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At the dining table, Kagura, Klee, Kanna, and Drake were still eating breakfast.
Drake had finished eating long ago and was simply chatting with Kanna. If he'd been afraid of the girl's terrifying aura at first, now he was just curious.
She'd said that Kyoma told her she was a pterosaur. Could it be an Ancient Zoan-type Dragon-Dragon Fruit?
But if she was the same Ancient Zoan as him, then where did that sense of pressure come from? It really puzzled him.
Kanna then fell asleep on the table again.
"Hey, crooked hat man, where is Kyo-chan?" Kagura called upstairs and downstairs, but Kyoma didn't show up to flick her forehead as usual, which made her feel inexplicably empty inside. She didn't even have the heart to eat breakfast.
What made her feel a little relieved was that Klee and Kanna were at home, so Kyoma had no chance to secretly take others out to play behind her back again.
"That guy came back from buying breakfast early this morning and said he had something to do. He seemed very anxious, but he didn't say what he was going to do."
Drake answered naturally.
Of course, he'd heard the name "crooked hat man," but it was the same as "Kyo-chan." Kagura kept calling him that, and it did match his crescent-shaped hat.
"What?"
Kagura's face suddenly changed after hearing this. She slammed the table in excitement, which startled Kanna awake from her nap on the table. She opened her eyes in a daze.
It also scared Klee, who was still eating breakfast. She almost choked.
"What's wrong with you?" Drake was inexplicably nervous because he'd known Kagura for many days and understood that this girl's style of doing things was a little different from ordinary people. She always did things others couldn't predict.
"He has something urgent to do early in the morning, and he didn't even tell us where he was going. Kyo-chan, that jerk, must have gone out to find a woman to play with."
"This is cheating. This must be cheating."
Kagura stood up and paced anxiously in the room.
"Cheating... what is it?" Klee asked curiously.
"Don't you know this? Of course, it means leaving us behind and going out to find someone new."
"What. No, Klee won't believe that Kyoma-ni would abandon us." Although she didn't understand what "someone new" meant, the word "leave" was already very serious. For Klee, it meant betraying a friend.
"Abandon..." Kanna's eyes grew distant. She herself had been exiled by her tribe. Wasn't that abandonment? Would Kyoma choose to abandon her, too?
Kanna lowered her head nervously. She remembered that she'd secretly drunk all of Kyoma's wine this morning. Would he abandon her for this reason?
"Why do I feel like you're overthinking this..." Drake looked helpless.
She was indeed different from ordinary people.
How could a normal young girl come up with this? Besides, the other two were too easily led astray.
He suddenly felt a little sympathy for Kyoma.
"Crooked hat man. Do you think cheating is just a small matter?"
However, what horrified him was that this seemingly delicate girl actually jumped on the table, grabbed his collar, and lifted him up easily.
Those slender hands contained extremely terrifying strength.
He subconsciously wanted to resist, but it was useless against that strange force. His body, over two meters tall, was actually lifted into the air.
'What... what is going on?'
Looking at the girl with a slightly angry expression who easily lifted him off the ground, Drake couldn't help but start to doubt his life again.
Where did Kyoma, that bastard, find these monsters…
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Marineford, hundreds of meters away from the battlefield.
Kyoma and Law, who were late, carefully observed for a long time under the cover of seawater with a periscope.
After confirming there were no Marines or pirates around, they floated to the surface with confidence.
It's no wonder they were so cautious.
After all, they were just here to watch the show, and they didn't want to get caught in the crossfire because they were too close.
The hatch opened, and everyone couldn't wait to walk out onto the deck. While breathing fresh air, they cast their eyes on the battlefield hundreds of meters away.
At this time, Marineford was filled with smoke.
On the ice surface that exuded cold air, countless pirates jumped off their ships and stepped onto the ice, charging towards the execution platform.
Even though they were hundreds of meters from the battlefield and covered by the towering Marine walls, they could still hear the roar of pirates and Marines clashing.
"That's the flag of the Whitebeard Pirates. They're really here."
"What a terrifying battlefield. I just took a casual look and saw several Warlords and Admirals."
Because there was no one around, Law asked the crew to move the submarine to a suitable location and use the telescope to spy on the battlefield from behind the Whitebeard Pirates.
"That strange bird with blue flames all over its body... if I'm not mistaken, he should be the commander of Whitebeard's 1st Division, 'Phoenix' Marco. He's actually fighting with Admiral Kizaru."
"The other guy with the glowing body, fighting with Admiral Aokiji, seems to be the commander of Whitebeard's 3rd Division, 'Diamond' Jozu."
"Too crazy. He chiseled out a piece of ice several dozen meters in size and threw it at the execution platform. Damn, it's a shame Akainu blocked it..."
"Whitebeard has taken action. As expected of the world's recognized strongest man, he blew away Akainu's molten lava in one swing."
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Kyoma also stared at the battlefield without blinking, afraid of missing any details.
He didn't need a telescope.
After summoning Kanna and obtaining the dragon bloodline, even without [Dragonization] to transform into dragon form, his vision was still far superior to that of ordinary people. He could see clearly within a kilometer range.
In this battle, the Whitebeard Pirates were divided into three groups.
The main force was in the bay in front of the execution platform, with Whitebeard himself and all his division commanders and crew members attacking. The other two groups were pirate crews from the New World who'd volunteered to help. They mainly attacked the two sides of Marineford.
Through observations during this period, he'd found that the battle process was basically the same as the original timeline. It seemed the butterfly effect he'd caused hadn't changed the situation of this battle.
"See that guy in fancy clothes? He's Doflamingo." Beside him, Law slowly put down the telescope, his eyes becoming solemn.
Because just moments ago, he'd seen with his own eyes how Doflamingo used the String-String Fruit to cut off one leg of the descendant of the ancient giants, Oars, who was tens of meters tall, causing his huge body to collapse on the battlefield of Marineford.
Such strength really frightened him, and he knew he was no match at all right now.
"This guy is just as arrogant as I imagined."
Kyoma also took a breath, but he wasn't surprised by Doflamingo's strength.
Rather, he was struck by his ruthless methods, cutting off someone's leg with one move.
"How about it? Are you sure you can deal with him?" Law turned his head to look at Kyoma, asking in a serious tone.
So far, he'd never seen Kyoma fight, and he had no idea of his strength.
He just figured this guy had [Conqueror's Haki] and could make Drake, who was also a Supernova, submit to him, so he must be extraordinary.
"I can't beat him on my own, but... we will win." Hearing this, Kyoma was slightly stunned, holding his chin and thinking seriously for a while.
Law didn't know that the "we" here didn't refer to him and Law, but to Kanna and Kagura, who were still at home.
After Kagura mastered Haki and he summoned Kanna, he no longer regarded Doflamingo as particularly threatening.
It wasn't that he was too arrogant, but based on Kanna's current strength, it was already an overly conservative guess to place her at the Admiral level.
In fact, he placed Kanna at the level of the Four Emperors.
"Is that so..." Law pulled the brim of his hat.
He didn't know the strength of Kanna and Kagura, so he just thought Kyoma was comforting him, but he didn't feel disappointed.
His face remained thoughtful.
There were ways to beat Doflamingo.
He currently knew of Caesar and Sugar, the two biggest weaknesses of Doflamingo.
Even if he couldn't defeat him head-on, it wasn't impossible to make him lose his seat among the Warlords and be ruined.
While the two were chatting, the battle entered a hot stage.
After the huge body of Little Oars Jr. fell, the New World pirates on one side broke through the Marines' defense line, and Whitebeard launched a general attack.
All the pirates entered the open space under the execution platform through Little Oars Jr.'s body.
The Marines didn't stop them in time. Sengoku ordered a retreat instead, as if he'd deliberately let them in.
In addition to the Marines, only Kyoma knew their plan. They were going to wait for the Whitebeard Pirates to come in, then raise the encirclement wall hidden underground to close the door and beat the dog, so to speak.
'Isn't it time for the protagonist to appear now?'
The Whitebeard Pirates were about to fall into crisis. Law and his crew were staring at the battlefield, but Kyoma gradually raised his head and looked up at the sky.
As expected, a Marine warship was gliding across the sky, flying towards Marineford at high speed.
Due to the high speed, even Kyoma couldn't see the people on it clearly at first.
However, that wasn't difficult for him.
He silently activated [Dragonization] in his mind, not completely transforming into dragon form, but simply transforming his eyes into the clear blue dragon pupils like Kanna's, emitting a light blue glow.
Under the glimmering dragon eyes, the world's scenery seemed to slow down, and the Marine warship speeding through the sky also slowed down several times, like footage from a high-speed camera.
All the people and objects on the ship appeared extremely clear.
A boy wearing a straw hat, a man smoking a cigar, a fishman, a clown with a big red nose, and a suspicious man with glasses featuring a "3" on his head...
Familiar faces passed by one by one, and Kyoma smiled, knowing the protagonist had finally appeared. The climax of the war was about to begin.
"But... something seems a bit strange. The landing place seems a bit off."
Gradually, Kyoma's eyes filled with confusion.
Perhaps because of the butterfly effect, the Marine warship flying through the air was about to lose power when it was still thousands of meters away from the battlefield, and now it showed signs of falling.
Looking at where it would fall, Kyoma predicted it wouldn't reach the execution platform in Marineford, or even the ice surface created by Aokiji. At most, it could only fall to the sea near their submarine.
"That won't work. Although they can rush to the battlefield after falling into the sea, neither the timing nor the location will have the dramatic impact of the original. In this case, it'll be much harder for Whitebeard to succeed."
Although he was just a spectator and shouldn't interfere too much, for this particular war, he had to stand on the pirates' side.
Moreover, after transmigrating to this world, he was fortunate enough to witness this unique and historic war.
If he didn't show up and participate in some way, it would be a waste.
Thinking of this, seeing the shaky Marine warship in the sky, and being able to vaguely hear the screams of the crew on board, Kyoma didn't hesitate any longer.
"I'll be back soon."
Under the surprised gaze of Law and the others, Kyoma stomped hard on the deck.
Boom
The submarine was forced several meters into the sea by the impact, and he suddenly shot upward, instantly climbing to a height of dozens of meters above the sky.
Kyoma's body was enveloped by a ball of light. Law and the others could only see a shadow silhouette expanding, gradually turning into a huge red dragon with its head raised high.
"Roar."
A dragon's roar resounded through the sky.
"K... Kyoma-san is a Devil Fruit user."
Looking at the dazzling red dragon gleaming in the sunlight, Penguin, Bepo, and the others were dumbfounded.
Although they didn't know why Kyoma had suddenly flown out, the display was impressive enough.
"Is it for that...?" Law was also looking at the sky, but he didn't just see the red dragon Kyoma had transformed into. He also saw the Marine warship falling from a higher altitude.
Whoosh.
The wings spanning more than ten meters fluttered, instantly raising a gust of wind.
Kyoma flew upward with the wind, his huge body briefly bursting out at a speed difficult to see with the naked eye.
In a short moment, he'd already flown directly above the falling Marine warship.
"Ahhhhhh. I knew we shouldn't have done that. Now we're doomed."
"Hahahaha. What a strong wind."
"Damn it, Straw Hat Boy, we're all going to fall to our deaths, and you're still so happy."
"Hey, Buggy, it seems like there's ocean right below us. We'll be fine if we fall here, and we're still some distance from Marineford. We can just choose to run away."
"Huh. It seems to be true. This is really divine help. I don't want to follow this stupid Straw Hat kid to Marineford to die. Hahahaha."
The exaggerated laughter stopped abruptly, because Buggy and Mr. 3 suddenly found that the ship had stopped strangely, and then a huge black shadow covered the sky and enveloped the entire vessel.
"This is..." Buggy swallowed hard, his eyes nearly popping out in horror.
Because right next to him, there was a massive claw many times bigger than himself, which had penetrated the bottom and deck of the ship and grabbed the vessel holding all of them.
In addition, there was a shadow covering the entire cabin, and heavy, thunderous breathing sounds coming from above.
Buggy and Mr. 3 looked at each other and understood what the other meant: Don't look up at that monster. If we don't see it, it won't see us!
However, right next to them, a hearty voice suddenly rang out.
"Wow. What a cool big guy."