Let the World Know Pain

Marine Headquarters, Marineford.

"Bulu bulu bulu..." Fleet Admiral Sengoku answered the call.

"What did you say?! Someone attacked a Celestial Dragon on Sabaody?! Damn it! The nerve! Mm-hm... all right, I'll send Kizaru over immediately." Sengoku hung up and slumped into his chair, sensing that things had gone terribly wrong.

"That damnably bold brat! Get Kizaru here, now!" Sengoku roared. Afterward, he rubbed the bridge of his nose, trying to calm himself.

A tall figure strolled leisurely into the fleet admiral's office. His signature glasses and sleazy appearance gave away his identity. It was Kizaru—Borsalino—one of Marine Headquarters' greatest fighting forces and a Logia-type Glint-Glint Fruit user.

"Kizaru, you came at the right time. Someone attacked a Celestial Dragon on Sabaody Island. You're the fastest, so get to Sabaody immediately and protect the Celestial Dragon! He absolutely cannot die!" Sengoku issued the order the moment he saw Kizaru.

"How frightening... Someone actually dared to attack a Celestial Dragon. Are newcomers these days all this scary?" Kizaru said slowly with pursed lips, looking oddly... cute despite his sleazy manner.

"Go already! The World Government keeps calling me! Get moving, now!" Hearing the Telephone Snail ring again, Sengoku grew increasingly agitated and could not help roaring.

Seeing that, Kizaru promptly turned into light and left.

Sabaody Island, Grove 1.

Upon hearing that someone had attacked a Celestial Dragon, the civilians and members of the underground world had evacuated in an emergency. This place was about to become a battlefield, and the once-lively island instantly became deserted. The surrounding islands, however, were packed with people. Watching a spectacle was human nature, especially when it involved a Celestial Dragon.

Fearless reporters had already gathered around the auction house like hunting dogs that had caught the scent of blood, waiting for a huge story to break.

Inside the auction house, Yake had already knocked everyone unconscious with Conqueror's Haki, except for a white Mink Tribe cat girl.

"I'll remove your collar. Go to Shakky's Rip-off Bar on Grove 13 and find Shakky. Tell her Yake sent you, and she'll help you. Leave quickly. It'll be dangerous here soon." Yake easily destroyed the collar's internal mechanism and freed the cat girl named Anna.

After the cat girl left, Yake dragged Charlos out of the auction house by the neck. Camera shutters immediately began clicking. Yake did not drive away the reporters. Otherwise, how would his name spread across the world?

"How scary, young man. Aren't you afraid of the World Government hunting you down?" A dazzling golden flash streaked past. Wearing yellow sunglasses and pursing his lips, Kizaru started chattering the moment he arrived. In truth, he had been looking for an opportunity to rescue the Celestial Dragon first.

"Admiral Kizaru? So it really is you. Perfect. Fight me, or this Celestial Dragon slave will die!!!" Yake grinned, pulled out a slave collar, and fastened it around Charlos's neck. He even gave the controller in his hand a shake.

Killing the man was not enough; he had to break his spirit. Even a noble World Noble had become a slave.

"So young, and already so frightening... But today, this old man will kill you." Seeing Yake toss the Celestial Dragon aside like trash, Kizaru understood his intentions. There would be no peaceful ending to this. After this mission, he definitely had to report this and ask for a raise.

Yake's smile vanished as he unleashed Conqueror's Haki, disrupting Kizaru's movements. Kizaru had no choice but to resist the oppressive force directed at him.

"This world is too filthy. Trash like this dares call itself god? From today onward, the world will remember my name—God Yake!"

Kizaru watched in shock as Yake rose from the ground. Resisting the overwhelming pressure with all his strength, waves surged through Kizaru's heart. He's a Devil Fruit user too? What an astonishing presence! How terrifying~ This mission just got troublesome.

Yake slowly rose into the sky, reaching the air above Grove 1. His face was expressionless, like a god looking down upon the world. His voice was not loud, but through electromagnetic waves, it was clearly transmitted into everyone's ears:

"Feel pain."

"Think about pain."

"Accept pain."

"Understand pain."

Yake slowly raised his left hand. Azure lightning swirled around him, radiating an astonishing aura. The sky suddenly darkened as storm clouds gathered overhead, with serpentine bolts of lightning slithering through them from time to time.

"The Celestial Dragons and the World Government are the source of evil..."

"So... from today onward, let the world... know pain!!"

Yake clenched his hand in the empty air, and immense energy erupted in an instant, changing the color of heaven and earth.

"Shinra Tensei!!"

A powerful repulsive force burst forth from the Celestial Dragon on the ground. Blinding electric light blocked everyone's vision as a sphere of light instantly swept across the entire island.

Alarm bells rang wildly in Kizaru's mind, and he hurriedly used Yata Mirror to escape the battlefield. High above and far from Grove 1, Kizaru witnessed a sight he would never forget for the rest of his life.

The sudden dazzling white light made the ground tremble, twist, crack, churn, and spread apart.

For an instant, the world seemed to have been paused.

After an unknown amount of time, the island seemed to have fallen into a black-and-white mire. The towering Yarukiman Mangroves snapped in half, buildings crumbled apart, and countless fragments of rubble surged into the sea like a flood. Then the world resumed playing from its pause.

All of Grove 1 had been razed flat by Yake. As the smoke and dust dispersed, Charlos, the Celestial Dragon at the center, had long since been reduced to nothing. The immense repulsive force had torn him into fragments. The lone explosive collar rolled a few times across the ground before falling still, then exploded instantly.

The reporters on the nearby islands stopped thinking, their eyes bulging from their sockets. The sight before them had exceeded their capacity to comprehend. After a long while, some reporter finally realized the severity of the situation. Terrified out of his wits, he scrambled away on hands and knees, shouting, "A god! This is divine punishment... He killed a Celestial Dragon! Run!!!"

The scene immediately erupted into chaos. Some people fled in panic, but ambitious reporters still desperate to get on camera continued snapping photo after photo with bloodshot eyes, panting heavily.

"Kizaru, I've cleared the arena. Come fight me! Let me see the strength of a Marine admiral." Yake paid no attention to the destruction he had caused and provocatively challenged Kizaru in the sky, brimming with fighting spirit.

"Who are you? A powerhouse like you couldn't have remained unknown all this time." Kizaru abandoned his usual demeanor, his face utterly serious. It was not merely because the Celestial Dragon had died, but more because he feared Yake's strength.

"Enough talk. Come on! Arbitrating Dragon!" Yake offered no further explanation. Lightning gathered in his hand, summoning a thunderous dragon of immense grandeur.

The Lightning Dragon roared as it rushed toward Kizaru, growing faster and faster until it reached him in the blink of an eye.

Kizaru barely dodged, appearing to the left. But the entire island had already been covered by Yake's electromagnetic field. Everything was within Yake's observation and perception. With a thunderous explosion, Yake vanished from where he stood.

The Kizaru who had just escaped disaster saw, with utter disbelief, Yake appear out of nowhere before him. A jet-black fist wrapped in lightning came hurtling straight at his face.

"Have you ever bathed in lightning?"

Bang!!

Yake punched Kizaru down into the ground, embedding him deeply in the earth. Before he could even react, Yake appeared again and seized his physical body, leaving him unable to use elementalization to escape.

Because he did not understand Yake's abilities, Kizaru suffered a devastating loss.

Yake's fists relentlessly assaulted him in the crater. According to certain eyewitnesses, Kizaru took at least twenty punches from Yake without getting a chance to strike back.

A heavy kick slammed viciously into Kizaru's stomach. Already beaten beyond recognition, Kizaru nearly vomited. Then Yake kicked him flying into the sea, where he vanished without another sound.

"Looks like no one will disturb me for now. Before Aokiji and Akainu arrive, I'll end this." After waiting for some time without sensing any unusual movement, Yake looked up at the sky.

Yake raised his right hand high. Threads of electricity pulled at the Thunderclouds above, and lightning that had been building for a long time descended upon the devastated island like a raging storm.

"Kamui: Final Judgment!"

Heaven and earth changed color. Beneath the repeated bombardment of countless dazzling bolts of lightning as thick as water barrels, Grove 1 of the Sabaody Archipelago vanished from the map forever.

The instigator, Yake, had already disappeared without a trace...