"Clang! Clang! Clang!!!"
Golden Lion Shiki continuously exchanged blows with Is. Their blades collided again and again, sending showers of sparks flying through the air.
"Lion Majesty: Earth Roll!"
"Rumble—!"
Several gigantic lion heads erupted from the ground around Is.
Smack!
Is slammed his palm against the earth.
Sheets of paper rapidly separated from the ground. Behind the enormous lion heads, countless pieces of paper gathered together, forming a massive serpent.
The giant snake swiftly coiled around the lion heads and crushed them to pieces.
"Has your Devil Fruit awakened as well, Is?" Shiki asked in a hoarse voice, his expression grave.
"Earlier than yours, Shiki."
Holding a long blade in his hand, Is replied calmly.
"Looks like I'll have to use my trump card."
Shiki muttered under his breath.
With a flick of his finger, the sky immediately darkened.
Looking upward, one could see countless buildings densely packed across the heavens.
"For all these years, I've been storing the things destroyed by the Rocks Pirates up in the sky. I never had a chance to use them."
"But today, I'll use them on you, Is."
The corners of Shiki's mouth curled upward.
As his fingers moved, the shattered buildings that blotted out the sky came crashing down from above.
...
On the coast, aboard a Marine warship.
"Acnologia, look! What is that?"
Lying in a deck chair, Yoriichi Tsugikuni suddenly noticed the dark mass covering the sky above the island and hurriedly patted Acnologia beside him.
"Hm? What's wrong?"
Acnologia opened his eyes from his nap and looked at Yoriichi.
"Look up there."
Yoriichi pointed toward the sky.
"Huh? What's that?"
Acnologia glanced upward, confusion appearing on his face.
"I'm asking you."
Yoriichi shrugged.
"I don't know either."
Acnologia shook his head.
Only when the countless shattered buildings descending from the sky drew closer to the island did they finally see what they were.
"Isn't that Tatsumaki's ability?"
Yoriichi stared at the structures overhead, deep in thought.
As their companion, he knew very well that Tatsumaki possessed the ability to freely manipulate objects.
"No, this shouldn't be Tatsumaki's power."
Acnologia stretched lazily, took a sip of tea, and spoke in a calm tone.
"Then whose ability is it?"
"Yoriichi, have you forgotten Shiki from the Rocks Pirates?"
Acnologia lay back down in his chair and reminded him lazily.
The Marines had long since investigated and thoroughly documented Golden Lion Shiki's abilities.
And whenever Acnologia was bored, he would occasionally look into the strengths and powers of the Rocks Pirates' members.
So he knew this wasn't Tatsumaki's ability.
It was Shiki's.
"I remember now. Any non-living matter touched by Shiki can be freely controlled by him, and he can store it high in the sky, right?"
Yoriichi suddenly recalled the details.
Acnologia rolled over and continued sleeping on his side.
...
On the island, Is calmly gazed at the buildings descending from above.
"Black Dragon Form!"
With a low shout, his body began to transform.
His size rapidly increased, and black scales spread across his body.
In the blink of an eye, he changed from a human into an incomparably enormous dragon.
"So the news from Sabaody Archipelago was true!"
Upon seeing Is transform into a colossal black dragon, Shiki's pupils contracted violently, and a bead of cold sweat rolled down his forehead.
Someone had previously reported in Sabaody that Is could transform into a giant black dragon.
At the time, Shiki hadn't believed a word of it.
The idea sounded too ridiculous.
But seeing it with his own eyes today, he finally understood that the news had been real all along.
In his Black Dragon Form, Is gathered a mass of black energy within his mouth before suddenly unleashing it.
The black energy sphere contained terrifying power.
With the force to overturn mountains and seas, distort space, and annihilate everything in its path, it shot toward the descending buildings above.
"BOOM!"
The black energy sphere slammed into the falling structures.
The clouds across the sky were instantly blasted apart.
A deafening explosion erupted, and even the island below shook violently, fully demonstrating the horrifying might of the attack.
The shattered buildings continued descending from above.
However, Is's attack had already blasted them apart, reducing them into tiny fragments incapable of harming anyone.
"Damn it."
Looking at the black dragon before him, Shiki's forehead became covered in dense beads of cold sweat.
How was he supposed to fight this?
The gap between them was simply too great.
Is did not continue using his Black Dragon Form.
Instead, he reverted to his human form.
In that form, killing Shiki would have been effortless.
But he had no intention of doing so.
Before Shiki died, Is intended to squeeze a little more value out of him.
"Before you die, make a contribution for me, Shiki."
A smile appeared on Is's face as he spoke.
"What do you mean?"
The moment Shiki heard those words, his scalp tingled and a chill ran down his spine.
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