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

This punch sent Kaido flying, while Luffy's slender figure, shimmering with white flames, leaped into the sky once more, laughing heartily.

"How fun, Kaido!!"

The stirring battle song of liberation echoed above the dome of this island of demons.

Luffy's earth-shattering punch shattered the King of Beasts' defenses, along with the majesty of his strongest warrior.

Kaido's body collapsed to the ground, but the rubber trampoline continued to move Luffy's body.

"You mean that move just now..."

White Flame Luffy landed on the trampoline, bouncing up and down continuously.

"What should we call it, rubber?

He was there, seriously considering the names of the new moves for these five gears.

"Answer me a question..."

Kaido lay on the ground, his face covered by dragon claws, but his solemn gaze remained undiminished.

"who are you?!"

He clutched his wound, staring intently at Luffy, who was bouncing around in white flames, and asked a strange question.

Kaido was genuinely puzzled. What kind of changes had occurred in Luffy due to the intervention of that CP0 member?

"what?"

Luffy listened casually, the free drumbeats in his heart traversing the sea.

Along with the distant sea, that enormous figure slowly treads the water towards this side.

"I really miss that voice."

The elephant raised its trunk and let out a long, melodious cry:

"You look exactly like me, Joy Boy!!"

That deep and empty gaze seemed to pierce through the past eight hundred years of history, to recreate the liberation of the sun god with freedom and joy.

"The sound of my heartbeat is dancing, making me feel that this is destiny!!"

"I can't help but feel so excited for him!!"

Zunesha's figure slowly disappeared into the thick fog, but its steps were exceptionally firm as it headed towards Wano Country.

On Ghost Island, under the bright moon.

"who I am?"

The white-flamed Luffy bounced around, shouting, "I am Monkey D. Luffy!!"

He grinned, "I'll surpass you and become the Pirate King!!"

"Heh, your tone is as arrogant as ever~"

Kaido stood up again. "Then I'm relieved, Straw Hat!!"

This time, he didn't use the superfluous terms "little devil" and "boy".

At this moment, in Kaido's mind, the man before him was already someone worthy of being regarded as an opponent of equal caliber!

"Is awakening what you call 'when your mind and body catch up with your abilities'? This ability is truly absurd!!"

"Really? You think so too?!"

White Flame Luffy chuckled again, "That's how Link described this ability when he first told me about it."

"But I personally feel that this makes me very happy!!"

"Link? Your second-in-command, Link the Props Maker? The mysterious man who defeated Linlin, does he know about your ability?!"

"Ah, back in the first half of the Grand Line, Link helped me unlock a small part of the shackles that allowed this ability to awaken."

White Flame Luffy seemed to be reminiscing, "Back then, he told me that the name of this ability wasn't the Gum-Gum Fruit, which startled me!"

"So it really isn't ordinary rubber?!"

Kaido's eyes narrowed slightly; this was not unexpected.

After all, it has both the awakening of Paramecia-type abilities and the transformation of Zoan-type forms. No matter how you look at it, this is not an ordinary Devil Fruit ability.

“Yes,” White Flame Luffy nodded slightly, “Link told me that what I actually ate was called the Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Nikka Mode.”

"This Devil Fruit has never awakened, so it has only manifested the external power of rubber."

Human-Human Fruit? Mythical Zoan? Nika?!

Even Kaido, who had roamed the seas for decades, was hearing such a peculiar name for a Devil Fruit ability for the first time.

After all, this was a terrifying ability that the World Government had gone to great lengths to erase from history the name of this fruit.

“I have heard some rumors about Nika.”

Kaido slowly said, "I learned about this from Who's Who, and it's known as the 'Warrior of Liberation,' the 'Sun God,' Nika."

"And look at your current appearance..."

Kaido couldn't help but look Luffy up and down again. "Indeed, with flames surrounding him, he really does have the showy appearance of a god!"

He nodded solemnly, his eyes sharpening once more.

"Now that we know the specific name of your ability, it has resolved one of my doubts..."

His tone gradually became serious, "Whether it's the Straw Hat or the Sun God, you will be defeated by me!!"

"I've lost enough here. Everything I've gained so far—the castle, my men—I'm going to take them all back!"

Kaido roared with all his might, "Kundari Ryushogun!!"

The thorns on the black rod shattered like lightning once more, raining down on Luffy.

This strike, imbued with overwhelming killing intent, instantly slammed into the playful rubber body, creating countless variations!

Luffy's smile vanished, replaced by a serious expression. He gritted his teeth and fought back fiercely as he took the hit!

The wildly flailing rubber fists still drew an incredible, eerie arc in mid-air, accurately striking every corner of Kaido's body.

At the same time as the attack hit, Kaido's indestructible dragon scales were also assimilated into soft, elastic rubber.

Despite the force of the punch, he coughed up blood again, suffering severe injuries.

Kaido was retreating rapidly, and Luffy's feet were trembling.

The follow-up punches did not keep up, and both of them had reached their final limits.

Even the strongest regenerative power of an awakened Zoan-type Mythical Beast, even the renewed infusion of power from the Drum of Liberation.

Both of their bodies were nearing exhaustion; at this point, they were about to burn out.

"That's great~"

White Flame Luffy grinned once more, "You can transform into a dragon and ride lightning, that Charlotte Big Mom can also unleash thunder from thunderclouds, and Nami can even create lightning bubbles~~~"

"Link, needless to say, he is lightning himself..."

He mumbled these seemingly insignificant words to Kaido, but in the next second...

"I also want to try it out and see what the power of thunder is really like!!"

In an instant, White Flame Luffy leaped into the pitch-black gloomy clouds.

With a reach out, the dazzling luster instantly overwhelmed the bright moonlight.

Thunder ripped through the night sky, and the blue-white light and the black lightning together painted a picture of two worlds, seemingly representing light and darkness.

This posture, surpassing that of humans and approaching that of gods, features a right hand grasping lightning and feet piercing the sky.

The natural lightning and the black flash of the Overlord complemented each other, highlighting Luffy's figure as if it were divine punishment.

666 [Inanimate Control Baton]! Ancient Weapon [Pluto]! There's a limit to how outrageous things can get!

"This is……"

Kaido swung the already heavy Eight Guards with all his might, his unrestrained laughter shaking the winds and clouds of the four seas:

"Is this your last act of arrogance, kid?"

"Uro ro ro ro!!!"

Rumble~

Thunder rumbled in the sky above Ghost Island, and the island, which was heading towards the City of Flowers, drew ever closer.

In the dim light, one could also see the thousands of lights within the City of Flowers.

If it were to just crash down like that, it would be another tragic and unworthy end to this battle.

As the distance between the two drew closer and closer, at that very moment...

"Stop, Flame Cloud, Oni Island."

In the middle of the island, a man holds a strange baton-like object that a musician would use, and is issuing commands in the case.

Originally, such words, like playing the lute to a cow, should have had no effect and were simply impossible to achieve.

After he finished speaking, a noise was suddenly heard.

Squeak!

It was as if a moving vehicle had suddenly braked.

The entire island of demons abruptly stopped moving forward, suddenly halting in mid-air.

Immediately afterwards, the voice rang out again:

"Let's just gently descend and stop right next to the ground below."

Oni Island and Flame Cloud immediately behaved themselves and slowly drifted downwards.

At this descent speed, it wouldn't cause any other waves on the island.

"That works!"

On the island, Link swung his baton and chuckled at the group of people behind him.

This nonchalant attitude stood in stark contrast to the dumbfounded crowd behind him!

"Is that all?!"

As Kidd and Kira felt the island gradually sinking, they couldn't help but recall their earlier thoughts.

Just before, a group of people were curious to see how Link would stop the island from heading to Wano Country.

They all came out, still barely breathing.

Then Link pulled out a baton, yellow at the end and red at the tip, and began issuing commands to the entire island and the Flame Cloud.

At that time, Kidd and Killer were still thinking, how could they possibly make the island obey their commands just by waving this strange stick and saying a few words?

That's just not realistic, okay?

Unexpectedly, just as the idea crossed their minds, the island actually stopped as Link had said, and slowly drifted down towards the land below.

"What an amazing person he is~."

Ignoring the two idiots next to him whose eyes were practically bulging out of their sockets, Hawkins was also there, sighing with admiration.

He was one of the few people to see the prop master take out props and create such amazing effects up close.

The other samurai, who were seeing this for the first time, stared at each other in disbelief, their eyes filled with indescribable shock.

"Uh oh oh oh!!"

The large snakes that had gathered around suddenly had starlight emanating from their eyes.

"What is this? Is it the ability to manipulate things?! Or is it a magical wand?!"

This girl was curious and excited about everything magical things she had never seen before.

"This is called the 'Inanimate Conductor'!!"

Link gently waved his baton in the air. "It can control any non-living thing."

Prop: [Non-biological conductor's baton].

Description: Resembling a conductor's baton, it can manipulate anything that is not alive.