Mythical Zoan, Nika Form

Grand Line.

Marineford.

Inside the Fleet Admiral's office at Marine Headquarters, the strongest Marines of the current era had gathered.

Sengoku, Garp, Akainu, Aokiji, Kizaru...

The three Admirals' skin gleamed with a metallic sheen, like armor plating.

It seemed there were still six years until the Seraphim were fresh off the production line.

The technology used on them was not yet mature.

"Demon King Ye Zhuo has gone to war with Big Mom.

This is a great opportunity for us to enter the New World!

If the two of them fight, they will surely both be badly wounded."

Sengoku looked at everyone.

Garp, however, was eating snacks, lost in thought.

He had only heard that Demon King had entered the New World after being discharged from the hospital.

"Deploy!"

Sakazuki spoke. A hatch suddenly opened in his half-mechanical, modified abdomen.

Inside, a large dog was barking furiously.

Fortunately, Vegapunk had invented a translator.

Creak!

A small hatch also opened on Aokiji's stomach.

A blue chicken spoke up:

"If you want to restore your body, you must kill Devil Fruit users."

Elsewhere.

Kizaru was unusually serious.

A hatch opened on his stomach, revealing a monkey's head.

It was drinking coffee inside.

"Logically speaking, if our Haki is strong enough, we can undo Devil Fruit effects."

At that sight.

Tsuru helplessly covered her eyes with one hand.

"Zephyr has already gone to the New World."

"No. If you go, you'll turn into a real crane."

Sengoku thought Tsuru intended to take action herself.

Only after pausing did he understand.

"Didn't Zephyr just get a new arm and form some kind of Pirate Pursuit Unit?"

Wasn't that just causing trouble?

"Maybe the one he's pursuing is Demon King Ye Zhuo."

Garp's single sentence dropped the atmosphere in Marine Headquarters to freezing point.

After having his arm severed, Zephyr had become increasingly haggard.

He had only just received a mechanical arm, yet he stopped training the new recruits.

Instead, he formed the Pirate Pursuit Unit and went to the New World.

With everything already in turmoil, it was truly thought-provoking.

Four years later, the Marineford War would end.

Whitebeard II would become a Shichibukai, marking the moment of his betrayal.

Totto Land.

Cake Island.

Big Mom was eating until her mouth dripped with grease.

She had already sent ten pirate ships ahead as the vanguard.

Before long, they would surround and attack Hive Island.

Then, she would personally lead her army there!

She would raze the former stronghold of the Rocks Pirates to the ground!

What Demon King Pirates? They were nothing but some rookie brat.

Not only had he made the Dark World submit, he had even killed her best friend.

He simply deserved to die!

"Katakuri, why is it so noisy outside?"

Big Mom said displeasedly.

"Mom, someone should be here to report on the advance fleet."

Katakuri picked up his trident and walked toward the door.

A potato Homie suddenly stumbled inside.

"Mom! This is bad!

Our pirate ships have all been wiped out!

Demon King has broken in!"

"Nani?"

Charlotte Linlin jolted upright from her deathbed.

Her anger immediately surged sky-high.

"He's here?"

Prometheus transformed into flaming long hair, while the hat sword Napoleon rested in her hand.

She rode Zeus, the thundercloud, and circled through the sky.

"Follow me to war!"

Big Mom let out an angry roar.

She led her vice captain Streusen, the Four Sweet Commanders, dozens of ministers under her command, and powerful officers.

The strongest forces from every branch of the pirate crew, along with an innumerable army of Homies.

(PS: There were still at least five years before Snack was stripped of his title.)

One of the Four Emperors, Charlotte Linlin.

She had risen to fame decades ago. Known as the Iron Balloon, she possessed a mutated physique.

A monster whose Three-Color Haki and Devil Fruit had both fully awakened.

Even back at Sheep's House, she had killed two captains of the older generation of Giant Warrior Pirates while in a berserk state.

(PS: Not the two from Little Garden, but the much older Mountain Beard and Waterfall Beard.)

After forming a pirate crew with Streusen.

She later joined the Rocks Pirates because of a pirate game.

There, she met the young Kaido and gave him a Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit.

She was said to have never been injured, blessed with innate Monster Strength!

Above Cake Island.

Big Mom's aura billowed as dark clouds gathered overhead and lightning intertwined.

Though vice captain Streusen was advanced in years, he still stood among the crowd and watched expectantly.

Katakuri, Smoothie, Cracker, Snack.

The Four Sweet Commanders unleashed their Observation Haki, their crimson glow seeming to return from hell itself.

Dozens of her children stood guard over their respective domains as ministers.

At that moment.

When the foundation of a Four Emperors crew was laid bare before the world.

Its overwhelming pressure swept across the Four Seas, making even breathing feel painfully scorching.

Until.

A gigantic pirate ship appeared.

The Demon King smashed through every defense in its path.

Until it reached the heart of Totto Land.

Cake Island!

"What the hell is this?"

Ye Zhuo stood at the bow. When he saw the sight before him, his entire body went numb.

"So you were playing dirty?

No wonder those people along the way were weak as hell.

They were all hiding here?"

[ Ding! ]

[ Main chain mission completed: Eliminate the second of the Four Emperors, invade Cake Island ]

[ Mission reward: Eye of Aurora - Perfect Version ]

A golden necklace appeared around Ye Zhuo's neck.

This thick gold chain was precisely the Eye of Aurora, which could teleport across the entire world.

"Now I just need to recruit one more."

Ye Zhuo had barely begun complaining when he saw a new mission.

[ Main chain mission activated: Eliminate the third of the Four Emperors, defeat the Big Mom Pirates ]

[ Mission rewards: Iron Balloon, Lunarian Flame, Snow-Snow Fruit ]

Three rewards at once?

Iron Balloon referred to Big Mom's incredibly powerful mutated physique.

Lunarian Flame was the trait possessed by the leader of the All-Stars, the Wildfire Calamity.

The Snow-Snow Fruit?

After thinking for a moment, Ye Zhuo remembered that it seemed to belong to an officer of the Donquixote Family.

That person was already dead.

"Way too weak. If you give me rewards this lousy again, I'll retire and become the Pirate King."

Ye Zhuo rubbed his fists.

Complaining was one thing.

But he still had to claim the mission rewards.

Even without a countdown, he needed to finish it as soon as possible.

Otherwise, his opponents would all die of old age.

Then he would have no more mission rewards in the future.

"What a massive display. You're really asking for a beating."

Ye Zhuo used the Eye of Aurora.

He directly brought everyone aboard the ship onto Cake Island.

The Nine Shadow Armies appeared as well.

"Brat, the land you have stepped upon belongs to an Emperor of the Sea!"

Big Mom cast a contemptuous glance at Ye Zhuo.

"Is that so?"

Ye Zhuo raised his head and irritably cracked his neck.

"I don't like people talking down to me."

The Monkey Talisman shone.

It transformed into a Zoan from the One Piece world.

Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Nika Form!

Mist swirled around him, and his hair turned snow-white.

Even the robes of the Eight Demons and the Divine Armor transformed into pure white.

Only the Eye of Aurora, Shivas Bracelet, and First Kitetsu retained their respective colors.

White Nika, golden accessories, and a pitch-black Supreme Grade Blade.

The three became Ye Zhuo's embellishments.

He could not help laughing wildly, feeling that everything around him could be used as he wished.

"What kind of Devil Fruit power is this?"

Big Mom looked at Ye Zhuo on the ground in shock.

The next second.

Ye Zhuo treated Cake Island like a trampoline and leaped up with a laugh.

"Big Mom! Kneel before me!"