The Descent of the Black Demon God!

Howling winds, torrential rain, thunder.

The air throughout the G-8 branch harbor felt as heavy as if filled with lead, while suffocating killing intent shredded every raindrop to pieces!

Soaked to the bone, Rochi stood alone on the ruined bluestone pavement.

Those three-bladed sickle-shaped Mangekyo Sharingan eyes, like the eyes of an asura from hell, radiated extreme malice and savagery that made souls tremble in the pitch-black rainy night!

"Kill all of us? Just by yourself?!"

From high atop the warship, Withered Bone looked down at Rochi as though he were a complete madman.

He waved a hand coldly, his voice spreading across the battlefield through a Den Den Mushi loudspeaker:

"The World Government's authority shall not be challenged! Since this rebel insists on being obstinate, erase him along with this filthy branch!"

"Kill him! Take back the crystallization of the Illusion-Illusion Fruit!"

"Kill--!!!"

Hundreds of elite Cipher Pol agents aboard the three warships drew the blades at their waists and descended from the sky with Geppo like a swarm of black locusts, charging densely toward Rochi!

"Protect Colonel Rochi!"

Behind the docks, five hundred headquarters veterans who had been utterly won over by Rochi's iron-fisted methods raised their rifles, their eyes bloodshot, ready to pull the triggers.

But just as they were about to open fire.

"Everyone, stand down!!!"

Rochi's voice was like thunder erupting from the depths of the underworld, carrying world-destroying Conqueror's Haki as it blasted every Marine soldier backward!

"Without my orders, no one is to fire! No one is to interfere!"

With his back to the soldiers, rainwater trickling down his cold jawline, Rochi spoke with unquestionable resolve and utter madness in his voice. "This... is a personal grudge between me and these beasts wearing human skin!"

He hated the World Government. He hated these agents.

This blood debt, fifteen years overdue, had to be repaid—and could only be repaid—with their blood, by his own hand!

The soldiers' eyes reddened until they seemed to bleed. Looking at that slender yet invincible, godlike figure in the rain, they bit through their lips, gripped their triggers tightly, and forcibly remained where they were.

"Hahaha! What a touching commander. Even at death's door, he still wants to protect his subordinates!"

A CP0 deputy commander wearing an ape mask, with strength at Rear Admiral Level, had already reached the space above Rochi. His fingertip, wrapped in sharp black Ryou, stabbed straight toward Rochi's crown!

"Finger Pistol: Sky-Rending Thrust!"

"Noisy fly."

Rochi did not even raise his head. His scarlet Mangekyo Sharingan suddenly erupted with two blindingly eerie lights!

"Bzzzzz--!!!"

There was no need for any opening stance.

An incomparably evil, incomparably violent mass of tangible black energy erupted from Rochi's body like a volcano, shooting into the heavens in an instant!

"What the hell is that?!"

The CP0 deputy commander's expression changed drastically in midair. He felt an utterly immovable, terrifying force send his entire body flying away!

Before everyone's horrified eyes.

The black energy rapidly gathered and intertwined around Rochi. In the blink of an eye, it formed a half-bodied skeletal frame dozens of meters tall!

Then its veins regenerated, flesh covered it, and it finally condensed into an unparalleled black demon god clad in hard black tengu armor!

Susanoo descended!!!

Its enormous body was almost tangible. Clutched tightly in its hand was a Black Spiral Greatsword formed entirely from violent energy. Even the slightest leak of its aura ground the bluestone pavement within a hundred meters into dust!

"Th-this... what kind of Devil Fruit is this?! A Mythical Zoan? Or a special Paramecia?!"

Withered Bone's pupils contracted sharply aboard the flagship. Even as one of the World Government's highest-ranking agents, he had never seen such evil, such terrifying energy manifestation!

Rochi stood within the crystalline gem on Susanoo's forehead, two streams of crimson bloody tears slowly sliding down his cheeks.

His voice resonated through the demon god like the judgment of a deity from the nine heavens:

"You're all going to hell!"

"Boom!"

Susanoo abruptly raised its right arm. The Black Spiral Greatsword tore through the downpour, carrying terrifying wind pressure capable of ripping space apart as it swung without flourish toward the heavy warship on the left!

"Not good! Get out of the way!"

The agents aboard the left warship let out despairing screams.

"Crack--Rumble!!!"

There was not the slightest suspense. Even a headquarters-grade warship covered in armor was as fragile as tofu before this unmatched force capable of splitting mountains!

It was cleaved in two!

The massive warship was split down the middle in an instant, triggering a chain of explosions in its ammunition depot. Towering flames dyed half the sky blood-red, and hundreds of agents vanished without even leaving bodies behind amid the explosions and monstrous waves!

"You bastard! Don't get too cocky!"

Withered Bone was so furious his eyes nearly split apart. "He's only one man! Even if it's a Mythical Zoan, he can't have limitless stamina! Attack! Wear him down until he dies!"

"Yes, Commander!"

The other two Rear Admiral-level CP0 deputy commanders exchanged a glance. Armament Haki burst from their bodies as they transformed into two bolts of black lightning, attacking Susanoo's vulnerable joints from both sides at once!

"Tempest Kick: Twin Dragon Tails!"

Two terrifying vacuum slashes, each dozens of meters long, struck Susanoo's armor with crushing force.

"Boom!"

The huge explosion kicked up dust that filled the sky.

But when the dust dispersed, not even a single crack had appeared on that black demon god!

"How is that possible?! Even Haki can't break through its defense?!" The two deputy commanders felt as though they had fallen into an ice cellar.

"Is this enough to make you despair?"

Rochi stared fixedly at the two agents. The tomoe in his right Mangekyo Sharingan spun madly as an ancient law of destruction fully awakened in his eyes!

"Then what about this... Amaterasu!"

"Pfft!"

A stream of scalding blood suddenly burst from Rochi's right eye!

As his gaze focused, there was no trajectory of flames whatsoever, yet a strange black fire, dark as ink, ignited out of nowhere upon the ape-masked deputy commander!

"Aaaaahhh--!!!"

An utterly agonized scream instantly tore through the rainy night!

The deputy commander rolled madly across the deck, trying to use the downpour to extinguish the black flames.

But it was useless!

Neither rain nor seawater, not even the Armament Haki he desperately coated over his body, could resist the black flames. Before them, all became perfect fuel!

Amaterasu!

The highest-tier physical hellfire, which would never be extinguished until it had burned its target to ashes!

In less than three seconds.

A CP0 agent with Rear Admiral-level strength was burned alive into a pile of ashes that scattered in the wind within that black fireball, before even his companions could rescue him!

The entire battlefield fell deathly silent!