Inviting Aokiji

The barons of the Goa Empire had never expected that anyone would dare attack them.

"Don't interfere!!"

Zoro stared excitedly at the giant, stopping Aramaki and Enel, who wanted to steal his kill.

He wanted to duel the man carrying the massive crate of weapons on his back.

The battle did not last long.

Once Zoro drew his third sword and got serious, Gyukimaru was swiftly defeated.

Gyukimaru, having transformed into a warrior monk, tried to revert to his guardian fox form and flee.

But Enel instantly struck him with a bolt of lightning, and Aramaki captured him with vines.

"Well, well! Didn't expect it to be a Devil Fruit user?"

"Is it a Zoan fox fruit?"

"Those markings... could it be some special breed of fox?"

Aramaki held up the red-legged, white-furred fox with cloud-like fur, checking to see whether it possessed any special abilities.

That appearance might even belong to a Mythical Zoan.

After all, Empress Sally was now the user of a Mythical Zoan Nine-Tailed Fox ability.

"It was beaten this badly, yet it still hasn't returned to human form!"

Aramaki looked at the nearly unconscious Gyukimaru and began teasing it.

He had assumed that the human form from earlier was its true body, while its current fox form was its Devil Fruit ability.

"That is its true body!"

Enel had heard Gyukimaru muttering earlier and spoke disdainfully.

He had thought there might be a real fight, but it ended up like this.

As a god, he would not save mere ants.

"What? That's its true body? Then what kind of ability does it have that lets it turn into a human?"

Aramaki immediately became interested and began playing with the fox.

"Didn't Monster eat the Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Blue Monk ability? It turned from a