God Valley Incident · Fifteen

Linlin stood in the middle of the devastated warehouse, casually brushing the dust from her clothes as greed and satisfaction flashed in her eyes while she looked at the Devil Fruit in her hand.

"Fufufufu..."

"A Mythical Zoan Fish-Fish Fruit."

She gently weighed it in her hand, as though admiring a treasure destined to change fate.

"Perfect."

"I'll have Katakuri eat it."

Linlin's smile gradually widened, the corners of her mouth nearly reaching her ears, carrying an almost fanatical certainty.

"For the future of our pirate crew—"

"For greater power..."

Her gaze had already moved beyond reality, immersed in the "perfect future" she had built in her mind—

Invincible offspring, an unshakable kingdom, power to rule the seas.

However—

At that instant, the air behind her suddenly collapsed.

A massive shadow silently closed in on her back.

"—BAM!!!"

A deafening muffled boom suddenly erupted!

A spiked club wrapped in terrifying brute force smashed squarely into Linlin's face!

"CRACK—!!!"

The impact froze even the air, as though space itself had been forcibly punched into a wrinkle.

Linlin's head snapped back, her eyes rolling white in an instant. Her cheek visibly caved in, and her massive body staggered backward.

The Devil Fruit flew from her hand, tracing an irregular arc through the air.

"...?!"

Almost the instant the fruit left her hand, an incomparably savage figure burst out from the side!

Like a true beast, Kaido leaped up and opened his huge bloody mouth—

"CRUNCH!!!"

He bit down on the Devil Fruit in one bite.

He landed heavily, and the ground beneath his feet exploded into a spiderweb of cracks.

Before anyone could react, Kaido was already frowning and chewing without hesitation.

"Peh..."

"Tastes awful."

As he chewed, he muttered indistinctly, "If I eat this..."

"I can beat the shit out of