"Pops, Pops!"
"Red-Haired Shanks requests an audience!"
On the pirate ship, the crew shouted.
"Let him aboard."
"Kid, did you remember to bring good liquor?"
Whitebeard's gaze turned to the sea.
"Red-Hair?"
Satan looked out as well and saw a pirate ship drawing nearer and nearer.
One of the Four Emperors, Red-Hair.
Rumor had it he was a user of the Face-Face Fruit.
He wanted to see what was truly special about the real Red-Hair.
In Satan's sight, the Red-Haired Pirates' ship closed in. Before long, the two ships met.
"Red-Hair is coming aboard."
Jozu's face grew solemn.
"Young ones, fall back. Your bodies won't withstand it."
Marco warned them.
Satan did not move.
In the tale, Red-Hair appeared and let Conqueror's Haki run wild. The weak dropped where they stood.
It was also a chance to learn Conqueror's Haki.
Seize.
Could he seize Conqueror's Haki?
Satan was curious.
Almost at once, pirates began collapsing. Heavy footsteps sounded across the deck.
Boom.
Boom.
Boom.
One pirate after another hit the planks.
Panic rippled through the crew.
"Do not panic. They are only unconscious."
"Half-baked wills cannot stay awake before that man."
The commanders spoke, long used to Red-Hair's presence.
"The power of a Yonko."
On the deck, a red-haired man walked step by step, dragging a huge sake gourd. With every stride the ship trembled. He was not tall, even looked a bit lean among men of this world, yet no one in the Whitebeard Pirates dared slight him.
He was Red-Hair, one of the Four Emperors.
Step.
Step.
Step.
With each step the pressure deepened. It was as if an ancient giant pressed down upon heaven and earth. Under that terrifying Haki, Satan felt his mind teeter.
The power of a Yonko was this dreadful.
Would he really fall here?
Would he truly bow before Red-Hair's will?
No. Never.
A defiant voice rose in Satan's heart. His pride would not allow him to fall. Under Red-Hair's pressure, his fighting spirit surged. A boiling battle intent erupted within him.
"I am the Seven Deadly Sins."
Satan threw back his head and roared.
He would never fall to mere Haki.
With a wild shout, he felt a force within his body awaken. Under an invisible current, his will shook heaven and earth. A mighty aura burst from him. Without using Seize, with will alone, he shattered Red-Hair's pressure.
Wind and cloud churned above him. In that instant, Satan was like a king between heaven and earth, and all things seemed ready to bow beneath his feet.
A king. A god.
Boom.
Boom.
Boom.
On Whitebeard's ship, more and more men dropped. Those who remained felt themselves wrapped in Satan's presence.
Throats worked as the surviving pirates stared, bodies locked as if frozen in place. Even Whitebeard was taken aback. Red-Hair halted and looked Satan's way.
All eyes were wide with confusion as they fixed on Satan.
"Conqueror's Haki."
At last Marco cried out.
Satan had awakened Conqueror's Haki at this very moment.
A talent one in ten thousand.
Across the entire Whitebeard Pirates, only one man possessed it.
Whitebeard.
Yet Satan had awakened Conqueror's Haki, and so overwhelming. The scene felt unreal to Marco.
"Monster," Vista muttered.
"Conqueror's Haki. I'm not seeing things, am I?"
"You're not. It's Conqueror's Haki."
Jozu's voice was low.
Silence fell again over the ship.
Conqueror's Haki.
A king's aptitude.
In all the Whitebeard Pirates, only Whitebeard had it.
Now Satan had it too.
Before this, Satan had only just learned what Haki was.
Was it because of Red-Hair's presence?
Could he glimpse a power and grasp it with a glance?
Satan was too abnormal.
At Satan's age others were still playing in the mud.
Astonishment filled every face, along with envy.
Ding. Envy detected. Absorb.
Absorb complete. Gained 1300 Envy points. Random Spirit +130.
Ding. Envy has broken through the initial stage. Secret Technique awakened: Invasion.
Invasion: manipulate an opponent's memory and perception; all whose Spirit is lower can be invaded.
"An instant breakthrough."
Satan was stunned.
Awakening Conqueror's Haki was one thing, but obtaining 1300 points of Envy at once was unprecedented. Had Conqueror's Haki stirred envy across the ship?
Invasion, the power to grasp memories.
Even stronger.