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437 Roger Pirates Apprentice
🕑 Added 2026-01-05 06:10:01 +0000 UTCOriginally, after two years apart, the Straw Hat crew finishing their training and setting sail for the first time, encountering the Fish-Man Island arc, should have been used to showcase the results of their training and announce their arrival to the world, but for some reason, right from the start it turned into hell difficulty.
Ka ka ka ka…!!!
With flowing Armament Haki wrapped around his entire body, Sadgeo showed this world his overwhelming strength for the first time, that was a toy carefully crafted by Orin, powerful enough to rank among the sea's overlords.
"What kind of joke is this!!!"
Using Observation Haki to sense that enormous red giant, with every breath emitting terrifying pressure, sweat appeared on Sanji's forehead,
Sadgeo's eyes glowed red as he slowly exhaled a breath of white air, his gaze locked onto Luffy,
"If you want to become the ultimate ruler of the seas, you can't do it by playing some childish pirate game!!!"
He bared his teeth in a grin,
"I am Sadgeo!!"
"I will be the king of the world!!!"
"Hoo~~~!!!"
Blowing air madly into his hands, Sadgeo raised that over-a-hundred-meter Ryuo giant fist, aiming straight at Luffy,
"I'm very similar to you, but in the end, we're different!!!"
"I only believe that my fists can absolutely reach the pinnacle of the world!!!"
"Gomu Gomu—"
"Ryuo Cannon!!!"
Under this blow, even Luffy, transformed into Gear Fourth and infused with Ryuo, could only block it for a brief moment, and then, like taking a Thunder Bagua from Kaido, his eyes rolled white in an instant, terrifying black-and-red lightning raged and exploded, smashing countless corals and buildings, before he finally deflated and fell into unconsciousness.
Facing this ancient giant replica of Joy Boy, the still-immature Luffy, no matter how unwilling, was still lulled into sleep.
Despairingly powerful…
Sadgeo stood before the Straw Hat Pirates like an insurmountable mountain.
He looked toward the direction where Luffy had been blasted away and stepped forward, after all, with the "Marshall" bloodline factor still present, beneath the Joy Boy–like appearance lay the ruthless heart of a hegemon, if Luffy could not help him walk the path to becoming the king of the world… then it would be best to strangle this promising enemy completely, right now.
"Clang—"
Flowing Armament Haki rapidly wrapped around his hand as he headed toward Luffy, seeing this scene, Shirahoshi burst into tears and tried to rush forward to save him, but Neptune stopped her firmly,
Neptune's face was dark, his expression unreadable, as a king, he could not act rashly in matters between the strong, or it would bring annihilation upon Fish-Man Island.
Counting history carefully, from Joy Boy and the World Government in the distant past, to Tiger and Orin in recent times, Fish-Man Island had already suffered too much from such things.
"Luffy!!!"
Chopper and the others panicked and prepared to act, seeing this, Sanji ignored the pain in his leg and was about to rush forward to block Sadgeo.
But before they could make a move, a hoarse voice came from the distance.
"Wait!!!"
Everyone looked toward that figure,
"Zoro!!!?"
"Moss-head, you…"
At some point, the originally half-crippled Zoro had actually done another sit-up and slowly stood up.
With a black bandana tied around his head, one sharp eye exposed and his face covered in blood, he slowly raised his swords and suddenly pointed them forward, straight at Sadgeo.
"Perverted cook, take the others to the safe half of Fish-Man Island."
"Nani?!"
Sanji's expression changed,
"What are you planning to do!!!"
But Zoro simply stared at Sadgeo's back without changing his expression,
"Relax. I still have one last trump card. If you guys jump in, you'll just be throwing your lives away to this big guy."
"Tch…"
Sanji bit his lip unwillingly, but in the end he used Geppo and quickly moved to the others, because he knew clearly, this was no longer a question of whether to fight side by side.
If there was even the slightest mistake, they would all really die here!!!
Seeing the others and Sanji head to the other half of Fish-Man Island, Zoro finally felt a bit relieved, but his gaze became even more dangerous and sharp.
Sanji looked back at him worriedly, leading away the others who couldn't even participate in such a high-level battle,
"Moss-head…"
Zoro simply bit Yami Karasu between his teeth,
"An indecisive fight only leads to pointless exhaustion."
"If this doesn't work, then my time of death has come…"
"Perverted cook, I'll leave Luffy and the others to you."
Sadgeo, who had originally intended to finish Luffy off completely, suddenly felt a chill run through his body, his pupils trembling slightly, it was a familiar and terrifying power.
"Hey—!!!"
"Sadgeo!!!!!"
"Clang—" Armament Haki instantly wrapped around his arms and blades, terrifying purple flames erupted from his body, surging toward the sky and plunging into the deep sea!
Sadgeo turned back in disbelief, looking at that devil-like figure, for the first time in his life, fearless and advancing like a force of destruction, cold sweat appeared on his face, his pupils began to shake violently.
"How… how is this possible…"
Before his eyes, Zoro, beginning to break his limits, radiated more than just his own presence…
The purple flames originally covering Zoro's body slowly began to darken, streaks of black miasma inexplicably overflowing from the blade of Yami Karasu,
"That's our captain!!"
"If you want to take him down, start by smashing my head first!!!"
Threads of black demonic aura began to swell the original flames, continuously transforming into a demon-king-like silhouette,
"Demonic Aura·Nine-Sword Style!!!"
How is this possible!!!?
In Sadgeo's eyes, Zoro's figure gradually became blurred, those reddened pupils slowly overlapped with the memory of those scarlet, glowing eyes, revealing an incomparably terrifying visage, why!!!
Why would the guy in front of him make him feel a power as unstoppable as that of an [Emperor]!!!
Pitch-black demonic aura and purple demonic aura intertwined, slowly forming arms, a head, and blades, a towering black Asura manifested its shadow,
"Asura—Draw the Sword!!!"
Sadgeo was shocked for a moment, even the airflow leaking from his body as he reverted to normal, only able to raise his Ryuo-wrapped fists, and clash head-on with Zoro, transformed into [Nine-Sword Style·Asura King].
At this moment, Zoro showed no fear toward Sadgeo's fists at all, the two colliding with full force again and again, for an instant, Sadgeo's mind wavered, and he was even driven back several steps, finally, a gap was seized, Zoro's eyes like those of a demon,
[Demonic Aura·Nine-Sword Style—]
Black and purple demonic flames flashed across Sadgeo's chest in an instant
