"Although I roughly understand what you're trying to do... can you explain it more clearly?" Luffy continued picking his nose.
"What exactly is Nika?"
"You... don't even know what Nika is?"
"Huh, should I know that?" Luffy was taken aback. "Neither the Marines nor the Angel Alliance taught anything about it."
"To think that even the na of Nika has been lost by this era..." Joy Boy sighed in frustration, but eventually took a deep breath and began to explain.
"What is your Devil Fruit called?"
"Of course, it's the Gum-Gum Fruit, a Paracia type!" Luffy crossed his arms. "Even though I always doze off in cultural classes, I still know what my own Devil Fruit is."
"But that's the biggest problem!" Joy Boy pointed at Luffy's face and exclaid loudly. "Your Devil Fruit power should actually be the Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan Type, Nika!"
"Huh? The Human-Human Fruit, Nika?" Luffy's jaw dropped, completely caught off guard. "Wait, so I just went from Paracia to Zoan?"
"As strange as it sounds, that's the truth."
Seeing Luffy's stunned expression, Joy Boy suddenly wondered if this kid was truly capable of bearing the responsibility of Nika.
But among all the previous users of the Nika Fruit, only Luffy had managed to et him...
What else could he do?
Wait for the next person capable of eting him?
But what about Luffy? Could he just watch him die?
Joy Boy was never one to make such a choice.
So...
"Sigh, I just hope you won't let this power go to waste."
Joy Boy let out one final, heavy sigh, which echoed in Luffy's mind like the tolling of a great bell.
At the sa ti, the wounds on Luffy's body began to heal gradually.
And his heart, which had nearly stopped beating, suddenly gave a powerful thump.
Then, the "Drum of Liberation"—which had once resounded across the skies over eight hundred years ago, accompanied by the Holy Light of the Final Archangel, bringing liberation to the world—began to beat once more!
"Thump... thump..."
The deep yet unmistakable sound of a heartbeat echoed throughout Pangaea Castle.
Even Red-haired Shanks and Shamrock, locked in their life-and-death struggle, couldn't help but turn their attention toward it.
Especially Shamrock—to hear the "Drum of Liberation," recorded in the history of the Celestial Dragons, ringing before his very eyes... was nothing short of seeing a living ghost.
"Though I don't know why you're so afraid of this kid... judging by your expression, it seems my decision to steal that Devil Fruit from the World Governnt and give it to him was a wise one!" Red-haired Shanks smiled triumphantly as he watched Shamrock's reaction.
"Just seeing you upset makes feel much better!"
"So it was you... who stole the Nika Fruit back then!?"
"Don't spread rumors now. What I stole was the Paracia-type Gum-Gum Fruit..." Red-haired Shanks seized the opportunity to press forward, swinging Gryphon down with force.
Shamrock, caught off guard, could only barely defend himself, while Shanks continued without pause.
"But if you want to bla soone, bla Michael... after all, he was the one who told to do it."
Feeling the imnse pressure from the sword, Shamrock's expression darkened abruptly.
But the sound of the Drum of Liberation in his ears grew faster and louder, echoing through the heavens.
The next mont, the man who had been lying on the ground waiting to die after being ambushed suddenly sat up, gasping heavily for breath.
With each breath he took, his hair turned partially white.
After ten breaths, his hair and even his eyebrows had turned completely white, taking on the shape of flas.
And just like the black smoke clouds that appeared around the Cerberus Zoan Devil Fruit after its Awakening, the sa phenonon manifested around Luffy's body...
Except it was white.
"Hahahahaha! This is really interesting!"
"Shamrock, I rember every single slash you landed on just now."
"So next..."
"Let's begin round two!"
...
Outside the Empty Throne palace.
"Thorn: Crimson Lotus Hell!"
Somrs manipulated the sharp thorns that materialized out of thin air, launching attacks from both the air and the ground toward Yamato and Kozuki Toki.
anwhile, Killingham, who had surrounded them from behind, seized the opportunity to activate his hypnotic ability, attempting to subdue Yamato and Kozuki Toki without shedding blood. But...
"Hmph, such petty tricks... Is this all you so-called Knights of God have? Nothing but bullying the weak with these pathetic moves!?"
Kozuki Toki sharply twisted her body, the pair of fad swords in her hands—Lion's Eye and Lion's Heart—frantically absorbing the Armant Haki from within her.
Then, she crossed the two swords, clashing them together, sending sparks flying...
"Spark Rune Blade: Judgnt!"
Although Kozuki Toki lacked Michael's overwhelmingly powerful Holy Fla, the blazing flas engulfing her twin swords still possessed considerable destructive force.
And with this strike, she instantly slashed toward Chirlingom Saint.
The imnse power of the slash sealed off all possibilities for Chirlingom to evade.
"Damn it!" The perpetually lazy Killingham could no longer afford to be careless.
Cursing angrily, he raised his trident, channeling his Armant Haki to its fullest, attempting to withstand the attack head-on.
At that mont, countless materialized arrowheads appeared in front of him, colliding with Kozuki Toki's slash in advance...
By the ti they were torn apart by the sharpness and Armant Haki, they had already blocked a significant portion of the attack.
In the end, he managed to block the strike with his trident, sustaining only minor injuries.
The outco was far less severe than he had imagined.
But...
"Woman, are you underestimating too much?" Yamato's voice rang in Gunko's ear. "You actually have the leisure to protect others... It seems you Celestial Dragons at least have so positive feelings toward your own kind... But that only makes your disregard for others as human beings even more disgusting."
As soon as the words fell, the spiked club had already struck first, despite being launched later.
"Rumbling... Thunder Bagua!"
Conqueror's Haki coiled around Aken, and the swift, powerful strike, combined with the ice inherent to the Okuchi-no-Magami Form, landed squarely on Gunko's waist.
With a clear sound of shattering bones and an uncontrollable scream, Gunko was smashed into the ground.
The immortality granted by Lily was temporarily nullified under the influence of Conqueror's Haki.
Though she couldn't die, she also couldn't recover.
Yamato looked down from above, sneering at Gunko's eyes filled with defiance.
"Tsk, that look in your eyes makes it seem like I'm the villain here..."
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