Chapter 519 - 359

Chapter 360: Falcon VS Two Emperors!The eastern coast of Dressrosa.Following Fujitora Issho's plea for a truce, a battle between Admirals that should have shaken the heavens and earth simply ended without further incident.The birdcage was broken, and Doflamingo was dead.The war in Dressrosa seemed to finally be drawing a bloody yet perfect conclusion at this moment.After a brief period of deathly silence, the entire island erupted into cheers louder and more fanatical than any before!!!The joy of victory and the relief of surviving a disaster washed over everyone's hearts.People wept for joy, hugging one another, venting the long-suppressed fear and despair to their hearts' content.The dawn of hope seemed to have truly arrived.However, just as everyone thought this nightmare had finally ended—An extremely brilliant golden stream of light tore through the dim sky of Dressrosa without any warning!The speed of that light was ridiculously fast, like a golden comet rising against the sky, trailing a long exhaust flame, cutting through the air at a speed completely uncapturable by the naked eye, shooting straight toward the distant horizon!"That... what is that?!"A cheering citizen was the first to notice this abnormal stream of light; the smile on his face froze instantly, and his finger trembled as he pointed toward the sky.More and more people looked in the direction he was pointing.Hearts that had just barely settled were once again in their throats!!On the battlefield of the eastern coast, Sabo and the others, who were originally preparing to leave, also stopped abruptly and looked up in unison!"This aura..."Sabo's expression turned extremely grim in an instant.Within that golden stream of light was a terrifying aura, suffocatingly powerful and not at all inferior to Fujitora or Aramaki!Another Admiral-level powerhouse?!?!Moreover, looking at the direction he's heading~~~Sabo's heart sank violently!That direction was precisely the battlefield on the far sea where Luffy and Kaido were fighting!!!The golden stream of light traced a perfect parabola in the air, finally hovering in the middle ground between Dressrosa and the far sea battlefield.The light dissipated, revealing a man clad in a pure white coat of Justice, with an upright stature and a face as cold and stern as a hawk.On his back was not the Marine emblem, but a crimson mark representing the supreme power of the World Government!CP!!Furthermore, he was the most mysterious and powerful existence within CP!The Celestial Dragons' strongest shield — Falcon!An Ancient Zoan, Tori Tori no Mi, Model: Golden Teratorn ability user!An ultimate assassin with combat power comparable to a Marine Admiral, who only took orders from the Gorosei!...Falcon's appearance caused the atmosphere of all Dressrosa to drop to freezing point instantly.He ignored the gazes of everyone on the island, his hawk-like sharp eyes fixed firmly on the distant, tiny yet dazzling figure that was frantically clashing with the World's Strongest Creature.Monkey D. Luffy!In Falcon's mind, a conversation from several hours ago at the Holy Land Mary Geoise with those five beings at the pinnacle of world power echoed."Falcon, you have only one mission.""Eliminate Monkey D. Luffy at all costs.""The fruit inside him possesses a forbidden power sufficient to overturn the World Government's eight-hundred-year rule!""Remember, at... all costs!""For the plan of the Gorosei-sama..."Falcon's gaze became fanatical and resolute in an instant, and the vitality within his body began to burn frantically at an incredible speed!"For the peace and order of this world!""Roar—!!!"A loud, high-pitched hawk's cry, enough to pierce eardrums, resounded through heaven and earth!Falcon's body rapidly expanded and transformed within the golden light!In the blink of an eye, a massive teratorn with a wingspan exceeding a hundred meters, its entire body forged of gold with feathers shimmering with a metallic luster and emitting an endless aura of majesty and divinity, appeared in everyone's sight!Golden Teratorn!"Straw Hat..."A cold declaration, devoid of any emotion, issued from the Golden Teratorn's mouth."For the plan of the Gorosei-sama, you... must die!!!"Before his voice even faded, his massive golden wings flapped violently!Boom!!!The air was instantly detonated as the golden figure turned into a light of destruction, carrying a determination to kill and a will to incinerate everything, charging fiercely toward the distant Luffy!This sudden, earth-shattering turn of events left everyone on the island stunned."Luffy-sama!"The hearts of Nami, Robin, and Rebecca tightened instantly, their faces filled with worry and fear they couldn't hide.That was CP's strongest! A monster capable of rivaling an Admiral!Moreover, the timing he chose was so sinister and malicious!However, in stark contrast to their worry were the other core combatants of the Straw Hat Pirates.Zoro only glanced at the golden light before yawning out of boredom, leaning back against a giant rock to rest his eyes, as if the attack capable of insta-killing most people present was nothing more than a boring farce."Tch, another one coming to die."Sanji didn't even lift his head, merely taking a new cigarette from his pocket and lighting it, exhaling a thick ring of smoke with a disdainful curve at the corner of his mouth."Trying a sneak attack in front of that idiot Captain, I really don't know whether to call him brave or stupid."Sabo had completely given up on thinking.He looked at the golden light, then at the matter-of-fact expressions of Zoro and Sanji, and finally could only shake his head with a helpless, bitter smile.He understood completely now.For these monsters of the Straw Hat crew, so-called common sense simply didn't exist.Their trust in their Captain had reached a level that was almost blind, perhaps even pathological.And the source of this trust was only one thing.That was, they knew better than anyone else exactly what kind of out-of-spec, true monster their Captain, Monkey D. Luffy, was!...On the far sea.Gales howled and giant waves surged.The battle between Luffy and Kaido had completely turned this sea area into a forbidden zone for life."Gomu Gomu no... Rhino Schneider!"In his Gear 4 Boundman form, Luffy's figure launched out like a cannonball, his fist coated in Conqueror's Haki slamming heavily into Kaido's chest!"Ugh!"Even someone as strong as Kaido couldn't help but let out a grunt after taking such a heavy blow, his massive dragon body flying backward for hundreds of meters and crashing into the sea, sending up a towering pillar of water.However, the next second."Heat Breath!"A scorching dragon breath erupted from the water pillar, instantly swallowing Luffy!Luffy's figure flashed out of the flames and appeared above Kaido's head."It's not over yet! Kaido!"Just as he was about to launch the next round of attacks, his movements suddenly paused.In Luffy's eyes, which were burning with battle intent, a crimson light flashed momentarily.Observation Haki: Future Sight!In the future he saw, a golden light was coming from the rear flank at an unrivaled speed, aimed straight for his heart!Those five old geezers of the World Governmentreally won't give up!But this is fine too!After fighting for so long, the warm-up exercise should be over!He didn't want to keep playing around anymore either!"Kaido..."Luffy slowly raised his head, his black pupils replaced in an instant by an extremely brilliant, pure silver light!"Sorry to keep you waiting!"In an instant!Boom!!!!!!!!!!An indescribable aura, as if from the dawn of creation—most primitive, most violent, and most free—erupted from Luffy's small body!Silver lightning, like billions of awakening silver dragons, spread and surged frantically in all directions with him as the center!The sky was wailing!The sea was trembling!The entire world seemed to bow down before this aura of a supreme ruler!Kaido, who had just stabilized himself, didn't even have time to launch a counterattack before he was blown thousands of meters away by this terrifying oncoming shockwave!"This... this power is...?!"On Kaido's massive dragon head, an expression called fear appeared for the first time!He could clearly feel that the aura erupting from Luffy at this moment had completely surpassed any level he knew!That wasn't a Four Emperors level, nor an Admirallevel!That was the power of an absolute monarch, a league of its own, capable of suppressing an entire era and making all powerhouses pale in comparison!At this very moment, a memory flashed through Kaido's mind of that eerie wanted poster that had leaked from Marineford, depicting a white figure.Sun God nika!So that's how it is... that legend was actually true!And this kid in front of me~~~That aura of his, so free it was enviable and so wild it was lawless... Kaido's dragon pupils instantly shrank to the size of pinheads, as a humiliation and rage originating from the depths of his soul, even stronger than his physical injuries, detonated his sanity!He finally understood!From start to finish!From the very first moment they clashed!This damn Straw Hat brat hadn't used his full strength at all!He was just using an ordinary 'beyond-Emperor' level combat power to play with him! He was using the World's Strongest Creature as a sparring partner to get used to his new power!"STRAW! HAT! BRAT!!!"Kaido's lungs were about to burst from anger at this moment!However, just as he was preparing to charge forward recklessly to fight Luffy to the death—He also noticed that golden stream of light shooting rapidly from the distance, aimed straight at Luffy!Another sneak attack?!In Kaido's mind, the scene of the final battle with Kozuki Oden in Wano Country twenty years ago instantly flashed.That man was the only true samurai to ever leave a permanent scar on his body.Yet such a peak duel that should have been hearty and satisfying was stained by a permanent, unwashable blemish because of a despicable villain imitating Momonosuke!He won that battle.But that shame and frustration had haunted him like a nightmare for twenty whole years!And now!History was actually going to repeat itself before his eyes?!Someone wanted to use such despicable and shameless means again to steal the fruits of victory during his duel with the Straw Hat brat?!"GET THE HELL~~~ AWAY FROM US AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!"Kaido's fury was completely detonated at this moment!Above his massive dragon body, Conqueror's Hakientwined with black-red lightning and his own fruit ability fused with unprecedented efficiency!Finally, on his Spiked Club hassaikai, the ferocious avatar of a burning Acala from hell was condensed!This was the strongest strike he could swing by developing Conqueror's Haki Coating and his fruit ability to the absolute limit!"Daiidoku: Thunder Bagua!!!"Kaido roared, swinging that Spiked Club like a nuclear explosion, enough to make a planet tremble!Almost at the same time!Luffy moved too!Facing the life-burning killing blow from behind, he didn't even turn his head!He just kept his gaze locked on the distant Kaido, the arrogant smile at the corner of his mouth growing even more intense!He slowly raised his right fist.Silver lightning and the pure white halo of Sun God nika intertwined and coiled around his fist!Without any redundant movements.Zero-frame startup!He casually threw a punch toward the golden stream of light behind him!"Gomu Gomu no... White Star Gun!!!"One punch, one Spiked Club.Two attacks from two completely different directions, yet at the same moment, landed with pinpoint accuracy on that golden stream of light!It was as if the heavens were collapsing!!!Falcon, who was conducting a frenzied attack at the cost of his life, had his pupils freeze instantly.His face was filled with an indescribable, extreme shock and stupor.What did he see?He saw two emperors capable of ruling this sea actually put aside their duel at the same time and join forces to pour their strongest attacks entirely onto him, a mere intruder!Why?!Just why?!He couldn't understand it.And he didn't have time to think anymore."NO—"Amidst a shrill scream filled with despair and indignation.Falcon's body, composed of top-tier Ancient Zoan defense and Golden Fruit abilities, known as the Celestial Dragons' strongest shield—Couldn't even hold out for a single millisecond under the joint strangulation of that punch and Spiked Club.From the most basic molecular level, it was completely evaporated, decomposed, and annihilated!The next second.The heavens collapsed and the earth split as the sea surged!An indescribable energy storm erupted violently, centered on the point where the two had struck!The sky over the entire sea area was torn open with a massive gap by this force!The sea surface below was blasted into a bottomless, massive void that could not heal for a long time!The Celestial Dragons' strongest shield, CP's final trump card, Falcon... was insta-killed!Not even a single speck of dust remained!