The Great Voyage: The Props Master on the Straw Hat Ship

Although he remained vigilant and on guard, and although his attack had failed to hit and defeat Luffy, Kaido secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

This time, he ultimately failed to achieve this utterly dishonorable victory.

At least I didn't personally bury a legend who was close to the top, nor did I end this exhilarating and evenly matched decisive battle.

It's not that it can't end, but it can't be in this way!!

Otherwise, even if you win in the end, what you will get is not the joy of victory, but the melancholy, emptiness, confusion and disappointment of a loser.

And after breathing a sigh of relief~~~

What followed was an endless, raging fire of anger surging within him.

This was neither aimed at Link, who came out to block the attack, nor at Luffy, who had been fighting him the whole time.

Instead~~~

"CP0?!"

Gazing at the white figure that had freed Luffy from his restraints and suddenly leaped away, Kaido's words were filled with boundless killing intent.

"It seems you've already resigned yourself to certain death!!"

The killing intent, even stronger than before, completely enveloped the figure of the puppet-masked man.

"Sure enough~~~"

Beneath the mask, CP0 sighed softly, "We still failed to achieve our goal of eliminating the target."

He had anticipated this outcome long before the operation even began.

He had no say in the fight between the two, let alone try to launch a sneak attack.

Without Conqueror's Haki, he probably wouldn't even be able to break through their defenses.

Therefore, the only hope is that Kaido will take action and completely defeat the Straw Hat Luffy, who is bound and powerless to fight back.

Everything was proceeding according to plan, but at the last moment...

"What a waste of all our efforts!"

Having long anticipated his final fate, the puppet man couldn't help but pull down the brim of his hat, and a sense of resolute and carefree relief and ease appeared on his whole body.

His life as a secret agent has finally come to a perfect end here.

"Whoosh!!"

Boundless, towering flames erupted from Kaido's mouth.

That boundless rage further intensified the temperature of the flames, making them even hotter!

In just a moment, the raging flames completely engulfed the masked puppet man's figure.

When the flames subsided, his figure vanished completely along with them.

Kaido's anger subsided slightly, and he turned to look at Link, who hadn't made any move.

I was just about to say a few words when...

An immense and surging wave of Conqueror's Haki suddenly erupted from behind Link!

Have you awakened?

Sensing the earth-shattering, domineering aura, Link didn't even need to turn around to understand what had happened.

"That hidden Devil Fruit ability!!"

"Ha ha ha ha!!"

Suddenly, Luffy's joyful laughter echoed throughout the entire sky.

Along with the laughter, the thunderous and clamorous sound of drums also rang out.

An unprecedentedly powerful aura, almost standing at the pinnacle of the world, pierced through the sky.

Meanwhile, in the space below the skull, inside the banquet hall...

"This aura... is it Luffy?!"

The other guests in the banquet hall also noticed it.

When Link suddenly disappeared, I thought something bad had happened up there.

But judging from the momentum Luffy is currently displaying...

"What?! Is that Straw Hat Boy?!"

Kidd, who had awakened Armament Haki and Observation Haki during the battle, looked up, his face filled with astonishment and disbelief.

This aura actually made him feel a slight stagnation.

"Is this Luffy's aura?!"

Behind the skull, Ace, who had just defeated the last CP0 member, looked up, his gaze almost equally uncertain as he stared at the top of the skull.

"It's definitely true that the straw hat is the head of the household."

Luo also breathed a sigh of relief, "This aura is much stronger than before!!"

In fact, it's not just "a lot" that can describe it.

On the high seas outside Oni Island.

"Gurarararar, can you feel it, Sengoku?!"

The white-bearded man, whose punch once again unleashed a terrifying attack, couldn't help but let out a long, triumphant laugh.

"Young people these days are really something else!!"

The Warring States period was solemn, and he remained silent.

This powerful aura and boundless Conqueror's Haki are something no rookie pirate could possess.

Having served as a naval admiral, he had some knowledge of the inside story.

The sheer power and the earth-shattering, stirring drumbeats that could achieve this level of power seem to be only found in legends…

"Joey Boy!!"

Sengoku did not pronounce the man's name aloud, because it was not something the sailors on the ship behind him should know.

"As expected, the natural enemy of the gods, the D clan, has awakened once again, and Joy Boy, eight hundred and six hundred years later..."

Sengoku's eyes revealed a complicated expression. "Is it your family, you bastard Garp?!"

The relationship between the D clan and Joy Boy was unknown to Sengoku.

However, he knew that Joy Boy must be from the D clan.

Therefore, the World Government has always kept the D clan a closely guarded secret.

If Garp hadn't voluntarily joined the Navy, he might have been on the World Government's list of suspects much earlier.

Roger was initially a prime suspect, but that suspicion vanished with his death.

Later, Garp's son, Dragon, was also suspected. His revolutionary army, from any perspective, seemed poised to unleash a revolutionary wave.

Besides these, there's Roger's son, Ace, and Garp's grandson, Straw Hat Luffy.

There were some doubts surrounding these individuals, but unexpectedly, it all happened today~

He heard the legendary sound of the Drum of Liberation.

"So it really is Straw Hat Luffy?!"

Sengoku let out a soft breath, "The straw hat that inherited Roger's will, and the strength he gained in just one year, have brought him to this level."

"The strange state during the Marineford War, though only glimpsed briefly, was enough to illustrate the point..."

Thinking of this, Zhan Guo's back suddenly hunched over:

"I'm already retired. This is no longer something that an old man like me, who holds the nominal title of Grand Inspector, can get involved in."

"Let those in power worry about this."

661 Gear 5!! Nika form, with overwhelming Conqueror's Haki! Let's call it [Rubber Man]!!

Meanwhile, on the other side of the sea, in the sacred land of Mary Geoise.

The Five Elders gathered in the Hall of Power within Pangaea Castle in Pangaea City, closely monitoring the developments of the battle.

"Losing a top agent and angering Kaido..."

The middle-aged Lin Ken Five Elders exclaimed, "Isn't this putting the cart before the horse?!"

The five elders of De Gaole, their faces scarred, said slowly, "Even so, if there could be a better future..."

"So what?!"

"Eliminating the sources of anxiety is the most important thing!!"

The Five Elders, including G.B. Pachev, echoed, "This must be the top priority!!"

"Although the World Government has tried to reclaim the Rubber-Rubber Fruit in every era of the past, for some reason, it has never succeeded in the past eight hundred years."

"It's like some kind of Devil Fruit deliberately escaped from our grasp!!"

“That’s possible, isn’t it?” said Qiu Ji’er, the five old men with goatees.

"The fruits of the Zoan type may all harbor a will, let alone this one, which also possesses the name of a god..."

Everyone knows the other name for the Rubber Fruit:

"Zoan-type Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Nikka Mode!!"

And as they were speaking, loud laughter echoed throughout the entire sky.

Under the bright moon, the figure leaped into the sky, etching the joyful action into the heavens.

This power, which the Five Elders feared and worried about most, has now fully awakened! It has returned to the vast ocean!

"The Mythical Zoan type of the Human-Human Fruit, Nika form, allows its body to maintain the properties of rubber, and then it fights using its boundless imagination."

"That man brings joy to people wherever he goes. He is the 'Warrior of Liberation,' and is also known as 'Sun God Nika'!!"

"Once this ability awakens, it can grant the originally rubber body greater strength and freedom, making it the most powerful body in the world—"

"The most outrageous ability!!!"

On Onigashima, with the legend of the Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan type Nika form, echoing in his mind, Link watched as Luffy underwent various changes.

The stirring battle song of the liberation drums seemed to resonate with the bright moon in the sky.

Luffy was there, his body leaping about in incredible fashion, and his appearance was constantly changing in an instant.

"My domineering aura, strength, and stamina have all been restored 々～."

"It seems I can accomplish anything I set my mind to, and it seems I can continue fighting!!"

"The sound of my heart is also very interesting. Is this my peak?!"

Under the bright moonlight, Luffy's muttering face and snow-white, fiery hair were reflected.

Not only her hair, but also her clothes turned snow-white when she was awakened, with "steam ribbons" wrapping around her neck and armpits like a fourth gear.

His eyebrows are also curved in a cartoonish way, showing a similar curliness to Sanji's eyebrows.

This is the awakened form of Nika, the Sun God!

"What's this?!"

As an opponent he had fought for a long time, Kaido stared blankly at the changes in Luffy before him.

If we're talking about the previous Gear Fourth Bounce Man and Snake Man, they could barely be considered to have anything to do with rubber.

However, the appearance of these snow-white flames seems to have nothing to do with such an ordinary material as rubber.

And~~~

"A trace of holy aura?!"

For some reason, Kaido suddenly felt that Luffy in front of him had transcended the concept of being a human being.

In fact, the man in front of her was no longer the spirited and passionate young man she once was.

Instead, it's a completely new guy, stronger, more unpredictable, and strange.

"Fifth gear!"