One Piece: Starting with Breathing Techniques

Chapter 152 Sinking!

Despite the gasps and threats from the crowd, Kiro remained unmoved, silently holding up the Dragon Slayer sword.

Someone with sharp eyes noticed something amiss: "Wait, he looks like Kiro!!"

"That swordsman who stormed Mary Geoise!"

Even the most powerful pirates were sweating profusely, and the sense of crisis that inexplicably terrified them had not subsided at all, but instead became even stronger.

"Wait, what do you think you're doing?!"

A faction leader on Beehive Island shouted, "We can talk, calm down!"

Verso, who hadn't run far, also saw Kilo high in the sky, and his expression suddenly changed drastically.

Is he going to blow up the island?!

As Sitch's subordinate, he knew that the enemy possessed a massive amount of kinetic rocks, powerful enough to sink the entire Beehive Island.

But right now, everyone is enveloped in a terrifying sense of threat—

His eyes widened in horror as he stared intently at the deep crater below Kilo, and with all his might, he roared, "It's right there!"

"He's going to detonate the Dynamic Rock and sink Beehive Island!"

The entire place fell silent; everyone's breath caught in their throats, and their eyes were fixed on the filled-in crater beneath Kilo.

"What!??"

Some quick-thinking individuals rushed towards the deep pit below Kilo to try and stop it, while many others ran in the opposite direction with expressions of terror on their faces.

Looking at the pirates displaying all sorts of behaviors, Kiro smiled and glanced at Verso, who looked as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

"You guessed right, but—"

"It's too late!"

His right hand blurred for a moment, then he slashed vertically with the Dragon Slayer sword, and a silvery-white, ethereal sword aura suddenly detached from the blade and rushed downwards.

Amidst the horrified gazes of everyone, the sword energy landed precisely in the deep pit.

Almost in the blink of an eye, a blinding red light burst forth from the deep pit left by the sword energy.

An immense and destructive energy is rapidly churning and brewing below.

The crimson light shone on everyone's faces, whether they were filled with resentment or fear, but no matter how turbulent their emotions were, it was ultimately too late.

Kilo dared not be negligent in the slightest; a gust of wind swirled around him, and he instantly rose into the sky.

The next moment————

The world suddenly froze, and a tremendous force, moving at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye, rushed into Kilo's senses—

"BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!"

"—BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!"

Kiro's keen hearing became a weakness at this moment. In just a split second, terrifying sound waves, powerful enough to shatter an ordinary person, shook his senses until they malfunctioned and his perception of the world collapsed and shattered, leaving only a blinding bright white.

Fortunately, Kiro's deep-seated fighting instincts allowed him to instantly invoke the Life Return to give him powerful control over his body, forcibly blocking out all five senses and covering every corner of his body with Armament Haki without hesitation.

Although Kilo was prepared and had moved away from the core of the explosion, his skin, which was exposed to the aftershocks, was still breaking down and dying. Even his well-trained muscles gradually died before the explosion, turning charred black.

Kilo gritted his teeth and used all his strength to activate Life Return, activating all the stored energy in his body to recover from his injuries.

Even with all that Kilo had done, the damage from the aftershocks of the explosion was barely offset, and the situation remained deadlocked for the time being.

A moment later, Kiro sensed the terrifying explosion, which contained pure destruction, gradually dissipating before slowly removing his defenses.

As his five senses returned, and he saw everything clearly before him, even though he was somewhat prepared, he couldn't help but shrink his pupils and gasp.

I was thousands of meters in the air, surrounded by endless billowing smoke.

With his superhuman eyesight, Kilo was able to barely make out the scene below—

The area on Beehive Island where the dynamic rocks were originally buried has been transformed into a bottomless pit, resembling a ferocious beast ready to devour its prey.

The hollow crater is several kilometers in diameter, encompassing most of the central area of ​​the entire Beehive Island. Red liquid rocks can still be faintly seen at the edge, gradually crystallizing under the extreme heat.

In addition, a low humming sound resounded throughout the heavens and earth, like a dying beast uttering its final lament to the world before its death.

Kiro looked down in astonishment and saw that Beehive Island, which had originally covered hundreds of miles of sea and was known as the "pirate paradise," was now slowly disintegrating and falling into the sea.

That buzzing sound was the rumble produced by the movement of tectonic plates after the disintegration of Beehive Island.

Looking around, aside from the epicenter of the explosion, Kiro could still clearly see countless pirates lying on the ground in agony, completely powerless to resist the natural disaster of the island's sinking.

Even if someone managed to board a pirate ship and try to escape, they could not escape the gravitational pull of the sinking island and were reduced to fragments in the surging currents.

Seeing this scene, Kiro felt no emotion whatsoever.

He had already made up his mind before taking action that he would not have any pity for these pirates.

Meanwhile, a series of panel prompts kept flashing through his mind.

[5 million-bounty pirates have been killed, +3 points]

[Two pirates with bounties of tens of millions have been killed, +8 points]

[Two pirates with bounties of tens of millions have been killed, +6 points]

On the panel, the points column was jumping up at an alarming rate, showing no signs of stopping.

Kilo controlled the wind and flew several miles into the air, silently watching the gradually sinking Beehive Island.

The piercing wails gradually subsided, and moments later, even the last piece of land sank into the endless ocean.

The notification sound in my mind was also coming to an end.

The final number was a staggering figure—

[Points: 1550]

Although the points Kiro received were reduced due to his strength, the pirates on the entire Beehive Island still brought him a substantial amount of points.

"1550 points —"

Kilo sighed contentedly, put away the panel, and silently looked down at the surging sea filled with wreckage and ruins. Suddenly, his expression changed.

The side effects of overusing Life Return suddenly became apparent at this moment.

Kiro felt a hunger rising from his very soul, his stomach churning, conveying the strongest urge to eat he had ever experienced in his life.

His expression changed, and he hurriedly flew towards the small boat he had just moved to.

A moment later, he slowly landed on the small boat, took out several portions of specially prepared highly compressed dry rations from his backpack, and began to wolf them down without caring about his table manners.

For a normal person, this amount of food would probably take a week to finish.

However, in the face of Kilo, who had mastered the power of life return, these high-calorie foods were absorbed and digested the moment they entered the stomach, purified into the purest energy, and flowed into the body that was extremely lacking in energy.

After a moment, he breathed a sigh of relief and patted his abdomen with satisfaction.

In front of him, highly compressed food packaging bags were scattered all over the ground.

"call"

"I'm finally alive!"