"…"
Shun unexpectedly found himself facing the most troublesome incident of his life.
'…Killing her just because she asked me to marry her seems a bit off. She hasn't committed an unforgivable crime against me, she is just old, fat and ugly.'
While Shun was troubled, someone else had bigger troubles.
'Mama, I told you this was a bad idea!' Perospero was sweating buckets from the side, as he was the closest to Shun among the Bigmom pirates due to trapping Germa 66 earlier.
Perospero and Katakuri remembered Bigmom's response to his and the others' protests against the idea.
They had initially made a convenient excuse, saying that Shun wouldn't agree to a marriage with a pirate but…
A few days later, Shun and Hancock ended up marrying. Which only fueled Bigmom's madness.
"If this little girl who is much weaker and uglier than me can marry him, why can't I?!!"
"…"
This one sentence from Bigmom silenced her children who had a bit of courage to talk back against her.
'But it's not just the dictator causing problems, those Germa rats have also brought trouble.' Perospero sighed with helplessness. Previously they had been equals and even held an advantage against the peculiar alliance of Law, Luffy and the Whitebeard remnants, which included most of the former captains like Marco and Jozu.
But now that Shun had arrived, Katakuri and Perospero no longer intended to fight.
Led by Katakuri, they had been planning to leave the Bigmom pirates with their siblings ever since the one-sided marriage talks with Shun started. At first it began small, with just one word from Perospero to Katakuri, but it then ignited a sense of unease within the group.
If the Bigmom children were asked which side to follow, most of them would choose Katakuri, as he was young and had the potential to surpass Bigmom. Only their fear had kept them in check until now, but now that Bigmom was facing inevitable defeat…
"!"
Katakuri nodded at Perospero.
'Only Oven and his subordinates are being stubborn about betraying Mama, no… Bigmom. But at least that bastard didn't leak our plan of betrayal.' Perospero used his fruit ability and sneakily left from his location without Shun noticing.
"Brulee!" Suddenly shocking everyone, Katakuri shouted uncharacteristically and snatched her away from Marco's hands, resulting in Marco being sent away.
"!"
"…Yes." Brulee, Katakuri's little sister, had the upgraded version of Blueno's door door fruit.
"…"
"…Why is there so many mirrors in a place like this?" Shun wondered, then…
"…They were planning for this?!"
Now Shun felt even more conflicted about killing Bigmom. He was initially planning to make Rocks kill Bigmom but…
'…Is she competing with Nina Farion for the most unfortunate damsel in distress?'
One by one, every child of Bigmom started to disappear into the world of mirrors. Only Katakuri and Charlotte Oven with his subordinates, totalling about twenty, were left.
"Oven! Hurry up and come here!" Katakuri scolded his little brother.
Meanwhile…
"Oi! Where are you bastards going?" Bigmom asked in pure rage. She no longer threw the tantrums she usually did. Despite how she acted normally, her heart was aching at the possibility, but she hoped for it to be a misunderstanding as she asked for an explanation.
"Big brother! I can't do it!"
"Idiot, just come here!"
"…No, I'll stay and die with Mama."
"!"
Seeing the future of both of them getting stomped by Bigmom, Katakuri moved in a hurry as he knocked out Oven and his subordinates in one hit.
"Kah-!" With a weird noise, Oven fell unconscious as he was forcefully dragged inside the mirror world with his subordinates.
Bigmom jumped high as she planned to kill both of them by stomping on their heads.
"Wait!!"
Crush-!
Bigmom's little jump almost caused an earthquake as she created a massive crater in the ground.
"…"
When the dust finally cleared, from the Bigmom pirates initially having nearly a hundred thousand members… only Bigmom herself remained on the whole cake island.
None of her children were left on the island, as they were already leaving with ships prepared days ago.
"What's happening? Where did they go?" Luffy questioned in a clueless tone.
"…They ran away, leaving Bigmom." Ace too was shocked. They were just planning to snatch Sanji then get away, but it turned into a weird situation.
Ace previously would never have agreed to a plan like this, but the incident two years ago had changed him. He now had thousands of people's lives in his hands as he was the leader of the Whitebeard pirates remnants.
Bigmom was silent the whole time as she was still on her knees, unable to believe this reality.
'…Because I don't trust strangers, I started a crew only composed of my children.'
Drip-!
"…"
To Luffy, Law, the Whitebeard alliance and Shun's shock, Bigmom started crying. Not her usual crazy tantrums, but true tears from her heart.
'…Just what the hell is happening today?' Shun silently disappeared before Bigmom could turn to him as her last hope, only for Shun to deal the final blow. Even Shun wasn't that cruel.
"…Where did Shun go?" Ace and Luffy asked, but…
"!!!"
Swooosh—!!
"W-What?!"
"Is Bigmom this strong?!" Luffy and Ace were shocked by the conqueror's haki Bigmom was releasing.
Bigmom when throwing a tantrum was scary, but her silently crying was more terrifying.
"IKOKU—!" Suddenly Bigmom shouted as she almost took down the pirate alliance with one move.
Shun silently watched the whole thing from the sky.
"You, go back to headquarters and train my kids." Shun sent Rocks away, as he too was watching his former comrade get betrayed with a complicated expression.
POP-!
'Despite being a replica, is he feeling something?' Shun rather preferred his replicas to be emotionless puppets, or if they don't talk like Acnologia.
Shun laid down on Kalifa's lap as the three watched the madness happening on whole cake island.
——
'…Did I make it worse?' Shun wondered as Bigmom was literally soloing the alliance.
'If Robin or Nami get in danger, I'll help them.'
"Ikoku!" Bigmom spammed her ultimate move every five minutes, making the alliance despair.
"Fire fist!" Ace's punch, imbued with advanced armament haki, clashed with Bigmom's Ikoku.
To Shun's shock, both attacks cancelled each other out.
'…I thought Ace's fruit was trash, but it's surprisingly strong. I guess one shouldn't blame people for losing to Akainu and Blackbeard.'
"Bounce Man!"
"Nine sword style, Asura!"
"Buraika!"
Luffy, Zoro and even Jinbei were there. All powerful individuals were ganging up on a singular monster called Bigmom.
Right when Bigmom was about to end someone's life,
"Shambles!"
Law saved them and Marco healed them with his phoenix fruit.
"They're surprisingly coordinated. But they have no chance if they can't damage Bigmom's tough skin." Shun turned into a commentator for the fight.
"That is… if I didn't teach them advanced haki!"
"…"
"Law hasn't awakened his fruit yet?" Shun was always confused about his strength.
'…One moment he was trash that couldn't beat Doflamingo and even got trashed by him. But suddenly he has awakened his fruit and was fighting Bigmom in the original timeline.'
"…I really like the ope ope fruit."
"!"
Shun's careless muttering caused a reaction in his only two listeners in the floating paw bubble.
But those two weren't crazy enough to go down and kidnap Law.
"But Bigmom—!!" Before Shun could start another round of commentating, Kalifa filled his mouth with grapes.
——
Meanwhile on whole cake island.
"Prometheus!" Bigmom used her flame attack, but it was devoured by Ace's flame.
Ace had a confidence boost seeing his fire finally beat another devil fruit. The darkness fruit and magma fruits had been despairing, which he would never admit.
"Things have turned into an unexpected direction, but since it's come to this, we'll defeat her today!" Ace shouted.
"Of course! Kaido can wait for his turn!" Luffy smiled, despite being weakened after his gear 4.
"Ha! Kaido?!" Their little talk gained Bigmom's interest.
"'That' isn't a guy that the likes of you can dream of beating!"
"Shut up! We won't know if we don't try!" Luffy argued back with his nonsense.
Slice-!
In response to Luffy's nonsense, Bigmom didn't speak but instead sent a flying slash.
"!"
"Luffy-!" The Strawhat pirates shouted in worry, but a moss-headed guy was already there to block it.
Clang-!
Bigmom had three big homies that she had given her own soul. Those three each had their own unique type of attack: sword slash, lightning and fire.
Sword attacks were Zoro's responsibility to parry.
Lightning was Luffy's responsibility.
While Ace took care of the fire.
For an alliance that was gathered not long ago, their coordination was flawless.
Soon, the alliance landed their first attack that caused heavy damage on Bigmom.
"Fire Fist!"
"Aaghh-!" With a nasty scream, Bigmom fiercely fought back, despite a fist-shaped fire going through her stomach and coming out of her back.
——
Slowly but surely, the group chipped away at Bigmom's health. After a whole six hours…
Thud-!
Bigmom fell on her back. Despite a rain of attacks pouring down on her, she didn't panic.
"Damn! Don't think this is the end of me!" Bigmom shouted fiercely.
Seeing the attacks get closer and closer, Bigmom had a flashback of her entire life in seconds.
"I'm curious!! What is the One Piece?! ROGER!!!" Bigmom shouted fiercely, causing goosebumps on everyone who heard her.
However, the attacks that were fired at her didn't stop. The next moment, Ace's ultimate ability, which looked like a literal sun, dropped on Bigmom.
Crash-!!
The entire whole cake island sank, with Bigmom falling into the deepest part of the sea.
"…"
Shun watched the entire thing with complicated feelings. He even felt a bit sad about Bigmom's end.
——
After half an hour, Shun alone floated down to the Thousand Sunny. As the entire island had sunk, everyone stayed on their ships.
"…Shun!" Luffy waved from the floor, completely exhausted but still smiling.
"Good work." Shun waved too, as he was checking the historia from time to time.
'What a monster she is… she's still alive at the bottom of the sea.'
Shun warped back to the sea where Bigmom's body should be, leaving the Strawhats in confusion.
Using his observation haki, he successfully located Bigmom at the bottom of the sea.
Then he lifted his finger and lifted Bigmom and the sea around her in a cube shape with Shiki's ability.
It wasn't really a big feat, as Issho would locate meteorites outside of space with his observation haki when he does his meteor drops.
"Haki, Iron balloon skin, and devil fruit." Shun pulled three types of paw bubbles from her.
"Om nom nom." Despite not being interested in the soul soul fruit, he devoured them anyway.
Then he threw her back into the sea.
'…Technically I didn't kill her.' Shun justified his actions and went back to the Thousand Sunny as if nothing happened.
——
Shun sent his two secretaries back as he was, for some reason, sailing with the Straw Hats and their alliances.
"You guys ended up here?" Shun asked the Germa 66.
"Yes…" Despite having their father killed, they didn't hold a grudge. Reiju hated her father, while the others just didn't care about Judge.
Reiju had come to give Sanji his raid suit; the others were just there to survive.
"Well, you guys must be tired. You can rest at my home until you recover," Shun said, and without waiting, he created an enormous paw-shaped bubble that covered both the Thousand Sunny and Whitebeard's ship, the Moby Dick.
"W-What is this?!" Usopp, Brook, and Chopper, the comedic trio, weren't the only ones shocked this time.
POP-!
The two giant ships disappeared without a trace.
——
"!!"
"…Welcome to my humble abode," Shun said as he introduced what was previously Shiki's home. Everything Shiki had was now his; the only difference was that the villagers with the weird wings were now the servants on the main island.
Previously, they had been threatened and some were forced into hard labor for Shiki. Now they got paid for their work in a good environment.
"Welcome home…" a woman who looked to be in her fifties and a child approached with smiles.
"There are guests; let them use the rooms," Shun waved at them and commanded.
'Kalifa really employed them within just a week. I don't know the details on how she did it… but we've got hardworking servants now.'
The servants led the alliance members to a public bathroom, while Shun took Nami and Robin to a private hot spring. Despite both being Devil Fruit users, they could enjoy the hot spring thanks to Shun repelling their weakness.
'…Shiki sure lived better than the Sea Emperors.'
"So why are you here?" Shun asked the newly appointed Germa Kingdom's queen.
"…Just because?" Reiju smiled.
"Well, treat yourself," Shun said, as he didn't mind her presence at all.
"…What about your wife?" Suddenly Nami asked with cold eyes, despite entering the hot spring with no clothes. She gave off a cold energy.
Robin was silent but similar.
Shun sighed and explained everything. "It was just a wedding to increase our potential allies after we take over the World Government."
"!"
Reiju expected a drama between a couple, but the scale of the talk was too outrageous.
Even Nami and Robin were surprised, as they asked, "'We?'"
"Yes, I've collected allies within the Marines that are admiral level strength or stronger."
"…An Admiral." Nami and Robin felt goosebumps just remembering their meetings with Kizaru and Aokiji.
"…A group composed of monsters are going to attack the World Government?!" It felt surreal.
"Within two weeks, everything will change, regardless of whether we win or lose."
"…Is it okay for you to leak that information?" Reiju couldn't help but ask in confusion.
"It doesn't matter even if you leak it. We are already ready; we're just waiting for a just cause."
"…What's your chance of winning?" Robin asked something realistic.
"…I'll let you decide that," Shun said as he touched the hot water and turned it into living water that could speak.
"T-This ability?!" Reiju was shocked.
"Well, enough about small talk. Since the world might end, let's talk about important things," Shun said and pulled Sanji's sister closer by her arm. As if they had planned this for a long time, Nami and Robin made her unable to move by grabbing both of her arms.
"…"
Reiju didn't mind; or rather, she had joined them naked exactly for this purpose. But she was still caught off guard by the perverts.
——
After just half an hour, the group left the hot spring as it wasn't night yet; they were satisfied with just a small favor from Reiju.
They reunited with the group in a large room used for banquets; it was the room where Shiki's trash crew got bombed in the movie.
Shun looked at the samurai weirdos. "…So that dumb brat is still with you guys?"
"…"
After seeing their epic battle, this was the first thing Shun asked them.
This time the Wano group clenched their fists in anger but didn't ask for a fight again.
"Yeah! We're going to take his country back from Kaido!" Luffy answered, acknowledging that Momo was a dumb brat.
Shun didn't like Sanji, but his cooking was great.
The two groups celebrated without restraint. Whitebeard remnants were specially happy with Shun's presence, due to him executing Blackbeard recently.
The banquet continued until the middle of the night.
Even Shun drank some alcohol with the group to celebrate.
——
Next morning, Shun woke up with Reiju, Nami, and Robin still on the floating island.
'Such a hardworking queen despite being promoted on the same day. I don't want to sound like a pervert but… her poison and the poison dragon slayer are a great combination.' Shun praised Reiju as he remembered the taste of the poison. Before finally going to meet Baccarat.
'I'm going to a different world until the Reverie in two weeks,' Shun was determined, despite it being delayed for a bit. After getting the usual luck from the gamblers, Shun chanted out loud, "Send me to a world that can help me perhaps enter Hitogami's place, or a world that has a danger that could kill me."
"!"
Baccarat, who was the only one hearing this, was shocked, but…
POP-!
With his signature noise, he was already gone…
——
When Shun opened his eyes, he was in the sky floating.
Looking down, he could see an island that had the shape of a whale.