Chapter 265: The Tragedy of the Kraken! Deep-Sea Beast Taming and Exclusive Mount
The thousand sunny, encased in its bubble coating, continuously dove deeper into the ocean.
The surrounding light gradually dimmed as the depth increased, and the vibrant schools of fish were slowly replaced by strange-looking deep-sea bioluminescent creatures.
Just in the unsettling darkness of the deep sea, the water ahead suddenly began to churn violently.
Accompanied by a low roar, a colossal sea monster, rumored to exist only in sailors' nightmares,
the Kraken, "Kraken," finally revealed its despair-inducing true form directly in front of the thousand sunny.
Its massive body, like a towering mountain, and its several thick tentacles, like pillars supporting the sky,
merely twisted casually, instantly turning the previously clear seawater around the thousand sunny murky and turbulent with surging undercurrents.
On the deck, Usopp, Chopper, and Brook, who had just been happily dancing to the party music, had their eyeballs pop out of their sockets in fright the moment they saw this deep-sea behemoth.
"Ahhhhhh!"
The cowardly trio instantly huddled together, crying and screaming hysterically on the deck, snot and tears streaming down their faces as they desperately shouted:
"It's here! The giant monster of the deep sea! We're going to be eaten!"
However, facing this terrifying giant demon capable of easily crushing large warships,
Luffy, who was holding Futo, not only showed no fear but his eyes instantly turned into two huge, bone-in meat shapes.
He stared intently at Kraken's incredibly thick tentacles, long streams of drool uncontrollably flowing from the corners of his mouth, as he excitedly shouted:
"Wow! What a huge octopus!"
"Look, everyone! With such big tentacles, how many delicious takoyaki could we make if we cut them off!"
Wiping the drool from the corner of his mouth, Luffy's eyes gleamed as he made a decision that would drop jaws:
"It's decided! I'm going to make it our exclusive pet to pull our ship in the deep sea!"
"Not food?! How did it become a pet?!"
Hearing the wild and fanciful decision of their single-minded Captain,
Zoro and Sanji, standing by, had black lines on their faces and let out long, helpless sighs.
However, complaints aside, as the main combat power of the ship, their actions showed no hesitation.
They immediately donned their specialized deep-sea bubble suits.
Zoro slowly drew his famous sword from his waist with a sharp gaze, while Sanji unhurriedly pulled out a lighter, lit a cigarette, and took a deep puff.
The two stood on either side, assuming battle stances, ready to burst through the thousand sunny's coating and engage in a fierce battle in the deep sea.
At this moment, the colossal Kraken clearly did not regard this human sailboat, as tiny as a toy, as anything significant.
A hint of ferocity flashed in its massive eyes as it directly swung several incredibly thick tentacles, smashing them down towards the thousand sunny's coated bubble.
It intended to use the simplest and most brutal method to crush these reckless humans, ship and all, into fragments in the deep sea.
"SUPER—! You won't succeed!"
Franky laughed loudly, his arms quickly emitting the clicking sound of mechanical transformation.
He instantly assembled new heavy-duty cannon barrels, ready to forcefully intercept the thick tentacles attacking from the side.
Just as the colossal, mountain-like tentacle, carrying world-shattering power, was about to smash into the thousand sunny's coating at the critical moment,
on the second-floor lounge area, Tatsuya maintained his comfortable posture, embracing two women.
Nami, sitting beside him, looked at the terrifying, sky-obscuring black shadow outside the window and couldn't help but stand up, her mouth agape in surprise:
"What is that? What a huge Sea King!"
"That's no ordinary Sea King,"
Robin, beside him, maintained her elegant composure. She looked at the giant beast outside and explained.
"If the ancient texts are correct, that should be the legendary beast that can drag everything into the abyss, the Kraken."
Hearing their conversation, Tatsuya's lips curved slightly upward.
He tilted his head slightly, his gaze fixed on the thick tentacle smashing towards the thousand sunny.
In an instant, the mysterious pale purple ripples in Tatsuya's right eye began to flow subtly.
A terrifying spatial distortion, visible to the naked eye, instantly erupted in the seawater above the thousand sunny.
"Bang—!"
Accompanied by an incredibly dull, earth-shattering roar,
the tens of thousands of tons octopus tentacle, just a few meters from the thousand sunny's coating, seemed to hit an insurmountable invisible iron wall without warning.
In the face of this utterly unreasonable and domineering repulsive force, the huge tentacle was brutally bounced back the way it came.
The terrifying recoil caused Kraken's massive body to tremble violently.
It let out a shrill and painful shriek in the cold deep sea, its struggles churning the murky water upside down.
Tatsuya sat on the lounge chair, his heterochromatic eyes, one red and one purple, coldly observing this deep-sea overlord attempting to offend the thousand sunny.
At that moment, their gazes met in the dim deep sea.
Kraken's huge pupils contracted sharply to the size of a needlepoint.
In Tatsuya's cold eyes, this intelligent deep-sea beast seemed to see a terrifying deity standing atop endless mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
Instinctive fear from the deepest part of its biological genes instantly enveloped the sea monster's entire body.
This fear caused its massive, mountain-like body to involuntarily tremble, and even its tentacle-waving movements became incredibly stiff.
Just as Kraken was completely awed by Tatsuya's Shura-like aura, creating a perfect opening,
"Hehehe! Here I come!"
Luffy shot out of the thousand sunny's coating like a cannonball, swimming nimbly to the top of Kraken's huge head.
He didn't hesitate to bite his thumb, then forcefully blew a large amount of air into his bones.
"Gear Third!"
Luffy's right arm instantly swelled, becoming as enormous as an ancient giant.
Immediately after, a layer of glossy black advanced Armament Haki swiftly covered this gigantic fist.
"Gomu Gomu no—"
Luffy violently twisted his waist and abdomen in the deep sea, stretching this huge black fist back to its limit.
Then, with the heavy force accumulated from two years of hellish training, he smashed it downwards fiercely.
"Elephant Gun!"
"Boom!!!"
This incredibly heavy Elephant Gun created a visible white shockwave in the deep sea, squarely hitting Kraken's defenseless giant head.
The terrifying monstrous power erupted, directly causing this mountain-sized Kraken to tumble several times in the deep sea.
Its huge tentacles flailed helplessly in the seawater, smashing several surrounding underwater reefs.
Under the dual 'education' of Tatsuya's soul-crushing 'Death Gaze' and Luffy's powerful 'Physical Heavy Punch',
this Kraken, once the ruler of the deep sea, finally completely surrendered.
Its massive head was topped with several swollen red bumps, and two huge eyes were streaming tears of grievance.
It crossed several thick tentacles over its chest in a very human-like gesture, nodding frantically at Luffy, indicating its willingness to abandon darkness for light and become the Straw Hat Pirates' ship-pulling subordinate.
Luffy landed on its head, hands on his hips, laughing happily, and immediately gave this newly acquired mount a very fitting name:
"Hehehe! Good!"
"From now on, your name will be 'Squid Jerky'!"
Kraken, forcibly renamed "Squid Jerky," dared not complain in the slightest.
It obediently allowed Franky to put a thick, specially made harness on it, then tirelessly waved its tentacles, pulling the thousand sunny at full speed deeper into the sea.
With the crisis averted, everyone comfortably sat back on the deck.
They drank Sanji's specially mixed wine while praising the speed and stability of their massive new mount.
"With this guy pulling the ship, we'll reach Fish-Man Island soon, right?"
Usopp took a sip of wine, his earlier fear long forgotten, and exclaimed with a look of contentment.
However, just as everyone thought the rest of the voyage would be smooth sailing, arriving safely at Fish-Man Island,
the temperature of the cold seawater around the thousand sunny suddenly and without warning rose sharply, so much so that even the seawater began to show tiny boiling bubbles!
"What's going on? The water temperature is rising rapidly!"
Nami, sensing the change in weather, immediately stood up, her expression grave, and looked ahead.
In the bottomless deep-sea trench ahead, accompanied by a rumbling sound that shook the earth,
a massive underwater volcano hidden in the darkness suddenly erupted at this moment.
Rolling crimson magma burst through the crust, violently churning in the cold seawater, instantly releasing deadly high temperatures.
The volcanic eruption triggered a strong chain reaction, with countless massive rocks, swept up by violent deep-sea currents, surging towards the thousand sunny like the end of the world.
"Oh no! It's an underwater volcanic eruption! Get out of there quickly!" Nami shouted anxiously.
Sensing the deadly threat, "Squid Jerky," who was pulling the ship, also struggled for its life.
Its eight thick tentacles thrashed wildly in the seawater like fiery wheels, carrying the thousand sunny through falling giant rocks and scalding magma flows in a thrilling escape, attempting to break out of the magma's encirclement.
"Boom! Boom!"
Giant rocks scraped against the thousand sunny's coating and fell into the abyss.
After a heart-stopping, extreme escape, Squid Jerky finally led the thousand sunny completely out of the murky, deadly volcanic sea.
As the light ahead brightened again,
a beautiful, dreamlike kingdom, enveloped in a giant double bubble, finally clearly appeared in everyone's sight, like a dazzling pearl in the deep sea!
"Wow! Is that..."
"Fish-Man Island!!!"
However, before everyone on deck could cheer for their hard-won arrival,
a group of strong Fishmen, riding massive sea beasts and uniformly branded with the prominent symbol of the "New Fish-Man Pirates",
armed with sharp long tridents, menacingly blocked the thousand sunny's path to Fish-Man Island.
The fierce-looking Fishman leader slammed his trident heavily onto the back of his sea beast.
He stared at the people on the thousand sunny with hatred and hostility, letting out an arrogant roar:
"Hey, hey! Damn humans! All of you stop!
"This is our territory!"
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