Chapter 348 - Fish-Man Island 04.
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Third Person POV
Grand Line.
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The sea churned at the bottom of the island as Serume fell, struck down by a haki-coated punch from Luffy. Even without his akuma no mis, he was extremely powerful for a rookie.
The Kraken was knocked out before he could look ahead, seeing his attacker right in front of him. He immediately glared angrily. "I've decided, you will be my Kraken, a pirate needs one," Luffy declared with a smile.
Immediately, the mythical creature began sending its tentacles at Luffy, who started dodging them easily as he bounced from side to side with geppo. The Kraken was surprised again as Luffy appeared in front of him after zigzagging to his head, where he struck him once more.
But Luffy resolved to end this as he knocked out the giant creature, with it falling to the ocean floor.
"What?!" The nearby merfolk were already stunned to see someone punching the Kraken, but seeing him knocked out with a second blow left them bewildered.
"It's him!! It's Straw Hat!!" They exclaimed, now recognizing who had done this.
"That damn human!" Hody Jones was frustrated, watching the situation, wanting to kill him, but he also knew that this man was a monster.
"Hey, what is that!!" A merman pointed upwards, as a shadow approached in front of the sky's light.
"A giant mermaid?! Is it King Neptune?!" They exclaimed, thinking it might be Neptune due to his size and trident, but as the person appeared, revealing a feminine figure...
"Is that?!"
"Princess Shirahoshi!!!"
"What is she doing here!"
"Shirahoshi!!!" Vander Decken IX exclaimed, eyes wide, seeing the princess he always wanted to marry, to the point of threatening her and making her stay locked in her room, but for some reason, he had lost his ability with her after hearing she had disappeared and the country was put on alert.
Shirahoshi approached the crowd while Zoro and Robin stayed back. "Luffy wants to catch another animal?" Zoro asked curiously.
"Fufufu... where will he put this one, it seems this one lives under the sea," Robin commented.
Shirahoshi looked at the crowd looking at the group of fish-men stopping some distance from them. "You want to cause chaos on the island of the merfolk, don't you? Luffy-Sama that you tried a coup in the future," she said calmly.
"Hm?! You figured it out...?" Hody commented, looking interested. He wouldn't deny it if they found out. "We are superior to humans! Neptune's management is weak, we must dominate the surface!" Hody declared firmly as everyone agreed.
"Then I must fight you!" Shirahoshi said with an even firmer tone.
"Shirahoshi, marry me!!" Vander Decken IX shouted from the side.
"I can't, I'm going to marry Luffy-Sama," Shirahoshi exclaimed.
"WHAT??!!" Vander Decken IX exclaimed, not believing those words.
"Finish her!" Hody exclaimed as his soldiers moved into fighting position.
"Leave it to me!" Wadatsumi exclaimed, stepping in front of Shirahoshi. "Sorry, Mermaid-San," he said, clenching his fist before launching it at Shirahoshi.
"Hm?" Shirahoshi watched calmly, before swinging her tail and disappearing, then appearing in front of the giant who was still moving his arm to punch.
In the next moment, Wadatsumi's cheek buried as he was sent flying backward with force by the haki punch, making the man fall to the ground crying out as buildings were destroyed and some merfolk were crushed by his immense body falling far away.
"AHHH!!!" The merfolk screamed in desperation as they were crushed and sent flying.
"What?! She's that strong?!" They exclaimed, stunned.
Hody clenched his teeth. "Attack her!" Hody exclaimed as several of his members began advancing through the sea.
Seeing this, Shirahoshi began moving at high speed, disappearing and reappearing beside them as she sliced through the sea with her trident and launched water strikes.
Even as they also launched strikes with merfolk karate, they couldn't compare to Shirahoshi's attack, which caused the sea to churn the next moment as a giant wave appeared, devastating the whole area.
"She's very strong, Mr. Jones!" A merman exclaimed, looking bewildered at the scene.
"So this is the strength of the princess... she even surpasses Jimbei..." Hody was frustrated for not having his pills he planned to take.
"Mr. Jones!!" A merman exclaimed to a huge shadow emerging, as Shirahoshi became a giant creature at that moment.
Finally, Leviathan appeared in its serpent form while looking at the 10,000 Mermen who maintained stunned looks at the transformed mermaid princess, something they had not seen in the war.
"Hey, she can transform into that thing? What is it?" The Mermen exclaimed, stunned. "She was as big as the Kraken, over 100 meters long," as she looked at her opponents and roared, making the entire sea tremble.
ROOOOOOOAAAAARRRRRR
All 10,000 mermen looked on fearfully, shielding themselves from the water crashing against them.
"Can we fight against this thing?" the Mermen murmured.
Hody Jones, equally frustrated, saw that they could not win. "We must escape from here. We cannot fight her, let alone with Straw Hat and the members of the Whitebeard crew on the island." He murmured, seeing that this was a disadvantageous fight for them and they would have to escape to try to deal with them another way or when the pirates were no longer on the island.
However, Leviathan began to glow at this moment with a blue hue, and the sea began to get all agitated as Shirahoshi released her power.
Luffy was next to Serume when he saw the entire sea turning strange. "Amazing, she is so powerful within the sea," Luffy murmured, seeing the true ability of Shirahoshi in her domain. "Besides being able to control the entire sea with her Eikon, she also had control of the sea kings, making her practically invincible under water." He had to admit with some admiration for his companion.
Suddenly, everything began to stir, and water hurricanes started to emerge all over the sea, rising upwards. This affected not only the district but also the entire island began to feel it, trembling with huge hurricanes emerging from outside the bubble as everyone still celebrating at the feast looked stunned.
"Hey, what's going on there?" the residents were scared by this as they saw chaos making the bubble start to shake as if it would burst at any moment.
Even Neptune came out of his palace along with other pirate members, who were there looking equally stunned at this. Unaware that his daughter was producing all this.
Meanwhile, in the midst of the chaos, the hurricanes continued to swirl through the sea and the mermen looked scared at this, not knowing how to act.
"We must flee immediately!!" They exclaimed as they prepared to leave.
However, the glow from Leviathan grew even stronger and launched its attack, while all the hurricanes began to be directed towards the crowd of mermen.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM The sound echoed throughout the sea, and even the sea on the surface became agitated by this, but the whole place at the bottom of the sea began to be devastated as Mermen were thrown far away with the impact.
Even Zoro and Robin at a distance had to protect themselves from it. From a distance, Luffy saw various rocks flying towards his direction while Serume was behind him.
Serume suddenly woke up stunned with the sea and the ground being devastated, as he saw various rocks flying towards him, but the human who had hit him began to move, breaking all the huge rocks with a haki-coated punch, protecting him.
A cloud of dust was launched in the next moment covering the seabed rising upwards, as people could finally see the direction from where the chaos began with the sea beginning to calm down.
When Zoro and Robin finally managed to see through it, a huge hole appeared in front of everyone. The entire district was no more, while thousands of bodies were floating in the sea, knocked out.
"Well, she ended that pretty quickly," Luffy murmured as he no longer needed to punch rocks at the bottom of the sea, protecting his pet.
Leviathan saw the result of the attack and transformed back into its original form, looking at it curiously. "Did I overdo it?" Shirahoshi murmured.
"Hey, that was quite surprising," Robin approached Shirahoshi.
"Thank you, Robin-Sama," she smiled, pleased by the compliment that she was finally strong.
"That was really surprising..." Zoro murmured, looking cautiously at the being who could devastate an entire city and defeat more than 10,000 opponents in just one strike.
Luffy smiled at them from a distance then turned his attention to Serume, who was awake. He approached his slightly bruised face and crossed his arms. "Serume, now you will belong to the Straw Hat crew!" Luffy declared.
As Luffy continued trying to convince Serume to join his fleet, a group of Neptune's soldiers quickly approached the scene with the king himself, concerned about what had happened.
"Shirahoshi!!!" Neptune exclaimed as he approached his daughter. "What happened here...?!" He asked worriedly.
"Daddy, I finished off the bad men," she spoke in a timid tone.
"What do you mean, you did this?!" He was stunned, not knowing about Shirahoshi's transformation and believed it could be the sea kings.
"Let me explain, father-in-law," Luffy stepped forward at this moment, after having talked a bit with Serume and convinced him to be a member of the fleet, he could explain the situation better than Shirahoshi.
Despite some veins growing on his forehead from being called father-in-law, Neptune stayed silent, waiting for Luffy to speak. Luffy ended up explaining the situation, and in the end, he made a statement about Otohime. "It was Hody Jones who killed your wife," he said, as Neptune's eyes widened.
"What are you saying?" he murmured.
"Hody Jones is a cancer to the island, while your wife believed in the coexistence of humans and merfolk, he was an antagonist, he wanted the opposite, he wanted the merfolk to go to war against humans and for them to dominate the surface, believing that his race is superior. It seems like a foolish dream, after all, merfolk are very few compared to humans on the surface, and much weaker than the major forces," Luffy scoffed, not intending to offend Neptune, but it was true. "However, they wanted to use the power of Shirahoshi, which could balance the forces," Luffy added at the end.
"This..." Neptune was furious. "Are you sure it was him who killed Otohime?!" He exclaimed, seeking an answer, and Luffy pointed to Shirahoshi.
"She saw everything," he said finally as he looked at his daughter.
"Why did you never tell me this?" her father said, demanding an explanation immediately.
"It's because mom didn't want more conflict, so I ended up hiding it..." she commented, though she had been cowardly at that time, but she would no longer be so.
Neptune, despite his anger, nodded. "I want all of them arrested," he exclaimed to his soldiers, as they began to head to the bottom of the sea to collect the fallen bodies, "I want Hody Jones and his group personally to be tried!"
"Well, that was quite easy," Luffy murmured, with the threat of the merfolk island being so easily destroyed with just one strike from Shirahoshi.
In the end, Shirahoshi, Zoro, and Robin went to the Ryugu Palace, and Luffy said they would be free to do as they pleased while he ended up going to the Merfolk Island, wanting to visit the place alone.
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