Boom! Boom! Boom!
A deafening series of explosions split the air.
A blazing meteor tore through the clouds, engulfed in fire and fury, descending straight toward the alliance of the Beasts Pirates and Big Mom Pirates.
If this attack landed, no ship—no matter how strong—could possibly withstand it.
"Get out of the way!"
"A meteorite is falling!"
"This is bad—really bad!"
Perospero, Oven, Cracker, and the other Big Mom Ministers shouted in alarm, panic flashing across their faces.
"Linlin's brats… what's with all the fuss?"
Kaido of the Beasts grunted, glancing lazily at them. His expression hadn't changed from beginning to end.
"It's just a damn meteorite."
Boom!
Kaido's massive boots slammed into the deck, shaking the entire ship.
With a thunderous leap, he soared skyward—straight toward the falling meteor.
"Thunder—"
Chi-chi!
Black and red arcs of Conqueror's Haki lightning coiled around his newly forged kanabo.
"Eight Trigrams!!!"
BOOM!
Kaido swung the mace in a devastating arc.
The air itself trembled under the strike.
Crack—RUMBLE!
With a thunderous detonation, the fiery meteor shattered midair under Kaido's overwhelming might.
Countless blazing fragments rained down like molten stars, turning the heavens into a dazzling bloom of fire.
"Uncle Issho, your meteor just got blown apart!"
A girl with a small satchel sat at the bow of a nearby ship, clapping her hands in delight as she admired the "fireworks."
"To destroy a celestial body summoned by Lord Issho himself… the enemy must be a formidable one indeed," said Jura, the bald monk with the long waist-length beard, his expression grave.
"Well, we are dealing with a Yonko," Gildarts chuckled, his slicked-back hair glinting under the firelight. "It's only natural they'd have power like this."
"If the Four Emperors make their move, it'll be hard to explain to the Master later," Issho (the blind swordsman) added with a faint smile.
He grasped his shikomizue again, the blade sliding half an inch from its sheath as a dark purple light of gravity flickered.
Aboard the Big Mom Pirates' flagship.
Perospero and the others had just begun to relax after the meteor threat when suddenly—
BOOM!
A tremendous force of gravity surged downward without warning, crushing everything beneath it.
Even the Queen Mama Chanter, upheld by dragon flame clouds, began to sink under the unbearable weight.
"What's happening?!"
"This… this force—it's gravity!"
"Could it be… Fairy Tail's leader?!"
The ministers and officers of the Big Mom crew turned pale as realization struck.
According to their intelligence reports, the leader of Fairy Tail possessed multiple abilities—and gravity manipulation was among them.
"No… that's not right."
King, the Fire Calamity and Kaido's right-hand man, straightened, his tone grave.
"If it were that man's gravity, it'd be far stronger than this!"
"In that case," said Katakuri, also standing tall, "this must be the power of an actual Paramecia-type user."
Both King and Katakuri, the respective second-in-commands of the Yonko crews, had strength on par with Navy Admirals.
Such moderate gravity was far from enough to pin them down—especially when Issho's gravitational field was still spread out over a wide area.
"Hey, hey… they're getting bold now," Kaido growled, hefting his mace over one shoulder. The gravity seemed to have no effect on him at all.
"Well, well," Big Mom cackled, her booming laughter echoing across the sea. "I didn't plan to cause a scene today, but since they're so eager to die… let's give them what they want!"
At her words, both Yonko moved.
"Ooooooooooooooooh!!!"
Kaido leapt high into the air, his body transforming into a colossal azure dragon that coiled among the clouds, stirring wind and thunder.
"Well, well, well!" Big Mom laughed, landing on the dragon's back.
"Hey, Linlin! Don't you have Zeus and Prometheus? Use them already!" Kaido barked.
"Hmph, don't get so worked up, Kaido! Don't forget—it was me who gave you the Azure Dragon Fruit's power in the first place!" Big Mom's voice boomed with amusement.
"Tch!" Kaido's draconic eyes narrowed in irritation, but he said nothing more.
The azure dragon's massive tail whipped the clouds apart as it dove toward the sea, Big Mom riding atop it like a war goddess.
"Wow! A dragon—different color than Runti's!" Karna gasped.
"It's fine, don't be afraid, sweetie! Daddy's here!" Gildarts puffed his chest, trying to sound heroic.
"Dad, that's just one of the President's defeated subordinates," Karna muttered with a pout. "And using corny lines like that to look cool in front of your daughter? So old-fashioned."
Gildarts froze, face pale from the verbal strike.
"Pfft—haha!"
Issho and Jura burst into laughter. Watching Gildarts and Karna's daily father-daughter squabbles was one of their few pleasures at sea.
"Ooooooooooo!"
"Well, well, well!"
Within moments, the twin Yonko had arrived.
"As expected," Big Mom said coldly, narrowing her eyes. "You're the ones who took down Ochoku on Beehive Island half a year ago."
"Whatever your reason for coming here," Kaido rumbled, his voice like rolling thunder, "by challenging us, you've already accepted the price."
"Then bring it on," Gildarts replied calmly.
"Don't lump us together with scum like Ochoku," Big Mom sneered. She raised her hand, grabbing the pitch-black thundercloud Zeus.
"Go to hell!"
Kaido's dragon jaws opened wide, glowing red-hot as molten light surged from his throat.
"Shock—Yu Lei!!!"
"Hot Breath!!!"
The twin Emperor-level attacks erupted without restraint, a cataclysmic force that could annihilate entire fleets.
The combined onslaught of Big Mom's crackling thunder and Kaido's scorching dragon breath merged into one apocalyptic wave of destruction.
Its sheer power was no less than Sugisawa Yuuto's Lightning Flame Dragon Mode at full intensity.
And yet—
As the attack roared toward them, Gildarts simply lifted his right hand.
"Smash!!!"
He whispered the word, and—
BOOOOM!!!
An invisible force erupted from his palm.
The heavens split apart.
Reality itself shattered.
Everything—sky, sea, and flame—was annihilated in a blinding storm of destruction.
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