• (Wano Country) {Year: 18.9} •
Compared to the future Ryu had watched in his past life, Wano Country was now in for better one. Well, unless the next Shogun screws it up. If any organizations were to attack Wano, they'd be in for a surprise if they ever break in the barrier.
The community were now almost united and had a lot of people who were stronger than high-ranked Marines. Thanks to several families who had invested in making dojos all over the Wano Country, people learned different martial arts. Even women were allowed to learn them due to the gender equality. O-Tsuru, the temporary representative, had not let the community down with her amazing persuasion and stubbornness, she ensured that anything decided at least had benefits for them.
The officials had been working and deciding hard ever since Ryu overthrew the Shogun, but now they could work peacefully and easily due to the new system for the community. Unlike before, the new system valued the wellbeing of the citizens in Wano Country instead of money. There were times where Ryu had to help here and there, but it was minuscule. People could vote for new officials when the officials' terms were over or retired.
As for the prison, it was difficult to break in or out, but there were still prison wardens and guards to ensure nothing would happen. The order were called Polices due to Ryu calling them. They took care of criminals, by arresting them and taking them to the court for decision on their punishment.
However, there were still people who didn't want a united community. They began to appeared ever since Ryu had announced he would leave Wano Country in 2 years.
Ryu checked them out in secret and found that they were only bluffers who had done so to keep Ryu in Wano... He sighed in exasperation, they were like Rin, only excessive. The community also didn't want him to leave, but they couldn't stop him, could they? It seemed that the community were confusing that if he left, the barriers would go down.
So, Ryu clarified to the community, that the barrier won't go down when he left, but they would go down when the next Shogun came. Even if the barriers went down, the community itself would easily take out any people who had bad intents. Although that calmed them slightly, it showed they were reliant on him and his barriers. He decided that the barriers definitely had to go down some day, otherwise they'd be too reliant that they went rusty in defending themselves, though not in internal strifes.
The internal strifes happened rarely, but they did indeed happen in Wano Country. They were mostly about the Shogun, who should have it. Most of them aligned with Ryu becoming the actual Shogun, but Ryu told them that he only took Shogun in-name, and held it for a 'friend' in the future.
So there were now three sides in that debate, Ryu-Becomes-Shogun, No-Shogun-Don't-Need, and neutral. The No-Shogun-Don't-Need contained of people who thought that a shogun wasn't needed, they could continue without one. Ryu scolded them, if they didn't need a shogun then why did the officials have to decide for a temporary leader to approve and finalize? They retorted that they'd rather him to be the Shogun, making Ryu roll his eyes!
Ryu became too popular that there were even legends about him and assumptions of where he was from. They already knew he was from the outside Wano Country, but not where exactly. Being too popular also involved a lot of fans, specifically women. He was the number 1 bachelor, he found out from Rin some day. Ryu was devilishly handsome, stronger than the whole Wano Country itself, could handle himself, and he could be diligent when needed. He was often shown as a cold person, but that only made masochist women wet in their groins.
...
Ryu was now teaching several people about Haki. Those several people actually had managed to somehow gained Armament Haki and Observation Haki. So, he decided to help them learn more about them and advance them. With Ryu and his system, the several people understood what he said one way or another, making their lessons easier.
After several months, he decided that they should start teaching others about the Haki they owned. As expected, no one had Conqueror's Haki in Wano Country.
There were starting to be more people with Armament Haki and Observation Haki, though basic. Ryu was thinking he may have overdid it, that Wano Country could easily become a group of crew that could hold their ground against each Yonko's crews. Thankfully, the community had no such intention, they wanted to protect their own and stay peaceful country. They had enough of corruption and oppression in the past.
Wano Country was now one of the strongest countries in the whole world. Ryu decided to let a bit of information to be sent out from Wano Country, they can protect themselves now.
• {Year: 19} •
News Coo spread out shocking news about the Wano Country that was said to be isolated and about Ryu.
Everyone in the world was shocked at Ryu taking Wano Country in his protection, but they understood after reading more. He was strong and had the capability to protect a whole country by himself!
His defenses were nearly impenetrable, Ryu himself overthrew the Shogun alone, and Kaido of the Beasts couldn't stop him. Ryu was too strong, they agreed as they started to understand why his bounty paper kept increasing. It turned out that the World Government had found out about this long ago.
Wano Country was now considered as one of the strongest countries in the whole world. People with the strength stronger than higher-ranked Marines were almost common in the country. The community there could easily be on par as a Yonko's crew. Their community were nearly united, which were unheard of due to piracy, but they understood it was due to the Isolationism, oppression in the past, and most importantly Ryu, that they became united.
The World Government confirmed those information when Ryu let their spies send information to them from inside Wano Country. It turned out that his barriers could cut off the connection between Den Den Mushi and any animals carrying notes would be turned into dusts when they passed through the barrier.
People were now thinking of Ryu as the uncrowned Yonko. In fact, if Ryu wanted, he could easily wipe out the World Government, even the Gorosei. As for IM, Ryu wasn't sure if he could fight him due to no information on him.
...
Somewhere in New World...
"Haha! It seems that Ryu is considered as an uncrowned Yonko now. Even though he could easily be the Pirate King." A certain red-haired man said as he read the newspaper.
"My student has grown up..." A tear came out of a dreadlocks man with sniper gun behind his back. "But why doesn't he show off his marksmanship?!"
"He must've been embarrassed to use it, dahahaha!" The red-haired man jokingly said. After he laughed, he muttered. "But... what is he going to do next?"
...
In Sabaody Archipelago, Shaku's Bar...
Sitting on a stool near the bar, the healthy gray-haired man held his newspaper to Hancock who was glaring at him as if he was an cockroach. "H-haha, I wasn't going to read it before you."
Boa Hancock, the Pirate Empress and female Shichibukai, had been visiting Shaku's Bar often ever since she found out that Rayleigh somehow received informations on Ryu and kept it away from her. Hancock was angered that he dared to keep it away from her, so she kept beating him up every time she saw Rayleigh. Rayleigh didn't even resist because he knew that if he did, his wife would definitely look at him with scorn.
Grabbing the newspaper, Hancock immediately ignored him and read it carefully. "Mm... I see... Wano Country in New World...?"
"I should go visit him there..." Hancock muttered, thinking of visiting him. Elder Nyon heard that and immediately told her not to much to Hancock's annoyance.
"Nyou can't!" Elder Nyon shouted. "Nyou have your job as the Shichibukai and the Empress of Amazon Lily! What is the World Government going to think of nyou and Ryu when they see nyou both together?!"
"I don't care old hag!" Hancock retorted angrily. "I only care about myself and my sisters and R-Ryu!"
Hancock blushed and stuttered at the end as she added him. Her sisters were still outside, keeping a watch out.
...
Somewhere in Paradise of the Grand Line...
"Wow! Ryu is too strong," A orange-haired woman said as she read the newspaper while on mission. "Hey Sabo, look at this!"
Sabo, the No. 2 and Chief of Staff of the Revolutionary Army, took and read the newspaper as Koala handed it to him. "Hmm, he has the power to easily deal with the whole Celestial Dragons... Have we tried recruiting him for the Revolutionaries?"
"Yeah! He declined though, he didn't like to deal with the World Government's politics. Hmph! He said he didn't like politics and yet there he is, doing politics in Wano Country!" Koala had excitedly spoke of Ryu until she became angry at him for declining... Sabo sweatdropped at that.
"I-I see. Well, as long as he doesn't hinder our goal." Sabo muttered. He joined the Revolutionaries because he lost his memories and he was apparently saved from the World Noble's wrath. He felt like he was missing something ever since then, something or someone important.
Suddenly, a glint appeared in his eyes, as he remembered what Koala said before. Ryu had helped her when she was down, perhaps that meant helping her find her moral beliefs? Sabo was always smart, so he could deduce several things from a simple sentence. Looking down at Ryu's picture in the bounty paper, he hoped to meet him. 'Perhaps this man can help me find what's missing from my heart...'
...
In Fishman Island...
"And now people are calling him the uncrowned Yonko!" A human-sized goldfish mermaid said as she finished reading the newspaper for her huge yet cute daughter.
Fukaboshi, Ryuboshi, Manboshi and Shirahoshi circled around their mother, Queen Otohime as she read. They were amazed and happy that Ryu was enjoying his life. Otohime was shocked though, such power could easily deal with Poseidon. She had been confused as to why Ryu had said he had been stopping Shirahoshi's power, but now that he left, they've been seeing Shirahoshi starting to gather pressure a bit. They now understood Ryu had done something to her, she could now handle her emotions and power more smoothly.
During the times Ryu had accompanied Shirahoshi, he had been telling emotions-inducing stories to her, causing her to either cry or get angry. But after awhile, she managed to start understanding the point of the stories, which in turn helped her to understand other people's goals similar to her mother's Observation Haki.
"Wow! Ryu-sama is amazing!" Shirahoshi said, slightly blushing after declaring so. Her mother and three brothers looked at her knowingly, smiling. "W-what!"
"You would always say that for your beloved~!" Fukaboshi jokingly said, causing her to blush even more. They then laughed together.
"Oh? What are you guys laughing together for?" Smiling, a giant-sized and muscular coelacanth merman came in.
"Father-sama! You have to stop them from embarrassing me!" His darling red-faced daughter yelled as she moved to him.
"Is it about Ryu?" King Neptune smiled knowingly, just like the other four did to her. His daughter froze and looked like blood would drip out of her face. He then laughed boisterously. "Hahaha!"
"Not you too!"
...
On a certain huge elephant in New World...
*Sob*
A huge yellow feline mink sobbed as he read the newspaper shakily. A huge grizzled canine mink had tears in his eyes too nearby. Their human best friend saved Wano Country! They were so thankful that Ryu existed at this very moment.
Both of them had failed in helping their savior, Kozuki Oden, back in the past with Wano Country. They originally planned to help him open the Wano Country but they got betrayed by Orochi, rendering them incapable of fighting back.
"Thank you, Ryu!" Duke Inuarashi said, even though Ryu wasn't there.
"Yes, thank you! We will remember this forever!" Master Nekomamushi announced. Turning to his day-counterpart, he said. "Ryu has helped and saved Zou, and now he saved Wano Country! We're forever indebted to him once again."
"Yes!" The grizzled canine mink agreed resolutely. Their Mink Tribe were forever indebted to Ryu and Kozuki Family now! If they were to sacrifice for either of them, they would willingly do so!
Suddenly, both of them looked in the eyes at the same time, as if they had accidentally forgot something! A certain white rabbit mink were standing behind them, angered. She was pushed away from reading the newspaper about Ryu.
Carrot had received the newspaper from the News Coo and was about to read it when it had the word 'Ryu' in it, only to be pushed away by Duke Inuarashi and Master Nekomamushi because they had seen Wano Country in it! She was so angered that she felt like they stole her carrot. The only person who were permitted to take carrots from her was Ryu!
Trembling, both yellow feline mink and grizzled canine mink turned to her. "A-ah..."
"GRRRR~!"
...
In Marineford...
"Damn that Ryu bastard!" The Fleet Admiral, Sengoku, yelled for the world to hear. "He alway brings me trouble from those five old bastards!"
"Hahaha! That's your fault! If you had left him alone, they wouldn't had troubled you," Vice Admiral Garp laughed boisterously, while eating rice crackers on the table.
"Ugh! What's going to happen of the World Summit, Reverie?" Sengoku muttered wonderingly. "Those old bastards wouldn't happen to be thinking of inviting the pirate, would he?"
Garp suddenly looked serious at that senseless thought. If they really did...
"Ahahaha~!" He cried tears of laughter at that. "A pirate being the Shogun of a huge strong country, and it's Ryu at that!"
Sengoku even teared up slightly. But he suddenly stopped. 'Crap! Knowing them, we might have jinxed it!'
...
In Mariejois...
"Should we attempt to invite the Wano Country to the World Government?" The white gi samurai started.
"But Ryu is a pirate!" The youngest blondie rebutted.
"However, he has Wano Country under his control..." Tallest and thin bearded man stated. "We should be looking at him as a king leading a country for now."
"Actually, would he even accept our invitation?" The baldie with birthmarks on forehead retorted. "Besides, if he were to come... I'm sure the other kings or queens would wet themselves..."
"Hahaha!" The white-gi samurai agreed. "You're right! Such powerful man they heard of would cause them to wet themselves when meeting in person!"
"Let's just try anyways," sighing, the gray dreadlocks man ended the debate. "I hope he doesn't accept though..."
It'd be embarrassing if a pirate came into the World Summit in a year, the gray dreadlocks man thought. The World Summit was for kings and queens that the World Government were affiliated with. They were deciding whether to try affiliate with the Wano Country.
Ryu would definitely laugh at them, did they even want to be a part of a larger body? No way! The Wano Country's community would rather be on its own, not wanting to be a subsidiary group of another. And especially when a pirate was essentially the King of a large country.
• (Wano Country) {Year: 19.4} •
Near the sea defense of Kuri's...
"Damn! What's with this f*cking thing that's blocking us!" A tall and slightly muscular man yelled as his crew tried to get in. The man wore a open-front shirt with a tattoo on his upper left arm, ASCE, with the S crossed out. He was Portgas D. Ace, the captain of Spade Pirates.
"Captain! We can't go in at all, it seems we have to move on!" A crew-mate shouted at him.
Sighing, he was about to tell them to turn around when he saw a sword-like beam flying towards their ship's deck. "Everyone be prepared! Something's coming!"
All of the crew brought out their weapons, and watched out for the sword-like beam. The sword-like beam went to their deck, and just when they thought it was gonna crash, it stopped and out of it came a bright green eyes man. 'Wait?! A f*cking bright green eyes man?! Isn't he the Solitary Pirate Ryu?!'
Sweating, it looked like their captain recognized him too. How could Ace not when Ryu was basically the very man who he idolized! Ryu saved a country, helped people, traveled freely, and was very strong! He wanted to be like him, but with a goal of being the Pirate King!
"Hmm." Ryu grunted as he looked around, glaring daggers into every single person on the deck. While he was doing that, he mentally spoke. 'I made such a damn cool entrance, haha! But what's with that sweating starry eyes man, wait, isn't he Ace?'
"You," Ryu pointed towards Ace. "You look like the captain of this crew. Now tell me why were you guys trying to get into the Wano Country?"
As he spoke to the end, Ryu brought out a slight pressure on them all. He wanted to rest them out, to see how strong they currently were. The crew feeling the pressure shook with their legs, but they refused to fall. Seeing that, he was surprised. It turned out that Ace found good men.
"W-we didn't know it was the Wano Country, sir Ryu!" Ace spoke while suffering the pressure. He wasn't angry that his idol pressured them, instead, he was amazed! However, that wasn't the point. Bowing, Ace apologized to Ryu, surprising him and the other crew-mates. "We apologize for trying to get into the country."
Ryu only simply stared quietly for awhile. Suddenly, he took back his pressure and laughed, different to his cold demeanor. "Haha! You're just as expected of his brother!"
Ace and his crew was confused at that. His brother? "Do you know Luffy?"
"Yeah, in a way." Ryu replied, smiling slightly. Taking out a New World Log Pose, he threw it to Ace's bewildered face. "Take that, you'll need it to not get lost in New World. You can come back to this country later."
Ace was surprised that his idol gave him something, he had to keep it safe no matter what! Ryu looked like he was about to leave, so Ace quickly spoke. "Thank you, sir Ryu! But I want to ask you something!"
Ryu turned to look at Ace questioningly, prompting him to continue. "Why do you not become a Pirate King? You're already strong alone to be one."
"Eh?" Ryu didn't expect that, he thought it was something else but it was just that. Chuckling, he told them while leaving. "Because I already am, in my way. I'd rather stay a pirate, being the freest man, traveling anywhere, and doing whatever I want! To me, a Pirate King is that. Everyone has their own views on what a Pirate King is... so what is your view on it?"
Ryu didn't wait for him to answer as he went sword-like beam to Wano Country. He came in such a cool entrance and left in the same way. Ace was in a daze, he didn't expect such answer.
'What is a Pirate King to me?'
Then Ace resolutely looked up and at his crew, determination burning in their eyes. Ryu had such charisma that he easily boiled their blood. They all shouted at the same time.
"So f*cking cool!"
• (Wano Country) {Year: 19.7} •
In a half year, the Wano Country had been decided as the second strongest compared to Elbaf, the country of giants. Wano Country now had almost over a thousand of people who had Haki, and in Marines, those with Vice Admiral rank and above were said to have a requirement of Haki, meaning there were almost a thousand of Vice Admiral-leveled people in Wano Country. The World Government were astounded at such number they received from their spies inside. Now they couldn't make Wano Country a subsidiary group of theirs, it alone easily toppled over any kingdoms they affiliated with.
However, they decided that Elbaf would still be the strongest one as their armies were composed of giants. The Wano Country didn't care about that when they found out they were ranked second strongest country. It only helped relieve their anxiousness when Ryu leaves, and their goal of being a peaceful country. Ryu was glad they now started to believe in their survivability in the world.
...
Some time after the news were spread, the Wano Country were visited by the World Government. The Marines had sent two admirals and Cipher Pol, just in-case. They were there to 'ask' the Wano Country if they would participate the World Summit, even if they were not part of the World Council.
When Ryu explained the officials about this, they were astounded. They never knew of such World Council... They even thought if there was any usefulness in participating when they were strong enough to survive on their own. Ryu snickered at that, he was only the Shogun in-name, but he also agreed that they didn't need to, however, it would help build relations to other kingdoms.
The officials couldn't decide, so they announced the information to the community for them to vote. Should they agree, they would also have to vote a official that would attend, as well as who would be going with the said official. The community mostly voted that they didn't need to, as why would they care about other countries/kingdoms?
Ryu laughed at that, if only they knew that their future Shogun wanted to open Wano Country's gates to the outside world. The officials were in dilemma now, so they asked Ryu for help once again. However, he didn't want to help with that part, he'd rather dump that on the future Shogun as he was just in-name. Sighing, the officials could only just reject it.
The World Government wasn't happy with that, but they couldn't do anything about it. Ryu alone could easily topple the World Government and its subsidiary groups, actually, the Wano Country alone were very strong enough to be cautious towards, so they also couldn't attack it. All they could do was accept and leave.
...
The young handsome man stood behind the window, watching out of it. He enjoyed his peaceful time. Right now he was thinking of what to do when the One Piece storyline starts. He also wanted to go to Dressrosa and screw up the Joker's plan, just for gags. All he needed to do was to scare Sugar into falling unconscious, he laughed when he imagined their hard work going down the drain just because she fell unconscious.
There was also Whitebeard, Ace should have already joined them by now. Ryu decided to heal Whitebeard when they meet. Whitebeard wouldn't be able to defeat Ryu anymore, as Ryu already advanced into the next realm of Sword Will, the Sword Heart realm. In the Sword Heart realm, he could make a domain of his own, but he focused on attaining other abstruse energies. Ryu decided he would find Mihawk later.
• (New World) {Year: 19.9} •
On a huge whale-like ship, Moby Dick...
The Whitebeard Pirates looked serious onboard the Moby Dick as a certain red-haired man walked towards their captain, Whitebeard. Shanks looked serious as well, but a bit later when he stood in front of Whitebeard, he laughed and threw a sake to him.
"Dahahaha! Don't look so serious!"
"Brat, why did you call for a meeting?!" Annoyed by his antics, Whitebeard shot straight to the point.
"Haha, let's take a drink first!" Shanks responded, but Whitebeard gave him a steely glare and brought out his Conqueror's Haki. Shanks immediately brought out his too, causing sparks to appear and knocking weak-willed people to faint onboard. "Alright, I called for the meeting about Ryu, the Solitary Pirate."
"You know about him?!" A tall and slightly muscular man shouted when he heard Ryu's name. "Of course you do, he's amazing right!"
Both Whitebeard and Shanks took back their Conqueror's Haki. Turning to look at him, Shanks rose his right eyebrows. "Ace, was it? You're the one who thanked me for Luffy."
"Yeah!" Ace replied, he met Shanks before seeing Ryu and thanked him for taking care of his little sworn brother. "But why is the meeting about Ryu?"
Shanks became serious and turned to look at Whitebeard directly in the eyes. "Ryu told me he was planning to meet you eventually when my crew-mate was training him."
The whole crew and Whitebeard looked surprised, about Shanks' crew-mate training him. A pineapple-headed man asked Shanks. "Who was training him and in what?"
Chuckling, the red-haired man replied. "It was Yasopp, the marksman of mine. He was training Ryu in marksmanship, though now Ryu barely used his marksman skills... Yasopp cried tears at that! Dahahaha!"
"And? Why have you told me about this?" Whitebeard asked. He knew of Ryu, the Solitary Pirate, of course. He himself thought that Ryu could easily overthrow the World Government too. Whitebeard was interested in him, but they never met even once.
"I think I know what's he going to do when he meets you." Shanks shifted slightly hesitantly. "He's probably going to heal you."
"What?! Such man has the ability to heal Pops?!" Marco immediately shouted and questioned. The other crew-mates were looking hopefully at the red-haired man.
"Yeah. His abilities are weird and different, he doesn't even own a devil fruit either." Shanks replied. "However, I know for sure he has the ability to heal anyone."
"..." Whitebeard looked down, as the shadow covered his face. He looked like he was thinking about something. 'Is Ryu pitying me...?!'
Slamming his Bisento, Whitebeard angrily shouted at Shanks. "Tell that green-eyes brat I won't accept such pity!!!"
"Pops!" The division commanders looked at their Father confused and down.
"...I thought you might misunderstand, but he's still going to heal you. The reason?" The red-haired man wasn't faltered a single bit, he expected this. Continuing, he walked back to his ship. "Ryu just wants to. He does whatever he wants, and even if you refuse, he will still one way or another, do it."
"...He just wants to?" Whitebeard was surprised at that. To him, a pirate was doing anything they wanted, to be free. He then laughed boisterously. "Haha! I like this Ryu brat!"
"Yeah, me too." Shanks smiled as he jumped back on his ship.
"Haha! As expected of my idol!" Proudly lifting his chest as if Ryu was his parents, Ace smugly said.
Thatch, a tall man with a light brown pompadour hairstyle looked at him pityingly, Ace was about to be in a dilemma. "Ace... Next time watch your surroundings."
"Oh? So you would support Ryu instead of me?" Whitebeard menacingly asked Ace as he spoke highly of Ryu.
Ace quickly sweatdropped, how was he going to answer when Whitebeard was literally in front of him and Ryu wasn't? Ryu was still his idol but Whitebeard had became his father too... he was now in a dilemma!
"Hahaha~!" The other crew-mates laughed.
...
In Onigashima of Wano Country...
"You green-eyes bastard! Why are you here?!" The strongest creature in the world shouted angrily as he glared at Ryu. Ryu simply returned icy glares.
"To fight. I'm going to use you for experience, I'll be lowering my capabilities a bit." The green-eyes announced, not caring for his response.
Kaido seeing this as a chance, quickly brought out his mace, slamming it to Ryu in front of him. Thunders manifested around the mace, bringing a menacing look. "EIGHT TRIGRAMS THUNDERCLAP!"
*CRACKLE*
Ryu stood still and took it with his right hand. His body alone easily beat Kaido's mythical body.
*BAM*
"Is that all?" Ryu snorted at such weak attack. Quickly disappearing on spot, Ryu moved behind Kaido's immense body and like Luffy's Jet Punch, his left hand showed afterimages as he punched Kaido's back.
*BAM*
*BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM*
Kaido felt like his back received a f*cking hard punch as he flew forward and slamming down the trees, or what's left of them. Spewing blood, he maliciously stared at Ryu. "Damn it! My pride as the strongest creature won't go down right here and by you pathetic human!"
*RUMBLE*
*ROOAAARR*
Dark cloud suddenly appeared above them as Kaido enlarged into a eastern dragon. The eastern dragon looked huge enough to surround the whole Onigashima now. It had scales-skinned and flames emitting out of its back. Donning four antlers and a long mustache floating, his dragon head looked menacing to everyone.
"I swear on my life I will kill you! SCORCHING MINIATURE SUN!" Inhaling a huge breath, his mouth-cheeks began to grow huger and huger. Just when Ryu thought they'd pop, Kaido exhaled a immense scorching mini-sun towards him. Kaido nearly burned his throat doing it, he looked slightly exhausted but seemed to rapidly recovering due to his regeneration.
*RUMBLE*
*SSSSSS*
The mini-sun seemed to melt everything near it, however Ryu's clothes did not burn as it was of special fabric. Chuckling, Ryu brought his chest out as he began to inhale as well. Suddenly!
*HUUUU*
The mini-sun was frozen into a ice ball. Kaido was shocked at that, his mini-sun were literally frozen! "W-what?! How can you freeze the damn sun?!"
"Haha! Nothing's impossible with me!" Ryu declared smugly. To be honest, he didn't expect it to be frozen as well, but he didn't want Kaido to know. "Let's keep going!"
"Damn bastard!" Moving quick, the eastern dragon brought his horns towards Ryu, hoping to bash him. His prided horns were hard enough to-
*CRACK*
Casually, Ryu punched with his right fist. Kaido looked at Ryu and his now-in-pieces left horn on the ground with horror. His prided horn was easily crushed!
"Y-you!" Blood red eyes began to emit out of Kaido. "ARGHHHHH!"
*CRACKLE*
Blood red thunders began to manifest around his whole body as it began to morph into something. As if responding to that, the dark cloud began to whirl into the center as it open a hole.
*RUMBLE*
*WOOSH*
*CRACKLE*
'Mmn? What's going on?' Ryu looked at Kaido and the dark cloud, a hole in the center. The hole looked like a gate to the hell, he noted.
*RUMBLE*
*CRACKLE*
Blood red humanoid bodies started to come out of the hole, it went towards Kaido who seemed to be afraid of what's happening.
"NO! WHA- ARGGGHHHHH~!" Kaido shouted in agony. The blood red humanoid bodies started to merge with the eastern dragon's body, enlarging it. The body began to emit blood red thunders, horns shedding for new ones, flames on its back turned into pitch black, and its scales turned into blood red. His claws were pitch-black as were his new horns.
Immense pressure were felt from the now-different dragon. Menacingly, Kaido began to laugh eerily. "Kukuhahaha!"
"...?" Tilting his head, Ryu thought that Kaido became crazy. Well, not like he was never one.
"I have become a devil dragon!" Kaido announced as his pitch-black claws slammed into Ryu. Ryu being now cautious, quickly dodged with his Observation Haki.
*BAM*
Ryu was shocked as his body flew to the ground heavily. He was still hit! The devil dragon was slightly surprised as well, but taking that as a advantage, he quickly moved towards Ryu and tried to slam his claws again.
*WOOSH*
However, this time Ryu successfully dodged as he increased the speed. He laughed. "Hahaha! This is getting fun than I expected!"
Encasing his right fist with Armament Haki, Ryu dashed to Kaido's eerily menacing dragon head and punched upward his jaws.
*BOOM*
The Devil Dragon splurt out blood as his head flew backward. Kaido got angered that he still couldn't fight Ryu on even grounds! He began to circulate his blood red thunders into the center of both his pitch-black claws.
*CRACKLE* *CRACKLE*
A pitch red thunder ball showed up, on its outline were pitch-black flames. It looked like an even stronger attack than the mini-sun he made before. As if pushing it, the thunder ball moved in a speed of thunder. "DEVIL FLAMING THUNDERBALL!"
(AN: lul i cant think of attack names xd)
Ryu watched it near him when he suddenly used his custom Armament Haki to encase his right hand. He brought his right palm towards it, and made a squeezing movement. The Devil Flaming Thunderball suddenly warped as if a hand was squeezed it.
*HISSS*
The red thunderball began to become smaller and disappear as it made a hissing sound. Kaido immediately slammed his blood red-scaled tail emitting black flames towards Ryu.
*BAM*
Once again, Ryu dodged as the ground under him show a huge hole. The devil dragon suddenly became smaller and smaller, until it became a humanoid. Kaido looked like a huge muscular man, with long mustache, four pitch-black horns, and his black hair were touching the floor, longer. His hands were claws-like, but as he encased it with Armament Haki, immense pressure came out both of them!
"DEVIL CLAWS!" Blood red scales began to show up on the strongest creature's hands, stopping at the wrists with the nails turning pitch black. He moved so towards Ryu and clawed him.
*WOOSH*
*CLANG*
Ryu brought out a durable sword and used it to block his claws. Sparks appeared as they kept clashing, sword vs. claw. Truthfully, Ryu could easily beat Kaido at the beginning, but where's the fun in that?
...
*CLANG*
*CLANG*
Both of them continued till it was getting dark. Kaido jumped back and panted. Even with his newfound stamina, he still couldn't last against the not-even-sweating Ryu. "J-just how much of stamina do you have?!"
(AN: enough to last 1 year of permanent sex, teehee~)
"Higher than yours," Ryu answered the obvious. Kaido enraged at that, used his Conqueror's Haki at its fullest. Burst of huge wind came out of him. Ryu also brought out his normal Conqueror's Haki, clashing against Kaido's.
*CLANG~!*
*BOOM* *BOOM*
Both of Conqueror's Haki clashed as the sparks appeared and the ground around them crumbled. Black lightning appeared when they continued, people in Wano Country could see it easily. Small debris that were on the ground crumbled into dust. Ryu looked like he wasn't even trying, casually standing in the same spot, while Kaido kept stepping back heavily, causing miniature holes to appear.
Kaido wielding a conqueror's traits, shouted angrily. "D-DAMN! I WON'T FALL!"
Blood began to drip from his eyes, as blood-red scales appeared from his Devil Claws, covering his whole body. His back now emitted black flames and blood red thunder crackled around his body. Ryu was surprised at that, it seemed that his body morphing also changed his Conqueror's Haki. But that was just it.
Looking slightly disdainful, Ryu started to walk towards the devil dragon in human form. "You think you can beat me in a battle of wills?!"
Ryu increased the pressure, shocking Kaido and angered as he started to wobble. "INFINITE THUNDERBOLTS!"
*CRACKLE* *SHHH*
Countless small blood-red thunderbolts came towards Ryu from Kaido's body. Though they looked small, they had power to turn a human into dust. Ryu was not willing to risk taking them when Kaido became a devil dragon. He kept dodging them as Kaido kept shooting them all while both of them were clashing with Conqueror's Haki.
"WHY?! WHY DO YOU STOP ME FROM MY DREAM?!" Kaido suddenly started to cried as he weakened his Conqueror's Haki. Ryu was surprised at his sudden mood swing... he helplessly took back his Conqueror's Haki.
"Because Wano Country would have become a wasteland and corrupt from your dream." Ryu said as Kaido also took back his Conqueror's Haki. The devil dragon was shocked that Ryu knew of his plans of making factories.
"How did you know of the plans?!"
"...See ya later, I hope you get stronger when we meet again." Ignoring his question, Ryu flew back to Wano Country. Ryu had never intended to kill Kaido, but use him as a dummy for him to gain experience or play around with. If Kaido had learned this, he would've suicide attack him.
What both of them never noticed were the Den Den Mushi placed around the Onigashima by the spies of World Government and other organizations. The organizations had just incase placed them if Kaido really intended to stay there. They never expected for a such battle to appear on their visual transmissions.
...
The Revolutionary Army...
"This man..." A spiky black haired man with tattoo on left side of his face muttered. "He will be very dangerous, only if we offend him..."
A blond haired man with old burn mark on his left eye agreed with his leader. "Yes. As long as we're neutral or on his side, the Solitary Pirate will not come after us."
"Hihi~ it was fun watching Ryu bash Kaido repeatedly! He even made him cry at the end, haha!" A certain orange-haired beauty laughed, making the others sweatdrop at her antics.
"My~ Is this your crush?" A tall, slim woman with short and light hair asked. The orange-haired immediately quietened and blushed.
"Haha!"
...
The Marines...
"..." A tall muscular man with long, braided goatee, a black afro, and mustache looked solemn, as were the other people in the room. They had watched Ryu easily deal with Kaido, even when Kaido turned into something new, a devil dragon. "Kaido has become stronger, it seems."
*CRUNCH*
"Yes. Yet, Ryu easily dealt with him," a tall, broad-chested, muscular old man with a beard and a scar over his left eye added as he ate rice crackers, "he made it look so easy, when truthfully it's harder."
*CRUNCH*
"Justice will be served," a tall and muscular man with square-shaped face, very pronounced facial features, and short black hair simply said his catchphrase. "We will arrest the Solitary Pirate, Ryu, one day."
*CRUNCH*
"Ri~ght. R~yu~ wil~l be dea~lt wit~h on~e da~y." A middle-aged man with slim build, black hair, and a thin beard slowly spoke.
*CRUNCH*
"Mmn." A another tall man with black and curly hair to chin-length wearing a sleep mask only grunted.
*CRUNCH*
"...Damn it Garp! Stop eating your rice crackers loudly!" The black afro man shouted at the man who kept making loud crunches.
3/15/2019: I had the next chapter half-written, but I suddenly didn’t know how to continue it. So, sorry, I’m going to release it when I regain the inspiration once again.
Know this though, it may take a whole month, like at the start of novel. <-Took me a whole month to start writing again.
Once again, sorry for the inconvenience.
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