"How arrogant..."
"Just a nobody under Orin, and you dare to speak such big words to us???"
Linlin wore a smile on her face, clearly not treating Enel and Tiger as real threats. Or rather, she believed that aside from a very small handful of people, no one in this world could stop the "Yonko Alliance."
Facing these words, Tiger remained silent, simply wringing the blood from his cloak. On the way here, he had dealt with a saber-toothed tiger who kept disrespecting fish-men. The guy kept shouting about [Black Gun] and [Red-Haired] being his enemies, which almost made Tiger laugh. He folded the opponent up like a flip phone in just a few moves.
But on the other side, Enel—who had just begun awakening the signs of Conqueror's Haki—was extremely displeased by such words. Blue lightning arcs were already bursting from his body.
"Hah??? You old hag, say that again if you've got the guts!!!"
Linlin and Enel immediately clashed, unable to stand each other.
"Prometheus!!!"
"Zeus!!!"
Linlin summoned Prometheus's blazing fireball, but Enel immediately called forth Zeus.
Compared to Nami, his compatibility with Zeus was far superior. As a thundercloud Homie that stored lightning, Enel controlled him as naturally as moving his own arm. When it came to accumulating lightning, Zeus was even more useful than his thunder drums.
"Hey!!! Zeus!!!"
"What do you think you're doing?!!!"
Prometheus angrily questioned the traitor, but Zeus wore a helpless yet blissful expression.
"It can't be helped… this guy is the user of the [Rumble-Rumble Fruit]..."
Before he could finish speaking, Zeus was already being controlled again, firing another bolt of lightning that struck Linlin and turned her hair into an explosive afro.
...
Meanwhile, Kaido stared at the figure before him. Though not particularly tall compared to him, the man radiated dangerous pressure.
"I remember you. That was many years ago, wasn't it?"
"The hero who liberated Mary Geoise—Fisher Tiger."
"So what? Has the former fish-man hero now become one of Orin's subordinates?"
Tiger merely looked at him calmly. Flowing Armament Haki appeared in his hands.
"The current me… is no longer any kind of hero."
Kaido's club suddenly swung down violently. Tiger's gaze sharpened as he opened the stance of Fish-Man Karate.
Both arms crossed before him, instantly wrapped in dense Ryuo.
A terrifying impact crashed down. Despite lacking Conqueror's Haki, Tiger—a single fish-man—was pushed backward slightly, yet he still firmly blocked the blow!
Seeing this, Kaido couldn't help recalling a man from the past. Someone who also lacked Conqueror's Haki, yet reached Admiral-level strength purely through supreme mastery of physical combat and Armament Haki.
And Tiger, relying on the natural talents of fish-men combined with relentless effort, had clearly reached that same realm.
"Wororororororo!!!"
"A fish-man, huh? Fine—let's slaughter each other!!!"
[Fish-Fish Fruit · Mythical Zoan] VS [The Strongest Fish-Man]
...
While the Yonko Alliance battled two monsters under Orin, the Worst Generation also faced their own opponent.
"It's you!!! Bullet!!!"
Luffy's expression turned ugly as he stared at the demon-like man before him. He had already witnessed this man's terrifying strength before—and now Bullet had entered his upgraded second form.
"Straw Hat Luffy, I've been looking forward to fighting you again."
Kid and Law gritted their teeth. They had clearly suffered losses at this man's hands before. After all, he was the final boss of a movie-level battle—someone who had solo-cleared the Supernova dungeon.
The last monster who soloed them… was someone named Orin.
"Come on!!! We will never lose!!!"
Luffy launched forward, his Elastic Giant fist wrapped in Ryuo.
Bullet's fist was coated in Conqueror's Haki Infusion and even denser Armament Haki. With a savage grin, he immediately forced Luffy back.
As a master of physical combat and Haki, Bullet handled the combined assault of five Supernovas with shocking ease.
Zoro's slash with Enma was blasted away by the Conqueror's Haki surrounding Bullet's fist, sending him rolling across the ground several times.
His expression darkened.
"Compared to last time… this guy's gotten even stronger!!!!"
"Haven't we gotten stronger too?!!!"
Luffy showed no intention of retreating. Instead, he smashed his fists together, battle spirit blazing.
"I'll send you flying—and Kaido too!!!"
Hearing this, Bullet in his demon form paused briefly.
He remembered the last time Luffy spoke with that same tone. Back then, this brat had defeated him together with others.
But this time…
Things were completely different.
"You don't actually think defeating Kaido will solve everything, do you?"
Although Bullet wasn't part of Orin's inner circle and didn't know what the "Big Surprise" carried by Seagull King truly was, he didn't need to guess. Whatever Orin left for last could never be something simple.
From vague hints he had heard, in a certain sense… that existence might be even more terrifying than Orin himself.
When Bullet first heard that, he nearly questioned reality.
Someone more monstrous than Orin?
Could such a being really exist…?
Thinking about Orin's overwhelming strength, Bullet couldn't help associating it with that "Big Surprise."
Could that so-called surprise… be a true "god"?
...
At the summit of Onigashima, the Emperor-level grand melee raged on, while the battles on the outskirts never ceased.
Seagull King summoned raging hurricanes, trapping everyone along the battlefield's perimeter. No matter how people attacked, they couldn't break through his defenses.
Marco and King in particular—two of the other members of the "Three Birds of the Sea"—were simultaneously restrained by Seagull King, who still had spare strength to fight others at the same time.
An utter humiliation!!
Yet no matter how they attacked, they simply couldn't penetrate his defense.
"What do we do!!!"
Sanji gritted his teeth, holding Nami while resisting the violent hurricane. What frustrated him most was that no matter how fiercely he kicked, he couldn't knock Seagull King down.
In a corner battered by the storm, Usopp clung desperately beneath a massive rock, staring at the absurdly gigantic storm bird.
"No… even for a Mythical Zoan user, becoming this huge is abnormal. It's even more outrageous than Kaido…"
Usopp frowned deeply as he sensed something wrong.
Under intense tension, his ultra-long-range Observation Haki suddenly activated. His eyes widened.
He saw it—
Inside the gigantic bird formed by raging winds… the true body of Seagull King was right there!!!