System Returns, Voice of All Things

"Hey, open your eyes."

In his haze, Lin Nuo seemed to hear someone calling him.

He forced his eyelids open and vaguely saw a huge, graceful silhouette.

Mm... I want to sleep a little longer.

Lin Nuo's mind was a complete mess.

"Get up!"

A bone-chilling cold swept over him, instantly waking Lin Nuo.

"Wah!"

He sat up and looked closely, only to find himself in a pure white space.

What was this place? Why did it seem familiar?

Then, Lin Nuo's attention was drawn to the person who had awakened him.

It was a gigantic, beautiful mermaid with a pink fishtail and long pink hair, looking down at him with a somewhat displeased gaze.

"Shirahoshi?!" Lin Nuo nearly jumped up in shock. "Am I dreaming?"

"I'm not Shirahoshi." The mermaid spoke in a crisp voice. "I am your system."

"This is the System Space. Have you forgotten?"

System? Space?

Hearing that, Lin Nuo carefully looked around again.

A pure white, boundless space...

This was exactly the same as the place he had arrived at after dying in his previous life!

"No wonder it seemed familiar..." Realization dawned on him, and he immediately asked anxiously, "Right! I remember Imu killed me!"

"But why am I here? Did I transmigrate again?"

Shirahoshi did not answer. She merely extended a slender finger and pointed behind him.

Lin Nuo turned around instinctively.

Behind him hung an enormous screen.

The screen was broadcasting, in real time, the scene of his frenzied battle with Imu.

"You're not dead," Shirahoshi explained calmly. "I merely temporarily pulled your consciousness into this space."

"Your body is going berserk outside."

So that was it... Lin Nuo breathed a sigh of relief, but fresh doubts arose. "But System, why do you look like Shirahoshi?"

"Whoever you want to see, that is naturally who I will be."

Whoever I wanted to see?

Once Lin Nuo understood what that meant, a thought stirred in his heart.

The Shirahoshi before him rippled and changed.

Her long pink hair shortened and turned orange, her fishtail became a pair of slender legs, and her distinctive outfit changed into a refreshing tank top and shorts.

She became Nami.

The next second, Nami's image shifted again. Her figure grew taller, her temperament became intellectual and mysterious, and her hair turned black.

Nico Robin.

"Hey," the system wearing Robin's appearance said speechlessly, "I called you here for your second selection, not to let you play dress-up."

"Oh, right, right." Lin Nuo scratched his head.

"But what is the second selection?"

The system said nothing further and merely lifted a hand with a gentle wave.

A faintly glowing progress bar appeared out of thin air.

Lin Nuo stepped closer for a careful look and discovered several familiar portraits floating above the progress bar.

Rocks, Roger, Whitebeard, Ivankov, Shakky... and even Kuma and Dragon.

Lines extended from beneath these portraits, linking to the progress bar as though injecting it with energy. Light flowed through it, bringing it to the second node.

Seeing the progress bar and node, Lin Nuo remembered.

Before he had entered the One Piece world from this space, the first node of this progress bar had already been filled.

At the time, the system had said something similar and allowed him to make his first choice.

Only afterward had he gained the identity of a Lunarian.

Lin Nuo vaguely formed a guess.

He reached out and touched the progress bar.

Buzz—

Unlike the dazzling array of race options from when he had first transmigrated.

This time, only three choices lay before him.

[Second Selection: Potential Traits]

[Life Return: Freely control the body, hair, organs, and more]

[Voice of All Things: Sense the voices of special things]

[Zoro's Left Eye: You will lose a certain organ, hand, eye, or the like in exchange for mysterious power]

Looking at these three vastly different options, Lin Nuo fell into thought.

"Hey, choose already."

The system urged him, using Robin's face to deliver those utterly impolite words.

"System bro, we finally get to meet, so why are you rushing me out like I'm about to die?"

Robin pointed at the scene on the screen behind him.

"If you don't choose quickly, your physical body will either be completely assimilated by the will of the Phoenix Fruit or die from overexertion first."

"Tch, weren't you the one who dragged me here..." Lin Nuo grumbled, his expression turning serious again.

The system was right.

This really was not the time to deliberate over every detail.

He quickly weighed his options internally:

Life Return would not truly be a qualitative improvement for him.

With his Lunarian physique and the Phoenix Fruit, his health bar was already long enough. It would merely be icing on the cake.

Voice of All Things... this ability was rather mystical.

In the One Piece world, it seemed to involve deeper secrets.

Such as sensing the Poneglyphs, Zunesha's voice, and things like that...

He would set it aside for now.

What puzzled him most was the third option.

Zoro's Left Eye.

According to his intelligence, while Zoro lost his left eye, he gained the powerful ability to clearly understand himself and the world.

But this was a system option, and neither its cost nor its power had been clearly explained.

He looked at Robin before him and asked tentatively, "What kind of power exactly does 'exchange for mysterious power' refer to?"

"You should at least give me a hint, right?"

"I don't know," the system answered immediately.

The next moment, Robin's figure twisted and reassembled, becoming the Thousand Sunny with its sunflower lion figurehead.

"I don't know means I don't know." The Sunny's lion head spoke with a hint of teasing in its voice.

"Changing into my form won't help you either."

Lin Nuo looked at the talking ship with its smug expression and was rendered speechless.

His gaze returned to the screen behind him.

In the footage, his movements were growing slower and slower, while Imu's attacks became increasingly violent.

There truly was not much time left.

After several seconds of silence, he reached out and firmly pressed the second option.

"Voice of All Things."

"Hehe, I couldn't tell. You're quite cautious."

The Sunny's lion head looked at him with a grin, its tone unclear whether it was praise or mockery.

"Of course it's the safe bet." Lin Nuo smiled as well.

Come on, what if I woke up and suddenly found some important part missing from my body?

Wouldn't that be absolutely disastrous?

"System, I still want to ask a few questions about the specifics of this ability..."

However, the lion head ignored Lin Nuo's questions.

The entire ship began to emit a dazzling radiance, as though it had truly transformed into a tiny sun.

"Selection complete~ Gana, bye-bye~"

"Hey! Wait..."

Outside.

The core battlefield of God Valley.

Rocks, Roger, Whitebeard, and Garp had gathered together once more.

They gripped their weapons tightly, preparing to deliver one final devastating blow to Imu.

Kuma, who had originally been pierced through by a spear, was currently hiding behind Garp.

After being treated by the flames Lin Nuo had scattered earlier, he was no longer in danger of dying. However, his face was pale, and he was clearly severely depleted.

Under their watchful eyes.

The immortal giant bird that had been passively taking blows all this time suddenly underwent a transformation!

It suddenly let out a piercing cry as the blue-and-yellow flames around its body continuously gathered and compressed toward its chest.

The next moment, it raised its giant claw toward Imu ahead and blasted everything out at once!

An unceasing pillar of fire tore through the air and shot straight at Imu!

Imu seemed to sense that this attack was different as well. Dark energy surged, preparing to counter it.

However, just as the pillar of fire was about to reach Imu.

It exploded without warning, scattering into chains like swimming fish.

These chains avoided Imu's frontal defenses and wound upward from every direction, instantly binding the demon tightly!

"What?!"

Rocks and the others stared dumbfounded at this sudden turn of events.

Imu...

Dark energy crashed against the chains continuously, making them flicker rapidly. They clearly could not hold for long.

After unleashing this move, the flames around the giant bird extinguished and contracted at a visible speed...

In the end, they completely vanished, revealing Lin Nuo's true body within.

Under everyone's gaze, he fell helplessly from the sky...