Chapter 16: Sun And History (part 2)
The world was burned bright red, a strike from the god generated from the earth, assaulting the shadow in the high heavens.
The next instant, fierce flames collided with falling lightning, divine might clashing with Haki!
Sand, trees, seawater, clouds—everything was blown away in this moment, this nameless small island finally welcoming doomsday.
“Uro-ro-ro-ro-ro~ That was so exhilarating! Monster brat!”
Feeling the temperature transmitted from the Wolf Fang Club, Kaido continued to increase his power while inputting Haki even more violently, then—Armament Haki flowed.
A strange power invaded the flames through the Wolf Fang Club, triggering continuous explosions, and Kaido in the sky was instantly blasted covered in soot and dirt with even dragon scales flying off!
But—
『Attack, being disintegrated.』
In La’s perception, her solidified flames were blasted apart in repeated explosions, losing their power, forcing her to continuously strengthen her divine power output.
But this was ultimately just a drop in the bucket, a futile effort.
Finally, La’s divine power gradually depleted, the flames of the divine might cannon also dissipating… Kaido’s attack finally broke through the obstruction and fell directly!
“Bang!”
This was the sonic boom from close range, mixed with the cry of lightning.
The Wolf Fang Club finally stopped just a fist’s distance from above La’s head, the resulting gale once again scattering her brilliant golden long hair, even causing her plain white dress to flutter up, with sparks still shining at the hem of the skirt.
At this moment, Kaido was smoking all over, large patches of dragon scales shattered off, the underlying skin full of scorch marks, his form extremely disheveled.
But he grinned at the corner of his mouth with nothing but confident and exhilarating laughter, his eyes even brighter as if about to emit light!
“I lost, we will join.”
Only less than ten centimeters from death, La’s tone remained calm.
At this moment, she had returned to her original appearance, the ‘Eye of Ugart’ on her forehead also closed and disappeared, the whole person seeming to change back from ‘god’ to ‘person’.
However, compared to Kaido, she as the loser looked far better at this moment, with no visible injuries on her body, just her breathing slightly weak.
“Welcome to join the old man’s Beasts Pirates, La! From now on, the old man is your captain.”
Kaido withdrew the Wolf Fang Club, grinned, formally called out La’s name, then transformed back into human form, squatted down, and patted her head with his hand.
“Got it, Captain.” La readjusted her slightly crooked single-side hair accessory and answered earnestly.
『Pirate… and the name Kaido, it seems this should be the ONE PIECE world, but unfortunately, there’s too little content about this manga in my memory.』
Yes, You Ling unexpectedly hadn’t watched this almost universally known work, neither the original manga nor the adapted anime, knowing only some viral famous scenes and a few familiar but not detailed names.
“Alright, go wake up those two brats following behind you, we’re heading to South Blue right away.” After speaking, Kaido shouldered his Wolf Fang Club and walked toward Aoxi and Obei.
The island’s flora and fauna were almost all blown away in the previous battle, and those nearby were probably directly reduced to molecular state.
Those hills and mounds were now completely leveled, making the Flame Barrier where the two were directly visible.
……
Kaido’s strides were large, so La had to trot to keep up with his steps.
Kaido, walking ahead, noticed this but showed no intention of slowing down, as if deliberately wanting to see her like this. La could only follow behind him like a little tail, trying her best.
But just as the two with their different paces had walked a few steps, with a loud rumble, the ground behind them suddenly cracked open, revealing a huge underground space.
La stopped first and looked back.
“This is… an underground room?”
She remembered that their battle was right near the ruins on the island, so this basement must have been exposed due to the aftermath of the battle.
At this time, Kaido also turned back, and the two looked down together. But because the ceiling of the basement hadn’t completely collapsed, most of the inside was still pitch black.
Fortunately, La’s eyes could see very clearly even in the darkness now.
In fact, she spotted at a glance a huge regular hexahedron stone block standing in the center of the stone room, bluish in color, with one face densely engraved with many symbols.
These symbols were neatly arranged and meticulously engraved, clearly unusual at first sight.
With a thought, La, having recovered some divine power, ignited clusters of flames around the stone block out of thin air, illuminating it.
“Ho~ Poneglyph, huh? Your luck is really good.” Kaido clearly saw the stone block below through the bright firelight.
“Though this thing is rare, it’s not very useful, just records some past history~”
The current Kaido had no interest whatsoever in history or the like, glancing at it once before uninterestedly turning his head away.
『Records history… the history books of this world? Engraved on such a strange stone, truly novel.』
Hearing Kaido’s words, La glanced at it twice, memorized all its contents, then ignored it and continued following Kaido away.
……
“Snore~~ Snore~”
Hearing the sound before seeing the people.
The two little ones inside the Flame Barrier had seamlessly switched from unconsciousness to sound asleep at some point, completely unaffected by the earth-shattering battle outside, as if the flames containing La’s divine power gave them an immense sense of security.
“Wake up, Aoxi, Obei.”
Dissipating the flames, La gently shook the two, her tone as soft as if reluctant to disturb their sweet dreams.
“Wu~ Five more minutes, Mom.”
Aoxi responded groggily, then rolled over and hugged Obei beside her.
Obei beside her frowned tightly from being suddenly clung to, as if trapped in a nightmare of being entwined by red tentacles.
Seeing the two little ones like this, La found it somewhat amusing. She wanted to call again, but Kaido stepped forward first.
As a several-zhang-tall man of the sea, he wasn’t so gentle; seeing the two on the ground showed no sign of getting up, he bellowed directly, his voice so loud it stirred up dust on the ground.
“Hey! You two brats, get up for the old man!”
The effect was immediate.
“Gah!” Aoxi was so startled she jumped three feet high.
“Who! Who dares disturb this king’s sweet dream! Behold my one million horsepower… uh~” After landing, Aoxi looked at La in front of her, then at Kaido behind La.
She was stunned for a moment, then…
“Superconducting Wave—Thunder Cannon!” Aoxi’s little mouth opened, and a golden thunder directly struck Kaido.
Not painful… well, it still hurt a bit.
Having just taken a sunbath, even with Kaido’s tough body, he hadn’t fully recovered yet, and taking a Thunder Cannon head-on wasn’t pleasant.
But he couldn’t show it.
“Stop, Aoxi. This Mr. Kaido is our captain now, not an enemy.” La said while stopping Obei who was also preparing to attack.
“Captain?!” *2
“That’s right.”
La explained the events to the two and informed them that this world might be the ONE PIECE world.
“So Sister La, are we pirates now?”
“Yes, sorry for deciding for you on my own.”
“It’s fine, Big Sister. Weren’t we three originally one person? Your decision is my decision.” Obei said earnestly.
“Me too.”
……
“You three brats done discussing? We’re heading to South Blue now.” After quietly rubbing the spot Aoxi hit, Kaido turned and urged.
“Alright alright, Boss Kaido, right? Sorry, I hit you without a word earlier.” Aoxi trotted up to Kaido and apologized.
“Aoxi is apologizing to you for attacking you just now.” Seeing Kaido clearly didn’t understand, La temporarily acted as translator.
Through continuous learning in her mind, she could now communicate fluently with Kaido.
Mastering a foreign language fluently within half an hour—truly “divine talent.”
“Hm? Can’t speak the common tongue yet? Whatever, just two snot-nosed brats~”
Kaido didn’t mind La’s suddenly fluent speech, nor cared to pursue what language the three spoke privately.
『These three brats are very special.』
This was something Kaido knew the moment he first saw the three little ones—or rather, anyone in this world would immediately feel this upon first seeing them—『These three people are very special.』
Ignoring the unrestrained astonishing auras on Aoxi and Obei, just from their appearances, it was clear they weren’t ordinary.
Simply put, the three’s appearances were somewhat too beautiful or refined, an abruptness noticeable at first glance anywhere.
They didn’t quite fit with this world’s somewhat rough art style.
It was like suddenly having three illustration-level character portraits pop up among a bunch of animation-level drawings.
Of course, the three who had only seen each other and Kaido as living people since arriving in this world naturally hadn’t noticed this yet.
Rather, even if they knew, probably only Aoxi among the three would care~
……
“La, teaching these two brats the common tongue is your task. We’re preparing to head to South Blue now.”
Not planning to delay further, Kaido transformed into a giant dragon again, unceremoniously lifting the three little ones with Flame Clouds into the air, flying toward the southeast…
