The Unforgiven from Shinigami
"Haha, you didn't need to look for us, we're here."
A familiar yet mocking voice came from behind, sending a chill down Vivi's spine. She immediately turned around and pulled her weapon from her chest to the front.
"Mr. 5, Miss Valentine?"
The newcomers were a bespectacled man in a brown trench coat and a stylish woman holding a parasol.
And then there's Vivi's Karoo mount, the Land Duck.
The poor duck had been completely knocked unconscious!
"We originally wanted to use this duck's quacking to lure you over," the blood-soaked and charred Karoo was thrown in front of Vivi, and the assassin codenamed Mr. 5 pulled out a specially made Pistol and aimed it at the blue-haired princess.
"It's a pity that no matter how much we hit it, it wouldn't bark once, wasting all our time!"
"But it's not so bad now. I didn't expect this troublesome rubber kid to be pinned down under this giant peak. Although I really want to kill you right now, Mr. 3 wants to use you as works of art, so just surrender obediently."
"Who would willingly surrender?!" Vivi roared and charged forward with Usopp.
Mr. 5 completely disregarded the two, blasting Usopp away with a booger bomb, then instantly defeating Vivi, and began to tormenting Straw Hat Luffy.
"Excellent! Not only did we acquire two pirate heads worth hundreds of millions, but we also took care of those small fry who dared to provoke our Baroque Studio."
Mr. 3 had a smug look on his face.
Throw, throw, throw, throw— Zoro, Nami, and Vivi, their hands and feet bound by candle shackles, all collapsed.
" Zoro, how did you get captured!"
Nami, who had fallen to the ground, looked surprised. Knowing Zoro's strength, how could he have surrendered so easily?
"I was fooled by a doll just like you," Zoro's explanation left Nami speechless.
Because she fell into the same trap.
"Don't worry, become my art~"
Mr. 3 activates his ability, and a giant wax cake appears on the battlefield.
Zoro, Nami, and Vivi were stuck on the cake like candles.
Come on, enjoy my package deal!
As their abilities continued to activate, white mist kept drifting down from above Nami and the others.
"This is... cough cough cough,"
"This is wax mist, which can evenly coat your skin with a layer of wax."
Mr. 3 kindly explained things to Nami and the others.
"This fog will be inhaled into your lungs, causing you to slowly suffocate and die."
The excruciating pain lasting several tens of minutes will make your deaths unimaginable! Turning you into my works of art born of despair~
"No! Why do we have to become your works of art?"
Nami was the first to object, " Zoro, you have to think of something!"
"..." Zoro pursed his lips, pondering a solution.
After the four of them were used as candles and stuck into the wax cake, their hands were untied.
Of course, not out of kindness, but to make their struggles more entertaining.
"Since my legs are tied up," Zoro drew his sword and pointed it at his calves, "Then I'll cut them off. Uncle, you don't want to die such a pathetic death, do you?"
Brogy grinned. "I'll put your bravado to the test!"
Mr. 3 could hardly believe it; could there really be such a person in the world?
Just as Zoro was about to cut off his leg, Luffy rushed over, shouting, "I'm going to beat you to a pulp!"
A figure suddenly descended from the sky, scratching his head and saying, "Oh, it seems you're in danger."
As soon as Nami saw who it was, her eyes lit up immediately, and she said, "Mr. Shiraishi, hurry up and destroy this cake!"
"Who is this guy?" Mr. 3 asked, looking completely puzzled.
Mr. 5 shook his head and said, "I don't know him."
"Forget it, it doesn't matter how many small fry come. Watch my ultimate move, Candle Champion!"
Mr. 3 confidently transforms into a gigantic robot encased in thick white wax, proclaiming, "Prepare to meet your death!"
"Oh, that's the Candle Champion once defeated a 40 million bounty!"
Mr. 5 looked on with admiration.
Shiraishi casually sliced through the candle cake with a knife, then said leisurely, "The rest is up to you."
"No problem." Zoro stretched his arms, a sinister grin spreading across his face.
The Straw Hat Pirates, having escaped, quickly defeated them. Luffy chased Mr. 3 into the dense forest, but then stopped.
It wasn't that he was afraid or hesitant; it was because in front of him, someone stood with their arms crossed, one hand on their hip, leaning against a tree trunk, their nose in the air...
Mr. 3 stood in all sorts of poses throughout the jungle.
There are at least dozens of them at a glance.
"Hahaha, welcome to my wax museum."
The layers of sounds echoed through the dense forest, and the real Mr. 3, nestled among a group of Mr. 3s, was overjoyed.
Although this Straw Hat is very strong, he is clearly not as troublesome as the other handsome guy. If we can take advantage of his lack of experience, we might be able to turn the tables.
"Hahaha, we're an artistic duo from the Baroque Studio; we win with our ingenuity."
The wax figures on all sides burst into laughter, each one looking exactly like a real person.
"A power-type idiot like you who only knows how to Riot Games randomly has no chance of catching me."
As they spoke, the wax figures all looked at Luffy.
"Come on, come a little closer. I'm Mr. 3. After I take care of you..."
"Rubber!"
Faced with the provocation of dozens of "Mr. 3s," Luffy made a firing motion and then shouted, "Seal!"
The suddenly extended slipper kicked Mr. 3 in the face, even snapping a large tree behind him.
"You?!"
Mr. 3, his face covered in blood and filled with disbelief, slowly collapsed. "Why... how did you find me?"
Faced with his question, Luffy tugged at his straw hat and answered seriously, "Just a guess."
Brogy began to wail, even revealing a rainbow, as he wailed for his deceased best friend.
Dorry slowly got up from the ground. His weapon, corroded by time, no longer possessed its original power.
"Have I arrived in Elbaf, paradise?"
He turned to look at the dumbfounded Brogy, and even though he was seriously injured, the corners of his mouth gradually turned into an upward curve.
"It seems not."
"Wow wow wow wow~~~~~~You're not dead? Great, great!!"
"Hey, be gentle!"
Dorry's face suddenly turned three degrees more unpleasant as Brogy grabbed him into a hug.
You're going to rip my wounds open.
"Hey, so you're having a banquet here?"
The blond gentleman Sanji leaped out of the dense forest and hurriedly shouted to the group, "I just discovered a small cabin in the forest, and from the Den Den Mushi inside, I learned that Baroque Studio has sent a high-ranking executive led by codenamed Mr. 3..."
"Got it!" Luffy replied with a grin.
Revelry, food, singing, and finally, farewell.
"Are you leaving already? I really don't know how to thank you enough."
"Hahaha, I forgot my own head was worth quite a bit."
Faced with Luffy and his crew's departure, the two owners of the island's Little Garden did not try to stop them. Instead, they stood up, weapons in hand, and watched the departing group.
"Old buddy, my friend's going out to sea."
"Ah, yes, there's that thing around here. Let's give them a ride."
Are you alright?
In response to Brogy's concerns, Dorry calmly shook his head.
It's alright.
"Look closely, it was I, the lizard, who won!"
Despite the adventure, Sanji still remembered his bet with Zoro, and the two began arguing endlessly.
"Huh? The rhinoceros I hunted is not only enough for all of us, but even enough for the two giants to have a good meal. I should have won!"
"Forget it, you two seem to be about the same level."
Only Luffy could say something like that, which at first glance sounds like a derogatory remark.
The obvious response was, "Shut up!!"
"Aren't you two being ridiculous?" Nami glared at the two arguing endlessly about the size of their prey. "Anyway, our boat can't hold that much meat. Let's go!"
"Yes, Miss Nami."
"Hey, Usopp, isn't my prey bigger?"
Faced with Zoro's question, Usopp wisely and decisively turned away, saying, "I have no interest in being a referee."
"Can't we just call it a draw?"
Faced with Vivi's careful mediation, the response was undoubtedly firm and resolute.
"No, the match can't end in a draw!"
Wow, a giant uncle!
As the Going Merry slowly sailed out of the river and into the sea, two tall figures were already standing on the shore.
The sea breeze made their cloaks flutter wildly, like two enormous statues.
Are you here to see us off?
Luffy shouted loudly.
"Ah, yes, little humans," Dorry replied, a smile spreading across his face, "You have upheld our rightful honor!"
"Therefore, your enemies are also our enemies!"
"Keep moving straight ahead! Trust us, and we'll keep going!"
Two giants, wielding massive axes and swords, gazed at the ocean before them, as if some unknown enemy lurked there.
Luffy nodded and waved his hand, saying, "Straight ahead!"
"Roger that, Captain."
Usopp held the helm steadily, his eyes somewhat blank, not understanding what the giant was saying.
Just as the Going Merry was moving away from Little Garden, the sea in front of them suddenly bulged up.
The entire sea arches up like a mountain peak, stretching to the sky and reaching the horizon.
Boom boom boom--
Faced with the surging waves, the Going Merry drifted up and down like a helpless fallen leaf.
Even more helplessly, after the massive amount of seawater fell, the true face of the tsunami was revealed: a head as huge as an island.
"What... what kind of monster is this?"
"A giant Sea Kings? It's huge!" Nami's face turned pale with fright.
She had never seen such a huge Sea Kings!
Its head, which is visible above the water, is at least a thousand meters long, resembling a mountain peak, and is as enormous as the island whale Laboon, which blocked the entrance to the Grand Line.
"It's here, the Island Eater!"
The two giants standing on the coastline had also reached their target.
"In the name of Elbaf, we will pave the way for you!"
However, the Going Merry, which was already a thousand meters away, was in complete chaos. Faced with this behemoth that could cause natural disaster with a single turn, neither Luffy, Zoro, nor Sanji were able to do anything about it.
Nami looked helplessly at Shiraishi, "Mr. Shiraishi, it's all up to you."
Shiraishi smiled and said, "No, let's keep going, right, Luffy?"
"Oh no, we're going to get sucked in!"
The giant's Kog'Maw was already wide open. Nami shouted again, her face full of anxiety, "Never mind what it is, Usopp, turn around!"
Wow, what a huge goldfish!
Usopp looked at the giant beast in front of him and suddenly remembered the boast he had once told Kaya.
Luffy.
"Hmm." Luffy nodded with a grin, hands on his hips, and said, "Of course!"
"Don't talk nonsense, this is different from Laboon," Shiraishi said with a smile, looking at the tearful Nami. "Don't worry, even if you get swallowed, you have to believe in your giant friend behind you."
"Ahhh~" Nami, with two tear streaks on her face, closed her eyes, preparing to face her unknown fate.
The goldfish opened its Kog'Maw and swallowed the Going Merry whole.
"Wow, it's completely dark now," Shiraishi said with a relaxed, beaming smile.
"Of course, we're inside a goldfish now. Not every giant sea monster has a bored old man inside doing planting and painting," Zoro remarked.
Just as everyone on the Going Merry was laughing through their predicament, two giants in the Little Garden carried their weapons on their backs and struck a waving pose.
"I miss those adventurous days. The only thing that could stop us from getting through here was that blood-stained snake."
"Look! The most powerful spear of the giants from Elbaf!"
As the two giants' muscles tensed like monstrous pythons, a wild and fierce aura, imbued with the iron will of battle and the invincible power to traverse the world, rose from their bodies.
The weapon subtly conveys a fearless spirit, like a warrior braving the unknown and surging sea, fighting against heaven and earth.
Then:
"Drink up!!!"
Two giants simultaneously brandished their weapons in mid-air.
In an instant, an invisible force pierced through the air, through the sea, and through the belly of the Island Eater.
" Hakama!"
The overwhelming force, indistinguishable to the naked eye, even exceeded the decibel level that the human ear could detect.
A circular hole, hundreds of meters in diameter, suddenly appeared on the belly of a giant goldfish that feeds on islands.
Scales, flesh, bones... everything vanished without a trace, as if it had been directly ground into powder.
Within this enormous void, only one thing remained intact: the Going Merry.
"Whoa, we're out!"
Luffy's face was full of excitement as the ship was tossed high into the air by the waves.
"To shatter a monster larger than an island with a single blow—that is the power of the Elbaf warriors!"
Usopp was in tears, unable to tell whether he was excited, frightened, or both. In his eyes, this was the state he most wanted to achieve.
"Hahaha, have a safe trip!"
"Hahaha, goodbye, friend!"
The two giants' hearty laughter shook the sky and carried far to the Going Merry. Luffy, Luffy, thought, "Adventure is all about meeting different people and experiencing different things; that's what makes it so interesting! Shiraishi, join me!"
"No way," Shiraishi refused with a smile.