Above the clouds of the White-White Sea, the sunlight was blinding.
Lei En grabbed Enel by the back of his collar like he was carrying a sickly chicken, flew back from the forest on God's Island, and landed steadily on the deck of his own sailboat.
"My lord!"
Kuina and Dadi hurried over.
When they saw the person Lei En was holding, both of them froze.
Enel was covered in soot. His white afro, standing on end from the "Ten Thousand Volts: Electrotherapy," fluttered wildly in the wind.
His already arrogant face was now filled with humility and ingratiating smiles, making him look exactly like a street thug who had been beaten into submission.
"Pfft..."
Kuina quickly covered her mouth, desperately holding back her laughter as her shoulders trembled.
Dadi turned around and pretended to inspect the sails, but his shaking back gave him away.
"If you want to laugh, laugh. Holding it in might give you internal injuries."
Lei En casually tossed Enel onto the deck and clapped his hands.
"Let me introduce him. This is Heavenly Court's newly recruited night watchman and apprentice laborer, Enel. From now on, he'll handle the cleaning and the cloud paving on the ship."
Enel hurriedly scrambled to his feet and bowed deeply to Kuina and Dadi.
"Hello, big sister. Hello, uncle. Please take care of me from now on."
Though he was miserable inside, he did not dare show even the slightest dissatisfaction.
He had personally witnessed Lei En's world-destroying power. Compared to his life, what the hell was dignity worth?
"Enough. Stop trying to suck up to them."
Lei En cut off Enel's flattery, turned, and pointed at the magnificent island floating amid the clouds in the distance—Angel Island.
"Come on. Let's meet the local boss and claim this territory."
Before long, the sailboat docked.
Lei En swaggered into the central area of Angel Island with the other three.
The streets here were clean, with strange houses made of clouds lining both sides.
The Sky Island residents watched the four outsiders without wings and dressed in bizarre clothing, their eyes filled with curiosity and wariness.
Lei En ignored the commoners and headed straight toward the temple at the highest point of the island.
"Stop! Who dares trespass into the sacred temple grounds?"
Before the long stone stairs leading to the temple, a squad of Sky Island guards wielding spears blocked their path.
The captain at their head wore a cold expression as he shouted sharply.
"This is the residence of Lord Gan Fall, the 'God'! Blue Sea people, retreat at once!"
Lei En stopped, shoved his hands into his pockets, and looked up at the lofty temple.
"Gan Fall? That old man who rides a weird bird?"
He picked at his ear, his tone undisguisedly contemptuous.
"Tell him to get the hell out here and see me. This dump has a new owner from today onward."
The moment those words left his mouth, the surrounding Sky Island residents all gasped.
Had this brat from the Blue Sea gone mad? How dare he show such disrespect to God?
"Impudence!"
The guard captain flew into a rage and thrust his spear at Lei En.
"You dare insult God? Seize them!"
"Ugh, what a hassle."
Lei En sighed without even raising his eyelids.
He did not draw Yubashiri at his waist, nor did he even take his hands out of his pockets.
He merely willed it.
Crackle, crackle—!
An incomparably dazzling azure lightning burst from the surface of his body!
He seemed to transform into a deity made of pure lightning, floating in midair!
A terrifying pressure beyond words descended upon all of Angel Island as though it were tangible!
"W-What is that?!"
The guard captain stopped in terror, and his spear fell to the ground with a clang.
Under that aura, like Heavenly Might itself, every guard and commoner's legs gave way, and they fell helplessly to their knees.
Rumble!
The previously clear sky was instantly covered in dark clouds as thunder roared.
Lei En looked down at the temple from above, slowly raised his right hand, and pointed directly at the enormous white jade plaza before it.
God's Judgment.
Lei En softly uttered the two words.
Boom—!!!
A terrifying blue lightning pillar over five meters wide descended from the heavens with violent, world-destroying force and struck the temple plaza with flawless precision!
The earth shook and the mountains trembled!
The hard white jade plaza was instantly blasted into a gigantic, charred crater so deep that its bottom could not be seen!
Violent currents ravaged the ground, shattered stones sprayed in every direction like bullets, and even the temple gates were blasted to pieces by the shockwave.
"What happened?!"
Inside the temple, an old knight in armor with a long beard rode out in a hurry on a huge pink strange bird, Pierre.
He was none other than Gan Fall, the current God of Sky Island.
When he saw the massive crater in the plaza, then looked up at the boy in the sky wreathed in lightning like a demon god capable of ending the world, his entire body stiffened.
Gan Fall might have been old, but his experience remained.
He knew perfectly well that power capable of causing a natural disaster with a wave of the hand was simply beyond what humans could contend with.
If the boy wished it, he could erase all of Angel Island from this sea of clouds in an instant!
"Y-You... who exactly are you?"
Gan Fall slid off the strange bird's back. His voice was bitter, and the hand clutching his lance trembled slightly.
Lei En slowly descended before Gan Fall. The lightning around his body gradually receded, and he became that harmless-looking eight-year-old brat once more.
Yet his deep black eyes carried a Haki that looked down upon the world.
"My name is Lei En. From today on, I make the decisions on this Sky Island."
Lei En walked right past Gan Fall and entered the temple hall beneath the awed and fearful gazes of all the priests and guards.
He sat boldly on the throne that symbolized the highest authority of Sky Island.
"Gan Fall, you're getting old. It's time for you to retire."
Lei En leaned against the backrest and lightly tapped the throne's armrest with his fingers.
"I won't kill you. From now on, you'll be a village chief and manage the commoners' daily affairs."
Gan Fall gave a bitter smile. He knew that before such absolute power, he had no room to bargain.
He let out a deep sigh, placed his knight's lance on the ground, and dropped to one knee.
"I shall obey your will, Lord Lei En."
As Gan Fall submitted, the priests in the hall and the guards outside also threw down their weapons and knelt.
"Very good."
Lei En nodded in satisfaction, a wild smile curling across his lips.
"Since this place belongs to me now, its name needs changing too."
He stood and looked down at the people below. Though his voice was childish, it spread across all of Angel Island.
"Listen up! From now on, this dump will no longer be called Angel Island. Its new name is 'Heavenly Court Headquarters'!"
"Here, there is no God. There are only the rules set by me, Lei En!"
Lei En turned and looked at Enel, who was hiding by the doorway with his afro still standing on end.
"Hey, night watchman, get your ass in here!"
Enel scampered in, his face piled with flattering smiles.
"Grandpa Lei En, what are your orders?"
Lei En pointed toward the area behind the temple, hidden beneath thick clouds.
"Go. Take a few sharp ones and dig out that giant golden bell of Shandora for me. I'm the poorest boss on this sea right now, and I desperately need some startup capital."
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