Chapter 15
One Piece: Legacy of the Pirate King
Lightning danced along the edges of Ecliptoris.
The mountain groaned.
Reality trembled.
Inside the Spiral of Echoes, the obsidian prison that had sealed Eidolyn for centuries had shattered—not with brute force, but with a whisper.
And now, Lian was gone.
One blink. One flicker. One soft breath between heartbeats.
Luffy had reached out to grab him, but the child vanished into thin air—no Haki trace, no sound, no scent.
Only a fading echo:
"I remember… every version of you."
Cymos stood in stunned silence, the Core pulsing violently in his chest.
"That seal was bound with the blood of three gods. It shouldn't have broken."
Luffy's hands trembled—not with fear, but with fury.
"He took my son."
"No," Cymos said grimly. "He took your son's possibilities."
Inside the Mirror World.
Lian awoke in a sea of glass.
Not water.
Not stone.
But reflections.
Each ripple around him formed a pane—floating shards showing hundreds of lives.
In one, he wore a golden crown, armies bowing before him as the world burned.
In another, he stood over the graves of the Straw Hats, aged beyond reason, a hollow man of peace.
In another still, he was laughing wildly atop a ship made of flame, surrounded by pirates with sun tattoos.
Each version of himself stared back.
Then, from between the mirrors… Eidolyn stepped forth.
His body was shifting, made of Lian's face—but older, darker, crueler.
He didn't speak with a voice.
He spoke with memories.
"In one path, you betray your father.
In another, you become him.
In one, you burn the seas to protect your mother.
In one, you fail her."
Lian stood tall.
"You're lying."
Eidolyn stepped closer.
"Am I?"
The mirror beside them flickered. Lian saw Hancock, wounded and screaming, as he—the future him—walked away into a throne of corpses.
"Each path exists. Each one is you," Eidolyn whispered. "I am not your enemy. I am your truth."
And behind him, all the Lians from every mirror turned.
Dozens.
Hundreds.
All of them different.
Some wore smiles.
Others bore weapons.
One carried Luffy's straw hat, stained with blood.
And they all whispered in one voice:
"Choose us."
Back in the real world, Luffy stood atop the Spiral, fists clenched.
"I'm going in," he growled.
Cymos blocked his path. "You can't. That realm only responds to the child's essence."
Luffy's Haki flared white-hot. "Then give me his essence."
Cymos sighed.
And stabbed Luffy in the chest.
The blade wasn't steel—but memory.
Luffy gasped as scenes from Lian's life rushed into him: his first laugh, his first step, his first punch, the way he looked at Luffy with unshakable trust.
And with that—Luffy vanished.
Inside the Mirror World.
The sea of glass cracked as a ripple tore across the sky.
Eidolyn flinched.
From above, a bolt of white thunder dropped like a sun crashing down.
And Luffy landed—Gear Fifth awakened, his body glowing with Chrono Haki, his grin wild and defiant.
"I told you once," he growled. "You don't get to write my kid's story."
He threw a punch at the closest mirror—shattering it.
The tyrant Lian dissolved into light.
He shattered another.
And another.
And another.
Each false path broken by sheer will.
Eidolyn screamed, growing taller, darker, made now of every failed version of Lian.
"You can't erase what already is!" he bellowed.
"I'm not erasing," Luffy said. "I'm choosing."
He turned to the real Lian.
"Your future isn't written. So pick the one you believe in."
Lian looked around—the mirrors now warping.
One reflected him sailing beside his father and mother, laughing with a crew of children.
One showed him training with Zoro's daughter.
One showed him older, peaceful, the Sea King whisperer who rebuilt Raftel into a sanctuary for all.
He reached out and touched the kindest version.
The mirror shattered.
And Eidolyn screamed.
His body broke apart.
The memory monsters collapsed.
And Lian—eyes glowing gold—raised his hand and said:
"I choose to protect… not rule."
Light exploded.
And the Mirror World collapsed.
They awoke at the Spiral's summit, back in Ecliptoris.
Luffy gasped, sitting up, sweat pouring from his brow. Lian was already awake, hugging him tightly.
"I saw all the ways I could lose myself," Lian whispered.
"And you didn't," Luffy replied.
Cymos stood beside them, arms crossed.
"You've passed the Trial of Versions."
He pointed to the sky, where the stars now spun like clockwork.
"The Sky Collapse begins in one year. But now… you can stop it."
Far away…
In the ruins of Enies Lobby, a figure stood on the edge of a broken clock tower.
He wore a black coat and smiled as the sea beneath him warped in strange spirals.
"Luffy's boy passed the trial," he murmured. "Good."
He turned, revealing an X scar over his eye.
It was Sabo.
"The revolution isn't over yet."
End of Chapter 15
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