Leno panted heavily.
When he heard the demon's words, a flash of inspiration struck his mind!
He recalled the moment he first obtained the Chop-Chop Fruit ability!
Wasn't it because his heart had been filled with extreme rage at that moment?!
"I get it!" Leno's eyes burst with dazzling light.
"The root of the Chop-Chop power… is my own fury! My anger is the true source of this power!!!"
The moment this realization appeared—
His understanding and control of the Chop-Chop Fruit instantly rose to a whole new level.
The previously sluggish flow of power became perfectly smooth.
The strength of his attacks skyrocketed!
"What?! Impossible!!"
Feeling the sudden surge of power from Leno, the Wrath demon roared in disbelief.
"Your anger… how could it be this powerful?! This makes no sense!!"
To its horror—
The rage that originally belonged to it was now suppressing it instead.
Was this even reasonable?!
Who exactly was the demon here?
"There's nothing impossible!"
Leno roared and gathered all his power.
"Die for me!"
"Great Annihilation — All Things Obliterated!"
BOOM—!!!
The ultimate power of fragmentation exploded forth.
It engulfed, tore apart, and pulverized the Wrath demon completely!
"NOOO—!!!"
The demon screamed in its final cry of unwillingness and terror.
Its body dissolved into particles—
And vanished completely within the burning world.
As the demon perished—
The entire fire realm began collapsing and fading away.
Leno exhaled deeply.
His consciousness returned to his body.
At the same time, he gained a deeper understanding of the demon statues inside him.
"So the Wrath statue can be forced into an early birth through attacks… and then eliminated."
"But the others probably won't be that simple."
Greed. Lust. Sloth…
Those abilities weren't purely offensive.
And the only way to deal with a statue was by using the power obtained from it.
Among them—
The one that surprised Leno the most was Sloth.
"Escape… huh?"
"How far can that ability escape to?"
He was curious.
But that was something for later.
For now—
It was time to wake up.
Inside the cave
Leno had sat like a statue for two entire days.
Now—
His eyelids trembled slightly.
Then slowly opened.
At the moment Leno opened his eyes—
An aura far sharper and more oppressive than before burst out from his body!
After completely defeating and digesting the Wrath demon, his mastery of the Chop-Chop Fruit reached a brand-new realm.
"Like an extension of his limbs" wasn't even enough to describe it.
His overall strength had increased dramatically.
Because the fruit had fully awakened.
After all—
Leno's main combat style had always relied on the Chop-Chop Fruit.
And the things it could accomplish now far exceeded even the Tremor-Tremor Fruit in versatility.
It was time for the Chop-Chop Fruit to regain its reputation.
(And no, this has nothing to do with Buggy. Leno refuses to acknowledge that.)
With his fruit ability enhanced—
His Conqueror's Haki, which already carried a tearing characteristic, became even more condensed and aggressive.
Materialized Conqueror's Haki could already attack.
Add the built-in tearing effect—
And his Conqueror's Haki became uniquely terrifying.
Crack… crack…
The moment the cave touched that burst of Haki—
It simply couldn't endure.
It disintegrated into microscopic particles.
Leno had just awakened when he realized something was wrong.
His pupils shrank.
He forcefully pulled back the overflowing Conqueror's Haki!
Buzz—
The Haki faded.
But the terrifying aftermath still lingered.
Even though Leno reacted quickly and withdrew most of the Haki—
That brief instant of release had already affected the women closest to him.
Domino.
Hancock.
Robin.
And the others who had been watching over him anxiously.
When the Haki swept over them—
Something… disappeared.
A breeze passed through.
The women suddenly felt a chill on their bodies.
They looked down.
All they saw were countless tiny particles drifting away in the wind—
Vanishing without a trace.
For a moment—
The cave fell completely silent.
Luckily Leno had withdrawn his Haki.
Otherwise they would have lost more than just a little something.
Realization
Even without that sudden "incident,"
The women would have noticed Leno waking immediately.
After all—
They had been watching him constantly.
But now—
They definitely knew he was awake.
They blinked their beautiful yet confused eyes.
Looked down at themselves.
The worry that had filled their hearts froze for a moment—
Then instantly transformed into overwhelming embarrassment and anger.
"Ahhhh—!!!"
"Ah!!"
"Lord Leno, you—!!!"
Several screams filled with humiliation erupted at the same time.
The women reacted like startled rabbits.
Covering themselves with their arms, faces completely red.
They turned around and rushed out of the cave as fast as possible.
Yes.
Rabbits.
Leno had just seen more than one big white rabbit.
Leno stared at the scene for a moment.
Then coughed awkwardly.
"…Ahem. Thank you for the hospitality."
"The scenery… was excellent."
Don't misunderstand.
He simply meant the scenery of Amazon Lily.
Especially after the cave was destroyed—
The open sky, the white clouds, and forests of many colors were all clearly visible.
Isn't that beautiful scenery?
A little later
The women returned.
Their faces were still slightly red, and traces of embarrassment remained in their eyes.
But their worry for Leno ultimately won out.
They had changed clothes and hurried back.
"Leno! Are you alright?!"
Hancock looked like she might faint, yet still rushed forward.
"What happened earlier?" Domino inspected Leno carefully.
Her hands even patted him to make sure he hadn't lost any body parts.
"Leno, do you feel anything wrong with your body?" Robin asked worriedly.
She had only just given herself to him.
If he died now—
That would be the worst investment ever.
Fortunately, the man she chose seemed perfectly fine.
"You scared me to death!" Perona said while patting her chest.
Kalifa, Bonney, and little Alice also looked at him with concern.
They bombarded him with questions.
As if the embarrassing moment earlier had never happened.
Seeing their mixture of embarrassment yet immediate concern—
Leno felt warmth in his heart.
"I'm fine. Sorry for worrying you."
He smiled gently.
"Just a breakthrough in my fruit ability. Nothing to worry about."
He gave them a simple explanation.
Far out at sea
At the exact moment Leno's Conqueror's Haki erupted—
Sengoku, Akainu, and the Blackbeard Pirates who were still fighting suddenly froze.
All of them instinctively turned toward Amazon Lily.
That Haki—
Even from such a distance felt like it could tear the soul apart.
Terrifying.
They didn't even need to think about who it belonged to.
It was obviously Leno.
Looking up—
They saw the clouds above Amazon Lily filled with crisscrossing cracks.
Like shattered glass.
Not only the clouds—
Even the deeper sky seemed fractured.
This was the manifestation of Leno's Chop-Chop Fruit power.
"That guy… got stronger again!!"
Sengoku's expression turned extremely grim.
A flash of shock passed through his eyes—
Along with deep regret.
A man like Leno…
How could someone like Koby ever compare?
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