Medical Island - Marian, the shore of the Sky Realm Slug Slime Pool.
A purple Den Den Mushi faithfully transmitted Kaido's words, broadcasting them to the bandaged old man lounging in a beach chair and the girl soaking in the pool water.
"Haha, your daughter ran into Kaido? Cough cough!" Garp took off his sunglasses and laughed, but the laughter pulled at his wounds, making him cough.
"Tch, can't you act a little more like a captive?" Sakura opened one eye and gave him a displeased look.
She had already healed her injured companions, who had gradually returned to rebuilding their territory, but the leftover Garp had left everyone in a difficult position.
The existing confinement capabilities of Marian Island were still too weak to hold this old bastard down. So, after discussion, the crew unanimously decided to dump him in the Sky Realm for Sakura to watch over.
"By the way, you can heal wounds left by Haki in this way? Are you even human? Or are you the same type as those worms in the Holy Land?" Garp's Observation Haki swept over the pool, noticing the girl's skin and flesh dissolving, and a look of disgust appeared on his face.
He had only seen this level of immortality in the secret units belonging to the Celestial Dragons.
Combined with Sakura's strange and ever-changing abilities, she did seem a bit like those scum on the surface.
"They invited me back then, but I refused."
Sakura stood up from the pool, a pure white feather robe covering her body, making her appear increasingly less like a mortal. "Most of my subsequent battles with your Marine and the World Government were also continuations of that dispute."
"I see. No wonder they've always been so relentless with you. But it's good that you didn't become trash." Garp was being an old fool, still taking the chance to mock the Celestial Dragons.
"Alright, you've gathered enough information. Get lost now. A high-level Marine combatant like you hanging around here is pretty damn annoying." Sakura waved her hand, shooing Garp away.
After all, he was Ace's grandfather. If she actually killed this old man, it would put everyone in an awkward position.
So now, Garp couldn't be killed, but keeping him around was troublesome. It was better to just throw him out and let him return to the Marine on his own.
She had already defeated him, squeezed all the value out of his achievement points, and keeping this old bastard around would only drive up the cost of her own rice. Kicking him out was the most cost-effective option.
"I'm not leaving." Garp showed a wicked grin. "When you built this island, your propaganda to the underworld was that you welcome everyone, right? I'm wounded now. I want treatment here!"
"Ha?" Sakura raised an eyebrow, reached out her hand, and rubbed her fingers together at Garp. "Fine then. Pay your consultation fee first! Three hundred million Belly!"
But Garp looked completely unconcerned, sticking his fingers up his nose and twirling them. "Send the bill to the World Government. Since I'm in your hands, you don't have to worry about them defaulting."
Making the World Government's worms pay up didn't bother Garp one bit. They had plundered the entire world for eight hundred years, indulging in every luxury imaginable. So what if this old Marine man who had maintained order his whole life used a mere three hundred million Belly?
"Hmph!" Sakura's fist clenched, but she still didn't strike.
Medical Island was still in its startup phase, and this old bastard showing up on his own could also serve as promotional material.
Never mind who caused his injuries in the first place… just look at how good this recovery treatment is.
"Leviathan, arrange a room for him. Give him the best and most expensive medicine!" Sakura spoke into the air.
The shadow beneath Garp's feet immediately writhed, opening a black hole that swallowed him up.
After Garp left, Katsuyu crawled over from outside the forest carrying Sakura's ordinary clothes, speaking in a gentle voice: "So are you going to pick up Sato Sakura now? Do you need me to help you activate Sage Mode?"
"No need. The internal organ sage transformation is already complete. I don't need to rely on fusion to enter an incomplete Sage Mode anymore." Sakura shook her head at Katsuyu, refusing her offer.
Hearing this, Katsuyu lowered its head dejectedly, inexplicably feeling the sadness of a child growing up and its parent aging.
"Katsuyu, what are you standing there for? We're leaving. Come here." Using the enhanced perception from Sage Mode, Sakura pierced through time and space to locate the spatial anchor point she had left on Sato Sakura.
"Ah? I thought you said you didn't need my help?" Katsuyu straightened its body, bending into a question mark.
"I'm taking you out to play. Do you want to go?"
"Yes!"
…
The seas near Wano Country. Thunder and storms roared across this frozen sea.
At the center of the ice field, Sato Sakura and Yamato, both in their hybrid forms, attacked alternately. The low, rumbling resonance even cracked the ice beneath their feet.
Before them, Kaido exuded a terrifying aura. He leaped into the air, dodging their attacks, spun his kanabo, coated it with Conqueror's Haki, and smashed it down.
—Conquered Three Worlds, Attracting Hell!
The shrill, screaming thunder stung Yamato and Sato Sakura's eyes. Under the repulsion of Conqueror's Haki, their attacks shattered.
The kanabo swung past their heads in an instant.
At the critical moment, Sato Sakura wrapped metal around her body, while Yamato used freezing air to protect her head, heart, and lungs.
Boom!
Lightning burst. The armor on their bodies shattered as well. They coughed up blood in mid-air and flew backward.
"Cough cough cough! Sato Sakura, are you okay?" Yamato, who had crashed to the ground alongside a pile of shattered ice, barely managed to get up. Just as she was about to check on Sato Sakura's condition, a kanabo was already pressed against her hybrid face.
"No wonder you're always calling yourself Oden. So this is your type?" Kaido frowned. "Whatever. As long as you come back and become the shogun of Wano for me, I won't restrict you in this regard!"
Thinking about the powerful and beautiful form of Sato Sakura in her mythical beast transformation, the fatherly Kaido felt it was understandable that his 'son' would have such preferences.
As for the issue of children, they could find someone outside to borrow a seed. So as long as Yamato came around, he agreed to this marriage.
"No way! I object to this marriage!!!"
The roar was mixed with the howl of a swinging weapon. The iron-cloud greatsword coated in Conqueror's Haki swung horizontally, aiming straight for Kaido's head.
"This is... Conqueror's coating?"
Sensing a Haki technique on the same level as his own, Kaido swung his kanabo, coated with two types of Haki, in the direction his Observation Haki warned him about.
Clang!
The clash of the two weapons erupted with dark thunder, shooting straight into the sky, splitting the overcast heavens. The shockwave kicked up a hurricane, forcing all onlookers to shut their eyes.
"Wow, you're both so badly injured. I'll treat you right away."
Moving Sato Sakura and Yamato to the edge of the battlefield, Katsuyu's body began to expand, finally becoming a massive form tens of meters tall, enveloping the two.
"Ah, what is this?" Yamato had never seen such a terrifying sight and immediately struggled.
"Don't resist. She's Mother's summoning creature. She can quickly heal our injuries." Sato Sakura, letting Katsuyu cover her wounds, turned her head and reminded Yamato.
But Yamato was no longer paying attention to Sato Sakura's words.
Because her eyes were completely captivated by the two laughing figures at the center of the storm.
The storm... the Haki... the torn sky.
It was as if the battles between Roger and Whitebeard recorded in the journal were playing out before her eyes again, making her heart race with excitement.
"That's Sato Sakura's mother. A member of the Pirate King's crew!!!"