Chapter 67: Burn It All to Ash! Uchiha's 'Majestic Destroyer Flame'
BOOM!!
With a deafening crash, Luffy brought Arlong crashing into the room located at the highest point of Arlong Park.
Sunlight spilled through the shattered windows, illuminating this place that was once considered a forbidden zone.
Luffy scrambled up from the floor, but when he saw the surrounding scenery clearly, he froze in place.
The room was filled with towering mountains of sea charts, densely packed and occupying almost every inch of space.
On the wide drafting table, countless worn-out pen nibs were scattered about, some even stained with long-dried, dark-red blood.
These were the traces left behind by Nami over eight years, day after day, year after year, forced to draw sea charts here.
This wasn't a room.
This was a cage that had imprisoned that girl's soul.
"Shahahahaha! Do you see this, Straw Hat?!"
Arlong stood up from the debris, casually grabbing a handful of sea charts, his face twisted in a greedy and triumphant laugh:
"This is that woman's talent! These sea charts are the most perfect masterpieces in the world!"
"With her, I can control the currents of the entire world! She's a natural-born genius, the ultimate tool for my global domination!!"
Arlong opened his mouth wide, revealing rows of sharp teeth, and pointed at the blood-stained pen nibs:
"Even if her hands are ruined, even if she bleeds dry, as long as she can draw charts like these, it is her greatest honor as a human being!!"
Luffy lowered his head, his Straw Hat obscuring his eyes and hiding his expression.
Only his white-knuckled fists and the suffocating aura of rage radiating from him revealed his current state of mind.
"A tool...?"
Luffy murmured in a low voice.
The next second.
"This kind of nonsense... make it disappear!!!"
Luffy didn't attack Arlong; instead, he lunged toward the mountains of sea charts and surveying instruments.
BANG! CRASH! BOOM!!
He acted like a madman, frantically destroying everything in the room.
Tables were overturned, surveying instruments were crushed, and the sea charts Arlong prized as treasures were torn to shreds, fluttering through the air.
"Stop it!! What are you doing!!"
Seeing this, Arlong's eyes widened in horror, and he rushed forward desperately to stop him:
"That's my life's work! My ambition!! Don't touch them!!"
"Gomu Gomu—"
Luffy snapped his head up, the Haki erupting from him in that instant causing even Arlong to feel a flicker of fear.
"This place..."
Luffy kicked Arlong away and grabbed a massive support pillar with both hands, his roar echoing through the sky:
"...this place filled with painful memories..."
"...is NOT Nami's room!!!!!"
BOOM—!!!
One of Luffy's legs suddenly stretched, piercing through the roof and extending high into the clouds.
Then, carrying a terrifying, destructive force like a giant axe splitting the heavens and earth, that leg came crashing down!
"Gomu Gomu no Battle Axe!!!"
"NO!!!!" Amidst Arlong's desperate scream...
...the entire main building, the symbol of Arlong's reign and Nami's eight-year nightmare, collapsed instantly under that terrifying strike!
Countless fragments of stone and wood, along with the fluttering scraps of sea charts, fell like swirling snowflakes.
Upon the ruins...
...Nami, who had just arrived, looked up. She watched as the cage that had imprisoned her for eight years turned to rubble in the sunlight, and the sea charts that symbolized her shackles scattered with the wind.
Tears rolled down her cheeks like pearls from a broken string.
In the center of the dust-filled ruins...
"Cough... cough..."
Arlong was covered in blood, his saw-toothed nose broken and the bones in his body shattered.
But he was a Fishman with a powerful constitution; even after such heavy damage, he was still clinging to life.
"Damn it... you inferior race..."
Arlong's consciousness was blurred, but he instinctively tried to crawl toward the sea not far ahead.
As long as he reached the water... as long as he could return to the sea... he could survive and make a comeback later...
However...
Step.
A black boot stepped heavily onto his back, cutting off his last hope of survival.
Arlong struggled to look up, and in his blurred vision, a smiling face appeared.
Tatsuya.
He held his long sword, stained with Fishman blood, and looked down at the dying shark without a hint of pity in his eyes.
"Where do you think you're going, Captain Arlong?"
Tatsuya's voice was very soft. "There is no sea in Hell, you know."
"You..." Arlong's pupils constricted violently, just about to beg for mercy.
SHING!!
A flash of cold light.
The long sword in Tatsuya's hand swung down without hesitation.
A hideous shark head rolled onto the ground, foul blood staining the ruins red.
The Overlord of the East Sea, Arlong, confirmed dead.
[Ding!]
[Mission Complete: Annihilate the Arlong Pirates.]
[Reward Issued: A-rank Fire Release Ninjutsu — Majestic Destroyer Flame.]
[Ding! Congratulations to the host for defeating the Arlong Pirates and the special target: Saw-Tooth Arlong (Bounty: 20 million Berries).]
[Battle Evaluation: S.]
[Reward Obtained: 3,000 Ninja Points.]
Listening to the pleasant system notification in his mind, Tatsuya flicked the blood off his blade and slowly sheathed it.
"It's over."
...
The battle had completely subsided.
Outside the gates of Arlong Park, the villagers who had originally intended to fight to the death with hoes were now standing with their mouths agape, too shocked to speak.
Looking at the Fishman corpses littering the ground, the collapsed main building, and the figures standing atop the ruins...
"So... so powerful..."
"That shark Arlong... was actually defeated by that kid in the Straw Hat?"
"And that youth in black... were all those Fishmen killed by his hand? He's... he's like a demon..."
The villagers whispered in awe and fear.
"Just who are they..." Genzo muttered to himself.
"They..."
Nami wiped away her tears and turned around, looking at the group that had risked their lives for her.
She took a deep breath and shouted proudly to all the villagers:
"They are my comrades!!!"
Hearing this, Luffy grinned and flashed a large peace sign.
However...
Tatsuya looked at the wreckage littering the ground, the corners of his mouth curling slightly.
"This isn't clean enough yet."
He whispered to himself.
For an Uchiha, only total destruction represents a true new beginning.
Under the confused gazes of the crowd, Tatsuya slowly walked to the center of the ruins, facing this land that had carried too much sin and suffering.
"Whew..."
He closed his eyes and adjusted his breathing.
The massive and violent fire-attribute Chakra he had just acquired began to gather frantically in his chest.
His hands moved in a blur, so fast it was dizzying to watch.
Rat－Ox－Dog－Horse－Monkey－Boar－Tiger!
Hand signs complete.
Tatsuya snapped his eyes open and took a deep breath, his chest swelling as if he were about to detonate a volcano inside his body.
Facing the ruins of Arlong Park, facing everything that symbolized Nami's painful past, he suddenly exhaled!
"Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation!!!"
BOOM——————!!!!
In that instant, everyone's vision was dyed crimson.
It wasn't an ordinary fireball, but a surging sea of fire!
The terrifying flames, like a ten-meter-high tidal wave, erupted from Tatsuya's mouth and instantly covered the entire ruins of Arlong Park with overwhelming force!
The range was so vast that it even turned half the sky red with the glow.
The temperature was so high that the villagers, even from a great distance, felt their skin burning and their hair curling.
"Waaaah! So hot! What kind of magic is this?!" Luffy's eyes practically popped out of his head in shock.
"Hot, hot, hot! Is there a fire?!"
Zoro, who had been lying in a corner unconscious, was jolted awake by the terrifying heatwave.
He jumped up and stared wide-eyed at the hellish sea of fire before him:
"Is this... that red-eyed bastard's doing?! Is he even human?!"
The raging fire ravaged every inch of the land.
The blood-stained sea charts, the remnants of the room where Nami had been imprisoned, the filthy traces left by the Fishmen...
Under the most domineering flames of the Uchiha Clan, everything was reduced to ashes.
Tatsuya stood before the sea of fire, the light reflecting in his crimson Sharingan, his black hair dancing wildly in the heatwave.
He looked ahead, a faint smile playing on his lips:
"Now, it's truly clean."
The nightmare had ended.
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