Ope Ope no Mi! Stealing the Heart of Sword Demon Ato!

"What?!"

"He's actually flying at high speed in mid-air using the elasticity of his legs."

When Ato saw the newcomer clearly, he was truly shocked to his core.

In his eight thousand years of cosmic conquest.

He had never encountered such a bizarre fighting style.

However.

As a Sergeant Major of the Demon Civilization.

He wasn't just strong.

After all, technology is the root of civilization.

"Link to Demon One's Database," Ato chanted in his mind.

"Demon Database link successful. Identity confirmed. Welcome back, Sergeant Major Ato." A system-like voice echoed in Ato's mind.

"Calculate all his combat data for me," Ato commanded.

"Target locked. Analyzing target. Collecting data."

At this moment.

Ye Yang had already closed in.

Ato had no choice but to engage.

He gathered power in his battle sword and swung.

A crescent moon-shaped sword wave cut through the sky, shooting forward rapidly.

However, Ye Yang didn't dodge at all.

His thick, dark red arms crossed in front of him, forming a shield.

The sword wave was instantly shattered.

Ato was shocked.

Immediately after.

Ye Yang, who had attacked with shockwaves from his legs, performed an extremely difficult left-right dodge in mid-air.

Ato's pupils were always a beat too slow, unable to lock onto Ye Yang.

"Such speed!"

"But with Demon One's Database calculating for me, he can't possibly defeat me."

Ato thought to himself.

Simultaneously.

Demon One, linked to his mind, sent a transmission.

"In one second, he will appear to your right."

Ato's lips curved slightly.

He gripped his sword, ready to kill.

"Wait! Calculation error! His actions cannot be precisely calculated!" Demon One sent another transmission.

However, as soon as the words fell.

Ye Yang appeared to Ato's left.

"Rubber Rhino: Grenade Cannon!"

Ye Yang's feet, wrapped in dark red Armament Haki, blasted forward with explosive force.

He ferociously slammed into the left side of Ato's face.

Instantly.

The armor on Ato's head was kicked to pieces.

The air between his foot and cheek exploded, creating visible sonic boom ripples.

Ato's massive body instantly turned into a high-speed afterimage.

Flying towards the distant sky, breaking through the clouds.

His giant red wings, like flags behind him, looked like a kite with a broken string from afar.

"How could this be? How could Demon One calculate incorrectly?"

While flying backward.

Ato endured the pain and asked in his mind.

"Replying to Sergeant Major, the target seems to possess some kind of precognitive ability. At the last moment, he predicted your prediction, making his combat behavior uncontrollable and exponentially increasing the calculation load," the Demon One communicator in his mind replied.

"Predicted my prediction. What a strange ability. This person will definitely become a stumbling block for the Demon Army's conquest of Earth in the future," Ato evaluated.

I don't know how far it flew.

Ato's banner wings unfurled behind him.

Hovering in the air.

Ye Yang also arrived at high speed.

Columns of air jetted from his legs, suspending him in the air to confront Ato.

"Are you convinced yet?" Ye Yang asked.

"Your physical strength is indeed terrifying, but I have the third-generation Demon Gene. You can't defeat me."

Likewise.

Ato also knew he couldn't defeat the guy in front of him.

But he had mastered Micro-wormhole technology.

He could leave at any time.

However, facing this Super Soldier who would become a Demon's "enemy" in the future.

Even if he couldn't defeat him, he could collect enough combat data for research.

"What Demon Gene? You alien just isn't convinced yet."

Ye Yang didn't completely fail to understand this alien's words.

In short, his physique was awesome.

Fists and such were ineffective against him.

Bang!

Immediately, Ye Yang's feet gathered power and jetted.

The altitude of his position in the clouds instantly increased.

Ato looked up at Ye Yang.

His body instinctively adopted a tense, defensive posture.

What does he want to do?

"Full simulation! Trafalgar Law!"

High in the sky.

Ye Yang silently chanted to the system in his heart.

At the same time.

The steam from the sweat on his body, his dark red Armament Haki armor, his demon spiral patterns, and his round body rapidly disappeared, returning to their initial appearance.

His body subsequently lost power and began to fall freely from high in the sky.

"He's deactivated his combat form. It seems those last few moves took a lot out of him."

Ato clenched his battle sword.

The banner wings on his back began to flap.

Whoosh!!

The vibration of his wings unleashed a tremendous sound that broke the sound barrier.

He ascended in a straight line at an unparalleled speed, charging towards the "vulnerable" Ye Yang.

Ye Yang's clothes fluttered violently as he fell.

He looked down at the charging Ato from above.

He extended his right index finger.

And pointed at the rapidly approaching Ato.

Suddenly.

He flicked his index finger.

Ye Yang softly uttered:

"ROOM!"

Then.

At his fingertip.

A pale white, transparent sphere appeared.

Instantly.

The transparent sphere rapidly expanded.

Forming a hundred-meter spherical spatial field that enveloped Ye Yang and Ato.

"Scalpel."

Ye Yang struck again.

His fingers became the blade.

He made a cutting motion in the air towards Ato's heart.

The next moment.

Ye Yang once again used the Ope Ope no Mi's ability.

He appeared on a small dirt path bordering a rural farmland.

In his right palm, his five fingers held a blue, thin-film cube.

And inside the cube.

Was a beating heart, the size of an adult's head!

Ye Yang looked up.

Gazing at the humanoid black dot in the sky.

He tightened his grip on the heart.

His well-defined knuckles dug deep into the heart.

The heart seemed like tofu, ready to be crushed at any moment.

Suddenly.

Sword Demon Ato in the sky vanished.

The next second.

In the farmland before Ye Yang.

A distorted spatial wormhole door appeared.

Ancient Sword Demon Ato rolled out of it in agony.

He fell heavily onto the muddy ground.

Half his body was covered in mud.

He writhed in pain on the ground, his arm stretching out towards Ye Yang in a plea.

It was clearly visible that where his heart should be.

A smooth, square hole that went all the way through had replaced his original heart.

"So painful! It's so painful!"

"Give me back my heart!"

"Aaaah!!!"

Ato's pained and miserable howl startled flocks of birds into flight.

Two or three farmers were so terrified they wet themselves.

"Where is Yu Baosheng?"

Ye Yang asked, clutching the heart in one hand.

"He no longer exists in this world. The Queen used his body as a vessel to revive me. You can think of me as Yu Baosheng, or Yu Baosheng became my nourishment, becoming a part of my body."

"Aaaah!!! This is too painful!"

Ato, in his agony, maintained a sliver of clarity.

He told Ye Yang about Yu Baosheng.

After Ye Yang heard this.

He squeezed the heart even tighter.

The heart was almost deformed, on the verge of exploding.

Sword Demon Ato, who had fought alongside Morgana for eight thousand years, also frantically self-mutilated in the field in extreme pain.

Trying to find release.

"Forget it, I'll just take this heart back to Baosheng's parents."

For some reason, a breath Ye Yang had held onto suddenly deflated.

He felt an emptiness, as if he had lost his goal.

"You, go to the nearest police station and surrender immediately."

"And tell that woman to surrender as well."

"You aliens, stop coming to Huang Village."

Having said his piece, Ye Yang turned and left with the heart.

Bao Sheng was no longer alive.

So, take good care of those who are still living.

This was Ye Yang's personality.

If something he cared about changed, he would quickly stop caring about it, even becoming indifferent.

Furthermore, in his dealings with aliens, Ye Yang still adhered to the moral standards of human society before the nuclear age.

Even if an alien killed someone, they still had to be handed over to the police.