Rumble
In the white world, everything seemed to lose its color.
Yami, Shiki, the lions of earth below, even every flower, blade of grass, and tree all became like an uninked manga.
Then STRONG WORLD, drained of color, suddenly began to quake.
The tremors far surpassed Lion's Threat, Earth Scroll.
Several earth-lions shattered in an instant, breaking into countless stones large and small that all flew toward the black sun in the sky.
Every plant was ripped from the ground.
The island cracked, not into craters but into rising slabs. Chunks of land bulged up, tore free of the island, and surged into the air.
So terrifying, this gravity.
Watching from a corner of the island, Nami was bathed in the white light.
She, too, was pulled skyward without the slightest ability to resist.
Luckily she was not at the center. The moment her body lifted off, she used electric-field teleportation and fled STRONG WORLD at once.
Gazing at the island ripped apart, with rubble and landmass floating everywhere, Nami was awestruck.
It was her first time seeing a completed Gravity Cataclysm, and one amplified a hundredfold.
If the ground below were not an island but the sea, she could not imagine how many tons of seawater that pull would have drawn up.
If any ability user ever fought Master at sea, they would die without a doubt before that move.
Unlike Nami, who escaped in time, Shiki in the center was in dire straits.
The hundredfold gravity, power like a god's, not only shattered the earth-lions and the surface of the island below in an instant, it stripped Shiki of his control over everything covered by the Float-Float power.
No matter how much stamina he burned, the stones and slabs would not obey. They shot into the sky at extreme speed.
Shiki's own body rose with them.
He was thoroughly bedraggled, forced into a handstand by the tyrannical pull, his feet toward heaven as he ascended.
In that moment, the disadvantage of his missing legs was laid bare.
An intact body can still adjust with hands and feet when balance is lost.
Lose either hands or feet, fall out of balance on unfavorable terrain, and self-rescue becomes near impossible.
Without the Float-Float Fruit, even with two famed blades in place of legs, he could not display a greatsword master's strength.
Without a Fruit, he could only fight on the ground.
A swordsman can fight one-armed, but not without the feet that anchor the stance.
Pinned by the hundredfold gravity, Shiki might as well have lost his Fruit and fallen to the ground.
In his inverted posture he could not regain balance, could not even kick out a slash to strike the black sun.
With the rubble no longer obeying him, Shiki could only stare, eyes wide, as the black sun swelled in his sight.
Then a colossal black shadow blocked the black sun above him and the white light that had drained the world of color.
Darkness filled his vision.
A super-giant black hand seized Shiki. The pirate who had rampaged for two eras and once come closest to the throne was torn from his legend's stage.
No scream. No heroic last words. Not even time for a montage of memories and fallen foes. His Fruit was sealed by the black hand, and he was crushed to death by a force beyond extreme.
Following the hand back, there loomed a giant over a hundred meters tall, also rising under the hundredfold gravity.
The hundred-meter giant was Yami in gigantified form.
After killing Shiki, Yami released gigantification at once, then grabbed the mangled, miserable corpse, opened an air door into the other space, and deftly began the extraction.
By the time Yami had taken the Paramecia Float-Float Fruit, the hundredfold gravity in the real world was still tearing the already-ruined STRONG WORLD apart, with vast quantities of rock still rising.
The black sun in the sky vanished, replaced by a supermassive meteor.
Seeing this, Yami opened an air door and tossed Shiki's corpse out, letting the meteor in the heavens bury the legendary pirate.
Out of respect, Yami did not even take the two famed blades.
On another island, an air door appeared before Nami.
When it opened, Yami did not step out. He drifted out slowly.
At the sight, Nami leapt into his arms, crying out in delight. Master, that gigantified form was so domineering. That sky-covering hand of darkness made me feel suffocated even from an island away.
If Master used a Black Hole while gigantified, I feel you wouldn't need Gravity Cataclysm at all. You could tear an island apart with that alone.
Holding her, Yami smiled helplessly. To achieve that, my stamina would have to multiply several times over.
Super gigantification pushed to the limit by the More-More Fruit consumes an ocean of stamina.
A Black Hole, the combination of the Dark-Dark Fruit and the More-More Fruit, likewise consumes staggering energy.
He could enlarge severalfold and use a Black Hole.
But super gigantification with a super Black Hole was beyond even his monstrous physique for now.
If he could do it, he would not need to seek the remaining Fruits. One Black Hole would end everything.
Hee-hee, that makes sense.
Calmed down, Nami agreed that such a scene was unlikely.
She changed the subject, eyes bright with anticipation. Master, how is the Float-Float Fruit's power?
Incredible. With one of its abilities, we no longer need to hide in the other space.
Yami's lips curved. He hugged Nami and shot toward the endless white of the White Sea.
When a Float-Float user faints or dies, the islands under that power lose buoyancy.
But the cluster centered on STRONG WORLD was not truly floating. The White Sea supported it from below.
So with Shiki dead, none of the islands fell into the Blue Sea, and there was not even violent shaking.
Hovering over the white surface, Yami reached to touch the cloud-sea. The White Sea tore open into a vast mouth.
Through that opening, Yami and Nami returned to the skies above the Blue Sea.
Wow, it is beautiful.
For the first time flying in the real world rather than the other space, Nami looked down over the Blue Sea from high above and shouted with excitement. So flying like this in reality is this wonderful.
Suddenly she remembered something and asked. Master, can your flight speed be amplified by the More-More Fruit?
Of course. If you get scared, hold on tight.
Yami grinned, and a transparent halo bloomed.
Fiftyfold flight speed.
With a sonic whoosh, Yami, who had been cruising slowly, shot off like a fired bullet, a needle-thin afterimage streaking toward the Blue Sea below.
Aaaaaah
Nami's cries rang over the sky.
In that moment she discovered a difference between the real world and the other space.
The faster the speed in reality, the stronger the resistance of the air.
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