"Captain, we've arrived at the island." As night fell, Bullet landed on the island where Rayleigh and Luffy were staying and contacted Elior.
"Good. Just kill them," Elior replied calmly. To him, both Luffy and Rayleigh had to die. It wasn't that Elior feared them; he simply didn't want to be bothered by such annoying flies.
"Do you want their heads taken?" Bullet asked for confirmation.
"Whatever. As long as they die. Of course, it doesn't matter if you whip the corpse afterward."
"Got it! Finish them quickly. Then I'll see if there's anything else I need you to do," Elior commanded before ending the call.
Today, Elior was in an exceptionally good mood. More than two hours earlier, Doflamingo had sent news that the final Road Poneglyph had been found. It was currently on its way to Paradise, personally escorted by Doflamingo himself. Naturally, this matter was strictly confidential. The history recorded on the Road Poneglyphs was something the Celestial Dragons feared deeply. Laugh Tale held a terrifying secret for them, so they would never allow anyone to easily gather all the stones.
The Celestial Dragons had previously been reassured because they believed the monsters holding the stones, like Big Mom and Kaido, would never cooperate. But Elior was different. They already suspected he had obtained three of them since the Poneglyph on Zou had disappeared. They were doing everything possible to prevent him from acquiring another, yet they never imagined the final one was already being delivered to him.
At this moment, inside the hot spring of Elior's mansion, all the girls were present except for the three female Marines in the dungeon. Naturally, Elior was there as well. With a snap of his fingers, he activated his time domain, slowing time twentyfold. For now, Elior only wanted to train with the girls. A great war was approaching, and their strength needed to be enhanced.
As Elior's women, the girls had become increasingly open-minded. Belo Betty no longer harbored hatred over the fall of the Revolutionary Army; Elior possessed the power to plunge the entire world into despair, so resistance felt futile. As for Nico Robin, even if she knew the Straw Hat Pirates would be wiped out, she felt there was no going back. At least she hoped Nami wouldn't have to die. As Robin endured Elior's impact, her reason sat on the verge of collapse, and she finally surrendered, abandoning everything related to her past life.
When the sun rose and the Time Domain was lifted, the women's strength had noticeably increased. Shirahoshi, with the power of Poseidon, had awakened to a level where she could hear the Voice of All Things. Hiyori's strength was already close to that of a Vice Admiral, and she could now control hurricanes and lightning through the Wind-Wind Fruit. Hancock was now at a level where she would not lose even against an Admiral. Reiju, Yamato, and the others had similarly reached elite tiers of power.
"The workload is really heavy," Elior mused, stretching in the morning sunlight. After more than one hundred and sixty hours of intense activity, he felt no fatigue. On the contrary, he was brimming with energy, while the girls had collapsed from exhaustion. His goal was to make them overwhelmingly powerful so they could help him wipe out the Celestial Dragons in a single stroke.
Elsewhere, time rewound to the previous night. Bullet and Crocodile landed on the island of ferocious beasts where Luffy had trained.
"Bullet! Crocodile!" Rayleigh's expression turned grim. "Luffy, I'll cover you. Leave first, don't worry about me!" Rayleigh's heart sank. Bullet and Crocodile were here to eliminate the root of the problem.
Luffy's eyes were firm. In the past, he always said he would just beat his enemies away. But after experiencing the deaths of his father and grandfather, and losing Shanks, Luffy had changed. He had become more ruthless and finally understood the cruelty of the world.
"Rayleigh! I'm not leaving! I'm going to beat them all to death!"
"Want to leave? Impossible!" Bullet burst out laughing.