Nami: "The show's about to start. Wonder how long it'll take Conis to win."
Nojiko: "She's already fought once. This time, she should be able to get into the flow of battle pretty quickly."
Uta: "I'm already dying to start the victory feast."
Raki: "Come on, Conis. Show that bastard Enel what you can do."
Ain: "Has it started over there already? Conis, let me get a good look at what Serval's template can really do."
Once Arton turned on the diary video again, of course the rest of the Flameblade Pirates saw it too.
With the video feed available, Nami, Nojiko, and the others stopped rushing forward.
If they got too close, they were worried Enel might shift his attention onto them instead.
After all, his Observation Haki covered a huge range. If they closed in, he'd definitely notice.
Not that they were afraid of Enel, but since Arton had deliberately handed this fight to Conis, none of them wanted to interfere and take it away from her.
Back on the ship, Ain was quietly cheering Conis on in her heart too.
Sure, it stung a little that Conis, who'd joined later, got a template before she did, but as a crewmate, Ain still cared about her.
At this point, Ain still hadn't realized just how naturally she'd already shifted from thinking like a Marine to thinking like a pirate.
It had all happened so smoothly.
Maybe the moment she started serving Arton, that change in identity had already quietly taken root.
"God… Enel."
Conis took a deep breath and looked at him with a serious expression.
Enel was the ruler of Skypiea. She had once been one of his people.
So even though she had come here specifically to challenge him, her feelings were still complicated.
"Heh. So you still know I'm a god?" Enel sneered. "And yet you killed my priests. And now you dare challenge me?"
Right now, Enel's eyes were only on Conis. He ignored Arton completely.
Sure, Arton could fly through the air, but Enel was convinced that if he wanted to, he could blast Arton out of the sky with the lightning he was so proud of.
What Enel didn't know was that if he actually tried it, the one eating a fist would probably be him.
"I have to surpass you," Conis said, calming herself down. Her voice was steady and firm now. "For the sake of Skypiea."
"Hahaha. Surpass me?" Enel laughed coldly. "And what exactly are you planning to surpass me with?"
"That strange instrument in your hand?"
He shook his head, then stretched out a hand toward Conis.
"I'll give you a chance. Become my new priest."
"I'll take you to Endless Vearth."
"Of course, that instrument in your hands belongs to me."
Whitey Bay: "Wow. So Enel's got his eyes on Conis's weapon now?"
Makino: "Does he think her lightning control comes from the guitar, so he wants to use it to strengthen his own power?"
Smoothie: "Serval's template does come with the instrument, but even without that guitar, Conis should still be able to control lightning."
Yamato: "He's trying to steal someone else's weapon? Enel really is trash. Just like that bastard old man. No—he's even worse."
Kujaku: "There's no way Conis is handing that guitar over to Enel."
Chapter 595: Compared to Enel, Conis Looks More Like the Thunder God
"My guitar?" Conis firmly shook her head at Enel. "No way."
What a joke. That guitar was an item tied to Serval's template and Serval's template was a gift Arton had given her.
With that kind of meaning behind it, there was no way she would hand the guitar over to Enel.
Conis frowned slightly as she looked at him, and the disgust in her heart only grew stronger.
"You won't give it to me? Do you want to die?" Enel said coldly.
"I'm not going to die."
Conis plucked the strings, and arcs of lightning immediately began gathering around her.
Seeing that, Enel's gaze turned even colder.
He raised a hand toward Conis, intending to draw the lightning around her over to his own side.
Controlling lightning was something absurdly simple and routine for Enel.
He had done it so many times it was practically second nature.
He had assumed that this time would be no different—that he would be able to seize control of Conis's lightning with ease, but the moment he actually tried, he realized he couldn't do a thing to the lightning around her.
It was as if the power circling Conis wasn't lightning at all, but some completely different kind of elemental force.
"How is that possible?"
Enel was stunned.
This was completely beyond anything he had expected.
"Stop wasting your effort, God... no, Enel," Conis said. "You can't control my lightning."
Since the lightning around her was power she herself had gathered, Conis could naturally feel Enel's attempt to take control of it.
She had actually been worried for a moment and had already prepared herself to fight him for control over the lightning, but the reality of it left her a little speechless.
Enel simply couldn't do anything to her lightning.
That made Conis even more confident, and the expression on her face as she looked at him grew more and more relaxed.
If he couldn't even control my lightning, then how am I supposed to lose?
"You're awfully cocky," Enel said, so angry he was nearly foaming.
Still, the moment he thought about directly attacking Conis, he also thought about the possibility of damaging the instrument in her hands, so he forced himself to suppress the urge.
"So it's that instrument in your hands causing this, huh? That's why I can't control your lightning?"
"Heh. Fine."
Enel smiled.
As long as he could eventually take Conis in as his subordinate, then the stronger her weapon was, the better.
"I'll give you one more chance. Agree to come with me to Endless Vearth."
"If you do, you won't have to die here along with the rest of this sky island."
"So you really are planning to destroy this place?" Conis's brows pulled together tightly.
She had already known from Arton's diary that Enel intended to destroy Skypiea before heading to Endless Vearth—meaning the moon, but actually hearing it come out of Enel's own mouth still filled her with anger.
If he wanted to leave, then fine—leave.
Even if he wanted to take Skypiea's treasure with him, whatever, but to leave and casually destroy Skypiea on the way out?
What kind of normal person would do that?
The more Conis thought about it, the angrier she became.
Boom!
A bolt of lightning descended from the sky and struck Conis directly.
With crackling lightning wrapping around her from head to toe, she now looked like the true Thunder God.
As for Enel?
He looked like nothing more than a clown.
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