The moment Usopp saw the Thousand Sunny and the rest of the crew, tears nearly streamed down his face.
"Luffy... Zoro... everyone..."
His eyes swept across the deck of the Sunny until they locked onto a massive, blue figure.
"Boss..." he muttered, staring at Jinbe.
"Luffy, haul me up, quick!" Usopp shrieked.
No one could truly grasp the sheer emotional overload his system was currently enduring. I, the great God Usopp... need to get back on the Sunny immediately and watch my friends fight. Only beneath the protective umbrella of his crew was he truly the great God Usopp.
"Usopp!" Luffy laughed, stretching his arm across the water to snatch the sniper by his collar and yank him aboard.
"Bell, I'm heading out ahead of you!" Usopp's voice echoed through the air tracks as he flew across the gap.
Standing on the deck of his ship, Bell offered a soft smile. Though Usopp always appeared incredibly erratic and uncalibrated, he possessed a rare quality: he could violently force an attack even when his psychological core was trembling with absolute terror. That was a trait he had severely lacked in his early history.
Back then, he possessed zero strength and zero confidence, existing in a state of pure, unadulterated cowardice.
Bell truly respected him now, because Usopp was a real man.
"Usopp, your timing is flawless! The Gaon Cannon is entirely under your jurisdiction!" Franky boomed, stepping up to slap a heavy hand against the sniper's shoulder. "Only a master of your caliber can unlock the true destructive parameters of the Sunny!"
"Let's deliver a super first-contact greeting to the Beast Pirates... Super...!" Franky struck a magnificent, body-building pose.
"Understood! Leave the artillery loops to me!" The moment the phrase 'firing the cannon' processed, Usopp's enthusiasm re-booted at maximum capacity.
Rubbing his nose, he smirked confidently. "A maximum-priority task of this scale is best left to the hands of the Sniper King, Usopp!"
Stepping into the firing capsule, Usopp locked his hands around the primary control matrix. Aligning the sights with a high-density cluster of Beast Pirates infantry swarming the Onigashima plaza, he instantly slammed the trigger.
Vrumm—BOOM!!!
A colossal beam of raw kinetic energy erupted from the lion's mouth, tearing a massive line of destruction straight through the enemy army. The resulting concussive blast systematically wiped out every low-tier soldier caught within the target radius.
RUMBLE...
"Whoa! Shishishishi...!" Luffy tracked the devastation from a distance, a wide grin splitting his features. "Usopp's precision parameters are incredible!"
"Alright! My vanguard is deploying now! Kaido, I'm charting an intercept course!" Clenching his fist, Luffy activated the blood-pumping mechanics of Second Gear.
Vanishing from the deck of the Sunny in an instant, he transformed into a high-speed blur, rocketing straight toward the heart of Onigashima.
High above the battlefield, near the roof of the fortress, Yamato swung her massive spiked club, her strike colliding head-on with Kaido's own iron mace.
"Thunder Bagua!!"
The exact same verbal command cleared their jaws in perfect synchronization.
Twin arcs of violent, black-and-purple lightning strobed across the field, the massive kinetic displacement expanding outward to ripple through the clouds. Up in the upper atmosphere, thunder crackled endlessly as their Haki clashed.
Luffy shot upward like a missile.
"Straw Hat kid, exactly where do you calculate you're going?!" A massive, round silhouette suddenly threw itself into Luffy's path.
An All-Star of the Three Disasters—Queen the Plague!
Having frantically executed a retreat protocol from the Udon sector, Queen had been actively scanning the board for a high-yield opportunity to salvage his military reputation. Seeing the Governor-General locked in a grueling duel against his own child, he stepped out immediately to anchor the line. He held absolute zero clearance to let the Straw Hat brat disrupt the Emperor's fight.
That was the primary directive guiding his movement.
"Eh?" Luffy blinked in surprise, the words slipping past his teeth before he could filter them: "A balloon...?"
Queen: "!!!"
Who the hell are you labeling a balloon?!
"Today, your transit parameters terminate right here!" Queen roared, driving a massive, cybernetic fist straight toward Luffy's skull.
Luffy dared not under-calibrate the Disaster's physical torque, twisting his frame mid-air to execute a rapid evasion loop.
Queen pursued him ruthlessly, but before he could lock his sights for a follow-up, a brilliant streak of masterwork steel flashed before his eyes.
CLANG!!!
Bell materialized out of the wind currents, his straight-edged blade cleanly blockading Queen's path.
"Luffy, push forward!" Bell barked. Without wasting a single fraction of a millisecond, he cycled his sword through a relentless, high-density chain of slashes, completely trapping Queen within a defensive loop.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Queen was forced to frantically shift his weight backward, parrying the invisible wind blades as his jaw tightened in frustration.
He held a clear index on Bell's capabilities. The horrifying data track detailing how Jack had been systematically executed by this kid's blade was still freshly logged in his memory files.
This youth was an absolute, terrifying monster.
Exactly what paradigm shift has allowed so many unmapped, elite powerhouses to emerge onto the sea simultaneously? Queen's processors simply couldn't compute the variable. Assets commanding this tier of lethality couldn't possibly exist as nameless wildcards.
Why the hell had they all consolidated their coordinates on Onigashima today?
Luffy nodded firmly, utilizing the opening to accelerate his ascent toward the roof. He filtered out every single external environmental hazard, his internal thoughts hard-coded with a solitary directive: Dismantle Kaido.
As Luffy breached the inner sanctum of the fortress, Kid, Law, and the remaining captains of the Worst Generation flooded the plaza, initializing their own independent combat loops.
Tracking Luffy's vertical trajectory, King realized the brat was on the verge of reaching the apex tier. Spreading his massive leather wings, he prepared to launch a high-speed ascent to intercept him.
BOOM!!!
Suddenly, a massive concussive impact smashed dead-center into King's spine, violently aborting his flight loop and sending his physical frame crashing back down into the dirt.
"Agh...!" King gritted his teeth through the pain, a thin trail of crimson fluid leaking past his mask.
Out across the harbor, a fine trail of white smoke drifted lazily from the barrel of the Thousand Sunny's Gaon Cannon.
The logic was absolute: the precision strike had been engineered by the ship's artillery systems.
Usopp had flawlessly calculated the window, dropping a maximum-yield concussive shell directly onto King's blind spot to clear his captain's path. To guarantee Luffy's progression, the sniper had thrown his own safety metrics to the wind.
Commanding the seat of the absolute strongest All-Star among the Three Disasters, King's baseline power was an undeniable hazard. Under standard parameters, Usopp lacked the personal courage to deploy an open provocation against an entity of that caliber.
But the board was different today.
Their captain was the man destined to claim the mantle of the Pirate King. Operating as the crew's long-range sniper, his core protocol was to systematically liquidate every single obstacle barring his leader's path!
Through the targeting lens of his scope, Usopp watched King slowly pivot his head, the pure, unbridled fury burning within his eyes visible even across the distance.
The Gaon Cannon blast had actually shattered a corner of King's signature leather mask!
Vrumm!
Converting his physical mass into a massive Pteranodon form, King shot across the marine grid like a railgun projectile, charting a direct heading straight for the Sunny. His talons transformed into rigid, haki-infused claws.
His target was the lion figurehead anchoring the bow—and Usopp was positioned right inside the observation bridge directly behind it.
"Ah... my life signs are finished!" Usopp whimpered, throwing his back against the captain's chair as his composure collapsed entirely.
CLANG!!!
Just as his internal systems braced for total destruction, a thunderous, metallic resonance exploded directly in front of his face.
"The asset nesting within this hull happens to be my crewmate, you bastard!" Zoro roared. The muscles across his arms expanded radically under a massive layer of internal torque as he threw his full weight into his twin blades.
BANG!!!
Forcing King's massive momentum into a sharp retreat, Zoro dropped smoothly back down onto the deck planks. Reaching out with a practiced movement, he drew Wado Ichimonji from its sheath, clamping the hilt firmly between his teeth.
"You honestly calculated... that my steel would permit you to easily harm my family?" As the words cleared his jaw, Zoro's gaze turned into a shelf of absolute frost, a dense coating of obsidian Armament Haki rapidly enveloping the metal of his three blades.
"Zoro..." Inside the control pod, Usopp broke into a magnificent torrent of grateful tears.
King's eyes narrowed beneath his fractured mask. Remaining entirely silent, he re-aligned his propulsion loops and launched a secondary, high-velocity dive from the sky.
Suddenly, a sharp spike of physical trauma detonated across his jaw, forcing his trajectory into another violent retreat as his frame rocketed sideways.
BOOM!
"SANJI!!" Usopp shrieked again, his morale skyrocketing.
He had a family backing his play!
Hovering mid-air, Sanji maintained a flawless kick-delivery posture, calmly bringing his lighter to his face to draw a quiet stream of smoke from his cigarette.
"Our sniper's performance metrics... aren't half bad, wouldn't you say?"
Down on the stone plaza, King slowly forced his frame out from the pulverized debris of a collapsed structure, his sharp eyes evaluating the prominent figures stepping off the deck of the Thousand Sunny.
The former warlord, First Son of the Sea Jinbe!
The moment his sensors verified Jinbe's presence on the field, King's brow furrowed tightly. The tactical equations had just become exceptionally unoptimized for his faction.
The Straw Hat Pirates were a force that permitted zero under-calibration!
"Three Sword Style: Black Rope Dragon Twister!!!"
Zoro condensed his Haki across all three masterwork blades, spinning his body through a violent, high-torque revolution before unleashing the strike.
A gargantuan, obsidian hurricane of razor-sharp flying slashes erupted across the plaza, violently vacuuming dozens of Beast Pirates infantrymen into the vortex to shred their armor and spray their blood across the stone.
And anchored dead-center in the path of the storm was King!
Compressing his biological mass, King tightly folded his durable, leathery wings around his torso, curling his entire frame into a dense, armored sphere.
As the infinite web of slashes connected with his defenses, nothing but a continuous, high-frequency resonance of metal clashing against metal echoed through the basin.
The massive hurricane gradually dissolved into the atmosphere, and King smoothly expanded his wings to reset his combat stance. Completely defying the raw destructive output of the technique, his physical infrastructure returned a reading of absolute zero damage!