Chapter 357: A King Descends from the Heavens
Totto Land · Whole Cake Island
The sky above suddenly churned, the thick clouds look as if they were being forcibly torn apart by some invisible, titanic force!
A sharp, imposing figure slowly stepped out from the shattered firmament, hovering in mid-air. He wore a snow-white Marine Vice Admiral's coat, its hem snapping violently in the gale. The two characters for "JUSTICE" on the back looked as striking as if they had been dipped in blood.
Beneath his short black hair, his eyes were as dark as the abyss, seemingly capable of swallowing all light. A lazy yet lethal smirk curled his lips—he looked like a Shura who treated death itself as a joke.
The entire venue fell into an instantaneous, tomb-like silence.
—Then, the storm erupted!
Charlotte Linlin bolted upright, her massive frame crushing her marshmallow throne. Her pupils shrank to the size of pinpricks. "Roy...!!!"
Katakuri's expression changed drastically. Mochi armor instantly coated his body, but his Observation Haki was screaming in a state of total malfunction!
"Impossible...!! Why was there absolutely no sign of him in the future I saw?!"
Smoothie drew her longsword with a sharp shing, the power of her Shizu Shizu no Mi surging. Cold sweat slid down her cheek. "This pressure... it's even more terrifying than it was two years ago!"
Big News Morgans flapped his wings frantically, his camera shutter clicking at a blurred speed. He was so excited he was nearly incoherent: "Big News! This is the scoop of a lifetime!!! THAT MAN HAS RETURNED!!!"
Sanji looked up, his eyes widening in shock. "Vice Admiral Roy!!!"
That single shout was like a spark dropped into a powder keg, instantly detonating the panic of the entire crowd. The wedding venue devolved into an uproar!
"Vice Admiral Roy?! Impossible!! Hasn't he been missing for two years?!!"
"It's over... it's all over!! The Marine Shura is back!!!"
The wine glass in "Deep Currents" Umit's hand shattered. His palm wouldn't stop shaking. "He... how can he be here?!"
"Loan Shark King" Du Feld scrambled under his table, his teeth chattering. "Run!!! Save yourselves!!! It's the Shura!!!"
The shock of the crowd merged into a tsunami of frantic cries. Charlotte Linlin forced down her own trembling. Her crimson lips split into a manic, jagged grin. "MAMAMAMA~~!! You actually showed your face, Roy!!!"
Despite her bravado, her massive frame was shivering uncontrollably.
Roy looked down from his height, his dark gaze sweeping the venue before finally landing on the wedding altar—on Sanji, who was being held at gunpoint by Pudding.
"My, my... what a perfectly executed farce~"
As his voice fell, he raised a hand and tossed something downward!
"BOOM!!!"
A massive, charred body was slammed heavily onto the red carpet at Big Mom's feet!
The crowd looked closer and gasped in collective horror. It was Big Mom's third son—the Minister of Beans, Charlotte Daifuku! He was scorched black, his body sprawled out like a tattered sack, long since unconscious.
Roy half-squinted his eyes, his voice low and casual, yet it boomed like thunder in everyone's ears:
"Linlin... bullying juniors isn't very sporting, is it?"
Clang!
Pudding's pistol hit the floor, shattering the silence of the altar. Her third eye was wide with instinctive terror. "This is... the man even Mama is wary of?!"
Sanji took a step back, his chest heaving. The fire of hope reignited in his eyes. "Roy-san...!!!"
Roy's gaze met his, giving a slight nod, before turning back to Big Mom. His lazy smile carried a razor-sharp edge.
"Your Tea Party... you invited my subordinate... yet you didn't send me an invitation?"
"That's a bit cold, don't you think—Linlin!!!"
Charlotte Linlin's pupils constricted. Her mind raced frantically: "Dammit! I only planned to use this wedding to swallow Germa's technology and Raid Suits, while testing the Marines' reaction. At most, I'd lose a single Major; the Marines wouldn't declare war over that... but who could have guessed it would drag this God of Death out of hiding?!!"
Cold sweat soaked her back, but her pride as a Yonko wouldn't allow her to back down. She threw her head back and let out a roar that shook the chapel: "ROY!! This is MY territory!! Don't you think for a second—"
Before she could finish!
"RUMBLE—!!!"
A pillar of golden lightning split the sky, illuminating the hall like high noon!
Enel hovered in mid-air, his golden staff crackling with electricity as he let out a mocking sneer. "Old hag~ who told you he was alone?"
"SWISH!!!"
A streak of fire fell like a plummeting meteor, and a sea of white-hot flames erupted!
Ace stood with his hands in his pockets, the fire roaring around him as he grinned. "You want to lay a hand on one of our Marines... you'd better ask my flames first!!!"
"ROOM!"
Space itself distorted. Law and Usopp materialized beside Roy! Law's hand rested on the hilt of his nodachi, his voice icy. "The Germa incident involves the safety of Marine personnel... the Marines have the right to direct intervention."
Usopp, though his legs were shaking like leaves, still aimed his sniper rifle and shouted, "L-Let Sanji go!!!"
The four of them stood flanking Roy, their collective aura like an unstoppable tide!
The Underworld Emperors were completely speechless. "They're all here?!!"
"Are they actually going to start a war with a Yonko right here?!!"
The Charlotte children looked like they were facing a literal apocalypse. Finally, the expression of the woman on the throne turned deathly grim.
"Do you... truly intend to trigger an all-out war on my doorstep?!!"
Roy merely let out a low chuckle, a spatial ripple expanding beneath his feet. "It's not a war..."
"—It's a suppression."
"BOOM!!!"
Linlin could no longer suppress her fury! Her body swelled with power. Her hat, Napoleon, transformed into a giant claymore; the thundercloud Zeus turned into a roiling black mass of lightning, and the sun Prometheus erupted into a howling inferno!
"ROY!! YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR!!!"
Charlotte Linlin's roar shook the heavens. Gripping Napoleon and flanked by the souls of fire and thunder, she shot into the air like a world-eating demon.
Roy threw his head back and laughed, his black hair flying, a titanic battle intent burning in his eyes. "THEN COME AT ME, LINLIN!!!"
"BOOM!!!"
The two devastating forces collided in mid-air! The resulting shockwave swept through the wedding hall like a hurricane. The blinding flash of fire and lightning tore the sky apart, looking for all the world like the onset of the apocalypse.
Guests shrieked and scattered in every direction. The Underworld kings lost all composure, noblewomen and pirates alike tripping over their gowns and overturning tables in a mad scramble for the exits!
In the center of the chaos, Pudding stood frozen, her three eyes wide with shock, unable to process the scale of the destruction.
Next to her, the booming shockwave overturned a ten-meter-tall giant cake sculpture! The massive structure tilted with an ear-piercing crack, plummeting directly toward the top of Pudding's head!
Pudding looked up, her pupils shrinking in terror. "NO!!!"
In that split second—!
A white silhouette blurred past like the wind, his suit fluttering in the blast!
"PUDDING—!!!"
SWISH!
Sanji's arms swept around her. At the exact moment the giant cake sculpture hit the floor, he scooped Pudding into his embrace, spinning his body to clear the impact zone like a flash of lightning.
"BOOM—!!!"
The giant cake shattered into a mountain of cream and frosting, a total mess. Pudding collapsed into Sanji's arms, her heart hammering against her ribs. Her three eyes were wide, filled with a mix of shock and confusion.
She looked up at the man with the curly brows, her voice trembling, almost a whisper to herself:
"W-Why... why would you still save me?!"
Sanji, a cigarette still between his lips, looked down with a gaze that was calm and steady, yet his embrace was incredibly tender. His voice was low, but it echoed clearly in Pudding's ear:
"Because... a real man is one who can forgive a woman's lies!"
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