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Chapter 74: Is This World Beyond Saving?
Chapter 74: Is This World Beyond Saving?
The crashing island
The townspeople instinctively looked up, their faces paling as the colossal island gradually loomed over Germora like a death shroud.
The specter of annihilation gripped every heart.
"Help!!!"
A resident screamed in terror, fleeing in panic.
His actions sparked chaos across the town as people scattered in all directions.
Even the Navy personnel lost formation, desperately escaping toward the town's outskirts.
There was no way to stop something this massive!
"Hey, are you kidding me?! What the hell is that?!"
Lida's limbs went cold as she instinctively transformed into her young girl form. The island's sheer scale—capable of completely covering Germora—left her paralyzed with fear.
Not even meteors were this huge!
"Kuro!"
She turned to Kuro, her voice trembling on the verge of tears.
Klah also stared at Kuro, sweat pouring from his forehead. With an island this massive falling, no one could survive.
"Mr. Kuro, I recommend we retreat using Moonstep first. Against natural disasters of this magnitude, we can't fight directly."
Klah couldn't think of any alternative besides retreating through Moonstep.
It wasn't like anyone could ask Kuro to slice a meteor in half.
Kuro might accomplish such a feat, but even splitting it would transform one island into two. The outcome wouldn't change.
Kuro widened his stance, gripping the hilt at his left waist. Haki surged across Huazhou, its density so intense that tendrils began extending outward, as if seeking to spread elsewhere.
Gritting his teeth with a face etched in grim determination, he growled, "Running won't help anywhere. If we don't cut through it, we're finished. Both of you, get clear!"
"Seriously? But Mr. Kuro, even cutting it won't help!"
Klah glanced back at the island nearly upon their faces, swallowing hard.
What difference would slicing make at this scale?
Shing!
The blade unsheathed.
A massive black-gold slash erupted from the blade, smashing through the mayor's mansion as it rocketed toward the descending island.
Hiss!
Boom!!!
The flying slash cleaved into the island. At the moment of impact, the island seemed pierced by thousands of slashes, fracturing in midair until it shattered into countless smaller fragments.
Like fireworks bursting in the sky.
Pitter-patter!
The tiny fragments rained down into the Grand Line.
Residents and Navy personnel who'd fled in panic—even those who'd jumped into the sea—looked up at the exploding meteor, their mouths agape and eyes wide with shock.
What just happened?
"Unbelievable!"
Back at the mayor's mansion, Lida bounced excitedly, her eyes wide as she stared at Kuro. "How could you do that?! That was advanced Armament Haki!"
She knew Kuro possessed advanced Armament Haki—given his Haki cultivation level, he naturally would. But wielding it to this degree couldn't be explained as simply "knowing it".
No wonder that pervert's so freaky!
Klah wiped sweat from his brow. His face had been drenched from the island threat earlier, but now Kuro seemed even more sweat-inducing.
While he acknowledged their massive gap in strength, this difference was just too absurd.
He could accept slicing mountains, even cutting islands with blades, but a wisp of flying slash reducing an island to dust? What even was that?!
Huff.
Kuro exhaled deeply, returning Huazhou to its sheath. Glancing at Lida, he asked, "Oh? You recognize advanced Armament Haki?"
Cutting an island wasn't impressive—it was like slicing mountains. But reducing it to fragments was an entirely different concept.
Armored Haki's 'Encasement', 'hardening', and even more advanced techniques that project Haki beyond one's body to strike targets—even causing internal destruction.
Kuro used advanced Armament Haki, channeling it through slashes to destroy the island's interior. A single strike shattered the entire island.
But his expression remained grim.
A red glow flickered in Kuro's eyes as his hair floated, shaking the mansion slightly.
Observation Haki—full power!
His perception tendrils extended toward the direction the island flew from.
He wanted to see who was behind this.
Even reaching East Blue—the weakest sea—he still faced disasters like this!
Kuro trembled, his limbs icy. What had this world become? Would those seeking safety ever find peace?
How could he live safely? At that thought, tears helplessly streamed down.
If this were a natural disaster, he'd accept it. But this wasn't the first occurrence. Someone had orchestrated it. No island should float to East Blue and drop like this.
Wait...
A drifting island?!
Kuro's Observation Haki was still scanning, but suddenly realization struck. He froze.
East Blue—there was someone famous associated with drifting islands.
Twenty years ago, a golden-haired old fool who escaped from Impel Down and vanished without trace.
Observation Haki detected residual energy in East Blue's skies—a place radiating numerous life auras. Among them, one stood out: a man exuding overwhelming strength.
That aura felt like a lion—majestic and powerful.
No doubt—it's him!
"What the hell?!"
Kuro swallowed hard. "How could I forget!"
"What's wrong?"
Lida was still admiring the falling 'island' fireworks when she heard Kuro curse, turning quickly.
What happened?
Was he angry from hunger?
"Shanks."
"Huh? Who's that?"
Kuro's pupils contracted with fury. "Shanks! That bastard's in East Blue already, damn it!"
"Shanks?"
Klah's eyes widened. "I think I've heard that name before."
"Shanks?"
Lida tilted her head. "A golden lion? Is it tasty? I've never eaten golden lion meat before. Hmm, wait—are you talking about Shanks?!"
Her voice shot up an octave. "You mean the Legendary pirate, pirate Admiral Shanks?!"
"Shanks?"
Klah's pupils shrank. "That pirate who disappeared twenty years ago?"
He remembered now.
Klah was thirty-three now—thirteen twenty years ago. He'd read the newspapers back then. Someone who escaped from Impel Down—a place no one ever escaped from. A pirate whose legend grew ever since.
"The pirate who once rivaled the One Piece pirate king, in East Blue?!" Klah swallowed hard.
Kuro's face darkened enough to drip water.
"Why the hell did I come to East Blue? What was I thinking? I could've survived fine in any of the other three seas!"
He'd forgotten—because it felt so long ago. Having lived here twenty years, remembering major events came from constant overthinking to avoid them.
But a pirate who hadn't appeared in twenty years, no trace at all? How could he remember? Naturally, he'd fade from memory.
If not for sensing him, he'd still think this was a natural disaster.
"What do we do? Report to Headquarters?" Klah asked anxiously.
East Blue had such a terrifying pirate?
How had they survived before?
"I'd like to, but it's too late. That guy's already heading this way."
In his perception, the powerful man radiating lion-like aura was approaching rapidly.
(End of Chapter)
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