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"UGH!!!"
Kaido and Big Mom's eyes rolled white.
A revolving lantern of memories began to play in their minds like a film.
Mother Carmel.
Big Mom saw her, the woman she had longed for her entire life—Mother Carmel.
And along the way, the moments she first laid eyes on all the children she had given birth to.
The joy and satisfaction of those moments flowed through Big Mom's heart.
(Big Mom, when facing children under the age of ten, would occasionally show extreme maternal instincts. And at this moment, as the revolving lantern of her life flashed before her, Big Mom clearly understood that the most precious treasure of her life was her children—
—Of course, her children, all of different races, also embodied her dream of gathering all races to live in Totto Land—having children with different races was also to make all races her true family.)
Her life... it hadn't been so bad, had it?
Though abandoned by her own parents, her childhood in Elbaf was happy, she met Mother Carmel. Then, after gaining the Soul-Soul Fruit ability, under Streusen's guidance, she became a pirate, a member of the Rocks Pirates.
After the God Valley Incident, the Rocks Pirates disbanded, and she formed her own pirate crew, step by step becoming an Emperor.
During this period, she also gave birth to many children.
Sky Sovereign Rowen, what a remarkable man.
To be able to defeat the two of them working together!
This man is far stronger than Rocks was back then.
To call him a God, is not an exaggeration.
A smile that shouldn't belong to this moment appeared on Big Mom's face.
Perhaps... her dream would not end here after all.
The next moment, the revolving lantern faded, and endless darkness engulfed Big Mom.
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And unlike the somewhat tender content of Big Mom's revolving lantern, the content of Kaido's had only one theme.
WAR.
Born in a country perpetually ravaged by conflict, raised in the midst of battle, Kaido had witnessed the cruelty of war too many times.
His dream was to start the World's Greatest War. But his goal wasn't war for its own sake, but to drag the high and mighty rulers into the war, to make them personally experience its cruelty.
What he truly wanted—was peace.
War was cruel, numbing, and bloody. No one truly liked war, not even him, the man hailed as a war maniac.
Fortunately, along the way, more and more people had joined him.
King, Queen, Jack.
His three right and left hands, the three All-Stars of his Beasts Pirates.
Especially King—the man who saw him as Joy Boy.
But he had told King with certainty that he was not Joy Boy. He did not have the potential to change the world.
Even after becoming an Emperor, hailed as the World's Strongest Creature, the Strongest in a One-on-One, he still did not have that quality.
So, he needed to find a Joy Boy.
The logic was simple. The one who could defeat him. The one who could make him willingly accept defeat... That was Joy Boy!
And now...
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'Sky Sovereign... You bastard... you've done something even more outrageous than I imagined!'
Kaido, his eyes rolled white, had a smile that shouldn't belong to this moment on his lips.
The one who could defeat him, make him willingly accept defeat, was Joy Boy!
And now, this man, Sky Sovereign Rowen, had utterly crushed the combined might of him and Linlin!
Though he had never witnessed the true power of Joy Boy...
At this moment, Kaido believed it.
Sky Sovereign... you are not Joy Boy.
YOU ARE EVEN STRONGER THAN JOY BOY!
You can definitely change the world!
No...
THE WORLD HAS ALREADY BEEN CHANGED BY YOU!
Drag those damn, high-and-mighty rulers down into a war! Let them feel the cruelty and the truth of it.
The Celestial Dragons. They all deserve to die!
And the one most capable of doing this—is you, Sky Sovereign Rowen.
Kaido smiled.
He had no doubt.
A man with this much power, who had single-handedly orchestrated the Mariejois Incident, directly attacking countless Celestial Dragons in their stronghold—would surely do it.
He would definitely succeed.
'I HOPE THEY GET THE NEWS IN HELL. WORORORO!'
Darkness completely engulfed Kaido.
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Kaido and Big Mom's Devil Fruit abilities were all dispelled. They began to fall rapidly downwards.
GURGLE! GURGLE!
But the solid ice below them suddenly turned into a special, bouncy rubber, catching their bodies and preventing them from smashing into the sea and being lost forever.
A terrifying energy fluctuation raged outwards across the sea, kicking up a series of unbelievably horrifying storms, giant waves, and vibrations.
And on the battlefield below, all the solid ice, the islands, even the warships—all turned into this special rubber, absorbing the shockwave and preventing everyone from being swallowed by the cataclysm.
And the one who achieved all this—was undoubtedly that man.
"He turned it into rubber... to prevent more casualties?" Fujitora's eyes widened in shock.
To activate a Devil Fruit ability on such a large scale consumed astonishing stamina, and in a war like this, would create many uncertain factors.
But this man had done it anyway.
Combined with what he had heard from some officers about rumors from the Summit War—that this man had ended the war to prevent unnecessary casualties...
Fujitora was now almost certain that those rumors were true.
This man, though he did not shy away from slaughter, did not look down upon life from a lofty position.
At least, not like the Celestial Dragons, who treated normal lives as nothing more than trash.
Fujitora gripped Yakuza Kasen tightly, his fingers turning white.
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"MAMA!"
"KAIDO-SAMA!"
Watching the falling, lifeless bodies of Big Mom and Kaido, caught by the special rubber—the commanders of the Big Mom Pirates and the Beasts Pirates roared in anguish.
"DAMMIT!" Kizaru's eyes narrowed sharply.
This scene was all too familiar!
In the Summit War, it was after Aokiji and Whitebeard died that Sky Sovereign Rowen's power, through some unknown means, increased exponentially in a way that defied the common sense of the sea. Shattering the combat power limits of this sea!
And now, Kaido and Big Mom were dead...
If Sky Sovereign Rowen obtained their power as well—
"FUJITORA! STOP STRAW HAT!"
VMM!
Kizaru's body began to elementize.
HE WAS GOING TO GAMBLE!
Though during the Summit War, Sky Sovereign Rowen's power increase had no warning, and even Fleet Admiral Sengoku with his Buddha wisdom had no detection and no way to stop it.
But, during the Enies Lobby battle, when Sky Sovereign Rowen fought Sakazuki to the end, he had been completely exhausted, unable to even plunder the power of others to recover.
This proved that this method of obtaining power also required Sky Sovereign Rowen's own power as a foundation.
And now, this man had just defeated the combined might of two Emperors. And he had even expended a massive amount of energy to turn the battlefield into rubber, preventing more casualties. This action undoubtedly increased this man's consumption.
Rowen was in the same exhausted state as after the Enies Lobby battle with Sakazuki. Or, at least, didn't have the spare power to steal the powers of Big Mom and Kaido!
He had to gamble! It was the only chance they had!
If he didn't, they would have absolutely no chance of victory against a Sky Sovereign Rowen who had become even stronger after obtaining the powers of Big Mom and Kaido!
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"DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT, KIZARU!" Luffy immediately prepared to activate his power.
"So... so tired," Suddenly, Luffy's Nika form deactivated, and his body began to shrink and wither.
Luffy, who had only just awakened his Nika form, couldn't maintain Gear Fifth for long, especially after fighting Kizaru and Fujitora simultaneously. His stamina and Haki had now reached their limit.
(Because his stamina, Haki, and all his powers were integrated into Nika's special rubber body, when Luffy was exhausted, he had not a shred of power left.)
"GET HIM, FUJITORA!" Kizaru was overjoyed. He first yelled, then transformed into a flash of light, charging towards Rowen.
But Fujitora... did not move.
"We have already lost, Borsalino," Fujitora sighed helplessly.
Behind him, an unbelievably terrifying crimson-black lightning was aimed directly at him.
POP!
A hand grabbed Kizaru!
A hand grabbed him while he was in his pure, elemental light form...
Grabbed the light itself!
"Kizaru... your ability is mine." A light chuckle sounded, causing Kizaru's eyes, at this moment, to constrict completely.
He had completely transformed into his elemental form, into pure light!
AND HE HAD BEEN CAUGHT??
WHAT LEVEL OF POWER WAS THIS??
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—[Successfully plundered Emperor Big Mom's, Emperor Kaido of the Beasts' 'Fortune'!]—
—[Successfully plundered Big Mom's, Kaido's powers!]—
—[Obtained: Iron Balloon, Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Azure Dragon, Soul-Soul Fruit, all powers contained within Kaido and Big Mom (including spiritual power)]—
—[Faction Fortune (Apex Gold), Born of the Sea (Apex Gold) activated! Conqueror's Haki—enhanced!]—
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