A great wind rises, clouds fly. How to obtain a brave man to guard the four directions? Pirates must be suppressed at any time... it cannot be done otherwise.
Just think, you only came out to find your beloved dog, and incidentally to disrupt your enemy's country or something. You were eating hot pot and singing, when suddenly you were robbed by pirates!!!
So, days without pirates are good days.
In the short half hour since Imu personally descended, the insects who dared to resist her had already grown too numerous to count.
Even, before she could react, someone had used a city wrapped in Armament Haki to smash her on the forehead, crashing hard into the earth, kicking up towering clouds of dust.
Not to mention Leviathan and the others, even the elite among the Celestial Dragons, the two members of the God's Knights, had never seen such a sight. Their slightly disordered breathing proved the disquiet in their hearts.
"Sakura-chan!" Leviathan immediately flew to Sakura, hiding behind her tall figure.
"You've worked hard. Go outside and meet up with Shiki. Leave this to me!" Sakura patted Leviathan's wing and pointed toward the gap in the domain she had torn open.
The giant crack that she and Shiki had created by jointly using Conqueror's Haki to propel the Flower Capital was now slowly healing.
Hearing the meaning in Sakura's words, Leviathan gave her a deep look and said solemnly, "You must come back alive!"
"Don't worry!" Sakura's tone was gentle and mellow. She raised her hand and made an OK gesture.
Then, the night raven, covered in pitch-black, spread her giant wings and fled into the shadows, rapidly rushing toward the gap in the arrow domain.
"Hey hey, leaving so soon? Our hospitality isn't over yet!" With strong malice, in front of Leviathan's flight path, a spiral mirror opened again. Maffey's head extended from it, her mouth wide open, accumulating a laser.
"Hey, you bastard, what do you think you're doing to someone else's partner?" The girl's face was cold. Her anger, almost condensed into substance, turned into a man-eating flood beast, pressing down toward him.
She lightly raised her hand and snapped her fingers. From within the long, narrow fluid mirror, the sound of trees sprouting echoed.
Then, a vine extended from behind her, binding her mouth, detonating the laser inside her mouth, then dragging Maffey back into the Mirror World.
The 'countermeasure' that Sakura had planted when Brulee had taken Linlin away through the Mirror World was now triggered by her. The entire Mirror World turned into a sea of trees swallowing the enemy.
"What happened? What did you do?"
Not understanding, Shamrock drew his long sword from his waist, watching Sakura warily.
"Want to know? Go keep her company!"
Her cold-as-ice voice approached from afar. Sakura flew at extreme speed, leaving a pure white trail in the air. Her fist, wrapped in extreme cold, slammed hard into his face.
Bang!
Almost simultaneously with the sound of the fist hitting flesh, Shamrock's body turned into a streak of light, crashing hard against the wall of the arrow world, spinning at high speed within the circle, guided by the arrow ability that manipulated trajectories.
"Your fruit ability looks very familiar."
Seeing Shamrock sent flying, a vast Conqueror's Haki surged again. Within the abyssal spirit that covered everything, a pair of cold eyes slowly opened.
They looked down at the girl floating in the air.
Then, terrifying flames rose from the earth. Terrifying high temperatures spread, turning into a twisted wall of fire, instantly incinerating a city-sized Flower Capital to ashes.
The demon, spreading her bat wings, rose from it and shot into the sky. Her trident, wreathed in irresistible Haki, stabbed fiercely.
"Yes, those who severed your weapons and pursued a broader future."
Sakura absorbed a large amount of Natural Energy, entering Sage Mode again. The cross spear extending from her hand was dyed with Armament Haki as she swung it forcefully.
The two long-handled weapons clashed. Iron light rolled as even the surrounding space warped. The surging dark thunder and storm raged in the void.
"Foolish. Even if they extinguished the eternal energy source, it's just a boring delay. The future of this world is only one: Mu's domination!" The tall, dark figure faintly visible behind Gunko spoke in a deep voice. His eyes, stern without anger, radiated the weight of the order that had ruled the world for eight hundred years.
"So their prayers created this fruit." Sakura was relieved. A glimmer of understanding flashed in her eyes. "No matter how much they reiterated their desire to reverse chaos and create peace in the ruins."
"The disgust they felt in their hearts for the order you created lingered, ultimately causing the fruit's will to choose a destroyer, someone who could overthrow this twisted order!"
The entire space fell into deathly silence. Only the roar of ferocious Haki left noise.
A long, drawn-out ringing in the ears came again. This time, no depiction was needed. A stabbing pain rippled in their ears, a signal that the flames of war were about to ignite.
Though the world was in her hands, a strangeness rose in Imu's heart… the ruler, who had been seated on the divine throne, was dragged into the dust, revealing to her a corner of a certain destructive future, its outline infinitely grand.
"Presumptuous!!!" A voice, as if mixed with electric current, resounded.
Countless pentagrams rose into the dark sky of the arrow's trajectory. More steel, more burning fierce light, constructed giant cannon mouths, crookedly aiming at Sakura, spurting blazing flames.
When those star-like shells rose, turning into a steel rainstorm, in an instant, they plowed a tragic, burning trail through the void.
"You're afraid, aren't you! Afraid that those who inherited the will of the enemies hidden in history will rise again and challenge you!"
Tearing open the scorching flames in one go, the girl floating in mid-air had two antennae on her forehead.
At the critical moment, she summoned Katsuyu from the Senjutsu pool above Marian Island, using the accumulated Natural Energy to directly enter a fused Sage Mode.
Now, her ice-blue long hair drifted. Her entire body was pale to the point of being almost transparent. Her pure white feather robe was still draped over her body, but the lining had turned into a black coat.
"Nonsense! Those people will not appear a second time! Whether you traitors, Davy D. Jones, or Joy Boy, as long as Mu completely cleanses all of you!!!"
Imu's bat wings spread dozens of meters. Countless bandages, dancing like snakes, extended outward, connecting to the many pentagrams, engraving spiral arrow trajectories on the cannon barrels of the steel artillery.
The roar resounded again. The demonic shells, imbued with the Aro Aro no Mi's ability, carried an unavoidable effect, capable of easily blowing off a giant's elbow. The shells were propelled by the force of the primer's explosion, howling as they came in an overwhelming tide. (T/N: Arrow-Arrow Fruit.)
Facing such a ferocious attack, the girl calmly raised her hand to meet it, softly exhaling cold mist from her mouth: "Senjutsu: Evolution Technique - Adaptation!"
In an instant, she was swallowed by the iron light and black tide. Accompanied by the violent trembling of the earth, flames blazed and spread to both sides. The brutal potential energy impact brought the most tragic and direct effects.
The originally ordinary shells, enhanced by the pentagram array and the sublimation of the ability, had transformed into a terrifying offensive that no carbon-based life form could survive.
If Imu's expectations were correct, the girl who knew too much should have turned to ashes along with her secrets in the sky full of flames.
However...
"How is this possible?!"