The Holy Land, Mary Geoise, Room of Flowers.
Imu stood up.
The greed in her eerie, ringed eyes vanished, replaced by anger and fear.
Her will was transmitted silently through a contract.
On the New World battlefield, the solemn expressions on the faces of the Five Elders and the Holy Knights disappeared.
They looked at everyone as if looking at dead men. The next second, their bodies vanished into thin air amidst twisting light and shadows.
Above Marineford, only a few afterimages of portals exuding an eerie aura remained, slowly dissipating in the wind.
The sudden change happened so fast that everyone was still bewildered as to why they had all run away at once.
A split second later, a terrifying pressure that made their very souls tremble instantly crushed down on everyone present.
The sky was dyed an eerie, spectral green.
A horrifying energy—far surpassing the combined might of the Five Elders, and even exceeding the joint attack of Rocks and Whitebeard—gathered high in the heavens.
The sheer scale of this energy was beyond the comprehension of the powerhouses of this world.
"Fuffuffuffu... You've got to be kidding me..."
In the corner, the expression on Doflamingo's face froze, his teeth chattering uncontrollably.
"Kishishishi! We're going to die! We're going to die! We're really going to die this time!" Gecko Moria let out a frantic shriek.
It wasn't just them.
Sengoku, Garp, and the other mighty figures who stood at the pinnacle of this era also felt an irresistible, fatal crisis radiating from that ominous green light.
"Could it be... the World Government intends to wipe out the Marines along with everyone else?"
Sengoku looked up at the apocalyptic sky, an endless sense of sorrow and absurdity welling up in his heart. The "Justice" he had spent his entire life defending was now going to bury them all together using this world-destroying weapon.
How laughable. How ironic.
Amidst this panic and despair, Yang Yi and his group aboard the Kuja pirate ship remained completely unfazed.
To them, this was truly a minor spectacle.
Lu Mingfei and the others had used Cyclonic Torpedoes before. With a single shot, an entire planet would be engulfed in a sea of fire, burning all the Greenskins on it to ash.
Yang Yi let out a lazy yawn. With one hand in his pocket, he nudged Lu Mingfei beside him with his elbow.
"Hey, bro, why are you still livestreaming?"
Lu Mingfei was holding a Den Den Mushi he had scrounged up from who-knows-where, excitedly providing live commentary. "Chat, let's thank the Celestial Dragons for the massive fireworks! The fireworks show is about to begin, and I've got a fantastic angle here. Don't forget to drop those gifts, fam!"
Just as he finished speaking.
The green light in the sky converged, abruptly turning into a blinding red glare.
The next second, several massive red pillars of light that pierced the heavens crashed down, striking the island beneath their feet.
A continuous string of explosions rang out, and the surrounding temperature instantly spiked by more than tenfold.
A dozen seconds later, the colossal island created by the combined efforts of Hashirama and Madara, along with the ruins of Marine Headquarters, was reduced to nothingness in the red light.
It was as if all matter had been erased by the red light, including the figures of the gathered powerhouses.
But in the final second, just before the red light could touch everyone.
Yang Yi finally raised his hand and gave the sky a gentle pat.
"Pop~"
A massive pink paw-print bubble instantly appeared, enveloping the Kuja pirate ship, Rocks and all the legendary pirates, as well as Sengoku and the Marine top brass.
A livestreaming News Coo flew past, capturing the scene.
A bottomless, gigantic void had appeared here, with the surrounding seawater constantly pouring into the massive crater.
Marineford, the former symbol of the Marines' supreme military might, along with that entire battlefield, had completely vanished from the world.
A pink bubble traveled through the sea.
Inside the bubble, everyone on the Marine side looked ashen-faced. They were immersed in the shock and sorrow of being abandoned, remaining speechless for a long time.
On the other side of the bubble, the vibe was completely different.
"Hey, Old Chu, Hawkeye, lend me a hand!" Yang Yi gently patted the ocean outside the bubble.
*Boom!*
A Sea King over a thousand meters long was launched out of the water by his Paw-Paw Fruit ability.
The moment the behemoth appeared, several impossibly fast flashes of blade light flickered!
Chu Zihang and Hawkeye had already sheathed their swords. In midair, the Sea King's massive body had been instantly diced into evenly sized chunks of meat.
Ace and Old Tang exchanged a smile and raised their hands simultaneously. Golden-red flames surged from their palms.
The two powers intertwined in perfect harmony, instantly roasting the meat chunks until they were crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. A rich, savory aroma immediately filled the air.
"Hahahaha! After a big battle, you've gotta have a banquet!"
Rocks took a massive barrel of booze handed to him by Whitebeard, tilted his head back to chug it, and then punched Whitebeard's sturdy chest.
"Hahahaha! Newgate! Kaido! Linlin! It's been a long time since I've had this much fun!"
Restored to his peak, Kaido, and the rejuvenated Big Mom were also in high spirits, raising their barrels and downing them in one gulp.
"Luffy," Ace said, looking at his little brother beside him, whose cheeks were stuffed full. "Your hair... and this power, what exactly is going on?"
Luffy struggled to swallow a huge mouthful of meat and mumbled indistinctly, "I dunno. I heard them say it's like the Mythical Zoan Nika Fruit awakened or somethin'."
He puffed out his chest and slapped it hard. "Ace! I'm super strong now! From now on, I'll protect you!"
"Nika."
Hearing this word, the four people who were drinking wildly—Rocks, Kaido, Whitebeard, and Big Mom—all paused their movements in unison.
They turned their heads simultaneously to look at the Straw Hat who was still battling his food, their expressions filled with shock.
"Joy Boy..." Rocks muttered to himself, surprise evident in his eyes. "You actually appeared."
In the corner, Doflamingo and Moria were shivering, yet they couldn't help but prick up their ears to eavesdrop. Reaching an exciting part, Doflamingo even quietly sent out a string to hook a few pieces of roast meat, eating as he listened.
Big Mom, having regained her peak beauty, took large bites of several pieces of roast meat and critiqued, "The flavor is too monotonous. It's far inferior to the delicacies of my Totto Land!"
"Then let's go to Whole Cake Island!" Yang Yi smiled upon hearing this and immediately made the call. "Let's go throw an unprecedentedly grand banquet!"
The banquet atmosphere on the ship grew even more lively.
Garp silently caught the roast meat Yang Yi tossed to him and chewed on it in large bites, looking with complex eyes at Ace and Luffy roughhousing not far away. Aokiji also took a piece and leaned to the side, lost in thought.
Only Sengoku stepped forward with a solemn expression, staring fixedly at Yang Yi.
"What exactly... is your goal?!"
Yang Yi tore off a large chunk of the perfectly roasted meat and looked at him with a smile.
"Our goal is very simple."
"First, to kill those self-righteous pigs."
He paused, his gaze slowly sweeping past Sengoku before finally landing on Marine Admiral Akainu not far away, who had maintained a gloomy expression with clenched fists from start to finish.
"Second, to kill a certain eyesore of a brat."
The moment he finished speaking, Yang Yi lightly flicked his finger.
*Swish!*
The skewer from his roast meat turned into a streak of light, stabbing into the deck right in front of Akainu's feet.
"What? Why are you getting angry?"
"Don't you think those pieces of trash deserve to die?"
"Or have you been a dog for so long that your very bones have bent?"
That single sentence caused Akainu, who upheld so-called "Absolute Justice," to shudder violently.
He clenched his fists even tighter, veins bulging, yet he couldn't utter a single word.
Because he knew that the sins of the Celestial Dragons were no less than those of pirates—in fact, they surpassed the vast majority of them.