Crushing Through

"What Devil's Heir?"

Before the officer below could recover his senses, the sky above suddenly darkened. Something had appeared out of nowhere, blocking the sun.

He looked up and saw a burly man covered in burn scars spreading his fingers toward the warship beneath him, then abruptly clenching them together!

"What is he doing?"

That was the final thought in the warship officer's mind.

"Crack, crack, crack, crack, crack!"

At some point, the entire warship had been submerged in endless purple light.

Amid a rapid series of cracking sounds, the warship's hull split apart.

It transformed into countless cube-shaped particles of identical size, howling and tumbling through the air.

Like spinning gears, they ground up every soldier aboard the warship, officers included, without the slightest obstruction!

Endless blood poured from the torrent of particles like a waterfall.

Apart from the section of the hull beneath the water that could not be affected by the Combine-Combine Fruit, the massive warship had completely changed shape.

It became a colossal vessel with a dark exterior and a broad, flat deck, resembling a battleship.

Thud!

Bullet landed on the bow.

At the battleship's stern, scalding steam automatically blasted out, propelling the enormous vessel through the waves as it charged toward the other warships!

Several hundred meters away, the officers and soldiers aboard the warships witnessed the earth-shaking change and immediately went pale.

"Turn the ship around!"

"Turn the ship around!"

"Fire the cannons! Hurry, fire!"

"Damn it! It's the Devil's Heir, Douglas Barrett!!"

"He has Admiral-level power!"

Amid the roaring wind and waves, Bullet stood steadily at the battleship's bow as it continued accelerating, growing faster and faster.

"Has he gone mad? He's charging straight at us?"

The distance between the two warships rapidly shrank.

Soldiers with sharp eyesight could already make out Bullet's solemn, expressionless face.

On the opposing warship, every soldier and officer had turned pale, their bodies going cold.

They could only watch as the dark battleship Bullet commanded crashed toward them like a roaring deep-sea beast!

"Get out of the way! Move!"

"It's too late! It's already too late!"

"Let's die together, you damned prisoner!"

"Damn Straw Hat Luffy! Damn Buggy the Clown and Blackbeard!"

The battleship roared as it rammed directly into the middle of the massive warship ahead.

Yet the earth-shattering collision everyone expected never came.

Instead, a bizarre sight unfolded.

The dark battleship seemed to melt into the hull of the warship they were on.

The two colossal vessels fused into one!

Before the Marines could react, the demon-like man standing on the battleship's bow spread and clenched his fingers.

"Ship Reassembly!"

"Crack, crack, crack, crack!"

The two fused warships once again glowed with endless purple light, transforming into a tide-like torrent of rolling particles.

In the blink of an eye, an even larger black battleship appeared!

As for the Marines and officers aboard the warship, some fell into the sea while others died miserable deaths.

Boom!!

An even fiercer blast erupted from the battleship's stern.

A massive amount of fuel ignited, generating immense thrust that sent the entire ship racing forward, practically skimming the sea's surface!

Rumble!

White waves split apart with howling force, and a dark behemoth cleaved through the water, crushing straight toward the warship where Shiryu and the other two stood!

Several hundred meters vanished in an instant.

The black battleship, like a savage monster, charged past and punched straight through Shiryu's warship, fusing with it once more!

Tap!

A landing sound came from behind him.

Shiryu stood with his sword sheathed.

Boom!

The even larger warship continued speeding across the sea, its presence utterly earth-shaking.

Seeing the dark warship charge toward them like storm clouds blotting out the sky, without any sign of slowing down, Shot and Devon instantly lost all color from their faces.

"Boss Bullet! Slow down!"

Boom!!

Wood chips flew everywhere as the enormous warship burst apart, then transformed into countless particles. Like long dragons drawing water, they continuously gathered and merged into the hull beneath Bullet's feet.

Bang!

Splash!

Two figures let out miserable cries as they fell onto the hard deck one after the other, unable to get up for quite some time.

In the blink of an eye, five massive warships had been completely reassembled by Bullet's Combine-Combine Fruit, fusing into one pitch-black behemoth.

Several kilometers away, the remaining five warships had already witnessed the tremendous upheaval through their telescopes.

When they saw with their own eyes that Bullet had destroyed five warships in an instant and fused them into one,

the captains and officers aboard the remaining five warships gave the order to retreat at full speed without a moment's hesitation!

Moreover, the five warships, with their speed pushed to the limit, scattered in different directions.

"Retreat! All warships, retreat!"

"The enemy possesses Admiral-level combat power. Staying behind will only mean throwing our lives away!"

"Contact Headquarters! Tell them Impel Down... has completely fallen!"

As piercing whistles sounded, the warships accelerated frantically.

Rumble, rumble, rumble!

Like a black deep-sea beast, the massive battleship let out earth-shaking roars as it tore through wave after wave, rapidly closing the distance to the fleeing warships.

Soon, Bullet's battleship caught the nearest warship.

From over a hundred meters away, Bullet clapped his hands together in the air!

Clap!

With a crisp explosive sound, the speeding warship violently shuddered.

Under everyone's stunned gaze, the enormous hull suddenly split in two, transforming into two giant particle dragons that surged through the air toward them!

Behind Bullet, Shot and Devon had completely frozen.

Even Shiryu, cold-blooded by nature, could not help but feel awe toward the towering man ahead of him.

What terrifying power!

Next, the remaining four warships, fleeing wildly in blind panic, were also caught by Bullet one after another.

There was no suspense.

There had been ten warships in total, each carrying eight hundred Marine soldiers.

Other than lacking the corresponding Vice Admiral and Rear Admiral-level forces,

this was practically another version of a Buster Call.

Yet in the span of merely a dozen minutes, all ten warships had been effortlessly destroyed by a single man.

When the super warship formed by fusing all ten warships together—one hundred meters tall, over four hundred meters long, and fifty meters wide—slowly docked at Impel Down's harbor,

Teach, who had been lingering at the harbor and agonizing over whether to flee while Bullet was gone, immediately abandoned that foolish thought and became exceptionally well-behaved.

"Are we taking this warship to Marineford?"

Shiryu asked.

But Bullet slowly shook his head and turned his gaze toward Impel Down before them, where only part of its tower tip emerged above the sea.

"We're taking Impel Down with us."