Chapter 65: Desperate Battle — Escape from Punk Hazard
"Usopp! Nami!"
Luffy's cheerful voice cut through the chaos as he spotted them at the port.
"Tra-guy said this island's about to blow! We gotta go!"
"NAMI-SWAAAAAN!" Sanji transformed into a spinning vortex of love, eyes hearts, completely ignoring the apocalypse unfolding around them.
Usopp turned slowly, his face pale.
"Go... we can still GO?!"
His trembling finger pointed skyward.
Luffy's grin froze. His gaze followed Usopp's finger.
Law's expression shifted to one of pure dread.
"That's..."
"Fleet Admiral..."
"KIZARU!"
"Yo~" Kizaru's lazy drawl drifted down. "Didn't expect to find all of you here together."
He spread his hands. Light gathered.
"That saves so much trouble."
"YATA NO KAGAMI."
A beam of light shot down—and Kizaru appeared before them.
Luffy stumbled back three steps.
Franky's arms transformed, lasers charging. "WHY IS HE HERE?!"
Zoro's blades cleared their sheaths, his expression grim.
Kizaru. The Admiral who had annihilated them in Sabaody. Who had made them run, hide, scatter like roaches before light.
Law's hands trembled. He remembered Hawkins and Apoo—supernovas like himself—casually dismantled by this man two years ago.
Itachi noted the reactions—the fear, the tension, the way even Zoro's hands gripped his swords tighter.
"This one's dangerous?"
Chopper burst into tears, transforming instantly into his human form.
"DANGEROUS?! He's an ADMIRAL! The Navy's strongest!"
Law's Room began expanding. Warships approached. Pacifistas marched.
Kizaru's finger rose.
"AMADARE."
A laser shot through Law's expanding field before it could complete.
"None of that now."
He moved—appearing before Luffy, who had already activated Gear Second.
"ARI NO ASUKI."
His leg flashed. Luffy's crossed arms caught it—barely—and the force drove him into the ground, cracking stone for meters around.
"Stronger than before," Kizaru observed mildly. His leg rose again—
"SANTORYU: IAI — TORA HUNTING!"
Zoro's blades sang, ghost aura trailing—and passed through Kizaru's body.
Zoro's eyes went wide.
He predicted it. With Observation Haki. And Logia-intangibility...
Kizaru's sunglasses tilted.
"Long time no see. No greeting for me?"
FLASH.
Zoro flew—a kick sending him tumbling tens of meters before he recovered.
Kizaru's eyebrow rose slightly.
"Ah~ you've gotten stronger."
"MUTTON SHOT!"
Sanji's leg blazed—and Kizaru was already gone, appearing elsewhere.
Franky's lasers charged—
The Pacifistas fired first.
BOOM. BOOM. BOOM.
Beams crisscrossed. Nami and Usopp were caught in the blast wave. Itachi moved, grabbing them both, pulling them clear.
Kizaru rose into the air, arms spreading wide.
"You're not children anymore. Then accept an old man's baptism."
"YATA NO KAGAMI — AMA NO MURAKUMO!"
Photon rain poured from the sky.
The Pacifistas added their own lasers.
Explosions erupted across the port.
Robin's giant limbs sprouted, smashing approaching Marines.
"It's a complete encirclement!"
Zoro's blades sheared through a landing warship, splitting it in two.
Sanji skywalked to a Pacifista, his leg cratering its chest.
"The numbers are overwhelming!"
Usopp and Chopper fought back-to-back, fending off waves of Marines.
Luffy, Gear Second burning, clashed with Kizaru. His Jet Pistol reached—
Kizaru was behind him.
BOOM.
Another kick. Another crater.
Luffy rose from the rubble, arm already inflating.
Kizaru's finger glowed.
Then—
Luffy vanished.
Kizaru blinked.
Zoro vanished.
Realization dawned.
Law—straining, bleeding from the effort of maintaining an enormous Room—was teleporting the Straw Hats one by one to the Thousand Sunny.
"You're troublesome, brat."
Kizaru appeared before Law—
"SUSANO'O!"
Itachi's skeletal warrior materialized, its fist intercepting Kizaru's flash kick.
BOOM.
The impact shook the port.
Blood streamed from Itachi's eyes.
Kizaru's expression shifted—genuine surprise.
"What is this hardness—"
"AMATERASU."
Black flames erupted across Kizaru's body.
He burned.
"I'm light... how can—"
The pain cut him off. Black fire consumed him.
Itachi's eyes streamed blood.
Law moved—the last Straw Hats transferred.
"FRANKY! NOW!"
"COUP DE BURST! MAXIMUM POWER!"
The Sunny launched.
Usopp, watching the shrinking island, screamed.
"THE ADMIRAL! HE'S—HE'S BURNING TO DEATH?!"
Everyone froze.
Law's voice cut through.
"GO! FASTER!"
On the port, Marines stared in horror.
"ADMIRAL BORSALINO!"
"GENERAL KIZARU!"
The black flames raged—
And then pulsed.
Light exploded from within.
Kizaru reformed—clothes charred, smoking, but whole.
His sunglasses were cracked. His expression—for once—wasn't lazy.
"That... was unpleasant."
He looked at the retreating Sunny.
"Who WAS that?"
The black flames on the ground still burned, refusing to extinguish.
Kizaru launched into the sky.
In the distance, a massive figure on a penguin watched the light streak upward.
"Ah la la..."
The man's voice was sleepy, casual.
"Why's that guy Kizaru here?"
(End of Chapter)
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