One Piece: Who still has dreams?

For a few minutes before Garin died, Im lost his connection to the Deep Sea Contract he carried.

How is this possible?

Given the extent of the Deep Sea Contract's influence, no matter where Garin goes on this planet, Im can sense the contract on him.

Who is it!

Who on earth not only isolated Mu from the demon contract, but also... caused Karin, who should have been under Mu's control, to betray Mu?!

Im stared coldly at the Five Elders kneeling in submission below, barely managing to hold back the fact that he had almost blurted out Garin's betrayal.

The Five Elders are also controlled by the demonic contract... Whoever it is, if they can free Garin from the contract's control, can they also free the Five Elders from control?!

Although the Five Elders' contract is deeper and more controlled than Garin's, Im doesn't want to take that risk.

The idea that "M's contract can be broken" must not even cross the Five Elders' minds, not even the slightest possibility!

……

when!

Zoro shattered the swords of several lieutenant commanders and majors from the branch, but his eyes weren't on the panicked and terrified marines. He felt something profound, entering a state of flow where swordsmanship, the blade, Armament Haki, strength... all the sensations of his training flowed through his mind...

With a light swing of his sword, he unleashed several aerial slashes, cleaving the branch's medium-sized warship in two. His own chest and waist bandages were immediately soaked with blood.

"Don't you know your injuries haven't healed yet?!" Nami used Moonwalk to jump over from a nearby capsized branch warship and grabbed Zoro, who was grinning foolishly.

"Bang!" A warship in the distance fired its cannons at them.

Nami flicked her hand, her powerful finger force piercing the air and sending out several sharp shockwaves, "Flying Finger Bullets," which detonated the black cannonball in mid-air!

"fire punch!"

Further away, a fiery wave swept across the sea like a dragon, bombarding one branch warship after another...

"Lord Im, who killed Garin?"

Upon learning of the death of the commander of the Knights of God, the Five Elders exchanged bewildered glances, both shocked and puzzled. "He should be in the East Sea and hasn't returned to the Holy Land yet..."

Garin is immortal; only attacks imbued with Conqueror's Haki can harm him.

It's unimaginable how strong Conqueror's Haki would be needed to kill him!

It can't be Garp... right?

"..."

Smoker stood on the deck of a warship, ignoring the shouts and cries of the marines thrashing about in the scalding water. He simply watched the enormous pirate ship slowly sailing past him, its billowing sails adorned with a huge four-armed skull with six eerie black eye holes.

"Splash!" Tashigi emerged from the water in a disheveled state, clinging to the piece of ship's plank that Smoker had been lying on. Gripping her sword hilt with resentment, she, like Smoker, looked up fiercely at the massive pirate ship that had sailed by.

When she saw the orange-haired girl carrying Zoro, leaping onto the deck with a series of "thump-thump-thump" steps using Moonwalk, she froze, took off her glasses in disbelief, wiped them, and tried to look more closely, but she could no longer see the figure from this angle.

"Huh...huh..."

Im calmed his breathing and signed the contract. In addition to the contractor having to pay a certain amount of lifespan, Im himself also had to pay a price.

He sat on his throne, gazing at the Five Elders kneeling in reverence, and coldly declared, "The one who killed Karin... was a 'curse' upon God!!"

Smoker tilted his head back, staring intently at the figure of the blond giantess sitting on the ship's railing, and the boy perched on her shoulder...

Although the hair color has changed, there's no doubt that this figure is that kid!

Reddio, oblivious to Smoker, was talking to Gertz on her shoulder, who seemed surprised and delighted at the same time.

This small area of ​​sea was engulfed in flames. Countless marines from different branches huddled together like sardines in areas where the temperature was still bearable. Everyone, including Smoker and Tashigi, was either bewildered, relieved, or filled with hatred. They all silently watched the fluttering six-eyed, four-armed pirate flag and the huge gray pirate ship slowly sail out of this sea of ​​fire and head towards the distant sea...

Chapter 97 The story of the Celestial Dragons being killed never actually happened.

Synchronizer

[Description: Selecting two targets allows for a mind swap between them. Abilities and experiences used during the swap will be retained to some extent in the other person's body.]

[Note 1: The efficiency of receiving experience depends on the synchronization rate between the two parties.]

[Note 2: This item is a one-time consumable. Its effective duration depends on the synchronization rate, ranging from approximately 20 minutes to 1 hour.]

[Note 3: The system itself is not within the scope of synchronizable experience.]

[Note 4: This item cannot be duplicated.]

The Black Flash slowly sailed out of the sea burning with fire. Redio stood on Goltz's shoulder and retrieved the item from the mission log's reward section. Something that looked like a ring box appeared in his hand.

Upon opening it, I found two "stickers" inside, both with eye patterns.

Gertz's only remaining right eye was filled with curiosity.

Redd smiled slightly, took out an eye sticker, and stuck one on his forehead. Gertz laughed and offered his own large forehead. Redd peeled off another sticker and gently patted it...

In an instant, Redio and Gertz's three pupils contracted, and a bolt of lightning seemed to connect the stickers on their foreheads for a split second. The two of them shivered.

"Huh?" Redio (Goltz) was startled when he saw the enormous face of a woman in front of him. "Wow, it's huge!"

Gertz (Radio) suddenly lost sight in her left eye, leaving only her right eye to see "Radio" standing on her right shoulder. She saw that "he" had black hair and black eyes, and lifted the long braid hanging down by her side to take a look. Sure enough, it was white.

Needless to say, at this moment, Gertz's only remaining right eye also turned into azure six eyes because his spirit entered her body.

With a sudden inspiration, Gertz (Redio) opened the system interface without any obstacles.

[Remaining time for Gojo Satoru's Mode: 30 minutes 30 seconds]

The system's priority was indeed higher than the item's. Even with the mind swap, the system still followed its own mind to Gertz's body. The Gojo Satoru transformation granted by the item was also brought over, and the delay card was still active, counting down second by second…

"Goltz, what's wrong with your hair...?"

Nami went to retrieve the injured MooMoo back into its Poké Ball. When she returned, she was shocked to see something amiss.

What's wrong with my hair?

Gertz (Redio) smiled, his jewel-like right eye shining brightly as he precisely manipulated the Armament Haki within Gertz's body—reversing the direction of every microscopic vortex and then wrapping it around Gertz's empty left eye socket and the severed arm below his right shoulder.

A domineering aura of gray and white enveloped him, and steam hissed from the severed part of his left arm, which was bound with blood-stained bandages...

Ace passed by and asked in surprise, "How did Reddio get so big? Wait...aren't you Goltz?!" He pointed at the female giant who had turned into a white-haired, blue-eyed giant, dumbfounded.

Bang! Nami punched him. "Your reaction time is too slow!"

"Hiss hiss hiss..." The giantess unwrapped the bandages from her severed arm and casually tossed it overboard. In the thick, hot steam, a new arm grew out little by little, segment by segment.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Zoro, who was being forced to rest by Nami while bound hand and foot on a stretcher, asked repeatedly with his head held high.

"Nami!" Reddio (Goltz) jumped down, happily hugging the orange-haired girl and spinning her around twice. The navigator was a little confused at first, then suddenly realized what was happening, pressing Reddio's face, which was beaming with girlish joy, and asked in surprise, "You are...Goltz?"

“Oh, I see.” Ace stroked his chin and nodded. “No wonder he could heal Gertz’s injuries; it was Redio’s incredible power.”

Nami hugged Redio (Goltz), her eyes glistening with tears, and laughed happily, "Anyway, this is great!"

“Hmm.” Redio (Goltz) smiled as well.

"I used this little gadget to temporarily exchange my mind with Gertz's."

Gertz (Redio) moved his perfectly healed right hand and tapped the eye sticker on his forehead. "I'll explain the details later. Now listen to me... The energy I used to heal Gertz wasn't the kind of energy you couldn't use when I healed myself before. It was a special kind of domineering aura. And this is something we can all cultivate."

"What? What special? What kind of Haki?" Zoro struggled on the stretcher. Nami was speechless. She went over and untied him, pressing him down with one finger, warning, "Don't move! Your injuries are really bad!"

"Not as heavy as before, right?" Zoro was speechless. He really couldn't understand what Nami's body was made of. She had vomited up fragments of her internal organs, but after sitting there taking deep breaths and adjusting for a few minutes, she had actually recovered to about 70-80%!

Gertz (Redio) sat down: "Nami, take out the manual and write this down..."

He raised his tender right hand, and a wisp of jet-black Armament Haki coiled around his finger. "The essence of Haki is composed of countless vortexes of energy. The direction, number, density, and arrangement of these vortexes vary from person to person. And when these vortexes of Armament Haki reverse one by one, the nature of the Haki energy immediately undergoes a wondrous change..."

Nami flipped open the "Manual" and quickly jotted down notes in the blank space next to the diagrams of the three types of Haki radiation. As Gertz (Redio) explained, the dark energy between "her" fingers suddenly transformed into a grayish-white Haki.

With a casual wave of his hand, Gertz (Redio) severed two of his own fingers.

“Nami, just like Armament Haki, this reversed Haki also has a ‘basic characteristic’ and a ‘binding characteristic,’ as you can see…”

Amidst the hissing hot steam, two new fingers rapidly grew from the severed, greyish-white, imposing spot.

"This 'reversed domineering' binding property is 'healing and regeneration'!"

Zoro looked up and observed, commenting, "It's very similar to that old man's immortality."

Ace said, "Perhaps all powers in the world are the same thing. Since that guy's power can grant him immortality, it proves that immortality is achievable..."

"In short, it's an incredible display of dominance." Zoro and Ace nodded in unison.

Reddio (Goltz) watched Nami scribbling away in the "Manual," then looked up and asked, "So what are the basic characteristics of this grayish-white Haki?"

"Well..."

Goltz (Redio) clenched his fist, which was wrapped in Reverse Haki. "Whether I use this Haki with my own body or with Goltz's body, I haven't felt its basic characteristics playing any role. But based on my observations with these six eyes... the basic characteristics of 'Reverse Haki' are probably related to Devil Fruit abilities, just like Armament Haki."

Boom! Ace transformed into a ball of flames, and his face, magnified several times over, appeared in the flames, his mouth opening and closing as he laughed: "Then let's give it a try?"

Goltz (Redio) wrapped his right hand in reverse Haki and grabbed at Ace's elemental body—but he didn't touch anything and passed right through it.

“It doesn’t seem to be able to grab onto physical entities like ‘Armament Haki’,” Zoro said.

Seeing that Gertz's (Redio's) grayish-white hands were stirring around inside Ace's "body" without any results, Nami couldn't help but ask curiously, "Why don't you try injecting this power into Ace's body? Like... yes, like Zoro wrapping Armament Haki around his sword?"

Gertz (Redio): "..."

"?"

Nami, Zoro, Ace in his elemental form, and Redio (Goltz) all had question marks on their heads.