Is He Human or Ghost? Tenfold Susanoo Crushes All!

"Rumble—!!!"

The sea before the Grand Line's G-8 Branch seemed to have welcomed a true apocalypse!

At the center of the enormous deep-sea whirlpool.

A towering pillar of water condensed from intensely deep-blue seawater rose against gravity, carrying a violent roar that tore through the heavens as it surged upstream.

It violently smashed through the black clouds covering the sky!

The gale trembled, and the thunder wailed!

At the peak of that towering water pillar, Rochi's tall, straight figure was slowly lifted into the sky by tens of thousands of tons of seawater, as though it were raising a god!

Not a single wound remained anywhere on Rochi's body.

His black hair whipped wildly in the sea breeze, while his toes lightly rested upon intangible seawater.

The Grand Line's waters, once violent and unpredictable enough to devour everything, now lay beneath his feet as docile as hunting hounds before their master, spontaneously gathering into a mirror-smooth platform of solid water!

What made souls tremble even more were his eyes.

His right eye held a scarlet Mangekyo Sharingan shaped like a three-bladed Asura scythe, spinning madly with endless slaughter and destruction.

His left eye, meanwhile, had turned an incomparably deep, pure blue, as cold and immaculate as extreme ice!

It resembled the eye of an ancient god who ruled over all waters beneath heaven!

An ancient aura so profound that it surpassed even the realm of Haki burst from Rochi's body, making the sea for tens of thousands of meters around him completely submit!

"Th-This is impossible!!!"

On the wrecked warship deck.

The highest-ranking CP0 commander, code-named Withered Bone, stared with bloodshot eyes wide open.

His once arrogant, skull-like face had twisted completely into a grotesque mess from overwhelming horror and disbelief!

As if he had seen a ghost, Withered Bone staggered back two steps. Pointing at Rochi in midair, he shrieked like an old cat whose tail had been stepped on:

"Why are you still alive, you animal?!"

"I pierced through your chest myself! I tore out your heart myself and crushed it!!!"

"What the hell are you, human or ghost?! Why did you not only survive, but have every fatal wound on your body disappear?!"

Withered Bone felt his entire worldview shatter in that instant.

Someone could live without a heart? Recover after falling into the deep sea ten thousand meters below?!

That was fucking impossible for a human being!

Yet Rochi in the air did not pay any attention to Withered Bone's impotent rage.

His deep-blue left eye slowly swept over the G-8 Branch fortress below, which had already become scorched earth, like a god gazing down upon the world.

Everywhere he looked was devastation.

Amid the raging flames, over a thousand corpses in Marine uniforms lay scattered in pools of blood.

Rochi clearly saw the bald veteran who had once led others in defying orders and been punished by him. The man still tightly gripped an empty flintlock rifle, his chest pierced through by five or six gaping holes, yet he remained in the posture of shielding the deep-sea salvage ship.

He saw the captain with the face full of stubble.

Half his head had been blasted away by heavy artillery, but even in death, his unwilling eyes remained fixed in Withered Bone's direction.

They were dead.

These branch thugs whom he had tamed through absolute violence and fear, who normally did not even dare breathe loudly in his presence...

After his heart had been ripped out and he had supposedly "died" in the sea.

When faced with these arrogant Cipher Pol Agents and the World Government's supreme, unshakable authority...

They had not chosen to surrender to save their lives.

Instead, to prevent the agents from salvaging and humiliating his so-called "corpse," they had launched a hopeless suicidal charge together and been slaughtered to the last man!

Drip.

The torrential rain suspended in the sky seemed to sense its master's emotions and began to hum with a faint tremor.

"You self-righteous idiots..."

Rochi muttered softly. The crystalline Water Heart within his chest began beating madly at an unbelievable frequency.

An unprecedented killing intent, so extreme it seemed ready to set the entire world ablaze, erupted from Rochi like a breached river of stars!

"Boom—!!!"

Materialized Conqueror's Haki mixed with the Mangekyo's chilling aura and the divine might of the Rain God's Authority, instantly turning the surrounding kilometer into an absolute domain!

Rochi abruptly lowered his head, his red and blue eyes locking onto Withered Bone aboard the warship.

"Withered Bone..."

"You're courting death!!!"

Hearing that roar, like a death god's judgment, Withered Bone's entire body jolted with a violent shudder.

But he was, after all, a CP0 commander with strength nearing General Level, who had climbed to his position atop countless corpses!

After the brief shock, Withered Bone forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart, and extreme madness and arrogance surfaced in his eyes once more.

"Courting death? Hahaha! What outrageous nonsense!"

Withered Bone laughed wildly and activated Life Return once more. His shriveled body instantly expanded into a humanoid tyrannosaur, while black Ryou coiled madly around his arms:

"So what if you came back to life?! You little thing pretending to be a god!"

"Even if you truly crawled out of hell as some evil ghost, I killed you once today, and I can kill you a second time, a third time! I'll keep going until I crush you into pulp!"

"CP9, CP0, all personnel, heed my order! Attack! Hack him apart!"

With Withered Bone's roar, the several hundred surviving Cipher Pol Agents on the warship forced down their fear of Rochi. They drew their weapons and launched into the sky with Geppo like a swarm of black locusts, charging straight at him!

"Kill me again?"

An incomparably cruel, bloodthirsty grin spread across Rochi's lips.

"Then come and try it!!!"

"Buzz—!!!"

Without the slightest hesitation, the Mangekyo Sharingan in Rochi's right eye erupted with an eerie bloody light!

This time, he no longer had to worry about his stamina running dry!

Nourished by the Rain-Rain Fruit's ceaseless, practically infinite vitality and the Water Authority!

A mass of solid dark-black energy, more than ten times as violent and dense as before, erupted from Rochi's body like a volcanic explosion!

"Susanoo—full power activated!!!"

"Rumble—!!!"

Before the horrified eyes of every agent, that black energy crazily intertwined and expanded!

Bones regenerated! Meridians covered them! Flesh grew forth! The Black Tengu Armor was donned!

The half-bodied Susanoo that, even at Rochi's limit, had only reached several dozen meters in height.

Now underwent an incomparably terrifying ultimate transformation under the Rain God's Heart's frenzied, unlimited output!

"Crack! Crack!"

The black demon god's body shot upward as though inflated!

One hundred meters! Two hundred meters! Three hundred meters!

Until, at last, a World-Ending Asura ten times larger than before, hundreds of meters tall, with fully formed legs and a complete body, stood towering between heaven and earth!