"Rosen."
After leaving the castle, Gecko Moria looked up and gazed into the distance.
Because the dark clouds and thick fog of the Florian Triangle were torn apart by Conqueror's Haki, allowing the sea to see the light of day again, he immediately spotted Rosen standing above Thriller Bark.
Upon hearing Gecko Moria's words, Rosen slowly lowered his head, his eyes, gleaming with a scarlet light, fixed on the other person.
Just from the moment their eyes met, Gecko Moria felt a chill run down his spine.
A fear I'd never felt before gripped my heart.
Even when Kaido slaughtered all of his subordinates, this never happened.
Now.
Just one glance from Rosen was enough to overwhelm him with a terrifying sense of dread.
"You should know that."
"Gecko Moria".
Rosen looked down at Gecko Moria.
"Don't go too far."
"Rosen."
"I am one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea."
Upon hearing this, Gecko Moria habitually replied.
"Of course I know you are a Seven Warlords of the Sea."
"I also understand more clearly now that all you can lose is the title of Seven Warlords of the Sea."
Rosen's words caused Gecko Moria's expression to change drastically, involuntarily recalling the scenes of his crushing defeat at Kaido's hands and the loss of all his subordinates.
"you."
Gecko Moria had a gloomy face and seemed about to say something, but Rosen had no interest in dawdling with the weakest of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.
"The greetings have been given."
Let's get straight to the point.
"Do you want to maintain your dignity, or do I want to help you maintain your dignity?"
Rosen swung an oversized collar directly in front of Gecko Moria.
"Don't push your luck."
"Rosen."
"When I roamed the seas, you weren't even in the Marines."
Looking at the collar in front of him, Gecko Moria's face turned pale and then purple.
How could he possibly accept such a humiliating fact?
Even though there were precedents among the Seven Warlords of the Sea, such as Dracule Mihawk and Donquixote Doflamingo, who wore collars, the pirates in this world all share a common problem.
Even knowing they are no match, they will still choose to fight.
Donquixote Doflamingo is like that.
The same goes for Dracule Mihawk.
Crocodile remains the same.
Even Gecko Moria, the weakest of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, was no exception.
"Tsuno-Tokage!"
Gecko Moria roared and lashed out with his right hand a long hair formed from shadow, carrying terrifying power enough to pierce through giants, which flew through the air and struck Rosen.
Bang
Seeing this, Rosen calmly extended a finger and, under Gecko Moria's stunned gaze, pointed it at the Shadow Spear.
Boom
With a roaring shockwave spreading across the sky, the shadow spear, which could pierce even a mountain, was stopped in front of him with a single finger.
How could that be?
Upon seeing this, Gecko Moria was so shocked that his legs seemed to move uncontrollably, and he took several steps backward.
This is his strongest attack move.
When facing Kaido, he used the Tsuno-Tokage wrapped in Armament Haki to even repel the strongest creature in the sea, land and air.
Although it only repels and cannot break through defenses, its power should not be underestimated.
However.
Such an attack was completely blocked by Rosen with just one finger.
Let alone repel them, they couldn't even make Rosen take a step back or even sway.
Is this your choice?
Rosen glanced at the horrified Gecko Moria, and a powerful burst of Conqueror's Haki erupted from his index finger, which was pressing against the Shadow Spear.
Sizzle
The spear formed from Gecko Moria's shadow was immediately knocked back to its original form, reverting to its shadow shape. Unable to withstand the impact of this Haki, it was torn apart like a man being ripped apart by five horses, exploding in mid-air.
One piece in the east, one piece in the west.
Scattered in every corner.
Gecko Moria wanted to use the Shadow-Shadow Fruit to restore his shattered shadows, but found that the restoration speed was extremely slow.
Obviously.
It was because of Rosen's Conqueror's Haki that his Devil Fruit ability was greatly affected.
Just as Gecko Moria was trying to restore the shadow to its original state, Rosen had already disappeared from the sky above the castle, leaving a trail of afterimages that were hard to distinguish from reality as he flashed in front of Gecko Moria and then brushed past him.
Clang
Pfft
A flash of light.
Gecko Moria froze, his body stopping abruptly as if struck by a pressure point. Then, a gruesome slash, like a centipede, crawled from his right shoulder all the way to his abdomen.
Pfft
Blood flowed like a torrent, splattering into the air.
Before the blood could fall from the sky, a heavy thud was heard first.
Gecko Moria's knees buckled, and he collapsed forward with a thud. His obese body sprawled on the ground, blood seeping from the wound on his chest, quickly staining the ground red and forming a pool of blood.
His eyes, brimming with shock, glanced behind him and realized that Rosen had somehow appeared behind him.
Even though he was clearly cut by swords, he couldn't see any sword in Rosen's hand.
"A pirate of your caliber is a hundred years too early to die by my Zanpakutō."
Rosen didn't turn around, nor did he meet Gecko Moria's gaze, but he immediately saw through Moria's thoughts.
"you!"
Gecko Moria's pale face instantly contorted into a grotesque, demonic expression:
"There should be a limit to how much you should look down on someone!"
"Rosen."
"You better remember this: I am Gecko Moria!"
He roared through gritted teeth as he slapped his hand on the blood-soaked ground.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh
As Gecko Moria struck the ground, countless shadows burst forth from all directions.
These shadows, like swallows returning to their nests, rushed towards him and then eagerly merged into his body.
Each time a shadow merges into his body, his aura grows stronger and his size increases slightly.
Under the constant flow of shadows, Gecko Moria, who had previously lost the ability to fight and was unable to get up, actually stood up from the pool of blood, and his size even surpassed that of the giants.
He became as massive and enormous as Oars.
Because of his increased size, he, who was originally only able to be looked down upon by Rosen, is now the one looking down at Rosen from above.
"You didn't expect that, did you!"
"Rosen."
"Even if you destroy my zombie army and let all the shadows in the zombies return to their masters, I will still have shadows to use."
Gecko Moria grinned maliciously, like a demon god descending from the heavens, exuding a terrifying aura. At the same time, he cast a huge shadow under the light of the blazing sun overhead, covering Rosen.
He was one of the witnesses to the battle between Rosen and Kaido at Marine Headquarters.
Naturally, he knew that as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, he would inevitably be Rosen's prey.
So he hasn't been staying home all the time these days, being a couch potato.
They were prepared to deal with Rosen.
Before Rosen arrived in the Florian Triangle, Gecko Moria had already changed his usual lazy lifestyle and started hunting pirates and collecting shadows in this dark and sunless sea.
These extra shadows were not used to create a zombie army, but were stored up as a reserve of their own combat power.
This was to prepare for the possibility of General Death descending upon the Florian Triangle at any moment.
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