Young Tiger (Seeking Collection!)

The year is 1484 of the Sea Calendar, in the New World, on Doldia Island.

A large sea vessel floats in the sky.

Roa, small in stature with black hair and black eyes, stands on the ship's railing, which is a bit too high for him, looking down at the island below with wonder.

Doldia Island, an island filled with pirates, is undergoing a catastrophe.

Accompanied by thunderous roars, the entire island undulates like a sea in a storm. The ground bulges high, only to crash down like a tsunami the next moment, with layers of ground constantly piling on top of each other.

Towns are buried in the blink of an eye. The pirates, as powerless as ants, are crushed into pulp before they can even scream.

"Kyahahahaha!"

The culprit behind it all, a man with brilliant, golden-blonde hair, floats in the sky and laughs heartily.

With a casual swing of his right hand, he makes the island below dance.

"Whoa, amazing! Uncle Shiki! That's it, crush them!"

Roa takes a deep breath. Dense black energy, invisible to ordinary people, rises from the island below and is inhaled into Roa's nostrils. He wears an expression of extreme intoxication, "So delicious!"

The man known as the Golden Lion, a high-ranking executive of the Rocks Pirates, Shiki, turns his head. "Roxx didn't send you here for me to cheer him on!"

"Huh?"

Roa's cute smiling face shows an awkward expression. He raises a hand and scratches the back of his head. "My opponent is a monster with a bounty of over eight hundred million. I'm no match for him."

"And--"

"Shiki!!"

Just then, the ground explodes. The flying dust is instantly torn open, creating a passage. A furious man shoots up like a cannonball, heading straight for the man in the sky, "You're going too far!!"

"Uncle Shiki,"

Roa watches the man shooting up into the sky and says with a grin, "The enemy's target is you too."

"Hmph!"

The Golden Lion snorts, turns around, and casually draws the love sword at his waist. The sharp blade instantly turns black, and black and red lightning leaps forth.

"Coup de Burst!"

The blade tears through the sky, instantly unleashing a massive golden slash a hundred meters long. The sky itself seems to turn golden.

"What?"

The man who shot up into the sky's face changes drastically. In the next instant, he is directly cleaved by the slash, blood scattering across the sky.

The Golden Lion stands proudly in the sky, slowly exhaling a smoke ring. "To not kill yourself with this level of skill and make me come personally, you're going too far."

Roa applauds repeatedly, "An amazing sword!"

A sword imbued with Conqueror's Haki, this is the true form of the Golden Lion.

The Mighty Lion in his prime looks up towards another part of the island.

"Roa."

He raises his voice, "Some idiots are trying to escape. Go deal with them."

He then glares at Roa. "Don't make me say it a second time."

"Yes, yes, yes, it's my turn to appear."

Roa deliberately lengthens his tone. As he steps forward, black fur grows on his body. The next moment, he jumps off the large ship suspended high in the sky.

On the other side of the island, there is a small bay. In the bay, a sea vessel is rapidly fleeing away from the island.

On the ship, a group of pirates, like stray dogs, look back in terror at the island being kneaded back and forth like dough by an invisible force.

"That monster, the Golden Lion, actually came himself!"

"It's all the captain's fault! How dare he provoke the Rocks Pirates!"

"It's too late to say anything now! The captain is finished, and the Golden Pirates are also finished! That madman, the Golden Lion, is going to destroy the entire island!"

"What are you talking about, pirates? Let's run!!"

They have no courage to confront that Mighty Lion and can only flee now.

But at this very moment.

In the sky, a dark cloud descends.

"What?"

The pirate leading the escape, a cadre of the Golden Pirates, a man known as Johnny the Heavy Axe, suddenly looks up, his pupils constricting.

It's not a cloud.

It's a fierce tiger!

A black fierce tiger, over five meters long, with a pair of wide, dark wings, slowly descends!

Besides its color and wings, it also has a pair of sharp, giant horns on its head, like a buffalo's horns!

Its body appears somewhat thin and elongated, and even its head, which should be somewhat rounded, looks gaunt. But even so, the sharp teeth protruding from its mouth look even more ferocious.

Roa landed steadily on the deck above the ship's cabin. He surveyed Johnny and the others, then a clear, youthful voice rang out, "Sorry, everyone, this path is blocked."

Johnny's eyes widened in disbelief. "Mythical Zoan?"

This form was clearly an Ancient Zoan, but even an ancient tiger wouldn't have wings and horns, right?

There was only one possibility then: this was a Mythical Zoan, a rarity even rarer than Logia!

"Lox said,"

Roa retracted his wings and looked down at the pirates, who had already been terrified by the Golden Lion. "Everyone has to die. There's nothing I can do."

Johnny's pupils contracted sharply.

Users of Mythical Zoan abilities were all monsters!

But.

"Die for me!!"

Logia or Mythical Zoan, whoever wanted his life, he'd take theirs first!

Johnny the Heavy Axe truly possessed a heavy double-bladed battle axe. He swung it and roared, "Everyone who doesn't want to die, charge with me!"

"Take this guy down!!"

The pirates knew that if they didn't defeat him, they would be defeated. With that in mind, what was there to fear?

Thus, the pirates mustered their courage and charged towards the black tiger behind Johnny. For a moment, they seemed quite formidable.

Facing the charging pirates, Roa made no move. He simply blinked. But in the instant his eyelids closed and reopened, the black and white of his irises flipped, turning pale, while his sclera turned pitch black.

He seemed to see something others couldn't, and said with a smile, "False courage won't work on me."

"Waaahhhhh!"

The next moment, the pirates' terrified screams echoed through the bay.

The pirates, who had just mustered their courage, were now utterly petrified. An inexplicable fear completely consumed them.

Their bodies trembled so much that they couldn't even hold their weapons, let alone stand straight. They collapsed to the ground, weeping uncontrollably, their weapons clattering to the floor.

Many pirates wet themselves at that instant. Some even vomited bile in their terror and were scared to death on the spot.

"What's happening... What is this!"

Johnny the Heavy Axe stumbled backward in terror. The ferocious tiger before him seemed to grow infinitely large in his eyes, like a shadow engulfing the world, leaving him with no desire to resist.

But he was still standing, after all.

"Oh?"

Roa looked at the only pirate still standing with amusement. "Impressive. A stray dog like you can resist my ability."

Johnny's breathing nearly stopped.

Was this guy's ability? Fear? He could make people fear him!

What a terrifying ability!

His body was shaking. Forget attacking, he was struggling just to stay standing.

He didn't notice a hint of blackness creeping into his eyes. The eyes of the other pirates on the ground were almost completely filled with darkness.

"Looking at you, you seem to have some value,"

Roa pondered, a smile spreading across his already ferocious face. "Then let's fight. The last one standing gets to live."

Get to live? If he killed everyone else, he could survive?

Amidst the intense fear, another emotion began to sprout.

Johnny instinctively tightened his grip on his battle axe.

His killing intent grew like wild grass in spring.

Kill!

As long as he killed everyone, he could—

No!

Johnny's pupils trembled.

It wasn't just fear; it could also incite killing intent?

Whoosh!

Before Johnny could figure it out, a sound of wind breaking came from behind him.

He instinctively dodged to the side as a blade slashed down in front of him.

Behind him, the pirates had already begun to fight amongst themselves.

The pirates had gone completely mad. Fear and cowardice had been completely swallowed by pure killing intent. Kill, kill, kill! I'll kill everyone!

Everyone seemed to have become a lunatic, forgetting their fear and ignoring the pain. Even with their windpipes cut, they desperately tore at their opponents. Even with their hearts pierced, they struck back with equally fatal blows!

"What a joke?"

Johnny the Heavy Axe roared, his hand subconsciously swinging his heavy battle axe, cleaving the head off a pirate who had just attacked him.

Unseen by the fighting pirates, a bit of black substance floated up from their bodies.

Black smoke, invisible to ordinary people, drifted towards Roa.

Roa slowly inhaled, and the black mist was drawn into his nostrils.

Roa wore a look of disgust, "When they lose their minds, they're really quite unpalatable."

Meanwhile, the battle had entered its climax.

After continuously beheading several comrades, Johnny could no longer suppress the surging killing intent. His pupils gradually turned pitch black, and his reason vanished in an instant. His battle axe flew, instantly decapitating two pirates in front of him as he roared like a beast, "Kill!"

Kill all these dog-like bastards!

He no longer cared about survival or revenge; now, only one thing occupied his mind: kill! Fucking kill!

Soon, the battle neared its end.

It could be said that as expected of a ship's executive, Johnny became the sole survivor. After beheading sixteen companions, he was the only one still standing. His strength was indeed considerable; after the melee, he was largely unharmed.

However, the crucial point was that Johnny's eyes were wide open, his expression vacant. The whites of his eyes and his pupils had both turned completely black, like an abyss devoid of any light.

He staggered towards Roa's location, his movements stiff like a puppet.

Black Tiger nodded with satisfaction, "Not bad, not bad. Among all my ghouls, the quality is quite high."

As for the others.

Roa glanced at the pirates lying strewn across the deck.

Fine, I'll be kind.

From the base of the pair of sharp horns on his head, bronze-colored patterns began to spread.

Whoosh!

Flames!

Flames that appeared from nowhere suddenly surged from the deck and then spread at an uncanny speed. Within seconds, they had engulfed the entire ship.

"Hahahahaha! Roa! Well done!"

Laughter echoed from above. Mighty Lion floated in the sky. "Johnny the Heavy Axe, though the weakest of the executives, his bounty still exceeded one hundred million."

Roa grabbed the black-eyed Johnny and flapped his wings to ascend, his voice full of amusement, "For those who wander, they are easily broken."

"Hahahahaha! In the face of your abilities, that is indeed true!"