"Leviathan?!"
Sakura's voice lit up with joy. She blinked—and found herself staring into dozens of laughing eyes on the massive beast right in front of her.
It tilted its head, brushing past her with a whoosh.
Storm winds howled. A bone-rattling roar thundered as it plummeted straight down.
"What the—!"
Down in the Sea of Paint, the giant face—Marcus Dorian—didn't even have time to dodge. Leviathan, wrapped head-to-toe in Armament Haki, slammed into him face-first.
The sheer mass tore through every layer of paint, exposing the Creator's descendant hiding inside.
"How dare you—"
BOOM!
A sound like mountains crumbling and thunder exploding ripped through the air.
Marcus Dorian's last shred of painted defense was swallowed whole. Crimson light flared up from the earth.
Then—the ground split open!
"Hey, wait—Leviathan, what the hell are you doing?!"
Sakura, still clutching the rabbit, got scooped up by a tentacle and dragged down with it.
The chaos didn't stop after impact. Leviathan kept going—burrowing deeper into the earth.
CRACK!
The last outline of that pure-white land shattered. In its place—something new.
Colorless Realm: Breached.
Leviathan's colossal body plunged into Paradise, shaking the once-solid world with tidal fury.
The space—woven from countless souls and wild dreams—warped. Earthquakes, torrential rain, and howling winds poured down from above, ravaging everything.
CRACK!
Not even the mist or clouds could stop it. Fissures spiderwebbed everywhere. The barriers between layers were pierced again.
Paradise Realm: Breached!
The nightmarish silhouette kept falling—through worlds, toward hell itself.
It cast shadows over shacks and villages, over every stunned, vacant face in El Shah.
dom.
The Demon Realm arrived. The passage was wide open.
"Ow, ow, ow—Leviathan, you reckless jerk…"
Half-buried in the dirt, Sakura yanked herself free and slumped against the beast's side, swaying.
"Heh heh~ Just felt like… it'd be fun~"
Leviathan tossed its head, lazy laughter sending gusts rippling outward.
In the distance, the people of El Shah hid among rubble and dust. Their homes—their lives—gone.
White Cat, leaning against a broken wall, stared wide-eyed, cane trembling in his paw. "That's… a path big enough for everyone to reach the top layer!"
"Nn…"
White Rabbit Helmord, head spinning, crawled out from under the debris.
Seeing the humble lives they'd scraped together reduced to nothing, a nameless fury ignited in his chest.
"You monster! Look what you've done! You destroyed their homes!"
Realizing the beast and Sakura were in cahoots, the rabbit charged forward and grabbed her coat with both paws.
"And?" Sakura's mocking laugh echoed through the silence, reaching every animal's ears.
"You heartless woman!"
The rabbit gritted his teeth, rage hissing through clenched fangs.
"Kid," Sakura said, shaking him off and hoisting him up by the collar, locking eyes. "You still don't get it. I'm a pirate."
"Let go of Prince Helmord!"
"You're a bad person."
"Pirates can't be trusted!"
The citizens of El Shah surged with righteous fury, glaring daggers at the girl.
Sakura scanned the crowd—fear, hatred, weakness in every face. She dropped the rabbit like trash.
Took a deep breath.
And shouted:
"Yeah. We pirates are the bad guys. Thugs. Scum. We rampage across the seas, wrecking everything in our path."
She threw her arms wide, addressing every upturned animal face, every soul watching.
"So I'm gonna keep wrecking. What about you? Wanna keep dreaming while the Celestial Dragons use you as toys? Or come with me and slaughter them up top?"
"B-But… we don't have the power to fight Celestial Dragons!" one cried. "That's a death sentence!"
Another curled into a ball, sobbing into the stinking mud of the Demon Realm. "We'll die…"
"Pathetic!" Sakura barked. "If you're too scared to even spark the will to fight, how the hell do you expect to gain power in a world like this?"
"I told you—I'm just a pirate. If that fire of rebellion's still burning in you, if you wanna break something—then follow me!"
She didn't wait to see who would. She stepped onto Leviathan's body and started climbing upward.
"I'm in. Take me with you."
A cane clattered to the ground. The old White Cat shoved through the crowd and hobbled forward.
"Commander Kristoff! She's a pirate!"
The animals tried to hold him back, to keep him from Sakura.
"Idiots!" he roared, smacking away helping paws. His body was frail, but his willpower blazed like a beacon in the dark. "This is our kingdom! Someone's fighting our enemies—am I, the legion commander, supposed to just watch?!"
His spirit burned. Life surged for one final stand. White Cat seized Leviathan's tentacles and began to climb.
"Me too!" a squirrel couple cried, scrambling up after him. "I can't stand seeing our kids treated like animals anymore!"
"And me…" "Count me in…" "Don't leave me behind…"
After a stunned silence, more eyes—ones not yet dulled—began to glow.
Voices rose. Overlapped. Became an unquenchable roar of defiance.
"Your Highness, are you okay?!"
Little white deer, snakes, squirrels—the children who'd forgotten how to be human—gathered around the rabbit.
Prince Helmord of El Shah flinched under their worried gazes.
Then—he slapped himself. Hard.
A silent, bitter smile.
"So the coward… was me all along."
He looked up at the girl leading the charge skyward.
She burned so bright—just like the father he'd once idolized.
"No turning back now," he muttered. "As royalty, I fight with my people."
Legs shaking, he ran. Slammed both paws to the ground. A rabbit hole opened.
The exit? It popped open right beneath Sakura, on Leviathan's skin.
Helmort leaped out and ran alongside her.
"Hey, pirate! Don't think wrecking our town gets you off scot-free—I'm gonna beat you to your target and smash it first!"
Sakura threw her head back and laughed, shooting him a fierce, genuine grin.
"Hah! Then try it, bunny boy!"