One Piece: Trainers on the Straw Hat Pirates

He had already gone to such lengths, yet the twenty royal families still refused to let him go, refused to relinquish this hard-won peace.

To be precise, it is Im, who has not achieved his own desires, who is unwilling to let go of all of this.

On the eve of the power transfer, Im secretly met with the other nineteen kings, intending to use the power of Seastone to kill Joy Boy, a man with power that none of them could resist, during the power transfer.

Seeing that the greatest power in the world was about to fall into their hands, the other twenty kings naturally did not want there to be anyone more suitable to be the ruler than themselves, so they readily agreed to Im's plan.

All of this made Lily of the Nefertari clan fully realize the true colors of the Twenty Kings!

She never imagined that a pure-blooded human, unrelated to the Moon's bloodline, would possess the darkest heart in the world.

For a moment, she couldn't tell who the real demon of this world was.

It was precisely because of this that the seeds of rebellion began to be sown in Lily's heart.

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After Joy Boy had explained everything about the Great Kingdom, and with all the people of the Great Kingdom as witnesses, he peacefully handed over power to the Twenty Kings.

On the same day, Im also proposed the idea of ​​transferring the sun crystal to Joyboy.

At this point, Joy Boy, who was already somewhat disheartened, had few other ideas, and he saw no need to leave the sun crystal behind, so he readily agreed.

At Im's suggestion, the handover of the sun crystal did not involve many people.

It was still him and Lily who, as representatives of the Twenty Kings, went to complete the handover with Joy Boy.

The other eighteen clans among the twenty kings did not object to this.

In fact, they had no interest in the so-called Sun Crystal, since they already knew that the Sun Crystal could only be used by those with the bloodline of the moon.

The powerful solar crystals were nothing more than pretty decorations in their hands.

And so, Im and Lily, along with Joy Boy, arrived at the place where the Sun Crystals were stored, and with Joy Boy's initiative, they obtained the Sun Crystals.

Because Lily possesses the blood of the crescent moon, she was worried that her bloodline would cause abnormalities in the sun crystal, so she did not come into contact with the sun crystal immediately.

Instead, they gave this opportunity to Im, who was a pure-blooded human.

What she and Joy Boy never expected was...

When Im touched the Sun Crystal, the artifact, which shouldn't have reacted at all, suddenly burst forth with an unprecedented burst of pitch-black light!

The scheming of Narona's ancestors, which had been going on for countless years, finally began to unfold at this moment.

Meanwhile, Im, amidst bursts of unrestrained, maniacal laughter, allowed the dark energy to engulf him.

The world's only true demon has been born!

Chapter 537 Traveling Through Time

Faced with Im's sudden attack, Joy Boy and Queen Lily were quite alarmed.

They never expected that Im would be qualified to use the Sun Crystal, and even directly apply the power of the Sun Crystal to himself!

The power of will within the sun crystal possesses omnipotent strength; with enough imagination, anything can be accomplished.

However... there are limits to human imagination in a single moment.

However, this limit, coupled with the amount of energy inside the solar crystal, becomes a variable, making the use of the solar crystal for human purposes an extremely dangerous act.

Even the Lunaria race, who had possessed the Sun Crystal for countless years, rarely had such a precedent for using the Sun Crystal.

This was no secret to those at the top of the world, and Im certainly knew it too.

However, the moment he came into contact with the sun crystal, he still applied the power directly to himself without any preparation.

Joy Boy and Queen Lily cannot comprehend Im's madness.

But at that moment, perhaps because his long-cherished ambition had finally come true, Im couldn't wait even a moment longer and used the Sun Crystal right in front of Joy Boy and Queen Lily, causing himself to begin evolving.

This is Im, a seemingly high-ranking and strategic man who is actually an arrogant, greedy, and treacherous villain!

Even Im himself probably didn't realize that his fear of Joy Boy's power led him to make such an unwise move the moment he touched the Sun Crystal.

This also became the fatal mistake that caused him to fall short of perfection when he was only one step away from achieving it!

Dark energy formed a massive cocoon, completely enveloping Im's body and reshaping it.

In that instant, Im's hands involuntarily opened, and the sun crystal fell to the ground.

The evolution process didn't take long, only a little over a minute.

What Im didn't expect was...

When he was reborn from the cocoon of evolution as a demon, there was no trace of Joy Boy and Queen Lily in the entire vast kingdom!

That's right!

The moment the Sun Crystal hit the ground, Queen Lily, realizing something was wrong, snatched it away and used its power to teleport him and Joy Boy directly out of the vast kingdom that was now under the control of the Twenty Kings' army.

Everything happened so suddenly that even Queen Lily couldn't figure out what was going on.

But she knew that everyone had been deceived!

Deceived by Im, a pure-blooded human king whose lineage is documented and the current patriarch of the Nerona family!

At this moment, Queen Lily felt as innocent as a child, with the incredibly strong Joy Boy in front of her and the scheming Im behind her...

She and the other eighteen kings were sandwiched between the two and toyed with like toys.

After taking a deep breath, and seeing Joy Boy who was equally bewildered, Queen Lily finally made a decision that went against her own principles.

She was preparing to defect and join Joy Boy's camp.

However, this does not represent her Nefertari family, but only her personally.

The tyrannical aura released when Im evolved was definitely not that of a benevolent king who cared for the world.

She realized that things were starting to develop in an unpredictable direction.

The world may very well fall into the hands of Im alone, due to the greed of the Twenty Kings and the concessions of Joy Boy.

Joy Boy and Queen Lily hit it off immediately.

Although they didn't know what Im was plotting, they knew they absolutely couldn't let Im become the ruler of this world.

Otherwise, the world would surely descend into chaos and suffering.

And so, this era, which seemed to be cursed by fate, was once again plunged into war!

At Joy Boy's call, the samurai of Wano Country, the fish-men army of Ryugu Kingdom, the Sulong team of the Mink Tribe, and even the Moon People who have not yet been exterminated, all gathered together to launch another war against the huge kingdom that had usurped their territory.

Meanwhile, Im, who had obtained demonic power from the Sun Crystal, began to reveal his true face to the remaining eighteen kings.

Although he didn't know why Joy Boy and Queen Lily suddenly disappeared after he evolved, Im thought it was very likely a backup plan left by Joy Boy.

But none of that matters anymore!

He had almost completely exhausted the energy contained in the sun crystal, leaving only a small amount of residual energy that was not enough to cause any trouble.

In Joy Boy's eyes, possessing demonic power made him the strongest being in the world.

He felt incredibly strong now, and even Joey Bo, whom he once looked up to, would never be his match.

With this power and arrogance, Im made a deal with the remaining eighteen kings...

He allowed the remaining eighteen royal families to exist in this world in the name of "gods" and to establish an organization to rule this world, which later became the "World Government".

In order to prove his promise to the eighteen kings, Im deliberately annihilated everyone in the Nerona clan except for himself!

In this world, one person who can manipulate the sun's crystals is enough!

Im never intended for anyone else with the blood of Nerona to continue living, so they could be used to make trade with other kings.

None of the twenty kings who could become kings were easy to deal with.

Gaining their support would only allow Im to rule the world even faster.

Seeing that Im not only possessed powerful and terrifying abilities, but also personally destroyed the Nerona family, the remaining eighteen kings had no choice but to submit to Im.

Thus, a colossal organization that ruled the world for over eight hundred years—the World Government—was born!

Meanwhile, Joy Boy's assembled forces once again attacked the Great Kingdom.

A war between freedom and domination has once again raged throughout the vast kingdom.

What Im didn't expect was...

Even though he had already gained supreme demonic power under the transformation of the power of will, he was still at a disadvantage when facing Joy Boy's power of freedom!

Perhaps it was because the desire to pray for the sun god's descent was so immense in that dark era that the power of this Devil Fruit, which embodies the sun god's will, far surpasses that of other Devil Fruits.

With Joy Boy's seemingly divinely ordained power, even Im, who stole the Sun Crystal, was no match for Joy Boy.

However, compared to Im's side, the Twenty Kings' army defeated Joy Boy's legion with overwhelming strength.

After obtaining the [Power of Immortality] from Im, the already powerful kings became even more invincible on the battlefield.

From this moment on, the balance of the battle began to tilt.

Although Joy Boy is more powerful than Im, he is still far from being able to restrain Im while simultaneously dealing with the Eighteen Kings.

In the end, Joy Boy and his friends were defeated by Im, who possessed mysterious powers.

But they didn't leave immediately!

Joy Boy and a group of companions hid in the Great Kingdom.

The Poneglyphs that Joy Boy had previously commissioned Wano Country to carve were still in the royal palace of the Great Kingdom.

In Joy Boy's view, that was the only chance to reveal the truth to the world, so he had to take all those historical texts with him!

For this reason, Joy Boy specially borrowed a special helper from his friend—Toki Amatsuki, the only daughter of the Amatsuki family from Wano Country!

At the same time, he is also a special ability user who ate the Time Fruit!

The Historic Stones were so enormous and difficult to move that Joy Boy never intended to take them directly with him from the beginning.

Instead, they wanted Tenzuki Toki, the user of the Time-Time Fruit, to help send all these historical texts to the future!

The power of the Time-Time Fruit not only allows people or objects to travel through time and space, but also enables spatial movement to a certain extent.

Although it's unclear whether this spatial teleportation is due to the randomness of Devil Fruit abilities, or whether it's caused by planetary rotation resulting in the "displacement" we perceive after traversing time and space...

In short, this is exactly the result Joy Boyle wanted to see.