"Didn't I say? I'll enjoy competing with you in the days to come!"
Toguro was standing on the head of the giant Kraken, and it was he who suddenly threw a punch that knocked Roger into the sea.
Electricity surged on the sea, like a field of lightning. The Kraken stirred the sea, actually lifting Roger, who had sunk into it, and wrapping him with the ends of its tentacles. The huge body, combined with extraordinary power, was enough to crush Roger into minced meat.
Roger could only desperately use his Armament Haki to resist. If he slacked off for even a second, he would be done for. Rayleigh, seeing this, immediately stepped forward with his sword, but was blocked by another tentacle.
"Heh heh heh, so you're that muscle monster." Golden Lion, floating in the sky, saw the suddenly appearing Toguro and couldn't help but laugh, "Another jerk wants to steal the Shikon Jewel shards from me!"
He didn't care about Roger at all, but shouted at Toguro, "Stop getting in the way!"
"That was originally my property. I'm just taking it back. You're the ones stealing." Toguro said, his muscles bulging and his face a little fierce, "You all deserve to die!"
Boom!
A huge wave of demon power was released, pouring out in all directions. Even Garp and Zephyr behind him felt the impact of this powerful force, and their eyes narrowed.
"It's getting more and more interesting. Even that Toguro has come." Garp jumped up and into the sky, and saw Toguro releasing his demon power on the Kraken's head. He shouted, "You muscle-monster wannabe, did you cause this incident?"
Hearing the voice behind him, Toguro turned around and threw a punch, covering his fist with black Armament Haki. With a bang, it collided with Garp's iron fist. Powerful Armament Haki spilled out. Although it wasn't Conqueror's Haki expansion, the damage it caused was no less than Conqueror's Haki wrapping!
"I have no interest in using Shikon Jewel shards to do such things." Toguro and Garp separated. On the Kraken's head, the two could fight as if they were on land, now a full kilometer apart.
After separating, Toguro twisted his neck and said to Garp, "But although it has nothing to do with me, it was caused by someone."
?!
Garp was just saying it casually, but he didn't expect Toguro to say that. He immediately shouted, "Who is it?!"
"It's me..."
Before Toguro could speak, a void suddenly appeared from another direction. Garp's eyes couldn't see it, but his Observation Haki told him that there was such a void there. He instantly remembered what Zephyr had mentioned before.
"Zero?!"
As soon as Garp finished speaking, a man wearing a black robe and hood walked out of the void. He wore a mask with a spiral pattern on his face, all twisted to the position of his right eye. It was the man who had been photographed in the newspaper confronting Zephyr.
And he had also seen this man, in his dream, when he was on the Nine-Tailed Fox. Now he was in the real world, and again on the body of a giant monster.
"?!" Golden Lion, who was observing in the sky, frowned when he saw the suddenly appearing man, and immediately fell from the sky, also standing on the Kraken's head.
At this time, the Kraken looked like it was going to sweep away everyone who dared to offend it with its tentacles. Garp, Shiki, and even Toguro prepared for battle, but Zero, under the watchful eyes of the three, slowly bent down and gently touched the skin of the giant Kraken with his hand.
The previously violent Kraken instantly calmed down, and the power of lightning gathered on its tentacles suddenly lashed out at the people on the sea: the Roger Pirates, the Golden Lion Pirates, and the Marine forces and Zephyr.
"?!"
Garp and Shiki were taken aback, but 'Zero' had already straightened up. The miasma from the space behind him was still spreading, as if he was ready to leave at any moment.
"Don't be so surprised. Kraken is my subordinate. It's reasonable for it to follow my orders." Zero smiled softly when he saw their expressions.
"I originally wanted Kraken to wreak havoc in Mary Geoise, but I also wanted to meet the pirate who could hear the 'Shikon Jewel' at that time. Carelessly... I gathered you all together."
"Hear the voice of the Shikon Jewel? Are you talking about that Roger bastard?" Shiki, with a cigar in his mouth, held his two swords and looked at Zero.
"Besides him, there is no one else in the world who can hear it." Zero said, "Oh, he's already up here."
As Genichi's voice fell, a sword energy that seemed to pierce the sky suddenly came from below. Then a figure jumped out from the rainbow-like sword energy, also arriving on the Kraken's head.
Roger, Shiki, Garp, and Toguro stood in the east, west, south, and north directions from Zero, vaguely surrounding him.
"If you want to meet me, you don't need to bring such a big gift!" Roger was covered in blood and some scorch marks. Among the crowd, he was the most injured, but even so, he was still very spirited. As soon as he arrived, he said,
"Then I'll have to give you a gift too!" Roger immediately swung his sword forward. Conqueror's and Armament Haki were wrapped around the sword, and in an instant, he slashed at Zero!
The other three did nothing when they saw this scene. It seemed they also wanted to see how this mysterious Zero would deal with it.
However, to their surprise, and even Roger himself didn't expect it, the power of this slash actually cut Zero's body in half?!
Zero, wearing a black robe and hood, with a mask, was instantly split into two halves, neatly and smoothly separated. The aftershock of Roger's slash went directly to Shiki's vicinity, and Shiki also swung his sword to cancel out the aftershock.
?!
This Zero, who looked very mysterious, was actually killed by Roger in one slash?!
Could such a thing really happen?
They stared intently at Zero's 'corpse', and as they expected, Zero, who had been cut in half by Roger, could still make a laughing sound at this moment?!
The mask was also cut smoothly, each half on each side of his face, hiding his true appearance. However, through both sides they could see that Zero was showing a smile?
"Heh heh... I've received your big gift, Gol D. Roger. I look forward to our next meeting..."
The void next to him suddenly disappeared, leaving Zero's corpse here, or rather…
Was this really Zero's corpse?!
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