(Vol 4) CHAPTER - 17 { Trap }
Devil's Home___
Inside the White House, the temperature was slightly low.
One could not even see clearly the environment which had formed inside the huge hall.
The multiple thone trees on the sides with the same distance from each other, all spread their roots and thorny vines around the floor.
At the end of the huge hall, there situated a huge throne made of high density gold almost reaching equal to pure gold.
Sitting on the throne, the man covered with a layer of shadows and fogs, stretched out his right hand.
Then, suddenly with a burst of bright light formed a small crystal above his open palm.
The light illustrated the entire room as the man was now visible even if it wasn't completely.
"Finally! Now I have got the Trump card to victory!"
Akuma's mighty voice mixed with darkness roamed through the entire hall causing it to shake slightly.
[Item Created]
Solid Crystal: Dimensional Space
Description: One time use. Can permanently seal someone to another dimensional space together with the user. The target has to either kill or make the user break the dimensional space for being free again.
Akuma looked at the description on the system screen with a little complex feeling.
This particular item was actually supposed to be long created by Akuma in his early years but because of his imprisonment he couldn't.
Also, the price for this item exceeded Akuma's expectations by far.
A total of one million souls, this was the price to create this item. Even Akuma was having a tough time.
It was not because he couldn't even kill a million people, it was because he had to be present there to gather all those souls.
At last, Akuma could breath in for some relief. Still, many more problems needed to be solved.
The Straw Hat Pirates were one of the main problems, they were the protagonists of this world.
Of course Akuma had to wipe their existence from this world otherwise he can't really relax.
"Tch. Straw Hat Pirates didn't come to Sabaody Archipelago, and I couldn't find him as well."
Akuma stored the item inside the system and leaned back on the throne.
The "him" here is the "Dark King", or also known as the "Right Hand of the Pirate King".
Silvers Rayleigh!
A legend from the past. This man was the one who trained Luffy in the two years time skip in the anime.
Akuma closed his eyes, the hall had returned to silence with darkness. Only Akuma's breath from time to time was heard.
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Hell Realm___
In the underground experimenting space below the gigantic laboratory.
Hamburg took the lift and reached the lowest floor in this underground experimenting space.
Once the lift opened, the sight of tens of giants inside same number of glass test cylinders welcomed Hamburg.
"Haha! Grow! Grow stronger! With the gene of the ancient giant race in my hands, you all will regain your forgotten might!"
Hamburg burst into laughter as he walked around these huge cylinders containing the giants.
But something was different about these giants, they appeared even bigger than before.
They looked more fierce and wild. Some had a huge task growing while others had horns on their forehead.
"Hamburg, it's time we release all the experimented creatures in the wild."
From the controls, Jimmy walked and came next to Hamburg. In his hand was a book about the ancient giant race.
"Release them? Even though they might attack each other, it's better than just keeping them in the cells."
Hamburg nodded and agreed with Jimmy about releasing all the successful experimented creatures.
"After these giants are ready, it will be time for all of us to start the final step in dominating the entire world."
Jimmy smiled silently while Hamburg appeared extremely excited just by the thought.
"But that also will be the time to stay the most cautious. Many will come to destroy our plans."
Jimmy spoke with a plain tone. His eyes showed some unknown emotions.
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New World___
There were an uncountable number of islands in the New World that have yet to be visited.
It wasn't surprising if one took the note that most of such islands were extremely small.
That was a different matter as Fenrir and Seli were sitting inside a restaurant.
This special restaurant also had gambling tables set around the corners for customers to play.
As for why it was special, because there was someone playing here in one of the gambling tables.
This person was a blind man with his eyes closed, he has an X-shaped scar centered on the left side of his forehead that stretches over both eyes, which was actually self-inflicted due to his decision to blind himself.
He was tall, above the average. If nothing unexpected happened, this man was going to become an Admiral of the Marines in future.
Issho!
But Fenrir and Seli couldn't approach him yet because more than ten pirates from the Devil's Pirates were around.
"It seems we are not the only ones after Issho."
Seli whispered in Fenrir's ear as she eyed the pirates who sat near Issho.
One can easily guess their motives seeing their hands on the guns and swords.
Akuma already found Issho but didn't have time before to deal with him. Now the job was given to Bella.
Where was she? It was unknown.
"What do we do? The Devil's Pirates won't just sit and let us take Issho away with us right?"
Seli asked nervously to Fenrir. She wasn't afraid to fight against these weak pirates, what she truly was worried about was the reinforcement.
Also, won't they get under the radar of Akuma after they openly showed themselves?
"Don't worry. Issho's real strength and abilities surpass even you."
Fenrir knew the details from all the documents he got after finding his father's secrets.
As for the last, Blaze, Fenrir was a little frustrated. They would have to travel back to Paradise to find him.
"Okay. All of you. No need to hide anymore."
Suddenly, Issho stood up and smiled bitterly. Fenrir and Seli were stunned to know that they were discovered.
𝘏𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘬𝘪… Fenrir sighed and was about to speak when something even more unexpected happened.
All the people inside the restaurant, excluding Fenrir and Seli, showed their true appearance.
"No way!"
The shocked Fenrir and Seli were unable to stand that all of these people were actually from the Devil's Pirates.
No, this entire restaurant was set up to capture Issho from the very first.
"You two, it seems you were caught in this. I am truly sorry for that."
Issho apologized to the dazed Fenrir and Seli. He walked to the center and stood.
"But I can see that you two have enough strength to withstand it so I will apologize once again beforehand."
After he finished speaking, Issho used his devil fruit ability to create a huge gravitational force in the restaurant.
All the pirates as well as Fenrir and Seli felt their legs so numb. Almost all of these pirates couldn't stand and collapsed on the floor.
The furniture and other things also faced the same force as cracking sounds were heard.
"Ahh!"
"Damn it!"
"Fuck!"
No matter how much these pirates cursed, very soon most of them fainted due to the gravitational force.
"Hah! Hah!"
Fenrir half kneeled on the floor while Seli sat down due to some exhaustion.
They were off guard against this move from Issho so they suffered some amount of injury but it was very minor.
"Very sorry."
Issho walked to them and extended his hand to help. He was showing that he had to do it otherwise the pirates were really troublesome.
"It's fine!"
Seli took his hand and stood up. Her legs still shook slightly. Fenrir wasn't much better than her, his legs also shook as he stood up.
The restaurant was a mess. Tables and chairs were all broken to pieces while the floor was half destroyed.
Most of the pirates were already deep in the floor cracks. A few could barely stay conscious.
"It's not over yet. The reinforcements from Devil's Pirates have arrived."
Issho looked towards the entrance of the restaurant with a heavy heart. His expression wasn't good either.
Soon a huge shadow came in from the entrance, it was a female about 6.5 meters tall. She had two pairs of black wings that glowed in red.
Wholeheart Bella!