Clash! Invitation! Escape from Impel Down

Giant Bear Anthony had already charged into the ranks of the guards, clearing out another swath of them with a single rush.

"Villain! Don't get carried away!"

Deputy Warden Hannyabal leaped into the air, spinning the double-ended blade in his hands as he slashed at Anthony like a spinning moon.

"Get lost!"

His enormous bear paw turned pitch-black, and he swatted Hannyabal away as though swatting a fly.

The unfortunate deputy warden was slammed against a nearby wall like a painting and couldn't get down.

Anthony had no idea who he had just sent flying. He opened his jaws wide and sank his teeth into a Jailer Beast. The poor fellow was a Zoan user whose Awakening had failed, leaving him consumed by his animal instincts. Though his recovery was incredibly strong, he still howled in pain.

A figure leaped into the air, and a rain of arrows poured down.

A figure charged through the crowd with an enormous shield.

A figure swung a battle-axe snatched from a guard, hacking away at will.

The battle was completely one-sided. Gas masks were snatched away one after another, and antidotes fell into the pirates' hands.

Magellan's face turned livid.

This is bad!

Some of the prisoners who had escaped from the sixth level were far too powerful!

In the middle of the melee, he couldn't use his wide-area poison attacks!

"Poison Pufferfish!"

Magellan spat out one purple sphere of venom after another, sending them straight at the prisoners.

Precision attacks, then!

But the poison spheres had barely left his mouth when they struck invisible objects and burst apart.

"Where are you looking?"

Naito raised his hand.

Magellan's pupils contracted, and he slammed a Haki-coated fist at his side.

With a tremendous boom, the invisible slash was shattered. The ground cracked and the air trembled.

It wasn't over. Magellan suddenly stepped back, dodging a slash from the other side, then struck with his left fist, smashing another transparent blade coming at him from the front.

Magellan wasn't simply defending. Poison Dragons lunged at Naito, baring their fangs and claws.

Yet the Poison Dragons were blasted apart in midair the next instant, unable to get anywhere near Naito. After all, they were only venom. Their poison was potent, but they lacked sufficient force and strength.

What is going on?

What is this ability?

It was bad enough that he couldn't see it, but the real problem was that it appeared beside him out of thin air, without any warning at all. Even with Observation Haki, he had precious little time to react.

At this rate, I can't get close to Byrnndi World at all!

Magellan took a deep breath.

"Venom Demon!"

Red venom unlike any before flowed from the surface of Magellan's body, enveloping him completely.

The red venom formed a giant skeletal monster. It merely stood there, yet the ground was corroded into an enormous pit at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Oh?"

Naito raised an eyebrow.

He's piloting a Gundam?

Testing him, Naito projected another invisible greatsword and slashed at the Venom Demon.

Just before the blow landed, pitch-black Haki coated the spot on the Venom Demon where it was about to strike. Then the invisible greatsword came crashing down.

The invisible greatsword cut into the Venom Demon, but not very deeply. The Haki had greatly reduced the damage it dealt.

Then the greatsword was corroded away, unable to reach Magellan at all.

Instead, the enormous skeleton threw a punch. The transparent barrier Naito created was corroded and shattered outright, forcing him to leap back to dodge.

The red skeleton's fist slammed into the ground. The hard floor was like tofu now, allowing the Venom Demon's fist to sink in with ease. Only then did the earth begin to quake and shatter, the world shaking as fragments of stone flew everywhere.

Tch, the red poison really is far stronger than the purple venom.

"In that case-"

Naito slowly exhaled.

Since his main body wasn't here, this was the limit of the projection's power when controlled by his consciousness alone. It couldn't shake Magellan in this form.

If my main body were here, I could probably give it a try-hmm, by that measure, I'm about as strong as a Shichibukai, aren't I?

Not bad.

In that case, let me show you too, Magellan: my fist, full of sincerity.

Hidden inside the Venom Demon, piloting his Gundam, Magellan froze for a moment, because he saw Byrnndi World rise into the air.

An enormous invisible object had appeared beneath his feet.

But soon, Magellan could see it.

Naito had infused the thing beneath him with Haki.

The invisible colossus took on a faint black hue.

"What is that?"

Magellan doubted his eyes.

It was a Buddhist statue—a statue of Thousand-Armed Kannon!

Naito crouched down and pressed his hand to the head of the translucent colossus beneath him.

"100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva."

More-More Fruit, activate!

Chapter 11: Clash! Invitation! Escape from Impel Down

The More-More Fruit's ability was very simple: it could multiply the speed and size of the user or other objects. According to the original story, it could increase them by as much as a hundred times.

There might have been some exaggeration in that, considering how disappointing World's performance in the original story had been, but Naito didn't care.

All he knew was that this ability would be very interesting combined with his projection.

The arms behind Thousand-Armed Kannon began to turn, fist after fist pointing at the scarlet venom giant.

"This guy-"

Magellan instinctively sensed trouble.

Atop the Guanyin statue, Naito thought for a moment. "Hmm, I'd better call it True Several Thousand Hands."

Whoosh!

An arm, somewhere between transparent and black, clenched its fist and shot forward in that instant.

Magellan's pupils suddenly contracted. He saw the incoming fist grow enormous in an instant, its speed soaring to a terrifying level!

"Hah!"

All he could do was let out a shout, coat the scarlet Venom Demon's right arm in Haki, and throw a punch with all his might to meet it.

Boom!

It was as though that thunderous crash was all that remained between heaven and earth.

The powerful blast of air crushed the surrounding cells in an instant. Guards and prisoners near the battlefield were blown away, and some unlucky ones even fell straight into the pool of blood.

The ground beneath the Venom Demon exploded with enormous, spiderweb-like cracks. The massive skeletal giant staggered backward, great waves rippling through its venomous body as though it might break apart at any moment. Its right forearm had been shattered outright!

At the same time, however, the fist that Thousand-Armed Kannon had struck with also shattered.

"Stay away from there!!"

A prisoner couldn't help crying out, "You'll get caught in it!"

"Stay away from the warden!"

The guards had realized it too. Two monsters were clashing on that battlefield.

"Oh, I see."

Naito nodded slowly.

He understood completely now.

When the More-More Fruit multiplied an object's size, its weight increased dramatically, but its structure didn't change. Its hardness remained the same as before.

If his Haki wasn't strong enough, it was better not to blindly increase his own size. Mere size and weight were no use against a true Haki master.

As for the increase in speed, the More-More Fruit multiplied an object's original speed. Unlike Salt's ability, it didn't increase reaction speed along with it, which meant that using it on himself would make him very unwieldy.

But it didn't matter.

I'm not the More-More Fruit user anyway.

The corners of Naito's mouth rose. "All right, here it comes."

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

The countless arms behind the Guanyin statue all shot out at once. Like missiles, they turned in midair and bore down on the Venom Demon together.

Once they had turned, every fist expanded and accelerated wildly.

Inside the Venom Demon, Magellan's face instantly turned livid.

The More-More Fruit's ability?

What is going on? Why can this guy use two Devil Fruit abilities at the same time?

But there was no time to think now.

The Venom Demon's shattered right arm returned to normal. It coated both arms in Haki and swung its fists with all its might to meet the barrage of fists raining down like meteors.

Boom! Boom!

Magellan smashed two fists.

Then-

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The oncoming fists swallowed the Venom Demon, pounding down without pause like a storm.

Everyone on the nearby battlefield couldn't help stopping.