Darkness and the Sun's World-Ending Strike

"Nidhogg!"

"And a mutated Azure Dragon!"

"Another legendary power beyond my control!"

Imu had already discovered that the dark tentacles could not control Houka's Azure Dragon power at all.

Now Nidhogg and the Five-Clawed Azure Dragon had both taken the lead in the attack, confronting Imu's dark tentacles head-on.

That bastard Houka even wanted to steal the sun from Imu's hand!

Eight hundred years ago, I joined the other nineteen kings to surround and attack Joy Boy.

Who would have thought that today, I would be the one surrounded!

My former allies are gone!

No, their descendants have become my servants.

After I became the strongest, those servants could no longer offer any help.

So this is what it feels like to face the world alone?

But I will never become a failure like Joy Boy!

Back then, the alliance of the Twenty Kings had indeed started out weaker than the Great Kingdom.

Imu had divided and weakened the races of that great alliance little by little, until finally defeating the Great Kingdom and Joy Boy in one decisive stroke.

Is the New World Alliance trying to follow the old path of the Twenty Kings' alliance?

That Kozuki Houka really does resemble me back then—despicable, shameless, and skilled at deception...

Back then, Imu had obtained Uranus through deception and driven wedges between Joy Boy and Zunesha, Poseidon, Elbaf the King of War...

One by one, they had become estranged from Joy Boy, even coming to blows with him.

In the end, Imu had claimed the final victory.

Now that bastard Kozuki Houka had swindled Devil Fruits out of Imu, the King of the World, and seemed to have successfully turned those Marines away as well...

The situation did bear some resemblance to what had happened back then.

But Imu was