt soldiers dropped to the ground without a word. Turning to the remaining marines he drew back his arm, a ferocious grin burned onto his face. His full right hand and forearm disappeared. In their place a spike a fireworks shell appeared, like a screw it was threaded and most weird spinning due to a pair of bottle rockets on the end causing it to turn. The shell crackled as Kano held it up in the air like a lance.

"Well, come then marines." He said taking a step forward. The marines froze then staggered backwards leaving their officer standing on his lonesome between Kano, Remi, and his marine cohorts. The officer's sword arm shook and trembled, he grabbed it with one hand holding himself firmly. "I am a marine ..." He said his muscles tensing in his hand. "A soldier of justice." His body tensed, his lip bit, a little blood slid from it. "The side of justice cannot lose!" The officer looked up defiantly at the pair before him.

"Come pirates, I shall be your opponent. Know defeat." He let go of his arm, it shook no longer. The whole speech, perhaps it made Kano's heart skip a moment's beat. The words he said were cool, they were full of heart. That he could get behind, on the other hand the officer ... Kano glanced at Remi, "Would you like a go at him?" The fiery boy offered the marine's duel up to her.

[The Prettiest Squish]

Another speech of justice from the officer only resulted in the cyan sword rolling her eyes with irritation. She heard it all before. The same old tired monologue about how pirates were evil and the Marines were good. She puffed her lips and sighed, "Yeah, yeah. Whatever. We get it." Her sword hand moved forward. If the man in white desired violence, she would give it to him. And auspiciously enough, the arsonist arsehole offered her to fight the foe 1-on-1. Not that she needed his permission but it was gracious of him to give her the chance of a solo battle. Especially since she despised working with him back on Crescent. The girl shuddered just remembering what a nightmare teaming up with Kano was. Never again, ugh.

Breaking up the duo's tender moment though, the officer stepped forward and clutched his weapon with both hands, "Do not underestimate the power of the Marines!! We are the pride of the World Government and the forces to take down evil such as you! Rémi rolled her eyes yet again. The other men around her though began to cheer and holler for their commanding officer. They hyped their leader up with whistling and shouts of encouragement.

"You can do it, Commander!!"
"We believe in you!"
"Take down these pirates like you always have!"
"Make us proud!!"

The officer, who she now knew as Commander, smirked and laughed maniacally. "Say your prayers, pirates! You'll see no mercy from me!!" He dashed to them in a rapid charge with blade armed at the ready. His face radiated ferocity and courage, the finest traits of any commander. The sword girl stood still with her ebony blade still at her side. A lazy glaze glimmered in her eye. When the man finally arrived within cutting distance, he shouted as his arms swiped downward, "Now perish in the name of Justice!!" His sword came falling down and then -

THUD.

Rémi yawned. She blinked at the frozen man in front of her whose bold eyes were fixated on his petrified sword. His jaw dropped and trembled with the rapidity of a hummingbird. "H-h-how?" The disinterested swordswoman first stared at him then at the blade caught between her gloved up hands. She squinted at the frigid coward with her stormy gray eyes and whispered, "So...you were saying?" Before he could even respond, the girl immediately turned her black edge against him and cut the poor bastard from hip to shoulder in one clean slice. His mouth stayed open in shock while his body soared backwards into the crowd of despondent subordinates. He twitched for a while but the man could otherwise hardly move.

Rémi turned her bored face to Kano and huffed. "Do you want seconds or nah?"