"Not a Bird-Bird Fruit?" The recovered Hancock let out a soft laugh.
"Don't compare that inferior fruit's power to mine. My fruit is... Phoenix Crying Across Nine Heavens!"
Her tone paused briefly, followed by a soaring cry. The phoenix's call resounded through the nine heavens, and under Kizaru's shocked gaze, Hancock's form began to change.
Five-colored flames ignited as her entire body transformed directly into a phoenix with spread wings, soaring into the sky.
Ten thousand zhang of rosy light spilled down from the heavens, surging with misty spiritual energy. The entire sea was shrouded in divine radiance. The battle below came to a halt, and whether Marines or members of the Kuja Pirates, all stared dumbly at the divine bird spreading its wings.
The sight was simply too beautiful!
This was a creature that existed only in dreams, a being of myth. That elegant posture had already surpassed the limits of everyone's imagination.
[When the Great Way does not prevail, the phoenix cannot cry. When the phoenix cries, all under heaven finds peace.]
In the West Blue, on an uninhabited island shrouded in clouds and mist, a figure gazed toward the distant horizon.
At such a distance, nothing could naturally be seen. Yet in his eyes, the barriers of space were easily crossed, and everything happening before Amazon Lily was vividly displayed before him.
Setting down the brush in his hand, the ink calligraphy on the desk naturally gathered itself. A breeze swept past, rolling up the rice paper and turning it into a scroll.
"Time really does pass quickly."
With what seemed like a sigh, Shin turned his gaze eastward. In a place unimaginably far away, in Windmill Village at the edge of the East Blue, a five-year-old child stood side by side with an older brother.
Before