Double-transformation: I, Sakura Haruno! Will crush the pirates!

"Okay, get out of here!"

Shiki rolled his eyes, then with a flick of his wrist, threw the piece of earth and rock from the edge of the sky island down with Sakura.

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Inside the royal palace of Alabasta.

Guina paced anxiously in the side hall, glancing at the sky from the window every now and then.

"Kuina~"

A long-skirted, blue-haired girl with guards approached and placed her hand on her shoulder. The two had met during the previous kidnapping and, because they were of similar age, had formed a friendship.

"Alright, don't worry. Isn't your captain that emperor candidate? She'll definitely return victorious!"

"But...but I..."

Kuina bit her lip and took a deep sniff.

"Oh, I think I heard someone crying?"

A crisp sound descended from the sky, and the two girls looked up at the same time, seeing Sakura slowly descending on steam.

"Sakura-neechan!"

Kuina threw herself into Sakura's arms, her shoulders trembling, tears soaking her clothes. "It's all my fault. I shouldn't have chased after them. I made Sakura fight those dangerous guys."

Sakura raised her hand, and with a domineering chop, it fell mercilessly.

Boom!

"It hurts!"

With a large, smoking bump on her head, Kuina hugged her head and leaned against the palace wall.

"Fool, I'm the one who told you to go!"

Sakura, who had pinned Kuina against the wall with one hand, looked down at her, casting a shadow that completely covered her.

"Bearing my banner, even if you turn this sea upside down, it's because I ordered you to do it, understand?!"

Hearing this domineering statement, Vivi, who was standing next to him, had stars in her eyes. "Is this what pirates are like? So cool!"

I want to do that too someday... um!

Her chief bodyguard, Ikaram, quickly shut up his crown prince, saying, "Absolutely not!"

The noisy palace attracted the attention of others, and Kobra, Tiger, Leviathan, and others also came over, making the side hall somewhat crowded.

"Have you returned safely, Ms. Sakura?"

Cobra led Vivi forward and bowed deeply to Sakura, saying, "Thank you so much for your help."

"Let's get real, I'm hungry, do you have anything to eat?"

Sakura released Kuina and turned to walk in front of the royal family.

"Haha, yes, yes, the banquet has been prepared for you!"

Cobra laughed and gestured for Sakura to proceed.

Upon hearing this, Sakura's smile immediately brightened, and she waved to her friends.

"Men, the feast is about to begin!"

Chapter 211 The Storm Unleashed by the Lion

Click, click, click!

Inside the banquet hall of the Royal Palace of Arubana, guards pushed food carts and quickly delivered food to the tables.

The girl sitting in the middle was devouring the food, and the steam rising from it was rapidly healing her wounds.

"Oh, so pirates can heal their wounds quickly by eating!"

Having heard of Sakura's name, Vivi, who was very curious about this pirate who was called an emperor candidate, widened her eyes.

"I think it's best not to use her as a benchmark."

Leviathan, who was holding a fork with its wings, turned its head and explained to Vivi beside it.

While she was distracted, the meat on her plate was sucked away by a hurricane and ended up in the mouth of a young girl.

"Sakura, Iron!"

Leviathan immediately objected and rushed forward to snatch the food from the tiger's mouth.

The struggle between the two caused dishes to fly everywhere. The guards and restaurant staff, who were used to only hosting meetings for dignitaries and politicians, had never seen pirates behave so vulgarly before. They couldn't help but chuckle and eventually burst into laughter.

"Hahaha, One Piece is so much fun! I want to be one too..."

Vivi imitated them and picked up her knife and fork.

Unfortunately, before they could even set sail, Cobra and Icarum swiftly sealed their slate with a resounding "Absolutely not!"

Sakura, amidst the noise, suddenly turned around and looked at Cobra.

"Speaking of which, King Alabasta, isn't there something you should do to fulfill your promise?"

Kobra, who had been playing with his daughter, suddenly fell silent.

He looked at Sakura with a solemn expression and nodded almost imperceptibly. "Please come with me, Your Excellency!"

With a wave of his hand dismissing those around him, Cobra personally led Sakura out of the palace's secret passage.

While Sakura was being taken to visit the royal tombs.

On the other side of the sea—Naval Headquarters, Marineford.

The long, sharp air raid siren blared throughout this massive fortress, a testament to justice.

The twilight light shone on the mottled stone bricks of the headquarters, and the shadows cast on them faltered for a moment before hurrying off to their respective posts.

Under the eaves of the headquarters building, Fleet Admiral Sengoku, standing on the balcony, had cold sweat trickling down his forehead.

He muttered hoarsely, "This is insane."

"I only know one man who can do this much."

Garp, with equally sharp eyes, stood beside him with his arms crossed.

Looking out through the gap between the two, dozens of huge naval warships were floating on the crescent-shaped harbor of the headquarters.

The shadow cast by the warships as they blocked the setting sun almost covered the entire headquarters.

"Gion!!!"

Standing on the dock, Vice Admiral Chaton Kake looked up and let out a sharp bang after seeing his beloved on the warship.

"Dor... Hina..., is that guy's comeback related to the Spider Lily in Alabasta?"

Vice Admiral Tsuru, who also entered the dock, frowned as he recognized the naval officers who had been ordered to Alabasta to carry out the mission to rescue the princess.

The soldiers running with their weapons looked up at their commander's voice and gasped in surprise from the shadows.

A pirate ship, its sails painted with a ship's wheel and a lion's head, and its entirety made up of a small island, drifted over the fortress, oars in hand.

At the top of the pirate ship, which is almost an island, stands a huge lighthouse. The searchlight rotates continuously, shining its light on the three people sitting on the edge of the lighthouse.

"Where did you go after disappearing for over ten years? Wouldn't it be better to just become a legend? Shiki!"

With his hands braced against the office railing, Sengoku roared at the sky.

"It's been over a decade, Sengoku and Garp!"

A man clad in a yellow Yakuza uniform, with flowing long hair, spread his arms in the sky, looking down at the navy on the ground like a king who rules the sky.

Inside the fortresses surrounding the main fortress, soldiers rotated the control rings of their cannons, adjusting their aim to target the golden lion in the sky and the island pirate ship behind him.

"Hmph, I can't let you lackeys disturb my time catching up with old friends!"

Shiki snorted coldly, his domineering will surging, and his terrifying aura stirred up dark thunder that resounded from the sky.

Covering everything, encompassing all.

Wherever it passed, soldiers operating guns and cannons, or officers giving orders, all collapsed to the ground like straws in the invisible impact.

Standing amidst the storm of Conqueror's Haki, Garp was horrified. "You... your Haki has recovered?"

Shiki scratched his head with a slightly smug look and laughed loudly, "Hehehehe, I met a pretty good doctor in Alabasta! I played a game with her, fought a match, and even lost an island to her."

"So it really is the Spider Lily, Sakura Haruno?"

An aged female voice interrupted their conversation as Lieutenant General Crane stepped onto the balcony of the Marshal's office with moon-like steps.

"Who knows? You can guess for yourselves!"

Shiki gave a disdainful smile. "Anyway, I'm just here to say hello. From now on, this sky is mine to rule!"

After he finished speaking, he pressed his hand down.

More than a dozen naval warships, each over 100 meters long, were captured by gravity. The soldiers on board floated up as if weightless, and then fell downwards along with the warships.

The massive warship crashed into the plaza, instantly detonating the large amount of gunpowder it carried. The blast debris and flashes injured many soldiers.

Some warships also crashed into the water, creating huge waves that crashed into the surrounding fortifications. Soldiers who couldn't escape were also swept away by the waves and fell into the sea.

"Shiki, you bastard!"

Sengoku angrily crushed the wooden armrest, but did not order the only garrison commander, Kizaru, to give chase.

After all, that's Shiki. No leader of any faction with a sound mind would want to go to war with Shiki on their own turf.

Don't ask why, just ask yourself: Have you ever been hit by a warship? Have you ever seen a massive mass of seawater weighing thousands of tons? Have you ever been run over by an island that fell from tens of thousands of meters in the sky?

"Jie hahahaha!"

With no one stopping him, Shiki swaggered away.

Two hours after the attack on Marineford, newspapers carrying the latest news were sent across the ocean by newsbirds.

People were initially curious as to why the newsbird would come out to deliver newspapers so late at night, but when they actually saw the news in the newspapers—the whole sea was in an uproar.

Amidst a flurry of wanted posters flying around the world, the older generation reminisces about the massive pirate crew that dominated the skies in the previous era, and the commander-in-chief who led those lawless individuals, the Flying Admiral, Shiki the Golden Lion!

The New World, which was already in the midst of a power struggle, became even more chaotic due to Shiki's high-profile return.

Almost no one doubts that the lion, after regaining its dominance, would choose not to return to the New World.

What's even more remarkable is that Shiki can carry several islands and fly through the air, which means that unlike other sea overlords, he doesn't need fixed islands in a specific sea area as his territory.

So the question arises: where will he go? And what will he do to this already chaotic world?

Wano Country, Whole Cake Island, Mozambique...

Legends from the old era began to rise up, bringing the new world to a fever pitch, hoping to stabilize the situation before the storm stirred up by the lions reached the new world.

The chaotic winds of the New World gradually blew beyond the Grand Line, causing Sakura, who was in the mausoleum, to sneeze.

I raised my hand and ran it over the cold inscriptions on the historical text in the tomb, observing the messages left by the rebels of the great kingdom eight hundred years ago.

The girl pondered for a moment and said, "Pluto, Hades!"

Chapter 212 Flamingos of Magic Valley Town

"Can...can you understand the writing on it?!"

Cobra, holding a torch, stared wide-eyed at Sakura in disbelief.

Although the Ohara incident ten years ago caused a large number of scholars who understood ancient scripts to flee to the sea, they all went into hiding under assumed names due to the pursuit of the World Government.

For people living at sea, the mysterious ancient script remains a red line that is prohibited by the government.

“I once studied with scholars from Ohara.”

Sakura lowered her hand and turned her head towards Cobra. "This contains the location of Pluto, one of the Ancient Weapons. It's hidden in Wano Country!"

Although he already knew that the text contained information about Hades, Cobra still breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that Hades was not in Alabasta. "That means no one will covet Alabasta anymore."

"Wrong, there are still those who covet it."

Sakura ruthlessly shattered his illusions, then told Cobra the whole story of the sand crocodile's plot.