Double-transformation: I, Sakura Haruno! Will crush the pirates!

Without warning, two beams of light collided suddenly, and a torrent of black lightning swept away the two ships.

On the Red Fox, the big fat guy Lucky Lou was blown against the mast by the gale, one hand pressing down hard on his headscarf.

"Hey, isn't Shanks interested in her? What's going on here?!"

Puzzled, he raised his voice and asked the first mate beside him.

"That's probably why he couldn't win her over..."

Leaning against the mast, Ben Beckman, holding a cigarette in his hand, let out a helpless sigh.

—That guy's only thought about fighting. What girl pursues someone like that?

boom! boom! boom!

A continuous roar emanated from the center of the sea, followed by a chilling aura that swept skyward, turning the entire sea area into a blanket of white.

Shanks and Sakura stood in the center of the snowfield, facing each other with their swords drawn.

"Your strength has improved quite a bit. No wonder you were able to break in there and come out unscathed!"

Shanks lightly covered a mark on his left arm, which was holding the knife, with his free hand.

"However, if that's all there is to it, then you'd better come aboard with me today!"

Shanks twirled his longsword, and an extremely thin, long, sharp, and intense sliver of light flew from the tip of the blade, its trajectory impossible to discern, yet it arrived before Sakura with uncanny speed.

"You've become quite the smooth talker, Shanks, huh? But hey~, here you go!"

Sakura plunged her Storm Sword into the ground, accelerating the heat circulation on the blade to its limit, creating a high-speed rotating vortex.

Shanks' flying slash was engulfed the moment it touched the sword, and then, guided by the thermal circulation, it was slashed out from Sakura's longsword.

"hiss!"

Shanks, sensing the danger with his Observation Haki, shifted his body to the side, and as the blade flashed past, the iceberg behind him was sliced ​​in two.

"Isn't your ability thermal interference? What is this then?!"

Finding that he couldn't use the Flying Slash, Shanks had no choice but to grab Griffin and engage Sakura in close combat.

Countless black lightning bolts surged from Shanks' body, and a sharp longsword, capable of cutting through steel, hurtled towards him!

"Of course, it's the power of knowledge! Hahaha!"

Sakura laughed as she pulled the Storm Sword from the ice, and at the same time, a cluster of flames ignited in the vortex.

This was a fruit development she undertook after her battle with Satan, based on the opponent's ability to use poisoned thorns.

Instantly, the heat circulated and changed, and the sword blade rose up in a shimmering light, forming a burning Möbius strip, with the blade radiating the purest light and heat.

—Heat Fruit, High Temperature Mode, Rising Flame Torch!

The torrent surged like a tide, its flames rising wildly, engulfing Shanks in an instant.

The heat, seemingly endless and terrifyingly high, continued to rise, even causing mist to rise from the ice surface that Sakura herself had created.

In the distance, a large ship frozen in ice sheds its shell, and the crew cries out in alarm:

"Shanks—!"

Chapter 86 Ice, Flame, and Sword

After the roar, the icy plains fell into a long, deathly silence.

Amidst the dissipating intense light, only the man, whose entire body was enveloped in a thick aura of dominance, exhaled a hot breath.

—Armament Haki Hardening, you brat!

After being subjected to temperatures exceeding 2,000 degrees Celsius, Shanks remained completely unharmed, without even showing any signs of burning or scalding.

Then, the Armament Haki covering his entire body receded, wrapping even more thickly around the famous sword Griffin.

The sword, shimmering with an eerie light, bore silent, wave-like patterns that mocked its opponent.

I admit your high temperature is a great counter to swords, but what if it comes into contact with my domineering aura?

"How terrifying." Shanks sighed, holding his longsword horizontally. "We're all friends, did we have to be so ruthless?"

"whispering sound!"

Sakura clasped her hands together, and a large number of ice spikes gathered on the ground, while she quickly distanced herself from Shanks.

Armament Haki, flying slashes hundreds of meters high, swordsmanship learned from Captain Roger...

With all these qualities combined, Shanks deserves the title of a great swordsman, and as everyone knows, a swordsman's strikes really hurt!

"Don't even think about running away. You either let me cut you once today, or I'll drag you back to the ship. You choose!"

Dark thunder roared once more, and with a smug look on his face, Shanks pounced on Sakura on the icy plain like lightning.

"Shanks, you pervert! God punish me!"

A violent, immense force rose up, and the Boil Release ignited the chakra within, forming a soaring flame.

An unprecedented gale swept across the sky, and intense shockwaves erupted from the storm sword in the girl's hand, engulfing everything from the inside out.

"Elbaf's Spear·Powerful Country!"

The pure impact tore through the air, a high-pitched cry, and the sword wave, engulfed in flames, transformed into a sharp spear that reached the heavens and the earth.

Crushing, ravaging, and destroying everything, the massive spiral impact covered all of Shanks' escape routes, leaving him with absolutely no room to hide.

"Don't underestimate me, Ara-Mitama!"

Amidst the roar, the crimson sword light, filled with rage and hunger, sought to destroy everything within sight.

Shanks, facing Sakura, grinned, his equally domineering face bursting into laughter, so ferocious!

The figure I've been chasing since childhood, and now I finally have a chance to surpass it. How can that not make my heart pound with excitement!

boom! ! !

In that instant, a hurricane suddenly arose, swept across, and spread.

Ring-shaped cracks spread from the ice beneath their feet, and flickering, intense light rose from the ground before shattering with a deafening roar.

A blast of air swept through, causing the Red Fosse, which had broken free from the ice, to rock violently.

"These two have gone too far!"

Yasopp, carrying his sniper rifle, kept firing at the huge blocks of ice crashing against the ship's hull.

"Hey, Yasopp, also protect that guy's ship!"

Raki Lu, who had broken through a piece of ice and fallen back onto the ship, turned back to remind them.

"Oh! Got it."

With nimble movements, Yasopp loaded his ammunition and leaped high to the top of the mast, firing at the ice shards hurtling toward the Leviathan.

Seeing his companions deal with the aftermath of their fight, Raki Lu let out a sigh of relief and sat down on the deck.

He must have lost a lot of weight from the exercise just now, so let's quickly get him some meat chops to replenish his nutrition.

"Hey, Beckman, who do you think will win between the two of them?"

"I don't know, but I do know that the woman didn't use Armament Haki at all."

Ben Beckman's words sealed the deal, silencing the second and third leaders of the Shanks Pirates.

The eye of the storm.

While exchanging blows with Shanks, Sakura used her powers to maintain the ice below, preventing a collapse that could trigger a tsunami that would drown her ship.

"Ouch, that hurts! Is that domineering aura seeping into my skin?"

The Storm Sword sparked once again as it clashed with Shanks' black blade, and Sakura increased the distance between herself and Shanks.

"So, are you going to admit defeat?"

Shanks gripped his sword with both hands and unleashed thirteen flying slashes in a mere instant, but this was still not his limit.

The surging sword energy violently slashed and intertwined, forming a dense, impenetrable net.

"Huh? You think you can just admit defeat to a nobody like Shanks? Don't even think about it!"

While dealing with Shanks' flying slash with one hand, the other fingertips began to display ninja techniques.

He formed a half-Yin character seal with two fingers, and the Yang Release chakra he learned from medical ninjutsu surged and poured into the solid ice beneath his feet and the flames in the air, giving the originally lifeless ice blocks and rising flames a breath of fresh air.

—Yang Dun: Imbuing Form with Destiny!

Although it is impossible to create life like the Sage of Six Paths, or to unintentionally heal oneself like Hashirama Senju.

It could easily be used by Sakura to study the nature transformation of Yang Release chakra in medical ninjutsu, giving it a physical form so that it could be transformed into a puppet controlled by Sakura.

The appearance of this move also signifies that she has entered a new stage in the integrated development of Devil Fruit abilities and ninjutsu, but the man in front of her will become the first victim.

Roar--!

The behemoth twisted its body and crawled out of the flames and ice, opening its massive jaws and roaring at Shanks.

To Shanks' astonishment, a legion of ferocious and savage beasts formed, and then, the western camp surrounded and guarded their king.

"Are you kidding me? Your ability is to manipulate heat, isn't it?"

Who on earth ate the Ice-Ice Fruit? Even that monster vice admiral in the Navy didn't do something like that!

With a raised hand, sword light scattered, causing the pale sea surface to ripple, while a dark red comet hurtled towards them!

Like a flash of light, Shanks' figure tore through all the mist and rushed in front of Sakura.

"God avoids!"

Clang——!

The longsword, gleaming with a magnificent crimson hue, swept across, swiftly cleaving the towering horde of beasts in two. A rainbow flashed in the beasts' pupils before they exploded with a deafening roar!

"It's not over yet!"

Sakura clasped her hands together, and a violent shockwave spread out, buying crucial time for the other giant beasts. Dozens of beasts then surrounded Shanks.

It then revealed its sharp claws and fangs, and lunged at the red-haired man in the middle.

Shanks, enveloped in an aura of dominance, remained indifferent and swung his longsword forward.

Amidst the roar, no sharp flying slashes emerged from the horde of beasts, yet the giant beasts of fire and frost suddenly collapsed while running.

It came to a stop as it glided in front of Shanks, and the blue light in its eyes gradually disappeared.

"Ok?"

During that brief fluctuation, Sakura sensed that her Yang Release, which resided within the power creation, was being interfered with in some way.

And that seemed to be... a shock to one's will!

"Conqueror's Haki? It can be used like this?"

"There's so much you don't know!"

Shanks waved his hand, slicing out the lightning-coated Griffin, which instantly traversed a vast distance and arrived in front of Sakura.

Sakura raised her right hand and threw a black cherry blossom kunai at Shanks.

Shanks easily locked onto the direction of the kunai's attack with his Observation Haki, tilted his head to the side, and then revealed a wicked smile: "Hey, you don't actually think this kind of thing...."

call out!

The illusory light of time and space burst forth, and the target that Shanks's famous sword pierced turned into afterimages and shattered.

—Flying Thunder God Technique, Second Stage, you brat!

In the all-encompassing chill and terrifying heat, Shanks mechanically turned his head, his face frozen in horror.

"I think... I'm going to die?!"

Chapter 87 It's no use, it really isn't working (Bonus chapter for first 300 subscriptions)

Next to the Red Fox, after hooking her Leviathan onto the tow rope, Sakura carried the charred Shanks aboard.

"Shanks!"

The ship's doctor, Hongo, rushed up carrying his medical kit, and the others gathered around anxiously.