Old community, familiar corridors.
Pushing open the anti-theft door with peeling paint, the furnishings in the room were exactly the same as they were seven years ago, except that there was a sense of lack of life and staleness everywhere. On the sofa were the school uniforms Akira wore in high school, washed white and neatly folded.
Akira looked at the school uniform, his eyes warmed slightly. He struggled in that world of the jungle and stepped on countless bones to ascend to the throne. What supported him was the obsession deep in his heart to return to this home.
"Yu'er, where have you been in the past seven years?" The middle-aged woman held Akira's hand and held on tightly, fearing that her son would disappear again if she let go. What happened on the street just now was so extraordinary that it made this ordinary couple feel extremely uneasy.
"I went to another world." Akira didn't hide anything, explaining in the simplest terms, "I stayed there for seven years, learned some skills, and now I'm back."
The middle-aged man opened his mouth, thinking that this was simply a fantasy, but thinking about the dinosaur that turned into a human on the street just now, he felt that his son's experience was not unacceptable.
"It'll be good to come back, it'll be good to come back." The middle-aged man wiped the corners of his eyes, and his eyes finally fell on Imu who was standing behind Akira.
From the moment you walk in, Imu is extremely quiet.
This god who has ruled the pirate world for eight hundred years is now standing in a dilapidated eighty-square-meter two-bedroom apartment in Dragon Country, with his hands rarely folded in front of him, his posture upright, and his red lips under the veil tightly pursed.
"This is..." Mother was keenly aware of something.
"Her name is Imu." Akira smiled.
The middle-aged couple looked at each other and smiled tacitly.
"Oh, this girl is so tall and her eyes are so beautiful..." The mother quickly took Imu's hand.
Imu did not break free, and allowed this ordinary Blue Star woman to pull her, with strange waves flashing in her dark red eyes.
While her parents went to the kitchen to prepare food, Akira sat on the sofa and picked up the mobile phone that had not been used for seven years.
Imu sat next to him, looking at the small luminous cuboid curiously.
"Is this Den Den Mushi from Blue Star?" Imu asked.
"It's easier to use than Den Den Mushi." Akira slid the screen.
The news online has completely gone out of control.
The video of Chen Zhinan transforming into a blue dragon and boiling the sea has been forwarded millions of times. Although the news of Atlantic Fleet's demise was blocked by Beautiful Country officials, there are still blurry satellite images leaked.
What worries Akira the most is the incidents of supernatural attacks that have broken out around the world.
After taking Devil Fruit, many people simply cannot control the surge in power, or in other words, the power amplifies the dark side of their hearts.
Sakura Country, the high school student who turned his arms into blades to kill his classmates, was laughing wildly at the camera, shouting "Oda-kun, ONE PIECE is real!".
Beautiful Country On the street, someone transformed into a giant cheetah and tore apart cars on the road like toys.
Dragon Country In the north, a man turned the entire apartment building into a sea of fire because of an argument with his neighbor.
The comment section was filled with panic, fanaticism and despair.
"It's the end of the world! That's Devil Fruit! Things in anime have come to reality!"
"Why can they get power? I want to eat it too!"
"Where's the authorities? Where's the army? Come and save us!"
Akira looked at these news, his eyes gradually became cold.
Obviously, both the known and unknown Devil Fruit in the pirate world are descending on Blue Star at an alarming speed.
At this moment, an urgent news message suddenly popped up on the phone screen.
The host of the news channel looked pale and his voice was trembling.
"Emergency news break. A very strong typhoon has appeared in the East Blue sea area, and the wind speed has exceeded the highest record in history. According to meteorological satellites, there are signs of giant biological activity in the center of the typhoon. Currently, the creature is approaching the East Blue City coast at an extremely fast speed. Citizens are requested to take refuge in underground air defense facilities immediately..."
The scene switches to helicopter aerial photography.
In the violent storm, huge waves rolled on the dark sea.
And at the junction of the clouds and the waves, a thousand-meter-long cyan dragon was making waves. Chen Zhinan rolled wantonly in the air, setting off a ten-meter-high tsunami with every flick of its tail. He seemed to enjoy this power of dominating nature, and let out an earth-shattering dragon roar toward the distant coastline.
"Is he going to directly descend on the coastal city with Azure Dragon Form?"
Looking at the green dragon figure blocking out the sky and sun in the video, Akira's eyes gradually turned cold.
East Blue City coastal defense line.
The strong wind carried the heavy rain, like countless steel knives scraping across the sea.
In the makeshift frontline command center, alarms rang out.
"Report! The first line of defense has been breached!"
"Air defense position No. 3 is lost!"
"The tsunami warning has reached the highest level and sea water is pouring into the city!"
The commander stared at the big screen, sweat breaking out on his forehead.
On the screen, there were dark clouds, thunder and lightning. A thousand-meter-long cyan dragon rolled in the clouds. Every time it swung its body, it would set off a terrifying storm on the sea.
This is a creature from myths and legends, but now it has become a butcher's knife hanging over the heads of 20 million East Blue City citizens.
"How is the missile interception situation?" the commander asked through gritted teeth.
"It's useless!" the operator cried with despair, "Conventional missiles can't even leave a white mark on it, and its scales are harder than all known alloys! Even the flames it spits out, even depleted uranium armor-piercing bullets can melt in mid-air!"
"Beast!" the commander punched the console.
East Blue City is a first-tier city, and it is impossible for a population of 20 million to be evacuated in a short period of time. Once this monster is allowed to land, the entire city will become a hell on earth.
In the sky, Chen Zhinan hovered above the thunderclouds, looking down at the toy-like armored vehicles and artillery below.
He feels better than ever now.
Strength.
Endless power.
Half a day ago, he was just a low-level fisherman wandering the sea for a living. He was scolded by the captain and oppressed by life. But now, he can overturn the building with just a move of his claws, and boil the sea with just a breath.
"I am God! Hahahaha~"
Chen Zhinan let out a deafening laugh, the sound echoing in the thunderstorm.
He looked at the troops waiting on the coastline, with a trace of cruel jest flashing in his eyes.
The next second, he suddenly opened his abyss-like mouth, and dazzling fire condensed crazily deep in his throat.
Bolo Breath!
A huge fireball fell like a meteorite and headed straight for the densest defensive positions on the coastline.
In the command center, everyone closed their eyes in despair.
Just one second before the fireball was about to hit the ground.
Buzz--
A strange tremor suddenly sounded between heaven and earth.
The violent typhoon has stopped.
The falling rainstorm hovered in mid-air.
The rolling waves seemed to have been pressed on the pause button.
The huge fireball, which was enough to turn half of the position into ashes, was blocked by an invisible wall less than ten meters from the ground and could no longer advance further.
Chen Zhinan's laughter stopped suddenly, and the huge dragon eyes stared down.
Under the fireball, a figure appeared at some point. It was Akira who rushed over immediately after seeing this news break.
"You are really messing around."
Akira looked up at the green dragon in the sky, his tone was calm, as if he was reminiscing with an old friend.
Then, he slightly bent his index finger and flicked it in the air.
Bang!
The ball of Bolo Breath that condensed Chen Zhinan's full blow was like a fragile soap bubble, exploding in mid-air, turning into sparks all over the sky and dissipating in the sea breeze.
Everyone in the command center was dumbfounded.
"Then... is that a human?" the commander stuttered, pointing at the screen.
In the sky, an inexplicable rage surged in Chen Zhinan's heart.
He is a god now, how could anyone block his attack with bare hands!
"Who do you think you are! Die!"
Chen Zhinan roared, and the gigantic kilometer-long dragon body suddenly fell, like a blue mountain pressing down on its head. The huge Dragon Claw tore through the air, with a harsh sonic boom, and clawed hard at Akira.
Facing this devastating blow, Akira took a step forward with his feet hanging in the air.
Buzz--
A substantial dark red energy centered on Akira, expanding crazily in all directions in a hemispherical shape.
In the warship on the sea below, all the soldiers didn't even utter a scream. They just rolled their eyes and passed out.
Chen Zhinan, who was the first to bear the brunt, felt an unstoppable pressure sweeping over him.
"Ho--"
"Uh-huh-"
The arrogant dragon roar instantly turned into a terrified cry.
Chen Zhinan's huge dragon body suddenly froze in mid-air, and human reason instantly collapsed under this absolute violent suppression.
Bang!
The thousand-meter-long green dragon was like a kite with its string broken, smashing straight into the sea below, setting off huge waves.
Akira didn't give him a chance to breathe.
He stepped hard, and the air burst with a loud roar.
The whole person soared into the sky like a cannonball, instantly crossing a hundred meters in the air and hovering directly above the huge dragon head of Chen Zhinan.
"Calm down first, kid!"
Akira raised his right leg, and Armament Haki instantly wrapped around it, dyeing the entire leg a pitch black color, with dark red Inazuma faintly flowing on the surface.
He aimed at the dragon's head below and struck it down hard.
Click--
The crisp sound of bone cracking echoed throughout the sea and sky.
Chen Zhinan's dragon scales, which could not even be penetrated by armor-piercing bullets, were shattered inch by inch under Akira's kick.
Because of this terrifying impact, the entire sea area sank directly outward into a huge pit with a diameter of several hundred meters.
The seawater was drained away, revealing the broken reef below.
Chen Zhinan's huge dragon body twitched violently for a few times, then quickly shrunk, and finally turned back into an ordinary person wearing tattered fishermen's clothes.
He was lying on the muddy rocks, his face covered with blood, and he was taking in more air than out.
Akira slowly fell from the air, stepped on the rocks, and looked at him condescendingly.
"You... who are you..." Chen Zhinan A large mouthful of blood poured out of his mouth, and his eyes were full of incomprehensible fear.
"I'm the one who sets the rules."
Akira Before he finished speaking, the phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated crazily.
He frowned slightly, stopped, took out his mobile phone and pressed the answer button.
On the other end of the phone, my mother's cry was heard.
"Yu'er! Come back quickly! Your dad... he ate a strange fruit, and black gas is coming out all over his body!"