Chapter 220

Crocodile heard her words, his eyes contracting sharply.

A memory surfaced in his mind—the back view of that young boy wielding a long blade, the wound across his chest, nearly splitting him open, throbbing faintly.

"It's… him!?"

Crocodile's eyes were filled with bloodshot veins, his teeth gritted in fury.

"Correct!"

Trapped tightly in the giant sand hand, writhing in pain, Vivi gazed at him and curled her lips into a taunting smile: "If you have the courage, go find him. But I doubt you have the guts, Crocodile…"

She hadn't finished speaking.

Crocodile's face twisted in rage as he spat two words at her:

"Shut up."

His hand clenched in midair, and the giant sand hand gripping her tightened further.

Making her bones crack loudly.

On Vivi Princess's delicate face, extreme pain surfaced, yet she clenched her lips tightly, forcing herself not to cry out—she refused to submit to violence.

"No wonder I never found the historical stone tablet recording the whereabouts of the Pluton—it was taken by him! Hahaha, Traveler Luo En, what a brilliant move indeed!"

Crocodile's hatred and rage could no longer be contained: "Because of you, all my efforts over these years have turned to dust!!"

"Traveler Luo En!!"

In a fit of blind rage, Crocodile…

All surrounding buildings turned to sand, sand swirling wildly through the air.

"Rubber, Gun!"

Whoosh!

A sharp rubber fist lunged toward Crocodile.

Crocodile turned his body into an element, letting the fist pass through harmlessly.

A blade of light sliced through the sand hand gripping Vivi, severing it—Vivi tumbled forward, caught mid-fall by Zoro's outstretched hand.

Crocodile stared at Luffy and Zoro before him, eyes narrowing, voice icy: "I'm in a terrible mood. You've appeared before me—did you come prepared to die? Straw Hat brat?"

Luffy, wearing his straw hat, slammed his fist into his palm, glaring fiercely: "This time, I'll take Luo En's place and knock you flying!"

At the instant he heard the name Luo En…

Bloodshot veins appeared in Crocodile's eyes.

"Don't utter that name in front of me!!"

He swept his hand, and a sand blade shot toward Luffy.

Luffy dodged and launched a furious assault.

"Rubber Rubber… Machine Gun!"

…………

Beyond the Shichibukai Islands, on the open sea…

As Luo En's sword slash fell…

Heaven and earth changed color.

The sky split open with a crimson slash nearly ten thousand meters long, wrapped in black flame, instantly cleaving through Akainu's volcanic eruption of a fireball!

In Akainu's widened pupils, the slash descended straight toward his face.

Shhh!

The slash carved a straight, ten-thousand-meter-long, one-kilometer-deep fissure through the entire ocean, as if the sea itself had been torn apart.

Vast quantities of seawater roared into the crack, surging into towering waves.

What truly shocked Tōrō, Tina, and Usopp was Akainu's current state.

Akainu stood atop cooled lava rock, his right arm severed cleanly at the shoulder, blood streaming freely; beneath his hat, his cold face gazed upward at Luo En, who held the blood-blade Yue, his expression grim.

The power of that slash had exceeded his expectations—it had completely severed his magma arm, even with Armament Haki reinforced.

"Aaah, Sakazuki, what the hell are you doing?"

Huang Yuan's voice echoed from the distant sky: "You didn't even use your full strength against him? Do you really think his power is still the same as when you went to capture him back then?"

"Shut up!"

Sakazuki spoke coldly; molten lava surged from his severed arm, quickly reforming a new magma right arm, steaming violently, radiating extreme heat.

Losing one arm meant nothing.

To him, it was insignificant.

Instead, it ignited his fury completely.

For a man like Akainu, fury was the best catalyst.

In his enraged state, he could even surpass his own limits!

Armament Haki at its third stage flowed over his body, turning over half his frame into magma; extreme heat and aura radiated outward, instantly boiling the sea within a hundred-meter radius around him.

At this moment, Akainu resembled a volcano erupting.

He had truly elevated his Logia Devil Fruit ability to the level of a natural disaster!

Luo En, suspended in midair, also frowned slightly.

Akainu now radiated danger.

"Boy, you'll die here today."

Akainu spoke coldly, raising his fist and striking forward.

"Magma Dog!"

Luo En teleported, evading the blow, then swung his blade downward.

Akainu's magma-giantized twin claws tore straight through that slash, then stomped down; the magma-formed giant hand stretched out and grabbed at Luo En in the air.

Huang Yuan, standing in the sky not far away, scratched his head as he watched those two erupt into a fierce battle.

"There's really no helping it."

His figure flashed, and he appeared in the sky at Luo En's rear flank.

"Eight-Scale Laser Cannon!"

After Luo En took a hit from Akainu, he was struck in the back by this laser cannon and sent plunging from the sky straight toward the sea.

Luo En swung back with a heavy punch into the air, scattering that laser cannon, and came to a halt a few meters above the sea surface.

"Dog Bite Crimson Lotus!"

Akainu launched another Dog Bite Crimson Lotus, hammering down at him from above.

Huang Yuan in the sky also unleashed Eight-Scale Jeweled Hooks, countless dazzling light bullets madly pounding toward this stretch of sea.

Peach Rabbit and Tsuru on the shore gazed at that stretch of sea, a flicker of worry crossing their eyes.

The combined fierce assault of two Admirals was terrifyingly powerful.

Even a Yonko probably couldn't withstand it.

Can he hold out?

Luo En truly couldn't withstand it and was driven straight from the sea surface down to the seabed.

Still, he hadn't taken any major damage from their attacks.

"You think I'm a Devil Fruit user, so you want to knock me into the sea and rob me of my ability to fight…"

Luo En lay on the seabed rock several thousand meters down, calm and composed.

The pressure here would be enough to crush an ordinary person, but to him it amounted to nothing.

"Nice thinking, but sorry — seawater doesn't work on me."

The Devil Fruit ability Luo En obtained through the Devil Fruit Ability Copy Card had no side effects; seawater and Seastone were both useless against him.

Being at the bottom of the sea was, on the contrary, advantageous to him.

"Two Admirals joining forces… with my current strength it's indeed not easy to handle. That's about enough for this time — let's end the fight here."

Luo En thought to himself,

"Next time we meet, these eyes of mine should be awakening too…"

He stood up on the seabed, sheathed the Blood Blade Moon in his hand, and stomped down; the seabed rock exploded with a roar.

His figure shot toward the distance like an arrow leaving the bowstring.

After he left this stretch of sea.

Akainu and Huang Yuan were still waiting above the sea surface.

CP0 had also led government troops to Sabaody Archipelago, coming to arrest and search everyone related to the Traveler Luo En and the Traveler of the Sky Calamity.