Uranus Descends

"Joy Boy... you really were a pitiful man."

At that moment, Rono looked at the tears in Joy Boy's eyes and activated Heart-Peering through his Observation Haki.

He immediately saw into Joy Boy's heart.

After defeating him, Imu had imprisoned both his soul and body!

He had been held captive for eight hundred years!

The only way to free him was for someone to defeat Imu and the World Government!

But whenever the World Government faced a powerful enemy, Imu summoned Joy Boy to fight for it!

Thanks to Joy Boy's terrifying Gigantification, no one had been able to shake the World Government in eight hundred years!

Every enemy Joy Boy had defeated with his own hands had been someone who might have freed him!

It was as though fate itself had decreed it!

That cruel cycle had continued for eight hundred years!

Even Rono felt some sympathy for him!

Rono could even foresee his own fate!

If he failed, he would surely end up like Joy Boy, imprisoned by Imu!

He would be forced to serve the World Government and those Swine Celestial Dragons, unable to resist!

"Rono, the Most Evil Criminal, you must defeat the World Government. Defeat Imu."

"If anyone can do it, I believe you can."

A smile on his face, Joy Boy spoke with quiet satisfaction.

As soon as he finished, he closed his eyes and truly died!

Even his body crumbled to dust!

"Don't worry. Even if you hadn't said a word, I would kill every last one of those Celestial Dragons!"

"Not one will survive."

Rono spoke each word distinctly, then turned his gaze toward the dozen or so Warships floating in the sky!

The war was not over!

"Joy Boy is dead."

"Imu... you still won't show yourself? Fine!"

Rono activated his