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Big Mom stood atop the thundercloud Zeus, with the sun-like, fire-wielding Prometheus at her side, holding the Homie Napoleon, now transformed into a sharp blade.
These were the three strongest Homies—created from Big Mom's own soul using her Soul-Soul Fruit ability.
Facing the Emperor, Fujitora showed no fear, calmly holding his cane sword, Yakuza Kasen, before him.
"MAMAMAMA!" Big Mom roared with laughter upon hearing Fujitora's calm demeanor, her eyes bloodshot with rage.
"You deliberately lured me here, didn't you? How arrogant, you little brat. Did becoming an Admiral make you forget your place in the world?"
Fujitora was now over fifty years old and a Marine HQ Admiral. To be called a 'brat' was the height of arrogance...
But the one speaking was a former member of the Rocks Pirates, a veteran who had rampaged across the seas through the Rocks era, the Roger era, and the current Four Emperor era.
The only female among the current Four Emperors, nearly 70 years old—Big Mom, Charlotte Linlin.
Even the current Emperor Kaido, who was just an apprentice on Rocks's ship back then, was still called a 'brat' by Linlin when she was angry.
When Big Mom was rampaging across the seas, Fujitora was a nobody.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Feeling the Emperor's fury, the very sky began to tremble.
"Is this an Emperor's Haki?" Fujitora's expression also turned grim.
Though he sensed an incredibly violent, out-of-control aura from this woman, her Haki was undeniably worthy of her title.
"MAMA! LET ME BURN HIM TO A CRISP!" Prometheus, no longer a gentle sun, had become a raging cloud of fire.
"MAMA! LET ME STRIKE HIM DOWN!" Zeus, not to be outdone, vied for Big Mom's favor.
"MAMAMAMA!"
Big Mom roared with laughter.
Her gaze, however, passed over Fujitora, looking towards the Marines behind him.
"You liked summoning meteorites just now, didn't you? In that case, let's see if you can protect your subordinates." Big Mom's gaze was utterly chilling.
Anger her, and expect a quick death? Not so easy!
"ZEUS!" Big Mom roared.
"YES, MAMA!" Zeus's thundercloud body rapidly expanded, countless terrifying thunder serpents writhing within him.
"Tenman Daijizai Tenjin (God of Lightning Tenjin)——!!!"
Big Mom cackled madly, controlling Zeus to unleash a wide-area, horrifying lightning attack!
CRACKLE!!
Zeus's thundercloud body trembled, and countless bolts of lightning shot out, centered on him, bombarding the area below indiscriminately!
What was more horrifying was that, as a thundercloud homie created by the Soul-Soul Fruit, Zeus's lightning was imbued with a fragment of a soul, allowing each bolt to track its target!
"N-No! We can't dodge!" The Marines stared in despair at the lightning descending from the sky.
"GET BEHIND US!"
Fujitora's three subordinate Vice Admirals—Maynard, Dalmatian, and Bastille—appeared before the troops.
"Hmph! Compared to Sky Sovereign Rowen's Rumble-Rumble Fruit, this lightning is a joke!" Bastille snarled.
The three direct subordinate Vice Admirals of a Marine HQ Admiral were all assembled.
"THE VICE ADMIRALS!" Seeing the three Vice Admirals standing before them, the numerous Marines immediately cheered.
"Armament——!"
The three roared in unison, coating their entire bodies in thick Armament Haki.
Then, the swordsmen Bastille and Maynard unleashed a barrage of Haki-infused slashes, while the Zoan user Dalmatian, who could maintain his hybrid form for long periods, used the Six Powers' Tempest Kick, kicking out a storm of Haki-infused air blades, maximizing his own unique abilities.
Against a natural element like lightning, even with Armament Haki, taking it head-on was foolish. The best method was to infuse Armament Haki into long-range attacks, using energy to counter energy.
Under the full-power defensive attack of the three Vice Admirals, much of the lightning was dissipated.
Just as Bastille had said—though it was lightning, it was not Sky Sovereign Rowen's Rumble-Rumble Fruit ability. It was just a thundercloud created by the Soul-Soul Fruit.
Its power was completely incomparable to an Awakened Rumble-Rumble Fruit. And since it was an area-of-effect attack, its power was naturally diluted.
Bastille and the others were thankful they were facing Big Mom's lightning. If it had been Sky Sovereign Rowen's Rumble-Rumble Fruit ability, even the three of them working together probably couldn't have blocked it.
"Those without Haki, fall back! You can't even withstand the aftershocks of the Lightning! This is no longer a Battlefield you can set foot on!"
Several Marine HQ Rear Admirals, their weapons coated in Armament Haki, helped the three Vice Admirals block the remaining lightning aftershocks, roaring.
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"Sky Sovereign Rowen... brat,"
Hearing his name, Big Mom's eyes turned blood-red. HOW DARE THEY LOOK DOWN ON HER!
"Prometheus!" Big Mom looked towards the flame cloud.
"Mama! I'm Here!"
Prometheus's body immediately swelled.
"Heavenly Fireball——!" Under Big Mom's control, Prometheus took a deep breath and spat out a frightening fireball of searing flames.
The power of the Soul-Soul Fruit allowed her to command both fire and lightning. The combined might of the two elemental homies was terrifying, breaking past the limits of what Dalmatian and the others could handle.
Suddenly...
"Jigoku Tabi (Hell's Journey)——"
A calm voice sounded.
VMM!
Centered on Fujitora, the very atmosphere instantly began to distort.
A terrifying change in gravity made space itself seem to warp completely.
In the original story, Fujitora had never shown his true power. At Dressrosa, he had been constrained by Doflamingo's status as a Warlord.
His personal philosophy was to protect civilians, and he believed the Navy was the best way to do that. As a member of the Navy—he was bound by its rules, and the Warlord system was the biggest restraint.
But now, facing an Emperor who was about to slaughter his subordinates, the soldiers of Justice...
Fujitora had no more reason to hold back. HIS POWER WAS COMPLETELY UNLEASHED!
VMM!
The air around Fujitora completely warped and compressed.
Wave after wave of gravity ripples continuously spread out, instantly reaching those lightning and fire attacks.
VMM!
Anything in this world was subject to gravity's influence.
These lightning and fire attacks, under the influence of gravity, were actually being crushed by the atmospheric gravity!
And this gravity influence didn't stop, spreading to the Homies, Zeus and Prometheus!
"S-So heavy, MAMA!" Zeus and Prometheus cried out in pain.
THUD!
Smoothie and the others were also affected by this spreading gravity space, collapsing painfully to the ground, deep craters forming beneath them!
"C-Can't move!" Smoothie's forehead was beaded with cold sweat.
T-Too strong. It's on a completely different level from what he used against them before!
This was—the full power of the Press-Press Fruit!
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"Have you awakened your Devil Fruit, you little brat?" Big Mom grinned, her mouth a cavernous maw, looking at the environment around Fujitora, now a gravity space under his control.
"Facing an Emperor, I'm not so foolish as to hold back," Fujitora's eyes opened slightly. But Fujitora, being blind, even when open, his eyes were completely white, adding to his immense pressure.
The surrounding environment was completely under Fujitora's gravitational control. He could freely manipulate the gravity of this space, this air.
THUD!
Big Mom fell somewhat pathetically from the sky.
Just as in the original story, all stats, no combat IQ.
Because of her negative combat IQ, Big Mom's Observation Haki was the weakest among the Four Emperors, even inferior to some Yonko Commanders.
This was why, in battle, despite facing attacks that weren't that strong, she was frequently hit. She fought completely on stats and talent, with no so-called skill.
BUT!
"DON'T GET TOO COCKY, BRAT!"
Big Mom's eyes blazed with a violent crimson-black, which then materialized!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Violent crimson-black lightning erupted furiously.
Under the roar of this violent crimson-black lightning, the gravity space affected by the Awakened Press-Press Fruit began to recede!
While there was no direct counter between Devil Fruits and Haki, the power of Haoshoku Coating was so savage that it could overwhelm even a powerful awakened Devil Fruit like the Press-Press Fruit.
VMM!
Violent, tyrannical crimson-black lightning coiled around Big Mom's entire body, forming a crimson-black lightning cloud.
The Haoshoku Coating membrane—the symbol of a true user. It boosted attack, defense, and speed to horrifying levels.
Anyone who mastered this power was an absolute ruler on these seas.
Negative combat IQ? THEN JUST USE RAW STATS TO OVERWHELM!
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"HAŌSHOKU COATING?"
Fujitora's gaze was incredibly grim. As the signature power of the Four Emperors, he had heard how formidable Haōshoku Coating was.
Just sensing the violent aura of this power made him feel a suffocating pressure. As expected of a Haki power superior to Armament Haki; this power was no joke.
BUT!
"Super Gravity Blade—Raging Tiger!!!" Fujitora roared.
Incredibly dense Armament Haki, without any reservation, was all infused into Yakuza Kasen.
Amplified by this Supreme Grade Blade, he unleashed an even more terrifying slash.
WHOOSH!!
A blue-purple slash roared out, then touched the gravity space around Fujitora.
VMM!
A horrific slash of purple energy, infused with the full power of his awakened fruit, screamed through the air, causing the very atmosphere to buckle and cave in.
This was Fujitora's true full power.
"Emperor's Blade: Cognac——!!" Big Mom infused the power of Prometheus into her body, her hair transforming into burning flames, looking like a demon. Then, Prometheus's power was infused into the sword Homie, Napoleon!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Violent, tyrannical crimson-black lightning coiled around the Emperor's Blade.
"HAAAAAH!!!
Big Mom roared, slashing down directly with her Emperor's Blade. A terrifying sword strike, fusing the power of the Soul-Soul Fruit and Haōshoku Coating!
BOOOOOOOOOOM!
The two attacks met.
Fujitora's slash was instantly overwhelmed.
Even with a Supreme Grade Sword—without Haoshoku Coating, a head-on clash against an Emperor was a losing battle. The Press-Press Fruit, though powerful, lacked the raw offensive power of the Magma-Magma Fruit.
Of course, as an Admiral, he wouldn't be defeated instantly. Though his attack was broken, the sheer energy it contained had weakened Big Mom's strike. The remaining power was no longer enough to be a fatal blow.
The two of them began to clash furiously.
The battle between an Emperor and an Admiral formed a vacuum on this area.
Whether Marine Vice Admirals or Smoothie, they weren't even qualified to get close.
They stared dumbfounded at this utterly terrifying battle.
Below Emperors and Admirals, all are ants.
This phrase, at this moment, was made manifest.
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"Dammit! You Annoying Brat!" Big Mom was extremely irritable, wanting to quickly finish off Fujitora.
"Hah... Hah... As expected of an Emperor... my stamina and Haki are being consumed too quickly," Fujitora panted.
He had just passed fifty, an age in the One Piece world where a powerhouse was at their absolute peak. Both his Haki and stamina were at their life's strongest. And Big Mom was nearly 70—yet her stamina and Haki were still far above his.
As expected of a being hailed as a natural monster.
"FUJITORA! ACTIVATE THE BUSTER CALL!" Suddenly, Akainu's roar came from the Transponder Snail hidden over Fujitora's heart.
"Ngh..." Fujitora hesitated for a moment.
As a new Admiral, he naturally had the authority to activate a Buster Call and knew what it was. But once activated, this entire island would be completely destroyed. The homes of those civilians would be destroyed in the flames of war.
BUT—
"If taking down one Emperor can bring greater peace to the civilians..."
BEEP!
Fujitora, seizing a gap, pressed the Golden Transponder Snail hidden over his heart.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
A piercing shriek echoed across this sea region.
"BUSTER CALL ACTIVATED! IT'S ADMIRAL FUJITORA'S BUSTER CALL!"
"TARGET! THE EMPEROR, BIG MOM!"
"DEPLOY! OVER FIFTY WARSHIPS!"
"ADMIRAL KIZARU! ADMIRAL RYOKUGYU! DEPLOY!"
"OUR NAVY'S THREE ADMIRALS ARE ALL DEPLOYED! WE VOW TO CAPTURE THE EMPEROR, BIG MOM!"
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