The Archangel's Breath

Although conventional methods cannot remove the mark, there are ways to get rid of it if one is willing to sacrifice a part of the body.

For example Red-Haired Shanks, who used to be a member of the Holy Knights, had a mark given to him by Imu on his left arm.

When Luffy was a child, Red-Haired Shanks had his left arm bitten off by the Lord of the Coast to save him, thus freeing him from Imu's control.

Kuranos was in a similar situation.

His initial self-destruction abandoned his original body, and the mark disappeared along with it. After his second rebirth, he currently does not have the ability to teleport.

"Never mind him, let's welcome our new compatriots first."

Dimon took out the Angel Fruit again and activated its power.

Animation!

A hazy golden light enveloped the square fruit, and its shape immediately changed.

As a Human-Human Fruit, its transformation naturally tends towards human form, which was not unexpected.

As time passed, an angel with pure white wings appeared before Dimon.

The form that the Angel Fruit takes is exactly the same as that of the angels in mythology.

Pure white long hair, pure white skin, pure white wings, and... a pure white cross located at the back of her head.

Once the transformation was complete, the hazy golden light gradually faded away.

The angel opened its eyes, and the voice that came from its mouth was neither male nor female, as if the two voices had overlapped.

"Owner."

Are you male or female?

Dimon sized the other person up. From a human aesthetic point of view, the angel's appearance was both male and female, and was considered androgynous and beautiful.

"Master... I have no gender." The angel's voice still overlapped with his, as if two people were speaking.

Dimon waved his hand, not dwelling on appearances.

"Let me give you a name first..."

As is customary, Mythical Zoan fruits are usually strong and should be given a title.

Now there are four of the Seven Deadly Sins, and not many titles remain.

[Greed], Mammon.

[Wrath], Samael.

[Lust], Sigma.

[Envy], Kuranos.

The remaining traits are [Pride], [Sloth], and [Gluttony].

He wanted to save Gluttony for the Artificial Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika, so his only options were Pride and Sloth.

As the Seven Deadly Sins expanded, the titles prepared at the beginning became insufficient... Dimon pondered that he might as well bring out the "Seven Virtues" as well.

But there's no rush, let's talk about it later.

"From this day forward, you are [Pride] of the Seven Deadly Sins, Belial."

Pride Angel, Belial... Dimon was pleased with his naming.

"Thank you, Master, for bestowing upon me a name."

Angel Belial bowed slightly and gracefully greeted Dimon.

The feminine part of His voice sounded happier, while the masculine part expressed reverence.

Dimon didn't pay much attention to such minor details and went straight to the point:

"Tell me about your abilities. Why does Saturn, one of the Five Elders, value you so highly?"

Dimon felt this must be related to the fruit's abilities.

Next, the Angel Belial recounted his abilities in detail.

Core competencies can be summarized in one sentence:

The power to heal all, the angel to resurrect the dead.

The person who eats the Angel Fruit can resurrect a dead person at the cost of their own life.

Upon hearing about this ability, Dimon immediately thought of another fruit.

Paramecia Yomi Revive-Revive Fruit).

The user of the Revive-Revive Fruit) can have their soul return from the underworld after death and live a second life.

Brook has eaten the fruit and is now wandering the Florian Triangle.

In contrast, the resurrection effect of the Angel Fruit is a different story; it cannot revive the user themselves, but it can revive others.

The price, however, is the life of the ability user!

What are the necessary conditions for this resurrection?

"We need the target's body, or... part of the body."

Angel Belial explained, "Upon resurrection, the deceased will be fully restored to their peak condition, and even their Devil Fruit abilities from their lifetime can be recreated."

Martial arts skills, Haki, techniques, memory, and so on—almost everything can be perfectly reproduced.

Even Devil Fruit abilities can be reproduced!

"What if this fruit has already been reborn and eaten..."

"Then, there would be two identical abilities in the world."

Dimon was astonished; this completely defied the logic of Devil Fruits.

A thought struck him, and he asked again:

"If the resurrected dead die again, then their abilities..."

It will disappear.

The Angel Belial replied softly, "His ability to reappear is essentially just a simulation I created. I will only be reborn when he dies."

Upon hearing this, Dimon completely understood.

For example.

Whitebeard died, the Tremor-Tremor Fruit was reborn, and it was eaten by a random passerby.

Afterwards, Angel Belial resurrects Whitebeard. Belial will die immediately, and the resurrected Whitebeard will regain the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.

At that time, there were two Devil Fruit User the Tremor-Tremor Fruit in the world.

However, Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit ability after his resurrection was actually simulated by an angel.

Only when Whitebeard dies again will the Angel Fruit be reborn somewhere in the world.

"No wonder Saturn values this fruit so much... This guy has a rebellious streak."

Dimon finally understood Saturn's thoughts.

This guy has never been honest, and he wasn't that loyal to Imu either. He's done a lot of things behind the scenes in the past.

This old man was probably planning for his own future; if Imu wanted to kill him someday, he could use the power of this fruit to revive.

Of course, this is just Dimon's guess, but it's probably pretty close to the truth.

Otherwise, given the Five Elders' status, they wouldn't care so much about a particular fruit.

Thinking of this, Dimon looked up at Belial:

"Besides the power to resurrect the dead, as Mythical Zoan, you should have many other derivative abilities..."

"Yes, Master."

"How about this, you stay with me, and I'll experience it for myself."

Explaining it verbally was too troublesome, so Dimon simply decided to experience it for himself.

He extracted the Box-Box Fruit from his body and then allowed the Angel Belial to reside within him.

The next moment, he became a user of the Mythical Zoan Angel Fruit.

Swish!

A pair of pure white wings grew from his back, and at that moment, Dimon was filled with a sacred aura.

Like a god, the true "Lord"!

Chapter 164 The Breath of the Archangel

Dimon closed his eyes tightly, silently analyzing the abilities of the Angel Belial.

After a long while, he opened his eyes, turned his head to look at the mirror on the wall, and saw that he had white hair and even his eyebrows were dyed white.

With a slight tremor of its pure white wings, Dimon rose from its seat and gracefully walked to the mirror to carefully observe its own appearance.

White transfer?

It looks a bit like Luffy's white Nika Form... Dimon pondered. Angel Belial's abilities do indeed possess purification power, but whether it can purify Imu's "black transformation" is still unclear.

"This cross wasn't originally just an ornament?"

Dimon inwardly grumbled and reached out to remove the white cross floating behind his head.

The cross is approximately 70 centimeters long from top to bottom and 30 centimeters wide from left to right.

Grasping the shorter end of the cross, Dimon had a thought, and in the next moment, a soft white light condensed into a lightsaber.

Angel Sword!

Thinking of finding an unlucky guy to test his abilities... Dimon stepped out of the cabin, lightsaber in hand.

Big Eyes was on watch on the deck when he saw Dimon appear. He immediately floated over and said:

"Master, what's wrong...?"

"Don't worry about it."

With a slight flutter of its pure white wings, Dimon leaped into the air, bursting off the deck and plummeting towards the sea below.

Accelerate, accelerate, sprint at full speed!

Almost instantly, Dimon's falling speed broke the sound barrier, and then it accelerated even faster.

If someone were observing from a distance on the sea, they could clearly see a beam of white light descending from the sky and shooting straight onto the sea surface.

Falling from a height of several thousand meters, in less than five seconds, the surging ocean was already within reach.

Dimon swung his Angel Sword towards the sea below.

The lightsaber traced a graceful trajectory, instantly tearing a rift hundreds of meters long in the sea.

"A casual strike has this much power?"

Dimon stopped abruptly, suspended in mid-air, looking down at the destruction he had caused with his casual strike, and couldn't help but marvel at it.

As expected of Mythical Zoan, even someone who knows nothing about swordsmanship can unleash a strike like that of a great swordsman.

"Huh?"

Suddenly, Dimon's Observation Haki detected a weak aura.

Turning to look behind me, I saw a small boat swaying in the raging waves, seemingly about to be smashed to pieces at any moment.

A person lay on the boat. The darkness could not obstruct Dimon's vision; he could clearly see that it was a Mink Tribe.

The Mink Tribe is a rare race, and a lone Mink Tribe is even rarer.

Dimon flapped his wings and moved closer to the other.

Pedro lay on the small boat, his face deathly pale.

After having 50 years of his lifespan taken away by BIG MOM, he was almost on the verge of death, and only managed to leave the Totto Land Sea through sheer willpower.

With only a small boat beneath him, Pedro didn't know if he could safely return to Zou; he left it all to fate.