[128] The Final Act (1)
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Chapter 128: The Final Act (1)
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In this world, training was everything. The physique, mentality, and Devil Fruit powers can only grow when you give your all and train; however, it was a different case for Haki.
While training it in the usual way worked, it was slow. Haki developed the most during fights, during life and death battles, where you are faced with the potential end for yourself or others you care for. That was the fastest way to train one's Haki.
However, it was not possible to unlock the advanced form of Conqueror's Haki out of the blue in a battle, if that person didn't even know advanced Armament Haki. To begin with, less than a dozen out of the billions alive in the world could use the Advanced form of Conqueror's Haki. It was rarer than gold in a river stream, hard to unlock.
The Haki of the Supreme King was rare on its own; this Black and Red Lightning Aura of willpower that could destroy everything in its path was rarer. It was unheard of that someone so young would be able to use it so effectively, as to cut the last Lunarian's wings in half.
"Sis!"
Grabbing Boa Hancock from the air, Hashirama the attacker rushed away from King. The entire colosseum, or at least the remains of it, was crumbling as they spoke, the strike just now had cleaved the place in two.
"I don't think I can use it freely, I have no understanding of how it works, it happened in the heat of the moment. So it’s up to you now, take care of King before he recovers!"
Hashirama yelled as he shot Tsunade a quick look, who was staring at the scene with agape lips. She broke out of her daze, their eyes meeting for the first time in a long time.
He couldn’t help but take in the change his sister had gone through, how fresh and different she looked in that white outfit, with a black bra underneath, a divine contrast to the destruction around them. She did the same, staring at him; he had gone through more changes than her, he was growing so changes were more for him.
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The two siblings stared, but had no time to catch up. Tsunade bit her lips, glaring at him once, before she looked away from him and towards the growing Lunarian.
"Fine, but you go find Doflamingo for me. I’ll be beside you soon!" She yelled back an order before she rushed at King, who dodged to the side, even as red blood spilled from the stump of his wings.
As Hashirama nodded, Tsunade and King engaged in a battle once more.
– Boom!
– Fhurrr!
Their fists clashed, and fire danced. The eternal flame on King's back expanded to reach the stump of his wings, burning them to make them stop bleeding, as his entire body transformed into that of a dinosaur.
Dragon-Dragon Fruit, Pteranodon Model, allowed King to transform into a flying beast even without his wings. The battle once more dragged the two of them to the air, and Hashirama used that chance to use a ton of chakra to make a big merged clone, who picked up the unconscious Sandersonia.
As the building collapsed, the Clone-rama decided to pick up King's severed wings while he was at it. Smoothie tried to escape too, but Ulti stayed in her spot. Hashirama didn’t get the chance to witness their fates as he and his clone leaped to the sky to take the girls somewhere safe.
He wondered if there was anywhere safe in this country now, though.
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In the meantime, Doflamingo was shaking in his boots inside the castle located on top of the hill known as King’s Plateau. Everything had mixed results, he made moves, but then the enemies brought reinforcements to counter that.
Putting a bounty on his enemies’ heads was good, the pirates bared their fangs at the Marines and Senju Pirates, but then a fox head appeared in the sky. The Demon Fox returned out of nowhere, with one of the uncountable Hashiramas by its side, as they began to sweep the floor with the forces of Beast Pirates, Big Mom Pirates, Donqixoute Pirates, and the general pirates who opposed them.
From what he could see spying from his castle using Observation Haki, the fox soon lost its size as it entered a hybrid form. It was a form where Marianne had nine orange tails behind her along with fox ears on her head; she also had a transparent bubble of red energy surrounding her entire body. The bubble sometimes grew redder when she faced stronger enemies, but she never went full red.
That girl wasn’t weak to begin with, she could match exceptional fighters like Ulti and Charlotte Daifuku, who were strong officers of Emperors. Now, with the power of a Mythical Zoan, which also fixed her ever-lack of chakra as well, she was bordering on the same league as weaker Emperor Commanders. With a fighter of that caliber on the field, the other numbers didn’t do well.
Not that she was the only annoying force; Boa Marigold was fighting well too, and not all of the pirates had given in to the lure of the bounty. Pirate Prince Cavendish and the Happo Navy fought for the Senjus. Most annoyingly though, even more than Marianne was the blind man carrying a sword; he was an unbeatable force who didn’t hesitate to execute any he deemed necessary.
“What is going on…” Doflamingo was sweating heavily from his forehead, even as he maintained his grin and chuckled deeply. “This is too sudden. I am losing, how?”
It was then that he noticed a reddish color spasm in the colosseum’s watch tower. It was a color he was familiar with, that he was jealous of, and it was something that sent shivers down his spine.
Soon King and Tsunade leaped into the air, he realized that King looked worse than before, despite his black suit covering his entire body. Lastly, when Hashirama came out of the tower with a massive red sword on his back, things became clear in Doflamingo’s head.
“Ah.” For once, his smile dropped. “I am dead.”
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Hashirama was flying aimlessly in the air, going far from the clashing Tsunade and King, when he heard Viola’s voice ring in his ear again.
– "Hashirama, baby, what was that thing in the colosseum just now?!"
He saw hope hearing her, she was the Princess and she was a spy, she should know stuff. So he spoke. It wasn’t a reply to her question though, it was a question of his own.
“What’s a safe place around here? I need to put some ladies to safety,” he asked and silence answered him for two seconds before Viola sighed and spoke.
– "You see that 2nd hill under the King’s Plateau hill? It’s called Flower Hill, it holds the grave of my late sister. I am currently here as we speak, some Dwarves came to pick me up. Apparently, it’s their secret lair, there is a house here. I never knew about this. You can come here and drop anyone you want.”
“Thanks, I’ll be there in a heartbeat.” He said as he dropped in front of the door, he had flown there the moment she mentioned the word ‘2nd hill’. “Open the door, love. My hands are occupied, can’t knock right now.”
– “...”
The door opened and Viola rushed out, as did countless mini people, different from the ones Hashirama saw earlier, but they were also present. Hashirama recognized one face, Warrior Leo, who tried to greet and thank him, but he waved at him to talk later.
Hashirama and the taller Clone-rama headed in and put the two girls down, and by then Sandersonia had returned to her human form, so she was a bit smaller and more manageable now.
“Tsk, they need immediate healing. I am on 30% chakra, I used too much today.” He muttered to himself, his bun was undone and so hair was free and messily falling by his side. “Should I undo the Seal of Hundred?”
In his entire life, he hadn’t done that yet. The diamond-shaped seal on his chest held enough chakra to match the ocean, he wondered if it was time to let it out.
“Shh, rest assured.” Hashirama was a little surprised when two gentle hands held his messy hair and tucked it back, putting a rose on his hair to tie it in a bun again. “We have help here, you go out and fight.”
Hashirama turned back to find Viola, with the Princess of the Tontatta, Mansherry of the Heal-Heal Fruit, standing on her hands. The mini princess waved at him, he stared at her for a moment and then nodded.
Hashirama stood up. The clone dispersed and the chakra returned to him. Then there was a short silence after which, despite knowing Hancock and Sandersonia would be fine anyway, he closed his eyes and released the Seal of Hundred. Thick black tendrils of Fuinjutsu spread through his entire body, his limbs, his face, swirling in places and straight in others, as he spread his wings high and leaped into the air.
Hashirama appeared over Dressorsa’s castle, his body multiplying in the air as he did, while balls of orange Rasengans, imbued with the hot water of ramen, spun on the tips of his fingers.
“Doflamingo!” Hashirama yelled, “Come out. Now!”
He shouted and threw the house-sized balls of miniature suns, the molten orbs rushing forward and bombarding the castle where Doflamingo was in, nuking the top of the King’s Plateau hill.
[Chakra Suns Bombardment]
One moment a castle with five stories in height and much more in width existed on top of the hundreds of meters tall hill, and on the next moment… the hill ceased to exist. Bombardment of explosions happened as if the sun had rained down on earth, as the landscape of the hill was cleared and the hill itself became half its size.
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