Wounded, out of breath and strength...
As soon as Shiki entered, he fought fiercely with Kraken and Roger, followed by hours of fighting with Garp and Kraken, during which he suffered countless injuries and exhausted a lot of stamina.
And when he unleashed his final attack on Kraken, he used the most strength.
After being punched by Toguro, he barely escaped. Shiki leaned against a big tree, panting heavily.
Then, a shadow covered the island, and a person appeared in front of him.
That person was tall, wearing a black suit, but with a blue mask on his face, making it impossible to see his face clearly.
"...Raijin." Shiki gritted his teeth and said the name of the person who came. He knew who this person was.
That's right...
It was Raijin who appeared when they were snatching the Shikon Jewel fragment from Zephyr!
"It's smart that you didn't run to your main island, but even if you randomly find an island in the vast sea to recover from your injuries, you still can't escape our tracking." Raijin said lightly, standing in front of Golden Lion.
"You?" Shiki said weakly, "You've been saying 'you' since the first time we met, right? Can you let me know... who are you?"
"Trying to buy time to recover your strength?" Raijin chuckled, making Shiki's face look a little ugly.
But he didn't care much, because Shiki absolutely couldn't escape.
"The Black Order, you should have heard of this new organization, right? It's an organization formed by the World Government specifically to deal with demons and monsters." Raijin said, "But sometimes, it will also target you pirates."
"...A person like you would actually become a running dog of the World Government?" Shiki had said this to him when they first met, and now he couldn't help but say it again, "If the two of us joined forces, we could conquer even this world!"
Raijin just looked through the mask without saying a word, and Shiki just looked at Raijin, taking the opportunity to recover his strength. After all, he had obtained two Shikon Jewel fragments.
The Shikon Jewel fragments had been integrated into his body, rapidly restoring his injuries and stamina. With a little more time, he would have enough strength to fight back!
But Raijin didn't react at all, nor did he show any weakness, as if he didn't care at all about Golden Lion using the Shikon Jewel fragments to recover his strength, nor did he care about his previous provocation.
A person with Conqueror's Haki would actually react like this?
"Why haven't you made a move yet?" However, this strange silence didn't last long, because Shiki felt a danger approaching, a danger that even made his hair stand on end. It seemed that using the Shikon Jewel to recover his strength here was actually a deadly crisis!
He said to Raijin, "What are you... waiting for?"
"She..." Raijin slowly moved aside, and said softly, "has arrived."
Shiki looked ahead, his pupils shrinking, because he only saw a woman with orange-pink medium-length hair, wearing trousers and a white shirt, with a black bow tie, appear in his sight, approaching step by step with her hands behind her back.
"You are... the person Raijin is waiting for?" Shiki asked.
Makima didn't speak. At the same time, a sword of lightning appeared in Raijin's hand. The huge power of lightning mixed with Haki converged together, forming a sword that was dazzling and also seemed to be constantly shrinking.
He respectfully handed the sword over, and Makima took it when she walked to his side.
"Don't think... you can kill me easily." Shiki growled, "I am Golden Lion!"
Boom!
His eyes widened, and Conqueror's Haki suddenly erupted with a bang. As long as the two of them hesitated for a moment, Shiki would use his last remaining strength to leave this place.
He knew that he absolutely couldn't win against Raijin in his current state, and that Makima possessed the power to make Raijin submit. It would be unwise to attack before knowing her background, so the only option was to run.
However, Makima just looked at Shiki with a smiling expression. This expression, which seemed very kind to others, was actually exceptionally terrifying in Shiki's eyes. The next moment, a pressure that seemed to suffocate him came.
Boom!
A deep red Haki was released from Makima's body. In the blink of an eye, the entire sky was dyed blood red. In this world, Shiki widened his eyes, looking at Makima in front of him and only felt that she was incredibly terrifying, and even had a feeling of...
Submissiveness?!
"I..." Shiki clenched his teeth for a moment, and the blade in his hand didn't slash at Makima, but stabbed at himself. The severe pain brought him back to his senses. A wave of fear rose in his heart. Just now...
Just now, he actually felt like he was being controlled?
"Don't think you can control me! I am Golden Lion Shiki!" Shiki bit his tongue hard, but the next moment, he discovered his body...
His upper body had been cut open by the latter with the thunder sword created by Raijin at the moment Makima released her Haki of control. At this time, it had been completely separated from his lower body, and then fell to the side. Therefore, he was able to see his complete lower body from his own eyes.
Shiki still wanted to say something, but he no longer had the strength to continue speaking. He...
Was already dead.
In his last glance, he could only see the masked Raijin still standing beside Makima, while Makima had already resumed putting her hands behind her back, as if there was no joy or accomplishment in killing a great pirate at all, as if the executioner had routinely cut off the prisoner's head, without any emotion in her eyes.
Shiki is dead...
Golden Lion, the pirate admiral who was originally supposed to compete with Roger and Whitebeard for sea supremacy in the coming decades and create a great reputation, died on such a nameless small island.
He would never have the opportunity to shake the world with the name of Golden Lion again, nor would he have the opportunity to push Roger into a desperate situation, because corpses can't do anything.
Even if they do...
It would be under other identities.
For example, now, the body that had been killed by Makima had been reassembled and stood up almost perfectly, but he would no longer be Shiki.
After being killed by Makima, he had lost the power to resist Makima's control, so he could only become her puppet, just like Rocks D. Xebec in the past.
"Almost there..."
However, after seeing Golden Lion stand up again, Makima said with a slight regret.
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