Dividing the World

"Hey! Houka! Are you really going to call a truce with it!?"

Loki was the first to object. They had already started fighting—how could this end so anticlimactically?

Rocks, however, said nothing.

He was indeed deeply wary of the possibly nonexistent Davy Jones within his body.

If Imu truly beat him half to death, would Davy Jones really emerge and seize his body while he had the chance?

After all, Teach was still inside his body.

If Davy Jones successfully took over his body, Davy Jones would also become a dual Devil Fruit user.

And one with eight hundred years of experience and soul power—a "quasi-King of the World."

An ambitious old monster who had lost to Imu by only a single move back then.

"Calm down first!"

Houka raised a hand at Loki, immediately shutting the man up.

Couldn't he see that black flames had begun rising from those Abyss Martial Gods and Deep Sea God Knights!?

Push Imu any further, and this thousand-year-old monster would start "eating its underlings" to unleash its ultimate move.

Fortunately, Hajrudin, Little Oars Jr., Sanjuan Wolf, and the others had already been knocked unconscious by Imu's berserk, god-tier Conqueror's Haki.

Otherwise, if they learned that Houka intended to "sell out" Lili—

They might just rebel on the spot and turn against Houka.

Once they woke up, he would use the "truth" that Imu had forcibly taken Lili away to motivate them to train and strive even harder.

That wonderful act of getting multiple uses out of one fish would be performed once again.

"Imu, I hope you won't try to control Lili. In this reincarnation, she also possesses the identity of the God of Forests. Her standing is even higher than Nidhogg the Black Dragon and the Hellfire Serpent!

"That is also why