The wind above the Red Line stopped.
Uranus hovered to the side, but Shinju didn't fire its main cannon.
The real final battle didn't need external weapons like that.
Shinju stood at the bow. Beside him, two men stood shoulder to shoulder.
Madara had his arms folded. Beneath that red armor, his bloodlust was boiling.
Hashirama looked grave, hands already forming seals.
Below them, in the ruins of Mary Geoise, five strange black shadows shot into the sky.
Saint Saturn transformed into a massive ushi-oni. Saint Nusjuro became a skeletal horse swordsman. Saint Warcury became a giant fengxi… the Five Elders all fully released their Devil Fruit powers, demonic aura surging into the heavens.
And behind them
Imu floated in midair. Behind Imu, black tentacles writhed like thousands of venomous snakes, blotting out the sunlight.
"Mortals… you dare gaze upon the throne of god."
Imu raised a hand.
The sky collapsed.
Countless black spikes poured down like a storm. Every single one was wrapped in Haki strong enough to erase an Admiral.
"Hmph. Cheap tricks."
Madara snorted, his eyes instantly turning into the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
"Susanoo!"
Blue chakra erupted skyward, forming a hundred-meter giant in an instant.
The Perfect Susanoo drew its long blade and swung at the heavens.
Blade wind tore through the air, shredding the rain of black spikes into nothing.
"Hashirama! Those five beasts are yours—don't let them get in my way!"
Madara laughed, driving Susanoo straight at Saint Nusjuro and Saint Warcury.
"You're being reckless again, Madara!"
Hashirama sighed helplessly, but he didn't slow down for even a second.
"Wood Style: Wood Dragon Jutsu!"
A colossal wooden dragon burst from the ground, roaring as it coiled around Saint Mars in the sky.
"Wood Style: Wood Shield Jutsu!"
A massive demon-faced wooden shield rose before the Thousand Sunny, blocking Saturn's venom attack.
In an instant, the battlefield split apart.
The two gods of shinobi tore into the Five Elders like tigers among sheep, forcing their advance to a dead stop.
Shinju ignored all of that.
His eyes were locked on Imu.
"Luffy!"
Shinju shouted.
At this moment, a tentacle had Luffy wrapped tightly by the throat, holding him suspended in midair.
Imu's tentacles carried a life-devouring effect—Luffy's Gear Fourth was rapidly undoing itself, his presence weakening.
"So this is Joy Boy's reincarnation?"
"Too weak."
Imu tightened the tentacle coldly.
Luffy's eyes rolled back, his consciousness fading.
His heartbeat grew quieter.
Thump… thump…
Was he going to die?
No.
He couldn't die here.
Everyone was fighting.
Shanks had bet his arm on the new era.
Shinju had brought him to the finish line.
How could he fall here?!
Inside Luffy's chest, a long-silent sound suddenly exploded.
THUMP! THUMP!
Like the Drums of Liberation.
Luffy's hair turned white in an instant. His body melted like liquid, slipping out of Imu's grasp.
White steam surged upward.
Luffy floated in the air, both hands over his face, letting out that signature laughter.
"Hehehehehe~!"
Gear Fifth.
Nika form.
Awakened.
"Ah… my heart's beating so hard!"
"This is my peak!"
Luffy bounced around midair, grabbing clouds like trampolines.
Imu's gaze finally changed.
"Nika…"
"Hey! You pitch-black creepy guy!"
Luffy reached toward the sky—his arm swelling hundreds of times, seizing lightning from within the clouds.
"Gomu Gomu… Thunder!"
He hurled the massive bolt down like a javelin.
Imu had to split focus to block.
And in that instant
A golden flash appeared behind Imu out of nowhere.
Flying Thunder God Technique.
Shinju held a gigantic, high-speed spinning shuriken—an utterly terrifying move fused from Wind Style and a Tailed Beast Ball.
Sage Art: Magnet Style: Rasengan!
Shinju slammed it into Imu's back.
Black sealing patterns spread across Imu's body, and the explosive impact launched Imu like a cannonball into the ground.
"Not done yet!"
Shinju formed seals.
"Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Hundreds of golden Shinju clones appeared in the sky—each one forming an Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan.
"Eat them all!"
Hundreds of Rasengan crashed down like a meteor shower.
Mary Geoise shattered completely as Imu was pinned deep into the rubble.
"Aaaaargh!!"
Imu howled in agony.
Then the rock beneath them churned, forming a gigantic abyssal maw that swallowed every Rasengan whole.
Imu burst back out from underground.
His body had swollen into an indescribable monster—black matter devouring everything around it, so dense even light couldn't escape.
"I'm going to drown everything in the sea!"
Imu roared madly.
The Red Line began to quake violently. The tectonic plates below were shifting.
Imu wanted to detonate the magma reservoir beneath the Red Line and destroy the world.
"He's gone insane."
Shinju landed beside Luffy.
"Luffy, we have to punch through here."
"Punch through the Red Line and destroy the energy node beneath it."
Luffy was still laughing, but his eyes were crystal clear.
"Sure!"
"Then let's make a huge hole!"
Luffy inhaled deeply and shot into the sky.
His body expanded—growing hundreds of times larger than even the giants.
His silhouette blotted out the heavens.
His fist became as big as an island.
"Gomu Gomu…"
His fist finished charging, Conqueror's Haki wrapping around it as black-red lightning danced across the surface.
"Sarugami Gun!!!"
Shinju thrust his own annihilating ninjutsu forward.
"Go!!!"
One punch from above.
One technique from below.
Two world-ending forces slammed into the Red Line's weakest node—right where Imu was.
Madara was still clashing blades with Nusjuro's skeletal horse form. Feeling the terrifying pressure above, he snapped his head up.
"Hahahaha! Now THIS is power! Hashirama, look!"
Hashirama smacked the ushi-oni away with one palm, staring at the sky with cold sweat on his face.
"These two brats… are they trying to take the world apart?!"
The Five Elders felt true despair.
They tried to run
But Madara and Hashirama pinned them down and didn't let them move.
The instant the impacts met
The world went silent.
Then came a soul-shattering roar.
White light swallowed everything.
Imu's black tentacles turned to ash the moment they touched the attack.
Imu's body, caught between the two forces, didn't even have time to scream
It was completely broken down into atoms.
The Red Line
That wall that had stood for tens of thousands of years…
Finally couldn't endure anymore.
A massive crack spread outward from the center of Mary Geoise, instantly tearing through east and west.
Rock shattered.
Earth vaporized.
The ten-thousand-meter-tall Red Line was punched open—ripped into a gap by sheer force.
Seawater surged in.
East Blue, West Blue, South Blue, North Blue
the seas poured through that massive opening, crashing together and kicking up waves a thousand meters high.
Countless fish schools rushed along the currents.
A world that had been divided…
became one.
All Blue was born.
As the shockwave faded, Luffy reverted into a shriveled old-man form, floating weakly in the air.
Shinju panted heavily, sweat soaking his forehead.
Madara dismissed Susanoo and stared at the rushing seas below, showing rare approval.
"Not bad."
Hashirama sat atop the Wood Dragon's head, laughing loudly.
"Magnificent!"
The Five Elders fell into the ocean with the collapse of the Red Line.
Stripped of their Devil Fruit power, they could only struggle in the whirlpools in despair—until they sank to the abyss.
The World Government was finished.
Uranus slowly descended, catching the exhausted Luffy and Shinju.
Nami rushed over and hugged Luffy, crying hard.
Sanji stared at the All Blue below, lit a cigarette, and wept openly.
It was over.
Shinju sat on the deck, looking out at the newborn sea.
The system notification rang in his mind.
[Main Quest Complete: Break the Red Line, end the old era.]
[Reward Obtained: World Origin Fragment, Pirate King.]
[Return Program Initiated. Countdown: 24 hours.]
Shinju stood and walked to the rail.
Shanks' Red Force pulled alongside.
The two looked at each other.
Shanks raised his cup in a distant toast.
Shinju smiled and waved.
No words were needed.
This world no longer needed him.
Luffy woke up—still shriveled, but energetic.
"Shinju! Meat! I want meat!"
Shinju pulled out the last massive bone-in slab from system storage and shoved it into Luffy's arms.
"Eat, Pirate King."
Luffy tore into it, mumbling through mouthfuls:
"I don't wanna be any king! I'm the freest!"
Shinju looked at Luffy… then at every member of the Straw Hats.
This journey had been amazing.
"Madara, Hashirama-sama—get ready."
"We're leaving."
Madara snorted.
"Finally heading back? This world's strong ones are too few. Boring."
Hashirama looked reluctant.
"That little tanuki named Chopper is pretty cute… can we take him?"
"That's a reindeer. And no—we can't mess up the timeline."
Shinju sighed. The road ahead still continued.
Goodbye, One Piece.
Goodbye… this sea of dreams.
(End of Chapter)
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