Louis's whole body shimmered with a pale golden light as he strolled to the edge of the Island Cloud. His eyes, combined with his Observation Haki, remained firmly locked on the sailboat speeding away, driven by the gale.
His body was tall and straight, golden hair fluttering in the wind, and snow-white wings spread wide. Bathed in golden light, he looked utterly divine.
His golden silhouette appeared in the dim world, light scattering from him as firefly-like specks gathered to illuminate the night sky.
Behind him, Yelena and Uta watched the pale golden particles swirling around Louis and the Island Cloud like a tornado. They both guessed what he was about to do.
Then they widened their eyes and waited to see what would happen.
Even to Yelena, Uta, and the others who had been by his side for years, Louis's strength was a mystery worth investigating.
Perhaps only the powerful Shanks and Beckman had some idea of just how strong Louis was.
A flicker of anticipation passed through Yelena's red eyes. "Louis, just how strong are you...?"
Beside her, Uta watched the tall, golden figure, her eyes shining.
Far away, aboard the targeted Winter Grama, the crew members with Observation Haki felt the air around them grow oppressive. Their bodies trembled instinctively, as if a beast had fixed its gaze on them, and their heartbeats quickened.
Their faces paled, their lips quivered. Feeling as if the sky were about to fall, they glanced around in search of the source of danger.
On the deck, Dragon and the others watched everything unfolding in the distance, their brows furrowing.
"Is this a warning? Or revenge?" Dragon murmured from beneath his cloak and hood.
When they looked up, an incredible transformation was suddenly unfolding several nautical miles away.
Golden light rose in the dark world, illuminating the night sky. A brilliant river of stars poured down between ink-black clouds, then scattered wildly in the wind.
The scattered particles of light swirled around, some vanishing into the dark horizon, others sinking into the deep sea.
The next moment, two new life signatures appeared in the Observation Haki of several people.
Then the wind and rain all across the sky came to a halt, as an even more terrifying disaster began to brew.
On the vast, surging sea, giant waves rolled back and forth, and the ocean shuddered as if struck by an earthquake.
"Rumble..." Lightning flashed, and the storm in the sky rose again. Under an indescribable force, it connected with the sea, sucking up countless tons of seawater and forming several waterspouts that stretched from sea to sky.
The clouds swirled, and lightning flashed all around.
Violent tornadoes, powerful enough to destroy an entire fleet, raced straight toward the sailboat sailing across the sea.
Aboard the Winter Grama, Ivankov's slender figure grew bulky. The howling wind blew off his hood, revealing his broad, square face.
He cupped his heavily made-up face with thick hands, panicking and shouting incoherently.
"Th-this... You can control natural disasters, too?!"
Beside him, Kuma's eyes reflected the approaching tornadoes. "A controlled natural disaster and one that occurs naturally aren't the same thing..."
In front of them, Dragon wore a grave expression, lost in thought. He looked as if he were worrying about the ship's food supplies.
The light scattering from Louis's body faded. His wings folded, leaving only his golden hair fluttering in the wind.
Life was the greatest miracle in the world.
In nature, nurturing a single life required a great deal of time and an abundant supply of resources.
Yet, through the special power of the Devil Fruit, Louis had created two lives born of disaster in just a few seconds.
They had no intelligence, but their instincts made them even more deadly.
The waterspouts moved at incredible speed, sucking up everything in their path—debris, sea beasts, and more. As it all swirled around the storms, the tornadoes grew ever more destructive.
Under their violent force, the sailboat, which had been moving quickly, slowed little by little. It even began to drift backward, about to be sucked into the waterspouts connecting sea and sky.
Just then, a heavily made-up figure wearing an extremely low-cut bodysuit and fishnet stockings leaped up and headed for the nearest tornado.
"Galaxy Wink!"
Countless explosive shock waves burst forth from a rapid series of winks. They smashed the scattered seawater and sea beasts in their path, then struck the raging tornado head-on.
The powerful shock waves sent sheets of water bursting from within the waterspout. A moment later, the seawater sucked up from the ocean filled the gaps again.
The cycle repeated, and Ivankov's attacks ultimately had no effect. Instead, the chaotic air currents dragged him ever closer to the waterspout.
"!!"
"Kuma, Dragon! Save me!"
As the words left his mouth, an invisible gale whipped into a frenzy and pulled Ivankov back toward the sailboat.
A moment later, a paw-shaped bubble drifted off the deck and was swept straight into the waterspout.
White light flared. Compressed air, reduced to the size of a fist, exploded in an instant, unleashing a tremendous shock wave.
"Rumble..." An explosive boom thundered between heaven and earth. The waterspout connecting sea and sky was destroyed in an instant, turning into a torrential downpour that crashed onto the ocean.
At the same time, invisible blades of wind swept across several other enormous tornadoes, cutting them in half.
A wind from nowhere threw the storm into disarray, extinguishing the disaster as it formed.
"Yee-haw!" Ivankov shouted triumphantly.
"Natural disasters are nothing but—"
But his voice abruptly cut off the next moment.
He stood motionless on the deck, staring up at the enormous shadow blotting out the sailboat.
Looking up, they saw a colossal tsunami as tall as a mountain, stretching to the edge of the horizon and sweeping toward them. It looked like a wall dividing the world had just collapsed, crashing down with overwhelming force.
It surged and rolled, overturning everything in its path.
The tsunami, stretching to the edge of the horizon, instantly engulfed the Winter Grama, crashing down amid shrill cries and thunderous noise.
The next moment, a raging gale swept around the sailboat and rose from the sea, forming a violent updraft that shot into the sky. It pierced straight through the tsunami as it crashed toward them.
The gale punched through the tsunami in a single blow, then continued upward, carrying a skyful of seawater with it.
At the edge of the Abente Heim, Yelena's eyes widened. The might of the powerful fighters Shanks had spoken of was now on full display before her.
Uta was dumbfounded. This series of attacks from Louis had far surpassed anything she could comprehend. Even her father, Shanks, had never shown her power on this scale.
After a long while, the enormous tsunami swept toward a deserted island in the distance. The sea gradually calmed, leaving only the Winter Grama, protected by a wall of wind.
Aboard the swaying sailboat, Dragon slowly lowered his arm and gazed into the distance. He gave his assessment:
"A terrifying attack, but still far from enough to challenge the truly top-tier fighters..."
Several nautical miles away, Louis murmured,
"Undersea whirlpool..."
The waves rose again...
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