As his red hands picked his double-edged axe, his hands stretching inside of the personal bubble around him, his bloodlust waged all over the dark sea floor and soon all inhabitants that dwelled in the district felt their heart stop with fear. All of their muscles that were related to the movement of the body froze, unresponsive. They couldn't feel a muscle and they almost couldn't breathe as their pores started producing more sweat.
Only a lone insane man approached, the lone Umibozu stayed by the edge of town while fearful of his captain and frozen in his tracks as he watched his captain with dread.
Die. Die. Die. Die
Vander was holding an axe, swinging like a lunatic on the open streets, hitting young and old folk. The axe was sharp and could cut through even the hardest bone in one's body and the strength of the pill-enhanced pirate known as Vander Decken was too much for a normal Fishman to bear.
Die. Die. Die. Die. Die. Die!
Soon streets were filled with crimson viscous liquid in the water as he cut all of them apart and made a killing gallery of dead bodies on his wake.
He sliced a man right in his eyes separating the skull in half.
Die. Die. Die. Die. Die!
He carved with violence another man with an upwards slash cutting his crotch all the way to the head.
Die. Die! Shirahoshi!
He punched another in the face, dragging and breaking the spine in the neck and caving the skull. The skull pierced the brain as it gushed blood from the gashes formed near the cheek and the forehead.
Another, he bit right in the face, gulping down part of an eyeball and leaving half of the gory and bleeding eye still in the socket as the uneven wound spurted blood and filled the socket to full as it leaked. However that wasn't the end of it when the teeth pulled a bit of the skull open leaving the brain exposed while the organ spilled out from the body. Decken swung his axe and cleaved one of the legs of the man, leaving the poor fishmen to bleed to death from the head and the leg.
HaHAHahaBaHOBAHOHoA!
The genocide continued as Vander's rage and insanity reached new heights fueled by the pills consumed, soon he opened houses as all of his victims stuck in place and while their eyes turned to him, they couldn't even move.
Even when faced with brutal death their flight or fight instinct fizzled out because of this monster's overwhelming bloodlust, their only bodily instinct was to freeze in face of danger as the man cut down their family, friends, and enemies indiscriminately.
Die. Die. Die. Die. Die! Die. Die. Die. Die! Die. Die. Die. Die!
Quickly, most of the houses and all of the streets were empty of intelligent life and the only buildings remaining were orphanages, however the monster did not care, he put more and more pills in his mouth, each increasing his strength tenfold.
They soothed his corrupted wound, and they were so addictive.
He felt powerful, he felt he was better than anyone, he felt murderous.
—The drugs caused extreme insanity and dementia.
Dead. Dead. More.
He entered the orphanages, each containing newborns to young adults and yet he did not care about their age, how they were innocent or how their lives had just started as he cleaved their bodies in half. As he cleaved their heads of at weird angles for his enjoyment. As he approached innocent children of 8 years of age and dropped his axe on top of their heads, as it carved their heads until the jaw or the nose.
Dead. Dead. More. More. More. More. More. More.
Picking his axe and withdrawing from their young skull produced a sickening squelch that was music to his ears... as he approached nurseries full of newborns and babies that could not even walk, he played a 'fun' game, using his massive strength. He pressed his open palms on their chests and watched it as he caved their little chests, smashing their internal organs. Almost as if he were pressing a softball, it was so 'fun' he did it again and again, either in the chest or their head and watched as he caved their little heads, crushing their forming and soft skulls.
Until they were all dead.
More! More!
More!
After a long time the genocide finally ended, only he and Wadatsumi remained alive some survivors had escaped, and he could not find them now.
The insane Decken approached his subordinate, with his body full of gore and blood, fluids belonging to ripped organs and pieces of shattered bone were all over his clothes, it wasn't washed away by the water since he was still in a bubble of air.
The Umibozu seemed in shock, the water swallowed all the blood on the district and the blood was only seen by the light shining from the lamps in the district, as the district was not illuminated by the word tree Eve...
No it was covered by the eternal darkness of the sea floor 10 km deep, Soon the 'monster' walked towards Noah, the promised ship. The ship who witnessed this tragedy, this full-blown genocide.
He dragged the now bloody axe, lazily on the floor as it produced sparks from the friction.
He gazed at the ship with an insane smile.
You are dead.
Shirahoshi.
XOX
The army in service of the ministers did guerrilla warfare against the New Fishman Pirates, however their efforts were not good. The executives with the power of the pills counterattacked and wrecked their forces, even now embers of destruction could be seen all over the place, more notably the destruction of the factory of candies and Fishverly Hills, and now the rest of the forces were beaten…
"Can't we do anything against that?"
A soldier stood up his body being supported by his spear, fresh blood spurted from a gash in his forehead with a frustrated look and creased forehead from the pain.
"Blast! This thing doesn't go down"
The Minister of the Right said his body kneeling as he tended his bruises and cuts.
"We're helpless against a single sea beast. That thing is not normal!"
The Minister of the Left said holding a bloody wound on his stomach.
The White Bear Sea Beast roared as it crushed rubble on its jaws, his eyes were red with rage as it had consumed a pill of power and shortly, the soldiers looked up and surely another beast approached from the sky. There was a 20-foot-tall monster riding it, his skin was pale white as was his hair in addition his irises were crimson as he unleashed his bloodlust on them,
The sea beast stopped rampaging and looked towards the sky where the monster was, the soldiers could barely breathe, as the Minister of the Left saw the visage of the terrible monster.
"I—Is that Hody...?" The Minister saw the man who started this revolt, he was completely different as he was several times stronger and taller.
Hody glared at them and ate another batch of pills like he was eating popcorn, his transformation happened after the speech and his wound — given to him by Prince Fukaboshi — bothered him so much that he kept eating more and more of those pills until it gave him this new power.
Hody laughed, he was now in a new stage, as he was better, faster and stronger than all of them besides now it was time to show why opposing him was insanity itself!
Hody moved his hand as a water bubbled surged from his pores, he frowned at the gathering of the Neptune's army and launched the bubble then in less than a second, the whole area exploded, dismembered bodies thrown around by it like trash as Hody admired his new powers.
Soon he went to other pockets of resistance and did the same thing. There was nothing better than seeing ants get stomped on, especially when it was him who held the foot over these insignificant traitors to his cause!
Hody told all of his executives to gather in the plaza for the show, it was almost time to execute the royal princes.
…
The Minister of the Right who survived the blast cried, his tears marred his bruised and bloody face.
"So close, we were so close... your dream is finally coming true with this year's reverie...what can we do? Queen Otohime?! Please come to save this kingdom or else the Princes will be dead! Please! Save the Crown Prince!"
Those were his last words as he passed out.
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"—We can't get in! The entrance is blocked!"
A citizen cried as he punched the gate leading to the plaza.
"—Prince Fukaboshi…" A woman murmured, as her tears fell.
"—I hear pirates roaring!".
"—Let's climb up! We should be able to look in!"
One said as he started climbing the reef wall surrounding the plaza.
The citizens all climbed the corals leading to the top there they saw the entirety of the new fishmen pirates, all of the Sea Beasts and even the Kraken.
All of them were menacing in appearance, having consumed the pills most of the beast had red sclera showing their rage, there on the ground lay the Neptune's army along with the Princes raised and chained to stakes made out of wood, defeated and ready to be executed.
"—Hahaha, they tried to save their country and look at them now!"
The pirates jeered and laughed at the fallen soldiers and the Royal family.
A soldier of the army stood up swaying his legs due to injuries, he glared at them in rage.
"...?" The pirates all looked with confusion.
"Hody…" The soldiers murmured, huffed between his sharp teeth, he glared at the leader sitting on a leather chair.
The soldier's eyes were as if he accepted death.
The soldier grasped several explosives in his hand, they were close to TNT in appearance.
"That soldier is trying to do something." Zeo, the wavy light blue and indigo stripes Fishman noted with boredom.
"Hya Hya! Where?" Daruma the tiny red shark jumped; he clashed his teeth together with excitement.
"Oh Iz 'EE—Hic?"
Were the drunken slurs that weren't entirely understandable by Hyouzou's mouth as he gulped his liquor and gulped even more pills with it to dull the pain from Luffy's powerful and deadly attack. His hair turned white; his body was more muscular as he gripped his sword with a murderous drunken smile.
"He probably wants to blow us up with that dynamite—Gabon!"
"I'll turn him into Dry squid—Much!"
Ikaros gripped his squid spears with a look of terrible rage as the spears moved, as if alive.
Again Hody held his hand outward as a small bubble of water was formed in his palm, he lazily gazed at the soldier.
"—If I can take any of them with me...Before my Queen arrives, I will have done my duty!" The soldier said as he tried to light the fuse, and yet all he heard was screams of worry from the civilians watching, he snapped into attention.
"Water Shot." Hody said with a powerful voice.
Hody threw the water shot and it pierced the soldier's body, dropping the unlit explosive on the ground as the shot traveled through untold distances as it hit a mountain and then hit a house... Hit another mountain and kept going at full speed until it stopped near the sea, then it dropped like a normal water ball, affected by gravity, and the water mingled with the sea — Amazingly it traveled the whole country destroying everything in its path as if it were an arrow sent by a God of hatred.
"—I thought a water shot was as strong as a normal punch…" A pirate said in awe.
"You were rolling on the ground in pain from taking too many steroids earlier—Much!"
Ikaros said as he played with a pill, he glanced at the Captain with worry.
Hody stood in silence.
"Your hair is all white and your body has completely changed too. How do you feel, Captain?" Zeo said also playing with a pill.
Hody looked at his hand in wonder and pride.
"Perfect." Hody replied with a very stern, but surprised expression.
XOX
"Hurry, Megalo!"
Otohime said as she gripped her Trident as purple tentacles shot out of where she was gripping it, and soon the spear completely disappeared, or retracted to her hand. Only a corrupted eye remained in her palm, soon the tentacles retracted to the eyeball, and then the eye turned into a purple substance, sinking into her arm. The Trident completely disappeared.
The shark cried in confidence.
"Fukaboshi-niisama, Ryuboshi-niisama, Mamboshi-niisama, please be alright..." Shirahoshi said with worry, her hands in a small prayer.
"Don't worry my daughter, we shall not fail! Look there is the trap..." Otohime said with a grin.
XOX
A few minutes later both were captured all according to the plan. Both had chains around their body as they crashed in the plaza.
Hody gloated about capturing both his targets at the same time, Jones thought it was his lucky day as the two he wanted to kill the most have fallen right in front of him. Shirahoshi apologized for falling into such an obvious trap but Otohime calmed her down, the acting must have felt real to everyone else now that anxiety reached a new maximum as the citizens saw their Queen in chains. Their all-powerful Queen... just like that.
The princes who were captured and held by a stake were shocked and furious, Fukaboshi watched with regret.
"This was easier than expected. The only ones left are the Straw Hats, but they have no reason to come here...The Sun Pirates are away and weak."
Hody said mockingly. Soon swarms of fishmen gathered around the plaza.
"We don't need to fear Straw Hat Luffy any longer...Weapons-trained Fishmen 500-thousand strong…"
Hody gloated motioning to the outlaws that left the Fishmen district earlier today, the pirates gathered smirked at the numbers as they gathered in droves to fill the plaza.
"Human slaves captured over the course of 2 years 200-thousand strong…"
Hody motioned to the beaten down slaves he captured, they were bruised, bloody and slouched...however, their eyes were dangerous, as they wanted freedom by any means and having accepted the deal with Hody. They were promised freedom, and a few 'traitorous' mermaids for their pleasure after all of this.
Otohime looked at the numbers with worry and affirmation, as expected of the young God. He knew this would happen; Jimbei-san could destroy everyone here in the plaza but by the time he'd finish the Kingdom would be in ruins. To fight an army without such repercussions they needed another army of even greater strength or a group of army killers.
Otohime calmly closed her eyes as she heard the roars from the outlaws, she focused on Hody, trying to see his emotions but she couldn't. Just like Shirahoshi and Luffy, she couldn't read him. Shirahoshi was like there was nothing there to see, she drew a complete blank. Luffy's was an infinite black mist or miasma, there was no way to go, she would be forever lost.
But Hody, was like a red-black storm of rage...
Otohime closed her eyes in disappointment in herself, she couldn't read someone again as her observation failed again, the ability she was born with that made her think she was infallible, failed time and time again, it was almost enough to make her cry. One thing hadn't changed about her as she would always be such a crybaby.
"We'll get more human slaves soon…. But for now, we are 700-thousand strong..."
Hody glared at the citizens perched up in the coral walls watching the spectacle.
"You people are the shame of my country. either run away or die! Decide now!" Hody yelled in rage.
"Creating a commotion in a public plaza...you boys have no grace; you are so vulgar! Aren't you getting a bit carried away? Don't be so cocky Hody Jones!"
Hody looked at the sky, the speaker was an awfully familiar mermaid.
"That's—Much!" Ikaros was shocked for an instant as a familiar woman graced their presence.
"Well, well...how nostalgic...long time no see big sis What the hell do you want with us?" Hody asked the woman with a snarky tone.
"—Madam Sharley!" The group of citizens near her exclaimed — The woman was the Madam from the mermaid cafe, she smoked from her pipe as she looked on the plaza, she sat neatly on a bubble with a high and mighty attitude.
"Since you are here acting like a big boy in control. I figured I needed to tell you something, you are way in over your head!" Sharley said with a smug face.
"Sharley-chan…" Otohime murmured, worried.
"I once made a prediction 'A man will come and destroy or save Fishman island'..." Sharley continued, in a matter of fact tone.
"Well, in essence, I'm destroying this kingdom and saving our people—so was it me you saw in those visions?" Hody sneered in scorn.
"No. The man who will save or destroy Fishmen island is Straw Hat Luffy…" Shirley raised her voice.
"...What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Hody exclaimed.
"The only thing I know that it will definitely not be you!" Sharley exclaimed condescendingly.
"—I know Sharley's predictions are never wrong!" The citizens agreed with her nervously.
"Hody, you were never destined to rule this kingdom!" The Madam exclaimed.
Hody gritted his teeth as a water shot pierced Madam Sharley's torso.
Shirahoshi cried at the spectacle, seeing the blood flow from Shirley's wound wasn't pleasant to watch.
"Sharley is still alive, my daughter." Otohime said as her observation picked the health of Shirley.
"—Kyaaa!" A mermaid screamed in fear.
"Argh!' Shirley crashed into the ground, bleeding.
"—Madam Shirley!" The crowd near her rushed to help
"This is nonsense! Did you say that to spite me Sharley? What did you want to accomplish with this spiel? Is this your poor idea of revenge?!"
"—Madam!"
"I'm different than your older brother! When I was a kid...Arlong was admired by all of us in the district! But we obtained power, we surpassed your brother Shirley! Now the name 'Arlong Pirates' is nothing more than an empty symbol to unite under! Look at what we can do! Just look at our true strength! My plan was put into action ten years ago! And shall I tell you how I started…?!"
Hody smirked. He was but a soldier at the service of the Neptune's army… but even so, he was the one who burned the Signatures and caused the greatest incident this country had ever saw, the assassination of two Royals.
"I was the one who shot Otohime... and I was the one who killed your beloved 'Sea God'. The one who you love so dearly. King Neptune!"
All of the princes looked on with rage towards Hody. Otohime looked at him shocked and started to cry...her heart tore to pieces, Shirahoshi closed her eyes with sorrow, her fears were confirmed.
"It was simple, I just paid a human pirate to snipe the box holding the signatures, setting it ablaze, while everyone was busy I shot Otohime in the chest and I was the one who shot the spear I had crafted towards the crown prince, the same spear you now wield Otohime!"
"The pirate pansy, I shot him dead! but Jimbei arrived and retrieved the wounded man before I could finish him. But it was okay, I had set him up as the assassin, the blame fell on him!"
Otohime felt even worse, she had killed the wrong man, and so brutally too, she cried for her loss of innocence, that in her moment of deadly rage has led her to flee the country with shame.
And yet she killed the wrong man all along.
"It was a pity that you, Otohime and the Prince survived. But I got Neptune instead, the biggest warrior this land had ever seen, lucky me!"
Hody approached the Queen in chains, grabbed her hair and pierced her stomach with his hand, his strength was multiplied hundreds of times due to the drug, with the price being his lifespan.
Otohime coughed blood, spraying Hody's cheek as Shirahoshi flinched. Hody still gripping her hair, pulled her body with him and showed the Queen's shivering body to everyone, like a sick prize he won or a game that he hunted, soon he showed the Queen's crying face to Shirahoshi.
"The reason I targeted this bitch was simple...She was in the way, Shirahoshi! She made everyone think it was wrong to seek revenge against the humans! She tried to persuade the citizens of this country to make peace with their oppressors! And she almost succeeded! Your Mother and Father deserved to die! That's why I tried to kill them all! I'm the assassin!"
"...I knew that…." Shirahoshi said between tears.
Otohime looked at her daughter in shock, her hair was still being pulled as she sobbed in pain.
XOX
Vander Decken walked towards the ship, he carried his bloody axe with his left hand as he approached the continental ship Noah, behind him was a scared Umibozu... Wadatsumi saw all the death Vander Decken caused and could only cry.
"See Wadatsumi? I touched it! Noah, the ship made long ago by the people of the Ryugu kingdom. I touched it with my Right Hand. You know what this means, Right?! RIGHT?! BAHOHOHO!"
No answer was given.
"Hoh, I see...I see...I see...I...I SEE!... I SEE!... Bahoho, I guess I need to explain it better! In other words, this ship is going straight to Shirahoshi...That's right I threw it! Baho! Bahohoho! Noah is as big as half of Fishmen island, there is nowhere to run, and no way to stop it...Soon it will be farewell to my beloved Shirahoshi! And farewell Fishmen island! And farewell again Shirahoshi! Shirahoshi f-a-r-e-w-e-l-l! Fare thee well! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!"
He spoke with such insanity — He laughed at the deaths that would occur, the corruption from the spear, turned a beautiful aquamarine into an ugly purple contrasting his red skin, only two hours left of life in him as he jumped on the ship and Wadatsumi followed as he had no other choice.
XOX
"What do you mean?... You knew I killed your Father, Shirahoshi?" Hody asked, incredulous.
Shirahoshi held her tears in.
Otohime coughed more blood as Hody let go of her golden hair, she crashed again on the floor, hitting her chin in the hard concrete.
"Shirahoshi? My daughter?" Otohime raised her head, gazing at her daughter.
Otohime looked at her daughter, feeling a betrayed.
She knew, and did not tell me… Those thoughts permeated Otohime's mind.
"A few years after the incident." Shirahoshi started telling her tail as a few drops dripped from her cheek. "A few years after the incident…"
Hody glared at Shirahoshi.
"Megalo told me the truth. He used to be the Neptune's army mascot and he saw everything that happened that day…"
Megalo roared at Hody with vicious rage.
"Megalo." Otohime said.
"Why didn't you tell me, Shirahoshi If you had…" Otohime said feeling betrayed.
"If I had…" Shirahoshi tears fell freely.
"You would have killed sir Hody in revenge just like you executed that human pirate that day, and that would have made father even sadder." Shirahoshi said, crying.
"...What?" Otohime said.
"It was the last promise you made with me! When I held your body in my hands and tried my best to hold your wounded chest. You said that no matter who killed you...I wouldn't hate them!" Shirahoshi cried.
"But you are different now, mother, you've changed...and I understand it, but I will still uphold your old values"
You refused to hate this man that almost killed me, that killed my husband, that almost killed my son...you followed my wish, to not hate the culprit, even when I brutally killed the man I thought responsible...you are...
Otohime thought with a grimace, shame filled her mind again.
Fukaboshi looked on shocked and said. "You've been faithful to mother's wish, all of these years...you knew this fact...and you held it inside of you all this time, all alone in shell tower?!"
"Yes...I've been alone...all this time."
Otohime couldn't feel anger towards her daughter any longer, she accepted her reasons and it was true she had changed her core values...but this was the furthest thought she had on her mind.
Otohime's mind froze when she heard that her daughter had been alone, her heart sank, as she tried to remember the times she spent with her daughter, they were only a few instances every year. Shirahoshi was almost never let out, only when she wasn't politicking or spending times with her sons did the Queen manage to spend time with her, self-loathing started to fill Otohime's heart as she basically let her daughter stew in isolation.
"Jahaha! Megalo! I'm so, so glad you picked this stupid little girl to talk to! If you'd told anyone else, Jahaha...My plans would be in ruins! Jahaha!"
The bloodthirsty grin Hody had when he said it permeated throughout the plaza.
"Listen Shirahoshi, in this world, we call that stupidity! Because you wouldn't allow yourself to hate me, this kingdom is finished! Jahaha! If you only told your mother, she would have hunted me like a hound… And the ending wouldn't be pretty for me would it? However, because of your stupidity, I will now execute your brothers...and then your mother! After that, I'll kill all of your subjects for good measure."
Shirahoshi sat still as Hody continued his speech, demeaning her and her decision, however, she was not wrong, she never felt that way, the reason she sat frozen was because a minor twitch of her arm cracked a part of the metal chains behind her holding her down. She wouldn't move in fear of the plan going awry because of her natural strength, her tears that fell down were now tears of pity for the insane man standing in front of her.
Hody in his sadistic glee, threw a volley of shark arrows made out of water at the brothers, chained to a stake, the force of thrust was so strong that they fell down, crashing into the floor, stake and all, soon Hody approached Fukaboshi, the crown prince.
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"—This is terrible!" "—The crown prince is about to be executed!"
"—There are no warriors left in the Neptune's army! And the enemy has over 700-thousand criminals!"
"—Madam Sharley! When will the pirate with the hat come to save the island?" A child asked her.
"What?... I don't know. I can only see what happens. I don't know if it will be tomorrow or a year from now." Sharley responded
"—I hope he comes now!" the same child answered, a group of kids behind her also agreed.
"-If he saves the island then he will beat the bad guys won't he?" A girl said smiling behind tears.
"—I want him to come now! I don't want the prince to die!" A small boy said his wishes
Soon the crowd started wanting the Straw Hats to appear too.
"—Me too!" "—Me too!"
"—You're right."
"—I want him to do it now too!"
"Straw Hat Luffy! if you are going to save the island, do it now!"
"—STRAW HAT!"
"—STRAW HAT!"
"—STRAW HAT!"
The people pleaded for him to come.
XOX
The Straw Hats were making preparations for the battle, the ship was almost ready for launch...however Luffy jumped off the ship, landing on the surface off the water, the surface waved from his bare feet, as he stood on water.
"Oi Luffy! What are you doing?" Zoro asked leaning on the rails of the ship.
"I'm going ahead, seems there is unforeseen trouble," Luffy said stretching his legs, he never sank.
He lowered his 6'8" form, he had a bare torso, as he didn't have clothes fit for fighting and only dressed beige pants ending in the middle of his shin, the hat was tucked in behind his pants, held by a string.
"Later…"
Luffy jumped forward, dragging the wind around him as he formed a column of water 10-feet up and discharging a 12-foot tsunami around the area that he jumped, he traveled faster than sound, missiles could not compete with his speed as he traveled right to the plaza.
XOX
"Are they all imbeciles? I've heard of grasping straws, but this is pitiable, in the first place, the Straw Hats have no reason to be here in the first place…" Hody said, pitying them all, forgetting that he challenged the Straw Hats to a fight a few hours earlier.
"'Big Sis' prophecy has to be wrong this time."
"What futile cries for help" Zeo said with contempt, hearing them chanting 'Straw Hat'.
"Have you all gone insane?! Jahaha! WELL! I'll bring you back to reality!" Hody yelled with rage, he was the true insane one, as he grabbed Fukaboshi's head, he charged water onto his hand as he prepared to execute the crown prince.
"Now! WATCH! As I blow the head of your crown prince! The future of this kingdom Jahaha!"
"—Aaaahhhh!"
"—My prince!"
"Luffy-sama! Please save my brother!" Shirahoshi cried to the heavens, for Luffy to come, her feelings of love reached the peak of normal love.
Please, Luffy! Save my son! Otohime prayed in her mind.
"This is the start of the end of your disgraceful kingdom!"
Hody's hand swiped down, bringing forth his attack, strong enough to completely obliterate the head of one of the strongest warriors of the sea, the crown prince.
However the wind blew, a gust so powerful, it affected all of the plaza... A strong boom as Luffy arrived from the heavens, like a missile, he closed his fist... faster than the eye could see, and pummeled Hody's arm going for the execution, all Hody felt was pain as his arm contorted, caved, and turned, the force was so strong it ripped the skin muscle, dislocated the shoulder, and finally the arm ripped out of its socket as the bone was shattered in a million pieces, the arm flew away in a bloody mess, however Luffy's fist did not stop there, it travelled, a bit deviated from its course, hitting Hody's right side, it blew off a round chunk off of his lower ribs, the hit was so hard it imploded Hody's liver out of his body.
Tch, I wanted to blow his heart out, but the arm got in the way. Luffy thought, with excitement running through his veins, the Straw Hat billowing on the back of his pants, being held by a string.
His arrival and his initial punch lasted less than a second until physics caught on what was happening... The force launched Hody's body back into the wall of the plaza, crushing the reef without mercy, as a cloud of dirt invaded the plaza, hundreds of criminals gathered as the army of the new Fishmen pirates were blown away by the air boom and funnel of the punch, yet they didn't incur major injuries, the force rebounded to Luffy as he countered the backlash by stomping his feet on the ground, forming a crater, the hard and pointy rocks pressed on his skin, yet they weren't hard enough to pierce the skin of his feet, nor even hurt him with their sharpness.
Hrm...Since the liver handles such diverse processes as glucose metabolism, protein synthesis, bile circulation, and excretion of a variety of waste products. There will be a massive buildup of ammonia from ingested protein, it will eventually lead to coma, a loss of clotting proteins, eventually leading to life-threatening bleeding, and eventual vascular collapse due to an absence of albumin. For a human, Hypovolemic shock would settle in 5 minutes, yet this guy's constitution...He is going to last several days.
Say what you will about Luffy's intelligence, however from his lessons given by Ray, he was a prodigy in the fields of politics and biology, especially animal biology, and even more specifically, how to kill someone, he was a pure genius, he knew countless ways to kill someone, quickly or otherwise.
"—HE REALLY...STRAW HAT LUFFY REALLY SHOWED UP!"
Soon, surprised and relieved cries were heard from the public, as the arm that was ripped off got hidden under the rubble, hiding the gore, Luffy was somewhat relieved, as promised by the Queen they couldn't show much brutality, after all this was a spectacle needed to save the country, and not further alienate humans from the common fishmen's mind to that end he couldn't kill the criminals gathered here, even though he could kill everyone here in a few minutes, he had the ability and might to make it so, but he needed to restrain his strength and disable or knock them out, it was fortunate that they were 10 times stronger than an average person, that means their endurance was amplified and they wouldn't die quickly.
Even if he couldn't kill the army, he could kill their commanders, such as Hody, and even if these outlaws wouldn't be killed now, they would be captured and summarily executed later on in secret.
"—He saved Fukaboshi-sama!"
"—Princess Shirahoshi asked for his help!"
"He came out of the sky!" Zeo said, a bit nervous, however, his bravado won over.
Thank you, Luffy. Otohime thought with a smile.
"Darling!" Shirahoshi cried his name in relief, showing her true feelings, it shocked her mother as she heard the endearing term, Luffy looked at her, a bit confused, but gave a confident smile, it was alright now - He was here.
"Nami." Luffy called, with a commanding tone.
"Right here." Nami appeared beside him with a swipe of her staff, revealing her body.
"Mirage cancel." She called out with a smile as her invisibility was canceled, on her hand was the documentation from the Celestial Dragon.
"Is this what you've wanted, Otohime-chan? I've already given Robin the keys~" Nami said smiling at them, as Luffy pet her head, as a job well done.
Soon petals appeared out of nowhere and hands sprouted from the chains, each holding a key breaking free the royal family.
A ship fell out of the sky crushing the ground, giving the outlaws that were gathered there a great fright as they were almost pasted to the ground, it was a relief that nobody got squished by the weight of the ship, all of the Straw Hats jumped out of the ship, organizing closely to their Captain.
"—The Straw Hats!"
"—They are all here!"
The people cheered as the 'Saviors' from the prophecy arrived, completely forgetting that the prophecy could lead to destruction or salvation.
Otohime raised herself as Jimbei joined her side, She put a hand on the hole in her belly, then looked at her palm, bloody, she closed her fist as she whistled...soon a goldfish the size of a building came flying down, picking the princes, who were terribly hurt, but nothing serious, soon the fish left the plaza with the princes.
Soon Chopper approached her, getting the medical equipment necessary to treat her wound.
Otohime did not care much for the wound, her body was a duality, she was frail, receiving wounds very fast, a jagged rock could rip her skin easily, however it took a lot to actually kill her, even if she would be a bloody mess after the battle she would still press on as if she didn't receive a wound.
—She had the lowest endurance, but she had amazing vitality, it was like a character in an RPG with maximum vitality and no defense.
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A few hours earlier…
"Luffy, I shall be captured along with my daughter, giving hope to the new Fishmen pirates, and despair to my people...then you and your crew shall arrive to save me from being executed, after all, I am probably the most hated and despised person on their list, this will turn despair into hope for my people…"
"What about the new Fishmen Pirates, can we kill them...or?" Luffy asked for all of them, Chopper and Usopp gulped. Otohime shook her head in denial.
"It's best if we don't resort to killing, this time our fight shall be displayed to the kingdom, to children. I hope to tone down the brutality if possible."
"But still, there is a lot of enemies aren't there. You can't hope to shackle them all after this, a little jail time won't give any results." Zoro tended to his swords.
"I concur, they will not learn their lesson that way. Just beating them down will not change much," Robin said after careful consideration. Sora also in a rare mood agreed with the moss head for a change.
"Yes... will you exile them or execute them?" Sora asked.
Jimbei and the others had no answer.
Shirahoshi felt uneasy talking about death and the other Straw Hats stayed silent, they weren't against to killing but they weren't pro to it as well. But whatever their captain decided they would follow through the decision, it's just that they weren't as bloodthirsty as Zoro or Robin.
Sora was exceedingly kind and disliked killing, however she also held pragmatic ideals, her mind and heart were in eternal conflict between her empathic side and pragmatic side, creating an extraordinarily strong duality and hypocrisy. Luffy knew all about and loved her for it.
As for Luffy, killing was a given for his life.
The road to being Pirate king was bloody and he knew it, he didn't care for fodder.
In all his fights.
Against Crocodile, against Enel, and against Lucci.
He really aimed to kill them.
Luffy attacked them with his all, they survived by their incredible endurance.
A normal man would be dead in their place. There was no doubt about it, punches that can crack stone walls, punches that make the air itself tremble. A normal man would not have survived.
After Ace's death, Luffy became very bloodthirsty.
Perhaps it was a side effect of going through puberty but he found that he liked killing very much, battling and crushing opponents with just his body was very satisfying.
And Luffy knew that this love for combat, for conflict, came from his blood.
His own grandfather, Monkey D. Garp was a great example.
The Hero of the marines... His Grandfather's hobby was bringing captured pirates, and other fodder and executing them in front of his 5-year-old grandson, the old man drew much enjoyment from that...
That psychopathic old man...
Dadan, kind and irritable Dadan.
Dadan who took on the duties of a mother for Luffy wasn't a great role model either as she frequently kidnapped people from the Goa Kingdom for ransom, the corrupt nobles often went back on their accord, not wanting to pay money to release the hostages.
And it often led to the deaths of officials, the kidnapped, and the family involved...
So yeah, his childhood was filled with bad role models and the only good ones were Makino who had taken the role of his older sister and a pirate who had arrived and stayed there for a month, an Emperor of all things as a good role model, it was comical.
...Did Luffy care about all the killings his dysfunctional family committed?
Of course not, he did not care for the lives of fodder, of unrelated people, even if they screamed for his help, like that little noble girl Dadan kidnapped that one time, he did not care one bit when Dadan bashed her little head in rage.
He did not care when she cried, bleeding with her skull deformed, he continued eating the precious meat from the tiger he had hunted while she crawled towards him, stopping midway as she died.
He only protected the things he liked, and destroyed things he hated, he was selfish like that and perhaps the most selfish person in this world.
Yet people loved him for his selfishness, his charisma hiding his ugly side. He agreed to protect and save this country because he liked it, he liked the people, he liked the Queen and princess, he liked how the island looked, he liked the mermaids and the kinky sex he had performed with that group.
Inside his own mind, this kingdom was already his land, as well as any other land in the sea, after all he would be the future Pirate King…
That possessive behavior, viewing everything as his came from his biological mother. She too viewed everything as hers, at least from the report he read... he couldn't blame her, because of her circumstances of blood and birth.
"...We shall execute them, as per laws, they attacked and kidnapped royal family members...there is only one punishment. However there is no way to execute all of them. We shall banish most of the humans involved, as well as some Fishmen, the rest shall have their heads lopped off in a secret location… Making a public execution of hundreds of thousands of criminals isn't great for the government after all." Otohime said with pity in her tone, her harsh side appearing.
"Luffy, you shall be this island's hero, for that goal to be achieved, you shouldn't show too much brutality, do you understand?" Otohime asked.
"Mhm," Luffy nodded, however, he sighed. "Hero? I don't want to be one…" Luffy complained.
"Why not?!" Jimbei asked.
"We are pirates, you know... I love heroes, but I don't want to be one."
"Huh?" Otohime was confused.
"For example, you have some meat, right? Pirates will feast on all the meat, but heroes will share the meat among the people...I want to eat all the meat!"
"What with his strange standards…"
Nami said, sweat dropping, but in the end, she looked over Luffy caringly. Robin giggled at his antics. Franky, Usopp, and Zoro nodded in agreement, somehow understanding his logic. Chopper mumbled about wanting all of the cotton candy, and Sora was mumbling all of the meat recipes for the next feast.
"Um, I will give you all the meat, so just listen to the rest of my plan Luffy," Otohime said.
"Got it!" Luffy responded without delay.
"Yosh!" Otohime cheered and grinned at him.
"Just like that?!" Chopper said, shocked.
"I want you to infiltrate the plaza to retrieve the document of Saint Mjosgard, which was stolen a few days ago, no doubt it was them. They will also have the key to the bindings of my three sons. I want you to steal both of these."
"Hrm...Nami, can you do it? you are the only one who can turn invisible after all, and you are a stealing genius!" Luffy said with a praise, in the end, making her feel a little bashful.
"...Don't worry, you will not be hurt while I'm around." Luffy affirmed her.
"Un, I can do it, leave the stealing to me, Captain! And if Robin comes along too it will be fine!" Nami said smiling. Robin by her side nodded.
"When my precious sons are released Shirahoshi shall call for your help, Luffy, you will then make a showy entrance… This will shift the public's opinion favorably by your side, morale will be high as you aid me and Jimbei deal with the threat" Otohime said grinning, leaning her 12-foot form in a friendly and charismatic manner.
"Hah...I'm only doing this because I like this place, but I'm telling this upfront if anyone cheers me on it will be a turn-off," Luffy said with a fake reprimanding tone.
"If those busty, sexy mermaids cheer me on I'll even take on the Demon king!" Sora said as she lustfully dreamed of a night of pure debauchery with the mermaids, heart symbols comically appeared around her head as a pink aura surged forth.
"Everyone...You have my sincere thanks!" Otohime, unbefitting of her position bowed to them, the crew became bashful at the thanks, like always, they were weak to praise.
Luffy got into a thoughtful pose.
"Hmm…"
"...Still worried about something?" Jimbei asked.
"A strategy name is important!"
"Like we need that! Hurry it up!" Nami cried as they made preparations.
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Hody looked at the sky as he chugged fistful of pills rapidly, he put his remaining arm on the ground and raised himself up, cracking the ground, he glared in hatred.
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"—Straw Hat Luffy might be a pirate and a human but he is on our side, right? He is our ally, right?" A citizen asked, with relief on his tone.
"—Shirahoshi-sama asked him to save us!"
"—They've come to save the country with Boss Jimbei!"
"—Straw Hat! Straw Hat! Straw Hat! "
"—Straw Hat! Straw Hat! Straw Hat! "
The public cheered eating up the immensely abrupt and catastrophic entry, as Luffy saved the Royal family from being killed.
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Zeo heard those cheers and got irritated.
"Fufufu! Quite the popularity you have there!" Zeo said with a high and mighty attitude.
"Don't get carried away just because you took back the Royal Family for now! You human trash!" Zeo said with pride.
"Okay, at least I arrived on time." Luffy said, putting his hat on top of his head.
"Oi Luffy, don't go ahead, we need to follow the plan!" Zoro said.
"I guess there is no helping it now!" Jimbei said.
"Oi, Hoshi-chan, are you okay?" Luffy asked.
"…WANNABE PIRATES!" Zeo screamed, continuing his spiel, but was ignored completely.
"What's with the goldfish just now?!" Franky asked.
"I am alright Luffy-sama" Shirahoshi answered, a little bashful as she smiled lovingly at him.
"It was the same goldfish that lead us to the palace along with the Shark!" Usopp answered Franky's question. It belonged to the Queen as a sort of pet and transportation. Since the Queen was a Goldfish mermaid, communicating with goldfishes was a natural born talent.
"Luffy!" Nami came close to him, grabbed his wrists, and pulled the muscular arm with all of her strength.
"How dare you do such an attack, what if it hit me when I was invisible?!"
Nami ranted with sharp teeth, she was in the plaza when the giant gust of wind blew and Luffy punched Hody, so she was undeniably frightened that she would have been caught in the attack.
"Don't worry, I knew where you were, and I'll never hit you Nami. You're to beautiful to be hurt. "
Luffy answered petting her orange hair with care.
Soon Nami blushed, and looked down, hiding her eyes and entering her little world.
"Hey, we got two new weapons, anyone wants to ride?!"
Franky asked, drawing some attention from the crew.
"Whaaaat? New weaponsssss!"
Usopp asked with stars in his eyes.
Soon they started chatting like normal day to day life, ignoring the 700 thousand strong and menacing army around them.
We saw Luffy talking to Nami, Sora and Zoro, with Shirahoshi shyly interjecting their conversation, she was so isolated that she didn't know how to interact well with people.
Jimbei was conversing with Brook and Robin and the Queen who was still in a bit of a shock while Chopper was caught in treating her and salivating at the prospects of a new weapon.
Zeo tried to interrupt their conversation by yelling louder and louder but was summarily ignored.
"They've ignored us. Kya! Kya!" Daruma said clenching his teeth.
"That's because I said it quietly on purpose!" Zeo said with a strong voice and a glare, crossing his arms in pride.
Nami gave the letter to Queen Otohime with a smile. Who snapped back into attention, Otohime picked up the documents with her non-bloody hands. The Queen thanked the red-haired big-breasted navigator of the Straw Hats, the Queen's smile was genuine despite the circumstances.
"My daughter… Shirahoshi, did I neglect you?" Otohime asked the hardest question she had to ask in her life, a lump was caught in her throat, her heart seized.
Shirahoshi couldn't answer, so she turned her face to the side completely averting her eyes so that she did not have to look at her mother.
Luffy grabbed his hat in silence as his crew didn't know what to say.
"...I see…" Otohime closed her eyes.
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"...Vander Decken was useless!"
Hody said approaching the plaza once again, his wounds were steaming, as the hole in his right side healed, the bleeding of his dismembered arm stopped, he was without his right arm, imbalanced, he walked, not caring.
"—Captain Hody!"
"I need Shirahoshi to be taken care of as soon as possible. I fell right into your trap, right Otohime? I should have noticed when you let yourself get caught so obediently."
Hody said, it was obvious in hindsight.
Hody looked at Jimbei in loathing, the legendary First son of the Sea mingling with the humans so casually it was revolting.
"You sure are friendly with humans huh? Jimbei! I can't stand your sort the most. Traitors like you need to die!"
Hody said as Jimbei faced him.
"You grew up in the Fishmen district with Fisher Tiger and your oath-brother Arlong! And they were both taken down by humans! And to choose to side with humans instead of avenging your brethren?! You are a coward worse than the late Neptune!"
Hody said with rage in his eyes.
"But when I become king, everything will change! The reverie that will be held this year is the perfect opportunity! I'll murder all the kings of the world At Marie Geoise...And the legend of the Undersea Kingdom will be born! Humans all over the world will be dragged down to the bottom of the sea and made into slaves!"
"And before long, no one will be able to oppose my kingdom anymore."
"Look at these human pirates under my hold!"
Hody motioned to the defeated looking humans with collars on their neck.
"This is your future, Straw Hat!"
Hody said, and after a pause, he continued with the wrong declaration.
"I'll be the true pirate king!"
Hody said to the most selfish person in the world.
"Pirate king…?"
Luffy said in a deadly serious tone, his eyes were shadowed by the hat.
"Jahaha! What can 10 measly pirates and an injured Queen do?! I have 700 thousand people here! Have a look at them! My new Fishman pirates!"
"—UWOOO!"
The pirates raised their arms, carrying all manners of weapons and charged forward, encircling the ship.
"—How does the Straw Hats and boss Jimbei plan to win with just 10 people?" A citizen asked worriedly.
"—It doesn't matter, they need to win, for the future of our country" A reasonable person watching commented.
"Kill them all!"
Hody gave out his orders.
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Chopper screamed in fright of the numbers, crying rivers in fear as he finished the gauze around the Queen's stomach, soon she lifted off the ground, completely shrugging of her wounds and transformed her tail into scaly legs. She extended her right hand as purple tentacles shot out from her hand, soon an eye was formed, and there her corrupted trident surged forward however the three-pointed tongues retracted, leaving the trident as a staff, she maneuvered the staff.
"It looks like we will be crushed before we even get the chance to fight," Robin aloofly crossed her arms ready to attack.
"Crushed? Scary!" Usopp leaned his body as he cried in fear.
"So 700 thousand enemies, it is certainly an astonishing amount, it almost makes your eye pop out! Ah! But then again, I don't have eyes to pop out—Yohoho."
Brook said, unsheathing his blade as a frosty air came about, he narrowed his eyes, ready to battle.
"It seems my time has finally come," Franky said posing hard. "Supeeeer! Armored me!"
Almost Immediately a tiny yellow hand came out of his larger blue and red one, it mentioned for all enemies to come at him, he taunted them.
"Now, come at me wherever you want!" Franky glared at them.
"700 thousand huh? This is going to take a while; I can't kill them!"
Sora sighed in exasperation, however she gazed at the Kraken perched on top of the wall. Her Captain ordered her to capture it for his feast. A Rivabella, perhaps a Takoyaki, Sashimi, Sushi? Dish ideas burst forth from her imagination.
"Numbers don't matter, they aren't the Marine elites or anything…"
Zoro gripped his Wado Ichimonji.
However, as their numbers approached, there was someone here that wasn't that concerned.
Luffy wasn't amused in the slightest that the enemy was sending pure trash on their way to him.
He walked forward without a care in the world and ignoring the calls of his crew, ignoring the men wielding swords, axes, and daggers aimed at his direction.
Luffy frowned as his grey eyes turned pure glowing white for a second, as a wave of black lightning with red outlines boomed in the plaza.
The lightning dispersed a huge shockwave that trembled the earth itself, as all men facing him fell by his will.
Their eyes widened in fear, dropping their blades, and almost immediately their bodies crashed into the ground unconscious. Their mouth frothing blood, their eyes rolled to the back of their skull, this was his terrifying will.
His Conqueror's Haki.
The enemies crashed unconscious in droves, shortly enough Luffy could only detect more than 100 thousand pirates still conscious, including the main leaders of the enemies.
Luffy caressed the three metal bracelets in his arm, they blocked the use of most of his powers over Exponentials, as well as his power over God, model Indra, as well as a good portion of his physical prowess and Haki.
Luffy wanted to take down every fodder here but this was his limit being chained down.
It was a good thing his Haki was chained down, after all his Haki of the Supreme King was quite dangerous, in full force it could kill a person of fright, literally, their heart starts to beat erratically and then it starts quivering instead of beating, adrenaline pumps too fast causing death.
While he hadn't tested his strongest Haki on humans yet, instead testing on animals who were a lot stronger than a normal human proved that it was deadly, he smirked, it was time to see the growth of his comrades, he did not feel any pity for the enemy, they were only stepping stones to the dreams of his crew.
Only silence remained as the whole kingdom watched as 600 thousand criminals dropped unconscious just like that, the citizen's eyes lit up as they picked up their jaws from the ground, the children could only cheer.
Hody widened his eyes in dread.
Soon the remaining troops started screaming and blaming each other.
The public was very confused, but also happy.
"You can do it if you want to can't you, young God," Madam Sharley said, smiling.
"This is Haki…" Robin said as the Straw Hats had their jaw dropped.
"He got this far in just two years?" Jimbei exclaimed.
"So he had the Haki of the Supreme King after all." Sora said smiling.
"If he couldn't do this much, then we'd have to get a new Captain." Zoro said to her with a smirk.
"Amazing Luffy-sama…" Shirahoshi said, surprised.
He has the same power as me… Otohime thought.
In hindsight it was obvious, he is a young God, after all, a God's ambitions are stronger than a King's huh?
Otohime closed her eyes, she faced her daughter again, showing a bit of sadness, her daughter was strong, but she had to mend their relationship.
"Hody or whatever it was, I don't really care either way. You can play kingdom all you want by yourself, however there is no need for more than one King of Pirates. There is just one seat and it's already filled by me."
Luffy said frowning at him, his eyes returned to the stormy glowing grey it was before.
Luffy jumped, disappearing from the enemy view, his jump leads him to a cluster of enemies.
The pirates looked up at his menacing form, shadowed by the light as he descended like a catapult.
"—HERE HE COMES!"
A pirate screamed with fright.
Luffy landed on the ground, splitting it apart in a huge boom, knocking many people like an earthquake, his left heel was trapped to the floor, but a quick lift and the leg was free from the crater formed, as many as 200 soldiers were knocked out.
"Hmph, 700 thousand, a million a billion, bring as many as you want, it will not change the result in the slightest" Luffy's hard voice boomed across, terrifying the enemies.
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"Ok, let's go!" Jimbei said, adjusting his stance.
"Yes," Otohime said, spinning her staff causing a large gust of wind.
"Will they surrender first or be annihilated before that?" Zoro said excited, smirking.
"I won't let you destroy the Mermaid's paradise. I still have to bed as many mermaids as I can,"
Sora said, buttoning her formal red shirt and adjusting her tiny tie to her bust, she lifted her long legs, as she prepared to destroy these fools.
"There are many priceless artifacts and treasures that lie here, I will not allow you to destroy them," Robin said with a smiling.
"It's getting so hot, the ideal day for a concert, are we ready baby~?! Hoooyeah~!" Brook swiped his blade as a chilly air overtook his presence.
Inside the Sunny Franky tinkered with the new weapons. "Let's go Sunny! The new weapon of the 'Soldier Dock System'..."
"Now I'm getting excited," Nami said, pressing her shoulder on Usopp's face unintentionally making it hard to breathe for him.
"I'm the pilot!" Chopper said as stars blinked behind him.
"It's showtime!" Franky said.
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"600 thousand may have fallen. But don't fear, 100 thousand still remain!" The enemy commanders did their hardest to regain morale.
Luffy stepped on a mountain of bodies, as the crew gathered around it.
"600 thousand, are you serious Luffy, let some of them for us," Zoro said removing the top of his green kimono, and putting his bandanna on.
"Oh, right, sorry!" Luffy stepped on someone's toe and crushing it.
"The Straw Hat pirates are the greatest obstacles to our proud ambitions! Jimbei is the biggest traitor of all, he betrayed both his brothers and searched to mingle with the disgusting humans." Zeo continued, being ignored by the Straw Hats.
"And Otohime, she is destined to lead this Kingdom to ruin, don't falter now soldiers, our dreams are almost complete!" Zeo said with pride.
"HAAAAAAHHHHH~~!" The crowd of pirates cheered.
"Hey leave at least 70,000 for me, I'll also kill that Kraken, we need a feast after all" Sora said, her grey low heeled shoes stepped on a man's balls as she walked among the unconscious bodies.
"Shut up shitty cook!" Zoro said.
"Say that again moss head, and it will be your head flying off!" Sora said.
"So, you think you can protect that huge princess, right in the middle of the plaza," Hody lifted his left arm, the only remaining arm and prepared a water shot, the same that pierced through the country earlier.
"Then go ahead and try!" Hody winded and threw the shot, aimed at the princess. "Water Shot!"
Luffy smiled.
The bubble traveled at extreme speeds, Jimbei wanted to intervene, but Luffy stopped Jimbei's hand who was holding his own water shot.
"Oh…" Shirahoshi watched the bubble of water travel towards her and extended a hand.
The water shot splashed into her open palm and did nothing, no wounds at all, it was like a drop of cool water fell into her hands.
Hody's jaw dropped.
Shirahoshi was also a natural born monster.
She was born as a world destroyer; a simple water bubble wouldn't do a thing to her.
"She is not that weak Jimbei…"
Luffy jumped towards another cluster of enemies, grappling their arms or legs, crushing their bones, and punching their stomach as weakly as possible, he danced around the enemies, as his 6'8" muscled lean frame avoided any and all attacks, while his own attacks, not meant to kill, crippled every enemy he encountered, after all why need arms, legs or spine if you are going to be executed later on.
Brook rushed towards a group of enemy shooters and slashed them all before they could even see.
"Santouryuu: Kokujou: Ootatsumaki"
Zoro made whirlwinds with his blade, reverse gripped so it wouldn't kill them, the three whirlwinds traveled across the plaza, seeking enemies and swallowing them, they didn't stop, continuously hunting enemies to oblivion.
Sora had the same idea as Luffy, she kicked the enemies arms or legs, dislocation and crushing their bones, sometimes she would hit the small of the back, severing the spine. They were all debilitating hits that made them scream into unconsciousness, however soon she was surrounded by spiky Fishmen.
She did a small jump waving her long and thick left leg in 360° fashion, a slice of wind took them all out, this was Rankyaku, or at least her bastardised version of it.
Sora also managed to hold back — a full force would just slice them in half as well as the whole kingdom — Her weakest Rankyaku was just enough to cut their stomach and put them into unconscious, they would survive a few days without care, but they would eventually bleed out,.
While the men fell bleeding she graciously touched the ground with her pretty shoes, and jumped again, this time was not a light jump, no she went 20-feet into the air and kicked the air again, making a foothold because of the force. She eventually faced the merman with bubbles and spears coming to attack the princess and then she kicked the air in front of her, causing an air cannon that popped their bubbles and crushed their spine and tailbone as they fell towards the ground 60-feet up, that was to their deaths.
A comical dust cloud hid their bodies as they crashed, and to be honest, they weren't prohibited to kill, they were only prohibited of showing brutality and since the crowd was so far away they could still kill a few of them if absolutely necessary.
She waved at Shirahoshi and the princess waved back, calling her name.
Robin chanted with her power over flowers as two hands appeared in every soldier in a cluster of a thousand of them, they choked them into unconsciousness, or broke their backs, or even pulled their arm, dislocating their shoulder, soon she took a thousand, all by herself, then continued producing more hands without stopping.
Then it was time to unveil new weapons of the Sunny, a large motorbike and a huge tank, both were incredibly efficient at destroying the enemy crowd, the bike was being manned by Franky as he ran over a lot of them, the tank was being manned by Chopper Usopp and Nami. Chopper in command and Usopp aiming, while Nami shot thunderstorms across the field.
Jimbei and the Queen joined the fray, the Queen's incredible speed as well as grace with the Staff made short work out of everyone who approached her daughter, while Jimbei's crowd control and water manipulation were superb as always.
"Sea beasts go!"
Hody ordered the 11 sea beast that he kept as pets, among them was the White bear fish monstrosity that destroyed Neptune's forces, they all roared and rushed forward but Luffy stopped his rampage, seeing the animals, he could use Haki again to take them down.
But he had a more fun idea, he put his fingers on the floor, pushed the fingers into the stone ground, piercing it, soon he hand five fingers dug into the ground, he then dragged the fingers on across as if he was dragging his fingers across sand instead of hard rock, that's how strong his fingers were, breaking the earth and forming gravel and small stones in his hands, he grasped a handful of gravel and closed his fist, he raised himself up and looked at each of the beasts.
Luffy used the power over exponentials and he threw the gravel at the beasts and in the middle of the travel they expanded to be the size of small meteorites which hit all of the beasts and crushed them to death as each formed a crater on the ground.
— The way his fruit worked was that he picked a value of the way he perceived nature and then exponentially rise it to whatever value he wanted, be it 2, be it 6, be it a 1000 and then adding it to the original value. For example, the small rocks he formed on the ground were only 5 cubic centimeters, he put this value to the exponential value of 6, calculating it to a little more than 15 cubic meters, transforming small pebbles into truck-sized meteorites that rained down on the unfortunate beasts, well it at least killed them instantly.
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"—They are incredible! They really are, they are only above 10 people and taking on 700,000 enemies without breaking a sweat." A mermaid said as she watched Luffy fight more cluster of enemies.
More and more statements of awe were spoken as they watched the spectacle, the distance helped mask the more brutal strikes that the Straw Hats gave to the enemy, leaving only the spectacular combat that the Straw Hat crew gave them, their theatrics in combat was entertaining to watch, their antics made them laugh, it was all to mask the brutality occurring in the battlefield.
"—Straw Hat!" "—Queen Otohime!" "—Big boss Jimbei"
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"...Ignorant fools…"
Hody became ever impatient with his decreasing numbers.
"Kraken!... Enter the plaza! Crush them underfoot! put an end this farce!"
Hody ordered his frustration was made clear with his expression as he periodically put more pills in his mouth, it was his newly found addiction.
Luffy tore through the army like a bullet, picking up two people by their shins with one hand and throwing them like ragdolls across from the plaza, he kicked a person in the knees, making the leg bend until the feet touch the hip, he elbowed another in the back and focused his attention on the Kraken.
"That Octopus…." Luffy drooled.
Sora saw the Octopus approaching, and just like before, she jumped towards it so fast that she raised a white wind cloud behind her, as she instantly approached the Kraken and hit its head with a concasser, the Kraken once again fainted from the blow, as Sora wanted to kill it before cooking so that the meat remained fresh for serving.
Dropping gracefully near the unconscious octopus, she picked one of its eight tentacles full of sharp hooks, and dragged its body to the center of the plaza, near Shirahoshi and the ship, when it was done, she returned to the battle.
"Tch…." Hody glowered at them, as his troops took massive hits after massive hits he put his one remaining hand on the healed stump in his arm, his rage started to peak.
"—Damn! The Kraken that was controlled by captain Hody." A Fishman pointing his blade forward sweat bullets.
"—It was defeated that easily!"
Another pirate next to him said, however, their attention was suddenly grabbed by the dark shadow approaching them at extreme speeds.
Their hearts sank as they saw the raven hair, the grey eyes, it was Luffy coming at them, he smirked as he kicked one in the hips breaking all of the lower bones as well as the spine. One he punched in the shoulder, turning muscle and bone into dust. One he grabbed in the midsection and kicked his thighs, bending the leg by the femur. Another he threw like a cannonball towards another group. Then in a show he picked one by the neck, lifted his body and dropped him on his head, this one was dead. One came with a huge sword, finally this group started to fight back. Luffy easily avoided the sword thrust and punched the elbow of the extended arm, finally he swiped his feet, dislocating the ankles as the enemy fell.
It was unfortunate that he couldn't kill here, it wouldn't be such a labor to hold back, his lightning powers were so strong that even a small discharge from his fingers could stop a man's heart as well as burn their bodies to ash depending on the heat he would output. Truly his whole body was a death machine that could barely hold back.
"Huh? What? Everyone's avoiding us?!" Chopper looked around as the cannon shot again, blasting another group into oblivion.
"So you must hold fear for the might of our fleet!" Chopper said in a serious commander voice or tried to.
"Hmph! Comrades, we shall use this chance to attack the enemy leaders! Forward, full throttle!" Chopper ordered as the tank moved.
"Huh, Commander Chopper, the tank is trembling for some reason," Usopp said, Nami was lying down in the back.
Soon a pitfall appeared right under them and swallowed the tank. Daruma, the tiny Fishman dug his way out of the ground, he explained that he dug tunnels on the ground with his teeth to booby-trap the area. He then focused his attention on the giant bike Franky was piloting. However Franky saw that the crew inside the tank were having some trouble and rode there and he fell on the same pitfall, bike and all.
Daruma was shocked by the sheer stupidity however soon Franky threw Usopp Chopper and Nami out of the hole, disregarding their complaints, Franky fired up both machine as they combined in spectacular.
"Now it's time Iron Pirate: Franky Shogun!" Franky yelled as the giant machine was unveiled, the metal shined in the sunlight.
Franky Shogun was a giant robot 40 feet in height modeled after Franky. It was made by combining the Bike Kurosai FR-U IV and the Brachio Tank V. Though several times the size of the average person, It was built out of Wapometal. It bore the BF-38 on its left collar and a black Straw Hat Jolly Roger in the middle of its golden chest.
The head, legs, and torso were wide, the torso was cylindrical, while the arms were thick, the giant robot made machine and piston sounds as it moved.
"Esteemed genius, Vegapunk! Your dream has come true! I succeeded in developing a shape-memory alloy — Wapometal!"
"—What's that?" The enemies screamed in shock.
"Awesome!" Luffy said, his eyes turned into star as he kicked someone in the waist and threw another corpse at another crowd.
Luffy was so taken by the robot he forgot he was combating fodder, a spear came at his neck aiming to skewer him but the spear shattered on impact, the man was so shocked he didn't pay attention to Luffy colliding with him, the sheer force and speed as well as Luffy's weight in muscle, crushed the man.
—It was like a person getting run over by a bullet train really, the guy just flew off in a comical bloody mess.
"The combined robot of our dreams!" Usopp and Chopper.
Nami stared at it with a bored face.
"The marauder's sword!Fran—ken!" Franky Shogun drew its blade it was as big as its body.
The giant mech slashed the giant blade and split the plaza in half, the shockwave lifted thousands upon thousands of enemies in the air, The pirates hadn't the time to be shocked at the mass of metal jumped so fast like it didn't weight 100 tons.
It rushed towards the battlefield, rolling around and jumping, flattening the enemies under its weight, the sheer comical sight of it steamrolling the enemy retracted from the gore it produced and while jumping around holes opened in his shoulder and body. The ones in the shoulder had missiles and in the body there were mini cannons aimed at the outlaws, and now you had a metal construct steamrolling the enemy, jumping around effortlessly while it launched guided missiles as well as shooting cannonballs and exploding in the enemy's face.
"Cannon from the body and missiles from the shoulders…" Luffy looked on, stars blinked behind him showing his excitement that betrayed his stern look.
That thing is pretty destructive; you've built yourself a weapon of war didn't you Franky?
Luffy assumed an extravagant art critic pose as he examined the Franky Shogun.
What did I say about holding back and not killing?
Otohime looked at the death and destruction it caused, and then looked at her citizens, they were still cheering like it was an action performed on a theater, the good guys beat down the bad guy and win, they were eating it up, the cool explosions were also a huge bonus for them, or so Otohime thought.
Well, I'll let it slide.
Otohime bashed the next group of enemies, they were becoming increasingly sparse.
"That's so cool! Too cool man!"
Usopp praised as chopper jumped around in excitement.
Robin stared at it dispassionately, more flowers appeared near the enemies, creating hands and crushing them.
A group approached Nami, as one slashed his blade, she sidestepped the blow, bashing his head with her Clima-Tact, he dropped to the ground as she split the staff into three parts, pointing one part at the group she smiled.
"Gust sword"
A giant spear of wind traveled across the battlefield, piercing everything under the power of wind.
"Crap, I ended up outside!"
Usopp said as he saw an army full of soldiers rushing at him, they closed their distance rather fast.
"But stand your ground Usopp! You're not like you used to be!"
Usopp said as he psyched up.
Usopp also joined the fray, he threw pop greens into the battlefield with the help of his sling, the plants that surged forward were poisonous in nature, with a knockout gas effect, as well as carnivorous plants with grassy tentacles and a strong acidic substance in their mouth, that did not cause death, but it would hurt like hell as your skin would melt, so much that it would make the strongest of persons faint.
"Heracles~un-sensei! Those death-defying years in the bandit forest are something that I'll never forget! The prologue on the 'Great Adventures of the mythical warrior of the sea Usopp' is over! It's time for the first chapter on this man's adventure, full of tales of sorrow and loss, full of tales of happiness and adventure"
Usopp screamed to the heavens.
XOX
"—Those pirates fight with such fervor," A citizen said, completely eating up the action
"—It's like they are addicted to battle!" Another said cheering.
XOX
Daruma was digging tunnels upon tunnels underneath, he thought he was safe, however he was suddenly impaled and forced out by a huge horn. He was still fine despite a hole in his shoulder that was bleeding profusely, soon a creature got out of the hole,.
It was Chopper, transformed into a horned form, he approached Daruma faster than he could react, instantly transforming into arm point, his biceps, triceps, and shoulders became extremely muscular in a human-esque form and he retained his hooves.
"Arm point: Kokutei Roseo"
Chopper punched the opponent with such a force that his hoof left an imprint on Daruma's caved chest that looked like a cherry petal, the Fishmen flew in the air until a bamboo shoot grew on where he would land, impaling him by under the jaw until the head, killing Daruma.
"Pop green: Bamboo Javelin." Usopp said, smirking.
"Nice, Usopp, now to kill the other enemy leaders," Chopper said transforming into Walk point, his four-legged deer form.
Soon most of the conflict was resolved, most of the enemy grunts were defeated or dead, as the excitement grew their imposed self-control waned as they started to kill more and more, however, it was of no concern as the public, in general, was eating it up, and not focusing enough on the gory parts, they were also far away so it helped a lot in that regard.
In total Franky Shogun won in the contest of defeating more people if you don't count Luffy instantly defeating 600 thousand enemies in one go, as he defeated more than 19 thousand and killed more than 120 thousand, as it steamrolled through the already defeated enemies.
Second was Zoro defeating 15 thousand followed closely by Sora and Luffy, each with 14 thousand, Zoro pulled ahead, despite lazing around because his reverse grip allowed for non-deadly attacks and he had a better grasp at crowd control than the other two, Luffy's and Sora's skill relied on very deadly blows because of their immense physical prowess, while true Zoro who had an equal physical prowess, he also boasted of a finesse while handling his blades, that made him control his strength so as not to kill many of them, Luffy, Zoro and Sora killed very little, their total body count didn't reach a hundred combined.
Brook came in fourth due to his unbelievable speed, his nimbleness and little weight made him faster than the eye could perceive, he defeated 12 thousand, and 9 thousand died from his strikes, while the rest lay bleeding, waiting for death, he mostly disregarded the order of not to kill early on.
Robin came fifth, her abilities made short work of everyone, defeating 11 thousand enemies, she mostly observed,
Usopp, Nami, and Chopper combined efforts with the Brachio tank, Usopp's pop green and Nami's thunderclouds landed them in sixth place with 9 thousand defeated, and very few were actually killed by them, but they were more than a thousand dead or dying because of the brachio tank.
Otohime, who mainly protected her daughter and didn't participate much in the conflict, defeated 6 thousand.
Luffy calmly walked, shrugging off his rampage, closed the distance between him and Hody.
"..."
Hody stared at him, a bit of sanity left, as most of his troops laid defeated, the only remaining grunts numbered in the hundreds, some tried to flee but he hit them with some Shark arrows.
"Here he comes…Monkey D. Luffy!"
Hody said, passing his hand on the healed hole in his right side, it was healed, but the skin was purple-black, contrasting to his white skin — he still missed a liver and a few ribs from his body, never to heal.
"—Kill him!" A few men tried to rush forward but they were stopped by Dosun.
"You guys can't—Kabon!" Dosun said, winding his hammer.
"Leave it to u—Much!" Ikaros said, preparing to skewer Luffy as he passed them by.
They struck, but both were blocked by Zoro and Sora. Dosun's giant hammer shattered in contact with Zoro's blades and Ikaros had his jaw kicked so hard it fell off his head, bleeding profusely as the lower part of the skull fell on the ground with a wet sound.
Zoro and Sora sidestepped as a big ball of storm produced by Nami hit Ikaros and at the same time a feminine leg sprouted from the ground by Robin, bigger than any giant hit Dosun, both were launched into the air and as a final execution, both were hit by a homing missile from Franky Shogun, ending them completely.
"He's Coming!"
Hody said, not paying attention to his subordinate's death.
Soon Luffy disappeared from view, kicking him hard in the lower stomach, causing another hole in the wall behind Hody as his body was buried by the rubble produced.
Luffy, then looked back, his focus was on the horizon, his eyes sharpened as his body was filled with rage, his wrath turned the world black and white, literally.
Otohime also looked back, as a shadow approached from the Horizon, a giant mountain of a ship made its way to the island.
"That's the Ark of the promise, Noah!" Otohime said between gasps of surprise.
As the continental-sized ship encroached the island, with no signs of stopping.