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Bab 267: Toys No More

Truly it was an epic battle for the ages. At least that was how it looked in the eyes of the toys who watched Usopp fling his entire arsenal at Monet and Sugar. Perhaps they were biased, though, since the result of this battle decided whether they were freed from their torment, or forced to slave away for eternity against their wills.

An small army of tiny black bears assaulted him, but in one move he bound them to the floor with a mass of grasping vines.

The snow woman was the biggest thorn in his side. Being a Logia type fruit user, most of his attacks could not directly harm her. Still, he was not totally defenseless, as he possessed his classic Flaming Stars to ward her off with her elemental weakness. He also had giant venus fly trap pop greens that could ensnare her entire body, but they were quickly frozen to death and could only stall her.

Fortunately, he didn't need to defeat Monet. His target was Sugar.

All three of the combatants paused in surprise when they remembered that Robin existed. That could only mean she had been turned into a toy and somehow turned back. No one was more shocked than Sugar, though, as she had a fairly arrogant view of her own power and thought she was almost invincible with it.

However, now she was faced with the terrifying reality that her enemies didn't even need to fight her to undo her years of hard work. The red eyed woman chattered away with the tall, busty woman like it was no big deal what had just happened.

"Sugar?!" Money shouted, drawing Sugar's attention to her sister.

Sadly, this was the wrong direction to look. She felt the world become dizzy for the briefest moment before her vision faded to black.

Usopp stood over the fallen Sugar holding the two by four wooden board he had bonked her on the head with. Even knowing that she was older than he was, he felt absolutely monstrous for having swung his makeshift club at the semblance of a little girl's head with all his might.

His feelings of guilt were a fatal distraction for him. He didn't notice the enraged snow harpy bearing down on him until it was too late to dodge! Her razor sharp teeth threatened to rip through the delicate flesh of his neck in a single, brutal chomp!

*BWOOSH*

Usopp slid back from a massive gust of wind. Monet did not get off so lucky.

The sole giant that participated in the tournament, Hajrudin, had crossed the distance between his workplace as a toy and the fight with a haste that was unbefitting his hulking size. His fist was driven into Monet with the speed and might of a sea train.

"Thank you, little friend! I will repay this debt by any means necessary!" Hajrudin spoke seriously. It was unclear if he was bowing his head in respect or merely craning his neck downwards to look at Usopp.

"""Uso-land! Our hero~!""" Leo and the tontatta warriors cheered.

"""Uso-land! Our savior~!""" cheered the former toys.

"""Uso-land~! Uso-land~! Uso-land~!""" the cheers chanted in unison.

'I kind of regret not using my real name now…' Usopp thought to himself.

In the colosseum.

"Come on, Rebecca! Come on, Riku! Can't you do any better than this?! I'm not even trying here!" Diamante taunted the pair of royal grandfather and granddaughter.

Both of them were breathing heavily. Riku wouldn't be a match against Diamante even in his youth, let alone as the old man he was now. The boost he had gotten from Cherry had worn off as well. Rebecca mostly fought with tricks to disqualify other fighters, and such tricks would not work on such a powerful and experienced foe like Diamante.

It certainly didn't help that the other two finalists, namely Lucy and Nightmare, had up and disappeared. It was just the two of them against Diamante, which effectively turned the finals into a public execution of the last remnants of the former royal family.

And the audience loved every second of it. Diamante was intentionally toying with the two of them to drag it out, to humiliate them more.

The jeering crowd was suddenly silenced, as if by some unknown force.

The reason this happened was not lost on anyone. Everyone here knew exactly why. The toys in the audience were transforming into humans! No, they were turning BACK into humans!

Everyone remembered people they had forgotten and it didn't take a genius to imagine why this coincided with the toys' transformation. In fact many people were having reunions with loved ones they hadn't known they had right here in the stands!

"Well this ain't good…" Diamante thought aloud.

Hidden within the colosseum, Sabo disagreed with Diamante's opinion. He just remembered that he was part of a trio of sworn brothers instead of a duo, and he wasn't very happy that Doflamingo had laid his hands on one of them.

Ace clenched his fists as they flared up, savoring the return of his strength and not missing the loss of his frail sock monkey form at all.

Machvise and Señor Pink looked concerned at the transformation, suddenly realizing how much shit they were in now.

Why? Because even if they managed to win, Whitebeard's entire fleet would be knocking on their front door soon. The whole reason they turned Ace's group into toys in the first place was to avoid that very scenario.

Not that winning was looking very good for them. They were facing off against Iron Man Franky and Fire First Ace by themselves. Franky alone had been giving them some trouble with the help of a certain grenade tossing sock monkey. Now they had to deal with one of Whitebeard's best men too.

"Where did all your confidence go? Didn't you want to squish me like a bug, big guy?" Ace mocked Machvise.

"SUPER~! Now we can duke it out man to man!" Franky pointed at Señor Pink challengingly.

Machvise was on the verge of quaking in his boots in fear, but Señor Pink felt relieved in a way. This way, at least he didn't have to set aside his honor for his loyalty to Doflamingo. He could fight Franky with all he's got without a shred of guilt.

Doflamingo was furious. He had created the birdcage to ensure that his enemies could not escape, but now it seemed he needed it for another purpose. To destroy all the evidence. So long as no one on the outside learned the truth about sugar's abilities, it would be a mystery why so many people were forgotten by their various organizations and loved ones for a time.

What about Whitebeard, you might ask? Wouldn't that old man hunt him down with or without evidence? The answer to that question is 'yes', but Doflamingo can still use Kaido as a shield so long as he gets Caesar back.

"Doflamingo!" a great shout resounded.

A sword was swung at Doflamingo's head at the same time. Doflamingo raked his fingers through the air and stopped the sword in its tracks. The enraged one-legged man glared into his sunglasses. If looks could kill, then Doflamingo would be dead ten times over.

(A certain old man, whose looks COULD kill, sneezed somewhere far away.)

"I don't have time to toy~ with you. Get lost." Doflamingo kicked the enraged man, Kyros, in the chest, sending him flying through the window out of the palace.

Kyros wasn't a weak man by any means, but he had yet to get used to his old body and the way it had to be balanced on one leg. This meant that he wasn't able to properly defend against the shichibukai's attack. Kyros plunged the sword into the palace's wall and allowed it to slow his fall.

When he reached the bottom, he prepared himself to charge back up when he was stopped by a voice.

"Oh, you're that gladiator guy from the statue in the colosseum, right? That was a really cool statue, I hope I can have a statue like that someday." Luffy said.

Law gave Luffy a look that said "What the fuck are you on about?"


next chapter

Bab 268: Zoro vs Diamante

The colosseum's doctor, or rather the member of the Donquixote pirates who was posing as a doctor, was having a smoke and flirting with one of the "nurses" when suddenly the trap door he sent the wounded contestants through was sliced to pieces.

The two "nurses" squealed in fright and fled the room, whilst the "doctor" froze in place.

The culprit behind the destroyed trap door hopped out and sheathed his sword. His short, green hair identified him as one of the stronger contenders from the tournament, even though he was missing his white mustache and sunglasses.

Fortunately for the "doctor", Zoro was much like a tyrannosaurus rex in that he could only see movement.

What other reason could there be for Zoro to ignore the "doctor's" presence entirely after he became Zoro's arch nemesis by dropping him down a chute to his doom?

Bartolomeo was different though, as he was one of the modern descendents of the great tyrannosaurus rex, the noble rooster. What he lacked in raw murderous potential, he made for with his ability to see unmoving prey and his ability to hold a grudge.

*boof*

Bartolomeo landed a swift kick straight to the "doctor's" gonads, leaving the man to crumple to the floor.

"That isn't very honorable…" The red haired painter commented.

"What's honor? Can I eat it?" Bartolomeo asked rhetorically, picking his nose.

"I'm going to crash the tournament finals. You two do as you wish." Zoro said, figuring he could get a decent fight that way.

Bartolomeo was naturally happy to follow Zoro around like a lost puppy, but the red haired painter thought it better to go his own way.

"Perhaps in the future, we'll meet again." The red haired painter gave his farewell with a short bow of his head

Little did he know that they would meet again very soon.

Zoro made his way back to the arena with Bartolomeo in tow. As he had hoped, the finals were still going.

There was a brief lull in the fight caused by some chaos in the stands, but that didn't matter to Zoro. All that mattered to him was that the tall guy facing the old man and the pink haired woman was holding a sword in his hand.

Zoro looked at Bartolomeo and said "You protect the old man and the woman." Then he grew a toothy smile as he leapt into the ring over the moat, drawing his swords along the way in mid air.

"Z- Z- Z- Z- Zoro-senpai is relying on meeeee~!!!" Bartolomeo gushed with sparkling eyes and blushing cheeks.

Bartolomeo made a ramp with his barrier and slid down to the arena platforms. He would perform this service to the utmost of his capabilities, and it just so happened that there was no one in the world better suited for it.

It was impossible for Diamante to miss the recklessly obvious charge that Zoro did, so he sent his sword blade whipping in his direction using his flag devil fruit powers.

Zoro was momentarily surprised, but adapted quickly by using two swords to block. Had he used just one, the flag-like sword would have wrapped around and cut him anyways.

This annoyed Diamante greatly, as people usually fell for this little trap of his. He still had many other tricks up his sleeves, though, so this was merely a minor setback.

The bigger problem was Bartolomeo. He now had a barrier set up between him and the royal grandfather and granddaughter. Getting around it wasn't a simple matter and may very well be considered impossible for himself alone.

"Thank you for this, young man." Riku said graciously.

"Shut up! I'm only doing this because Zoro-senpai asked me to! I haven't forgotten that dirty, rotten sneak attack you pulled on me! Don't you have any shame?!" Bartolomeo ranted grumpily.

'You're one to talk…' Riku and Rebecca thought in unison.

Zoro broke through Diamante's guard, only to be met with his cape that was as tough as steel. Instinctual calculations were made inside of Zoro's mostly empty head, quickly coming up with a solution to the problem.

'I'll cut through the steel.' Zoro thought rather straightforwardly.

He has long been at the level of cutting steel, but adding armament haki into the mix complicated the matter somewhat. Not to mention that the cape wasn't rigid like most steel, but rather had all the flexibility of a normal cape. That would slow down any attack that he got through it even further, giving Diamante a chance to deflect it.

'I'll just have to cut even deeper then.' Zoro concluded his ingenious strategy. 'First things tfirst, though…'

Diamante thrust his rapier at Zoro's chest. Zoro stepped aside just enough to slip past it, running one of his swords along its edge to keep it from slicing his flesh.

Normally that would be enough, but Diamante's rapier was only rigid when he wanted it to be. He flicked his wrist with the intent of sending a rolling wave down the length of the sword and cutting Zoro, but that was exactly what Zoro was waiting for.

Now that the blade was no longer stiff, Zoro expertly wrapped the blade around his own sword several times and YANKED.

Diamante had at first scoffed at him. He was of a much larger build than Zoro, surely he could overpower Zoro in this attempt to disarm him.

Diamante was wrong, though. Few swordsmen were as obsessed with increasing their physical might as much as Zoro was. If it wasn't for the fact that Cherry refused to fix him up after every workout, he'd even delve into self destructive methods that could easily cripple him.

The result was thus quite unexpected to Diamante. Instead of counter disarming Zoro, he instead found himself lurching forward. Right into the waiting blades of his enemy.

Diamante used his free hand to whirl his cape up to block. At the same time he dodged to the side, which turned out to be the wisest course of action as Zoro's sword ripped through the steel cape like a knife through frozen butter. That is to say, not the easiest cut, but the knife still wins in the end.

As Zoro extracted his swords for another go, Diamante threw the cape back behind him and-

*Bang!*

He fired a flintlock pistol at Zoro from point blank range.

Zoro bent his torso, causing the bullet to fly past him harmlessly. "I saw that coming from a mile away, even without my observation haki. Your dirty tricks have got nothing on Cherry's."

Diamante grit his teeth in frustration.

"Take him down, Zoropp!" A cheer came from the crowd.

That cheer set off a wave of cheers and shouts to defeat Diamante. By this time, the former toys had had time to spread their stories amongst the audience, turning the ire of the crowd against Doflamingo and his cronies.

"That coward actually pulled out a pistol!" "Stuff it down his throat, Zoropp!" "Pierce him with your superior sword!" "Spill his fluids on the ground!" "Hey guys, that's starting to sound a bit…  lewd…" and many more similar cries were heard.

Zoro paid the fools no mind. Their loyalties were far too flimsy and they didn't seem to want to take any responsibility for their own participation in Doflamingo's bloody rule.

Diamante had heard enough of them, though. He pulled out several flags, which turned into firework launching tubes upon the release of his devil fruit.

"Death Enjambre!" Diamante cried as the tubes exploded, sending steel gray confetti rocketing high into the air.

He began to sway his hips from side to side then the entire colosseum started to sway and roll in tandem with his motion.

"Release!" Diamante spoke with a sneer, and pulled out an umbrella.

The gray confetti transformed into a multitude of spiked iron balls, which started to plummet towards not just the arena, but the audience as well!

Even off balance, Zoro was confident in defending himself, and he didn't need to worry about Bartolomeo and the two he was protecting either.

"Damn it!" Zoro shouted in annoyance, knowing he wouldn't be able to stomach standing by as the audience was slaughtered. No matter how much he disliked them.

Zoro poised himself with his three swords, doing some quick last second adjustments before he made his move.


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