Chapter 160

"No, it's not."

"Then who was it with?"

"I'm not telling you…"

……

The next day.

After Bonney used her ability to change Luo Bin and the others' ages, they entered the streets of Sabaody Archipelago to purchase supplies.

Luo En, on the other hand, used the power of the Float-Float Fruit to find a small uninhabited island on the sea, then activated his ability to make it float up to ten thousand meters in the sky.

He then controlled this small island, bringing it to the high sky above the Red Line in front of Sabaody Archipelago.

"So this below is Mariejois…"

Dressed in black, a black blade hanging at his waist, eyes closed, Luo En stood at the highest point of the small island, able to determine his current location through the sea chart in his mind.

It was right at the top of the Red Line, directly above Mariejois.

Beyond here lay the New World, the second half of the Grand Line.

Directly below this spot, ten thousand meters beneath the sea, lay Fish-Man Island.

After confirming his location.

A smile curled at the corner of Luo En's mouth.

The World Government, and the Marines.

Courtesy demands reciprocity.

One visit to the North Sea, one to Drum Island.

Then I'll send you two big gifts in return.

The first gift, let's start with Mariejois.

At a thought from Luo En, the small island beneath him, a thousand meters across, was no longer sustained by his ability floating among the sea of clouds, and began to be pulled by gravity, plummeting toward Mariejois below.

After Luo En finished this, he did not linger and immediately distanced himself.

After all, he couldn't see with his eyes right now anyway—what would be the point of staying here?

Mariejois, the seat of the World Government, where a great number of the World Nobles, the Celestial Dragons, reside.

When the sea of clouds above was torn open, and a massive shadow blanketed all of Mariejois.

Everyone in Mariejois who was standing outside their houses looked up.

When they saw that island falling from the sky like a meteor, slamming down toward them below, Donquixote Mjosgard and the other Celestial Dragons, along with their guards, nearly bulged their eyes out of their sockets, jaws dropping to the ground.

"Wh-what-what is that?!!!"

"A-a meteor?!"

"No way!? Help! I don't want to die!"

Some of the Celestial Dragons stared at the rapidly plummeting island above, carrying a terrifying momentum, looking as though it could destroy all of Mariejois, and were so terrified they wet themselves, tears and snot streaming down together, every ugly expression on full display.

The highest level of the World Government.

The Five Elders, standing at the pinnacle of world power, looked through the opened floor-to-ceiling window at the falling island above, their expressions furious and grim.

"A floating island—is it that newly emerged Float-Float Fruit user?"

One of the Five Elders, wearing a deep blue suit, long straight white hair, a very long beard, and a burly build, stood up from the sofa, clenched his fist, and a faint trace of Armament Haki leaked out.

One of the Five Elders, wearing a black suit, curly white hair, a bushy white beard, a flat hat on his head, and a scar on his left cheek, stood before the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the plummeting island with a fierce, cold gaze:

"To actually dare attack the Holy Land—even Golden Lion Shiki didn't dare do this, truly… what enormous nerve!"

"That kid called Luo En must be dealt with."

"Now's not the time to talk about that, is it? We can't just let this big rock crash into Mariejois."

One of the Five Elders, wearing a white robe, bald, wearing glasses, and holding the First Generation Ghost Blade, said, closing his eyes as his hand gripped the sword hilt.

The next second, above Mariejois, countless crisscrossing black sword lights appeared, each one several thousand meters long, weaving together into a massive net that rose to meet the plummeting island.

Under the stunned, horrified gazes of the panicked Celestial Dragons.

It sliced the plummeting island into countless pieces.

The long-bearded, burly Elder of the Five appeared in the air in an instant, raising a fist and punching upward.

The terrifying force of the punch shattered the air for several hundred meters ahead, breaking it into countless fragments like glass, as though the sky above Mariejois itself had been shattered by a single punch!

The fragments of the plummeting island, each one the size of a house, were all shattered under the shockwave of this punch, turning to powder and debris, scattering across the sky.

A rain of dust fell over Mariejois.

The Elder who had thrown the punch returned to the highest point.

One of the Five Elders, wearing a dark green suit, bald, with two handlebar-shaped tufts of mustache and a birthmark shaped like Madara on his forehead, sat on the sofa with a grim, cold expression:

"Let's discuss how to sanction that traveler, Luo En."

…………

The Holy Land Mariejois was not far from Marine Headquarters, Marineford.

Luo En quickly arrived at a point ten thousand meters above Marineford, and likewise dropped an island before leaving.

Sengoku, who had just received a call from the Five Elders via Den Den Mushi and was utterly shocked upon hearing of this, suddenly heard a commotion outside.

A Marine entered the room, his expression tense, and said to Sengoku: "F-Fleet Admiral, there's an island falling from the sky toward Marineford!"

Sengoku's pupils contracted sharply.

"Nani?!"

Marineford.

Countless Marines, faces drenched in cold sweat, stared dumbfounded at the island plummeting from above like a meteor, their hands gripping their weapons trembling.

Under an attack like a natural disaster, people like them could do nothing at all—numbers were utterly useless.

They could only rely on high-end combat power.

Akainu, draped in a cloak of righteousness, stared at the falling island, gnashing his teeth, his eyes blazing with fury.

"That brat again?!"

He stomped his foot, his body leaping high into the air, and hurled a magma-forged giant fist straight at the plummeting island.

"Great Eruption!"

After Akainu's Great Eruption shattered the falling island, Marine Vice Admirals and Rear Admirals struck again in force, smashing the debris into smaller pieces so it would not cause major damage to Marineford.

But the scattered falling stones still wrecked quite a few buildings and injured a number of Marines.

Sengoku stood at the window of the headquarters building, looking out over Marineford carpeted in rubble, his whole body trembling with rage, teeth clenched, but utterly helpless.

He drops a couple of islands on your base and then runs, flying all over the world — what can you even do to him?

Now, how to deal with that Traveler Luo En — who can fly, can fight, is brazenly bold, acts like a madman, and wields terrifying destructive power — has become the World Government and the Marines' biggest headache.

142, that lunatic! (Combined chapter)

After delivering two islands to the World Government and the Marines, Luo En was in high spirits.

Although he knew these things couldn't deal any substantive blow or damage, being able to disgust them wasn't bad either.

If the Marines came to encircle him again in the future, he'd just drop by every so often to deliver an island — let's see who flinches first.

After he finished this deed and returned to Sabaody Archipelago, the next day Luo En, along with Kuina and the others, said goodbye to Lei Li and Xia Qi, and then slowly departed aboard the Traveler.

Watching that ship sail away.

Xia Qi's eyes were full of smiles.

"You look very happy — what's going on?"

Lei Li asked her.

"Those girls — every single one of them holds Luo En in good graces, yet neither they nor he has noticed."

Xia Qi blew out a smoke ring. "Isn't it interesting?"

"All four of them…"

Lei Li was somewhat startled, but soon burst into loud laughter.

"That kid really is something."

Suddenly, as if he had noticed something.

He turned sharply to Xia Qi:

"Hey, Xia Qi, you didn't go and do anything extra, did you?"

"I didn't do much, just whispered a little something into each of their four ears."

"And you call that not doing much? You're going to turn that ship into a Shura field?!"