Death Cage of the Woods-Woods Fruit, and a Joint Strike by Two Highest Combat Powers!

"Hmph... a bunch of pirates who don't know their place..."

Ryokugyu bit through the cigarette hanging from the corner of his mouth and let out a piercing, contemptuous sneer.

Then, his laughter grew louder and louder, carrying a chilling madness:

"How dare you wear such disgusting expressions before the World Government's highest authority... It really pisses me off!!"

"Creaaak... creaaak..."

Amid the teeth-grating sound of splintering wood, Ryokugyu slowly raised his right hand.

To everyone's shock, his thick arm rapidly began turning to wood!

His skin became rough bark, and his muscles transformed into tough vines.

In mere seconds, his entire right arm swelled against the wind, becoming a gigantic tree-like hand dozens of meters long, wrapped in countless thick branches and sharp thorns!

The Logia-type Woods-Woods Fruit!

It was a terrifying Devil Fruit capable of stealing life, controlling plants, and even turning its user into a living forest!

As Ryokugyu activated his power, countless bloodthirsty vines and giant carnivorous flowers eerily sprouted from the cracks in the dead ruins around them.

"Humans are creatures that have survived in this cruel world only by trampling on species inferior to themselves!"

Ryokugyu raised that enormous branch-like hand high, preaching his utterly twisted "Absolute Justice" to those below like a fanatical evangelist:

"Class hierarchy! Celestial Dragons! That is the law of this world!"

"Only by thoroughly crushing lowly wretches like you from Non-Member States, along with lawless pirates like you, can the people of the Member States live in peace!"

In Ryokugyu's extreme worldview, this world had no need for equality.

People from Non-Member States did not even deserve human rights, much less in the eyes of a diehard fanatic who worshipped former Marshal Akainu's "Thorough Justice."

To him, the Straw Hat Pirates and Ronan were not humans at all. They were