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Chapter 84: Desperate Usopp!
"This is one of the Four Emperors..." Robin's eyes were wide with dread, her hands clutching her chest. She shivered uncontrollably.
"Is this the strongest Kaido in the world?" she whispered. "Mr. Dracule is right..."
The feeling of helplessness brought her back to her childhood. She remembered watching Ohara's destruction and witnessing her friend Saul die under Aokiji's ice.
Back then, she could do nothing but cry and scream. She was powerless as Saul died, and Ohara was engulfed in lava and artillery fire.
"Is it going to happen again now?" she wondered. No, she thought to herself, now I have power too. I want to protect my friends! I want to protect Luffy!
Robin took a deep breath, puffed out her chest, and crossed her hands. She stared defiantly at Kaido and declared, "Thousand Violet Dews, Gigantesco Mano!"
In the open space in front of Kaido, countless white legs sprouted from the ground, surging up like a tide. They intertwined and formed a massive pair of legs, which seemed to grow from the earth itself. The smooth, ruddy bottoms aimed to stomp on Kaido.
Kaido watched the approaching legs, slightly amused. He remembered that the Flower-Flower Fruit could only replicate the user's body parts. The replicated parts were connected to her senses, right? Even so, to use those legs to attack showed that this woman was unique.
As Kaido prepared to counter the giant legs with a swing of his club, Yamato suddenly appeared. She held her mace, lightning crackling around it, with traces of Conqueror's Haki. Still angry from Zoro's earlier antics, she jumped and yelled, "Thunder Bagua!!"
Boom!!!
A powerful impact burst out, instantly dispersing Robin's fruit ability. Pink petals scattered in the room, becoming transparent and vanishing into the air.
Robin gasped, her body trembled, and her legs lost feeling. She fell to the ground, sitting abruptly.
"Robin!"
"Miss Robin!"
The Straw Hat crew cried out in worry. Nami rushed to help Robin up.
"I'm okay..." Robin assured Nami, clutching her hand. She then staggered to her feet.
The organs created by her fruit made her feel sensations, but they were not complete. They were weakened to some extent.
"If you want to meet Daddy, you have to get past me first!" Yamato declared, carrying her mace as she faced the defeated soldiers. Fierce determination radiated from her as she stood in front of Kaido, acting like a guardian deity. She was still fuming from Zoro's earlier encounter and was determined not to let the enemies touch her father again.
"Damn! Fighting one of the Four Emperors is hard enough!"
"But then I also have to face the richest man in the world and this powerful woman."
"What are we going to do?"
"Hurry up and figure it out... Come up with a plan, Usopp!"
While Chopper went to heal the others, Usopp sat quietly, muttering to himself. Even though he was already sweating profusely and his legs were weak, he couldn't muster the courage to look directly at Kaido. He pressured himself to find a way to save everyone.
Suddenly, inspiration struck. "There it is!"
Usopp clenched his right hand and hammered it into his left palm. A realization lit up his face as if a light bulb had turned on in his head. He immediately took out a mask from his small bag and put it on.
He then shouted to his teammates, "Everyone! Attack that woman along with me!"
The rest of the Straw Hat crew exchanged puzzled looks but, trusting Usopp, they prepared to follow his lead.
Without the slightest hesitation, he made a decisive move.
"I hope you have a good idea, Usopp!" Franky said. He then aimed at Yamato again, his shoulder revealing the barrel.
"Franky Doom Cannon!"
Rumble!!
Shells were fired again!
Nami flicked her weather stick, and the black clouds inside connected into a straight line. The dark cloud, rolling with golden lightning, turned into a long whip. Yamato swung it over.
"Thundercloud Staff!"
Dozens of thundercloud lightning bolts connected, emitting the dazzling light of golden lightning!
Brook, no longer cheerful, had a serious face. He drew his sword and attached it to the sword qi. The cold air on the staff and sword flowed, and a cold mist rose from it. This was the cold breath from his soul, obtained from the Yellow Spring of Hell.
"Sweeping Song, Blowing Snow Chopping!"
The sword light flashed, and Brook's Slash Wave slashed towards Yamato with cold air.
Even Robin, who had just been knocked down by Yamato, stood up again with firm determination. Since her legs were temporarily unusable, she used her hands.
"Hundred Flowers Chaos!"
This time, she was careful and only grew a giant hand for the moment. She slapped Yamato hard from the side.
Yamato looked intently at the incoming attacks, with a serious look on her face. She wasn't embarrassed to take these moves, just intent on keeping the attacks from reaching her father. As she clenched her mace and rehearsed in her mind how to dissolve these moves, Usopp stuck a tube filled with water into his slingshot's black pocket.
At the same time, he chanted, "Grow!"
His slingshot obeyed his orders like a living being. From a small slingshot that could be held with one hand, it grew into a large slingshot as tall as a person at a speed visible to the naked eye. He grabbed a handful of ammunition from his backpack and put it all in the palm of his hand. One by one, he placed them in the slingshot's leather pocket.
"Kill Green Star Impact Wolf Grass!!"
The seeds were shot out with a clatter. The tiny seeds burst instantly during flight, growing into a huge plant wolf! Its impact became stronger, and the surrounding air vibrated intensely.
"Is that all?" Yamato saw that everyone had made a move, so she jumped forward as well. She swung her mace vividly in her hand.
Swinging the stick left, she shattered Brook's sword qi, making Huang Quan's cold aura disappear. She swung it up again, sending Franky's shell into the sky where it exploded mid-air. She smashed it down again, turning Robin's giant arm into flower petals. Her arm kept moving, smashing Nami's thundercloud long whip to pieces. She then broke Usopp's plant wolf to bits.
However, the plant wolf regenerated and upgraded.
!!!
After the plant wolf was smashed, it exploded inside. A puff of sky-blue smoke suddenly dispersed, rushing towards Yamato like an impact from the rear. In the blink of an eye, Yamato, Kaido, and Tezzolo were enveloped.
Usopp immediately got up, overjoyed. "Sleeping Star!"
Though still unsteady, he quickly pulled his slingshot and fired two different seeds.
"Kill Green Star Sleep Grass!!" "Kill Sleeping Star!!" "Kill Green Star Sleep Grass!!" "Kill Sleeping Star!!"
Afraid the enemy would wake up, he fired nearly dozens of them in one breath. The sky-blue smoke of the sleeping star became thicker and thicker, almost wrapping the entire venue. After the sleep grass grew, it also emitted a pink mist. For a moment, blue and pink intertwined.
Even from the zenith split by Zoro, blue powdery smoke emanated. Blown by the breeze, the smoke became thin, filling a radius of hundreds of meters. The Marines surrounding the area all fell, sleeping peacefully.