Moria: Don't Kill Me, I Treated You to a Meal!

Suddenly, the glass on the second floor of the hotel shattered, and Moria's tall and muscular figure darted out and landed on the street.

Dark shadow energy rapidly gathered beneath his feet. Moria opened one hand, grabbed a handful of shadows, and hissed, "Shadow..."

Before he could finish speaking, a bolt of lightning suddenly struck, and Ortolan emerged from the lightning bolt, grabbing Moria's wrist.

Moria reacted quickly; the instant his wrist was grabbed by Ortolan, he swung his black spear, formed from shadow, and stabbed it into Ortolan's abdomen, intending to skewer him!

However, Ortolan didn't even try to dodge, letting the blow pierce his abdomen. Then, the shadow spear didn't even pierce Ortolan's skin; it was directly shattered in Moria's hand.

This startled Moria, who was just about to change his move when Ortolan, with a sinister grin on his face, grabbed Moria's wrist and slammed him to the ground.

With a loud bang, the ground shattered, and Moria's towering figure crashed into the ground, creating a large crater.

While cracking his neck and twisting his wrists, Ortolan said with a vicious smile, "I'll give you one more chance to use the new organization's language, Moria. Will you give me the 20 billion or not?"

Moria didn't answer at all, glaring resentfully at Ortolan before his body went black. Without a word, Ortolan stomped his foot down in Moria's stomach.

With one kick, Moria shattered into countless shadow fragments, which then rapidly transformed into bats and scattered in all directions.

"Shadow Master?" Ortolan raised an eyebrow, pondering to himself.

In Ortolan's opinion, Moria's Shadow-Shadow Fruit was still very powerful, especially the ability to switch physical forms with his shadow at any time, which was indeed very practical.

With a wave of his hand, dozens of Inazuma struck out, engulfing a large number of shadow bats. When the lightning and shadows dissipated, Ortolan saw Moria standing on the roof of a small two-story building on the street.

Moria gritted his teeth and glared at Ortolan, saying, "I've remembered what happened today, Bane Ortolan. Next time we meet, I'll give you a big surprise!"

After a brief exchange, Moria already knew that he was no match for Ortolan, especially since Ortoron appeared calm on the surface, but in reality, his internal organs, such as Zouyan, were still recovering from the injuries he had sustained at Kaido's place.

Therefore, he immediately decided not to fight with Ortolan anymore, and prepared to run away. He would wait until he was fully recovered before looking for an opportunity to take revenge on Ortolan.

After uttering those harsh words, Moria vanished in a flash.

This is also one of his special skills: alternating with a shadow hidden somewhere and instantly teleporting away. Back in the Wano Country, when he was about to die under Kaido's staff, he used this skill to escape right under Kaido's nose.

In the original story, Doflamingo received orders from the World Government to secretly eliminate Moria, but in the end, he was tricked by Moria and failed to kill Moria.

Seeing Moria's figure vanish on the spot, Ortolan raised an eyebrow, and lightning flashed in his hair. A powerful Observation Haki instantly spread out from his body, covering not only the entire island but also a large area of the surrounding sea!

This is the power of his Observation Haki, amplified by the Goro Goro no Mi ability, giving him an extremely wide monitoring range!

Almost instantly, a sinister smile crept across Ortolan's lips. "I thought you could run much further..."

As soon as he finished speaking, a thunderclap rang out, and then he vanished without a trace.

Meanwhile, in a secret port on the other side of the island, Moria emerged from an inconspicuous warehouse, cursing indignantly, "Damn the Marines, I'll make you..."

Before he could finish speaking, a bolt of Inazuma struck Moria's head, and shortly after, Ortolan's figure appeared above him.

"Wrath of the Thunder God Axe!!!" Ortolan roared.

A tomahawk-like downward slash descended from the sky, landing squarely on Moria's head.

Moria was truly stunned. He never expected that his escape technique would be cracked by Ortolan in an instant.

There was no time to dodge at this point, so he could only cross his arms above his head in an attempt to parry Ortolan's kick.

In the next instant, Ortolan's ankle slammed into Moria's arms with tremendous force, like hammering nails, instantly crushing Moria's legs through the thick stone slabs and sinking into the ground. Then, Moria's arms, unable to withstand Ortolan's monstrous strength, trembled and pressed downwards. During this process, Moria struggled to turn his neck and head to the side, but finally, unable to withstand the force, his crossed arms were directly kicked apart by Ortolan's foot.

Immediately following, Ortolan's heavy blow landed on Moria's shoulder, slamming him to the ground, which instantly shattered, kicking up a cloud of dust.

"Moonlight Moria, your little tricks mean nothing to me. Only those I'm in a good mood and willing to let go can escape from my grasp, right, Ai Bai?" Ortolan raised his hand to disperse the dust, his tone leisurely and teasing.

No sooner had he finished speaking than a dark shadow suddenly emerged from the ground and stabbed himself in the chest.

However, Ortolan completely disregarded this, letting the dark shadow pierce his chest.

"Karma Shadow!!!" Moria roared in exasperation.

But the shadowy black spear, though embedded in Ortolan's body, still couldn't break through his defenses. Ortolan wore an indifferent smile and walked forward step by step. The horned shadow trembled and bent, and with each step Ortolan took, the horned shadow finally couldn't withstand the immense pressure of the confrontation and broke off with a bang.

Brushing the dust off his chest, Ortolan patiently asked, "So, what's your answer? Are you going to pay or not? I'm running out of patience..."

As he spoke, crackling plasma crackled from his fists, and his aura gradually rose, with a Conqueror's Haki Haki gathering to unleash its full force.

Moria was furious, but he was truly helpless against the monstrous Ortolan. He couldn't fight him, and he couldn't run away... For a moment, when he looked at Ortolan, it was as if he merged Ortolan with Kaido's image. That nightmarish scene awakened his fear and memories once again.

Yes, Moria must have been afraid of Kaido. Don't be fooled by his talk of revenge; in reality, after his defeat, his spirit was shattered. He kept talking about revenge, but for over a decade, he's been holed up in the Devil's Triangle, unwilling to come out.

Even his revenge plan was extremely weak. He gathered a large number of zombies, hoping to rely on them to deal with Kaido. He didn't even consider confronting Kaido himself.

So much so that his catchphrase became "I'll take care of it for you."

"No... don't come any closer..." Moria slumped to the ground, struggling to move his body as Ortolan approached, trying to distance himself from Ortolan.

Looking at Moria's terrified face, Ortolan suddenly felt a little bored. Back in Loguetown, he had seen Moria from afar. At that time, Moria was still the hero of the West Blue, and at least in terms of appearance and aura, he was quite worthy of recognition.

Now, he is nothing more than a weak and incompetent loser.

It was at this moment that Ortolan seemed to understand the meaning of what Garp had said back then: a fist full of conviction is vastly different in power from a fist devoid of conviction!

"But that's precisely why you're suited to be one of the Shichibukai ..." Ortolan thought to himself with a cold laugh.

Just as Ortolan lost interest in the guy and was preparing to follow the instructions of the Admiral Sengoku, beat him up, and then capture him and send him to headquarters to see what headquarters would do next,

Moria seemed to have realized something and quickly said, "Don't kill me! I just treated you to a meal... I really don't have 200 million Belly. My treasure was stolen by Kaido in Wano Country, but I still have some very powerful technology..."

"Technique?" Ortolan raised an eyebrow, stopping his movement to deliver two punches to the face, and asked curiously, "What kind of technique?"

"It's technology I found in an ancient ruin. It's the technology to build island warships. With this technology, we can create mobile island fortresses similar to super-large sailing warships..." Moria swallowed hard and quickly replied.

Upon hearing this, Ortolan's eyes lit up with understanding. Yes, in the original story, after Moria left the New World, he created this thing in the Devil's Triangle.

It's called the Thriller Bark, also known as the 'world's largest three-masted sailing ship,' and indeed, as he said, it's the size of an island and can move.