One Piece: Reborn and Skypiean

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Chapter 256

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With Kaido down, three Emperors have been overthrown by Amon. This news and realization has made the world go back to chaos.

Amon's bounty was also updated, although the Sins were not updated as the Marines were unaware of the details of the battle at Wano. Ammon's gift now stands at 5,500,000,000. In other words, only 64 million 800 thousand fewer berries than Gol D. Roger, Pirate King.

The people who regarded the destruction of Skypiea as a sign to devour the territory of the Celestial Emperor, immediately stopped. Some foolish brave men did not do it, but it took a week for Amon to make an example of them all .

Yet...

"They won't put a number on Roger until I defeat all the Emperors, tsk ."

On the Marines' attempt to devalue him, Amon was amused if anything. It was a decent time-pass challenge. He didn't really care about the bounty like before, but he really didn't care 100% when he was at the top .

It fulfilled Amon's wish as well. He planned to let things go unhurriedly and hunt down the Emperor only a few years later, but what Imu did... It was like a warning to Amon from the world itself, telling him that he could not play around until he was truly the Absolute in the world.

That is, after he finished with the Emperor, it was Imu-sama's turn. Amon wouldn't train for decades before releasing Imu—unlike he had planned before—in contrast, he would kill the old peep as soon as possible.

So, he began to search for Shanks after calming down the pirates who took advantage of the destruction of his headquarters.

It's been a month since then.

But there is no progress.

The planet is enormous, several times larger than the previous world of Amon. However, even with the satellite Amon had in planetary orbit, even with his further Godly Observation Haki being driven by his dozens of clones, Amon was unable to find Shanks at all.

Surprisingly, he was unable to find Monkey D. Dragon too, so it clicked . 

Rayleigh is dead, so the best teacher for Luffy is the Dragon himself or Shanks if the red-haired Emperor has time for it. The latter must have happened here since Shanks and Dragon— along with his entire Headquarters disappeared at the same time.

The Dragon was rumored to have spatial abilities among the more powerful beings in this world, so Amon was pretty sure he had moved his headquarters underground in some parts of the world, he said, or he has gone to a separate dimension as a whole like the Door or Dimension of the mirror.

In both cases it was—it meant Amon had no way of reaching them until they decided to crawl out on their own. Which was a pretty annoying development since he just wanted to finish off Shanks.

'Should have killed him earlier ..' thought Amon. 'Again, I shouldn't hunt the Emperor this early.'

 In addition, something not too disturbing is also happening all over the world.

Nico Robin sat across the table with a poster-sized page in her hand as she stared at him while wearing glasses.

"You see this? Lately become famous."

Amon nodded. "I did see it. It's pretty funny, I think. They didn't even try to hide the truth that they were basically trying to invite me there and kill me."

Robin nodded. "Yes. To be honest, I don't see any smart people in that line of thinking. They basically invited you to their graves. I mean, how do they plan to kill someone who can move as fast as lightning ?"

Amon shrugged his shoulders. "Oh well, they're people, and those people are stupid."

Robin giggles. "Then you call me stupid too?" He shook his head slowly. "By the way, what are you going to do? The New Roger Pirates were holding it, and they called it the 'Pirate Festival'. Thousands of pirates will gather there because of Pose Louge to Laughtale. The New Roger Pirates invite you specifically as their 'VIP Guest' as well. I'm sure you know their motives more than my 'stupid' mind can understand. So, are you going to ignore it or keep going?"

A glass of coffee was teleported in Amon's hand, he took a sip and then nodded. “Well, they are the walking devil fruit. Along with the fact that the 'New' Roger Pirates have been troublesome for a while, I see no reason not to go. ”

There should be dozens of demons from those thousands of pirates. Some are supposed to be quite extraordinary, such as the Douglas Bullet Clang-Bang Fruit, and the Worst Generation, the Kid— Eustass Magnet-Magnet Fruit that should theoretically complement its control over Electromagnetism.

'Talking about the Worst Generation, I should have been considered one of them as well because of the period of time where I turned into a Pirate from a Warlord.' Amon thought leisurely. "Speaking about funny."

"Oh? I understand." Robin nodded as he pushed his glasses back. “The festival is seven days away, so I suggest you get ready.”

"Okay, but ..." Amon put down his coffee and leaned over his face. “What's wrong with your eyes, baby? Are you having problems with your vision? First time seeing you wearing glasses.”

Robin flashes. "O-hh, don't worry it's okay." He said before he breathed. “I... have been staying up late for a few weeks due to all the problems caused by the destruction of Skypiea. Things aren't really smooth, you know. I think my eyes are a bit tense because they work too much.”

"Oh." Amon put on a worried face as he put his palm over his eyes, pushing his glasses up. “Why didn't you tell me about it back then? You know I can cure him, right?”

White flames lit up from Amon's palm as Robin smiled gently. 

“You are a busy person now, I don't think it's worth bothering you with such a small problem.”

Amon approved that hundred percent.

Maintaining his worries, he pulled back his hand. “Of course not, Robin. What do you mean 'little material'? Your eyes are very important.”

Amon's body disappears and Robin's body disappears. Next, Amon reappeared in his chair with Robin on his lap, looking slightly surprised.

"Oh ..." He blinked before a smile appeared on his face. "Well, now I'm fine, aren't I?" Then he leaned over to put his head on his chest. “If you are very worried, can I stay like this for 5 minutes? I'm sure this will cure me more than your fruit.”

As his eyes were closed by his chest, Amon's eyes turned slightly irritated before he sighed in his mind, though he still nodded. "Of course, I'm all for you."

Perhaps creating dozens of mindless Robin clones would be more efficient... Then again, she sometimes liked this little nuisance, at least distracting from the momentary boredom.

—★—

A week later, it was the time of the Pirate Festival.

Raki hummed to herself as the warm water from the shower fell on her face. He rubbed the soap all over his body, stopping to feel *********** several times, before continuing to move the soap throughout the body.

In simple words, she enjoyed her time bathing in Alabasta Palace. However, it didn't last as long as Bzzt~ - The driver boomed in the bathroom and the next moment he found himself pulled by his arm in the sky, naked.

"What's a—?!" Raki shouted loudly as the wind hit his face, wiping the soap foam. "A-what the fuck, bro?! What are you doing?!"

The wind suppressed his voice and he sounded like he was shouting from a distance.

Wet hair slapped his eyes and entered his mouth as his body spun while he could only see Amon's back. 

"Fuck! Unhand me!" He yelled. "Fuck up! Let me go-"

His hands were released at just the right moment as his body began to fall. Before he could fall too much, his body enlarged and he turned into a huge Azure Dragon. 

He looked almost like Kaido, except for a few changes. The main thing was that he had two large wings on his back, large enough to cover a large mansion. Furthermore, he had no Oden scar, no beard and also two horns. But he still had the terrifying face of Kaido.

"What's wrong with you"

Prostituting him, Amon teleported in his head, sitting casually with his hands grabbing his large horn.

"Shut your mouth and fly forward." He said, as a rope made of white electricity wrapped around his jaw, stopping him from saying anything. "We'll see the world burn!"

Raki groaned in his mouth indistinctly, but the punch from Amon's fist made him roll around in the clouds before he started crawling in the sky above his fire clouds.

—★—

Douglas Bullet stood with his hands crossed as he looked down at the feasting crowd, thousands of pirates, from the multi-storey building in the middle of this island.

Buena Festa, captain of the Pirate Festival, helps the Roger Pirates hold this festival. They arranged most of the items around while Roger's pirates sat quietly waiting for someone to come.

The crowd below had no idea who would come here, either, they were not at all informed of the news as they would definitely run away with just the name of the man feared by almost every pirate.

Some may say, 'Why did they not flee after Ammon came?', and to answer him, Bullet can guarantee the current will turn when all Roger pirates will jump to Amon at the same time.

After all, what does a single Emperor mean against the strange Roger Pirates?

When the crowd realized that, they would turn their attention to Sin, which Ammon apparently carried everywhere in his pocket. However, there are thousands of pirates here, those seven will not survive at all . They could use their Conqueror Haki tactics here, but there were dozens of Conqueror Haki users present in the crowd as well, they would match them.

In other words, this is a solid plan for Amon's inevitable death, his inevitable fate carved into his forehead as Rayleigh dies and he takes Gaban hostage.

Bullet had left the Roger Pirates just three years after joining. However, his relationship with them was deep . He doesn't leave because he hates them, he just leaves because he can't keep Roger, the strongest man he knows, dying from a mere illness.

Then, when he had just been released from Impeldown Level-6 Prison, he wanted to meet some of his old colleagues, especially Rayleigh who Bullet liked the most after Roger. However, the new boy Emperor who appeared out of nowhere, the two children had ganged up on the old Rayleigh and weakened him and brutally killed him.

Bullet wants Amon dead, along with the two, Yamato and Raki, who killed Rayleigh with their own hands. Especially Raki whose attack took Rayleigh's last breath.

Today was the day he would settle the score with Einherjars.

Then, a hand fell on his shoulder. The hand of a young woman, looking to be in her 20s, gripped her shoulder as she muttered softly.

"I can feel a presence coming to this island from the sky." He said in a soft voice that had an accent to it. "I'm sure it's them."

A grin appeared on Bullet's face at those words. This dark red-haired lady was the navigator of the Roger Pirates, she was old and dying just a few months ago until that girl from Team Z returned her to her prime.

He couldn't be wrong with his special Observation Haki.

He continued. "They were supposed to be about 4 kilometers from here, and they headed to this place quickly. It takes them about 2 minutes at most to get here."

Bullet's grin widened as he nodded and then tapped on the earpiece in his right ear.

"Buena, tell your people to announce the 'game'. Reveal Eternal Logpose and start a mess. The Celestial Emperor is here."

He only heard intelligent laughter from the other side as the call was cut off and the female voice flooded the entire island from the speakers placed around him.

["Everything~"] the voice spoke. ["The Roger Pirates have prepared a 'game' for all of you to play~! They would throw a Log Pose on the ground and whoever caught it won! The game starts in 10 seconds!"]

The bullet blurred the next words from his mind as his eyes focused on the sky. His Observation Haki was at the ground level, so he could not sense their presence precisely, but he could feel the danger appearing in the clouds that were slowly becoming dark.

Seconds passed, and then minutes, and finally, as Bullet stood up, now beside the other members of the Roger Pirates and a few others who were brave enough to join them—like Catarina Devon, Avalo Pizzaro, Shiryu and a few more from level-6 of Impel Down who joined them—something big and snake-shaped started to appear from the distant sky.

The dark clouds had caught the attention of the people below as well, but they were too busy trying to catch the fake Log Pose that the Roger Pirates threw there. However, even they were shocked as the sky suddenly rattled with unnatural purple lightning along with shouts in the distance.

" «Emperor Thunder» "

Before the Roger Pirates could react, a huge purple lightning strike struck the meeting place they were standing at as the entire building shattered flat to the ground.

The eyes of every pirate widened as they paused for a moment to look at the sky where a huge dragon coiled with the Celestial Emperor sitting on his head with his right hand on his raised knee.

With a muffled cry, the crowd started running, unconcerned with the Log Pose lying on the ground.

—★—

Among the fleeing pirates, Eustass Kid's spirit shouted danger as his eyes trembled in its sockets.

What is this power?

He did not know why, but for some reason he could feel a connection with Amon. It was as if Amon's existence was pulling his Devil Fruit powers towards him.

'Wait. ' he's conscious. 'The driver is very magnetic.'

Dirt. And here he was planning to take down the excessive Celestial Emperor. Kid for some personal reason could not watch War of the Best, so he did not believe the words printed in the newspaper or the words spoken even by children around the world. They clearly overvalued Amon's strength.

But this …..

Through whatever connection his fruit had with the Ammon fruit, he could feel a seemingly limitless flow of energy within the Emperor's body.

He's got to run.

If he wants to live, he has to run.

That's the logical thing to do.

That's really the logical thing to do…

'Then why ...' Kid looked ahead. 'Why am I running towards him?'

With a wide grin on his red lips, Eustass Kid ran as metal from all over the island flew towards him to form a suit all over his body.

"< Punk Busuk> !!"

With a shout, he rushed towards the man who was shouting danger.

Killer, his teammate, yells at him to stop, but keeps following him.