Harald panted, his massive chest heaving violently against the shattered bedrock.
Feeling the cold, razor-sharp steel of the long blade poised directly above his vital throat, seemingly ready to strike and end his life at any microsecond, the Giant King finally gave up all physical resistance. His tense muscles and overtaxed nerves completely relaxed, and he spoke as if entirely resigned to his pathetic fate.
"Go ahead."
York's brow furrowed once more in deep, unadulterated disgust.
Harald's renewed cowardice and willingness to just accept death completely extinguished the last lingering embers of York's expectations for his old friend.
"You... you truly are a pathetic, spineless coward who only knows how to compromise, Harald."
York looked down at the giant with freezing indifference. "You possess immense, world-shaking power, yet you completely lack the courage to strike at the stronger World Government. And because of Ida and your people, you are entirely unwilling to strike at the weaker."
"Indecisive, outwardly fierce but inwardly timid... a person like you is absolutely bound to meet a tragic, miserable end!"
The glowing miaodao pressed against Harald's throat was slowly withdrawn. With a sharp flick to clear the blood, York seamlessly returned the massive blade to its sheath.
York jumped off Harald's bleeding neck, walking calmly to the giant's ear.
"Harald. Let's prove it with cold, historical facts!" York declared, his voice echoing in the cavern.
"From today onwards! The Crimson Empire and the Kingdom of Elbaf are officially enemy nations!"
"This absolute animosity will continue unabated until the day your miserable life ends!"
"I'll be waiting from my throne to see Elbaf fall into inevitable decline and total extinction under your cowardly hands!!"
At this point, York paused slightly, his icy tone suddenly carrying a hint of dark playfulness.
"Harald, I didn't even use my Devil Fruit ability during our fight just now."
York stepped back. "What do you honestly think? To what terrifying extent has my Devil Fruit actually developed at this stage? And do I genuinely have the absolute power to protect Elbaf as well?"
Harald, lying paralyzed on the ground, had a deeply complex, agonizing look in his eyes, but York no longer had the slightest desire to continue talking to a broken man.
Suddenly, ethereal black flame ribbons violently manifested from the air behind York's back. His jet-black hair instantly transformed, turning a blinding white, exactly like pure, roaring white flames.
His well-proportioned, slender, yet monstrously strong body slowly, effortlessly floated into the air, defying gravity. York looked down at the motionless Harald with glowing, divine eyes. He slowly raised his right hand and effortlessly shot a blinding ray of light into the distance, casually setting a spatial anchor point dozens of kilometers away on the surface.
Harald watched York—who had suddenly, casually revealed his Mythical Zoan's Devil Fruit Awakening form—and his already complex, despairing eyes immediately trembled violently, shaking like an earthquake.
"You... you are... your Devil Fruit ability..."
With a blinding flash of pure white light, York's god-like figure vanished instantly from the Underworld, leaving only the terrified latter half of Harald's sentence lingering in the silent, ruined cavern.
"Why is it so identical to our legendary Sun God...?"
Harald, lying broken on the ground, couldn't help but murmur to himself in absolute horror and realization. 'Was I really wrong? Is the legendary Sun God truly real?!'
York didn't know what Harald said afterward, but even if he had heard the giant's despairing realization, he absolutely wouldn't have cared.
From the very first day his Devil Fruit had Awakened, he knew the stark visual similarities between himself and the legendary Sun God Nika. But the fundamental essence of their conceptual abilities was entirely different.
'That's exactly why I will become the true, absolute Sun God of this world!' York thought coldly as he traveled through the light. 'Nika? I'll gladly leave the naive title of 'Warrior of Liberation' to you!!'
York, returning flawlessly to Vodka Island, appeared outwardly no different than when he had left, wearing his usual, composed gentle smile.
However, after briefly, coldly explaining the diplomatic situation regarding Elbaf to Stussy, he didn't head to his office. Instead, he directly, aggressively barged into Gunko's private bedroom.
She was currently sitting elegantly on the sunlit balcony, quietly enjoying a sweet dessert while admiring the lively, bustling imperial town outside the castle walls.
At York's sudden, forceful intrusion, she merely glanced at him from the corner of her eye before calmly looking away.
"Is something wrong? Or are you planning to forcefully take me somewhere again?"
Her calm, melodious voice revealed a hint of lazy resignation; she seemed to be growing more accustomed to this kind of captive, pampered life.
"Gunko!!"
However, York's voice carried an unknown, terrifying suppression. He strode aggressively over to her, violently reaching out and gripping her right hand, which was holding a silver spoon.
"You inherently evil Celestial Dragon!!"
Gunko turned her head in genuine surprise, clearly not understanding why the Emperor was suddenly acting so erratic and crazy.
However, at the very moment she turned her head to face him, York, whose glowing eyes were suppressing apocalyptic anger, also involuntarily froze in place.
For no other reason than that one of Gunko's heterochromatic eyes retained its original, normal pupil color... while the other eye had violently transformed into a terrifying, multi-ringed eye, deeply resembling a demonic Rinnegan.
After a second of stunned silence, York's face broke into an incredibly dark, sinister smile.
"Well, well, well! Imu!! You actually dared to secretly possess Gunko's body!!"
As soon as these mocking words were spoken, "Gunko" completely dropped her innocent, lazy pretense.
An incredibly sinister, unnatural arc formed on her delicate lips, and her voice began to distort, shifting into an eerie tone that was distinctly neither male nor female.
"York! You just went to Elbaf, didn't you?" Imu mocked through Gunko's mouth. "Did King Harald's pathetic choice give you a massive surprise?"
"Ah~! It truly was a very, very big surprise!!"
York tightly held Gunko's right hand with one hand and ruthlessly grabbed her slender neck with the other, pinning her to the chair.
Imu completely ignored York's oppressive, physical violence against the vessel. She kept a twisted smile on her lips and continued, "To be entirely honest, Harald's sudden, cowardly surrender also greatly surprised Mu. But it is absolutely perfect for the World Government!"
"For so many centuries, I have been utterly unable to conquer Elbaf, all because the past, stubborn Kings of the Giants were not as 'wise' and compliant as Harald!"
Imu's ringed eye widened in sheer, arrogant triumph. "Now that there is a Harald on the throne, Elbaf's absolute military power can finally be fully weaponized by Mu!!"
Imu's overwhelming smugness infuriated York, but he didn't allow himself to make a twisted or enraged expression. He only let out a cold, chilling laugh, echoing as if from the very depths of hell.
"Hehehehe... hahahaha... Imu!! Did you completely forget exactly what my Awakening ability does?!"
"What?!"
Imu, possessing Gunko from across the world in Mary Geoise, didn't react in time. In the very next second, she uncontrollably let out a highly uncharacteristic, muffled groan of shock.
Seizing the psychological and biological opportunity, York forcefully crashed his lips against Gunko's.
"Mmph! Wuwuwu!!" (You absolute lunatic! It's still daytime!!)
York, however, completely ignored "Gunko's" frantic, possessed struggles. Through the physical contact, he violently surged his Devil Fruit's conceptual power of absolute, overwhelming pleasure directly through the vessel, launching a psychological, sensory assault straight back through the possession link to the King of the World.
He directly dragged the struggling woman from the balcony chair and violently pulled her into the dark bedroom.
BANG!
The heavy slam of the balcony door sealed them in darkness. Curtains dragged shut under a pulse of Haki, plunging the bedroom into thick, humid shadow. Only the faint, residual glow of Imu's multi-ringed eye remained—an unnatural violet light that refused to leave Gunko's face.
York did not speak. He tore the front of Gunko's elegant dress open with one violent pull, exposing pale breasts that rose and fell in shallow, controlled breaths. Imu's possessed lips curled into that same twisted, neither-male-nor-female smile even as York shoved her backward onto the wide bed.
"Still lingering, Mu?" York's voice was low, almost conversational, as he yanked her legs apart and ripped the rest of the fabric away. "Then feel every second of this."
He freed his cock—already thick, heavy, and flushed dark with heat—and pressed the broad head against the soft, bare folds of Gunko's cunt. Imu's ringed eye narrowed. A mocking laugh started in the vessel's throat—
—and died the instant York slammed forward to the hilt.
The sudden, brutal stretch punched a raw, involuntary cry out of Gunko's mouth. Imu's distant consciousness staggered under the flood of sensation York forced through the possession link: the white-hot burn of being filled, the heavy throb of his cock buried deep, the sharp pleasure that radiated outward from every stretched nerve. York's Devil Fruit ability poured pure, overwhelming ecstasy straight into the connection, turning every thrust into a sensory overload that Imu could not shut out.
York set a ruthless pace immediately. Hips snapped forward, driving his full length into the tight heat again and again. Wet, filthy sounds filled the dark room—skin meeting skin, the slick glide of his cock spearing in and out of Gunko's cunt. Each impact forced soft, choked noises from the body beneath him; Imu's control kept the voice from screaming, but the pleasure still leaked through in broken gasps and involuntary clenches.
He leaned down, catching one stiff nipple between his teeth and biting just hard enough to make the vessel arch. His hand clamped around Gunko's throat, not to choke, but to hold the face still so he could watch that single ringed eye while he fucked her harder.
"Feel that?" York snarled against the soft skin of her breast. "Every time I bottom out, every time her cunt squeezes me—you feel it too. Don't you?"
Imu's reply came distorted, strained. "Y-you insolent… worm—"
York slammed in particularly deep, grinding his hips so the head of his cock pressed against the deepest point inside. The pleasure spike he forced through the link made Imu's distant form shudder; the ringed eye fluttered, pupils contracting as unwanted heat flooded the ancient mind.
He pulled almost all the way out, then drove back in with a wet, brutal slap. Over and over. The bed creaked under the force. Gunko's legs were shoved higher, knees nearly to her shoulders, so York could pound even deeper. His free hand slid between their bodies and found the swollen clit, rubbing hard, fast circles in time with his thrusts.
The dual assault—cock stretching her open and relentless friction on that sensitive bud—made Gunko's body seize. Her cunt fluttered and clenched around him in tight, rhythmic pulses. Imu tried to suppress the reaction, but York's ability made it impossible. Pleasure crashed through the possession link like a tidal wave, forcing the King of the World to experience every second of the vessel's building climax.
"Come," York ordered, voice cold and absolute. "Make her come while you're still inside her. I want you to feel it."
He pinched Gunko's clit and thrust deep one final time.
The orgasm ripped through the body without mercy. Gunko's back arched hard off the bed, a broken, high cry tearing from her throat as her cunt spasmed violently around York's cock. Hot, slick fluid soaked his length and dripped down onto the sheets. Through the link, Imu was dragged into the same peak—helpless, furious, and drowning in the exact same white-hot release.
York did not stop.
He kept fucking her through the climax, prolonging every tremor, forcing the pleasure higher until Imu's distant consciousness was left gasping and disoriented. Only when the last aftershock faded did he finally pull free. His cock was glistening, still rock-hard, and he stroked it once, twice, before painting thick ropes of cum across Gunko's heaving stomach and breasts.
Silence settled, broken only by ragged breathing.
Imu's ringed eye remained open, staring up at York through the darkness. The arrogant triumph from earlier was gone—replaced by something darker, more complicated, and far less controlled.
York wiped his cock clean on the ruined dress, then leaned down until his lips nearly brushed the vessel's ear.
"Next time you possess her," he murmured, "I'll make sure you stay for the entire night."
The complete, ideological break between the Flame Emperor York and King Harald of Elbaf remained completely unknown to the outside world.
In fact, besides Ida, Loki, and Hajrudin—who were physically present at the tavern—and Stussy, who had initially informed York to go to Elbaf, absolutely no one else on the seas knew the truth.
Everything seemed to carry on exactly as it was before. The heavily armed pirate fleets of the Crimson Empire patrolled their vast territorial waters as usual, ruthlessly accepting and crushing challenges from rival Pirate Crews.
Elbaf, too, was quietly taking care of the deeply injured Harald while naively celebrating the false possibility of truly, peacefully joining the World Government.
Time thus passed quickly and entirely silently across the New World.
Kaido and Monkey D. Dragon—the two core Vanguard Masters whom York had deliberately dispatched to the isolated Wano Country for highly classified, secret intelligence gathering and tactical investigations—finally returned to the Empire on this day.
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This fanfic is finished. I added smut as it is the last chapter of this fic. Let's meet again in another fic.
There are still some chapters left in raw but the author went full on Chinese nationalism and wanted to kill everyone on Wano. If any one wants to read raw. Here is the raw: 史上最恶海贼,从洛克斯团开始.