Saturn had come in his true form. The Conqueror's Haki couldn't force him back immediately. If he wanted to escape, he had to use a teleportation method.
The moment he saw Roy, he immediately raised his cane and stabbed it into the ground.
A black magic circle appeared beneath his feet, he was preparing to flee.
"Trying to escape?"
Roy's eyes locked onto him. In the blink of an eye, his Conqueror's Haki transformed into a sharp arrow and shot forward.
Bang!
Saturn's body was sent flying, thrown far from his original position.
All the marines were already unconscious; across Egghead, only Kizaru was still awake.
However, when Kizaru saw Saturn being sent flying, he did not intervene. Instead, he sat back and watched the spectacle.
"Why does he have an additional power that inspires such fear? A power that can kill the Five Elders? Mars died at his hands... so Saturn might too..." Kizaru watched silently, taking no action.
Saturn, however, would not bow so easily. He chose to resist.
He unleashed the "Evil Eye" attack, a spiritual suppression meant to crush Roy to death.
"No matter how you obtained this power, I cannot allow you to live. Your existence poses a greater threat than Joy Boy," Saturn declared.
"Is that so? Hahahahaha!!!" Roy suddenly burst out laughing, the suppression had no effect on him. Though dark flames began to rise from his body.
"Thump-thump-thump!!!"
There was no rhythm, just an unbearable drumming sound, pounding endlessly. The sound came from Roy's heart, every beat echoing through the skies. Everyone who heard it felt irritated and restless.
"Too noisy…" Kizaru wanted to cover his ears, but his own heartbeat synchronized with the drum, making his mood violently unstable.
"Arghhh!!" Kizaru clenched his teeth. For a moment, he even envied the unconscious ones.
It wasn't just the sound, it was Roy's Conqueror's Haki infused within, constantly pouring out alongside the drumbeat.
Unlike Luffy's liberating rhythm, this drum was maddening, oppressive, and unbearable. The more Kizaru listened, the stronger the urge to die.
If Kizaru felt that way from afar, then right in front of Roy, Saturn suffered even worse. Covering his mouth, blood burst from his nose and lips.
Pffft!
He clutched at his chest. Though normally immune to bleeding, Saturn now spat fresh blood. He looked at his stained hand in disbelief.
"Impossible… impossible…" He stared at his own blood, then at Roy.
Just from a heartbeat's rhythm, he was injured. What kind of ability was this?
Why was Roy's power so bizarre? So twisted?
"What is this ability? What fruit did you eat?" Saturn demanded.
"To be honest, I'm not entirely sure. This fruit is based on the Nika Fruit, a replica I created. I attempted countless copies, and only one succeeded. But I wasn't sure if it was the Nika ability, so I conducted dozens of experiments."
Roy grinned, his expression dripping with malice. He had smiled like this before, but it had never felt so evil.
"The Nika Fruit... you actually tried to replicate the Nika Fruit?" Saturn was stunned. The other Elders and Imu also heard this. When they learned Roy had copied the Nika Fruit, they were equally shocked.
"Obviously, my replication failed. Instead, it produced this… thing. Still, I managed to tame its wildness. Otherwise, it would have killed me outright." Roy chuckled.
He had forcefully subdued this fruit, killing it repeatedly until someone could consume it without dying and instead gain the ability to master it. Only then did Roy know it had been tamed.
The fruit's power would no longer actively take over a human body.
However, the fruit's inherent twisted nature remained unchanged. Normally, Roy could suppress it with his Conqueror's Haki, but once he used its power, it became so repulsive that even dogs would disdain it.
Yet without it, he could never have killed an Elder, let alone kept them from resurrecting.
The death of Saint Marcus proved it: they were not invincible. Roy's power could now kill them.
"I named this fruit… the Black Sun. It has the devouring trait of the Dark-Dark Fruit, swallowing other devil fruit abilities, and it also shares the Nika Fruit's trait, power limited only by imagination. For example, this."
Roy reached into a swirl of black mist and pulled out a spear, seemingly conjured from nothing.
He hurled it straight at Saturn.
"Pffft!"
The spear pierced Saturn's body. At once, his movements froze, his abilities fading.
"By the way, anything I create shares the same trait as my ability; it can restrict all Devil Fruit powers. Right now, you can't connect to the others, can you? You're cut off from Imu."
Saturn tried, and indeed, his link with the other Elders was severed. Even Imu was out of reach.
"I don't fully understand this ability myself. It feels limitless; anything I imagine, I can do. If I want to fly, I can fly. But there's always a voice in my head… telling me to destroy."
Half his face twisted in a smile, half expressionless, Roy continued coldly. "Whatever it is, one fact is certain: I've gained the power to kill you."
"This power will kill you as well, you'll die by it too!" Saturn roared.
"That's fine. This power was born already awakened. Within my lifetime, I'll find a way to erase it. Of course, you won't live to see that. You call yourself a scientist, but compared to Vegapunk… no, you're not even as good as Caesar."
Saturn spat blood again, shaking with rage. Vegapunk, he could tolerate being inferior to, but Caesar?!
"You dare… insult me by saying I'm beneath him?!" His fury boiled. He grabbed the spear in his chest, trying to pull it out.
But the spear turned into black fire.
"Arghhh!!!" Saturn screamed in agony as the flames consumed him. At last, the connection with the other Elders snapped back, allowing them to hear his dying cries.
"Listen… his power… it's… un… stop- "
Before he could finish, his body was reduced to ash, leaving only a pile of bones.
Roy looked down, half smiling, half indifferent. "Interesting. Seems this power hurts devil fruit users even more. Do you hate ability users, I wonder?"
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