After leaving the hotel, El pushed his speed to the extreme.
At night, unless someone was actively using Observation Haki, even creatures with exceptional dynamic vision would see nothing more than a fleeting black afterimage.
Logically speaking, movement at such exaggerated speed should have caused tremendous disturbance.
For example, Shave (Soru)—one of the Six Styles (Rokushiki)—requires stamping on the ground dozens of times within 0.36 seconds, generating explosive force that propels the body forward instantaneously. That kind of movement inevitably produces loud noise and visible damage to the terrain.
El's speed, however, was different.
It was also a form of "martial teleportation," but the disturbance he caused was negligible—like the silent padding of a cat's footsteps.
No shockwaves.No explosions.Barely any sound.
Against an enemy without Observation Haki, fighting El meant only one thing—
Waiting for death in despair.
At his current speed, El quickly left Birka's urban area and entered the wilderness.
Unlike the wilderness of the Four Blues—often filled with trees and flowers—the land here was a vast expanse of pure white cloud-ground, devoid of any vegetation.
The so-called wilderness was nothing more than an uninhabited ruin, steeped in the atmosphere of an unknown, ancient era.
If Nico Robin were here, El was certain she wouldn't be able to take even a single step without stopping to examine everything.
El suspected that this was the very place where Enel had found the Goro Goro no Mi.
And that suspicion was correct.
Before becoming a Devil Fruit user, Enel had lived a miserable life for over twenty years.
Because he had no wings, he was rejected by Birka's residents.
Rejection inevitably led to bullying.
Shunned by everyone, Enel didn't even dare enter the city.
Without work, he scavenged for food in the wilderness, never knowing when his next meal would come.
He had gone years without ever feeling full.
Malnourished during the most important years of growth, his body was frail and weak—too weak even to hunt.
There were countless orphans like him in the Four Seas.
But in the Sky Islands, such people were rare.
Perhaps the world took pity on him.
On a day when Enel believed he might starve to death, he discovered a blue-and-white fruit covered in spiral patterns, wedged into a crack between ancient ruins.
The taste was unbearably foul.
But to Enel at the time, it meant one more day of life.
After eating the fruit, he quickly noticed that something had changed.
When his emotions fluctuated, lightning would flicker across his body.
Each time lightning appeared, his already weak body grew even weaker—but it also granted him the ability to hunt small beasts.
Slowly, after many years, Enel once again experienced the feeling of being full.
The darkness of his life finally showed its first glimmer of dawn.
Yet because of long-term malnutrition, Enel could only produce lightning bolts no thicker than an arm.
He hunted only small animals and never dared challenge larger beasts.
As a result, he never discovered the most terrifying aspect of his power—
Elementalization.
He didn't know that once his body was attacked beyond a certain threshold, it would automatically transform into lightning.
He didn't know that blades, bullets, and fists were meaningless to him.
And so, ignorant of his true strength, Enel never even considered taking revenge on those who had tormented him.
Perhaps one day—
When he realized how absurd elementalization was.
Or when his physique grew strong enough to freely generate lightning and move at its speed—
That would have been the day of his revenge.
After that, Enel—bullied for more than twenty years—would have ascended as the God of the Sky Island, wielding absolute power and a twisted will.
But that future required one condition.
That El did not intervene.
When a butterfly from another world flapped its wings, a storm followed.
Countless destinies—including Enel's—were rewritten.
And today was the day Enel's fate changed.
He had just begun to crawl out of the abyss—
Before a pair of hands pushed him back in.
This time—
Forever.
"Spear of Elbaf — Ikoku!"
BOOM—!
Not far from Enel's dwelling, a deafening roar shattered the silence of the night.
A massive shockwave, formed from violently compressed and distorted airflow, erupted forward like a transparent white beam of light.
It pierced through everything in its path.
Ruins.Walls.Shelter.
The beam struck the fragile building that barely protected Enel from wind and rain—
And erased it completely.
Inside, Enel—who had been sleeping peacefully, lost in a rare beautiful dream—was engulfed by the white light along with his home.
In an instant, his sleeping expression twisted grotesquely.
His mouth opened wide.His eyes rolled back.
The blood spraying from his mouth was annihilated before it could even fall.
If it had only been Hakoku Sovereignty, then no matter how many times stronger it was, it would never have harmed Enel.
A Logia user could not be injured by ordinary force.
But unfortunately for him—
That transparent white beam was infused with Armament Haki.
And Armament Haki could strike the true body of a Logia user.
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