Rumble!
The entire giant roller coaster collapsed.
Inertia sent the coaster flying like an arrow before it slowly decelerated under gravity, finally suspending mid-air.
A dazzling golden light flashed, revealing a wretched old man in a yellow-and-white striped suit in front of Yuuto and his party.
Admiral Kizaru had arrived!
"Admiral Kizaru, are you really the only one here? I feel underestimated," Yuuto said calmly, standing at the head of the roller coaster.
"If it weren't impossible, the old man wouldn't even have come," Kizaru muttered under his breath.
"Um?"
"No, nothing!" Kizaru waved it off.
"Though Kuzan and Sakazuki didn't come, you shouldn't be disappointed. Killing Celestial Dragons in the street is unprecedented. The Five Elders have personally mobilized for this," Kizaru said coolly.
Yuuto smiled faintly. From Kizaru's words, he gleaned valuable information: among the three Marine Admirals, only Kizaru appeared. But the World Government had dispatched additional forces, indicating the gravity of the event.
Looking at Kizaru, Yuuto knew his strength was likely close to that of an Admiral—an appropriate hidden warning from the World Government. Eight hundred years of rule had taught them to cultivate not only Marines on the surface but also secretive, elite forces, like mysterious CP units or other unknown entities.
Fairy Tail wanted to sail freely across the seas. The World Government was a wall they must test. And Yuuto intended to gauge the depths of that wall.
Amid this calculation, chaotic footsteps echoed.
"FAIRY TAIL!!!"
A sharp roar, brimming with anger and resentment, cut through the air.
Celestial Dragon Roswald, wearing a bubble hood, appeared like a ghost.
"It's you… it's you! The one who killed my beloved son Char Ross! There is no forgiveness! I will not allow you to live freely! You will be my slaves, living worse than death!" Roswald shrieked hoarsely, barking like a crazed dog.
Fairy Tail remained unmoved.
"Oh, so you came personally. Confident, aren't you?" Yuuto grinned. His right hand tapped lightly.
Click!
A thunderbolt ripped through the clear sky, gold lightning descending upon Celestial Dragon Roswald. Kizaru remained motionless, seemingly unfazed.
Then a roar.
From behind Roswald, a masked man in a white robe exploded with feral power. His clothes tore violently. His body swelled against the wind, and a titanic head soared upward.
It was a colossal boa constrictor—but massive, like a prehistoric python. It opened its mouth to devour the lightning descending from the sky.
Chi chi!
Terrifying arcs of electricity crackled across the Titanoboa, finally vanishing into its immense body.
"Back at you!" the Zoan Snake-Snake Fruit user roared, snake eyes flashing. A thick laser shot from its mouth toward the roller coaster.
Yuuto remained unshaken. A flick of his finger unleashed a black lightning arc.
Boom! Rumble!
Bright fireworks exploded as black lightning collided with the Titanoboa's laser, annihilating both.
Even Kizaru's stern gaze betrayed subtle astonishment. While visiting Admiral Aokiji during his hospitalization, Kizaru had learned from Aokiji that Yuuto possessed a terrifying black lightning—so powerful that even elemental Logia powers couldn't completely evade it. At the time, Kizaru had dismissed it… but now, seeing it firsthand, he knew Aokiji had not exaggerated.
This tyrannical Black Red Thunder was deadly.
"Sugisawa Yuuto—President of Fairy Tail—you've repeatedly provoked the World Government. Today, under orders from the Five Elders, I will annihilate all of you!" Kizaru declared.
The Titanoboa, over a hundred meters long, paused mid-attack, its icy gaze fixed.
"No wind can scare me!" Nami sneered.
"Change—Armor of Purgatory!" Erza didn't waste words, donning her powerful armor, ready to crush the Titanoboa's jaw.
"Wait, Erza, you've done enough. Leave this one to me," Yuuto said calmly, maneuvering the roller coaster to bring Erza and the others safely to the ground with Wendy and Perona.
"You plan to fight alone against me and Kizaru? Underestimating me, are you?" the Titanoboa growled.
Yuuto remained serene. "A snake is still a snake, no matter how large. It will never become a dragon."
The Titanoboa's eyes blazed. Raised by the World Government, it had never been disrespected.
"Go to hell!" it roared, lunging to swallow Yuuto.
Yuuto stretched out his left hand. Lightning dragon claws extended, gripping the Titanoboa's maw like a chick, halting its advance.
"Don't think it's over!" The Titanoboa's tail slammed the ground, lifting its massive form. Its body coiled, attempting to bind Yuuto in Seastone chains.
"Now, Kizaru! Crush him in my Seastone chains!" the Titanoboa bellowed triumphantly.
Kizaru unleashed his ultimate: Eight-Foot Qiong Gouyu! Countless lasers rained toward Yuuto.
Yuuto remained composed, raising his right hand. Tiny lightning spheres floated outward, colliding with Kizaru's lasers, annihilating them in a dazzling display.
"Nani?! How is this possible?!" the Titanoboa screamed in disbelief. Trapped by Seastone chains, how could Yuuto still wield his lightning powers?
Yuuto sneered. "Who said Seastone works on me?"
With a sudden crush of his left hand, the chains shattered. Lightning dragon claws pierced the Titanoboa's steel-like scales.
"Ahhh!" the Titanoboa screamed.
Yuuto slammed his left hand downward.
Boom! Rumble!
The Titanoboa's enormous head fell to the ground like a massive onion.
"Too weak. Those Five Elders shouldn't think this rubbish can stop me!" Yuuto's gaze swept toward another figure behind Roswald.
"Go! All of you, take him down—any means necessary! Fail, and die!" Roswald bellowed.
Behind him, the masked man in white robe stepped forward.
Scoff! The robe tore.
Click! His mask shattered.
Crash! Wings unfurled from his back.
A half-human, half-snake creature appeared.
"What… what monster is that?" Vivi frowned.
"An ability user, surely," Mirajan said.
"I've seen records of this in ancient texts," Robin added solemnly. "The ancestors called it Kukulkan—the Feathered Serpent God."
"Zoan Phantom Beast… Feathered Serpent!" Bonney gasped.
"No matter the god, President will never lose!" Juvia said confidently.
"Exactly! Demon fruit or not, it's nothing to him," Nami agreed.
The Titanoboa transformed into a giant snake-man, planting hands on the ground.
"Shut up, you ugly thing!" the Feathered Serpent shouted, locking eyes on Yuuto.
"Fairy Tail's Five Emperor, Sugisawa Yuuto, behold my power!"
Yuuto smirked. Golden lightning danced in his left hand; flames roared along his right. Zoan Phantom Beast or not, Yuuto treated it like any other godly threat.
Chi chi! Golden lightning enveloped his left hand, spreading across his body. Flames from his right surged upward. Thunder and fire collided, forming a radiant armor—Lei Yanlong Mode, Burst!
Nearby, Roswald and his guards chased the Fairy Tail girls.
"Leave these to us!" Nami, Perona, Wendy, Robin, Urrutia, Marianne, and Bonney shouted.
Erza shook her head helplessly. Even without her involvement, the girls dominated, forcing the Marines and Celestial Dragon guards into a near one-sided fight.
Suddenly…
Rumble! A violent roar. A sword of light sliced across the battlefield, carving a long scar in the ground.
All eyes turned to a nearby mountain.
"Mr. Rayleigh!" the Fairy Tail girls gasped.
"Pluton Rayleigh!!!"
"The Legendary Pirate… the right hand of One Piece, Pluton Rayleigh!!!"
"Why… why is a Legendary pirate here?!"
Everyone who recognized him, including the Marines, shouted in shock.
"Mr. Rayleigh, you almost hit little Wendy earlier!" Nami scolded.
"Sorry, sorry," Rayleigh said. His sword pointed at an empty space.
"If I hadn't stopped it, the mouse hiding in the shadows might've attacked little Wendy!"
"WHAT?!" Mira and the others were stunned.
Vivi frowned. "Someone's there, but… nothing?"
"No! Someone's there!" Erza shouted. A flying sword swerved toward the invisible attacker, striking nothing.
Chi chi! A vague figure appeared.
"Pluton Rayleigh? A name I've never heard… some new-era kid?" an old voice echoed.
The Fourth Admiral-class had appeared.