Chapter 22: Uchiha Feng

At this time in the One Piece World, Marine Headquarters:

Sengoku braced his hands on the desk, brows tightly knit, gaze anxiously fixed on the Den Den Mushi before him. His face was gloomy, deep worry etched between his brows.

"Hurry up and call." Sengoku muttered lowly, fingers impatiently drumming the tabletop.

Purupuru. Purupuru.

The Den Den Mushi suddenly rang; Sengoku snatched up the receiver, tone urgent: "Hello, Kizaru, what's the situation at Impel Down right now?"

"Crocodile and the others have been re-apprehended by us, currently being escorted back to the prison." Kizaru's lazy voice came through the receiver: "Ace and the others have also been found, but they've been staying on Level 4 the whole time, seems like they have some kind of plan."

The tense muscles of Sengoku's face relaxed slightly; he let out a long breath, tone easing as well: "As long as the people haven't escaped that's fine. You immediately escort Ace back to Marine Headquarters, absolutely must strengthen the guard, absolutely cannot allow any more mistakes."

"Understood." Kizaru replied lowly: "Then I'll bring them back first."

Sengoku was just about to hang up when Kizaru's voice suddenly came through the receiver again: "Wait a moment, Fleet Admiral, there's still one more thing."

Kizaru's lazy voice came through the Den Den Mushi once more, but this time his tone carried a rare trace of gravity.

Hearing this, Sengoku's hand froze mid-air, brows tightly knit. "What problem?"

"The mastermind behind this prison break seems to be a very troublesome ability user." Kizaru spoke slowly, voice revealing a rare seriousness. "He possesses extremely powerful self-healing ability and what seems to be a teleportation ability; I exchanged blows with him but ultimately let him escape."

"What?!" Sengoku shot to his feet, face gloomy to a terrifying degree. "Even you couldn't catch him?!"

"In that case, immediately issue a Wanted Poster for this criminal!" Sengoku ordered in a deep voice. "Must bring him to justice as soon as possible, absolutely cannot let him continue roaming free!"

"Yes, Fleet Admiral." Kizaru responded: "This person not only defeated the Ghost Spider, plus the key role he played in the prison break operation, I suggest the bounty be at least 500 million Berries."

"500 million?" Sengoku was slightly surprised; in his memory, pirates whose initial bounty reached this number were few and far between. He considered a moment, then nodded in agreement: "Fine, we'll do as you say!"

With a "Bang", Sengoku heavily hung up the phone. He leaned back in his chair, face gloomy to a terrifying degree.

"Mythical Zoan Fruit." He murmured to himself, brows tightly knit, "Another Devil Fruit user of unknown origin, truly troublesome."

Sengoku rubbed his temples, let out a long sigh. He faintly felt that the appearance of this mysterious prisoner probably heralded an unprecedented storm about to arrive.

Soon, the new Wanted Poster spread across the entire ocean.

On the Whitebeard Pirates' Moby Dick, Whitebeard held the latest Wanted Poster, narrowing his eyes as he examined it carefully.

"Gurahahaha, another new brat appears, actually daring to invade Impel Down, quite gutsy." Whitebeard laughed loudly: "Mythical Zoan ability user? That's an interesting ability."

"Pops, damn it!" Marco slammed a fist into the ship's side, grinding his teeth: "If we had been there at the time, we definitely could have saved Ace!"

"Gurahahaha, no need to be anxious, Marco." Whitebeard laughed and patted Marco's shoulder, tone relaxed and confident: "We will definitely save Ace."

Marco took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the anger in his heart, slowly nodded: "Pops is right, we will definitely save Ace, no one can stop us!"

Meanwhile, at the Beasts Pirates' Headquarters, Kaido also saw the latest Wanted Poster.

"Hahahaha!" Kaido laughed toward the sky, laughter deafening: "Mythical Zoan Fruit."

He grabbed the Wanted Poster, eyes flashing with excited light: "A fruit similar to Yamata no Orochi? That's a rare ability, sounds like it'd fit my Beasts Pirates perfectly!"

Kaido turned his head to look at his subordinates beside him, grinned, revealing a mouthful of gleaming fangs: "Go, find that guy called Orochimaru for me, I want to meet him personally! If he really has the skill, let him join our Beasts Pirates; if he refuses, kill him for me, try to snatch his fruit ability!" "Yes, Kaido-sama!" The subordinates answered in unison, then filed out one after another, beginning to carry out Kaido's orders. — Inside the Ninja World Camp's conference room, several ninja were tidying scattered documents on the table.

"Whoosh!" Accompanied by a barely audible sound of breaking air, Orochimaru's figure appeared out of thin air in the center of the room.

"What?!"

"It's Lord Orochimaru!"

The several ninja were caught off guard, instantly startled. They subconsciously retreated half a step, hands swiftly forming a guard posture, warily staring at Orochimaru.

Orochimaru glanced sideways, gaze landing on the wall clock. The second hand ticked, time at this moment seeming exceptionally clear.

"Hm? Time flow rate seems to be one-to-one." Orochimaru murmured, a trace of doubt flashing in his eyes: "Looks like only a few hours have passed in the Ninja World as well."

He withdrew his gaze, turned to look at the subordinates still wearing faces of shock. The several ninja hurriedly straightened up, tensely awaiting Orochimaru's words.

Sensing the surprised gazes cast around, Orochimaru turned around, explaining in a relaxed tone: "It's nothing, I was just testing a new Space Ninjutsu."

"New Space-Time Ninjutsu?" The ninja looked at each other in dismay, a flash of astonishment and awe in their eyes.

"Lord Orochimaru." A ninja stepped forward, respectfully said: "Just now Lord Uchiha Fugaku came looking for you, seemed to have important matters to discuss."

"Uchiha Fugaku?" Orochimaru slightly raised a brow, nodded: "I know."

Orochimaru then walked out of the conference room; the ninja inside looked at each other, then began whispering among themselves.

"Worthy of Lord Orochimaru, casually mastering such profound Ninjutsu, truly worthy of being one of the Legendary Sannin." A young ninja exclaimed sincerely.

"Yeah, heard Lord Orochimaru often researches new Ninjutsu forgetting sleep and meals, didn't expect results this fast." Another agreed, tone full of admiration.

At this time, the other side.

Zhang Feng violently threw off the white cloth covering his body; meeting his eyes was a deathly pallor, the air permeated with a pungent disinfectant smell mixed with a faint bloody odor.

He looked around, discovering he was lying on a cold metal table, and not far away, corpse after corpse covered in white cloth lay quietly there, like sleeping ghosts.

"Here... is this the Morgue?" Zhang Feng murmured; if not for awakening the Main God Space, he'd probably have become one of the corpses here too.

Zhang Feng jumped down from the cold metal table, moved his somewhat stiff limbs. Joints emitted "crack crack" sounds; after such an ordeal, his whole body ached.

Then his gaze fell on the label on the table surface, only to see the four characters Uchiha Feng written on it.

"Since I've already been reborn, gained a new life, then it's also time to bid farewell to the past, welcome a brand new beginning."

"Uchiha Feng." He softly repeated this name once, corner of his mouth hooking a faint smile. "Starting my new life with this name isn't bad either."

Uchiha Feng lightly waved a hand; a clone identical in appearance to him appeared on the metal table surface.

Next second, Uchiha Feng's figure vanished inside the Morgue, as if he had never appeared.

(Chapter End)