"Roger!!"
Kaido's long legs nearly struck sparks as he sprinted across the wilderness littered with rocks.
To keep his balance, Roa had to hold on to a strand of his hair.
The scenery on both sides flew backward in a blur. As expected of Teacher Kaido—even when he was young and running, he was still faster than Roa flying.
Bang!
A gunshot suddenly rang out.
Roa pressed a hand to his forehead and snapped irritably, "Who threw that firecracker?"
"Hahaha! What a huge human!"
A voice that could only be described as foolish came from the side.
"Hm?"
Roa and Uncle Kaido, who had stopped, looked over together.
It was the most stereotypical Celestial Dragon imaginable.
He was obese, had snot running from his nose, wore his hair in a tall topknot, and was dressed in the standard spacesuit and fishbowl.
He was sitting on the back of a strongly built slave, with a group of pale-faced guards following beside him.
"Hahaha! This fellow must be worth a lot of points!"
The smoking gun in the Celestial Dragon's hand trembled as he aimed it at Big Brother Kaido. "Stop dodging! If you make this young master miss again, I absolutely won't forgive you!"
The guards beside him were nearly in tears.
Wouldn't it have been better to simply go into hiding?
The Celestial Dragon didn't recognize the two of them, but the guards did!
The two interns of the Rocks Pirates!
Kaido and Roa!
Each one was a notorious monster!
"Uhogugugugugu! So this is a Celestial Dragon?"
Kaido was laughing, but the corners of his mouth kept sinking. "These are the people standing at the top of the world?"
"You've got to be kidding me!!"
At this critical moment—
"Big Brother Kaido! Let me handle this!"
Roa volunteered.
He hadn't yet tasted the black aura of a Celestial Dragon.
After thinking for a moment, Roa made his decision. "A burning at the stake, then."
The next instant, the Celestial Dragon, his guards, and the slave beneath him all burst into flames, their clothes and hair burning fiercely.
"Waahhh!!"
The Celestial Dragon instantly screamed and fell from the slave's back, rolling around on the ground in agony.
"Here it comes, here it comes!"
Roa eagerly took a deep breath. The black aura radiating from the Celestial Dragon was drawn into his stomach. "Pure!"
Even Celestial Dragons suffered when they experienced pain!
And the black aura they released was incredibly rich!
Although the rigorously trained guards were suffering just as much, they still instinctively tried to rescue their master.
Only—
Boom!
The flames surged violently the next instant. The fire on everyone's bodies erupted outward as if impatient to escape, directly merging into a sea of flames.
Roa's ability was to create disasters.
So he hadn't merely set their clothes on fire. He had used those materials as fuel to create a conflagration.
The amount of material serving as the carrier of the fire didn't matter. As long as there was some, it was enough.
Thus, the screams rang out all at once, then quickly weakened.
"A burning at the stake still isn't very good."
Roa crossed his arms and reflected on it. "They burned to death in just two moves."
"Uhogugugugugu! Nicely done, brat! Trash like this deserves to be tormented in any way imaginable!"
Kaido laughed loudly and began charging forward again.
Roa knew what he meant.
Big Brother Kaido dreamed of creating a world where the strong preyed on the weak, making it the universal law of the world for the strong to torment the weak.
But honestly, this world already worked that way.
The reason the Celestial Dragons could sit high above everyone else was entirely because they possessed the world's greatest force.
Even among the Celestial Dragons themselves, the strong ruled.
As they raced toward the center of the island, they encountered several groups of Celestial Dragons along the way.
Roa didn't hold back and used them for several experiments.
Wind blades slicing, meteors falling from the sky, lightning strikes, landslides burying them—
None of them turned out particularly well. These ordinary Celestial Dragons were simply too fragile. They died after only a few attacks, leaving him thoroughly unsatisfied.
Just as Roa was pondering this—
"Roger!"
"Wait! Rocks!"
Boom!!
A terrifying gale swept toward them head-on, accompanied by black lightning shooting into the sky. The island began to tremble, and the clouds overhead scattered at once.
"Has the captain already encountered Roger?"
Roa suddenly grew impatient.
What kind of magnificent momentum would the clash between the kings of the old and new eras possess?
"Uhogugugugugu!!"
Kaido roared and leaped a hundred meters into the air, crashing toward the central area of the island like a meteor.
After several consecutive leaps, he carried Roa down onto the edge of the battlefield.
Roa's eyes gradually widened.
It wasn't just the captain and Roger. Everyone here was familiar!
"Roger!!"
Captain Rocks radiated a fierce presence.
"Rocks!"
The future Pirate King showed no weakness.
"Roger!"
A Marine vice admiral charged over.
"Roger!!"
Golden Lion descended from the sky.
"Roger!"
Whitebeard roared with all his might.
"Rocks!!"
The Dark King's presence also soared into the heavens.
"Don't get too cocky, Roger! Rocks!"
Moon Head was equally imposing, and behind him stood a host of monsters.
Boom boom boom boom!
Terrifying waves of Conqueror's Haki swept across the entire island.
The island, which was not particularly large to begin with, seemed to be undergoing a massive earthquake. Countless cracks spread across it, and even the mountain at the island's center began to collapse ever so slightly.
At the same time, a fierce aura surged into the sky from Kaido's body.
"Roger!"
Roaring, Big Brother Kaido charged toward the battlefield, just as eager as the others.
Roa stood there dumbfounded.
Multiple waves of Conqueror's Haki surged at once. It was as if the world had lost all color. Roa felt his mind periodically go blank, making it impossible to continue thinking.
Was he about to pass out?
You've got to be kidding me! I'm a transmigrator! You comic-book characters think you can rise above me?
A certain shackle was shattered almost soundlessly.
Buzz!!
Roa's eyes widened, and he instinctively roared, "Roger!!"
As he roared, an invisible aura spread outward.
That aura even resonated with the sound waves of his roar, producing an unexpected effect.
Only, no one cared.
On this battlefield, Roa was nothing more than an unnoticed wild tiger by the roadside. Even Kaido was merely charging forward excitedly, too lazy to spare him a glance.
It was quite frustrating.
He had awakened Conqueror's Haki at seven, even earlier than Yamato.
But why had he shouted Roger's name?
Forget it. Seeing how enthusiastically you're all fighting, I'll forgive you.
Roa quickly flapped his wings and pulled back, moving in a flash toward the edge of the battlefield.
He had no intention of getting dragged into this chaotic battle.
"Mamamama! I knew it! Little Roa, of course you're also a Conqueror's Haki user!"
Laughter came from behind.
Roa turned around and saw Aunt Linlin observing from the edge as well.
"Aunt Linlin, aren't you joining the battle?"
Roa asked curiously.
Wasn't Aunt Linlin also obsessed with Roger?
Even when she had been knocked into the magma to take a bath, she had still been muttering about Roger.
"I'm not in the mood to play with those idiots."
Charlotte Linlin winked at Roa. "Little Roa, don't forget why we came to this island. As long as we take the treasure, we'll be the victors!"
Roa glanced back.
The monsters were already fighting fiercely.
The captain sometimes crossed blades with Roger, then met Garp's fist, and the next moment was clanging away in a lively battle with Moon Head.
Aside from the Marines and the Knights of God standing together, it had become a complete free-for-all.
The earth was shattering, the mountains were wailing, and even the sky dared not show an expression.
With his own strength, if he merely approached the battlefield, he would probably be taken out by the aftershocks.
"You're right."
Roa decisively turned back and said to Aunt Linlin, "Let's hurry and search for the treasure!"
"Mamamama! What a good boy!"
Thus, Roa climbed onto Linlin's shoulder again, and the two of them dashed toward the center of the island.
The center of the island had already descended into chaos.
The Celestial Dragons who had come to seek shelter remained as arrogant as ever, chattering and urging the pirates to be dealt with quickly so they could continue their hunt.
The organizers were frantic as they tried to placate them.
Thus, no one noticed the treasure platform at the rear of the venue.
"Are these the two Devil Fruits?"
A tall, honest-looking boy happily examined the fruits in his hands.
"That's right! Bear!"
Beside him, a big-headed boy held another fruit. It was blue, covered in blue scales. "This is our—"
"That was close!"
A huge shadow shot over, slammed the big-headed boy to the ground, and casually snatched the blue fruit from his hand.
"Bear! Eat it!"
Almost instinctively, the big-headed boy shouted while spitting blood.
The honest-looking boy did not hesitate. He bit off half of the fruit in his hand in one mouthful.
"Tsk!"
Charlotte Linlin clicked her tongue in extreme annoyance.
Roa stood steadily on Linlin's shoulder. Looking at the terrified flat-topped boy, he also sighed regretfully.
If only he had been a little faster, he could have stolen that fruit.
Boom!
The next instant, Bear was sent flying.
An old man stood there quietly, leaning on a cane, wearing a small hat, and sporting a thick white beard. "Lowly ants born in the gutter dare to touch the treasures of the gods."
"You all deserve to die."
Roa gripped Aunt Linlin's hair tightly. "Whoa, a monster has appeared. Aunt Linlin, can you hold him off?"
The treasures were piled off to one side!
Besides the Azure Dragon Fruit and the Paw-Paw Fruit, Roa also saw another Devil Fruit. It probably wasn't anything ordinary either,
not to mention the huge pile of treasures.
But if Aunt Linlin couldn't hold out either, then all they could do was run.
"Mother, Mother!"
Charlotte Linlin studied the newcomer with interest.
"The highest authority in the world is coming down to the human world too?"
The next enemies were the Five Elders!
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