"Old bastard! This isn't where you belong!"
Golden Lion was in his prime and had been fighting Rayleigh.
He hadn't expected to get caught up in Saint Saturn's pursuit of Kuma and Shane.
Rayleigh kept chasing close behind.
In his eyes, Shane was bold enough to dare attack the Celestial Dragons.
And Kuma and Ivankov, who were rescuing slaves, were worth his help too.
Amid the ruins.
Kuma rescued Ginny and Ivankov.
After sending the two flying with the Paw-Paw Fruit.
He had already freed more than two hundred slaves.
Saint Saturn looked down from above.
He stood before Shane and Kuma.
"Both of you are lowborn scum. Neither slaves nor pirates deserve forgiveness!"
To the Five Elders.
There was no difference between Shane and Kuma. Both deserved to die!
"What did pirates ever do to you, you old fossil?"
Golden Lion exhaled smoke, twisting the earth into a lion with its jaws open toward the sky.
"Kid! Get out of here!"
"God Valley is no longer a place for ordinary people!"
Rayleigh seized the opening and slashed Saint Saturn's cane.
Sparks flew.
Forcefully blocked by the two of them, Saint Saturn flew into a humiliated rage.
"Against you, it seems I should use my full strength!"
Saint Saturn raged, black flame clouds coiling around him above his shoulders.
The sign of an awakened Zoan Devil Fruit!
His oppressive presence intensified further.
Yet Shane's entire body was undergoing a transformation.
The powerful vitality of a Mythical Zoan.
Unrivaled defenses.
The Azure Dragon Form's dragon breath and Bad Wind.
Flame clouds that could carry objects through the air.
Lightning, speed, and strength in human form.
The changes continued, further strengthening Shane's physique.
"Was I born deserving to die? But I haven't done anything wrong!"
"Old man, were you the ones who decided who's noble and who's lowly?"
"Why can't we laugh happily like Nika?"
Kuma stood up, questioning him again and again.
The simplehearted boy was only ten, yet he was several times taller than an ordinary person.
Who knew how many wonderful dreams the stories of Nika had given him?
Yet it was a name the Five Elders did not want to hear.
(PS: In the manga, Kuma had heard stories of Nika since childhood.)
"Shut up!"
"You remnant of an extinct race! You deserve death most of all!"
Even while fighting Golden Lion and Rayleigh, Saint Saturn's tongue remained merciless.
Remnants of extinct races!
A collective term for a group of outcasts on the seas.
It referred not to a single race, but to a group of races that were nearly extinct without having been wiped out completely.
Kuma, King, and Kaido could all be classified as remnants of extinct races.
Their origins lay in the Void Century eight hundred years ago.
They were evils the Celestial Dragons had to eradicate.
"Remnants of extinct races?"
Shane's bones creaked and cracked.
His eyes were filled with ferocity.
"What do you mean, remnants of extinct races?"
"There are currently nineteen lineages of Celestial Dragons atop the Red Line."
"If one day only a handful of each remained, they should be called remnants of extinct races too, shouldn't they?"
Shane's words were undoubtedly mockery taken to the extreme!
Saint Saturn desperately tried to fight his way back over.
But Golden Lion and Rayleigh in their prime were no pushovers either.
Two master swordsmen, both with the mobility of youth.
How could they let him break through?
Shane's gaze was contemptuous as scales gradually covered parts of his body.
His skin also became tough and powerful, while his bones and muscles transformed.
And this was only his human form!
Crackle!
Electricity gathered throughout his body as the Azure Dragon's electricity merged with the Mink Tribe's Electro.
It changed from blue-white lightning to pale purple!
The enhancement from the Azure Dragon Form also developed Shane's physique further.
He stood a head taller than before.
"Kuma! Leave this place! The war has only just begun!"
From this moment onward, Shane had surpassed the limits of the human body.
His physique had been strengthened by his Mink Tribe bloodline, then amplified by the Fish-Fish Fruit, Model: Azure Dragon.
A true monster had been born!
"You must be a remnant of an extinct race too!"
Saint Saturn knocked aside Rayleigh's blade with his cane and blocked the airborne Golden Lion with his palm.
Two horns sprouted from his head, and multiple tentacle-like legs appeared beneath him.
He charged toward Shane and Kuma at tremendous speed.
"Go!"
"Shane!"
Kuma firmly committed that name to memory.
Roar!
A howling roar rose.
At the same time Saint Saturn attacked.
Shane transformed into a black dragon and rose into the air.
Flame clouds coiled around his body as he looked down over the entire battlefield.
"So you're the one who ate that fruit! That's wonderful!"
Kuma grinned happily. He could leave with an easy conscience.
It was wonderful that Shane had been able to eat the lost Fish-Fish Fruit, Model: Azure Dragon.
Whoosh!
Kuma swiftly vanished from where he stood.
The Paw-Paw Fruit wrapped him in air and repelled him out of God Valley, sending him flying toward the South Blue.
A black dragon wreathed in purple lightning.
Shane looked down on Saint Saturn with contempt.
Golden Lion, meanwhile, burst into hearty laughter.
"Jihahahaha! Choke on your anger, you old bastard!"
Shiki's words added fuel to the fire once again.
Saint Saturn stamped his feet in fury.
He had never expected that of the two people he wanted to kill, one could fly and the other could repel himself away.
Meanwhile.
Another howling roar resounded through heaven and earth.
Kaido, who had eaten the Fish-Fish Fruit, Model: Azure Dragon with Linlin's help, roared toward the sky.
He transformed into a giant dragon!
There was blood on his body. It looked as though he had just been through a hellish battle.
The azure dragon and black dragon hovered in the sky together, driving the war at God Valley into an even greater frenzy.
"Who's that guy?"
In another corner of the battlefield.
Linlin stood on Zeus's back.
She stared at the sky, dumbfounded.
How could there be two dragons?
What happened to every Devil Fruit being unique?
"Big sis, did you give me a fake?"
Kaido was curious too. The lightning on that black dragon looked so overbearing!
"Don't try to wriggle out of your debt, Kaido!"
"I saved your life! Don't forget to repay me!"
"Build a new pirate crew with me!"
Linlin didn't want all her efforts to come to nothing.
Kaido looked simple and honest, but he had better not pull a fast one on her at a critical moment.
"No problem, big sis!"
Kaido roared in his human body.
He felt the strength of his Oni race and the vitality of the Mythical Zoan merging perfectly.
An Oni physique combined with dragon scales made a perfect defense.
In the distance.
Trying his dragon form for the first time, Shane was adjusting to its power.
Unlike other Zoan Devil Fruits.
The Fish-Fish Fruit, Model: Azure Dragon's flame clouds were used to carry objects through the air, one of the fruit abilities available from the start.
"Bolo Breath!"
He kept feeling something in his mouth.
What was it?
Shane fired a long column of flame straight at Saint Saturn.
Boom!
The flames crossed the sky, blasting directly toward Saint Saturn.
It truly lived up to being a Mythical Zoan, so powerful the moment he obtained it.
Even though Saint Saturn's Hybrid Form was enormous.
The Bolo Breath's range already covered him completely.
"Shane! Your name is Shane, is it? I'll tear you into pieces!"
Saint Saturn's fury soared, but what could he do?
His powerful Haki and physique could not be harmed by Bolo Breath.
But with Golden Lion and Rayleigh attacking him together, he really could do nothing about Shane.
"Brat! Join me! Let's build the Flying Pirates! We'll be invincible!"
Seeing Shane's performance, Golden Lion extended an invitation as well.
"Be careful. Shiki isn't a good man."
Rayleigh promptly warned Shane.
"I'm planning to strike out on my own."
Smoke rose from Shane's mouth.
The war had already revealed a scene of madness.
Gaban fought Silver Axe with his twin axes.
Captain John was blocked by Zephyr.
Sengoku stepped onto the battlefield and hurled a punch at Wang Zhi, who had fused with the island.
Kong, in his prime, attacked Linlin head-on.
Tsuru pursued Bakkin, leaving him cursing furiously in hatred.
Rocks pursued Saint Garling, intent on killing him, until he had nowhere left to run.
Roger clashed head-on with Whitebeard.
"That's what you get for flying overhead like an eyesore!"
Garp leaped straight at the young Kaido and punched him!
"They've gone completely mad. If this fighting keeps up, even God Valley will sink."
Shane returned to human form to avoid becoming a sitting duck like Kaido.
Whoosh!
The Demon Compass spun once more, spurring fate onward.
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