yasinovel Chapter 1153 - 1,152: You Touch my Woman Right? Gion: Who? Me?
Chapter 1153 - 1,152: You Touch my Woman Right? Gion: Who? Me?
Everyone's eyes locked onto the man who had appeared out of nowhere.He stood tall, dressed in a simple black combat outfit. His dark hair stirred lightly in the sea breeze, and his face was almost expressionless.
There wasn't the slightest trace of Haki coming off him, yet he gave off a pressure so deep it felt bottomless.
Katakuri's pupils shrank sharply, and his entire arm went violently numb.
He could feel it clearly—his full-power strike, powerful enough to smash through a warship, was like a child's scuffle in front of that hand. It had absolutely no killing power at all.
A storm surged in his heart. How was that possible?
Who is this guy?
My Observation Haki didn't detect his arrival at all!
I couldn't even sense the slightest trace of his presence!
Rei Ao casually clenched his hand, and the hard mochi hammer was crushed into a lump of soft paste.
The impact forced Katakuri back seven or eight steps before he barely managed to steady himself.
Rei Ao's gaze swept across the battlefield, a trace of amusement rising in his heart.
Tch. Now that the World Government has fallen, these people really are going wild.
Three Admirals and two Emperors fighting all in one place—now that was a spectacle you wouldn't see once in a century.
His gaze landed on Gion at his side.
Seeing her pale face, the blood soaking through her left shoulder, and the way her body swayed as if she might collapse at any moment, he raised a brow.
This girl's pretty, and she's got a sharp, heroic air about her. It'd be a real waste for her to die here like this.
Gion stared blankly at the man standing in front of her, the faint cool scent of him lingering at the tip of her nose.
The overwhelming despair from just moments ago vanished without a trace.
Her heart churned violently. Who exactly is this man?
How could his strength be this terrifying?
He caught Katakuri's full-power blow with one hand, just like that?
"Hey, you with the Mochi-Mochi Fruit."
Rei Ao's voice wasn't loud, but it rang clearly across the entire battlefield. His gaze settled on Katakuri, his tone casual and indifferent.
"Just now, were you trying to lay a hand on my woman?"
My woman?
Those three words stunned everyone on the battlefield.
Gion's face flushed instantly, her heart thrown into confusion and embarrassment.
When did I become your woman? We don't even know each other!
Katakuri's face turned ashen.
He was the finest creation of the Charlotte Family, the famous right-hand man of an Emperor in the New World. When had he ever suffered such humiliation?
Conqueror's Haki exploded from his body in an instant, sending towering waves surging across the sea.
His arm transformed into a gigantic mochi blade, coated in the strongest Armament Haki he had ever unleashed, and he slashed down viciously at Rei Ao.
"You're asking to die!"
Katakuri's roar thundered across the sea. This strike contained every ounce of his power.
Even a mountain would have been split in two by it.
Rei Ao raised a brow, disdain flickering in his heart.
That's it? And you dare bare your fangs in front of me?
He didn't even move a single step. He merely lifted a finger casually.
An invisible wave of force swept out. Katakuri's slash—strong enough to split the sea itself—vanished instantly without a trace, without even stirring the slightest ripple.
The force didn't stop there. It struck Katakuri directly in the chest.
Katakuri didn't even have time to scream before his whole body flew backward like a kite with its string cut.
His chest caved in on the spot, and he slammed heavily into the Charlotte Family's main battleship, shattering the entire deck. Whether he was alive or dead was anyone's guess.
The entire sea fell into deathly silence.
Everyone stared at the scene in utter shock, their minds completely blank.
Charlotte Katakuri—the top commander of Big Mom's crew, a pirate with a bounty over a billion, one of the strongest figures in the New World—
Had been instantly crushed by this man who had appeared out of nowhere, with nothing more than a casual flick of his finger?
What kind of monster was this?
Seeing her most prized son beaten into that state, Linlin instantly went mad.
Her eyes turned blood-red, and her aura grew violently berserk.
Zeus and Prometheus churned wildly as the entire sky was dyed black and crimson.
"You bastard! You dared hurt my son! I'll tear you to pieces!"
Linlin's furious roar made the entire sea tremble.
Holding Napoleon in her hand, carrying the full power of the Soul-Soul Fruit along with apocalyptic Conqueror's Haki, she hacked down savagely at Rei Ao.
That sword strike was enough to split an island in half.
Rei Ao didn't even bother to look at her directly. All he felt was irritation.
So damn noisy. An old hag at your age and your voice is still this loud.
He simply lifted his other hand, and another invisible wave of force swept out.
Linlin's world-shattering slash was instantly broken apart.
When that force landed on her, her steel-like body was sent flying on the spot.
She crashed heavily into the sea, kicking up monstrous waves hundreds of meters high.
The entire battlefield exploded.
On the Navy's side, all three Admirals stopped what they were doing and stared blankly at Rei Ao's back, their faces full of disbelief.
Even Sakazuki's magma stopped churning. He had fought across the seas for years and seen countless powerful foes, yet never had he seen anything this terrifying.
A casual finger strike to one-shot an Emperor's first commander, a casual wave to send an Emperor flying?
This was already beyond anything he understood about power.
Aokiji's brows drew tight, and even the cold air around him seemed to freeze in place.
His heart was in turmoil. This man's power simply didn't seem like something that should exist in this world.
Neither Devil Fruit abilities nor Haki should be capable of this.
…Who exactly is he?
The lazy smile vanished completely from Kizaru's face, replaced by a grave, heavy look in his eyes.
In front of this man, even the speed of light seemed to have lost its meaning.
He knew very well that even if the three Admirals attacked together, they still probably wouldn't be this man's match.
Over on the Red-Haired Pirates' side, the entire crew was equally stunned.
The hand gripping Gryphon trembled faintly in Shanks's grasp. Just now, he hadn't even seen how Rei Ao had attacked.
He had roamed the seas for years, met Roger, met Whitebeard, met all the top figures in the world—but never had he encountered someone this unfathomable.
The cigarette in Benn Beckman's mouth dropped to the ground, his face dark and grim.
His mind raced at full speed, yet he could not recall any powerhouse named Rei Ao on these seas who possessed such heaven-destroying strength.
Rei Ao's gaze shifted toward the rail of the Red Force and landed on Yasopp, who was still gripping his sniper rifle.
The moment Yasopp was caught in that gaze, his whole body turned ice-cold. It felt as if Death itself had fixed its eyes on him. His scalp went numb, and he could barely hold onto the gun.
Only one thought remained in his mind—run! Run now!
This man is too terrifying! He's not someone I can fight at all!
But he didn't have time to move.
"The one who fired that sneak shot just now… that was you, right?"
Rei Ao's tone was flat, without the slightest ripple.
The moment his words fell, Yasopp's body exploded on the spot.
He didn't even have time to scream before he turned into a cloud of blood mist, not even a scrap of bone left behind.