Unkillable.
No matter what I do, I can't kill him.
A young giant was pounced on by the three-headed monster at the same time, and tentacles and claws instantly wrapped around his limbs.
He screamed and struggled, but could only watch helplessly as more monsters pressed down on him.
"Run! Run! Run!"
The strangest thing is that even though some of the monsters were eliminated,
But they still kept emerging from the shadows, from the firelight, and from the children's discarded drawings.
What's even more despairing is the plight of the children.
The Giant Tribe children lined up, as if pulled by invisible threads, and walked step by step toward the wilderness outside the village.
Even though Saul, Robin, Chopper, and the others shouted desperately to wake the children, it was to no avail.
Their eyes were empty and lifeless, and their small bodies cast long shadows in the firelight, like a group of puppets being sent to the altar.
"Those children! Where are they going!"
Nami witnessed this scene as soon as she arrived in the Upper Realm, and her voice trembled.
Zoro squinted and scanned the battlefield, his gaze quickly locking onto several figures that were completely different from ordinary monsters.
A tall, slender figure stood behind the horde of monsters, one hand outstretched, black mist swirling in his palm, his lips moving silently as if chanting some kind of incantation.
Saint Gham.
The most enigmatic Holy Knights.
Luffy watched the children heading into the wilderness, and a vein throbbed in his temple.
Stop the children!
He shouted behind him and charged forward.
With the Gear Fifth activated, his long white hair danced wildly in the flames, and black and red Conqueror's Haki Inazuma surged wildly from his body, cracking the ground wherever it passed.
He punched a giant monster blocking his way.
The monster had three faces, and its body was made of writhing black gelatinous substance. Luffy's fist struck it...
My entire arm sank in, but the thing didn't break apart.
Luffy's expression changed slightly.
A burst of Conqueror's Haki Inazuma erupted from the fist, and the monster's body finally gave way, letting out a piercing scream as it exploded from the inside.
"As expected... only Conqueror's Haki could disperse these monsters."
Luffy muttered something to himself, then turned and called out towards Zoro and Sanji:
" Haki is only so effective against this monster! Conqueror's Haki is what works!"
In the distance, Sanji was surrounded by three monsters when he heard those words.
His Diable Jambe shattered a monster's head, but the fragments reassembled in mid-air, transforming into a smaller, more ferocious creature that lunged back.
"Bastards! Who are these things? No matter how I fight them, they just won't die!" Sanji gritted his teeth.
Gaban was already standing at the entrance of the village at some point.
With two massive double-edged Giant Axe swung, nightmare monsters were cleaved in two.
Gaban looked at the chaotic battlefield, his face expressionless.
"These monsters are just the surface."
Gaban suddenly spoke, his voice not loud, yet it reached the ears of everyone present clearly.
"That guy used his nightmare ability to materialize the children's dreams."
You can't kill things in a dream with swords or fists.
He looked up and his gaze fell on Luffy, Luffy was fighting against the monsters.
" The Straw Hat Boy is right."
Conqueror's Haki can harm them.
But having Conqueror's Haki alone isn't enough.
Zoro cleaved a monster in two, glancing at Gaban in between:
"What's the meaning?"
" Conqueror's Haki is the embodiment of will, an extension of your soul."
Gaban said.
"You also need to focus your Conqueror's Haki on your attacks; simply releasing Conqueror's Haki won't be enough to deal with these monsters."
Therefore, what can defeat Nightmare is not simply Conqueror's Haki, but your mastery of Conqueror's Haki.
He said this while looking at Sanji.
"Goldilocks."
Sanji was taken aback. "Huh?"
"That kick you just delivered was on the verge of Awakening Conqueror's Haki."
Sanji paused for a moment.
Are you kidding me?
"I don't have time to joke with you."
Gaban said calmly,
"The kick you gave that shattered the monster's head was imbued with Conqueror's Haki."
You just haven't realized it yet.
Sanji looked down at his right leg.
He recalled that brief moment and realized something was definitely different.
When he kicked out, all he could think about was...
That was the only thought on my mind, "I'll blast this thing away."
"So what should I do?" Sanji asked.
Try to incorporate all your emotions and everyone you want to protect into your beliefs.
Only then can you qualify to become a crewmate of the Pirate King.
Sanji a deep breath.
He closed his eyes, exhaled the cigarette from his mouth, and then lightly tapped the ground with his toes.
The image shows Boss Zeff teaching him how to cook in the kitchen of the seaside restaurant.
The way Zoro, that jerk with the Moss Head, argued with him.
Nami counting money in the cabin.
Robin reading a book on the deck.
The way Chopper offered him salt with his hooves.
And Luffy.
That idiot captain who always said "I want to become the Pirate King " was the one who risked his life to protect everyone in every life-or-death situation.
"I'm... a crewmate of the Pirate King!"
Sanji suddenly opened his eyes.
Black and red Inazuma erupted from his body, spreading down his right leg and intertwining with the black flames of the Diable Jambe.
A pure power, never before seen in Sanji, suddenly erupted.
"Boom--!!!"
He kicked it out.
Black flames and black-red Inazuma intertwined to form Tatsumaki, uprooting the three-story-tall monster.
Flames burned through every inch of the monster's body, and the Conqueror's Haki's Inazuma completely shattered the black mist that was trying to reform.
The monster disappeared.
Gaban stood behind Sanji, a slight smile playing on his lips.
"That's more like it."
Sanji looked down at his feet.
His legs were still trembling slightly; this was entirely his own doing.
"So... I have that too," he said softly.
Gaban patted him on the shoulder. "Let's go. There's still more to fight."
"Not bad! That lousy cook." Zoro grinned.
"Hmph, swordsmen should just keep wielding their swords." Sanji turned and kicked another monster.
What followed turned into a massacre.
Gaban, along with Sanji who Awakening his Conqueror's Haki's Sanji and Zoro who had arrived, advanced towards the center of the battlefield.
The Nightmare Monsters were as fragile as paper under the combined attack of the three's Conqueror's Haki; they were each taken down with a single punch, without exception.
Zoro's Sanji provided support from both sides, completely eliminating the monsters that had escaped.
Saint Killingham attempted to ambush Gaban with the Nightmare-Nightmare Fruit. His figure blended into the shadows, emerging from the flames behind Gaban, and his hands, shaped like claws, stabbed towards the back of Gaban's head.
But before he could even touch Gaban's hair, Gaban had already turned around.
A purplish-black, Conqueror's Haki Inazuma enveloped his palm and struck directly on the crown of Saint Killingham's head.
The sound of skull shattering was so crisp it made your teeth ache.
Saint Killingham's head exploded, and the core of Black Turn Domination was affected by Conqueror's Haki.
His body collapsed, the churning black mist still trying to reconnect the destroyed body.