Time passed day by day,
Although Vegapunk felt he had escaped the crisis of death, …
Looking at Egghead being turned into a complete mess, he still couldn't help but sigh.
"Orin has completely treated this island like a playground~"
During these days, although Orin agreed to stay stationed on Future Island for Vegapunk, he was, after all, someone who hated boredom,
And when faced with a bored yet invincible existence, many things on Future Island suffered,
For example, the sea beast weapons being controlled to fight in the ocean, the bizarre inventions Orin kept digging out one after another, and he even tinkered with trying to see if he could time-travel again…
Leaving Vegapunk with no choice but to quickly drag Orin into the laboratory, which finally brought a bit of peace back to Future Island for a while.
"What? You still want that Sadgeo to come here personally?"
Orin rested his chin on one hand, while the fingers of his other hand lightly tapped on the table.
"Can't you just make some kind of injectable serum or pills so I can feed them to Sadgeo?"
In Orin's expectations, top-tier scientists should be almost omnipotent, and he also didn't want Sadgeo's Nika form to appear in the eyes of the Elder this early,
Shouldn't its first appearance be reserved for that scheming old Imu?
Facing him, Vegapunk's face was full of helplessness upon hearing this.
"No matter how you think about it, that's impossible, right?"
It's not some miracle drug—how could eating something just trigger Devil Fruit awakening!!!
Even a scientist at Vegapunk's level would need a large amount of experimental equipment to conduct research and modifications related to Devil Fruits,
Not to mention something as absurdly overpowered as Nika.
"Alright…"
Although Orin still had a pile of inventions he hadn't gotten around to playing with, there was no rush anyway.
"Aside from Sadgeo needing to come here personally, among the current technical problems, the biggest issue is a key component of the machine lacking a sufficiently strong magnetic field to drive the conversion…"
Vegapunk said whatever needed to be said, holding nothing back in front of Orin,
Because he believed that this financier who controlled half the world could fulfill all these requirements.
"Magnetism, huh?"
Orin rubbed his chin. The first person he thought of was Enel, since he did understand that electricity and magnetism could be converted,
But that guy always called himself a god while using the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, blasting everything recklessly—whether he'd destroy the machine instead was anyone's guess,
Better to find a professional who specializes in magnetic fields…
"Then who should I find?"
"So hard to guess~"
...
"Get the hell out here, Red Hair!!!"
New World,
The territory of the sea emperor Red Hair Shanks.
A pirate ship with a shark head was speeding across the sea. Facing the fleet belonging to one of the three legendary pirates, [Red Hair], it showed not the slightest hint of fear,
Meanwhile, Shanks himself didn't look particularly tense.
"Hey, you should be a bit nervous~"
"After all, that's a three-billion bounty head, someone who's fought Orin's monster son~"
Shanks said with a faint smile, his face calm, clearly carrying a teasing tone.
"By the way, have you found any trace of that Sadgeo? With such a big ship, it should be easy to spot, right?"
Yasopp shook his head.
"No, quite the opposite."
"That ship is pulled by super-giant Sea Kings. Crossing the Calm Belt is just a few dives for them. Their traces have appeared all over the world."
Hearing this, Shanks frowned slightly.
"I see… I thought he'd show up in Wano Country."
After that, Shanks didn't ask further, instead focusing on reading Kid's intelligence report.
Meanwhile, the Kid Pirates gradually approached Shanks' flagship. Kid himself stood at the bow, beginning to activate the awakening ability of the Magnet-Magnet Fruit.
"It doesn't matter who the enemy is, as long as I use this…"
"Electromagnetic Cannon!!!"
At that instant, Shanks activated his Observation Haki to foresee the future,
He even saw Kid firing and destroying the entire fleet, sinking all ships, and shouting for him to come out,
Connecting everything before and after, it amounted to at least more than ten seconds.
For Observation Haki, aside from accuracy, another key standard is how far into the future one can see,
And Shanks' range—one couldn't say it wasn't specially trained for someone.
What followed was a familiar scene,
Shanks, at the moment Kid began charging that attack, drew Gryphon.
"Divine Departure!!!"
With a single slash, one of the Supernovas, Kid, spat blood and was instantly defeated,
Using his life to show the world what it means to never expose your wind-up when using a big move.
A massive explosion erupted over the Kid Pirates. Just like Red Hair, who lost an arm, Kid was instantly knocked into the mast by a single strike,
His consciousness began to blur, and his vision started flashing like a revolving lantern of memories.
The companions beside him immediately had their morale collapse,
These oddly shaped crew members—whose names no one even knew—saw their captain and vice-captain get one-shot, and instantly surrendered,
They took out rubbings of the Poneglyphs, hoping to exchange them for their captain's life.
But Shanks didn't accept them. He quietly watched the remnants of the crew as he leapt onto their ship,
The Kid Pirates froze for a moment. Amid the blazing firelight, they saw two giants on the shore,
Both raising their weapons and aiming in their direction,
"Hakoku!!!"
The giants' combined attack, powerful enough to pierce giant Sea Kings, split the sea itself and surged toward the Kid Pirates,
This was a true raw-stat attack—without relying on Haki, it still reached Emperor-level destructive power.
Kid's crew widened their eyes, watching in despair,
And at that moment,
A figure that didn't exist within Observation Haki slowly appeared at the bow of their ship,
A black silhouette stood silently amidst the raging wind. Facing the Hakoku that split the entire sea, he merely slowly raised his hand.
With one hand, he reached out toward Hakoku…
...
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(PS: Once again addressing the power-scaling issue. Some people say the protagonist can sometimes instantly defeat Emperor-level fighters, while theoretically being countered by two King-level fighters, and that the power system has collapsed.
First, since he's the protagonist, he is naturally among the very strongest at his stage—the absolute peak among "Super Kings." Unless someone's Haki surpasses his, his spatial ability is invincible within the same tier. Even if, in theory, two Kings can fight a Super King, it's meaningless.
Second, Dante is simply strong in raw stats—his physical power has reached a level that's hard for the world to match. So when Big Mom and Kaido encounter someone whose Haki doesn't lose to theirs and whose physical strength surpasses theirs, their defeat looks somewhat miserable. Meanwhile, Orin operates purely on rules. No matter how strong one's body is in the pirate world, it cannot break space. You could say a father beating his younger son is actually quite easy.
Finally, the power system in the pirate world is indeed somewhat mysterious. There are hierarchical suppressions, but also rock-paper-scissors-like matchups at the same level—where one can crush another or where the weak can contend against the strong. In theory, two Kings can indeed fight someone like Rocks, but when facing the protagonist, do you really think he'd lose if he went all out?)
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