Seeing the thorny vine attack being blocked by Kizaru…
'Nevermind, Kizaru is becoming the next fleet admiral.' Shun thought
As if reading his thoughts…
"Great Eruption!" A massive fist made of magma was shot at the newly appeared enemies.
Swoosh-!
The newly arrived four figures swiftly took their distances.
Everyone in the world of One Piece knows that they had to tread carefully with the ridiculous magma attacks.
"Huh? Why are there only four here? Isn't there supposed to be around… ten of you?" Shun muttered to which Kalifa answered
"There's supposed to be total of twelve god's knights. I assume they are on different missions outside the city."
"I see."
"How dare those lowly marines kill our people?!" A man that used the thorny attack shouted with rage
But… Shun as always ignored those who were inconvenient to talk at the moment.
"Kalifa tell everyone what the two celestial dragons that just died did to deserve their fate."
"!!"
To Shun's words, the newly arrived four god's knights' expression turned weird as they now planned to target Kalifa and the king dendenmushi. As even they knew that reading their crimes in front of everyone would be bad. Everyone knew and had some guesses about the evil deeds of the celestial dragons but… reading them out loud now would turn everyone against them.
Kalifa sweated nervously but… like a fool… she had a complete trust in Shun to protect her. In fact she wanted to see if Shun would be in trouble to protect her from their enemies.
Kalifa pulled out a paper with the celestial dragons' names and pictures.
Sometime ago, Shun had given them an order to find informations on the celestial dragons. Kalifa and Hibari refuted that it'd be hard and would be nearly impossible for higher ranking celestial dragons but… Shun's response to them was…
"Then just find out their names and make up their crimes."
"…"
Kalifa shook her head and started reading a paper in front of the king dendenmushi broadcasting globally.
"Saint Rosward Charlos. Age 24, Height 226cm. He has been committing violent crimes ever since he was able to speak from just the age of three. He first killed his slave that his father bought him as a birthday present."
"…"
It was a ridiculous story that was hard to believe, everyone knew about it to some extent but… Kalifa reading it out loud now made them unable to run away from the reality anymore.
Swoosh-!
Bang-!
Gunshots, sword slashes and thorns… all kinds of attacks targetted Kalifa but… Shun flicked the air and cracked the world in front of him.
Crash-!
Using Whitebeard's devil fruit with Shun's physique now even stronger with Bigmom's physique was an unfair attack to clash with. Every attack that met it, got destroyed without putting up any fight.
Slash-!
Before they realized…
Without being told, Hawk jumped in the middle of the four god's knights and was holding his own.
Soon following his lead everyone else joined except for the elder ones Garp, Sengoku, Tsuru and Zephyr.
"Are we even needed?" Garp asked a bit awkwardly, they have heard from Shun that there wouldn't be a war but a one sided massacre but… it was a bit too unfair of a fight as the god's knights were like the shadow beasts against the phantom troupe.
The five admirals and seven seraphims easily, immobilized their movements. Even garling the eldest one couldn't hold off Hawk for long before losing the grip of his sword.
'I was planning to use the cursed doll to control Garling…' Shun shook his head as the fraud fell to his knees
Meanwhile Kalifa still wasn't done.
"…Murder, Assault, Kidnapping anyone he desires for nearly two decades, causing over ten thousand victim directly or indirectly. Human trafficking, slavery, sexual assault and forced marriages over five thousand violations. Stealing anything he likes without paying, over thousand violations. abuse of power calling navy admirals to terrorize innocent civilains… torture… mass murder. The victim number easily exceeds over hundred thousand."
"…"
Even Shun wasn't unfazed hearing those numbers.
Next Kalifa started reading Charlos' father's crimes. Sengoku was geniunely impressed by the well preparedness of Shun and his two secretaries, he came over and saw Kalifa's papers from behind to see how long the next one was…
However… the paper didn't have any text on it just the picture and a name. But Kalifa smoothly read out their crimes smoothly. Meaning Kalifa was making up those crimes but it was probably not that far off from reality.
"Pfft-! Cough, cough." Sengoku only now understood why those two girls were able to work as Shun's secretaries for this long.
Once Kalifa finished reading out, everyone felt like Shun let them die a bit too easily.
"What are their names?" Shun asked Kalifa once she was done with her job but Hibari answered.
"The oldest looking one is called Garling, Followed by Sommers, Killingham and Gunko." Hibari pulled out a paper, this time too it had only names and pictures.
"Their crime is more or less similar right?" Shun asked as he pulled out a pistol, though it's supposed to be a weapon that has no history of harming the top tier people that gathered here today… Aramaki alone gulped hard.
'That pistol… it's dangerous! Only those who have been on the receiving end of its' muzzle will understand…'
"Yes, but… the scale of their violations are about ten times more severe."
"!"
The four god's knights had been easily captured. Now they were tied down by Flamingo's strings.
They can't really be blamed for being weak, who else could take on seven seraphims with perfect teamwork thanks to getting beaten up by Issho daily. And the five admirals backing them up, while Akainu was bribed by the promise of promotion. Others were given a warning to protect the seven seraphims with their lives…
'Sigh, he is really a guy that doesn't hide his favorites.' Aokiji sighed but he would've protected the children as his priority even without being told.
"The reinforcements must be arriving soon. Let's kill them before that." Shun smirked as he aimed his pistol consisting of a simple bullet buffed with advanced armament haki plus tremor fruit plus magic power plus chaos magic of Acnologia plus more more fruit damage times five.
'I also want to add Nen to it but… currently it's my limit as I still not have mastered my nen'
"…"
Seeing Shun's smirk and the pistol in hand… everyone else felt chills but…
Flamingo didn't know why for sure but… he was exhilarated.
'Does this guy have the original version's grudges? I really shouldn't have killed Doflamingo as he was a fun guy to have around. Someone needs to deal with things behind the scene after all, no matter how peaceful the world becomes there'll be two sides.' Shun sighed with regret but…
'Well, Flamingo probably will become the upgraded version of him.'
"You rats… don't think that person will let this happen!" While Shun was choosing which one to kill first… a man with brown hair and goggles shouted with anger.
"Huh? Summer… was it? Let's start with you then."
"It's Sommers—!" Before he could finish with his words…
Bang-!
His head exploded with fleshes flying everywhere.
"!!!"
"In a certain country, kind executioners use a small talk to distract the people being executed. Aren't I very nice?"
Shun muttered as he pointed his pistol to the next target but…
RIP-!
With a disgusting fleshy sound… Sommers' body started regenerating.
"!"
The people that once feared Shun's cruelty… now wished that bulled ended whatever this disgusting thing was.
"Tsk. How is that damage not enough?" Shun muttered with frustration
'I assumed they must be like game characters that had a certain amount of hp. If I did much more than their hp could handle they would die unlike the immortal demons from mushoku world but… I guess I was wrong.' Shun shook his head and next moment turned into his vampire form with a bit of lame look.
Stab-!
Next moment he stabbed the still regenerating Sommers with his claw and… his life force started getting sucked. Sommers started aging quickly until he turned even older than August and Makarov combined.
'Now this thing should be killable.' Shun thought from experience and shot another bullet but…
"!!"
Saint Garling stood before the now at his dying bed Sommers and manifested two swords out of nowhere and… did a weird movement and created a flame shield.
Before they realized the ground had a sinister demon summoning magic circle too.
"W-What is this?!" Tesoro from the paw bubble among the reverie attendees muttered in shock. He was previously overjoyed seeing Shun stab a celestial dragon using the power he had gifted him. It almost made him feel like he was the one killing those scums.
"Seems like the reinforcements have arrived. Everyone act on your own, kill every enemies. The one that has killed the most celestial dragons will become the next fleet admiral." Shun shouted as his bullet literally disintegrated into nothing after meeting the shield
"!"
'Didn't this bastard say the next fleet admiral is me?!' Despite his initial anger Akainu had the confidence to actually come out as the victor in this battle. After all… his two coworkers were lazy individuals that wouldn't want to be the fleet admiral anyway. But… he had an unexpected rival.
"The next fleet admiral is me?!" Aramaki shouted in surprise, no one had time to question how his hearing worked.
Without giving a chance to everyone Aramaki shouted.
"GROVES OF WRATH!!" Aramaki shouted loudly and transformed into a wood monster.
'This bastard…' Akainu seethed with anger at previously his fan was now acting like his only rival here.
Akainu too shouted, as a giant fist of magma was sent towards his enemy.
"Great Eruption!!" But his target was the now unguarded god's knights, specifically Sommers!
Everything was happening at the same time as countless cipher pol members arrived from the sky using sky walk. And from the sinister magic circle, came the five elders and the remaining god's knights.
"You ungrateful insects!" The five elders cursed as they looked at Sengoku and Akainu who were the most obedient ones previously now siding with the dictator bastard.
While Sengoku felt a bit awkward and perhaps guilty he avoided their eyes but… Akainu had no time to give them attention as he had just melted Sommers into a magma mess.
"…"
'Was Akainu always like this? Did I cause some butterfly effect?' Shun wondered but shook his head after remembering the marineford war. Where Akainu was using blackmails, provocation and using every underhanded means to eliminate the enemies.
"One down!" Shun shouted announcing Akainu's achievements.
"Regular celestial dragons are one points! God's knights and the five elders each counts as fifty points!" Shun added
"…"
Only selected few individuals realized what Shun was trying to do here.
ZIP-!
Perhaps it was because of their arrogance as the five elders… each of them had an impressive amount of conqueror's haki as they released it mainly trying to knock down the kings in the bubble and the king dendenmushi.
While Shun bothered to help protect the dendenmushi, the kings were unguarded as weak ones fell unconscious except the strong ones like the Germa and Tesoro.
"You've gone too far." Saint Nusjuro with a sword said as he started transforming into a peculiar giant skeletal undead horse
With his words other elders started transforming into giant monsters.
Seeing this… Shun's team realized things are getting serious.
"You guys are kind of in the way." Shun sighed and touched the giant bubble enveloping of the reverie attendees. For a big target like this he still had to make physical touch, as he stopped training lately Shun didn't make a progress at all. It was just the mastery that Shiki left for him before his death.
Swoosh-!
Swoosh-!
Perhaps Tesoro and Germa led by Reiji would've been willing to help Shun's team… Shun didn't even think about getting their help because…
'Don't need it.'
Ignoring the elders transformation process. Shun shot toward Garling who wasn't his usual self as he had two weird swords and an arrogant behavior.
'No… he was always arrogant.'
Bang-! Bang-! Bang-!
"The same flapping of an insect's wings will never reach Mu a second time." Garling spoke in an unusual tone confusing Shun a bit.
Next moment Shun's bullets and Garling's flame shield that he created with his dual swords was about to meet but…
"Seems like you have never experienced a real fight." Shun said with a disappointment as he lifted his fingers and… used the telekinesis of Shiki's fruit on his bullets and smoothly avoiding the shield and proceeded to make holes in Garling's brain, heart and stomach respectively.
"!!"
While everyone was shocked by this instant victory…
"Nice!"
Punch-!
Sengoku punched the air as he watched Shun's overwhelming fighting style.
"…"
Garp, Zephyr and Tsuru shook their heads at their old friend acting like a passionate fan.
The disappointment in Shun's tone earlier was because…
"I've been using telekinesis even before I arrived here. How come you can't predict and dodge that?" Shun started blaming his opponent for getting hit by his attacks…
"…"
Garling the old man slowly regenerated with his creepy ability… Imu who had taken control of Garling previously was… held back by Garling himself.
Because in the past… Garling and Shun had fought once in the name of sparring. Shun made holes all over Garling's body with pistols over and over again.
Thus, Seeing Shun fire bullets at him again… Garling's body froze.
While Garling's body started regenerating. The five elders were clashing with the five admirals.
'To my estimation… not even one of those bums has a chance to beat even Aramaki. Perhaps if at least three work together they might defeat one.'
"Kids, kill the mobs. Leave those creepy guys to them." Shun commanded as the seraphims nodded
Shun's goal this time was simple. Kill everyone from world government while making sure no one died from the seraphims.
If someone else from his team died in this war… that was a sacrifice Shun was willing to make.
"You guys too, stop observing and beat them up. regular celestial dragons are allowed to be caught alive but make sure to kill the god's knights."
"…"
Despite not responding, Garp and others started moving.
Surprisingly the world government had a lot of soldiers, mostly cipher pol members.
Garling was still regenerating, as the damage was a bit too much… it needs more time than usual.
While everyone was busy… Shun used the chance to call for his partner.
"Curse them with the thing you did before. Was it called chill of the underworld? But don't bother with damaging just stop their regeneration."
Shun whispered but… the skeleton caught every word.
"Okay. Sixteen. Target. Sixteen. Years."
Shun just nodded as it sounded about right, or even cheaper than he expected.
'I guess no damage is the discount condition this time.'
Right when the curse from the spiteful fool ended, Garling finished regenerating.
Shun didn't know but… Akainu finishing off Sommers earlier did quite a bit of damage to Imu. So he couldn't arrive here with his real body just yet.
"…Any last words?" Shun asked facing Garling, among the newly arrived reinforcements were Garling's son who were looking at them with an emotionless stare. Shun had no idea what this twin of a famous pirate was thinking but he decided to ignore him if they didn't attack him.
Shun hid his pistol back to his inventory, while he liked using it… he wanted to try fighting with Acnologia's powers.
"You guys, make sure to get everything right from the sky." Shun said to Morgans who was the only one conscious now. Others would soon wake up but now he and the king dendenmushi were the only ones awake.
"Yes!" As soon as Morgans saluted the bubble shielding them started floating.
Once everything was settled… Shun casted a magic he learned because it was similar to the teleport incident in the mushoku world. The one who created this magic was the woman that spent the most time lately with Shun.
Shun wanted to learn Dimaria's god soul magic too but… he had no talent or rather there wasn't a god soul to be found around.
"…Universe One." Shun spread his arms wide in a dramatic way then chanted and stomped on the ground softly, causing the ground to crack open creating a fissure that grows wider with time. It wasn't the tremor fruit but the work of an original magic created by the mother of dragons.
The atmosphere vibrated. The earth groaned beneath the sudden, impossible pressure.
"!!!"
The ones fighting stopped their clash, in fact the five elders and the remaining god's knights were relieved that they got a break. Because… since a few moments ago they started to feel… a bizarre cold?!
They immediately suspected Aokiji but… the guy was just chilling around while paying close attention to the Seraphims.
The red light created from the cracking ground, soon enveloped everything within the Mariejois.
"…"
'I didn't steal and actually learned this magic, so the scale and the effects are nowhere near Irene's. While Irene could affect the entire continent, mine barely reconstructed the island.'
When the blinding red light finally cleared… everything had changed. People have been forcefully teleported to different places on the island.
The terrain and the entire city of mariejois reconstructed itself.
Shun had the control of it as he sent each of the elders with one admirals and sent the seven seraphims with five god's knights.
"…What sorcery art thou using?" Garling spoke in a way that reminded Shun of Acnologia
Shun ignored him completely then sighed as he noticed Kuma and his giant mountainous pain bubble was still around.
"…Come with your real body if you want to talk." Shun said and walked to Kuma… making the spectators who cared about Kuma nervous.
The spectators were… Kuma's daughter Bonney and Revolutionary army's Sabo and Koala.
Garling just stood silently before rushing to attack Shun only for Shun to dodge both of his swords smoothly with a minimum movement.
"…My strength depends on my mood, will and imagination." Suddenly Shun spoke revealing all his 'secrets'
"For example, now I feel like it'd be nice if time stopped within this entire city."
"Huh?" Garling asked curiously like anyone else would but… next second he and everyone froze. Literally.
"Oh? It stopped?" Shun smirked as if he didn't cast the incomplete version of time sfop
Then he walked over to Garling who was unable to move but still kept his consciousness.
Grab-!
"…All right, Here you go." Shun threw Garling into Kuma's pain bubble as if he was a firewood thrown into the campfire
"!!"
In a world of stopped time, it's difficult to even move if one didn't have a strong physical ability but… at this point in Shun's life after everything he stole. The mere air resistance wasn't a problem.
Garling was taking everything of the pain bubble but didn't or more like couldn't even scream in pain.
"Okay. Resume." Shun clapped, all his showing off today was to win the war in psychological level too. He wanted to put the image of an unbeatable monster as the new king of the world.
When the time resumed, Garling's body struggled in pain but didn't scream.
"Ho? That's impressive." Shun felt a respect for his enemy's pain tolerance. But… soon Garling's body started aging hundreds of years in a second as his skin wrinkled and sunk rapidly. His body starts to bloat, burst, and rapidly rot away, emitting a grotesque scream. His flesh completely melted and peeled off until nothing is left but a smoking, charred skeleton.
"Two down." Shun didn't care the method as long as his enemies were dying, even if the method was that his enemy's leader gave up and took away the power he gave to his knights.
SWOOSH—!!
As if Garling's final scream was the alarm for the arrival of the final boss, once his scream died down there was a giant summoning scroll on the ground. Much more bigger and sinister than the previous one used by the five elders.
While a giant man was manifesting from the summoning circle in the ground… Shun went in and picked up the loot that Garling dropped. It was the two swords that was creating peculiar flame shields that was able to block his bullet.
"Vofu and tofu huh? They're mine now."
"…"
Morgans and his crew were still broadcasting Shun's fight while others had teleported into the other parts of the island by the magic Universe One.
While Shun was stealing Garling's weapons… three figures sneaked behind Shun and… stole Kuma's body. Shun pretended not to notice because he was busy… as a giant man about the height of 7 to 8 meters. Roughly the size of Kaido just came out of the demonic summoning circle on the ground.
Meanwhile… To Bonney's shock two other people were aiming for her father's body.
"Hey! Who are you bastards!" Bonney, Sabo and Koala started arguing after Sabo snatched Kuma's body and the other two followed them.
Back to Shun's side…
Swoosh-!
Shun waved the sword awkwardly in front of the silent Imu, the king of the world of one piece.
"Maybe, I should have paid attention to Hawk's training." Shun sighed as there was no sign of flame shield appearing
"…"
"…Fleet admiral of the navy. Sengoku's grandson."
"Huh?"
Shun turned his head up to Imu, who was the size of Kaido and Bigmom. He was a handsome, shirtless male figure with tanned skin and long white hair. He has a striking devil-like design featuring S-shaped horns, large black wings, a pointed devil's tail, and white circular geometric tattoos.
"…Thou art not the part of the D lineage."
"That's right."
"…Nor thou art a pirate."
"…"
"Then why opposest thou us?" Imu asked with a geniune confusion, he had always assumed that the marines and the world government had a good servant and master relationship…
He wanted to hear from the leader of the rebels himself but… Shun had different problems
"Ha? I can't understand half of your words, your dialect or accent whatever it's' called is too old fashioned."
"…"
——
Shun had teleported everyone because the guy in front of him had a mind controlling ability, according to the information from Garp.
While Shun was occupied in a stand off against a guy that resembled the seven dwarves he adopted, everyone else were having their own battles.
On the far east of the Mariejois city… a peculiar fight between a man and a giant bird-serpent was happening.
"Quite a hideous appearance you got there." The man mocked the bird flying above
"…"
Since his enemy was set on keeping the distance but not leaving… Akainu pulled out his signature move: Provoke the enemy aka ragebait.
"If you are that scared, just run. I'll tell everyone you had a valiant fight and died in mission."
"…"
However, Saint Mars aka the humongous bird seemed to ignore everything Akainu says.
"Sakazuki, it's not too late. Stand up for justice!"Saint Mars spoke passionately towards Akainu, who was geniunely trying to kill him.
"…"
Akainu finally stopped his rain of attacks of both physical and verbal on the monstrous hybrid of a bird and serpent.
Despite his monstrous strength of mythical creature and appearance. Even with his conqueror's haki… he wasn't enough to be a match for Akainu.
He was doing his best not to embarrass himself before in front of others but…
'Another strange ability… That bastard separated all of us.' Saint Mars could teleport with the summoning circle any time but… if they ran away they didn't have the face to show to their master that had already appeared with his real body.
"…Justice?"
"!"
The mad dog Akainu that was set on killing him before finally spoke.
"Yes—!" Before Saint Mars could make up stories… Akainu asked another question
"…What was that again?"
"…"
"All I want to do is eliminate the damn pirates and end the great pirates era but… what did you do until now?" Akainu asked with a cruel smirk
"It has been barely two years, since that bastard appeared. Already three sea emperors have died ever since he showed up."
"…"
At this point Saint Mars just listened quietly, as much as he hated to admit it. Akainu had the upper hand here.
"Heh, The sea warlords… a legal plunderers. What a nonsense."
"I hate to admit it but… he is a better choice as of now. You guys don't have a way to oppose him! Am I wrong?"
"…You know nothing about the world government! Do you think we didn't gather any trump cards during the eight hundred years we have governed over the world?" Saint Mars spoke with anger, but he was just trying to make him hesitate.
"Ancient weapons? Can you use that on your own home with everyone here?"
Seeing that he had no other choice… Saint Mars spoke as their master had already shown himself, there was no need to keep it a secret.
"…Our master is here, he will handle everything like he did for a millenium. Nothing will change."
"!"
Finally, there was an expression of surprise on Akainu's face.
Seeing this Saint Mars smiled a little then continued.
"He is already clashing with that bastard Shun! Now, join me! It's not too late!" Saint Mars extended his hand now a monster's claw forward from the sky.
"…"
Akainu turned silent, there being a master above the five elders surprised him but… he asked once again.
"If he is your master… why didn't he sit on the empty throne of the world government?"
"Why are asking such foolish questions? Isn't it obvious, that to show everyone that there isn't a ruler in the world. But that's just for the show!"
"I see." Akainu muttered before continuing
"So does that mean… your master is a loser that fears the opinion of the allied countries?"
"!!"
"If the master is like that, it's not hard to imagine what the servants are like."
Saint Mars turned completely silent. He considered calling the others to him and kill this bastard, as they all could teleport around each other. But… Akainu wasn't done.
"…Learn when to give up, you worthless losers from the previous generation." Akainu finally dealt the final blow
The battlefield turned completely silent. Until…
"!!"
Swoosh-!
Saint Mars who had kept his distance on the sky far from Akainu the whole time… finally fell to the provocation. He dived in with his monstrous mouth wide open.
Seeing this Akainu smirked before his body started turning into the element of his devil fruit which was a magma. The strongest offense ability in the entire world.
Akainu didn't shy away from the monstrous bird-serpent, he met it head on as he used his signature ability.
Akainu despite looking like the type to not move too fast but… he could easily move faster than 99% of the world, using his magma on his lower body into magma he triggered a violent and high pressure blast.
In a blink of an eye, Akainu was below the humongous bird's stomach that had missed his head in his vicious attack.
Crash-!
Saint Mars' mouth was stuck on the ground, cracking the ground and creating massive fissure in the ground.
While his attack missed… Akainu's attack hit the jackpot.
"Hellhound!" Akainu shouted as the magma from his fist went through from the humongous bird's stomach through its' back in the shape of a magma shaped dog.
"Kah-!" Saint Mars immediately forgot everything he felt about the rage and pride. Now he just gasped for air as there was a hole in his chest, and the magma was rapidly burning his insides.
"You worms, Lord Mu will not let any one of you live. There will be another void century—!"
Once again, interrupting his words was Akainu's cruel shout.
"Great Eruption!" A magma fist blasted through Saint Mars' head this time.
Ignoring the small fry to die, Akainu went to search for his next victim while muttering…
"Hundred points…"
What Akainu didn't notice was… right before his magma fist blasted Saint Mars' head. His body had started withering until it turned to bones as Imu had taken away the powers he gave him a long time ago.
——
On another part of the island…
"Borsalino."
"Saint Saturn. You look quite scary~"
Kizaru for once had a serious expression as he faced his former superior.
"…Why?" Saturn asked with a complicated expression
"…"
"Weren't you… friends with Vegapunk?" Saturn asked as Shun's group recently destroyed the entire egghead island for creating mother flame. At least in the eyes of others.
Kizaru just silently stared back at Saint Saturn in his giant monster ox-spider form.
It was by far the creepiest looking one.
After a silent standstill for about ten seconds… Kizaru remembered their very simple plan and decided to proceed with his role.
"Trying to talk us out of the fleet admiral's team is pointless~"
"…"
"You should've realized that already after seeing the stubborn brat Sakazuki and opportunist Aramaki on our team~"
"…"
"We all have already gambled everything on that man."
To Kizaru's words Saint Saturn replied in words that had already given up on further conversation.
"…Pitiful Inferior lifeforms that has no idea whose wrath you're inciting."
To the furious man releasing his conqueror's haki everywhere… Kizaru replied.
"Saint Saturn."
"Hmm?"
"…Have you ever been kicked at the speed of light?"
——
On different locations five admirals were overwhelming the five elders.
It's being too hard on them to expect the five elders to hold their own against the navy admirals… let alone beat them.
They were just sitting behind their desks for decades without having real fighting experience. Which explains why they were frauds in the original timeline that struggled to catch even ordinary straw hats.
Despite being given immense power by their master, they didn't have the chance to experience real fights.
On top of that they have been feeling cold which made their moves stiff even more than usual. Shun's curse was just preventing them for regenerating but… the five elders had always fought relying on their regeneration. Thus even Aramaki was easily overwhelming Saint Topman.
While Issho was fighting Saint Nusjuro and had the upper hand, he wasn't beating him just yet.
Shun was keeping an eye on everyone with his sensory magic plus observation haki now adding even En from the hunter world. He could see everything as he was the one that sent them to their locations.
'Everyone else are engaged in fight with the god's knights, while Sabo and his revolutionary army group without Dragon are freeing the slaves. As long as they don't interfere with us, I'll just ignore them.'
'Old man Sengoku is fighting a golden beetle? In his golden buddha form. It's probably some mythical zoan fruit. I'd love to watch that and give some comments but…' Shun paid close attention to the man in front of him now demanding Shun's swords.
"…The blades which thou hast stolen, return them unto me."
'He is growing stronger each time the five elders are defeated and gets their power forcefully returned right before their death.'
Akainu, Kizaru, Aokiji, Aramaki and Issho had already defeated their opponents in order.
Now the aura and haki releasing from the giant man was overwhelming that could be felt even behind the screens around the world.
In front of the god-like entity stood a single man without a fear, to the inquiry about the blades… He spoke of his own mind.
"I have already grown attached to them, find new swords."
"…"
Shun's words were that of an elementary school bully.
Imu, didn't reply anymore. Instead he forcefully summoned back his swords… At least he tried But… Shun had grabbed them tightly as he threatened.
"If you guys return… I'll make it my priority to break you two." But what he threatened was the swords not the original owner.
"…"
While everyone in the world that was watching the screen doubted their ears as some even suspected Shun had lost his mind in fear of the opponent in front of him…
They spoke.
"O-Of course! We're loyal to our new— no true master!"
"Right! So can you stop forcing us against our wills?!"
"!!"
It was the swords, that spoke.
They had eyes and even mouth on the blade.
"That power is… Soul Soul fruit?" Imu immediately seen through the ability
"Introduce yourselves." Shun spoke still grabbing the two now talking blades by their shin.
"I'm Vohu! My ability is absorbing the literal life force and vitality of the targets I wound." Vohu, the cursed cutlass spoke with a proud tone
"I'm Tohu! I can create a strong shield if working together with Vohu."
While it was ridiculous to say… Tohu was a boy sword while Vohu was a girl sword.
'I don't like when non living things are speaking like the dolls from Historia but… I guess they are living things that had taken part of my soul.'
Swoosh-!
Ignoring the surprised crowds of reverie that had woken up inside the giant paw bubble in the air. And the speechless Imu in front of him… Shun practiced swinging his swords that could turn into his gloves too. Shun had stolen this idea from his predecessor Bigmom's sword which could turn into Bigmom's hat.
"Ow ow, you're doing it wrong!" Vohu spoke in pain and started blaming her owner…
"Do it like this!" Then it started floating and swinging itself.
"…"
"Okay." Shun didn't question anything and started learning from the sword.
The spectator's tense atmosphere had already disappeared as they now felt relatively relaxed until…
Clang-!
A giant man had disappeared from his position without anyone realizing and had jumped down from the sky to Shun with a giant sword named nemesis.
Shun awkwardly blocked the sword by crossing his own two swords.
'I still can't use these swords freely, they're moving on their own… or maybe the contract or whatever they have with Imu is still on.' Shun sighed as he tried to give swords a chance but it's still a crappy weapon
"You guys fight on your own." Shun stopped grabbing the swords as he started writing a letter on a paper that had appeared out of nowhere, while the two swords desperately blocked the attacks to protect the defenseless Shun.
"…"
If Sengoku was here to see this he'd have a stroke.
POP-!
Shun put the letter inside a bubble and sent it to the person he needed here.
Clang-!
Meanwhile in only five seconds… the two swords had gotten defeated and Imu with a giant sword was about to slash… in this case it might just crush Shun to paste due to the size of the massive sword but…
POP-!
The giant sword met a soft paw and… was deflected to the sky. Even Imu was floated a few steps from the ground due to the recoil.
"A-Are you okay?!" Tohu and Vohu floated next to Shun worriedly as they asked.
"…"
Shun just nodded, he considered taking back his soul but… as always he was a kind guy.
Thus another stand off began between Imu and Shun. Until…
POP-!
A big woman with scarlet hair and witch hat and staff dropped from the sky next to Shun, creating a paw shaped crater on the ground.
"!"
Even Imu couldn't help but feel alarmed by this reinforcement of the enemy as Irene was quite strong.
"…Where am I?" Irene asked, just a moment ago she was eating dessert with Erza. Then a familiar letter inside a paw bubble appeared out of nowhere, next to her. Inside the letter was written only one word.
'Come.'
While it was too mysterious and a vein popped up on her forehead in irritation… Irene just sighed and touched the paw bubble. Next moment… she was here.
What she was ordered next was even more ridiculous than what she was seeing.
"Those two swords have some sort of contract probably, fix them with your enchantments."
"…"
Irene usually would just turn the people that annoyed her into frogs. But… as a mage over four hundred years old. For the first time in her life… Irene felt like punching someone.