"Door-Door Fruit!"
This Devil Fruit wasn't part of the Rosward family's collection?
Originally, this Devil Fruit was supposed to be immediately taken by the World Government to train agents… It seems the Figarland family wasn't the first treasure vault to be robbed.
"Someone has invaded Mary Geoise and reached their hand into the Celestial Dragons' treasure vaults."
Shamrock took out a broadcast Den Den Mushi and released the information to the outside world.
Vane's guess was correct. The guard forces remaining in Mary Geoise were indeed rather weak. There were barely any official members of God's Knights present.
Only reserve members like Shamrock… He wasn't worried that the thief who stole the fruit would dare to wreak havoc in Mary Geoise. If anyone truly wanted to attack Mary Geoise, that would be even less of a concern.
In that case, the five inside Pangaea Castle would not sit idly by.
For two hundred years, the worst incidents in Mary Geoise had only been slave escape events—yet now an invasion had occurred.
Although Shamrock had already sent out the broadcast, the defensive forces of Mary Geoise were still extremely slow to react.
Long years of comfort were only one reason. The main reason for their sluggish movement was that Shamrock couldn't provide a target location.
As long as the Door-Door Fruit user hid within space, even if the Five Elders personally took action, there was no guarantee they could catch the person.
"Why are you all making such a racket so early in the morning?!"
"Celestial Dragon-sama, Mary Geoise has been infiltrated. Multiple treasure vaults have been looted by the intruder!"
"What?! You idiots, hurry and check whether our vault has been affected!"
The Celestial Dragon who had been woken up was furious at first. Now he was both shocked and enraged. Among their vaults, which one wasn't comparable to the treasure reserves of entire nations? Even the poorest contained assets worth tens of billions of Belly!
Without that level of wealth, the future Charlos Saint wouldn't have casually spent five hundred million just to auction off a mermaid.
They never truly lacked Belly—especially paper Belly. To others it was money; to them, it was just paper. The Celestial Dragons even participated in the authority to print currency.
The inflation in the pirate world was partly related to the Celestial Dragons' reckless money printing. So, to reduce their interference in printing money, paper Belly could be withdrawn by them from the World Government at any time.
What they truly cared about was gold and jewels—those couldn't be printed!
The Rosward family: "This is bad! One of our family's vaults is empty—there's nothing left! The gold, the jewels, and even the Devil Fruits are all gone!"
The first unlucky family had appeared. They weren't dreaming. Someone had truly broken through the clouds, arrived at the dwelling place of the "gods," and struck them hard.
The Donquixote family, the Rimocid family… Together with the Rosward family, four families had their four vaults completely emptied. The Rimocid family felt the most distressed—their vault didn't just contain vulgar gold and silver, but also their cherished collections.
"Is this even still a Celestial Dragon treasure vault?"
"Even if a rat sneaked in, it should leave crying. This is utter humiliation."
Standing at a high point, Shamrock used his Observation Haki to listen to the Celestial Dragons' complaints and made a summary in his mind. The other party had broken into five of their vaults. Aside from his own family's, the remaining four had been completely cleaned out.
The two most valuable Devil Fruits in the Figarland family's vault had also been stolen.
"I feel like there's still something I haven't noticed."
With unsettled thoughts, Shamrock expanded the range of his Observation Haki. Very quickly, he noticed something wrong—it was the slave holding area. There was no life force at all.
Whether guards or slaves—none were present.
"Damn it! The slaves are all gone."
His Observation Haki continued to spread. Soon his expression changed again. The aura that had fled into the Door-Door space had reappeared. This time, it appeared at the lift port on the Red Line, in the first half of the Grand Line.
"Damn it!"
Shamrock drew back the sword he had just sheathed. With a Geppo, he leapt into the air and hurled the sword in his hand like a "dart."
Only this had the fastest speed!
Shamrock's sword streaked like a beam of flowing light, instantly crossing half the distance. In the latter half, its speed began to slow—this was due to the sword itself.
The sword flying through the air began to transform. From its original small form, it rapidly expanded into something larger than a house.
Four legs, three heads, and black flame clouds appeared.
A Zoan-type Devil Fruit, Mythical Zoan—Dog-Dog Fruit, Model: Cerberus.
Developing a Zoan to the awakened state was already extremely difficult, let alone a weapon that had "eaten" a fruit. This sword was one of the Figarland family's inherited fruit weapons…
It had only recently been passed down to him. He still couldn't fully control it. Most of the time, he let it transform into beast form and fight on its own.
In beast form, the Cerberus could even spit blades from its mouths. Its strength was considerable—enough to intercept, or even defeat, a pirate with a bounty of one billion.
…
Lift Port.
"Use Hyper Beam."
Dragonite, who had just emerged from space, immediately unleashed the Normal-type move Hyper Beam upon receiving the command.
There were few guards at the air port, and they were still stunned. As Dragonite's Hyper Beam fired, the guards only saw an intense white flash sweep past their eyes.
A buzzing sound followed in their ears, then flames and explosions.
Boom! Boom!!!
In an instant, eighty percent of the guards were wiped out. As for the remaining few, it didn't matter. Dragonite's two slender antennae twitched twice, and massive bolts of lightning rained down, frying the surviving guards until they were charred inside and out.
"Meowth, chemical bombs."
The high-explosive chemical bombs developed by Caesar Clown were extremely difficult to use—essentially human bombs that required manual triggering.
Fortunately, they had Meowth, who was equally knowledgeable about explosives. After Meowth's modifications, these bombs could finally be remotely controlled.
"Meow! Set them all up."
Like a crazed bomber, Meowth pulled out one bomb after another, scattering them across the lift port like heavenly maidens scattering flowers!
Vane also released his Observation Haki and quickly discovered the Cerberus rapidly flying toward them, completing its transformation midair!
"Making a blade eat a Mythical Zoan… how extravagant!"
Clang!
The Cursed Sword left its sheath. A burst of white mist surged from Vane's body as he instantly entered the Blood Demon Art state.
"Secret Art—Whirlwind Flowing Water Sky-Cleaving Slash!"
A fusion technique of Whirlwind Cutting Fist and Flowing Water Crushing Rock Fist, now combined into a fusion sword technique—the strongest secret art Vane currently possessed.
Boom—
With a single swing, a rainbow-like shockwave shot forth. Around the shockwave coiled two completely different energy arcs—one twisting, the other tearing!