The single-headed python crashed heavily onto the floor, shaking the room with a deafening boom that could faintly be heard outside.
Then something remarkable happened. The python kept shrinking until it returned to Kurozumi Orochi's human form.
Or, more precisely, Kurozumi Orochi's half-beast Mythical Zoan form.
At the same time, the savage, frenzied aura that had surrounded his body vanished completely, as though it had been severed along with his seventh head.
Kurozumi Orochi lay flat on the blood-slick floor, his face deathly pale and his breathing faint. His hair had turned white, and fine, equally pale scales covered his aged, shriveled skin.
"All the power of the Hebi-Hebi Fruit, Model: Yamata no Orochi disappeared with those seven revivals."
Adrian activated [Rational Analysis] again.
"His split personalities disappeared too, but in this state, he probably couldn't even beat someone with an ordinary Zoan Snake-Snake Fruit..."
"A Resurrection Coin Fruit? More like a fruit that wipes the slate clean. A Mythical Zoan that drains every last bit of stamina, strength, and life force... It's really only good for a collection."
Shaking his head, Adrian called Lumi over and had her put the barely breathing Kurozumi Orochi into the Impenetrable Fortress. She set aside a separate space for him, away from Kurozumi Semimaru.
The Barrier-Barrier Fruit and the Hebi-Hebi Fruit, Model: Yamata no Orochi could wait until the next time he ran into Shanks. Then he could experiment with them!
Adrian promptly flashed out of the secret chamber.
By then, the Orochi Oniwabanshu had finally sensed something was wrong and rushed to the shogun's private chamber, a place they would never normally dare enter.
After calling out several times without an answer, the peculiar-looking Fukurokuju gritted his teeth and pushed the door open.
All the leader saw was a room filled with