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

However, while slamming Ace into the ground, Risaku also pushed the treasure chest in front of Ace, saying, "My mother said that if the answer is that it belongs to a pirate, then this is for you!"

After saying that, she sat down next to Ace, staring intently at the treasure chest containing the Devil Fruit.

Ace crawled out from under the ground, his hands wrapped in Haki, and walked to the treasure chest. He opened it, and inside lay a fruit with a purple skin surrounded by arabesque patterns.

"This is... a Devil Fruit!" Ace swallowed hard.

Hesitantly, he picked it up and held it in front of him.

"My mother gave it to me...my mother gave it to me...you can give it to me if you don't want to eat it." The huge, expressionless girl had a sinister look on her face, like an owl turning its neck.

"Who said I won't eat it!" Ace was provoked by Sakura and opened his mouth to take a bite of the Devil Fruit.

An indescribable taste spread from the taste buds on his tongue to his entire body, and Ace swore he never wanted to taste it again in his life.

"So, what is ability?" Ryou paused for a moment, her eyes filled with a myriad of emotions, yet seemingly devoid of any.

"Want to know? Beg me!" Ace smirked.

He exuded the kind of confidence that comes from an incompetent husband suddenly satisfying his wife's needs.

Li Ying's expression remained unchanged; she simply stood up, turned around, and left.

"Hey, aren't you curious anymore?" Ace reached out to stop her, but found that Rika was walking faster and faster, even spreading her wings as if to take off. "Don't go, please, please let me finish!"

Just as Ace was being dragged along by Ryougi's legs, a violent laser suddenly erupted from the distant ruins, with four or five beams flying straight toward the two of them.

With a casual flick of her finger, Riyo caused the stone bricks on the ground and the surrounding metal powder to quickly converge and compress, forming a high wall that blocked all the laser beams.

boom! boom! boom!

With a deafening roar, Quinn, once again transformed into his cyborg form, burst forth from beneath the rubble.

"I can't believe you actually managed to take down that idiot Jhin!" Quinn showed no fear whatsoever. "So, taking you down means I'm now the number one boss!"

With a strange laugh, the modified Brachiosaurus grabbed a large sword, aimed its three laser cannons at Sakura and Ace, and charged toward them.

"Foolish!" Riyo grabbed her arm, and the metal rods reassembled.

Just as she was about to launch an attack, Ace stepped in front of her.

"Hey, hey, making an injured lady fight for me? A man's pride will cry!" Ace drew his Supreme Grade Sword from his waist, his eyes sharp. "I also want to test the power of this fruit!"

Riyo blinked, dispelled the power on her arm, and sat down behind Ace with an air of complete acceptance.

"Hahaha, are you too scared to resist because of my attitude?" Quinn, who had already rushed to within three meters of the two, leaped high into the air.

The three cannons on his body were filled with plague bullets stored inside his body, and he opened fire on the two men without hesitation.

Click!

Accompanied by cracking sounds, a hoarse hiss suddenly burst forth!

Ace, still in his iaido stance, was completely engulfed in flames. The black flames spread out, outlining a ferocious silhouette, and the heat was intense!

As the raging flames subsided slightly, a completely different, enormous body appeared in everyone's sight.

Its eyes and mouth spew forth inextinguishable flames, its fur is crimson, and its horns are sharp and menacing.

Its massive body, standing a full ten meters tall, caused the ground to tremble violently with just a single step of its iron hooves!

"Then, this move is the real deal—Wild Soul!"

The overlapping, vibrating electronic sounds rang out, and the monster surrounded by black flames suddenly drew its sword, flames dancing and sword light flashing.

Clang——!

A flash of lightning streaked across the island, illuminating countless fortresses and rooms.

The emperors, who had been exchanging blows in the sky, all stopped their attacks and turned their gazes to the distant island.

Then it was seen that the island... had cracked open!

Chapter 365 The Last Stand of a Trapped Beast

The skeletal island with its prominent horns was split straight in two, and Quinn, like the island, had his armor shattered.

Blood gushed from his wounds, and amidst the violent tremors, rubble and building debris collapsed, and Quinn fell to the ground below with them.

"Ara ara~, did you eat it?" Leviathan's smooth little feet lightly stepped on the thorns made of darkness, and she pulled down the hood of her raincoat, looking down at the lower level of Ghost Island.

The glutinous rice ball that had formed on the ground in front of her was shaped into four or five drills. After being coated with dark blue Armament Haki, it spun at high speed and crashed into the thorns that hung down like a net.

After tearing open a passage, they escaped the dark blockade with several members of the Charlotte family.

Similarly, Katakuri, who was very skilled in Observation Haki, also noticed the violent aura at the bottom and the burning black horse bathed in flames.

At this moment, its fiery red mane and tail fluttered in the wind, and it raised its head, which was almost half the size of Katakuri. Its nightmarish gaze was so intense that it burned the pupils and was hard to look at directly.

"What is that...?"

Katakuri's voice was hoarse, and his pupils trembled as he avoided eye contact with the monster.

"Zoan type, Horse-Horse Fruit, Mythical Zoan type, Nightmare form."

Leviathan's voice, as gentle and calm as flowing water, rang out behind Katakuri, "Not bad, is it? Our newcomer?"

That posture, that tone, and all her actions.

This completely shocked the Sweet Commander, the leader of the Four Sweet Commanders, who had absolute confidence in his Observation Haki.

why...

"Why can you avoid your Observation Haki, is that it?" Leviathan said before Katakuri could even speak.

"So you've also mastered Observation Haki, which allows you to foresee the future!" Nuotuan chanted.

Katakuri's eyes flashed red, and his ability continuously eroded the surroundings, transforming visible matter into mochi balls, which he then manipulated to form a mochi fist, which he then unleashed like a storm towards Leviathan.

"No, no, no, although you can borrow it from Sakura, it can't deceive your senses!"

With another step, all the glutinous rice balls slammed into the open ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

The phantom-like Leviathan appeared silently behind Katakuri once again.

Like a child playing tag, he reached out and patted Katakuri's hind leg. "So there's only one way to avoid being detected by Observation Haki, and that is—to completely eliminate your vital signs!"

Having gotten the answer from the ship spirit in front of him, Katakuri gasped.

Don't be fooled by how easy Leviathan sounds; if you actually tried to learn how to do it, you'd probably die on the spot.

Vital signs are the standard for determining whether an organism is alive. Unlike the barely perceptible state of apparent death, the complete elimination of vital signs means that the organism is completely dead.

But what kind of physiological structure would be needed to be able to jump back and forth between life and death?

Is this reasonable? No!

"Hey, how come you're even more relaxed than me?"

The ship spirit's languid voice rang out, sending Katakuri plummeting into an icy abyss.

"Oh no! Chop the rice cakes!!!"

Suddenly remembering that the other party had already touched him, Katakuri hurriedly threw out a mochi ball full of spikes, but it was too late.

"Well, I've had enough fun too~ Let's end this farce here!"

With a clench of her small hand, Leviathan unleashed a torrent of darkness from her palm, instantly sealing and suppressing Katakuri's Devil Fruit powers.

—Apocalypse: Lockdown!

"Damn it, a sealed Devil Fruit power? You're dangerous... ugh!"

The chains spread across Katakuri's skin, and his Mochi Chopping technique disintegrated before it could even hit Leviathan due to the dissipation of his power. His Armament Haki also dissipated as his consciousness went silent, and he collapsed to the ground powerless.

"Brother Katakuri!"

Seeing their perfect brother fall, Owen, Dafu, Snag, Armand, Castard, and others disregarded the blockade of the Dark Thorns and forcibly rushed into the battlefield.

"Oh right, I almost forgot about you guys~"

The petite boat sprite tapped its head, its squinted eyes slightly opening to reveal a hint of purple.

Suddenly, countless streams of darkness surged forth like a waterfall, and the Charlotte family's several ability users were completely devoured by the boiling darkness.

Only a few screams drifted away, interspersed among the disputes of several overlords in the sky.

Charlotte Linlin, who was manipulating vines, flames, and lightning, turned her head and saw the scene of the two great pirate crews being completely defeated in Onigashima and the City of Flowers.

This is really troublesome!

Charlotte Linlin frowned.

If the officers of the Other Shore Pirates, along with the forces of the Flying Pirates, were to join forces to encircle and annihilate the two of them.

Then we don't need to send out invitations to Charlotte's family tea party a week later; we can just send out invitations to the funeral instead!

Kaido, forced back by Shiki's sword, fell from the sky and landed right next to Charlotte Linlin.

"Hehehehe, Linlin, Kaido, you've already lost!"

Shiki, carrying a long sword, descended from the sky with the same arrogant smile as Rocks forty years ago. "If you surrender now, I can spare your lives out of consideration for our friendship from forty years ago, but you'll have to watch me ascend to power from the prison in Wano Country!"

"Hey, old lion, tone it down! Be careful not to let your joy turn to sorrow!"

Sakura, who had burned all the trees with her sword, also stepped on the air and flew to Shiki's side.

Below, Kaido, slightly out of breath, glanced at Charlotte Linlin beside him and asked, "Hey, old woman, can you still fight?"

"Huh? Don't talk to me like that, you brat!!!"

Her ferocious face revealed anger, and dark lightning crackled around Charlotte Linlin's massive body.

At this moment, both of them already knew that this duel would be the key to determining the outcome of the battle for Wano Country.

Even if his pirate crew is defeated, there is still a chance to turn the tide of the battle before the two kings decide the winner, although the situation will be slightly unfavorable!

But as pirates, as the overlords of the sea with Conqueror's Haki, wouldn't this insignificant adversity be more likely to ignite the ferocity they've honed on the perilous high seas?

"Alright, alright! Let's go!"

"Mommy, Mommy, it's been so long since we've fought side by side!"

Charlotte Linlin piloted the dark cloud, and Kaido reverted to his dragon form.

The thunder and flames intertwined with the tyrannical spirit of two sea overlords, their will burning, their roaring domineering aura causing the atmosphere to tremble involuntarily, a silent lament.

"Oh, interesting, a cornered beast will fight to the death!"

"Hey, Sakura, don't leave this old man behind!"

Sakura was draped in a haori that seemed to rage, and Shiki condensed the rain and snow that had gathered into the shape of a lion.

The storm and snow echoed with the raging power of the two sea emperors, their domineering aura solidifying and colliding with two other forces that were tilting towards them, accompanied by the hissing of dark thunder.

At this moment, the four of them abandoned everything and forgot their positions.

With pure faith, toward each other—

Swing your sword!!!

Chapter 366 Domination of the Sea!!!

The sky above the former site of Huadu.

Invisible charges surged and jumped around the clouds, forming a massive electric field.

The instant all the lightning bolts locked onto their targets, a deafening roar erupted from the boundless night sky, the moonlight dimmed, and without warning, dozens of scorching bolts of lightning descended from the heavens.

"Thunderbolt! Futsu-no-Mitama!" Kaido and Charlotte Linlin roared simultaneously.

Zeus, whose power was enhanced by Charlotte Lingling using the lifespan of the residents of the city, combined with the lightning of the Azure Dragon to form an extremely purple electric light that suddenly erupted.

"Lion's Might - Imperial Palace Scroll!" Shiki crossed his two swords and activated his ability.

Several giant lion-shaped blizzards opened their jaws to meet Kaido and Linlin's lightning, and they fought each other without holding back!

However, guided by Zeus, a bolt of lightning imbued with consciousness split off, piercing through all the snow lions first, and suddenly radiating a blazing light, with boundless heat expanding within it.

The rapidly melting and electrolyzed water molecules generate a large amount of hydrogen gas, which is then ignited by the electric spark.

Ultimately, this led to...

--explode!