Hanafuda, who had rushed over upon hearing the news, stood in the distance, the morning star in his hand ceasing its swing.
"We're late. I didn't expect a fight to break out here."
"Captain, do we charge?" Costa asked.
"Charge my ass! Can’t you see even Captain Kaido isn’t making a move?"
Hanafuda stopped Babanuki and the others, who were about to launch their assault.
"Hey, you lot, hold up! Even if we’re going to keep fighting, we have to wait for Kaido-s...
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The two figures ahead were dressed in standard Konoha’s Shinobi attire… green flak jackets, black pants, and sandals on their feet.
They also wore Konoha’s forehead protectors on their heads.
At first glance, there didn’t seem to be anything particularly wrong.
But...
This outfit had been outdated for years!
Not to mention...
The Ninja Tool pouches at their waists made Naruto want to facepalm.
In recent years, Konoha had been frequently target...
2025-08-27 12:26:36 +0000 UTC
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Konoha and Kumogakure had actually been making efforts to establish contact. For nearly a year, they had been rubbing against each other… so much friction, sparks were practically flying.
In certain matters, they had even begun sharing intelligence.
The Box of Ultimate Bliss in Kusagakure was the best example. Though both sides had sent separate teams to investigate, it was still a major breakthrough. A little more rapport, and they could have started cooperating.
Konoha w...
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"You still have some fight left in you, huh?"
Logan looked down at Sasuke, who was struggling to rise despite his tattered white robes and battered body.
"Cough… You bastard…"
“Tch.”
Seeing this, Logan didn’t bother wasting words. He lashed out with a kick. Sasuke instinctively raised his arms to block, but the impact still sent him skidding several meters across the ground.
‘Feels like I’m playing the villain here.’ Keepin...
2025-08-27 12:25:41 +0000 UTC
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"...If you had said this just before the fight started, I would have seriously considered your suggestion, but not now."
Bazel slowly straightened his somewhat hunched back.
The largely shattered crimson-gold scales gradually retracted into his skin, and the restless earth calmed in that moment.
The poisonous mist was soon carried away by the wind.
Frequent coughs came from Bazel's mouth.
Staring at the blood clots in his palm, Bazel knew he had reached his limit...
2025-08-26 12:55:48 +0000 UTC
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"Your aura has changed again."
Raleigh’s eyes narrowed slightly. Through his Observation Haki, he sensed that the other’s presence had shifted from the eerie, gloomy moon to a scorching, cruel sun.
Apart from being upright and honorable, the aura carried an intense, transforming heat.
“Not bad. I acknowledge you. If you manage to survive this…”
His right foot stepped back, toes touching the ground. The earthen surface was pressed into a shallow dent as Raleig...
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Boom…!!
The block to which Grove 16 belonged was reduced to ruins in the clash of powerhouses.
The billowing dust blotted out the sky.
Roar!!
Eight ferocious serpent heads broke through the dust, spewing deep purple poison mist and venomous flames from their mouths.
"The venom of the Yamata no Orochi? Quite a terrifying monster."
A figure flew out from the poison mist… it was none other than Rayleigh, his body shrouded in Armament Haki!
"I've hear...
2025-08-26 12:55:35 +0000 UTC
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Mid-January 1493 of the Sea Circle Calendar.
Grand Line, Sabaody Archipelago.
"I told you, you're the one who got us lost, you idiot Kaido!!"
"Shut up! I just happened to be drawn to something new and interesting!"
"Drawn? You just wanted to go have fun, didn't you?!"
Grove 1, walking in the middle of the main road, Bazel said with a deadpan expression.
"We were supposed to arrive here a month ago. It's all because you ran off and got us lost in the Calm Be...
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The room fell into dead silence.
The joy that had come with the return of the two giant captains had long since vanished.
Harald rubbed his temples.
As the king of the Giants, he couldn’t afford to be willful.
If he had known that the first skill a king must learn is compromise, Harald swore he would never have become king.
“Prince… Loki.”
Finally, Brogy, unable to stand it any longer, spoke up, “There’s no need to be so extreme. Perhaps we coul...
2025-08-26 12:55:20 +0000 UTC
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"God?"
“Worororo!”
Arrogant laughter resounded through the Upper Yard as Kaido slowly walked forward, his weapon, the Hassaikai, resting on his shoulder.
"Someone with such a weak aura dares to call themselves a god?"
"Then wouldn't someone like me be the Creator God?!"
Conqueror's Haki suddenly erupted!
The soldiers of the God's Guards rolled their eyes white and immediately fell unconscious.
Gan Fall, who was deliberately spared, didn't even dar...
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The City of Gold, Shandora.
An azure dragon plummeted from the sky, crashing into and collapsing several golden buildings.
"Hey, Kaido!!"
"Are you out of your mind? What if any of us got hurt?!"
Aside from King, the only one who dared to speak to Kaido like this was Bazel.
"What’s the big deal? You’re not hurt, are you?"
Kaido, now in human form, pushed aside the gold pinning him down.
"You can complain to me after you actually get injured."
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His entire right arm suddenly transformed into a brilliant, transparent, glass-like state.
Bones and veins were clearly visible.
Streaks of crimson-gold light, like nighttime highway traffic, flowed within the veins and muscles.
Boom…!!!
In that moment, Bazel's body swelled up once again.
Growing at a speed visible to around three meters tall.
His bulging muscles were distinct and well-defined.
His entire aura shifted from the sinister and ghostly n...
2025-08-26 12:55:00 +0000 UTC
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Skypiea, Cloud End.
“Finally found it, Barororo! Just wait till I get back, I’ll make you regret everything you’ve done!!”
On a battered two-person Waver, Byrnndi World spat out threats. But with his mouth twisted, eyes askew, and coughing intermittently, he had long lost his former imposing demeanor.
Not every doctor could cure Bazel’s serpent venom. Especially not on Skypiea, a place decades behind the times compared to the open seas.
Though Byrnndi World h...
2025-08-26 12:53:59 +0000 UTC
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As the giant dragon soared into the sky, high above the Blue Sea, 10,000 meters up, lay the Sky Island.
God's Island, Upper Yard.
Bazel led the two onto this sacred land revered by the God's guards.
This was just ordinary land commonly found in the Blue Sea, but in the Sky Island where even a speck of soil was scarce, it became something more valuable than gold.
"This island is a place all Sky Islanders dream of setting foot on."
Enel stepped onto the soil, his e...
2025-08-26 12:53:44 +0000 UTC
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‘Monarch?’
Enel didn’t fully understand the deeper meaning behind Bazel’s words, but he still tried his best to think it through with his small brain.
"Enel~"
Toki fell back two steps and ran her hand over his golden afro.
"What Bazel means is that the ability to wield both kindness and authority, to subdue the enemy without fighting, is what is called being a Monarch."
"Although there are always enemies on the high seas who don't read the situation, as a...
2025-08-26 12:53:33 +0000 UTC
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Buru buru buru~~
Buru buru buru~~
Kacha.
"Who?"
"It's me, King."
Worried that outsiders might be present, Bazel didn’t directly address Arber by name in the communication.
"Ah I almost died, you know. I never expected the power of that Knock Up Stream to be so tremendous, hahaha~"
The Den Den Mushi’s expression relaxed considerably, "It’s really great to hear that you’re safe."
"Where are you now? Do you need us to pick you up?"
"P...
2025-08-26 12:52:52 +0000 UTC
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The room fell silent.
Gulp Gulp~
Putting down his wine glass, Sengoku sighed heavily, "As expected, that brat has come into contact with the Poneglyphs. Then his concerns are not unfounded speculation."
“The Roger Pirates alone have three people who have awakened Conqueror's Haki, and all of them are non-Devil Fruit users.”
“Which means, Seastone weapons are almost useless against them.”
“This is really troublesome now. If the Roger Pirates really get t...
2025-08-26 12:52:41 +0000 UTC
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Clenching the fruit in his hand, Borsalino’s usual lazy expression vanished completely, replaced by a rare look of gravity.
“Bazel, what exactly have you found out? No matter how powerful the Roger Pirates are, they could never pose a threat comparable to that of Golden Lion Shiki!”
“His Fuwa Fuwa no Mi is the true nightmare of the seas!”
Bazel shook his head and asked, “Monkey, do you know about the Poneglyphs?”
“Of course I do. It’s said they record...
2025-08-26 12:52:30 +0000 UTC
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Edge of the Raijin Forest, Birka Island…
"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Find those great sinners!"
"How dare those sinners defy the High Priest’s authority? Find them and kill them!"
"And that Enel... unforgivable!"
"…"
Rustle~
"Bazel Aniki, they’re gone."
"Pay them no mind. Once I’ve filled my stomach, they’ll be the ones who die."
Holding a half-cooked Sky Shark in both hands, he tore into it with large bites, chewing voraciously.
Hav...
2025-08-26 12:52:22 +0000 UTC
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Ruins of the Mock Town.
Under a makeshift awning, the pirates of Hanafuda's crew were fast asleep.
Until King's figure appeared at the town entrance, and the bubble in Hanafuda's nose suddenly popped.
"So you've come, King. Long time no see."
King walked under the awning, his gaze calm and unfluctuating as he looked at the ruins.
"What happened here? Did you completely wipe out this town?"
Morgans hurriedly raised his Den Den Mushi to record the scene.
<...
2025-08-26 12:52:15 +0000 UTC
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Jaya Island.
Hanafuda, having dropped his morning star, was breathing heavily, several officers of the World Pirates lying at his feet.
Gairam, the user of the Paramecia-type Kyubu Kyubu no Mi.
Sebastian, a hybrid of giant and fish-man races.
And...
Numerous other members of the World Pirates.
"This guy is really tough. As expected of a fish-man mixed with giant blood." Hanafuda muttered, still in his hybrid form, his face smeared with blood trickling from ...
2025-08-26 12:52:02 +0000 UTC
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Controlling the Venomous Vine Serpent to form a two-meter non-toxic circle around them, Bazel carried Toki on his back and charged towards the enemies who were still flying incessantly towards the sea.
"Are the enemies on the sea?" Toki asked.
"Yeah, probably trying to rely on the seawater to limit my movements."
The red light representing Observation Haki within his eye sockets flickered at an extremely steady frequency as Bazel analyzed the upcoming battle situation.
2025-08-26 12:51:54 +0000 UTC
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Boom…!!
The meteor hammer sent Sebastian, the fishman-giant hybrid, flying. Hanafuda swiftly retreated, avoiding the magical cubes created by Gairam using his ability.
Hanafuda looked with slight anxiety at the drifting poison mist not far away, which was moving further off.
"Give it up. That man absolutely cannot defeat World-sama."
Gairam spoke softly, the blue arc light flashing across the goggles on his face.
"World-sama is a Multiply Human who ate the Para...
2025-08-26 12:51:48 +0000 UTC
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Mock Town, Central Square.
Bazel sat under a sun umbrella, leisurely enjoying afternoon tea with Hanaffza and Toki.
If not for the occasional screams and the roar of cannon fire from within the town, Bazel thought the atmosphere could be even better.
"Are you planning to kill all the pirates here?" Hanaffza asked helplessly.
He naturally knew why Bazel was so angry. If anyone dared to say such things to his lover, he would also be furious enough to kill.
But…
2025-08-26 12:51:12 +0000 UTC
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Just as the situation on Kaido's side was changing rapidly, Bazel, who had followed Hanafuda into Mock Town, also encountered someone unexpected.
"Oh ho ho, today's luck is really quite good. To think I'd run into such important figures."
Bazel instinctively pulled Toki behind him, squinting at the stubbled man who had suddenly blocked their path.
"Hello, hello. Here's my business card."
He took the thinly gold-plated card.
"So it's the famous Deep-Sea Currents, ...
2025-08-26 12:51:00 +0000 UTC
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"This symptom, and the blood's reaction…"
After confirming multiple times that she hadn't misseen, Kureha's expression turned somewhat strange.
"How is my daughter? Is her illness very serious!?"
"As for the illness… Are you two really from this era?"
Looking at the father and daughter, Kureha's gaze was extremely peculiar.
"If my diagnosis isn't wrong, she should just have South Blue Emperor Fever. There's already been a specific medicine for this illness fo...
2025-08-26 12:50:52 +0000 UTC
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‘Conqueror's Haki!?’
Dorry and Brogy's eyes widened, their expressions one of extreme shock.
Nearby, Kaido looked equally surprised, but after a moment, his laughter broke through the night.
"Impressive spirit, Bazel!!"
"As expected of my brother! That's right, you two go back and tell the Giant King… you don't want Loki? Well, I'll take him!"
"If that guy is willing to join the Beasts Pirates, bring him along!"
"If the Giant Tribe can't accept him, m...
2025-08-26 12:50:45 +0000 UTC
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Crackle~~
Nighttime.
A super large bonfire burned fiercely, with embers occasionally jumping out from their nest, playing for a while in the darkness before quietly fading away.
Various kinds of roasted dinosaur were skewered by tree trunks and stuck into the ground around the fire.
"Hahaha~~ That's right. It's because of that incident that the two of us have stayed here all these years."
Dorry said, eating meat in large mouthfuls, speaking about his past without...
2025-08-26 12:50:38 +0000 UTC
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"Lose?"
“Kabababa!!”
Brogy threw away his severely damaged shield, the fighting spirit in his eyes growing even more intense.
"I am a brave warrior of Elbaf!"
"Giants only have soldiers who die in battle, not soldiers who surrender!"
"The radiance of the God of Elbaf will guide me to heaven!"
Gripping his giant axe with both hands, Brogy roared as he assumed a charging stance.
"Human, state your name!!"
"Bazel, pirate."
"Good, I will r...
2025-08-26 12:50:32 +0000 UTC
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Boom, boom, boom!!
Deafening explosions echoed from the distance. Kaido, who had already transformed into his hybrid form, picked his ear casually.
"Sounds like Bazel is having a blast. I can feel his unrestrained joy from his aura."
"Hey, you’re Dorry, right? Let’s get this fight started!"
Dorry gripped his sword with one hand and raised his shield with the other.
"Come at me, human!"
"Let me show you the power of the Giant Tribe!"
"Then I won’...
2025-08-26 12:50:24 +0000 UTC
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