One Piece: Kaido's adopted son, starts with the Eight Gates Formation.

"Red-haired uncle."

"Um?"

"Your 'slow motion' just now was really impressive."

The redhead opened one eye and looked at Lynn: "You saw it?"

"I watched it from beginning to end." Lynn squatted down, tilting her head to look at the redhead. "You can teach Dad later. He just blindly attacks with his Conqueror's Haki; he's too clumsy."

Redhead laughed heartily, until his wound throbbed and he hissed in pain.

"Okay. I'll teach him when we get back."

Lynn nodded, stood up, and floated back to the center of the Spirit King's Palace. The artificial core was still spinning quietly; everything was normal.

He looked at the core, then at the direction leading down to the Seireitei.

"Monk."

Hyosube Ichibei had caught up at some point and was standing to the side holding his lollipop.

"exist."

"Yohabach is gone, but he's not dead. He'll recover after he goes back, and then he might come back."

"……Yes."

"Can you keep an eye on this place?"

Hyosube Ichibei hesitated for a moment.

To be honest—no. Without the five members of the Zero Division, the Soul King Palace's defenses are practically nonexistent. Even if the entire Zero Division were here, they might not be able to stop Yhwach after his full recovery.

"If Your Majesty gives it your all, we—"

"Alright, alright, I know you guys can't do it." Lynn interrupted him, taking something out of his pocket.

An unremarkable metal disc.

"Place this next to the core. It will make a sound when someone touches the core. If it makes a sound, then you—no, you can't handle it." Lynn thought for a moment, then took out a second item—a small ball of light, similar to the one he had given Kaido before.

"Eat this. After you do, that guy won't be able to see your future."

Hyobu Ichibei took the ball of light, looked at it, and then stuffed it into his mouth without hesitation.

smell--

"Strawberry flavored?"

"Yeah. Because my hands had lollipops on them when I was doing it."

Hyosube Ichibei swallowed the ball of light and felt a warm energy spreading through his body.

"Even though you can't beat him," Lynn continued, "if you can hold him off for ten minutes, the alarm will alert me. I'll be back within ten minutes."

"Ten minutes? You can sense it in other worlds too?"

"I can." Lynn said no more and drifted toward the direction of the God-Slaying Island.

Hyosube Ichibei watched his departing figure, then looked down at the metal disc in his hand and the lingering warmth of the orb of light he had just ingested. Suddenly, something occurred to him.

This little devil seems to care about nothing and treats everything as a game.

But he left a way out for each of his men.

Kaido has a light orb. Shanks has a light orb. Now Hyosube Ichibei has one too.

"...What kind of person is he anyway?" Hyosube Ichibei muttered, gripping the alarm tightly, and walked towards the artificial core to begin his guard duty.

On the island of slaying gods—

When Lynn returned to his throne, Kaido had already returned from the Abyss and was sitting on the edge of the island gnawing on a bone.

"What about Aizen?" Whitebeard asked.

Lynn thought for a moment.

"Let him out."

All the Grim Reapers' expressions changed.

"Young Master! This is absolutely unacceptable!"

Yamamoto was the first to object. Although his Ryujin Jakka was now broken in two and his fighting power was much weaker than before, his voice was still loud and powerful.

"Aizen is treacherous, cunning, and deeply scheming! Once he escapes, he will surely—"

"Definitely what?" Kaido gnawed on a bone, glancing sideways at Yamamoto. "Rebellion? Rebellion in front of the young master? You think he has the guts?"

Yamamoto choked.

Kyoraku adjusted his straw hat, smiled wryly, and said, "What Lord Kaido said isn't entirely unreasonable... Aizen is indeed a smart man. A smart man wouldn't do anything foolish in the face of absolute power."

"But he'll do other stupid things," Byakuya Kuchiki added coldly, "like secretly plotting something and then launching it after you've left this world."

"What does that have to do with me?" Lynn sucked on his new lollipop—his lollipop stock seemed limitless. "I don't live in this world anyway."