One Piece: Reborn and Skypiean

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Chapter 268

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Haki Amon clashed as he looked down at the three people he had been looking for for an entire year.

The giant dome of the Conqueror Haki and the small dome of Shanks pushed each other.

Even with the difference in their size, they came to a halt, neither advancing nor retreating.

However, most people on the battlefield can say that Amon did not give his all, and they were right from the next moment, his desire to push the blue dome into his shell, disappearing at the same time.

"I've been looking for you for a long time, Shanks," Amon spoke with his hands resting on the handle of his sword. "Want to chat, here and there. But I can't find you, no matter where I look. It's good to see you're not dead."

Even as he spoke with a smoky smile on his face, his body doubled into hundreds of clones that went down to bind his people, who were still alive, even among the sea warriors. His sword flew from his waist and cut the door to the Door Dimension, where the clone began to pull people into it.

Shanks and Dragon observed the scene, while Luffy covered his eyes with his straw hat.

"Prepare to go, right?" The dragon asked with a small laugh.

Amon tilted his head. "of course. Although it was only possible because the Dragon Lord allowed it, right? Closing such a portal shouldn't be difficult for you, right?"

Dragon only chuckled, but he did not close the portal with his strength. "Oh well, we better be alone."

Shanks also nodded, while Amon smiled.

—★—

On the ground, away from Dragon and Shanks, Sins stood up while panting, while the unconscious was still coming out. 

Raki called out to one of Amon's clones.

"Oi, Brother! What the hell is going on?! Why did you throw us out?"

The clone stopped dragging Garp and Sengoku's corpses to look at him. "It's dangerous for anyone other than me to be here."

"What-what?!" Raki could not finish his words before the clones he spoke to doubled before coming to the Sins and tying them up.

"Hey! You don't have to tie us up!"

He did not listen and simply dragged the Sins towards the huge green portal.

It only took a minute before the battlefield was cleared, filled with people who were alive and only filled with corpses.

 With a stretch, the green portal immediately closed itself.

—★—

Kiyu, the sword, flew back into Amon's hand and she sheathed it back into its sheath before it floated towards his enemies.

Amon had a small grin on his face. "I was hoping to see the three of you for a long time, but you're just out now."

The smile from Shanks' face had faded and he was now standing expressionless. "I wanted to get out early, but that would only guarantee my death, wouldn't it?"

Amon fell to the ground, only a few meters away from them and chuckled. "So, did one year of training change anything? You sure I can't kill you now?"

His red horns gleamed in the sunlight as he said those words.

Shanks just laughed. "You're open to trying."

Amon shrugged at her words before she disappeared from her place and appeared behind Luffy .

"Thank you for the offer, but I want to eliminate our Joyboy first!"

He said softly and swung his Conqueror's Haki-coated fist towards the back of Luffy's head at lightning speed .

However, Ammon's hand did not pass anything.

He raised an eyebrow before teleporting back to where he was before.

"Oh wow." She laughs. "That's not the speed, is it?" He looked towards Monkey D. Dragon, who was standing next to Luffy. "Good teleportation ability."

Dragon nodded. "By pleasure."

"What the hell is that? Your fruit, you mean." Amon asked while yawning.

"This is called the fruit of the Sky, this is the logia." Dragon spoke even as Amon raised an eyebrow. "I know 'The sky' is not an element, so it's better to treat it like Yami-Yami no Mi who became famous about a year ago."

Amon rubbed his chin. "Oh.. So, you should be able to control the Wind, Clouds, Lightning, and Space . Wow, pretty interesting fruit."

It's mastered. It's also very versatile.

Dragon chuckles. "A good guess. But I won't confirm any of that."

"Fair enough. But enough chatting. Let's end this, okay?"

No lightning strikes struck this time, but Amon just disappeared. The next one to disappear was Shanks, who was clearly attacked by Amon, but at the same time was saved by Dragon.

Then Dragon himself disappeared, and so did Luffy. The disappearance and appearance continued for a minute or two before Ammon reappeared in the air.

"Hm, troublesome." He scratched his chin while looking down on his enemies. "It seems like it's not an active technique you're using. This is a passive technique, where when I reach near one of them— is not affected by my speedspace— replaces the person I attacked with empty air."

It was basically a technique he used against Kizaru at Marineford. The only change is, it affects three people, not one.

'Chih. ' Amon clicked his tongue. Everything would be easy if he had the Yami-Yami no Mi. Stopping the Dragon from using its demon fruit would be easy, then. 

But eating the fruit would undo his Logia Body, which would in turn render him unable to teleport anymore, and also make him receive double the damage. The healing of the Phoenix fruit would also mean nothing against the damage as he would not be able to heal indefinitely due to the lack of the lightning body he used to absorb the Electrons.

He was looking for a way to make the fruit from Logia to Paramecia, so that he could enjoy his abilities without releasing all the other Logia Bodies that came from his logia fruit . But it was still in the process of trial, which was why he even faced this disorder.

"So" Amon stood upright in the air. "You guys are just planning to dodge? You can't win like this."

They also do not try to buy time. Amon had his clone travel the world to see if anything suspicious had happened. There was no such thing, so the reason why they should be here was because they wanted to kill him themselves.

Seeing the three do not retaliate, Amon decides to play dirty. "Come, hurry. I must return to my base and reward my people for this incredible victory. Many of them want to taste the special whores I have in my brothel."

They must have gotten the message when Shanks' neutral face turned grim. Finally, the child who hid his eyes under his hat also looked up.

His eyes were blood red, as he glared at Amon with hatred.

"You motherfucker!" scream Luffy. "What did you do to Nami?!"

Amon whistling. "I didn't do anything, son. She even begged to be my mistress on the day when she would welcome her first customer. But as a man, I don't accept it. I have a wife, you know."

Luffy's eyes flared as he shouted. "I'll kill you!"

That's a very different thing - Luffy to say. He doesn't usually yell about killing someone.

Amon just waited as Luffy kicked forward, puffing out his hawk-coated forearm and leaping into the air with his Gear 4th, Snake Man.

The two older men did not try to stop him as he approached Amon.

Luffy's big fist crackled with black lightning as his legs exploded in the air like an air jet and he grabbed Amon's face.

Amon was not too surprised to see the Conqueror Layer. The world has a desire, and it goes against it and supports Luffy. So there is no surprise to see its rapid growth in a year of training.

"Gum-Gum: Jet Calverin!"

Luffy's hand stretched out like two snakes and was about to attack Amon. 

Amon simply teleported behind Luffy and took a piece of karate around his neck. If it is hit, its neck will break.

But it doesn't attack, of course.

Luffy's body disappeared shortly before the collision, although Amon pushed his palm down with lightning speed, and appeared behind Amon.

Amon had a neutral face as he pondered what to do in this vexing situation. He couldn't hurt them, it was true, but they couldn't touch him either. Dragon could not really lower his speed, and as long as it remained the same, he would be fine.

The most important issue here was him, each of the four of them knew that. If Amon somehow hits him, everyone is as good as dead.

But Amon couldn't say he was disappointed. He expected them to come up with a bigger strategy than this.

"< Bind >!"

Shanks clasped his palm just as the purple rope wrapped around Amon. 

'Disturbing.'

That's also annoying. He himself could not use the Third Stage yet, so he could only defend against this. If he knew how to use it, he would most likely also be able to bind the Dragon from afar.

In order to free himself, Amon immediately funneled the Conqueror Haki through the bonds, which caused it to rot and evaporate in the air.

He would teleport from the two incoming blows, however, he could not. Something prevents.

He looked at the Dragon's grin and grumbled in his mind.

He decided to move normally, still at lightning speed, but a box of invisible Conjure Haki was all around him.

Expressionless, even as both of his fists drew closer to his face, Amon began to jab his Haki-coated finger against the wall to make a hole, as he then fled through the hole through his logic form.

Blow past the previous place, the Conjure of Haki was destroyed due to Shanks' touch, as Amon stood behind them.

He would not attack because it would be useless, so he would instead observe their abilities.

To his surprise, Shanks grabbed his sword and threw it at Amon while shouting. 

"Griffon!"

The Griffon is one of the world's 12 High-class swords.

The sword came towards Amon, looking completely harmless, before it wrapped around his body. There was a spin in space when Amon recorded what had just happened.

The sword was made of sea stone.

'No.' It is not a sea stone, or it will not be so dense yet elastic. It has sea stone properties but is still solid and elastic enough not to break as Amon's body enlarges to its original shape.

Without the Goro-Goro no Mi controlling its size, its body erupted like a volcano in the form of a 30-foot-tall giant.

"Hm…."

He looked at the sword in his chest and tried to release it, but the sword did not move. His strength is not enough.

Shanks and Luffy took their chance and Luffy came up with an explosion on his face, causing Amon to stagger a few steps away. The punch didn't stop with that as Luffy cried his hardest while punching Amon in the face like crazy.

However, even though the sword had the properties of a sea stone, it did not weaken Amon's body.

He still activated his Great Tekkai, along with his body which had now adapted to the completely altered DNA. The defense is as strong as the Hybrid from Kaido.

Luffy's punch was still painful, as long as he coated his fists with the Conqueror's Haki. But it was not a pain that Amon could not bear.

Then Shanks flew behind Luffy as he placed his hand on Amon's chest.

Amon's face looked neutral even as Luffy punched out as if he was thinking about something very seriously, but his eyes trembled as Shanks' right hand rested on his chest as he felt a tug on his Haki.

Haki Amon is being absorbed.

With a large frown, Amon coated his Conqueror Haki on his chest. Conqueror's Coating has a special protector around it, which won't let anything it covers touch anything. That was why, as he coated his chest with it like a rough armor, the sword was pushed back because it was a sword that changed size.

Amon immediately teleported from among the swords, now able to use his strength again, as he stood in the air several meters ahead in human size.

"What is that, Shanks?" Amon asked, continuing. "I thought Dragon must have stitched someone strong's hand on your bump with his Space manipulation power, but that's definitely not what I thought."

Shanks absorbed his Haki, even though it was only 2% of his entire reserve, and not a permanent loss. That's still amazing.

Shanks, his face grim, did not answer his question and opposed it with a comment. "Did you not say enough chatter? Why are you contradicting yourself?"

Amon chuckled at hearing it. "True, bad me."

Whatever it is, it doesn't matter now. After all, he could ask the corpse later.

"Then let's finish this."

Amon chuckled deeply as electric threads left his body and began sewing each other in the air. One by one, they connected and made huge overlapping nets. It wasn't the only one, and dozens more began to form around the island within the Bird Cage.

When the ceiling was closed, he released a net around the entire island and in less than 2 seconds, the entire island was filled with extremely hot electric threads.

Every inch, left to right, heaven to earth, is covered in electricity. It made the four of them unable to move, although Amon was fine because he was the logia of lightning, Luffy was fine because the rubber fruit armor plotted his nonsense, Luffy said, and Dragon was fine because he could only achieve something like Buggy the Clown's Chop-Cut fruit.

However, Shanks is not okay.

Dragon must send Shanks out of this cage, a normal sight he can't even see, to save Shanks from one of Amon's attacks.

Dragon should be able to do that if Amon's guess is correct. In most fiction, teleportation allows the user to move him and others to places they have visited before. So Amon needed Dragon not to do that.

That's why Amon smiled with shining teeth. His teeth completely shone like a flashbang, the light growing stronger with each second as the three enemies covered their gazes with moans.

Amon used that second to run up to Shanks and punch him in the face, and as he had expected, the dragon fruit's passive ability made him teleport from the impact, with which Shanks teleported a few meters away from him, so that made the poor Emperor stand on the thousands of degrees of electrical thread that passed through his body.

He would probably defend against it if he were ready, but he did not expect thousands of threads, heating up to thousands of degrees, to suddenly pass through it in an instant.

Shanks had wide eyes as he stared at Amon who was just standing leisurely as he watched the red-headed Emperor's body split into pieces, into thousands of small hot cubes, which he had seen, and fell to the ground in bloody chaos.

The two men, rubbing their eyes, were Amon's next target. He attacked them, but they were unharmed, protected by the changing space. Luffy's body also teleported through thousands of threads, but he was fine. It's bullshit, but that's how the world supports it. The dragon on the other hand, as Amon had expected, was cut and separated into small cubes, but he was unharmed . It works like a buggy.

By the time he could strike again, both father and son opened their eyes. They blinked and looked around to find .. 'body' someone lying on the ground in bloody chaos. It took them a few seconds before they realized what had happened.

Dragon only sighed, while Luffy shouted furiously.

"You motherfucker!!!!" Luffy's eyes quivered while his lips trembled. "You bastard, you bastard !!!"

In anger, he rushed to Amon, but was immediately teleported by Dragon, who shouted, "Luffy! Don't let his death go to waste! Do it! It's time!"

Luffy's eyes widened and he hesitated for a moment before nodding slowly. The resurrection of his demonic fruit gave him the 5th Gear. But diving into that form required him to feel extreme emotions, which he turned into sheer force for a few minutes.

So Luffy, his heart burning in pure rage, took a massive breath right as his eyes became blank for a moment. There was a small silence before his Haki exploded in a frenzy.

It seemed like the sea itself had crashed into the island.

Immediately after, the sea roared while pure white lightning leaped out of his body and surrounded him before swallowing him like a wave of fire. 

It looked like a special Haki Garp but in the form of a Conqueror Haki. At the same time, his rubber body twisted and his slender limbs became large and muscular. She remained lean but growing a few inches tall, she started to have some muscles, and suddenly looked more mature.

The sky turned bright white, clearing the darkness from below. The ground trembled as if satisfied with Luffy's form, while the boy looked like a god.

His entire body shone in a silver light while his wavy white hair, looking almost smooth, danced in the air and white mist danced around his neck like a god robe.

Almost all of his skin was covered with silver hawi, while some parts had wavy black lines, like a tiger. Its front teeth also formed fangs, like a ferocious beast.

This is Gear 5: Byakko Man.

Luffy's anger from a moment ago disappeared, and a strange maturity replaced his usually ridiculous eyes.

He kicked at the ground, which seemed to stretch through space and time, like his stretched rubber body, as he kicked through the air and dashed towards Amon at a speed that should not have belonged to him.

'Omong empty.'

Amon cursed in his mind.

Luffy's fifth gear should stretch his desires, not space and time. That doesn't make any sense. But Amon can only accept it because the world is not on his side.

Amon clicked his tongue, even when a punch hit his face and threw him hundreds of meters into the air.

...Then again, he also has not shown all his cards.