Chapter 203
"Who are you?"
"Hm, you don't know me? I assumed a dead man like you would have heard of me in hell since I'm responsible for half of them being there. But you probably only know me by name. My name is Azure Ken."
"Azure Ken? Never heard of you. Are you sure you're famous, or are you just a nobody trying to act tough?."
"A nobody? Everyone in this world knows me as the most powerful person to exist and has ever existed!"
"No, they don't," said Ace.
"Bam!"
An arrow pierced Ken's heart.
"I could easily take you right now," said Sabo.
(In a fight, right?)
"Bam!"
Another arrow pierced Ken's heart.
"A single low powered lightning bolt should do the trick," said Deuce.
"Bam!"
A third arrow pierced Ken's heart, making him drop to his knees.
"Argh, enough guys, I get it already. I might have gotten a bit weaker, but there is no need to let the enemy know."
"Kehahaha! You're a funny guy, but seeing as even your friends don't have faith in you, you must not be all that much. I guess Teach was worrying for nothing."
"Wait, if you knew that Blackbeard was worried, that must mean that you were conscious in his body and know everything," said Ken.
"Oops, I guess the secret is out. But I only know what Teach told me. Anyway, Haoshoku Haki!"
An enormous pressure suddenly descended on the four Azure Pirates, making them almost drop down to their knees.
"Haki sure is great. Since the power comes from your soul, it doesn't matter whether you are in a different body or not. The only Haki that gets a little weaker is Busoshoku Haki, but Blackbeard already worked on that, so I'm practically back to my full power. Kehahahaha!"
"Urgh! Ken, can you please get us out of here?" asked Sabo.
"Huh? Didn't you just say that you can easily take me on? Why would you, an almighty being, need help from a weak little peasant like myself? If the three of you can't get out, nobody in the world will be able to. I'll probably fall unconscious very soon.," said Ken as he poorly acted being weak and powerless.
"Kehahaha! You little brats are just like them. I wonder what they're up to now."
A sudden light shined into Sabo's eyes.
"Ey you, you're Rocks D. Xebec, right?"
"Oh, you guys are smarter than Blackbeard, or I anticipated. But what about it?"
"When you were referring to 'them', you meant Kaido, Linlin, whitebeard, and Shiki, right? Do you care about them a lot?"
"I care about no one but myself. However, my crewmates are mine, so anyone that touches them will be lucky to leave with his body in one piece."
"Oh, is that so." Sabo had a wicked smile on his face, and so did Ace and Deuce as they realized Sabo's plan. Ken, who was listening to their little chit chat was about to get a heart attack. He was barely standing, and now he's about to get a terrifying monster unleashed onto him. Someone who took the combined efforts of the Pirate King and Garp to defeat. And even then, they couldn't completely kill him.
"Don't you dare, Sabo!" Ken screamed. But it was already too late.
"Ken has killed both Kaido and Linlin."
"What?" said Xebec in a chilling tone that sent chills down their spines. The pressure suddenly disappeared from Ace, Sabo, and Deuce. Targeting Ken instead with a pressure that was at least 10 times as powerful. However, Ken wasn't about to go down without a fight. He unleashed his own Haoshoku Haki, which managed to push back Xebec's Haki, which took away the pressure from Ken.
However, this didn't last long as Ken suddenly clutched onto his chest in agony, which allowed Xebec to easily overpower him and hit him head-on with full power. This made Ken blackout for a second. When he got his consciousness back, he got greeted by a Gura Gura no Mi fist.
"This is mercy for a broken puppet like you," said Xebec in a somewhat sympathetic tone.
The fist hit Ken straight in the face and created giant cracks in the air. The fist created shockwaves in all directions that were so powerful that every building except for the Pangaea Castle where Im resides got obliterated into tiny pieces and sent off the redline and into the ocean, killing all the people inside of the building in the progress. However, Deuce managed to save his parents just in the nick of time before their mansion got obliterated.
After the dust settled, you could see the Azure Pirates, who managed to barely hold on for dear life. However, the Blackbeard Pirates lost everyone except for the Ten Titanic Captains. Xebec looked at the destruction he caused with a twisted smile on his face as he clenched his fists.
"The fruit that is capable of shattering the world into little pieces and the fruit that is able to swallow the entire world in darkness are both in my possession. Which only leaves the fruit that gives me the authority to govern over the world as a God. With those three in my possession, I can finally achieve my dream as the King of the World! Kehahahaha!"
Xebec started laughing as he started walking towards Pangaea Castle, passing by an unconscious Ken. He suddenly stopped and looked back at Ken.
"Idiot puppet. You let that monster's power go to your head, and now your powers will slowly wither away as your end closes in. I tried to kill you, which would have been considered extremely merciful since the hell you'll experience will be worse than anything you have ever felt. But it's your own fault for refusing to die. If you're still alive once I'm finished, I'll show you something worse than even hell, Kehahaha!" Xebec laughed as he left the unconscious Ken behind.
"Ken!" screamed Ace and Sabo as they rushed towards his side, not daring to pursue Xebec.
"This is bad! His presence is getting extremely weak!" said Sabo, who is panicking.
"And whose fault do you think that is! Even if Ken was a scumbag and left us to suffer, we knew that he trusted our abilities and wanted us to keep him busy while he formulates a plan! Aren't you supposed to be the smart one!" screamed Ace.
"I was just joking! How would I have known that he could have taken him down with one punch? Not even Whitebeard, who had that fruit for years, could achieve something like this! And even if he wanted us to keep him busy, I could barely keep up with his movements while using Future Sight."
"Tsk, let just get him to Deuce quickly, and we'll argue afterward," said Ace.
He quickly went to pick up Ken, but when his hands touched Ken, he and Sabo got sent flying back by a sudden explosion of Haoshoku Haki. The two of them looked shocked, but not because of the sudden Haoshoku Haki attack, but because the Haki they were feeling from Ken doesn't feel like that of Ken. It felt holy and righteous like it was the purest Haki in the world. Which is nothing like Ken's usual aggressive and dominating pressure. It was like Ken has become an entirely different person.
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In a pitch-black space that didn't look like it had a top or a bottom. Ken could be seen floating through the black space when he suddenly opened his eyes in shock. He quickly looked around for family, only to find no one and nothing.
"Where am I- Argh!"
Ken clenched his chest as he got a pained expression on his face. Ken suddenly turned around and looked at a figure shrouded in shadow that suddenly appeared. He was only able to see their eyes, but that was more than enough for him to know exactly who it was.
"Welcome to my domain, Ken. Or should I say Otherworlder!"
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(The reason why he knows that will make a lot of sense later. Unless you've already figured it out. And btw, no one else will know about him being from another world. Not even Ace or Sabo.
I'm a little rusty so please tell me what you thought of this chapter.)
[My uploading schedule will be random as hell, but it's almost finished so it doesn't matter. Right?]
Anime Quotes:
"Life comes at a cost. Wouldn't it be arrogant to die before you've repaid that debt?"
- Yuuji Kazami (The Fruit of Grisaia / Gurizaia no Kajitsu)
"There are no regrets. If one can be proud of one's life, one should not wish for another chance."
- Saber (Fate Stay Night)
"Don't beg for things. Do it yourself, or else you won't get anything."
- Renton Thurston (Eureka Seven)
"That's why I can't make a change. Everything I do is so… Half-assed."
- Hiroshi Kido (Barakamon)
"An excellent leader must be passionate because it's their duty to keep everyone moving forward."
- Nico Yazawa (Love Live)
"When you hit the point of no return, that's the moment it truly becomes a journey. If you can still turn back, it's not really a journey."
- Hinata Miyake (A Place Further than the Universe)