One-Sword Style Secret Technique, Revised Edition

As one thread of causality after another was erased, Terukawa's sensation grew ever clearer. By the end, Mu Yu no longer looked like a child in his eyes. His body seemed to be continuously growing taller, his image increasingly overlapping with that of the Grim Reaper.

What was this now?

Terukawa was completely dumbfounded.

What exactly was going on with Mu Yu's eyes?

An indescribable terror crept into Terukawa's heart. Already cautious by nature, he immediately retreated more than ten meters.

But what left Terukawa stunned was that even after retreating more than ten meters, the sensation of being locked onto and beheaded not only did not lessen—it grew even stronger.

Retreating, changing position, strengthening his defenses. It was all useless!

It seemed that no matter what he did, his head was destined to be severed!

Why?

Why was this happening?

Terukawa was terrified out of his wits. He kept trying to encourage himself, but wave after wave of fear still washed over him.

When that warning of decapitation reached its peak, Terukawa's mental defenses finally collapsed.

"No, don't! We're fellow disciples, aren't we?!"

"It was a joke, it was all just a joke!"

"Spare me! My pirate crew and I swear we'll never set foot on Frost Moon Island again!"

No matter what Terukawa said, Mu Yu remained unmoved.

The causal threads in his eyes grew fewer and fewer until only one remained!

Terukawa's body went ice-cold, as though he had fallen into an icy abyss.

Too terrifying!

"Move... move!"

Terukawa desperately ordered his body to move, but under the lock of the Causal Magic Eyes, his body was completely beyond his control.

"I-I'm going to die? No!"

"I refuse to accept this!"

Terukawa's emotions collapsed. He regretted it—at this moment, he truly regretted it.

Wouldn't it have been better to roam freely on the Grand Line? Why did he have to come to Shimotsuki Village?

This monster, this freak!

Even more terrifying, behind Mu Yu seemed to emerge an incomparably furious Buddha statue wreathed in raging flames.

What the hell was this?

It was not only the pirates who saw it. Zoro and Kuina saw it as well.

Zoro in particular suffered an incomparably massive shock, as though a seed had begun to sprout in his heart.

So this, too, was swordsmanship. How beautiful!

Just then, Mu Yu's voice rang in everyone's hearts.

"One-Sword Style Secret Technique: Fudo Myoo!"

Then everyone saw the Wisdom King behind Mu Yu, burning with furious flames, move.

It swung the sword in its hand. With just one slash, Terukawa, in his three-headed, six-armed Asura Form, was beheaded by Mu Yu's sword.

Silence!

You could hear a pin drop!

The pirates were scared out of their wits!

They had never imagined that Mu Yu, who had just seemed to have been killed, would unleash the form of Fudo Myoo and behead the invincible Captain Terukawa with a single strike.

How was that possible?

"I was beheaded?"

"How is that possible?"

Terukawa's head rolled across the ground, yet he still could not believe it.

What was that technique that manifested the form of a Wisdom King behind him?

Why did it resemble the technique Koshiro had once told him about, relying on one's presence to manifest the "god" within one's heart?

So that technique was real. Koshiro hadn't lied to him back then?!

In his final lingering moments, Terukawa saw an apple appear in Mu Yu's hand.

An apple?

Why take out an apple?

It couldn't cure poison!

But in the next instant, Terukawa's eyes bulged wide. What had he just seen?

A large number of Karakusa-like patterns appeared on the ordinary apple. That wasn't... that wasn't...

Terukawa died with his eyes wide open.

Having done what he wanted to do, Mu Yu slowly turned around and looked toward the pirate ship.

"Get lost!"

Mu Yu's voice was not loud, but when spoken through Fudo Myoo's mouth, it was like Resounding Words, instantly striking every pirate's heart.

Gulp!

Sounds of swallowing rang out as every last shred of courage was stripped from the pirates.

Splash!

One pirate took the lead and jumped into the sea.

Very soon, the sounds of people plunging into the water like dumplings being dropped into a pot echoed through the area.

In just a few breaths, every pirate scrambled to leap into the sea, afraid that they might somehow end up with one leg less.

Kuina and Zoro panted heavily, utterly stunned. Just one word—"get lost"—had made every pirate jump into the sea.

That was... incredible!