The sea gradually calmed.
The wreckage of Hachinosu slowly sank into the whirlpool, seawater washing over its shattered, crumbling walls.
Yoru stood on a reef, looking down at Kaido's sinking body.
The World's Strongest Creature was dead at last.
Yoru did not linger. He crouched and pressed his right hand against Kaido's cold chest.
His Mangekyō Sharingan spun rapidly, Eye Power probing through his palm into the body as its warmth faded.
In the final moments before Kaido's death, he seized the essence of the fruit dwelling within him.
A phantom Azure Dragon flickered at Kaido's heart and let out a soundless cry before the Eye Power in Yoru's right eye drew it away.
He took an ordinary piece of fruit from his coat.
The Azure Dragon phantom settled onto it, and the fruit rapidly twisted and changed shape.
A moment later, a strange fruit shaped like a coiled dragon, its surface covered in azure dragon-scale patterns, lay quietly in his palm.
Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Azure Dragon!
Yoru put the fruit away and stood.
He looked toward his father and the others.
A host of Beasts Pirates officers were still floating in the sea.
King, Queen, Jack, the Tobi Roppo—
Though the Devil Fruit curse left these powerful fighters struggling in the seawater, they had not sunk immediately.
Powerful Devil Fruit users had some resistance to seawater.
The Beasts Pirates also had Fish-Men like Jack the Drought, who could breathe underwater by nature and were not so easily drowned!
The officers thrashed in the surging waves. Some tried to grab floating planks, while others swam desperately toward the distant ships.
Yoru gave them a single glance, then pushed off lightly and rose into the air.
He hovered dozens of meters above the sea and slowly rested his right