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

"Hey, hey, hey, what is this?!"

Ace stared at the overwhelming military force, his mouth agape.

"The ship that was brought to life by the soul couldn't sail ashore, so they switched to air force...?"

The icy mist she exhaled rose upwards as Sakura stared intently at the sky. "Looks like there are some experts among the Beasts and Big Mom!"

"At this point, don't praise the enemy. Should we retreat or fight?"

Ace had already drawn his sword, its blade radiating intense Armament Haki. With his other free hand, he lifted Tama, awaiting Sakura's decision.

"Retreat? Who do you think I am? Come closer!"

Sakura smiled slightly, and dark lightning of Conqueror's Haki surged around her.

Ace was about to turn around and give instructions to the boatman, but the boatman had already fainted the moment the overwhelming army appeared in front of him.

"Tsk!"

The freckled boy with black hair clicked his tongue in surprise and could only temporarily tie Xiaoyu to his back with a rope before going forward to steer and row.

In the center of the river, the clump of sewage slime was still churning and approaching Sakura's ferry at an extremely high speed.

Just as the enormous monster was about to collide with the small boat, an extremely chilling cold air spread out from the girl's toes.

When the heat in a natural system is stripped away, the resulting violent temperature change causes the sewage slime to explode. The splashes are suspended in mid-air and turn pure white before they can cause secondary damage.

A torrent of frost erupted forth, unleashing a devastating natural disaster at an astonishing speed, transforming a corner of Summer Island's Udon into a snow-covered wonderland.

——Low Temperature Mode: Snow-Covered Body!

As if draped in a frosty white robe, Sakura gently raised her finger and beckoned to the countless metallic Homies, extending an invitation to the Soul Queen who was observing the conflict from within their souls.

"Come!"

Inside the castle, Charlotte Linlin, who witnessed everything, also unleashed her Conqueror's Haki.

She suddenly stood up, ignoring the food and drinks spilled on the kimono she had just changed into, and called out to her Homie.

"Prometheus!!!"

A massive, fiery star, seemingly bursting into flames, descended from the sky, its destructive firelight coiling menacingly around it, while a savage smile appeared at its center.

"Yes, Mom!"

"Go and burn her to death!"

Provoked, Charlotte Linlin infused the harvested souls into it and roared.

"Yes, Mom!"

The sun rose above the Flower Capital Sky Hunting Pavilion, gradually expanding. Then, countless flames ripped through the sky and roared toward the Rabbit Bowl.

Chapter 349 The General has arrived, and Wano Country will be at peace!

"Achoo! Komachise, lend me your tail to cover yourself~"

On the snow-covered riverbed, a young girl sneezed and instinctively huddled her head in a warmer spot.

"Hey, don't wipe your snot on me!"

Ace, wearing a beach shirt, started to wriggle, but it was too late to stop him.

"Huh, big brother?" The shaking brought Xiaoyu back to her senses. "What happened? Where am I?"

"Don't rush, try to feel the power within your body."

Following Sakura's instructions, Ace taught Tama, "Remember not to extract too much chakra at once; it's bad for your growth and development, unless you want to become as flat-chested as Sakura in the future..."

giggle!

The sound of ice spikes suddenly growing rang out. Ace, holding his cowboy hat, jumped up, letting the ice spikes graze his buttocks and pierce through the cabin.

He and Xiaoyu were trapped together in the angle formed by the top of the cabin and the ice cone, unable to move.

"Brother, could you please take it easy?"

Xiaoyu looked at her older brother helplessly. He was already sixteen years old, but he was still acting like a child all the time.

"Hehehe~" Ace grinned triumphantly.

He drew his Supreme Greatsword from his waist and with a light swing, the ice pillar instantly broke into four or five pieces, and he landed steadily on the ground.

He led Xiaoyu out of the cabin.

Outside, amidst the icy snow, a pink-haired girl stood alone atop a hill that had turned to frozen earth.

Countless Homies surrounded her from below, using their weapons, shields, and metal bodies to slowly approach Sakura in this harsh environment where normal humans could not survive.

"So they specifically used Homies without any physical structure to counter my Sage Mode? It seems that Professor Kai and the others have thoroughly researched my abilities, but..."

Sakura's gaze swept over the metal chess piece soldiers, whom she could easily knock down but who would quickly get back up. "Ability is just ability after all. You think you can defeat me with fakes that lack Haki? Dream on!"

The laughing girl pulled out a sword hilt without a blade from behind her, pressed a switch, and Yun Gang spewed out iron clouds that formed a giant sword.

Under the thermal circulation, high-energy particles inside the cloud begin to collide with each other, generating electric current through friction.

—The Sword of Resounding Light: Mighty Nation!

The plasma cloud shockwaves erupted from the collision ionization, each one illuminating the void with flashes of lightning.

A thunderstorm, woven from countless bolts of lightning, enveloped everything, destroying all the metal chess pieces that were still covered in frost and made a screeching sound with every step they took.

The metal was melted by the violent lightning and flowed onto the ground. The domineering power destroyed the physical form of these soldiers, but it did not touch the souls contained within them.

So much so that these molten metals seeped into the dam and the ground, yet still retained their own consciousness and appearance.

Some of them were crying, some were laughing, some were angry, and some were regretting... The entire river channel looked as if it had been entered into the nest of some unspeakable creature, extremely eerie.

"Hey, you bastard, look what you've done!"

After the thunder and lightning, a crimson flame burned across the entire sky.

Bearing immense fear from the soul, a gigantic, monstrous sun descended from the sky.

"Evil God, Charlotte Linlin!"

Sakura twirled the massive Cloud Reaper sword and casually hoisted it onto her shoulder.

"Uh!!!"

Charlotte Linlin, who was observing the battlefield through the Homies' vision inside the Sky Hunting Pavilion, widened her eyes, swayed slightly, and immediately tried to rush out of the Sky Hunting Pavilion to find Sakura.

"Mommy! No!"

Members of the Charlotte family rushed forward to stop her, pulling her massive body down and smashing it into the wooden floor, embedding her in the gap between the attics.

Charlotte Linlin's eyes began to roll back as she fell, and memories of the past flashed before her eyes.

He recalled his happy childhood in the village of Elbaf, and the later anguish of being hated by all the Titans.

The intense emotions flowed through the connection of souls to all the Homies, displaying the wrath of the monarch alongside the Queen at the center of the soul network.

"Why, why do you know—that title?!"

A tremendous roar erupted from the soul, resounding throughout the Heavenly Hunting Pavilion, causing the members of the two pirate crews to cover their ears tightly, their faces grim.

"Shut up, you old woman!"

Kaido's mood for drinking was ruined, so he simply transformed into a dragon and flew from Tengoku Castle to Yoshiwara in the Flower Capital.

Near the Udon bowl, Prometheus, burning in the sky, and the chess piece soldiers, transformed into metallic ground, stared fiercely at the girl standing on the ice mound.

"I want you to die!"

Prometheus uttered a voice that did not belong to it, opened its mouth and bit itself, spinning into a huge pillar of fire.

The increasingly rampant flames flowed across the sky, gradually transforming into crimson flames that rose up, engulfing the entire ground and plunging downwards.

—The stolen fire!

"What a pity, we didn't manage to provoke her?"

Sakura, unaware of the scene inside the Heavenly Hunting Pavilion where four or five members of the Charlotte family were holding Charlotte Linlin down, clicked her tongue in amazement.

The Iron Cloud Greatsword in his hand shrank back to the size of an ordinary sword, wreathed in Conqueror's Haki and flowing with Armament Haki. He leaped into the air and used the sword technique he had secretly learned from Roger towards the pillar of fire falling from the sky.

—Kagutsuchi!

The flames in the sky seemed to collapse for a moment, followed by a clear sound of a blade slashing across the heavens.

A brilliant, soaring slash swept through the void, cleaving the pillar of fire that Prometheus had transformed into in two. Its momentum undiminished, it traversed hundreds of miles, blasting away the frozen riverbed and the icy, sewage-filled slimes.

"what!!!"

The pillar of fire contracted back into the sun, which had split in two, and wailed within the sharp, slashing breath.

The same sound reached the ears of the charcoal-colored serpent who had arrived at the banks of the Udon River in a sedan chair; the hellish battlefield nearly made him faint.

"This is not a place fit for humans. Let me go back!"

Kurozumi Orochi struggled to his feet and flipped over to jump off the palanquin.

But the sedan chair, which was suspended in the air without anyone lifting it, seemed to come alive. The sedan chair box turned into a giant mouth and bit the snake's body, causing it to struggle in mid-air.

Below, the Oniwabanshu and Wano Country magistrates who had been brought with him to protect him were helplessly escorted by the surrounding Homies to the battlefield where they faced Sakura.

The girl clearing out the grunts noticed that samurai and ninjas from Wano Country were gradually appearing among the enemies around her, so she switched her Observation Haki from close-range premonition to wide-area perception.

The Observation Haki that had spread out discovered the Kurozumi Orochi, who was locked in a palanquin and could be forced to remain in his place at any moment, behind the army.

With the equally ashen-faced ninjas and samurai around her, Sakura had already guessed what the two guys entrenched in the Flower Capital were up to.

However, if Kaido and Charlotte Linlin can use the principle of "a subject dies for his master's dishonor," why can't Sakura Haruno use the principle of "serving the emperor to punish the disobedient"?

With the greater good in hand, it'll be hard to say who the real bandits are in Wano Country!

Thinking of this, the girl revealed a bright smile and rushed towards the black charcoal serpent in the distance at an extremely fast speed.

All the Homies stared at her with malicious intent, and even the origami cranes in the sky, which were preparing to drop bombs, stopped what they were doing and made way for her.

Sakura arrived at Orochi's side without any hindrance and raised her hand amidst many expectant gazes.

Hands were raised?

The Homies' eyes bulged out of their sockets, sensing that things were going beyond their expectations, and they swarmed toward her.

Unexpectedly, Sakura beat them to it, grabbing Orochi and using the Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport to a distant place.

A crisp, flattering voice lingered in the air, slowly fading away.

"Hahaha, General, you've arrived! Wano Country is finally going to be at peace!!!"

"Huh?"

Chapter 350 The General's kindness is still boundless!

"Hmm, Sister Ying?"

A questioning voice arose as the black-haired boy with freckles watched the girl throw the general of Wano Country into the ferry cabin like a dead dog.

"Oh my, Xiaoyu is awake too? Perfect, there's someone I need to hand over to you."

Sakura raised her hand to greet the two, then used her foot to push the giant black snake on the ground and flip it over.

"Pirate, I don't know why you saved me."

"But if you are willing to help me restore my kingdom, I can appoint you as the new Protector King!" The cunning serpent, struggling to its feet, once again put on a treacherous smile.

Having served as the shogun of Wano Country and worked with Kaido for nearly eighteen years, he knew all too well what these pirates wanted.

Essentially, these pirates are no different from him, the shogun; they are all puppets driven by desire, craving only a few things: fame, treasure, power, authority, and women...

Since these pirates haven't killed him yet, they must still want to extract any remaining profits from him. So, upon realizing that the law of profit was starting to take effect, Orochi reverted to his usual cunning.

Making money is nothing to be ashamed of!

"You are... Kurozumi Orochi!"

Once Xiaoyu saw his face clearly, she fearfully hid behind Ace.

"You bastard, are you the one who ruined Wano Country like this?!"

The scabbard of the Supreme Grade Sword struck the ground, and a fierce glint appeared in Ace's downturned hair.