Evil Eye King Mode, Golden Lion's Probe

With a thunderous crash, the entire pirate ship slammed onto the sky island. Fortunately, the pirate ship made from Adam Tree wood was sturdy enough and suffered no damage.

But with the sea now at least several thousand meters below them—perhaps even over ten thousand—they knew there was no way back for the time being.

Besides Minos and his group, many residents of Sleepy Town had also been captured and brought up. A golden-haired man hovered in midair, watching them with a smug expression.

A ship's wheel that looked like an ornament sat atop his head, a thick cigar clenched between his teeth. His legs had been replaced by two gleaming swords, and his entire body radiated an unruly, arrogant air.

At that moment, he was looking over the people who had been brought up as though inspecting merchandise. But when he saw Minos's pirate ship—especially the Homies Soldiers aboard it—his expression shifted slightly, revealing a trace of surprise.

"Homies!? Are you underlings of that madwoman Charlotte Linlin?"

Golden Lion had once been allies with Charlotte Linlin. Both of them had served aboard the Rocks Pirates' ship.

Of course, the Rocks Pirates were not the Straw Hat Pirates. The relationships among the crew had only ever been so-so. After the crew broke apart, they had fought plenty of wars over territory, leaving even that scant bit of old camaraderie all but faded away.

Moreover, cliques had existed even within the Rocks Pirates. Charlotte Linlin and Kaido had been on good terms, while Silver Axe, Wang Zhi, Captain John, and the others had been close. Golden Lion, meanwhile, was proud and unruly by nature, and had gotten along reasonably well with Whitebeard, who had been the strongest person on the crew besides the captain. His relationship with Charlotte Linlin had been purely one of mutual benefit.

Still, there was at least a sliver of old sentiment between them, and that piqued Golden Lion's interest.

The reason Golden Lion had suddenly decided to capture people this time was actually because he did not have enough test subjects for the IQ Potion experiments on his floating islands. So he had casually gone down to grab a few people for human experiments.

Naturally, the world's will had surely played a role in this as well. Otherwise, Golden Lion would not have happened to fly into the New World at precisely this time.

But he had not expected this trip to bring him some additional gains. At the moment, conducting human experiments was no longer quite so urgent.

"That's right. We serve Captain Charlotte." Minos stepped forward and spoke. "Are you the legendary Great Pirate, the Flying Pirate Golden Lion?"

"Jiehahahahaha! There are still people in this world who remember my glorious name? That's right, I am Golden Lion Shiki!" Golden Lion laughed loudly before glancing at Minos. "It's rare for someone to recognize me. Your position under that madwoman Charlotte Linlin shouldn't be low, should it?"

"I'm merely an ordinary minor officer." Minos spoke with a humble expression.

Golden Lion's gaze lingered on his Third Eye as he said meaningfully, "If that madwoman Charlotte Linlin didn't have confidence in you, she wouldn't dare let a rare Three-Eyed Tribe member like you leave Whole Cake Island."

If the Lunarian race was destined for extinction, with only a single survivor like King remaining, then the Three-Eyed Tribe was only slightly better off. They were nearly extinct as well. Tianlai Novel Network

Naturally, for Charlotte Linlin, whose dream was to build Whole Cake Island, she could not bear to let a Three-Eyed Tribe subordinate she had worked so hard to recruit be wiped out so easily. Therefore, if Minos had not been strong enough, it would have been absolutely impossible for him to leave Whole Cake Island.

Minos was indeed not weak. At the very least, he should have counted as an upper-mid-level officer in a Yonko Crew. He could not compare to the Sweet Commanders, but he was still at the level of one of the lower-ranked senior officers.

That was only when his Evil Eye King Mode was factored in. Under normal circumstances, when he held back, he truly could not be considered especially strong. There were at least twenty or thirty people on Whole Cake Island stronger than him—even if he did not hold back his Trump Card, there were probably still more than ten.

That level of strength was neither particularly strong nor particularly weak in the New World. If Minos had not come up with a way to secretly read the Red Poneglyph, gaining freedom and setting out to sea on his own would not have been easy at all.

"I don't consider myself particularly strong. At least, before a legendary Great Pirate like you, my strength is surely not worth mentioning."

"Jiehahahahaha!" Golden Lion seemed pleased by the invisible flattery. He threw back his head and laughed a few times, then suddenly raised a leg. A golden slash howled through the air.

Damn! Was this guy a dog? He turned hostile without warning!

Minos cursed inwardly, but his hands did not slow in the slightest. His long blade, wrapped in Armament Haki, swung in an Iaido Slash, sending out an equally long Sword Qi that collided with the incoming slash.

The two Sword Qis tangled in midair for a moment before both shattered. Countless tiny fragments of Sword Qi scattered everywhere, stabbing the still-confused Sleepy Town residents all over their bodies. Instantly, cries of pain rang out as the crowd fled in blind panic.

That strike had merely been Golden Lion casually making a move. He had not used any real technique at all; it could only be considered a basic attack. Yet even so, Minos had just exerted all his strength, using both Haki and an Iaido Slash. The only thing he had not done was transform into Evil Eye King Mode. The gap between them was obvious.

"Not bad, brat. Then can you take this move? Wave Slash!!"

If Golden Lion's previous strike had only been a basic attack, then this was a minor skill. The golden Sword Qi howled as it transformed into a terrifying slash wave dozens of meters tall, cleaving toward Minos's head.

He could not dodge. If he did, Golden Lion would not let the matter rest. Minos could no longer worry about whether to reveal his Trump Card or not. A faint black sheen spread over his entire body, the Evil Eye on his forehead snapped wide open, and dozens of eyes across his body opened at the same time.

Evil Eye King Mode! Fortunately, Minos was covered from head to toe. Otherwise, everyone would have seen the dozens of eyeballs that had sprouted from his body.

After transforming into Evil Eye King Mode, Minos felt his strength, speed, and endurance increase dramatically. His physical abilities had surged enormously. At the same time, a violent killing intent brewed within his heart!

Minos had transplanted the Evil Eye and become an Evil Eye Master. And what was an Evil Eye Master? A Yokai!

No Yokai ever truly knew what it meant to be calm and peaceful! While not every Yokai in Yu Yu Hakusho had a violent personality, nearly all of them belonged to a race that was battle-hungry to the extreme.

Although the Demonic Aura had been removed in the world of One Piece, greatly reducing the violent influence brought by the Evil Eye, that influence had not disappeared completely.

Now that Minos had transformed into the Evil Eye King at what was practically a life-or-death moment, that long-brewing killing intent erupted at once.

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