With his extraordinary Observation Haki, Usopp finally found the Armored Giant in the gap between the stone figures. "He's on the far right, that's right there."
Leo, having given up his X-ray vision, broke through the stone golem's defenses at Usopp's prompting and pulled the Armored Titan out. Pica, captured, made a final struggle: "Come and be buried with me in the earth."
The devilish power of the Stone-Stone Fruit manipulated the earth, attempting to bury Ultraman Leo alive with soil and rocks. A large amount of gray matter covered the red giant like flowing water, but these were all minor tricks for Ultraman.
A white light appeared on the red giant, heating the surrounding matter at the molecular level. Pica's Devil Fruit ability was rendered ineffective by this power, and the red giant grabbed the twenty-meter-tall Armored Titan and threw it into the air.
Leo, who is in the white space, shouts the name of the special attack together with Ultraman Leo: "Leo Flying Kick!"
The red giant leaped into the air, its left foot enveloped in a red energy as it launched a flying kick at the armored giant high in the sky. Before absolute power, all of Pica's actions were futile.
"Young Master will surely become the king of this world..." A terrifying red light covered his last image. The moment his flying kick touched the Armored Titan, the terrifying energy burst the Titan's body. Pica, along with the Armored Titan he had transformed into, turned to ashes in the explosion.
Having ended everything, Ultraman Leo landed in front of Usopp from the sky, a red light suddenly flashing on his chest. Leo's transformation time was almost up, and the power of the Giant of Light was slowly leaving his body.
The red giant transformed into a beam of light once more before Usopp. As the light shrank, the palm-sized figure of the Tontatta gradually appeared, but the light power on Leo's body had not yet completely dissipated.
"Leo, are you alright?" Usopp ran up to the tontatta and asked with concern, a bad feeling creeping into his heart.
"Thank you, Usolando, I'm fine..." Before Leo could finish speaking, a piece of his face peeled off and vanished in the air as light.
He instantly understood the price Ultraman Leo had mentioned. The skin on Leo's face continued to peel away over time, leaving empty spaces that shimmered with light. The little man knew his time was running out, and he bid a final farewell to the descendant of his benefactor: "Although you lied to me, and you are not a descendant of Noland, you are still a hero of our little man race. Enough with the sentimental words. Ultraman Leo told me that Princess Mansherry has escaped and I'm going to see her. Goodbye, Usopp."
Leo transformed into a white light and shot into the sky, leaving countless points of light in his wake. Usopp watched Leo's departing figure and muttered to himself, "In the end, he was still discovered. Leo, you are a hero too."
Usopp collapsed to the ground, utterly exhausted. Using the magical plant had drained his mental energy; he had already pushed himself to his limit. What had just happened had left him completely drained, both physically and mentally. He realized how easily he could part ways with a friend.
Chapter 166 The Dissipation of a Soul
The scene of Pica being defeated by the Red Giant was witnessed by the two lost people. Surprisingly, the other group of people were no longer in danger. Zoro began to wander aimlessly again, wanting to meet up with Usopp and then check on the captain's situation.
“A light is coming,” the one-eyed swordsman said, stopping in his tracks. Princess Mansherry peeked out from under his clothes, worried about Leo’s health.
A white light flew from afar and landed in front of the two. The figure revealed in the light was a tiny human, no bigger than a palm, who was none other than Leo. "Princess Mansherry, it's so good to see you again."
Zoro noticed the change in Leo's body and was about to speak to remind him when Princess Mansherry had already left her "chariot" and was running towards her crush with red eyes on her short legs. "Leo, I've missed you so much these past five years."
As she grew closer to her crush, the princess witnessed a scene of despair: Leo's body was being dismantled into pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, peeling away and turning into points of light before her eyes—something Princess Mansherry had never experienced before.
With a sob in her voice, she cried out, "I can definitely heal you with the Devil Fruit, Leo, wait for me, don't go yet, please don't go yet!" A thousand words were stuck in her throat; she had so much to say to Leo.
Leo held up his two little hands, watching himself slowly disintegrate, knowing that his time was running out. At this moment, he only wanted to do one thing: "Princess Mansherry, I want to hug you one last time. You are the only light in my life."
Princess Mansherry understood Leo's feelings. When she was close enough, she jumped up and leaped into Leo's arms. The two little people hugged each other tightly, and the princess's tears flowed again. "Please don't leave me. Leo, I don't know how I will live without you. Please don't go..."
The princess's tears, imbued with the healing fruit's power, had no effect on Leo. The little captain's body dissipated faster and faster. "Your Highness, I hope you will always be happy..."
Leo uttered his last words in this world, "Wait, don't go," and in Princess Mansherry's arms, his entire body disintegrated into fragments, the resulting points of light shining before the woman.
Princess Mansherry knelt on the spot, her eyes vacant, witnessing the light that her crush had formed dissipate into the air. It was proof that Leo had once existed. She never imagined that their reunion would be their last. "Leo, Leo..."
The human princess called out her lover's name again and again, but no one in the world answered her anymore. A ring-shaped object fell from the sky and rolled down to Princess Mansherry's side.
The girl picked up Leo's belongings and examined them closely. It was a ring with a lion's head inlaid on it. Although she had never seen it before, she put this last memento into her pocket.
Princess Mansherry tried to suppress her grief, but the combination of extreme joy and sorrow made it impossible for her to control her emotions. She burst into tears in the ruins, and only her cries echoed across the King's Heights.
The one-eyed swordsman stood beside the princess. He didn't say a word, but silently protected her. After drifting on the sea for so many years, he had become indifferent to life and death. He understood that this was the tragedy of the weak.
[Outside the light screen, the little people had all embraced their Captain Leo. These kind-hearted little people didn't want him to die; using Ultraman Leo's power had come at too high a price, leaving not even a single body behind.]
The defeat of the two strongest executives at King's Highlands signifies the imminent collapse of Doflamingo's forces in Dressrosa. On his way to the Dark Factory, Soul King Brook encounters some colossal Titans blocking his path, but he skillfully maneuvers around them.
Guided by the spirit summoned from the underworld, the skeletal pervert finally arrived at the main gate of the SMILE factory. The rumbling had no effect on this place, perhaps because Allen deliberately avoided it.
"What a pity for Leo," Brook, as a user of the Yomi Yomi no Mi (Revive-Revive Fruit), could easily sense the souls on the island. He noticed that the soul of the Tontatta Captain had left this world, which was one of the proofs that he had been guided to the underworld.
The moment the rumbling began, almost all of humanity in Dressrosa perished. The spirits of the dead wailed as they entered the underworld. Brook knew all this, but there was nothing he could do. People go to that place when they die, and forcibly reversing life and death would be going against the will of Heaven.
The Dark Factory's gates were tightly shut. Brook had come today to cause trouble, and sneaking in would only be a waste of time. He drew his Soul-Slaying Sword and unleashed his sword technique, "Revolutionary Dance - Charge Attack," at the building blocking his way.
With a crisp sound of steel being cut, the thick steel gate of the Smile factory was cleaved in two. This gate could withstand the attack of a bomb with a yield of tons, but in front of the skeleton's swordsmanship, it was no different from paper.
The skeleton was humming a little tune and was about to enter the factory when a fat middle-aged woman came out, holding something that looked like a vacuum cleaner. This woman was the factory manager, and she was also responsible for protecting Doflamingo's property.
However, the intruder was a skeleton, which really startled the woman. "Where did this little punk come from? This is Doflamingo's most important factory. If you don't want it to be demolished, get out of here."
Brooke looked the woman up and down, but he didn't discriminate as long as she was a woman, and said directly, "Madam, may I admire your underwear?"
The female factory manager's brain went blank for a moment after hearing this, but she quickly became furious and turned the vacuum cleaner in her hand to the maximum power, shouting: "You skeleton pervert, go to hell!"
She's a genuine virgin, though her looks aren't exactly flattering. Her makeup skills are a direct descendant of Charlotte Linlin's, but she has a natural aversion to perverts, and Brooke is practically skinless.
The vacuum cleaner's terrifying suction pulled Brook's light body closer to it. Faced with this danger, he felt regretful. He hadn't seen any women's underwear today, but he was even more curious about whether Miss Robin was wearing a thong underneath.
Since the opponent is Doflamingo's henchman, then he is the target that the Straw Hat crew must defeat. Brook gripped the Soul-Slaying Sword in his hand, "Prelude: Breaking Soldier".
In an instant, his swordsmanship destroyed the female factory manager's weapon and knocked her down. Brook, as one of only two swordsmen in the pirate crew, is relatively gentle when it comes to women.
After cutting her vacuum cleaner weapon in two, he struck the female factory manager on the back of the head with the hilt of the sword, knocking her unconscious and rendering her incapable of fighting. This was the lightest punishment he could give her.
Brook, who hadn't looked at women's underwear for several days, felt his lustful heart particularly agitated. He drove the skeleton man towards the unconscious woman, kneeling on one knee in front of the female factory manager, intending to lift her skirt to see the color of her underwear. He had been really pent up these past few days, otherwise he wouldn't have done something so tasteless.
Before Brooke could reveal the answer, a sudden voice in the factory interrupted him, "Even I think you're a pervert. Hitting women is one thing, but wanting to see women's underwear is another. You're a disgrace to us men."
A middle-aged man dressed in pink baby clothes, with a pacifier in his mouth, walked out of the factory gate.
Chapter 167 The Deceased Wife
One pervert despises another pervert. Brook doesn't want to admit that he's a pervert. Unlike Franky, he doesn't think being a pervert is a compliment. The skeleton is just a lecher. What's the harm in looking at someone's underwear if it doesn't kill them? It's not like the other person will lose a piece of flesh.
“You’re not qualified to talk to me like that,” Brooke sensed that the man in front of him was probably a member of the Don Quixote family, and perhaps the one who guarded the SMILE factory.
Señor sucked on his pacifier, recalling the skeleton man's swordsmanship. Since his opponent was a swordsman, his skeletal body was obviously not durable, which must be his weakness. As long as he got close, he would have a chance of winning. This was no problem for the Swim-Swim Fruit.
"I'll teach you to respect women in a moment," Señor said, activating his Devil Fruit ability. He leaped into the ground, turning everything around him into his swimming pool.
"You're also a Devil Fruit user, trying to ambush me..." Before Brook could finish speaking, Señor had already swum to his side, grabbed his legs from the ground, and was about to pull the skeleton into his familiar environment.
Seeing that most of his leg bone had sunk into the soil, Brook knew he couldn't just sit and wait to die. He plunged the Soul-Destroying Sword into the ground, imbuing the blade with the chilling aura of the underworld, and unleashed a "Snowstorm Slash."
The slash, imbued with the chilling aura of the underworld, pierced the ground. Senor, who was directly below, realized something was wrong and immediately released his grip on Brooke's hands, swimming to the side to dodge the enemy's attack. However, in the process, he unfortunately grazed the edge.
As Señor swam out of the floor, a gash appeared on the man's left arm, and ice had formed at the wound, hindering his recovery. "Strange swordsmanship. It seems I'll have to use other skills."
The man in the baby clothes was crackling with golden arcs of electricity. Señor knew that this power did not belong to him, and it would be dishonorable to use it to defeat him. However, there was no other way now. The man had to protect the Smile Factory behind him and could not fail the young master's expectations.
Golden lightning struck down from the sky, whipping up a fierce gust of wind. Brook's top hat was blown off his head, but he didn't bother to retrieve it. His attention was already focused on the enemy, and he was witnessing Señor complete his giant transformation.
Señor inherited the Beast Giant, a four-legged reptile nearly twenty meters long with red skin covered in a lot of slime, transforming from a human into a giant red salamander.
Without wasting words with Brook, the salamander spewed out its tongue, which was nearly ten meters long, and instantly bound the skeleton. The amphibian burrowed into the damp ground, intending to take the swordsman deeper into the earth so that he would never come out again.
The salamander was incredibly strong, dragging the skeleton man deeper and deeper underground. In the blink of an eye, they had reached a depth of several hundred meters. Senor, fearing that this depth wasn't enough to be safe, continued to descend using the Swim-Swim Fruit.
The earth and rocks scraped against Brook's skeletal body. Right now, the enemy was just using the Swim-Swim Fruit to change the shape of the soil. Once the enemy removed the Devil Fruit power from the person next to him, the skeleton would have to endure the crushing weight of the earth. This was a kind of burial that was even more painful than being buried alive at the bottom of the sea.
The confined space prevented Brook from using the Soul-Slaying Sword. Since the opponent valued his body so much, the Soul King came up with a solution: "Astral projection."
A green soul floated out of the skeleton's body. Because it was a spirit, it was immune to any physical harm and could pass through anything. Brook's soul floated upwards to the earth, as he was about to unleash the most important power of the Yomi Yomi no Mi (Revive-Revive Fruit).
Señor persevered and slid several thousand meters underground. Along the way, he only felt that the skeleton was a little lighter, but the other party did not resist. After retracting his tongue, the Devil Fruit power on the other party was deactivated, and the skeleton's body was trapped several thousand meters underground and could not move.
The red salamander glanced at the skeletal pervert one last time. Seeing that he had no reaction, it assumed that the other party was just in despair. Señor wouldn't be kind enough to rescue him and let Brook stay underground. So, it used the Swim-Swim Fruit's ability to swim back to the surface.
When he got ashore, a voice was waiting for him, "Actually, my body isn't that important. You've got the wrong idea."
Señor saw a green soul floating above his head. This was the first time he had ever seen such a spiritual being; it was different from the soul beings he had created.
"As Lord of Souls, I command that the gates of the Underworld be opened for me, and that all souls connected to him heed my call and cross the gates of hell to come before me."
At the call of the Yomi Yomi no Mi user, a towering gate appeared behind Brook, engraved with scenes of hell. The eighteen circles represent the eighteen levels of hell, and the six paths of reincarnation in the center represent rebirth. The gates of hell are alive and can hear the wails of the dead. These are the tortures that sinners suffer in hell after death, and they can only be freed from hell after paying off the debts they owed in their previous lives.
[Moonlight Moria, outside the light curtain, watched enviously as the gates of hell opened again. He longed for that Devil Fruit power, but his subordinates had already discovered Brook's whereabouts and would soon be able to bring him to him.]
"Playing with souls is a perfect match for me, a zombie enthusiast! Brook, I'm determined to make you one of my officers!" Moria laughed wildly in the castle; the fat man had never desired anyone so much.
Señor, inside the red salamander's head, witnessed the most unbelievable scene of his life: a white-clad female spirit flew out of the gate and obediently landed beside Brooke's green soul.
The female spirit had light brown hair and some freckles on her face. She knelt respectfully in the air before the Lord of Souls. Senor called out the woman's name: "Lucian, is that you? This is impossible. I must have been hypnotized. You can't possibly appear again."
This strong man broke down instantly. Señor emerged directly from the salamander's head, wanting to examine his wife with human eyes. His deceased wife's soul had not disappeared and was still kneeling beside Brooke.
“Go ahead and tell that perverted man about your experiences in hell.” Spirits communicate through telepathy. Brooke understood the suffering Lucian endured in hell and felt some sympathy for this unfortunate woman. In her past life, she had no choice but to be with a member of the Don Quixote family who was a ruthless killer.
Lucien, dragging his spirit body, floated toward his former lover. Señor's eyes were filled with uncontrollable tears. The other person was exactly as his beloved wife had looked in life. He wanted to believe that it was all real, even if he had been deceived by Brooke's hypnosis. He wanted to meet his lover again.
However, their meeting was not a heartwarming scene. Lucien's face was full of resentment and malice. The female spirit's face began to distort. Her hatred for Senor could not be washed away even by the waters of Naihe.
“Señor Piqué, why don’t you just die? Do you know what kind of life my child and I are living in hell? I wish I could eat your flesh and drink your blood right now. Why did I ever marry you in my past life, you big liar…”
His wife's familiar tone, uttering harsh words, snapped Señor out of his emotional reverie. He began to ponder the torment a woman endures in hell when her love for a man turns to hatred.
[Señor, standing outside the light screen, was completely stunned. He never expected to see his deceased wife again after so many years. Although it was something that happened in the future, he was still very happy.]
Chapter 168 The Scapegoat in the Underworld
Lucian was mostly a gentle woman. She met, got to know, and fell in love with Señor in a downpour, and they also broke off their relationship in the same downpour. In the final moments of her life, she became a vegetable.
Señor took off his suit and put on baby clothes to cheer up his wife. In the final moments of Lucian's life as a vegetable, only a child could awaken the tenderness in a woman's heart and make her smile again.
Today she appeared before her lover in spirit form. Lucien showed no love on his face and flew to Señor's side, venting his anger with his fists, "Why don't you die? It's all because of your sins that we suffer."
Since a spirit cannot attack a physical object, Lucien's hands always passed through Señor's body, preventing the two from making any contact. Naturally, the man was also unable to embrace his lover.
The torment of hiding his identity from his lover for so many years turned into fragments of memories that attacked Señor's dead heart. As a man, he failed to protect his wife and children, and he lived his whole life in pain and regret.
The cadre felt that this was not a hypnotic technique used by the enemy. Lucian's voice and appearance were exactly the same as the spirit's, but the resentment she showed was even stronger than on the night they broke up. He wanted to know what the woman had gone through in hell: "Lucian, I have missed you so much all these years. What did you go through in hell that made you like this?"
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