One Piece: Starting with Sharingan, First Mate Uchiha

Inside the VIP room cage beneath the Rain Banquet Hall.

"Rumble..."

With Crocodile's departure, the water-filling mechanism hidden behind the wall was fully activated.

The icy underground lake water rushed in like a flood bursting its banks, and the water level rose extremely quickly, soon reaching everyone's knees.

"Ugh... I'm out of energy..."

As soon as Luffy touched the water, it was as if his spine had been removed; he went limp and fell face down into the water.

Smoker on the other side was in the same sorry state. The sea stone railings and the lake water containing the energy of the ocean instantly turned this Logia-type Devil Fruit user into a cripple.

He knelt on one knee, panting heavily, unable to even lift a finger.

Just as everyone was falling into despair once again.

"Bang!!"

A muffled thud.

The giant banana crocodile guarding the cage was kicked hard by a black leather shoe, crashing into the wall and losing consciousness.

"I've sent Clay to guard the door."

Immediately afterwards, a blond figure with a cigarette in his mouth and wearing sunglasses landed gracefully.

"Sorry to keep you all waiting."

Sanji (Mr. Prince) pushed up his sunglasses, revealing a confident smile:

"Are you all alright? The prince has come to rescue you... However, I just looked around, and it seems the key was swallowed by a crocodile, but I can't tell which one..."

Everyone looked at the ferocious crocodiles swimming in the pool and felt a chill run down their spines.

If things had followed the original trajectory of fate, Mr. 3, who was still alive at this point, should have used the Candle-Candle Fruit to forge a key and open the cage.

but now……

Victor looked at the empty crocodile pool and sighed helplessly.

"Mr. 3's grave is probably covered in grass by now, where would he get a candle and key?"

"Since there's no key, let's just cut it open!"

Zoro, gripping the Wado Ichimonji in his teeth, struggled to exert force in the water and slammed it down hard against the railing.

"clang!!"

Sparks flew everywhere, and the recoil made Zoro's hand go numb, but the gray railing remained completely still, without even a scratch.

"No... this thing is harder than steel, it can't be cut at all!" Zoro's face was grim.

The water level rose higher and higher, reaching chest height.

"Gurgle..." Luffy had already started rolling his eyes and blowing bubbles.

Due to the resistance of the water, Zoro, Usopp, and Sanji would have a hard time breaking the cage underwater, not to mention that the cage was ridiculously hard.

Just then.

"Buzz".

Viktor took a deep breath, and blue chakra light flowed and gathered at the soles of his feet.

To everyone's astonishment, including Smoker's, Viktor didn't soak in the water like the others, but instead stood steadily on the rippling surface!

He bent down and grabbed Luffy by the back of his collar, who was nearly drowning.

They lifted him up like a chick, letting his head surface to breathe.

"Red...Red Lotus...You're actually standing on the water?!" Smoker said weakly.

Victor ignored his surprise and stared at the indestructible seastone railing before him, his brow furrowed.

"This is the butterfly effect... because I killed Mr. 3, and the original escape route was cut off."

"Seastone is as hard as diamond, making it immune to physical attacks. But..."

Viktor's eyes sharpened, and he instantly communicated with the system through his mind.

"System! Exchange for ninjutsu!"

[Ding! 1500 Ninja Points consumed to exchange for Water Release Ninjutsu: Water Release: Water Severing Wave.]

As knowledge flooded into his mind, Viktor's lips curled into a smile.

Since physical hardness cannot be overcome, let's use scientific methods.

He looked at Zoro in the water and Sanji outside, and shouted:

"Zoro, Sanji, get ready! On my command, attack this railing with all your might!"

"Huh? No way!" Zoro shouted, "This thing is too hard, the sword will break!"

"Who said I was going to cut it down forcefully?"

Viktor stood on the water, his hands rapidly forming hand seals, chakra surging at his fingertips:

"Everything has its weaknesses, even Seastone is no exception."

Step 1: Extreme heat.

Viktor's chest bulged high, and the fire-style chakra within his body was being compressed wildly at his throat.

Then, a high-pressure jet was applied to a specific point on the sea stone railing.

"Burn it!!"

[Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation Arrow!]

"boom--!!"

A line of fire, condensed to its extreme, carrying terrifying heat, relentlessly scorched the middle section of the sea stone railing.

Even above the water, the blazing flames emitted a suffocating heat wave, instantly evaporating the surrounding water vapor.

Under continuous burning at extremely high temperatures.

The sea stone, which was said to be indestructible and would never deform under any circumstances, began to slowly change color.

It changed from gray to dark red, and finally to a clear, bright red!

Step Two: Extreme Cold.

"Now!!"

Viktor abruptly stopped his fire-style attacks, instantly changing hand seals to manipulate the icy lake water beneath his feet.

Yin-mao-hai-xu-chou!

[Water Release: Water Severing Wave!!]

This is the signature hardcore water jutsu of the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, possessing extremely strong cutting power. In the original work, it even severed the roots of the God Tree.

"puff--!!"

Viktor violently spurted out a jet of ultra-fine water, like a high-pressure water jet.

The icy lake water, carrying the kinetic energy to cut through everything, crashed instantly against the railing that had just been heated to a bright red.

"Zzzzzzz!!!"

A huge plume of white smoke rose up, a violent reaction between water and fire.

The sea stone underwent a temperature change of several thousand degrees in a very short period of time, causing drastic stress changes and collapse in its internal structure.

"Snap!"

A crisp, melodious sound rang out in the deathly silent water prison.

A visible crack appeared on the reddened railing!

"Attack!!!" Victor roared.

The two main forces, who had been poised to attack, suddenly surged forward.

"Ittōryu·Iai·Demon Slayer!!"

Zoro drew his sword in the water, a flash of cold light.

"Lamb Shot!!"

Sanji kicked out with his right leg from above.

The blade and the kick struck precisely at the same time the fragile crack.

"Splash!!!"

The sea stone railing, which was said to be so strong that even diamonds could not cut through it, finally let out a mournful cry and shattered into pieces under the combined attack of the laws of physics and violence!

"It's open!!"

"Run!!"

The water level is almost submerging the roof.

The group grabbed the half-dead Luffy and Smoker, and just before the room was completely submerged, they darted out of that desperate cage like fish.

……

"Cough cough! Cough cough cough!"

In the corridor of the Rain Banquet, everyone was soaked to the bone, collapsed on the ground, and gasped for fresh air.

Smoker lay on the ground and vomited up several mouthfuls of bitter water. The feeling of weakness finally subsided, and his strength gradually returned.

He looked up, his gaze complex as he looked at the group of pirates wringing out their clothes and exchanging sarcastic remarks.

As a naval officer, he should have immediately taken action to arrest them.

but……

Smoker gripped the jib in his hands tightly and asked in a hoarse voice:

"Why did you save me?"

"I am a Marine. As long as I live, I will keep hunting you down."

Luffy, who was vomiting water out of his stomach like a fountain, turned around with a matter-of-fact expression upon hearing this:

"Because if I don't save you, you'll die."

There was no grand reasoning behind it, nor any scheming involved.

Simply because... I didn't want to see him die in front of me.

Smoker was stunned.

He looked into Luffy's clear eyes and remained silent for a long time.

Finally, he took a deep breath, put away his weapon, and turned his back.

"...Get out of here."

Smoker, with a cigar in his mouth, spoke curtly:

"This time... I'll pretend I didn't see you."

"But Straw Hat, and Guren... next time we meet, I will personally arrest you! I'll stake my justice on it!"

Luffy grinned: "Hehe, let's talk about it next time!"

Everyone got up to leave.

Victor stopped as he passed Smoker.

He reached out and gently patted the naval captain's soaking wet shoulder, saying with a smile:

"Don't rush to arrest us, Colonel."

Instead of chasing after pirates, let's go and see the truth about this country first.

Victor pointed meaningfully to the city outside the window:

"Sometimes, what we see as 'justice'... may not be the truth."

After saying that, Viktor instantly caught up with the group.

……

They rushed out of the Rain Banquet Casino.

A giant, long-legged house crab had been waiting for a long time—it was "Eyelashes," a friend that Chopper had rescued earlier.

"Where are we going? Arubana?" Nami asked.

Luffy stood on the crab's back, gazing at the distant palace with eyes burning with an unprecedented rage and fighting spirit.

No, he's there.

"Crocodile... I'm going to beat you to a pulp!!!"