One Piece: Transform into the Eight Great Demons!

Phew—boom!

A piece of gravel flew from a distance and hit the ground. The huge force contained in it burst out and turned into an explosion like a cannonball!

That was the counterattack from [Descendant of the Devil] Douglas Barrett.

Unlike Lindsay's exquisiteness and lightness, Barrett cannot accurately lock on the opponent and can only sense the approximate position.

But this is enough.

"Just razing all the 'possible' locations to the ground!"

Barrett shouted, grabbed the gravel next to him and threw it out.

This time the stone accurately hit Lindsay's chest and exploded into countless powders.

More rocks flew.

Lindsay condensed a javelin of power, and was about to give Barrett a stronger blow, but suddenly felt the malice coming from the sea.

As Aquaragna approaches, this malice will double!

They were like countless chains, penetrating every part of Lindsay's body, making him unable to move.

The javelin of power dissipated into nothingness.

boom!

Large and small rocks spanned less than half of the city and bombarded Lindsay one after another.

Lindsay leaned back, eyes wide open, roaring furiously forward:

"B-le-te-!"

boom! boom! Boom boom boom boom...

The intensive bombardment drowned out everything, and both the roar and Lindsay himself had disappeared without a trace.

The smoke and dust quickly dissipated, leaving only a large area of ​​ruins!

"..."

Blah blah blah...

The rainwater fell and gathered on the ruins to form a small river, which merged into the waterway in the distance.

No other sounds could be heard except the rain.

But not long after, heavy footsteps came closer and closer, and a huge black shadow spanned half of the city, coming with questions.

None other than Douglas Barrett!

He ignored the sand crocodile and the esper kid, and instead came to the place he was bombarded to investigate.

"Buried...?"

Barrett could feel the other person's heartbeat, but he was too lazy to dig him up from underneath.

"I thought he was a master at first, but now it seems like nothing more than that..."

"Did the feeling just now turn out to be an illusion?"

"ha!"

Barrett grinned disdainfully and glanced aside.

He always felt like there were eyes staring at him, but for a while he couldn't find the source.

This feeling made Barrett particularly unhappy, so he simply raised his leg and kicked out a large amount of gravel in a certain direction.

Seeing that the other side was also swallowed up by gravel, Barrett laughed happily.

"The Capital of Seven Waters is pretty good. Although we meet some weak people, it's not so boring after all."

"so--"

The devil-like eyes turned around and murmured: "Where is the 'strong enemy' promised to me by the World Government?"

"Don't let me down..."

Taking heavy steps, Barrett continued his wandering.

The distant coastline has retreated to its limit, and a tsunami is about to come.

The terrifying "nature" has blocked all ways out, and no one can escape from the Capital of Seven Waters at this moment!

"Big tsunami?"

Barrett glanced into the distance and tapped the ground lightly with his toes.

"Speaking of which, this Seven Waters City is not bad. There are shipyards everywhere, and there are all kinds of weapons and building materials..."

"..."

The sound faded away.

…

【Devil's Descendant】Douglas Barrett.

A person with superhuman combined fruit abilities.

It can fuse inorganic objects it touches with its own body, and even rearrange them to create endless "weapons".

Just now, Barrett focused on the Capital of Seven Waters at his feet.

Thoughtful.

…

"..."

Shortly after Barrett left.

Wow…

There was sudden movement in the pile of rubble.

Totemjika's black and white keys spread out their arms, lifting up the surrounding debris, revealing the protected Uta.

It turned out that just now, before Barrett arrived, Uta hid under the ruins in advance.

Moreover, he also used "noise inaudible to the human ear" to interfere with the Haki of the Awakening, making it completely "invisible" in front of Barrett, thus evading detection.

After Barrett left, Uta quickly appeared and came to the ruins where Lindsay was buried.

"Mr. Lindsay!"

Uta yelled, trying to get Totemjica to catch Lindsay's voice.

After hearing that Lindsay was safe and sound, Uta finally breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Do you need help?"

"Thanks."

Uh-huh!

A hand reached out from the ruins.

Tuotemujika was obviously resisting, but Uta still stretched out a big hand with a piano key and pulled Lindsay out of the ruins.

He twisted his neck and used the rainwater to wash away the mud on his body, muttering: "Something's wrong..."

Uta also blinked and nodded: "There are indeed discordant notes in Mr. Lindsay's body."

"..."

Lindsay looked back into the distance, her pupils fixed on the sea.

Is it because a "big tsunami" is coming?

Or is it because his own abilities are "further changing"?

Since arriving in the Capital of Seven Waters, the "disgust" coming from the sea has become stronger and stronger, far beyond what ordinary Devil Fruit users can endure.

The sea seems to hate Alvin Lindsay so much that it wants to kill him at any moment!

"You..."

Refers to the sea.

Lindsay was bathed in the pouring rain, looked to the horizon, and said quietly:

"How can I repay your disgust?"

"..."

Dahai didn't answer, and neither did Lindsay for the time being.

In the past many years, Lindsay had never thought about this, so his thinking began to diverge, sometimes falling into fantasy, sometimes focusing on reality.

"There's something else wrong."

When Lindsay thought about "reality", while breathing heavily, another question popped up——

"What's going on with the world government?"

…

“There’s something very wrong with what’s going on with the world government!”

Crocodile was helped up by Robin, wiped away the blood on his face, and said with drooped eyelids:

"What is happening in the Seven Waters Capital now is an accident to the World Government!"

He realized the crux of the matter.

"There are no interlocking strategies, and there is no so-called 'feint attack'."

"Whether it's Barrett, government agents, thugs, rumors, or tsunamis, they are all 'possibilities' created by the world government!"

"Their goal is either one of two -

"Either seize Pluto's design, or take the opportunity to bury the primitive people!"

Crocodile suddenly felt that something was wrong.

"The World Government turns all means into 'possibilities' and is betting on one of them to achieve a certain goal!"

"Whether Barrett killed the primitive people, or whether the tsunami swallowed the primitive people;"

“It’s okay for government agents to obtain Pluto’s blueprints, and of course it’s okay for thugs to take advantage of the chaos and steal Pluto’s blueprints!”

"As long as 'one' of these results is achieved, it will be the victory of the World Government!"

"so now--"

Crocodile had already made up his mind, looked back in the direction of Dock No. 5, and said in a hoarse voice:

"There's going to be a problem over there at Tom's studio!"

…

Tom Studio.

Fishman Tom, Bingshan, Frame, Cocoro, and Frog Henggang all stayed here.

As early as the beginning of construction, the entire studio took "sturdiness" into consideration, and Tom and others reinforced it, so it is naturally more stable.

It is no exaggeration to say that today’s Tom Studio is enough to compete with the best shelters in the Capital of Seven Waters!

"Hahahaha, this is the result of our hard work!"

Tom laughed a few times, took the hot drink from Cocoro, and drank it slowly.

He looked at Bingshan and Fram, who had sad faces, and understood that these two apprentices were worried about Lindsay and others, so he smiled and comforted:

"It's okay. As a man, being willing to believe in others is also a kind of courage!"

"..."

Bingshan and Flam looked at each other and nodded.

All they can do now is pray for that group of people.

The two took the hot drink from Cocoro.

But in the next second——

boom!

A foot suddenly kicked open the studio door.

Several masked customers in white suits walked in and began to look around the studio.

Seeing that the person coming was not kind, Tom protected the others behind him and stepped forward to smooth things over:

"Sorry everyone, the weather is bad today and the studio is closed."

"Stop pretending, Tom the Fishman."

The leader in a white suit stepped forward and said helplessly: "The world government's patience is limited, hand over the Pluto design."

"Tahahahaha, I don't know! I don't have a blueprint for that kind of thing!"

Tom laughed as usual and said, "Everyone, I'm still on probation after all, so don't make fun of me!"

"Is it a joke...?"

The man in the white suit murmured and walked to the side of the train engine.

At the same time, the rest of the white suits were scattered around the studio, and one of them even controlled the slightly restless Frame.

"You haven't introduced yourself yet? We are from CP0."

"Even different from the unknown CP9, we have great...extra-judicial ruling power? That's probably the word."

The tone of the white suit is relaxed and casual.

But vaguely, some kind of sinister light penetrated the mask and locked onto Tom.

"Tom the fishman, you can continue to think we're joking."

The white suit suddenly raised his leg and kicked part of the train engine's pipes, as if he had broken someone's neck.

This scene immediately caused the pupils of Bingshan and Frame present to shrink, and Frame even cursed directly: "What did you do to this bastard!"

The white suit completely ignored Frame and continued to say slowly to Tom:

"Of course, we won't bear 'everything' today."

The tone became more and more playful, but it revealed a spine-chilling coldness!

"Anyway——"

The man in white suit paused and smiled kindly:

"All 'results' are just a 'joke' to us."

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