Seizing the moment when no one noticed him, King cautiously flew across the sea surface toward Katakuri's vicinity.
Seeing the horrific injuries on the two ice-encased figures, King shuddered, his face paling in shock.
"Damn it! Katakuri is wounded this badly? Who the hell are those people?"
Immediately, King wrapped his hand in Haki and forcefully pried open the ice layer before him, rescuing the trapped Katakuri and Yamato.
"Katakuri! Yamato!"
King leaned in close, calling their names in a low voice, but received no response.
His heart sank.
"This won't do! Their injuries are too severe. Wait—I remember Caesar-sama gave Katakuri a vial of his blood. Did he already drink it, or is it not on him? No matter what, the priority now is to get them out of here!"
As he thought this, King pulled out a Den Den Mushi and a folded mirror from his pocket.
He quickly dialed Brulee's number.
Brulee's voice came through the other end.
"King, what's the matter?"
"Brulee! It's urgent! Use your Mirror World to transport Katakuri and Yamato immediately—they're critically injured!" King spoke rapidly while carefully observing the distant battle with his Observation Haki.
Fortunately, the fight over there was intense, and it didn't seem like it would conclude anytime soon.
...
Back on Whole Cake Island, Brulee's expression changed drastically.
She hurried to a large mirror and dove straight into it.
As the user of the Mirror-Mirror Fruit, Brulee's Mirror World allowed her to travel swiftly to any location with a mirror.
Diving into the mirror before her, she quickly located the specially marked mirrors used for teleporting to specific places or people.
When King pulled out the mirror, he couldn't help but slap himself while cursing.
"I'm such an idiot! I should've used Brulee's ability to come to Sweet Island from the start! Then I could've arrived instantly!"
Truly, fear breeds carelessness!
When Brulee poked her head out from the unfolded mirror, she saw Katakuri lying on the ground.
The sight of Katakuri—covered in blood and missing his right arm—nearly made Brulee faint from shock.
"Pull yourself together, Brulee! We need to hurry. I'll help get them to Whole Cake Island for treatment!" King barked, immediately scooping up Katakuri and carrying him into the Mirror World.
Brulee snapped out of her daze with a shudder and hastily lifted the unconscious Yamato onto her back before rushing into the mirror.
BOOM!
A massive shockwave swept past, shattering the unfolded mirror on the ground into pieces!
Inside the Mirror World, King—holding Katakuri—and Brulee—carrying Yamato—had just entered when they heard the crisp sound of shattering behind them.
Their faces instantly paled.
"Damn it! The mirror over there is broken! Brulee, quick, check if there are any other mirrors left on Sweet Island!"
Brulee panted, carrying Yamato on her back as she scanned the mirror world briefly before shaking her head.
"I can't sense any. The energy fluctuations on Sweet Island are extremely unstable. It seems all the mirrors there have been shattered."
"FUCK!"
King cursed in frustration but had no choice.
He could only follow Brulee to get the two severely injured individuals to treatment first.
...
Meanwhile, on Sweet Island!
A massive crocodile let out thunderous roars.
Its enormous tail, covered in bone spikes, swept horizontally, smashing frozen buildings into scattered fragments as if they were tofu.
In contrast, the Blood Demon's human-sized frame seemed minuscule in comparison.
As the colossal crocodile thrashed its head and tail, Haki Infusion surged violently, leaving devastation in its wake.
Just the two of them were nearly reducing the entire island to ruins.
"Haki Infusion! Starlit Moonlight!"
The Blood Demon wielded a slender rapier, flipping upside-down as he slashed through the crimson lightning filling the sky.
Countless sword beams tore through the air, shredding the scales covering Otto's body.
Blood sprayed in all directions, staining the ground beneath him red.
"Roar! Divine Fang Devour!"
Otto roared skyward, his massive maw lined with razor-sharp fangs opening wide as if to swallow the sky, aiming to clamp down on the Blood Demon's body.
Even the gleaming white tips of his fangs were coated in pitch-black Conqueror's Haki, amplifying their lethality to terrifying levels!
If this bite landed, even Diamond Jozu would be snapped in two!
The Blood Demon's body exploded into countless black bats, scattering before reforming behind Otto's mountainous frame.
Gripping his rapier, his aura surged violently. Raising the blade, visible Haki energy flowed along its length, making it gleam like a divine weapon!
His chest heaved as he suddenly bellowed, muscles bulging on his arms, tearing through his black-and-red cloud-patterned robe.
With a straight thrust, he pierced Otto's spine!
"Haki Infusion! Soulrending Thrust!"
A razor-sharp sword aura, infused with the Blood Demon's peak Armament Haki and the overwhelming power of Conqueror's Haki, instantly made Otto release a deafening howl of agony.
A gaping wound, clear through from front to back, had been pierced into the mountainous crocodile's back—right through his hardest body part, the spinal column!
Boom!
Otto spewed torrents of blood from his maw, his colossal body toppling forward like a collapsing mountain.
For a moment, the entire Sweet Island trembled.
The Blood Demon, devoid of any human emotion, knew nothing of mercy.
Once again, he dissolved into a swarm of bats, flying to Otto's wound.
Raising his rapier high, he brought it down with a devastating slash!
"Haki Infusion! Starlit Sun Halo!"
The crimson solar flare reappeared, like a falling sun or a meteor, unleashing crimson divine punishment lightning that tore through everything within a thousand meters, completely engulfing Otto's mountainous form!
BOOM!
In an instant, accompanied by an earth-shattering explosion, a circular shockwave sent air currents surging, stirring up hurricane-force winds.
Above Sweet Island, all clouds were wiped away as if by an invisible hand, revealing a clear and boundless sky in the blink of an eye!
Golden Axe, who had been fighting alongside World and pushing the Ice Demon back step by step, suddenly paled in horror as he turned his gaze toward Otto's direction.
"That bastard Otto, could he really have been killed by Redfield so quickly? Impossible! He's an awakened Zoan user with an indomitable physique. Even Garp back in the day wouldn't have ended a fight this fast. Was Redfield at his peak really this strong? How the hell did that bastard Caesar manage to subdue him?"
"Roaring Dragon Shatters Sky!!"
Just as Golden Axe was distracted by the Blood Demon's devastating attack, a hundred-meter-long ice-blue dragon unleashed a breath that sent World flying through the air.
At that moment, three figures arrived belatedly, swift as the wind!
Gin took the lead, roaring as he drew twin hammers from his waist.
The pitch-black hammerheads were enveloped in a surge of white energy, unleashing overwhelming shockwaves.
The muscles on his arms bulged like burial mounds, while the demonic contours of his back muscles grew even more terrifying.
He dove straight down from the sky, hammers blazing, and smashed the unprepared World into the ground with a single strike!
Immediately after, the frozen earth erupted with white threads that transformed into countless ink-black spikes, shooting toward Golden Axe's face like a storm!
"Thousand Arrow Piercing Heart—Feather Strike—Thread!"
Golden Axe was momentarily stunned but swiftly raised his golden axe.
Above, swirling yellow sand filled the sky as a man with a cigar clenched between his teeth appeared out of thin air.
His right arm resembled a massive wing, composed of countless grains of sand that rapidly condensed into pitch-black, razor-sharp greatswords.
They tore through the air with a howl, slashing toward Golden Axe!
"Desert Diamond Treasure Sword!"
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