The year was 1522 of the Sea Calendar.
Atop Onigashima in Wano Country, the New World.
Dark clouds shrouded the sky as thunder rumbled.
Luffy, transford into the Sun God Nika form, grasped lightning in his hand as he clashed with the Yonko Kaido!
"It ends here, Kaido! Onigashima in the way! Get out of my sight! I'm gonna smash it to pieces!" Luffy roared, his rubber arms stretching infinitely as his body swelled.
In an instant, his right fist expanded to half the size of Onigashima itself.
He unleashed his full Armant Haki, coating the massive fist in pitch-black darkness.
Lightning crackled across the surface of his fist—divine power like a prison!
"[Fla Dragon Torch]!"
A colossal dragon over 800 ters long erupted in raging flas, the intense heat distorting the very air.
"That fist of yours won't land! Your body will lt before it reaches !" Kaido roared, charging toward the mountainous black fist with overwhelming heat.
He opened his maw and unleashed flas capable of lting anything in existence!
"[Rising Dragon! Fla Bagua!]"
"I won't lt! The old man already taught how to attack without touching! I'll defeat you for good!" Luffy hair turned into white flas as his Conqueror's Haki erupted.
With a mighty roar, his colossal fist ca crashing down!
"[Gomu Gomu no... Bajrang Gun!]"
Kaido flaming dragon form collided with Luffy lightning-wreathed fist!
BOOM!!
The terrifying impact sent shockwaves rippling outward, instantly dispersing the fla clouds supporting Onigashima.
Without their support, the massive skull-shaped island began its deadly descent!
Baring his fangs, Kaido roared "Straw Hat! What kind of world do you intend to create?!"
"A world where all my friends can eat as much as they want!" Luffy unleashed every ounce of his power, his black-and-red Conqueror's Haki-infused strike hamring into Kaido head, forcing the hundred-ter-long flaming dragon downward inch by inch!
Kaido eyes widened in disbelief as Luffy colossal fist gradually overwheld him.
He couldn't accept that he would lose to Straw Hat Luffy!
In his final monts of consciousness, Kaido recalled his conversation with King.
"King, I know who Joy Boy is."
"Who?"
"Joy Boy... is the man who will defeat ."
King had laughed "Then it seems he'll never appear."
Kaido began to fall!
Down he plumted, along with the massive Onigashima, toward the ocean below.
As Kaido fading vision caught sight of the enormous sword falling from Onigashima, he suddenly stiffened.
His pupils dilated as a voice like thunder exploded in his mind!
"No... Onigashima will shatter... That man will erge... Joy Boy might not be you after all, Straw Hat!"
With an earth-shattering crash, Kaido struck the ground, causing mountains to crumble and the earth to collapse layer by layer, sending his body tumbling into the magma below.
At the critical mont, Momonosuke barely managed to create fla clouds, wrapping them around Onigashima to slow its descent until—THUD—it landed safely.
"You were amazing! Absolutely incredible!" Yamato caught the exhausted Luffy, jumping with excitent.
Thus, two Yonko—Charlotte Linlin and Kaido—were both defeated, cast down into the depths of the magma below.
As everyone inside Onigashima withdrew and heard the joyous news, they erupted into thunderous cheers.
No one noticed the massive cracks beginning to spread across the enormous skull of Onigashima.
The colossal longsword embedded diagonally in the skull trembled and humd, as if cheering in delight.
Deep beneath the island core, a gigantic figure slowly opened its eyes.
*****
Seven days later, as the world celebrated the transition between the old and new Emperors and Wano welcod its new ruler with a grand banquet in the Flower Capital...
At the Udon Prison in the quarries
A middle-aged man with disheveled hair, bare-chested and draped in a Justice cloak, extended his left hand.
His five fingers transford into long vines that pierced through and restrained the Beast Pirates mbers wearing seastone cuffs.
The vines pulsed with bulging lumps that made gulping sounds, writhing as though alive.
This was the Marine Headquarters' new Admiral - Ryokugyu, Aramaki.
The vines tightly bound Queen and King, their tips penetrating the two All-Stars' bodies, continuously draining their life force.
Queen obese fra withered into a gaunt, ancient husk resembling a dying old man.
With cold indifference, Ryokugyu kicked Queen body with his black leather shoes, sneering.
"I told you not to resist, didn't I? If I got taken down by re officers, where would that leave my dignity?"
"Admiral Ryokugyu? Damn you! Without these seastone cuffs, even an Admiral couldn't defeat us so easily!" King spat blood as a vine impaled his chest, lifting him high.
"Still defiant, re officers? Even Kaido himself wouldn't be safe from my absorption!" Ryokugyu eyes turned vicious as he grabbed King remaining wing and tore it off with a cruel grin.
"Useless parasites defeated by children playing pirate. What a waste of decades building your fearso reputation. Emperors? Pathetic!"
As Ryokugyu spoke, the flowers spawned by his ability suddenly trembled. The ground began shaking violently.
From the distance ca thunderous cracking sounds.
Inky black clouds gathered overhead, plunging Udon into darkness.
"An earthquake? Volcanic eruption?" Ryokugyu frowned.
Then ca an earth-shattering explosion beyond the quarries, its shockwave rippling through the prison.
"A battle?"
Following the sound, Ryokugyu strode outside, his vines dragging Queen and King like snakes slithering at his feet.
Erging into open ground, he imdiately saw the source - a skull-shaped island with a giant sword embedded in it.
Now, the mountain-sized skull was fracturing apart.
"Onigashima?"
The skull island was none other than the Beast Pirates' stronghold.
BOOM!!
Another deafening roar shook heaven and earth - a furious bellow of pure rage!
"ROAAAAR!!! Kaido! My foolish little brother! You've finally been defeated!"
Ryokugyu pupils instantly contracted.
His fingers involuntarily loosened the vines binding Queen and King, causing the withered, near-death duo to collapse onto the ground.
"What... was that?" Queen and King weakly struggled to open their eyes, trying to make out what was happening on Onigashima.
Amid the swirling dust, a colossal figure slowly rose to its feet!
"What happened to the promise you made to ? You told , 'Big Bro! I will never lose! I will drag every nation, every noble into war—let fate be decided by battle!' "
Step by step, the figure strode out from the shattered ruins of Onigashima.
"Fine! I entrusted the world to you! I willingly slumbered at the heart of Onigashima! And yet... you still lost!"
At last, the massive figure revealed its true form.
His appearance bore an uncanny resemblance to Kaido, yet he seed younger—his face chiseled like stone, radiating unyielding strength.
Standing nine ters tall, his muscles coiled like dragons, crowned with horns identical to Kaido.
His mountainous fra even surpassed Kaido in sheer size!
Clenching his fists, he roared toward the sky's, his terrifying aura piercing the sky, tearing apart the dark clouds above!
"After thirty years of slumber... I, Caesar, will smash this wretched world to pieces!!"
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