On the edge of Sabaody Archipelago, bright light shone suddenly and soon materialized into a human figure.
The man was very tall crossing the 3 meters mark in height, he wore a yellow uniform.
On the cape, there was the name of the rank that the man is currently.
"Admiral", as it is written. The man was none other than one of the four Marine Admirals, Kizaru.
"It seems I am the first. Kuzan should be on his way."
The speed at which Kizaru spoke could make anyone frustrated as it was very slow.
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On the sea not far from Sabaody Archipelago, a man paddled his bicycle at medium speed.
It was truly a sight to behold as the man was cycling on the sea surface without sinking.
It was due to the man's devil fruit ability to create, control and turn into ice at his will.
The man was not much smaller than Kizaru, he wore a blue uniform with the very same white cape.
Similarly to Kizaru's, on the back of this cape as well, the word "Admiral" was written.
This man is Kuzan, he appeared somewhat lazy in normal times but now he was quite serious.
𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘱 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘩𝘶𝘨𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯. 𝘒𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘳𝘶 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘢𝘣𝘢𝘰𝘥𝘺… Kuzan held on his bicycle handle tightly as he pondered the matter of the Devil.
"The sea near Sabaody is quiet, is it because of the Devil? I should have encountered a few sea kings by now."
Kuzan moved his eyes around the sea but failed to find any creature being active.
He, or almost everyone, didn't know that Akuma had developed his ability to converse with sea kings to great extent.
Now Akuma could even make those normal sea kings terrified with his will.
As for the normal creatures other than the strong sea kings, they didn't dare approach the sea near Sabaody.
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Bursting into light fragments, Kizaru moved from this spot towards where Akuma is suspected to be present.
His speed was deemed to be the fastest in the entire world. As his ability was to create, control and be light itself.
But of course it depended on the user as well. Like if Kizaru was unable to react fast, he would be unable to control his body in light form.
He might move past the needed distance or not even reach at that point due to him being unable to react.
"Where is he?"
Kizaru had already covered half of Sabaody but didn't find Akuma or the pirates of Devil's Pirates.
Actually Akuma and the rest had left Sabaody not long ago with the help of Joker.
Kizaru was just wasting his energy and time to find Akuma who wasn't even present.
"Huh?"
Kizaru stopped and turned his gaze to look towards the slums. There seems to be quite a big commotion going on.
He fastened his speed and stood up above the slums, his eyes stared down with shock and surprise.
"What the hell!? What's going on?"
Below, hundreds of people from the slums were fighting between each other.
It wasn't that which made Kizaru stunned, but the fact that most of these people appeared in extreme conditions.
Few had their skins turned purple and blue, some had their body parts missing or some even had half their body gone.
Blood flowed down the drains, dying the place red. Screams and shouts echoed throughout the entire slum.
"Ahhh! Save me!"
"Fuck! What the fuck are you doing!"
"Don't eat me! Stop!"
"Mommy! I am scared!"
Everyone was chasing or escaping. Two zombies held down a grown man and started eating him while the man was alive.
"Ahh! No! It hurts!"
The man tried but the two zombies' strength combined was enough to pin the man down.
His ear on the left was ripped off by one zombie while the other clawed at the man' stomach.
Large and small intestines, stomach, pancreas, etc, flowed out of the stomach which the zombie had ripped with his hands.
"Ahge!"
The man stared towards the sky with his wide open eyes as he endured the pain of being torn open alive.
His organs all came out as multiple zombies were attracted by the sight. The man's half dead body was getting devoured like a main course meal.
Kizaru up in the air had a frown on his face. He turned his head and saw that this wasn't the only place having such a situation.
A few zombies successfully reached the main towns and now were spreading the virus in their bodies.
𝘐 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘢𝘣𝘢𝘰𝘥𝘺… Kizaru spread his arms and closed his eyes to concentrate.
He was going to wipe the entire slums with his newly created move.
"Wild Light!"
Immediately, he burst into millions and millions of light fragments and rained down on the slums.
Boom!
Everything that touched the light fragments exploded into bits.
Boom!
The explosions lasted for a few seconds until the silence followed.
All the light fragments remaining flew up in the air and joined to materialize back.
Kizaru looked at the ruins and nodded with satisfaction as no one was alive down in the slums.
The houses and shops which were barely standing burned with orange flames which were soon going to destroy them.
The burned smell entered Kizaru's nose causing him to cover his nose with a handkerchief.
While he tried to stop the zombies from spreading, Kuzan had arrived ashore with his bicycle.
"Why do I feel like it will be a mess here?"
Kuzan parked his bicycle and walked in further. He used observation haki to see in more distance.
Not long after, he saw a sight which confused him as well as shocked.
A woman was walking strangely, she stepped like her body was out of her own control.
Her skin was a little ashen. She looked injured as blood dripped down her left arms.
A man saw the woman and hurried to her. Kuzan with his observation haki watched the woman hug the man tightly.
But the thing was, she bit on the man's neck and didn't release her grip no matter how hard the man struggled.
"This?"
Kuzan tilted his head, he couldn't understand what had just happened.
He sprinted towards the woman and man only to find the woman eating the man.
She bit a large piece of flesh from the man's chest and started chewing it in a rash manner.
"You! Stop!"
Kuzan walked to her side and pulled her away from the dead man but the woman suddenly swung her hands at him.
Avoiding it, Kuzan now looked at the woman with more focus.
His eyes widened in shock to find that the woman was already dead. A bullet had been shot in her skull through the side.
Because it was covered by her hair and she was half bathed in blood, Kuzan thought that she was injured and wounded pretty badly.
But to be dead yet still walking and even killing a man in daylight. It was beyond Kuzan's understanding.
Boom!
The loud explosion was clear. Shouts and screams filled the entire city where Kuzan was.
"Kizaru? What are you doing!"
Kuzan backed away from the dead woman and shouted towards the sky where light had formed.
"Oh, Kuzan! Finally! There is a huge problem here."
Kizaru came next to Kuzan in seconds. Kuzan was very confused with the commotion.
"This is happening everywhere. I tried but these things won't stop spreading."
Kizaru pointed at the woman who was still eating the dead man's body.
A light beam bursted from his finger and pierced the woman's head which then exploded. Blood splashed on the ground together with brain matter.
"We must immediately report this to the Headquarters and call for reinforcements!"
Kuzan pulled his den den mushi out of his pocket. Kizaru nodded and flew back in the sky to continue attacking.
"But before that."
Stomp!
Kuzan raised his feet and stomped hard on the ground, with a burst of cold aura, came out ice.
Almost the entire city was covered in a coat of ice, the temperature dropped to minus.
Many of the zombies were hit and turned into ice sculptures. Kizaru stopped his attack on the city.
He then headed towards a different area to handle the situation.
By handling it meant to kill and destroy the zombies. A few sacrifices were inevitable for the best outcome.
Kuzan wanted to stop Kizaru but he couldn't, there were many reasons.
He learned that this is like a spreading virus, if not wiped out completely, it will only continue to cause more trouble.
And so, Sabaody Archipelago, the final island in Paradise, close to the Red Line.
The most visited places in Paradise because it is the only location for pirates to coat their ships if they wanted to head to the New World.
It had turned into a red zone, and a few days later was sealed by the Marines.
This news caused a very big uproar in the world.