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Chapter 176 Emperor's Fall- Dragon's Tears
The sword light of thunder and fire tore through the sky, and a ten-thousand-foot-long pillar of light fell down, as if to cut off the entire Ghost Island in one fell swoop!
"Elbaf's Spear·Hakoku!!!"
Charlotte Linlin roared with a shrill wail, and the souls of the three Homies were burned out and merged into this fatal blow!
Thunder and fire intertwined to form a destructive giant blade of thunder and fire, slashing down towards Akainu and Rogge ten thousand meters in the sky!
"Drink it—Great Eruption!!!"
Sakazuki roared, magma gushed out, and his right fist burned like a red sun!
"Air Shock Extreme Pressure Cannon!!!"
Rogge raised his palm and pressed the air, and a transparent cyclone distorted the sky, forming a continuously collapsing air bomb core!
The two of them combined their fists, achieving the ultimate resonance of Haki and the fruit!
"Boom!!!"
The airspace exploded!
Three forces beyond the emperor level collided violently in the sky, causing a collapse storm comparable to doomsday!
The super-pressure explosion spiral pierced through the clouds like a pillar of heaven, and the entire shell of Ghost Island cracked. Sea water rushed in from the cracks, turning into a doomsday torrent!
The lava and air formed an intertwined spiral, colliding head-on with the thunder and fire slash!
"Ka-ka-ka-!!!"
The sky was cut apart!
The Ghost Island was shaken violently, the rock layers cracked, and a large area of the volcanic core beneath the island collapsed!
The seawater poured back into the bottom of the island from the fault, echoing like the cry of ghosts!
"MAMAMAMA——!!!"
Linlin's eyes were bloodshot, and her entire body was shattered by the shock wave!
The three great Hormies, Zeus, Prometheus, and Napoleon, completely disintegrated and turned into fire dust in the void.
She fell to her knees, the flame of her soul flickering like a candle in the wind. The former Four Emperors now even spoke with a hoarse voice:
"My...Wan Guo..."
"My children..."
Decades of memories flashed through my mind, and I recalled every little detail of the past.
"Hey, Roger... why did you say those things..."
"In the era of the Great Pirates...it would be better if you died and put an end to it all,"
"But those little brats who have made a name for themselves around the world, those powerful Marines..."
"We have to deal with these annoying guys... Do you hear me, Roger, tell me to die before you die..."
"One Piece really exists, right?"
"There's something there. Is there something in this country too...?"
"Sister...Carmelite..."
As my blood-stained fingertips dug into the ground, childhood memories flashed through my mind like a revolving lantern:
a caramel pie shared by Lamb's House;
The birthday song on the day my companion disappeared;
The Soul Soul Fruit that suddenly awakened within him;
"Ah...I can't accept this..."
——"Goodbye, Big Mom."
Zephyr stepped forward, surrounded by green flames, his right fist raised high, falling like a flaming meteor!
boom!!!
With one punch, Linlin's giant body was blasted into the ground by the blue flames, turning into a charred shell in the flames. The Four Emperors of Thunder and Fire, Charlotte Linlin - finally died!
"No… no—!"
Smoothie's body was charred, but he still instinctively pointed his finger towards his mother...
Enel's lightning roared, and the lightning spear was like a divine punishment, piercing her heart and nailing her to the rock wall.
Amidst the echo of thunder and lightning, the last general fell.
At the same moment, Monkey D. Dragon's figure, which had once caused a storm, quietly transformed into a green whirlwind in a corner of the battlefield and dissipated into nothingness.
But his eyes were as cold as the night.
On the scorched earth of Onigashima, magma is still surging, flames illuminate the smoke-filled ruins, and the wind echoes with the echoes of Rhett and Bullet's roaring confrontation.
Kaido collapsed into the rock, covered in blood, but suddenly stopped after a heavy punch!
"Bang!"
He slowly raised his head, his body covered in blood, his breathing heavy, but his eyes did not seem to be looking at the enemy in front of him, but rather seeing through the flames into the distant past.
The huge half-dragon body, as big as a mountain, was as stiff as a rock. Before the fist landed, Haki disappeared, and it seemed as if the pulse of the entire battlefield had stagnated.
His aura dissipated, and Haki was withdrawn like a tide.
"Hello,"
The voice was low and broken, like a rusty blade rubbing against the throat.
"Did you notice..."
Lei Te frowned and clenched his fists vigilantly: "...What do you want to do?"
Bullet also stopped his attack and watched coldly.
The next moment——
"Linlin was defeated aa ...
It was a roar that tore from the depths of the lungs!
Like the wail of a fallen god, the destructive Conqueror's Haki exploded instantly, sweeping across the sky!
"boom--!!!"
The entire Ghost Island shook violently, the remaining walls collapsed, dust and smoke rose from the scorched earth, and the dark clouds in the sky were actually shaken to roll!
Kaido roared to the sky, his voice like thunder piercing the sky, and Conqueror's Haki erupted in rage, sweeping across the entire island like a landslide!
The remaining pirates had already lost their will to fight and were now trembling, as if they could sense some kind of desperate roar tearing the entire island apart.
Kaido roared to the sky, and then seemed to have lost all his strength.
He covered his head tightly with his dragon claw-like hands, his entire body trembling, while in his mind, he kept flashing back to the sounds and images that had long been sunk into the deepest part of his memory.
Deep in my mind, a long-faded memory suddenly emerged——
On the Rocks Pirates, young Linlin's smile was particularly rough and bright.
"Hey, kid—have you got a mouth?"
"Can you speak?"
"How old are you?"
"15? That's so young!"
"Is this your first time working with Rocks? Don't trust him. Come to me if you have any problems."
"My name is Linlin, and I'm the woman who will become the king of this ocean!"
"Please take care of me—!"
The scene changes to decades later, deep in Onigashima, at the banquet on the eve of the alliance.
Liquor was spilled everywhere, and Kaido and Linlin sat on the ground.
Charlotte Linlin gulped down her sweet wine and laughed heartily:
"I still consider you my brother, Kaido."
"On the day Rocks was destroyed, in the Valley of the Gods, I snatched the 'Fish-Fish Fruit·Mythical Beast·Blue Dragon Form' from them and gave it to you!"
"This is a lifetime favor, Kaido."
"…Whatever you say."
He responded coldly at that time, but never denied it.
But at that moment, his cup gently clinked with Linlin's for the first time.
"bite."
Now, the sound of wine still seems to be ringing in my ears, but all this can never be undone.
Kaido covered his head and fell to his knees, blood and tears flowing out from the gaps between his scales.
"To sum up—"
"Really... We've known each other for a long time, old lady..."
He murmured, his whole body shaking like an active volcano that could collapse at any moment.
What a pity...
"We just agreed... to go grab ONE PIECE together--!!!"
The image in his mind was that night when Linlin and he sat on the floor, both drunk.
"ONE PIECE... If we get it, will we be able to rule the world?"
"We are not fit to be kings... but we are fit to destroy those kings, hahahaha!"
They laughed wildly, drank, fought, fell down and got up again...
The dragon's pupils finally collapsed, tears gushed out, and evaporated into white mist on the high-temperature scales.
He roared to the sky, his throat torn, hoarse like the elegy of a dying beast!
In his mind, there are every fragment of them killing enemies together, drinking together, arguing together and standing side by side.
It was the anger he felt when Linlin called him a "stupid dragon", it was the stubbornness he showed when Linlin advised him to drink less, it was the rainstorm and thunderclouds they had witnessed side by side, it was the "bond" he had once disdained but never denied.
They were the only "relatives" in his life.
Now, only blood and ashes remain.
The battlefield is silent, the flames are silent.
Rhett and Bullet did not make a move.
Even the G5 soldiers stood still at this moment, as if they could hear the dragon's heartbreaking sound.
Like a beast without a soul, Kaido of the Beasts weeps alone on the scorched earth of war.