Completion
The Flower Capital was no longer recognizable. The once-bustling streets were now charred ruins, blackened by fire and soaked with the blood of Wano's defenders. Smoke still lingered in the air, swirling like the remnants of a shattered dream.
The boiling cauldron, still hissing from the execution, stood as a grotesque monument to the fate of the Kozuki. Their legacy had ended not with honor, but with helpless screams and the sickening sound of flesh cooking in oil.
And now, deep beneath the shattered palace of Wano, Figarland Shamrock finally reached the sacred vault where the fruit had been hidden.
The Time-Time Fruit.
It pulsed with an eerie radiance, its swirling surface glimmering with the essence of eternity itself.
Shamrock stood silently before it. His three heads of Cerberus flickered in the shadows behind him, glowing with infernal aura. His body, the ultimate vessel, had awaited this final piece.
Without hesitation, he grasped the fruit and devoured it.
A violent surge of power erupted from within. The fabric of reality twisted around him. Time fractured for an instant. Days passed in seconds, seconds stretched into hours. Even space trembled.
Shamrock's eyes burned with the knowledge and potential of this transcendent ability.
"So this is true control..." he whispered.
Where Kozuki Toki had only known how to send others forward in time, a coward's way to escape the present. On the other hand, Shamrock saw the entirety of the temporal spectrum laid bare before him.
He could now:
Pause time — and walk through a world frozen in place.
Accelerate time — decaying stone to dust, aging mountains into nothingness.
Backtrack time — to undo injuries, avoid mistakes, rewrite causality.
Erase time — skip entire moments from the flow of events, make attacks never happen.
Collapse time — forcing others to suffer the full weight of centuries in seconds.
"Toki was a waste," Shamrock muttered. "She held divinity in her hands and used it to run. I will use it to reign."
He opened a rift, stepping through space by erasing the time it would take to cross it. One instant, he stood in Wano. The next, he reappeared aboard his flagship, high above the clouds.
CP-0 members knelt as he returned, silent in reverence. The air around him warped subtly, time flowing around him like a river around a boulder.
With this, all three powers had been assembled.
The Dark-Dark Fruit gave him absolute suppression of all Devil Fruits, an abyss into which even light and power could be pulled.
The Memory-Memory Fruit gave him total domination of the mind. He could overwrite thoughts, plant illusions, and enslave even the strongest of wills.
And now, the Time-Time Fruit, mastered by one who finally understood its true potential.
"There is no longer a need to rush."
He could now move instantly anywhere. He could reverse damage in battle. He could make enemies forget why they even raised a sword against him. And if they tried to resist, he would pull them into an eternal void of darkness.
A soft chuckle escaped him.
"Everything ends. And everything begins… with me."
The age of gods, pirates, and empires was over. A new epoch was dawning. One governed not by dreams, but by absolute control.