"Become Fertilizer for These Ruins!"

One of the Five Elders, the agricultural warrior god Shepherd Ju Peter, dressed in a dark red suit with blond hair and beard and a vicious sword scar across his chest, cast Lucci a cold sidelong glance.

"Do as you please, Lucci."

Peter's voice held not the slightest emotional fluctuation, as though he were discussing the removal of an insect. "As long as you eliminate him completely, the process does not matter."

"Yes, sir! I guarantee the mission will be completed!"

Having received approval, the smile at the corner of Lucci's mouth instantly widened to its fullest.

He slowly rose to his feet. The pitch-black Flame Cloud coiled around his shoulders churned violently, while the bones throughout his body crackled like firecrackers. The terrifying vitality of an awakened Zoan boiled inside him like magma.

"The humiliation from two years ago will be settled starting with you."

"I'll slowly tear open your chest, rip out your internal organs, and let you die in absolute despair!"

Facing that death declaration from a hellish beast, Sanji merely pulled a lighter from his pocket at an unhurried pace. With a click, he lit the cigarette between his lips.

"Phew—"

Thick blue smoke poured from his mouth, obscuring most of his face and leaving only one eye, cold to the extreme, exposed.

"What a noisy stray cat..."

Sanji's right leg slashed through the air. The blazing high temperature instantly ignited the atmosphere, and Diable Jambe flames, churning like magma, roared around his trouser leg, baking the surrounding space until it twisted and warped.

"Looks like I'll have to kick every bone in your body into dust, inch by inch, before an idiot like you truly understands just what kind of gap exists between us now!"

Yet just as Ronan's Group and the Five Elders' faction