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

"Owen!"

Seeing this, Katakuri quickly stopped his other brothers and sisters, and took the aftershocks of the clash between the two emperors for everyone.

However, he was also shaken by that terrifying power, causing his arm to go numb and the tip of his tightly gripped Trident - Earth Dragon Spear to tremble uncontrollably.

"Don't go up there! You'll die if you get involved. That's the emperor's battle!"

He quickly led his men to retreat several kilometers to avoid losing valuable combat power due to involvement in the battle.

His Observation Haki constantly foresaw their battle, but even though he could see their future, such violent power still left him no room to intervene.

After taking Owen out of the war zone and handing him over to the ship's doctor, Katakuri sat down reluctantly to the side, his eyes fixed on the battlefield.

"Damn it, is this a natural disaster?"

Chapter 354 A Bad Day

Oni Island, located south of Wano Country.

The enormous azure dragon trod on fiery clouds, flew over the Blade Port of Hakubu and entered the Inland Sea. After flying over the sea for several hours, it arrived at Oni Island, located on the western side of the Inland Sea of ​​Wano.

Unlike the other islands in Wano Country, Onigashima is a barren land located at the entrance to the southern natural barrier. It is constantly battered by fierce tides and faces enemies that may fly across waterfalls.

Originally, the successive shoguns of Wano Country used this place as a bridgehead to resist foreign invasion, but after Kaido occupied the place, he transformed it into a springboard for exporting military power.

He stockpiled all the munitions produced by the military factories inside Wano Country, except for those exported overseas.

"Ugh, I'm finally back!"

When the enormous azure dragon descended from the sky and landed on the upper level of Ghost Island, he, having regained his human form, felt a long-lost sense of peace.

Twenty thousand pirates who survived the battles in the New World, a dozen or so Zoan-type Devil Fruit users, and several giant experimental subjects—the Numbers—plundered from the World Government's research institute.

And... more than five hundred beastmen who have received IQ gene evolution drugs!

That's right, it's an IQ booster.

To some extent, Sakura brought about the current Beasts Pirates. Of course, the trade with the Beasts also brought her a lot of weapons, ammunition and wealth, allowing her to arm the medical island of Mirion to the teeth. It can be considered a win-win situation.

Sometimes you really have to marvel at the wonder of fate. After Sakura decided to distribute the IQ-enhancing drug to the public, researchers around the world who were dissatisfied with its effects naturally analyzed and reused its components.

Plague Queen combined Vegapunk's lineage factor with IQ enhancer extract for secondary development, and successfully researched and developed an IQ product derivative that consumes one-third of the user's lifespan - the Beast Enhancement Agent!

This potion, when used in combination with the genes of other organisms, can transform the user into a beast-like creature similar to a Zoan-type Devil Fruit user, and also grant them immunity to seawater.

However, such mutations at the genetic level are destined to be tragic, with a success rate of less than one in ten. The fate of those who fail to mutate is also unbearable to witness. Therefore, there were not many members in the initial batch who were willing to join the Beast Pirates. In the end, the number of these five hundred beastmen and the total number of the Beast Pirates, which should have been thirty thousand, dropped to just over twenty thousand.

"Lord Kaido?" The girl who had been implanted with the power of the flying squirrel, and who was also Kaido's secretary and protector, flew out from the depths of the island and landed on Kaido's back.

"Protect the Emperor! Go and inform all the soldiers that the great war I've been craving has begun!!!" Kaido, sitting on the throne in the center of Onigashima, laughed loudly, and dark lightning gathered from his Conqueror's Haki shot straight into the sky.

"Yes, yes, Lord Kaido really knows how to order people around~" After making a teasing remark, the girl spread her fluffy tail and wings and flew back into the depths of the castle.

Kaido's old face was full of anticipation. Overwhelmed with excitement, he transformed into a giant dragon, flew out of Onigashima, and used his power to lift the entire island up, quickly flying towards the heart of Wano Country—the Flower Capital.

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On the other side, around the rabbit bowl.

The roaring sounds continued, and the members of the Charlotte family were in a panic, but they were helpless against the power of the two natural destroyers, so they could only stay near the riverbank.

"Katakuri... do you think Mom... can win?" Owen, his body riddled with broken bones and wrapped up like a dumpling, asked weakly from the ground.

“Trust Mom, she’s our captain, she will win! Until the very end.” Katakuri’s voice was resolute.

Even if Big Mom loses, he will step up and become the pillar protecting his brothers and sisters.

Just then, a rainbow flashed in Katakuri's eye sockets, allowing him to see the future three seconds from a distance of several thousand meters away.

In an instant, the face of this top executive of the Charlotte family turned gloomy.

"This is absolutely terrible!"

As soon as he finished speaking, two figures wielding giant blades and fighting each other appeared in the sky behind them.

A large, multi-purpose speedboat and an island-sized warship were slowly approaching, finally coming to a stop in the sky above where the two were engaged in battle.

Clang!

Charlotte Lingling forced Sakura away with a powerful slash, then frowned and looked up at the huge floating island slowly descending in the sky. "What's going on?"

There are probably no more than a handful of people in the world who can carry this thing around the world.

If it weren't for her junior Kai's silly cosplay prank, then there would only be one other person left who could use such a flashy lion ship head.

"Hehehehe, this is really lively!"

Laughter and the sound of blades clashing against the ground continued to emanate from the scene.

Clad in a yellow haori, with his hair and the smoke from his cigars billowing around him, the arrogant man looked down at Charlotte Linlin!

"Shiki!! So it was you, you bastard!" Charlotte Linlin roared to the sky, "What, is it you who gave this brat the audacity to cause trouble in Wano Country?"

Even though they were once companions of the Rocks Pirates, they were just a bunch of sea hustlers who came together through the David Game to live together. Betrayal, intrigue, and stabbing each other in the back were commonplace.

Charlotte Linlin wasn't naive enough to think she could win Shiki over with so-called camaraderie, so she was extremely wary of Shiki from the start.

"Long time no see, Linlin!" Shiki took off his cigar and flicked off the ash. "However, Sakura didn't come to Wano Country to cause trouble because I backed her up. I only came to her because I wanted to take over this place!"

"what!"

Charlotte Lingling's eyes, adorned with purple eyeshadow, widened in disbelief at the outcome.

However, the current situation is deteriorating. The combined forces of the Other Shore Pirates' executives and the Flying Pirates, coupled with the covetousness of two powerful figures, Sakura and Shiki...

Wano Country is in danger!

“Hey, you guys…” Charlotte Lingling turned around and gave instructions to the children behind her.

"Hey, Ling-chan, aren't you taking me too lightly?"

Before Charlotte Lingling could finish speaking, the girl's figure, stepping on streams of light, rushed in front of her.

With a casual flick of his wrist, he unleashed a whirlwind sword, aiming straight for Charlotte Lingling's gaping mouth!

"...You!" Forced to change the last word, Charlotte Lingling's eyes turned angry again.

Armament Haki wrapped around his arm, and he slammed his fist directly into Sakura's powerful punch. The armor formed by his Haki deflected the storm of the punch and sent it hurtling towards the Charlotte family members standing nearby.

Katakuri, Daifuku, Irving, Armand, Castaed:.....

boom!

With a powerful buzzing sound and a howling storm, the legendary spear, wielded with overwhelming force, still sent a group of Charlotte Family members flying, even with Katakuri's resistance.

The pain in his hand made Katakuri seem to remember something, and he immediately took out a Den Den Mushi to call for help.

But in the next instant, a chilling aura suddenly erupted behind him.

"Oh, so there is still a way to contact them."

Katakuri stiffly turned his head, looking at the not-so-tall blond man behind him with a cold expression.

What a... terrible day!

Chapter 355 Let’s turn the situation around!

A moment of deathly silence fell, then the sharp sword intent emanating from the great swordsman resounded behind Katakuri.

However, his Observation Haki, which allows him to foresee the future, had already seen the direction of Shiki's sword strike three seconds earlier.

Therefore, Katakuri urgently used his ability to circulate his body, transforming it into a mochi-like fluid that shrank to the ground, thus dodging Shiki's slash.

Then, his entire body compressed like a spring, accumulating enough potential energy, and he spun the trident in his hand like a drill, then exploded with a roar!

Ding--!

The high-speed spinning black trident collided with the famous sword Sakura-ju, which Shiki had raised in a high split, and sparks flew everywhere due to the friction between the two.

"Wow, that kid from Beehive Island has become quite capable now!"

With a cigar dangling from his lips, Shiki looked down, the blades at his feet beginning to crackle with black lightning, and a golden membrane of Haki forcefully stretched between their weapons.

"not good!"

Katakuri has been by Charlotte Linlin's side for over forty years, so he naturally knows that these kings of the sea have a technique that sets them apart from others—Conqueror's Haki Entanglement!

So when lightning began to flash on Shiki's blade, he didn't hesitate at all, and his Devil Fruit power was directly injected into the earth.

——Sticky Fruit Awakening!

An invisible wave spread from Katakuri's feet, and the entire riverbank began to dissolve. The ground, a mixture of rocks and soil, revealed a murky white color, turning into white glutinous rice balls!

Countless glutinous rice balls flowed and spread, gradually enveloping the entire land, just like the ever-undulating waves of the sea!

Then hundreds of enormous fists, hardened with Armament Haki, snaked out, forming a rain of dense fist shadows that resembled a white mountain range, obscuring the view behind them.

"Nutuan groans!"

Facing this legendary pirate Katakuri, he dared not be careless and directly used the strongest attack he could unleash in his awakened mode.

"That's wonderful! It's just a pity it's Lingling's child!"

Faced with a barrage of iron fists filled with rice balls, Shiki swept his leg blade, which was imbued with Conqueror's Haki, in one sweeping motion.

A fleeting, sharp aura unleashed a golden sword wave hundreds of meters long, accompanied by a tearing sound amidst the stagnant wind, the echo reverberating.

——Entangle and Slash the Waves!

The pitch-black rain that nearly covered the entire sky vanished before this sweeping attack, and the remaining force of the slashing wave that had shattered Katakuri's offensive flew toward him without diminishing.

Katakuri's Observation Haki began to frantically warn of the impending attack once again. This was the second time today that he had experienced a future that he was powerless to fight even if he could foresee it.

"Damn it, my domineering aura isn't strong enough!!!"

His heart pounded, and the spirit of fighting to the death ignited his determination.

He didn't want to lose! His perfect terror couldn't be broken, otherwise the world would once again covet his younger siblings!

Katakuri raised his hands with all his might, manipulating the mochi-like earth to surge and pile up into a giant mochi wall hundreds of meters wide, which then solidified into a fortress.

He poured his ever-increasing domineering aura into the walls without reservation, turning the massive city walls into a jet-black color.

boom!

The wave crashed into the mochi wall, exploding into countless tiny slashes. The slowly flowing Haki deflected these attacks, but the wall, unable to withstand the destructive effect of the Conqueror's Haki, was blasted with a large hole.

From this very hole, Shiki, with a smug smile, shot forth at an astonishing speed.

"Lion·Senkiriya!"

With even greater destructive power than the Wave Slash, multiple sword energies, each capable of slicing through a mountain-sized body of water, surged forth with an equally frenzied ferocity before Katakuri.

puff!

The cold, sharp blade shattered everything, slicing past Katakuri, blood gushing out and spraying in the direction the blade whistled.

"it's over!"

Shiki's cold gaze followed his own strike, flying towards the two people fighting on the other side.

A spirit of fanaticism and greed spread, a will to fight and slaughter remained firm, and a monstrous force of tyranny and heat roared.

The collision of two massive tunnel boring machines... no, two powerful swords of sea emperors would tear the earth apart and sever rivers.

"Hmm, is the fight over there finished?"

Sakura's Observation Haki, locked onto Charlotte Linlin, inadvertently caught a glimpse of Shiki's sword flashing as it sliced ​​through Katakuri's body.

immediately...

The still-humming, massive slash flew straight toward her, striking Sakura directly as she was wrestling with Charlotte Linlin.

The meticulously planned slash dissipated automatically after slicing through the hem of her feather robe, revealing the girl's slender legs, without causing Sakura the slightest harm.

It may not cause much harm, but it is extremely insulting.

"Whoosh~" The old lion whistled.

"..."

Sakura's eyes twitched as she turned her head, veins bulging on her forehead, revealing shark-like teeth. "You bastard, what are you doing?!"