One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

"What is that?" Perospero exclaimed in fright.

At that moment, Katakuri stirred.

He raised his long right leg high and stomped it on the ground in front of him with lightning speed.

"Splash!"

The earth beneath his feet rolled forward like ocean waves, turning into white waves that piled up and converged into a towering wall of glutinous waves, blocking and enveloping the massive black sphere that was shooting towards him.

next moment.

"Boom!"

The enormous black sphere, more than ten meters in diameter, exploded with a deafening roar, blasting the white glutinous rice ball that enveloped it into pieces, scattering the debris in all directions like rain, and creating a huge mushroom cloud in mid-air.

The ground beneath the explosion was blasted into a huge crater tens of meters deep.

The explosion was so powerful that it shattered the candy walls built by Perospero, sending hundreds of pirates flying, screaming and coughing up blood.

Even Perospero was swept away by the shockwave of the explosion, spitting out a mouthful of blood, staring ahead in horror.

"That thing was a cannonball? Are you kidding me? How could it be that big... Wait! It's you! Bondiwald!"

Perospero's eyes widened in horror as he saw a middle-aged man with a large beard casually push aside the pirates blocking his way, step out of the crowd, and stand nonchalantly in the open space in the middle, looking this way.

At the same time, there were more than a dozen wild and powerful pirates following behind him.

"Hahaha, I thought the news about the gold mine was fake. I never expected that there would actually be a gold mine in this godforsaken place."

Tikki, heavily made up, reached out and pulled a pirate carrying a gold nugget towards her. She casually tossed out a large cloud of black mist, which swallowed the terrified pirate. Then she held the millstone-sized gold nugget in her hand and admired it.

The mirror-like surface of the gold nugget reflected her face, which appeared much softer than before, but was still rugged.

"No, I really want that fruit. Sigh, as expected, after losing my brother, I can't have both power and beauty."

Tikki sighed inwardly, glancing up at Wald, who had drawn a flintlock pistol from his waist. "I don't see Baines and the others. What happened? Did Dylan kill them? Or were they captured or killed by Katakuri because of the gold mine on this island? Wait..."

As Titchie spoke, she suddenly pointed to a broken knife held by a Gifter not far from Perospero's side, "The knife that guy is holding looks like Gary's Sharp Blade, Poison Sting."

Wald narrowed his eyes, his face growing increasingly grim. "It seems you were right, those two idiots are indeed in grave danger."

"Then what about us?" Tiki tilted her head and looked at the tall Katakuri.

“We’re determined to get the gold mine. Only by controlling this wealth can we recruit soldiers and build up our power in the New World and surpass that guy Barrett.”

As Wald spoke, his burly body transformed into a shattered phantom, instantly traversing a hundred meters to leap behind Perospero. His right fist, covered in jet-black Armament Haki, slammed into the back of Perospero's head.

He moved extremely fast, his movements were a hundred times faster than the speed of the Momo-Momo Fruit, so fast that it was like teleportation.

But there was someone who was faster than him.

Or rather, his actions were anticipated and countered long before Wald was about to make a move against Perospero.

A gigantic arm covered in jet-black spikes shattered the atmosphere, unleashing bolts of black and red lightning that appeared before Wald, crashing down on his outstretched fist like a mountain.

Wald's heart skipped a beat. He had already experienced Katakuri's prowess in their previous encounters. Without hesitation, he flashed away from Perospero and fired a shot.

"100x shotgun shells!"

"Oh!"

With a deafening roar, like a thunderclap, the flintlock pistol in his hand spewed forth ordinary iron pellets, which, after leaving the muzzle, transformed into a rain of iron bullets that lashed out at Katakuri, Perospero, and the others.

Katakuri had anticipated his drawing of the gun, and with a wave of his hand, a massive, jet-black shield, as hard as steel, blocked all the iron sand that was being thrown at him.

"Tiki! Control him! Today I'm going to strip him of his powers and make that fat, dead Charlotte Linlin childless!"

Seeing that his attacks were repeatedly and easily blocked by Katakuri, Wald lost face. He roared and pulled out a handful of iron bullets from the bag at his waist, scattering them at the pirates next to Perospero.

The finger-sized iron bullets that flew from his hand transformed into countless whistling black streaks, flying out at an unpredictable supersonic speed. At the same time, the volume of each iron bullet was magnified a hundred times, becoming like pitch-black cannonballs, whistling as they shot into the densely populated area.

In an instant, the crackling sounds of bones breaking, tendons snapping, and flesh pulverizing rang out from all directions, as dense as popping beans.

Amidst the massive bloodbath, the painful screams and terrified cries of the pirates echoed.

Katakuri's eyes were cold and sharp as he prepared to kill Wald to avenge Snark.

Tikki laughed and opened her arms wide towards him from afar.

"Hehehe, Katakuri, your abilities are quite impressive, I'll take you on!"

"Dark water!"

Chapter 741 The Tremor-Tremor Fruit?

As the pitch-black aura rapidly emerged from Titch's outstretched palms, a massive suction force, as large as a black hole, was created out of thin air between his hands.

And tiny black lines, as fine as hair, extended out in mid-air, connecting to Katakuri's tall body like smoke and mist.

Instantly, Katakuri felt a terrifying suction force acting on him.

His body felt as if it were being grabbed by countless invisible giant hands and dragged toward where Teach was.

"Peerless Rice Cake Blade Bullet!"

Katakuri, his expression cold and composed, tossed out clumps of snow-white mochi balls in the direction from which the suction force originated. These balls spun in mid-air, transforming into gear-like rice cakes, their edges bristling with countless black spikes that sliced ​​through the air with piercing shrieks as they shot towards Teach.

Furthermore, due to the immense suction force released by Tiki, the speed of the mochi blade bullets increased dramatically once again, like streaks of arrows.

"I knew it wouldn't be that easy to deal with you, Charlotte family's greatest masterpiece."

Tiki snorted coldly, showing no intention of dodging, letting countless mochi blades pelt her body.

The suction force erupting from his palm grew stronger and stronger. Even Katakuri couldn't resist it and was pulled into the air, flying towards him.

Katakuri's eyes narrowed as he saw that the mochi blades he had fired pierced through Teach's body and disappeared the instant they hit her.

This penetration wasn't the kind of penetration effect you get from natural elemental attacks; it was more like an attack that hit Teach but was absorbed by him and entered another space.

His body was covered by a layer of pitch-black mist at some point. The blades that hit the mist were swallowed up, as if they had entered a black hole and disappeared completely without causing the slightest ripple.

Seeing this, Katakuri frowned slightly.

As a natural-type ability user capable of elemental transformation, he was not without combat experience.

He had faced off against Aokiji in the G1 naval battle.

Even someone as strong as Aokiji would at least have some ice shards burst out of his body when hit by his attack, instead of appearing completely unharmed like Teach.

This is not normal.

In previous encounters, he had already had brief exchanges with Teach, but he had never seen her display such an ability to absorb damage.

Has this guy been hiding his true strength all along, or has he made a new breakthrough in developing his abilities?

Katakuri didn't think about it in detail.

Whether Tichi is strong or not doesn't matter.

Because, no matter how strong he is, he will never be my match!

"Conqueror's Haki Enveloping!"

Katakuri's eyes narrowed, and his right arm, which was even longer than Teach's, bent at the elbow, from which jet-black spikes suddenly emerged. At the same time, bundles of black and red Conqueror's Haki lightning, exuding a terrifying aura, wrapped around it. He swung his hand and smashed it towards Teach's rapidly approaching forehead.

"Chop the rice cake!"

"Boom!"

The air between the two seemed to have been detonated by a massive amount of explosives, creating a chaotic shockwave that made it difficult for Teach to open her eyes. The hat on her head was blown off and torn apart by the splashing black and red lightning.

"Wald!"

A strong sense of dread flashed deep in Tiki's eyes. She roared and, instead of retreating, advanced, thrusting her hands, which were emitting a lot of black energy, forward. Ignoring the danger of her palms being pierced by the black spikes protruding from Katakuri's arm, she fiercely grabbed his right arm as it swung at her.

As Katakuri's arms were touched by his hands, a strange suppressive force that Katakuri could not resist caused his Mochi Mochi Fruit ability to malfunction and disappear instantly.

His swollen and enlarged right arm, along with the jet-black spikes sprouting from its surface, were all manifestations of the Mochi Mochi Fruit's power, and thus vanished instantly.

However, the imposing aura covering his tall frame and the terrifying physical talent he inherited from Charlotte Linlin remained undiminished.

Tikki heard two crisp cracking sounds, and the next moment he was overwhelmed by the excruciating pain in his wrists, letting out a scream.

As Katakuri's right arm swung down, the hands that reached out to grab Katakuri's right arm were blasted and broken by the opponent's terrifying, crushing force. Skin and muscles were torn apart, and even white bone fragments protruded from the broken wounds, a sight that made one's scalp tingle.

Katakuri, who had injured Teach with a single blow, was also punched in the right side of his abdomen by Wald, who arrived just in time.

"Momo 100x Speed! Armored Giant Cannon!"

With the speed amplified a hundredfold, Wald's punch reached a terrifying speed of more than ten times the speed of sound. With a single punch, the air in front of his fist twisted and spiraled outwards, forming a cone-shaped air shock wave that, like a drill, slammed into Katakuri's ribs.

The terrifying power caused Katakuri's nearly six-meter-tall body to arch to the left, flying past Teach and smashing into the syrup wall created by Perospero using his Lick-Lick Fruit ability. He was thrown hundreds of meters away before using his Mochi Mochi Fruit ability, which had returned after being freed from Teach's touch, to turn the ground into mochi and grow long, sticky tentacles that grabbed his body and brought him to a stop.

Katakuri landed on the ground, glanced down at his ribs, and saw a clear, dented fist-shaped mark. The skin and muscles around the mark were torn, oozing copious amounts of blood. Two ribs were broken, and a sharp pain shot through him, but Katakuri remained expressionless.

He raised his right foot high and stomped it heavily on the ground in front of him.

"Awakening! The Glutinous Rice Domain!"

"Splash!"

The ground beneath his feet was instantly transformed into a sticky, mochi-like mass by the awakened power of the Mochi Mochi Fruit. With each step he took, the ground rippled and surged towards everyone outside the Charlotte family.

The land within a radius of several hundred meters was affected by Katakuri's power, turning into surging waves of mochi.

Pirates who were plundering gold atop the town ruins and on the outskirts of the forest were immediately horrified to see their feet stuck to the sticky, sticky waves, which pulled them forward, tumbling them along with them.

As the waves surged, the pirates were like flies stuck on a flypaper, unable to escape from the white, glutinous waves. They were swallowed up by the rolling waves, as if they were sinking into the depths of a swamp.

Only a very few powerful pirates can react in time and use their strong jumping ability to dodge the abnormal ground beneath their feet.

"Hahaha, to be able to develop a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit to the level comparable to a Logia-type Devil Fruit, you truly deserve to be the most outstanding son born to that fat woman Charlotte Linlin."

Facing the white, glutinous waves surging towards her like a tsunami, Tiki grinned and even had time to turn to look at Perospero, who had already retreated to the side of the mine with his men. She mocked him without any politeness, "Unlike this piece of trash, he is clearly Charlotte Linlin's eldest son, but he is a complete waste. He has no brains and no strength. He can't even get the position of a general."

"Damn Blackbeard!" Perospero's face flushed red as he glared angrily at Blackbeard and said hatefully, "Just you wait, Kaido is coming soon. Let's see how you're going to run away with your tail between your legs."

Tikki scoffed and ignored him. Black energy gushed from her hands like a fountain, enveloping her severed hand with splinters of bone protruding from it.

As the veins on his face bulged and he let out a few groans, the black aura that had enveloped his severed hands dissipated, and his hands miraculously returned to normal, as if they had never been attacked by Katakuri.

Wald, being somewhat sensible, didn't dodge but instead stood in front of him, firing a crude cannon at the oncoming white glutinous waves. With the amplification and speed boost of the Momo Fruit multiplied a hundredfold, even the most ordinary cannonball could unleash a terrifying explosion comparable to a meteorite, shattering the surging glutinous waves into a pulverized mess.

"let me!"

Tikky wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, grinned, bent down, and slammed her hands onto the ground beneath her.