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Chapter 42 - chapter 42

Screen 1 — Rendezvous With the Sunny

The escape pod hits the beach like a meteor. Sand sprays up. The smell of smoke and saltwater mixes with the metallic taste of fear.

The Thousand Sunny is there. A miracle. Safety within reach.

Then the ocean erupts with cannon fire.

Big Mom's flags rise like vultures circling prey. Her fleet completely blocks the horizon. Dozens of warships. Zero mercy.

Jinbe: "This sea… has already chosen a grave."

Chopper and Brook spill onto the Sunny deck, blades and bones already stained with blood from the first wave of boarders.

Sanji shields Luffy's limp body, one hand trembling not from fear but rage.

Ben slams the Omnitrix.

No hesitation.

Ben: "We freeze… or we die."

Ultimate Big Chill explodes into the sky. His breath crystalizes the ocean surface. Cannonballs turn to shards mid-flight and rain down like ice daggers into Big Mom's soldiers.

But reinforcements climb through the fog. Grappling hooks bite into the Sunny. Dozens. Maybe more.

The ship groans like a beast bleeding out.

Jinbe: "Hold on. This storm isn't done."

Their escape is nothing but borrowed time.

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Screen 2 — Big Mom's Hunger Rage

A scream rolls over the water. It sounds nothing like human hunger. It's a starving god demanding sacrifice.

Big Mom's pupils shrink to pinpoints. Her mouth froths. Every step she takes splits the ground apart like a cracking skull.

Jinbe: "She's in a frenzy. Reason's gone. This is pure instinct."

With a single leap she crosses half the sea, landing so hard the water explodes upward like a tidal blade.

Sunny almost flips. Bodies slam into railings. Blood hits the deck.

Big Chill freezes the wave before it crushes them. But his armor starts cracking from the force he's resisting.

Ben: "She'll rip the world apart for a taste."

Nami: "She's not chasing us anymore… she's hunting."

Big Mom screams "WEDDING CAKE" again. Her voice deafens. Eardrums bleed. Even Zeus and Prometheus flicker like terrified children.

There's no reasoning with hunger.

Only surviving it.

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Screen 3 — Mirror World Advantage

Earlier:

Chopper and Carrot are dragged into the Mirror World. At first they panic. Reflection turns into nightmare. Every surface watches them.

Brûlée laughs like glass breaking.

Then Chopper sees it. A path. Not to victory. Just to live longer.

Chopper: "We move island to island. Make the map chaos. Break their plan."

Carrot grabs his hand. The two become ghosts slipping between worlds, pulling the Sunny into impossible escape lines.

Big Chill: "Portals and shortcuts. I'll take weird over dead."

They find hope.

Katakuri takes it away.

He collapses mirror after mirror with silent, calculated precision. Blood trickles from his knuckles but his expression never changes.

Katakuri: "Luffy… there's no future where you win."

Reflections shatter. Escape vanishes.

Only one path remains. The one lined with broken glass and certainty of pain.

Luffy cracks his fingers. Eyes dead-set. Breath heavy. Body broken. No aura of a savior. Just a man who refuses to fall before fate.

Luffy: "I don't care about futures."

He steps forward.

Luffy: "I make my own."

The Mirror World seals shut.

The sea above screams.

Black fades to red.

To be continued.

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