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Killer snapped. He leapt over the terrace railing and onto the ground below, running towards the almost unconscious girl.

"Enough!" Killer raucously shouted while exhaling heavily. Behind the ominous looking facade that shielded his face, he didn't blink even once. He took advantage of the opponents opened defense, strongly gripping Enel's hand.

"W-wha-Aghhhh!" Enel thundered, releasing Y/n. Her face was already turning pale, patches of light blue endorsing her face. She coughed vigorously, rolling on her knees.

"Y/n are you ok? "Killer asked. The girl could only nod briefly.

When he got the certain confirmation, his attention was pulled back to the attacker. The blonde's voice trailed back to the venomous, threatening and ominous one. "You did this." He spat.

"So what? This slut deserves everything that's about to happen to her!" He laughed. "What does Doflamingo want from a dirt like her, I don't know, but let me tell you..." He stepped to Kid's comrade. Even though Enel was faced to the helmet, not really reading the expression on the latter's countenance, an eye contact was made between them. 'Mr. Strom' licked his bottom lip. "I enjoyed it. Look at your boss. He's as dead as he can be. He is just a pure lose-"

"Shut up!" Killer roared, his fist tightly prepared in battle position beside his hip.

"Can't handle the truth? Not such a tough guy, huh?" Enel mocked.

"You bastard, you are not getting away with it."

"Make me then." Killer swiftly took his knife, directing it to the man's throat. But Enel anticipated the move, his eyes swiftly, as if they were programmed, catching the sharp object in the line sight. His hand stopped the ambush. Squeezing Killer's arm to the point that his fingers literally dived into the latter's flesh, his last move was a twist in the left direction.

"Fuck." Killer threw a punch, avoiding him. What he didn't know was that only a second without a tough fence, could mean self-destruction. He indeed did dodge the first fist, tilting his head back and came up with his own. But it was sloppy. Enel seized the injured man's weakness and stepped back, easily evading the kick. "Is this all you got?"

Killer stood up, spitting blood on the floor.

"You idiots never learn...Tch, sad." The older male ended behind him, his hand leniently placed in his pockets as he kicked the blond from the back, making Killer cough droplets of blood. Before he could even catch his conscious, he was already thrown away, unmoving from the spot.

Enel's eyes shone from delight. He reminded Y/n of a serpent, that lurked on its prey until it died in agony. "Now, that we took care of him, let's finish what we have started."

The man stepped to the bruised Y/n, extending his rotten hand towards her face, exactly ten inches from it. The girl winced in the soon-to-come pain, closing her eyes as tightly as she could, hoping the grief would vanish as soon as possible.

"I wouldn't do that to her if I was you...Enel." A calm, collected, sonorous voice rose from beneath other's expectations.

The tall blond wasn't the only one surprised. Y/n eyes immediately spurned open.

"How? H-how are you even standing?!"

Kid, except for the splattered red liquid, looked totally unharmed, his posture relaxed, his expression colored with a wild, predatory grin. But she knew better he wasn't ok. Blood was still pouring from the sliced flesh. When their gazes met, the red head swiftly glanced towards the injured subordinate, his eyes widening before the non-existing brows fell deeper to his eyelids.

"Surprise! I'm back from the dead!" With an elevated chin, Kid flashed him his best Cheshire grin, slurring the next words. "Isn't that exciting?"

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Kid only edged an inch closer. And even that slight move forward made the attacker shiver in apprehensive fear. Anticipating such turn of events as this particular one, was indescribable.

"Don't move! Or the girl gets it!"

Now, mentioning Y/n vulnerable state, Eustass' usual grinning expression dispersed. He was visibly pissed off.

No, that would have been an overestimation.

He was close for going berserk.

"I dare you, shit-face." He barked.

Slowly recovering for the numerous, unbearable impacts on her body, Y/n, silently but determined, begged, her wide eyes full of tears. "K-Kid. Please...stop...You are-b-bleeding t-too much."

In triumph, Doflamingo's worker grinned, as if that was a chance of stopping the red devil from declaring an attack. "Listen to your little slut, Kid. You should just-"

"What did you. Just. Call. Her?!" And that is when Enel squirmed. Kid didn't even falter for a grain of a minute, when he pulled him to his feet, almost tearing the collar... He heard the slight rasp of material ripping.

"I fucking hope you'll suffer in hell." The scene would have been comical if it wasn't for the fact that everything around them was shattered, injured and ripped apart. As if he was light as a feather, Kid rose the older guy a bit higher, the other hand gripping the smudged, under the influence of the special drug, face. Enel clenched his palm around the red's arm, struggling to escape, but unfortunately for him, it was all in vain. Muffed screams resonated the terrace.

"Squirm, you worm, let me hear you suffer." When the man barely even moved with his dangling feet, Kid released him.

It looked like a cat and mouse play.

The cat hungrily waited for its meal... But before it was consumed , it had to be tortured...

"Stand up." When the blond didn't obey him, Kid punched him directly into his profile, snapping his nose into a grotesquerie. The intercourse came with a painfully bone-crushing sound.

The red-head wrinkled his nose in disgust. "Move."

The blond coughed between his slurred speech. "What do you take me fo-"

"I said-MOVE!" Strikes of slams and punches in the abdomen mutilated the almost decomposed body. The overwhelming power made Enel turn numerous times in the air before he collided in the hard rock, the man already on the edge of death.

It was over.

Kid carefully delicately picked up Y/n, his comforting hand holding her back, while the other gently held her feet from reaching the floor. The girl's head reassuringly rested on his chest. "I've got you, Y/n. You are going to be alright." Eustass benevolently whispered, discharging his own inflicted pain.

Y/n's sight was already blurry, as well as her hearing ability. The sound around her mixed with the annoying beeping in her head. But nevertheless she managed to hear his colloquial, familiar voice reaching out for her response.

"W-what about...K-k-killer?" She whispered hoarsely, not really sure if she had truly uttered a single word.

He sighed in relief, before he candidly replied. "He'll be fine. Don't you worry."

And with that she blacked out, a small smile spread on her features.

Kid had gazed at her peaceful face before he squinted his eyes to the deep, injured line on her bottom lip. It took enormous amount of will-power not to tear that mother-fucker in pieces.

"And this shit..." Eustass broke the electric wall with a metallic cane that he had picked up from the destroyed terrace floor. He glanced up to the balcony, eyeing his two comrades. "Wire, Heat. Het rid of this dead man. If I see his puke-like face one more time, I'll make sure this place gets burned down to the solely ground of its existence."

"Yes, boss." They both simultaneously answered, directly approving the red's plan.

"And take care of Killer." He added, distress coloring his voice.

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