Uchiha Puppet Master, Starting from One Piece.

The gray mist suddenly became active, as if it had a life of its own, and rushed towards the crowd.

The fog spread at an astonishing speed, covering the entire street almost in the blink of an eye.

The muscular gorilla at the forefront was the first to be enveloped by the fog.

"What the hell is this thing?!"

He roared and swung his huge gorilla arm at the mist, trying to disperse it.

But his arm pierced through the fog and hit nothing.

The fog was like an ethereal phantom, visible but intangible.

But it is not an illusion.

Because it began to coalesce on his arm.

Gray dust clung to his gorilla arm, covering every hair and every pore.

He began to lose feeling in his arm.

"No, this is!"

His eyes widened suddenly, and he tried to pull his arm back, but it was too late.

Dust spread upwards along his arm, like a gray venomous snake crawling along his veins and nerves.

Arms, shoulders, chest, neck, face.

In less than three seconds, his entire body was covered in gray dust.

His body froze, frozen in a fist-pumping pose, like a statue.

His eyes were still moving, his pupils filled with fear.

But he couldn't speak, couldn't move, and even breathing became difficult.

"The first one."

Rangiku's voice came from the mist, carrying a hint of languor.

The woman with cheetah legs saw the burly man's miserable state, her pupils contracted sharply, and her speed instantly increased to the limit.

Her legs were running wildly across the ground, as fast as lightning, leaving a long trail of afterimages behind her.

She wanted to break free from the fog.

She is indeed very fast.

She was so fast that even the fog couldn't catch up with her.

She broke free from the fog and rushed to the end of the street, about to turn into another street.

But she didn't go in.

Because a hand reached out from the mist and grabbed her ankle.

That hand was very fair and slender, and looked completely weak.

But it was this hand that made her body suddenly stop.

The momentum propelled her upper body forward, but her ankle was grabbed, causing her to lose her balance and fall heavily to the ground.

Land face first.

Her face was rubbed against the ground for three or four meters, her skin was worn away, revealing the muscles and bones underneath, and blood flowed from her face, staining the ground red.

"You run pretty fast."

Rangiku's voice came from behind her, tinged with a hint of laughter.

"However, you can't escape."

The woman with the cheetah legs tried to struggle and get up from the ground, but the hand was incredibly strong, like an iron clamp, gripping her ankle tightly and rendering her immobile.

A gray mist spread from Rangiku's direction and enveloped her.

Dust covered her legs, her waist, her chest, and her neck.

Her body froze.

"The second one."

Rangiku's voice remained languid, as if she were counting.

The man with the rhinoceros head stopped in his tracks.

He didn't stop because he was afraid.

It was because his intuition told him that if he rushed forward, he would only be heading towards death.

The enormous horn on his rhinoceros head began to glow, with green light gathering at its tip, like a green star.

That's his ability.

Rhinoceros fruit, ancient species, morphology of the plate-toothed rhinoceros.

His horn can emit a special energy wave that can destroy all organic matter, whether it is flesh, trees or cloth. Once hit by the energy wave, it will turn to ashes in an instant.

"go to hell!"

He roared, and the green light at the tip of his horn suddenly burst forth, sending a green energy wave shooting out from the tip and blasting into the mist.

The energy wave had a diameter of over one meter and an astonishing speed, blasting into the fog almost instantly upon being emitted.

boom!

The energy wave struck a house in the middle of the street, instantly reducing it to ashes without leaving a single fragment, as if it had vanished from the face of the earth.

Dust and smoke filled the air, obscuring the view.

The man with the rhinoceros head was panting heavily, his eyes fixed on the direction shrouded in mist.

"do you died?"

He murmured to himself, a hint of anticipation in his voice.

But the next second, his expectations were shattered.

Because that languid voice came again from the mist.

"Oh dear, that's dangerous!"

Rangiku emerged from the mist, completely clean, without a speck of dust on her.

She still had a smile on her face, but a hint of coldness finally appeared in her eyes.

"I almost got hit."

She looked at the man with the rhinoceros head and tilted her head.

"However, it seems your ability requires charging up, doesn't it?"

The rhinoceros-headed man's pupils suddenly contracted.

"You held your breath for about... two seconds?"

Rangiku's smile deepened.

"Two seconds is too long in combat."

As soon as she finished speaking, her body disappeared.

No, it didn't disappear.

It's so fast that the naked eye can't keep up.

The rhinoceros-headed man didn't even see her move before he felt something bump into his chest.

He looked down.

A fair hand pressed against his chest.

There was no dust on his palms, no Armament Haki, and he looked as ordinary as could be.

But it was this very hand that caused a dent in his chest.

Click.

The sound of breaking ribs came from his chest, like a withered branch being snapped.

His body flew out like a cannonball, crashing through three houses before finally being buried in the ruins.

"The third one."

Rangiku shook her hand, turned around, and looked at the ordinary members shrouded in mist.

More than three hundred people were shrouded in gray fog.

Some of them stood, some lay down, some froze while running, and some maintained an attacking posture.

More than 300 sculptures filled the entire street, making it look like a giant wax museum.

Rangiku looked at them and sighed.

"Seriously, over three hundred people, how long will it take to clean them up?"

She raised her Zanpakuto, and the dust on the blade began to condense, like a gray ribbon floating in the air.

"Grey Cat · Group of Cats".

As soon as he finished speaking, the gray ribbon suddenly exploded, turning into hundreds of gray cats.

The cats varied in size; some were as big as tigers, while others were as small as mice.

They run through the air, leap across the ground, and climb walls.

They rushed towards the sculptures, scratching with their claws, biting with their teeth, and ramming them with their bodies.

Every time a cat touches a sculpture, that sculpture falls down, like a statue being toppled.

With each bite and collision, the toxin seeped into the weak points of the Armament Haki defenses, and in less than a minute, all three hundred sculptures collapsed to the ground.

They are not dead.

But they were practically dead.

Because their bodies have been exposed to dust for so long, their muscles and nerves have suffered irreversible damage, and even if the dust settles, they will find it difficult to stand up again.