Inheritance of a Deity! Rain Authority

Listening to that soul-searching question that seemed to come from on high.

Standing amid the torrential rain, Rochi suddenly lowered his head, his shoulders trembling violently.

Then, a burst of utterly arrogant, bloodthirsty, and crazed laughter violently tore through the ancient space!

"HAHAHAHAHA!!!"

Rochi suddenly raised his head!

His originally black eyes instantly turned a glaring crimson!

The Mangekyo Sharingan, shaped like three-bladed Asura scythes, spun wildly within the illusory spiritual world, radiating resentment and savagery enough to make heaven and earth tremble!

"A bright future?!"

"From that bunch sitting in the Holy Land, atop a fake throne built with the blood of tens of millions of innocent civilians and the souls of countless people like me, whose memories were altered before they were slaughtered like livestock?!"

Rochi raised a hand and pointed viciously at the enormous watery face in the sky, grinning as savagely as an Asura from hell.

"Compromise? I will never compromise in this lifetime!"

"As long as I, Rochi, still draw breath, as long as there is even a single drop of blood left to spill in this world, I will use these hands to tear this false sky in two!"

"I'll drag those so-called creators sitting high above, those World Government animals who treat human lives like grass, down into the Nine Nether Hell and grind their bones to dust!!!"

Every word dripped with blood! Every sentence pierced the heart!

Rochi's hatred, so pure that it contained not the slightest impurity, turned into nearly tangible black killing intent amid the rain and shot toward the heavens!

The enormous face in the void froze slightly upon hearing that heretical, utterly mad answer.

Then—

"RUMBLE—!!!"

The spiritual world erupted with wild, exhilarated laughter that shook heaven and earth like rolling spring thunder!

"HAHAHAHA! Good! Good! What an arrogant, overbearing little brat!"

"How stupid! You know they are an unshakable behemoth, and you do not even know how to deal with them, yet you dare boast that you will tear apart the sky itself!"

"But I like this madness of choosing death over surrender!"

The ancient voice carried unprecedented exhilaration, as though the grievance it had suppressed for a thousand years had finally found an outlet.

"Brat! I do not care what your reasons are, but I can be certain that you are the inheritor of the will I have awaited for a full thousand years!"

"Remember my name. I am—the Rain Deity!"

"An Ancient Will born alongside this world, ruler of all waters beneath heaven, whose every trace in history was utterly erased by those thieves!"

Accompanied by the Rain Deity's majestic proclamation, the torrential rain throughout the spiritual space instantly froze in midair!

Billions of tons of rainwater began wildly converging and compressing toward the center of the void!

"Little one, I will pass all my power on to you! I will fill the heart you have lost!"

"This is not merely a gift—it is also a curse!"

"Once you accept my power, you need only do one thing for me... just as you said, overthrow this false world!"

"Kill the one seated upon the Empty Throne of the world—the Eternal Betrayer!!!"

Rochi did not care about gods, much less curses.

All he wanted now was the absolute power to crush Withered Bone and those CP0 agents into pulp!

"Just killing a few people? Deal." Rochi bared his teeth, his gaze sharp as blades.

"Go! Carry the wrath of a deity and return to the mortal world!"

The instant those words fell!

The endless rain in the void finally condensed into a waterdrop-shaped fruit no larger than a fist, its entire body a deep, dark blue!

Mysterious cloud patterns like ancient totems flowed across its surface. Just one glance was enough to sense the terrifying waves within, powerful enough to overturn rivers and seas!

"The highest-tier Logia—the Rain-Rain Fruit!"

"It contains the Water Authority of heaven and earth!"

"Swallow it!!!"

The waterdrop fruit fell before Rochi like a blue meteor.

Without the slightest hesitation!

Rochi grabbed the dark-blue fruit, which was still pulsing, and stuffed it directly into his mouth, swallowing it in great gulps!

"BOOM—!!!"

The instant the fruit entered his stomach.

The illusory spiritual space instantly collapsed!

And in the ten-thousand-meter-deep sea of reality!

Rochi's body, which had remained motionless, suddenly erupted with a blinding deep-blue radiance!

At the hollow left side of his chest, where Withered Bone had ripped out his heart, that mysterious dark-blue energy began to weave and reconstruct itself wildly!

Muscles regrew, and bones healed!

In just two seconds, the blue energy of the Water Authority condensed from nothing within Rochi's chest and solidified into a crystal-clear, sapphire-like, beating—Water Heart!

"Thump!"

The heavy, powerful heartbeat sounded like the first ancient war drum struck at the bottom of the ten-thousand-meter sea.

The forceful beat even became a visible underwater shockwave, sweeping outward for thousands of meters!

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

The heartbeat grew faster and more terrifying!

As the Rain God's Heart fully revived, an unprecedented torrent of violent vitality and energy—dozens of times greater than Rochi's peak—rushed through every inch of his body like floodwaters bursting through a dam!

Not only did his fatal internal and external wounds heal in an instant without leaving even a scar.

Even his nearly depleted chakra and Armament Haki underwent an unbelievable second transformation and explosive increase under the nourishment of the Water Authority!

Within the endless dark abyss.

Rochi suddenly opened his eyes!

His right eye was a blood-red Mangekyo Sharingan, its three-bladed scythe spinning wildly, filled with endless slaughter and destruction!

His left eye, however, had turned a deep, icy, pure dark blue! It was like the eye of a deity that ruled the tides!

"Withered Bone... World Government..."

Rochi raised his right hand and felt the terrifying power within him, like churning seas and overturning rivers. At the bottom of the ten-thousand-meter sea, a cruel, bloodthirsty smile curled across his lips.

"The feast has begun."

At the same time.

On the sea surface, in the waters that had once belonged to the G-8 base.

Everything had become scorched earth and a sea of blood.

On three World Government heavy warships, the Cipher Pol Agents calmly wiped the blood from their blades.

More than a thousand mutilated Marine corpses floated across the sea.

Vice Admiral Withered Bone stood at the bow, watching the last section of the fortress tower sink beneath the water, and snorted disdainfully.

"Ants that could not withstand a single blow."

He turned to the adjutant beside him and coldly ordered, "Has the corpse recovery team dived yet? Bring up the body of that brat called Rochi immediately. I need to return and see the Five Elders at once."

"Reporting, sir! The three deep-sea submarines have already..."

Before the adjutant could finish.

"BZZZ—!!!"

An extremely strange high-frequency vibration suddenly traveled from the depths of the seabed, tens of thousands of meters below, all the way to the warships' decks!

The sea, originally turbulent from the rainstorm, eerily came to a standstill at that moment!

There were no waves and no ripples!

Even the rain falling from the sky seemed to be completely restrained by some invisible terror, suspended in midair!

"W-What is happening?! Has gravity disappeared?!"

The agents stared in horrified disbelief at the raindrops floating before them.

Withered Bone's shriveled face suddenly changed. An unprecedented sense of mortal danger sent his Observation Haki into a frantic alarm!

"Quick! Hard to port! All ships, withdraw from these waters!!!" Withered Bone roared himself hoarse.

However, it was too late!

"RUMBLE—!!!"

Centered around the three warships, the seawater within a radius of tens of thousands of meters suddenly collapsed inward with terrifying force!

A horrifying deep-sea vortex thousands of meters wide formed in an instant, like a world-destroying Sea King opening its abyssal jaws!

"CRACK! CRACK!"

The World Government's prized heavy armored warships twisted with teeth-grinding screeches before this pure, natural force of destruction, as fragile as paper.

And at the deepest point of that bottomless vortex, a pillar of water intertwined with crimson and dark-blue light surged upstream, smashing through every obstacle in its path as it shot into the heavens!

The deity had returned.

The flames of vengeance were about to completely ignite this false sea!