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

Seeing Xiaoyu like this, Leviathan came over, reached out and rubbed her head, and led her to the cabin to rest.

Sitting cross-legged on the steps, Shiki withdrew his gaze from Orochi and sneered, "Heh, the powerful clans of Wano Country have fallen on hard times. How could someone like you, a member of the Kurozumi family, climb to the position of Shogun?"

Serpent Kurozumi, stung by Shiki's words, jumped up again, its black shadows slithering and growing, revealing the body of a mythical beast as it roared at him: "You stinking outsiders, why do you have to meddle in Wano Country's affairs!"

"Ok?"

A cold glint flashed in Shiki's open eyes, and he moved his feet slightly before sitting back down on the steps.

Then, the seven heads of the black charcoal serpent slid off its neck, the cuts extremely smooth, causing the only remaining snake head to evoke a human-like fear.

"Kid, watch your mouth! When I was in the Yakuza, you Kurozumi were still working for the Kozuki!" Shiki said impatiently, puffing on a cigar, and scolded Kurozumi Orochi until he dared not utter a sound.

Soaked to the bone, Ace climbed up the bulwark and, seeing Shiki's furious expression, tried to stop him: "Shiki-senpai, spare his life!"

Upon hearing the sound, Shiki's gaze shifted, and his anger seemed to subside somewhat after touching the knife on Ace's body.

He used his ability to float up, and with his hand imbued with Armament Haki, he grabbed the unsevered head of the Kurozumi Orochi and slammed it forcefully onto the deck.

The pain and the massive physical exertion from regenerating abilities caused Kurozumi Orochi to lose his phantom form and slowly shrink back to his human form.

"Useless!" Shiki clicked his tongue. "Hurry up and write the decree of succession, then go wherever you want!"

"You promise to let me go as long as I give the position to that girl?" Kurozumi Orochi knelt on the ground, panting heavily, his resentment and madness well concealed by the act of kowtowing.

At worst, he would lose the position of general. As long as he was still alive, everything could be started over.

After all, he still possesses the surname Kurozumi, and in this hereditary and perpetually powerful Wano Country, there will always be an opportunity for him to become a shogun.

He could simply find even more powerful pirates later to satisfy their appetites and reclaim his position; after all, he wouldn't have to pay for the profits he made from bribing the pirates.

"I swear on my name, the Golden Lion!" Shiki said, his arms crossed, his coat and cigar smoke billowing in the wind.

Knowing that pirates of their caliber wouldn't stoop to lying, Kurozumi Orochi felt relieved. He stepped forward, took the paper and pen prepared for him by the Winged Clan soldiers, wrote a document of abdication, and handed it to Shiki.

Having obtained the item, Shiki disregarded everyone else and rushed into the Leviathan's cabin immediately.

Not long after, he flew out of the cabin carrying a young girl.

"Wow, I've been caught! Sister Leviathan, come save me!" Jade, whose neck was being held by fate, struggled in Shiki's hands, calling out Leviathan's name.

Leviathan emerged from beneath the deck, his body wreathed in black mist, accompanied by the scraping sound of chains. "You old bastard, what are you doing!"

"Didn't your captain tell you to hand the person over to me?"

Shiki grinned, raised his hand, and lifted Xiaoyu up in front of him to look her in the eye. "Kid, from today onwards you are my disciple!"

These words were like a meteorite falling to earth, causing a huge explosion and impact in everyone's hearts.

The three, Ryougi, Ace, and Leviathan, who were originally poised to attack, stumbled and crashed to the ground with twitching lips.

"Huh?"*3

Shiki's gaze swept over the three bewildered members of the Other Shore Pirates, and he felt as cheerful as if he were wearing new panties to welcome the New Year on a new morning.

Do you know what it means when the flower language of talent is: "First come, first served!"

While the little girl is still young, he takes her in as his disciple and trains her to resemble him.

In the future, with the military and government of Wano Country united as one, it will become his absolutely safe base, and he can even use it to advance towards the world!

"I do not want!"

The girl's voice was clear and bright, and she firmly rejected Shiki.

"Huh? Why?!" Shiki's mouth dropped open, his eyes wide with disbelief.

Sure enough, the bewilderment doesn't disappear; it just shifts from one person's face to another's.

"I'm already the eldest sister's disciple, I don't want to become your disciple, you old man!"

Xiaoyu, who was being lifted into the air, shook herself with her hands and feet, sticking her tongue out at Shiki.

"What?" Shiki was struck dumb.

Damn Sakura Haruno, was this part of your plan?

She actually anticipated what she herself might have predicted and took the child as her disciple ahead of time?

As the three people on the Leviathan watched Shiki's face turn red and then green in the sky, Rie simply took out some snacks and shared them with the two of them, content to be bystanders.

Shiki, in the sky, racked his brains for a long time before saying, "Hey, kid from the Kurozumi family, you don't want to see Wano Country continue to be in such chaos, do you?"

This netizen from Wano Country... oh no, this yakuza from Wano Country has returned to his old ways, using his fluent language to blackmail Tama.

Almost instantly, the young girl's resolute expression wavered after hearing Shiki's words, and her eyebrows furrowed.

"Tsk tsk, filthy adult!"

While munching on potato chips, Riyo tilted her head slightly, elegantly covering her lips with her hand in a pretentious manner, and looked at Shiki with a compassionate gaze.

"Indeed!"

Ace and Leviathan tilted their heads, their eyes mocking, revealing wicked, devilish grins.

"You lot, that's enough!" Shiki roared at the three Leviathans below, enraged.

Then a golden slash several hundred meters long was unleashed, but it was blocked by a shadow rising from beneath the sea.

The shockwaves surged at the point where the two attacks collided, causing the sea to churn and the ejected water columns to obscure the vision of Leviathan and his crew.

Although they couldn't see Shiki, the three of them still chirped loudly, not to be outdone.

"She's angry!", "You guessed right!", "So cute!"

More and more veins were bulging on Shiki's head, but he used great willpower to turn his head towards Jade.

"Have you made your decision? This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!"

Xiaoyu's watery eyes twitched, revealing the unwilling expression of a wife who had been forcibly summoned to her boss's house while her husband was away on a business trip.

"I...I promise you..."

Chapter 353 A Born Destroyer

As Shiki led the island ship and followed Leviathan from Kuri, west of Wano Country, towards Hanato, a giant dragon also took off from Hanato and flew towards Onigashima.

Meanwhile, Sakura, far away in Udon, after burning down the last Ice Oni Homie, suddenly felt a powerful aura descend from the sky.

"Haruno! Sakura!"

Lightning enveloped the girl's figure, and a sharp, piercing sound, like claws scraping against glass, echoed throughout the sky.

The little giant riding on the thundercloud raised his right hand to gather the flames that had spread throughout the battlefield, and in an instant reshaped the scattered Prometheus.

His furious eyes locked onto his target, and a thunderous roar, formed from two-colored Haki, erupted from the tip of the blade in his other hand.

He imbued the blade with flames, gripped the sword with both hands, and swung it out with a thunderous roar!

—Emperor's Sword: Shattering Blade!

The earth cracked, a hurricane howled, and a monstrous force strong enough to tear mountains down dragged the flickering flames as it descended.

"We've finally met, you evil god!"

Sakura laughed loudly, raised her finger to release the Life Return Karma restriction on her body, and her body swelled to the size of Charlotte Linlin, unleashing her dual-colored Haki.

The Cloud Greatsword, gripped tightly, was shaped by the power of thermal circulation. Countless fragments of iron cloud spread and swirled from the howling storm, rubbing against each other and igniting the tempest.

—Storm Sword: Wild Soul!

boom!

Two terrifying beams of light, like comets, collided across a vast distance, their powerful energy intertwining and swirling within the greatsword, igniting crimson lightning that scattered in all directions.

The earth groaned under the two violent, monstrous forces, and countless marks from blades and axes tore the soil apart, crushing huge rocks into mud.

The sudden burst of air caused the hard ground to ripple like the surface of a sea, and the destructive aftershocks shot into the sky, smashing a spiral-shaped hole in the clouds.

The two figures passed each other, their feet stomping against each other, creating two fissures in the ground.

"Who exactly are you? Where did you get that title from?!"

Completely disregarding the damage she had caused to the surrounding land, Charlotte Linlin, her eyes blazing with fury, suddenly turned around.

According to her intelligence network, Sakura Haruno first became active on the high seas in 1495, which is 23 years ago.

At that time, Sakura, who was in her late teens, was suddenly taken on Roger's ship as an apprentice and gradually became famous in subsequent battles.

Given Sakura's age and the Giants' silence on this matter, she has no reason to know about this past event!

But now...but now!!!

Who am I?

Sakura tied her hair into a single ponytail with a hair tie and swung it behind her, revealing a dashing smile.

The Emperor of the Sea, the enemy of the Celestial Dragons, the hermit of Shikkotsu Forest... she has accumulated too many identities and titles along the way.

But now, facing this enemy, as someone who holds the power to create the future and lead to freedom, she is more inclined to give the name...

"I am a giant!"

The girl, who had planted the Storm Sword into the ground and clenched her fists, shouted.

"Stop lying!"

Charlotte Linlin's hair fluttered in the strong wind as her eyes narrowed.

If we're talking about who understands Titans best in the world, it's probably Charlotte Linlin, besides the Titan race itself and the World Government.

She had gathered everything about the Titans—their customs, their culture, their techniques, their beliefs—through the Charlotte family's intelligence network.

She even contributed to the facilities for researching Titans, with the aim of completing the Titan race in Totto Land.

The fact that she accidentally killed one of the giant heroes, Waterfall Beard Yoruru, 63 years ago, causing her to be hated by all the giants who had once treated her kindly, is a pain that will never leave her.

Even after she gained great fame on the high seas and was given the unpleasant nickname "auntie" by the navy, she didn't care at all.

Only when the title of "Evil God," a term used only by giants, is mentioned does he lose control of his emotions, recklessly abandoning all plans and rushing straight to Udon to duel Sakura.

"Damn it, how dare they approve of a brat like you?!"

Flames burned down Charlotte Linlin's arm, igniting her long hair and the jealousy in her heart.

His dark eyes lifted, his dignified face turned cold and gloomy, and his domineering aura transformed into ferocious thunder, raging cruelly.

Charlotte Linlin rode the inflated cloud Zeus and charged towards Sakura once again.

"Why did I gain their approval? Of course, it's because my persona is that of a spirited and energetic beautiful girl who is good at fighting! Hahahaha!"

The storm expanded from the sword blade to Sakura's arm, echoing with a low, sharp sound, and countless ripples of air collided to form an arm armor.

Her emerald eyes narrowed, her fair skin flushed red from the storm, and a domineering aura of dark thunder rose, rivaling Charlotte Linlin's imposing presence.

Sakura stomped on the ground, sending up large chunks of gravel, and her Storm Sword met Charlotte Linlin, who was rapidly approaching.

"A mighty nation!" *2

The same shouts and the same moves clashed simultaneously, the two sword waves collided with a deafening roar, and the black and white beams of light intertwined and rose into the sky.

Charlotte Linlin lowered her waist to gather strength, then suddenly spun around her spine, her body blurring at high speed like a sharp-edged spinning top, the blade slashing back with terrifying force once more.

Sakura retreated to lock onto Napoleon's attack path, then thrust her Storm Sword, imbued with light, forward, aiming for Charlotte Linlin's vulnerable head.

when!

The blades, aimed at each other's vital points, collided head-on under the combined senses of their Observation Haki, producing a low, grinding sound like monsters tearing apart rocks.

Then, realizing that their attack styles were very similar, the two of them chose to increase the speed at which they swung their swords.

Boom boom boom boom——!

Two surging, powerful forces are engaged in a fierce and intense battle.

The sound of metal clashing suddenly erupted, sparks leaped from the void, and in an instant, a high-pitched steel hiss spread.

When the Charlotte family followed their mother's Vivre Card to the edge of the Udon River, they were greeted by land that had been 'plown' back and forth several times.

And in the center of the battlefield, two natural destroyers, already the eye of the storm, were hacking at each other!

"mom!"

Seeing this, Charlotte Owen released high temperatures from her body and forcefully rushed towards the two.

However, he was struck by a terrifying beam of light unleashed during the battle, and his body covered in blood was sent flying backward, crashing into the ground and embedding himself within it.