The demon king of song floated behind Uta, gradually growing stronger as she sang.
Hera's City of Devouring Time fully expanded, directly enveloping this small world. Out of the corner of her eye, she caught sight of Lucci playing the drums and Kaku playing the guitar on stage, feeling a wave of speechlessness.
"These two... do they really have no sense of vigilance at all?"
Hera selectively ignored that the current situation was largely because she hadn't reminded them to wear earmuffs.
"So disappointing. Whatever, I wasn't planning on relying on you anyway."
The demon king of song sensed the foreign object entering its world. Moreover, as the City of Devouring Time fully expanded, the sky turned black.
A smile appeared on the lips of Hera, who now enveloped the entire world. She had discovered why this world felt so familiar to her.
"So that's how it is. It seems I can give Uta a surprise after this matter is over."
As the center of the black curtain in the sky, the flying Hera directly stole the attention of all the spectators from Uta. The demon king of song flew towards Hera, summoning soldiers formed from musical notes.
At this moment in the real world, the soldiers summoned by the demon king of song also appeared. However, the first stage of the Demon King didn't pose much of a problem for the crew of the Argo or Tesoro.
The demon king of song flew in the air, its gaze toward the City of Devouring Time becoming greedy; it sensed the pure spiritual power contained within the City of Devouring Time.
It reached out with its hands, tearing at the black curtain in the sky, wanting to devour the City of Devouring Time.
Hera relaxed part of her control over the City of Devouring Time, allowing the demon king of song to successfully tear off a piece of the black curtain. The pure spiritual power immediately caused it to enter its second stage.
"That's more like it. If I don't feed you to your final stage first, how can this count as a grand gift?"
"No, too slow. At this rate, when will you reach the third stage?" Then, shadows from the City of Devouring Time directly wrapped around the demon king of song, continuously injecting spiritual power into its body.
By now, the demon king of song realized something was wrong and tried to break free from the shackles of the City of Devouring Time, but how could it escape when its body was being filled with her spiritual power?
The fragments of the City of Devouring Time it had absorbed also resonated with Hera's spiritual power inside its body, and shadows extended from within its form.
The demon king of song was hung upside down in the sky, but with the input of spiritual power, it officially entered the third stage.
The third-stage demon king of song manifested in the real world, and the note-soldiers became more than a level stronger, gradually putting pressure on everyone present.
In the World of Song, Hera saw the third-stage demon king of song and drew her military saber, 'saikū': "Alright, since you're ripe, it's time for the harvest."
The City of Devouring Time hanging in the sky pressed down toward the ground, gradually swallowing the surrounding audience. Uta, who had been bewitched by the demon king of song, saw this, donned her armor, and flew into the air.
She wanted to stop Hera from devouring her audience.
"Why? Why do you want to destroy this place again? Aren't you a Marine?"
Facing the angry Uta, Hera's City of Devouring Time gently restrained her, as two shadows transformed into bandages to cover her eyes.
"Have a good rest. It'll be over in a moment."
Then, 'saikū' pointed directly at the demon king of song: "Alright, for Miss Uta's sake, it seems I need to speed things up."
The clone in the real world contacted the main body, and Hera's voice rang in everyone's ears.
"First move, the left arm." Hera's figure vanished into space. The next second, the light of the 'Cancer Sword' flared up, and the demon king of song' left arm was severed.
In the real world, Nami blinked to Theseus's side, and lightning surged into Theseus's mechanical dragon, charging the Argo.
The mechanical dragon that the Argo had become opened its mouth, revealing a cannon barrel inside. With a flash of light, the 'Railgun' current spat out from the barrel.
At the same time Hera swung her blade, the Railgun also hit the left arm in the real world, directly blasting the demon king of song' left arm into ashes.
Hera's figure blinked again; the demon king of song, under her control, was simply a sitting duck.
"Next is the right arm." Time power gathered on 'saikū', and the sharp military saber sliced into the demon king of song' right arm without feeling the slightest resistance.
The radiance of time flickered on the demon king of song' wound. An aura of decay spread across the severed right arm, causing it to age rapidly in the air until it turned to ash.
On the outside, Perona and Reiju exchanged a glance and nodded. Explosive ghosts blew apart the demon king of song' right arm, and poison covered the entire limb, corroding the falling pieces.
"Now, the legs." Light gathered in Hera's short gun, 'Forging Sky', as two 'Lions Bullets' bit toward the demon king of song' legs from left and right.
Hancock and Ain, who were already prepared, attacked the real-world demon king of song from both sides.
Hancock had entered her Nine-Tailed Fox Form. Her legs flickered with the red light of Haoshoku in an 'Aromatic Leg' attack, while Ain used the 'Fist Bone: Blast' she had learned from Garp.
Together, they shattered the legs of the demon king of song appearing in reality.
Haoshoku and space-time power intertwined within 'saikū'; Hera's strongest move was ready.
Kuina summoned her throne and inserted the 'wado ichimonji' into it. As the throne shattered, the fragments combined into a giant sword.
Black and red Haoshoku erupted from Kuina's body, converging into the combined 'wado ichimonji'.
"Then, this is the end." 'Reign: Sky-Time Absolute Slash' and 'Sword of the End' struck the torso of the demon king of song simultaneously with Hera's voice.
How could the demon king of song, already reduced to a 'demon stick', withstand this ultimate combo? Its head was directly blown apart by the two.
Hera, who had gotten a bit carried away, hurriedly collected the fragments of the demon king of song. Looking at the mostly ruined remains, she slapped her forehead in despair.
"Oh no, how could this Demon King be so fragile? I wasted so much of the spiritual power I gave him."
The fragments were compressed in Hera's hand. With the injection of Zafkiel's 'Third Bullet', the remains of the demon king of song gradually transformed into a glowing spirit crystal.
After the demon king of song died, the world he had constructed seemed to have reached its end and began to shatter.
Hera's movements quickened. After absorbing all the people in the world into the City of Devouring Time, she swept the area with Observation Haki to ensure no one was left behind.
Holding the blindfolded Uta, she slashed 'saikū' toward herself, and the 'Pisces Sword' brought them both back to the real world.
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