Chapter 173 - Chapter 175

On an island in New World, a large feminine-looking version of Kaido's dragon form was fighting three people with apparent panic in her movement. The natural intimidation that Kaido carried wasn't seen on her, she was thrashing around destroying everything in sight. The three people fighting this dragon was Charlotte Amande, and her two siblings Charlotte Opera and Custard. They came here with a small fleet of ships to take over this island for its rumoured creamy chocolate. Ginrummy in her dragon form had already destroyed their ships and killed all the cannon fodder they brought with them. Even though she was now in possession of one of the most powerful fruits in the world, she was far from mastering it and the combined strength of these siblings was slowly draining her energy.

"Big sister Amande, just a little more and she will die!" Custard said seriously with her sword drawn. She had to suddenly jump back a far distance as Ginrummy started destroying the ground where she had stood. "She has very poor control of that fruit. If this was Kaido, we would have died the moment he saw us, we're lucky a weakling got it!" Custard continued saying in obvious provocation towards Ginrummy.

"Weakling?" The dragon's quite odd female, yet low and growling-like voice asked. She looked directly at Custard with hate-filled eyes. "I will eat you!" Ginrummy was losing this fight badly, but for some reason, her voice still sent a chill up Custard's spine. She opened her breath and a powerful [Heat breath] escape her mouth and flew towards Custard. Amande appeared in front of her sister and blocked the attack with her haki infused Nodachi sword.

"Don't be complacent. That's still a dragon, lose focus and she'll kill you." Amande said nonchalantly while caressing her wrist. It wasn't easy to block that heat breath, but just from the fact that she could, confirmed that Ginrummy wasn't even close to Kaido's previous level. If that had been him, Amande would not have even delayed that breath attack.

"Let's finish her off!" Opera said and summoned a massive wave of whipped cream. He sent it towards Ginrummy. The new emperor dragon sent another [Heat breath] to counter the wave made out of cream. She successfully warded it off, but she wasn't any closer to winning.

"Don't kill her. Mom would want her, I'm sure." Amande was oldest in this group so she held literally all the authority over them. whatever she said was how they would go about it. Both her siblings nodded and prepared. But unexpectedly, Ginrummy transformed back to human. The siblings could see a bright smile on her face, and she even let a laugh escape her lips.

"What's so funny? Finally accepting death?" Custard asked, clearly annoyed by her behaviour.

Ginrummy shook her head, "No, not at all. I just accepted the fact that I will survive and you three will die!" She said happily. Opera started laughing at this, "What do you mean? How could you possibly make that happen?" He really wanted to hear this.

"I can't make that happen, but he can!" She pointed up into the sky, and quite a fair distance above them stood Byakuya gracefully on his tiny little flower petal. He looked down on them with his usual emotionless face. He spoke in a monotone voice, "Foolish! We made her, we gave her that power, how can you be so naive to think we weren't protecting her." His voice reached them, and the expressions on the sibling's faces went from confidence and amusement to utter terror. Byakuya stood in league with Kong, Garp and the like, they did not, and they knew that quite clearly.

"Byakuya! Fuck!" Amande lost her calm composure and looked back at Custard and Opera. "Flee now! No arguing, I will hold him back for as long as I can. You two survive and report back to Mother, I will die here today! Avenge me later, live today!" She said all that incredibly quickly and raised her sword.

"I got it, big sister! We will gather everyone and avenge you!" Custard believed her sister held enough skill to hold Byakuya back a few minutes, enough time for them to escape. Through Opera's fruit, they could escape across the sea. She and Opera turned around and bolted towards the ocean. But they didn't get far as something came crashing in front of them. After a second of horrible realization, both of them acknowledged that they were looking at the headless corpse of Amande.

"It is warming to the heart to see you have such faith in your sister. Unfortunately, you three are so weak that it's not even fun playing with you." Byakuya walked down from the sky with Amande's head in his hand, he held it by the hair and let the blood drip down on the ground in front of the two siblings.

"BASTARD!" Custard jumped up at Byakuya on pure instinct with her sword drawn. Opera summoned massive amounts of cream to assault the commander. "Futile!" Byakuya raised his finger and millions of tiny petals flew out from his sleeve and stopped the cream. He raised his hand and at the top of his palm lied one single petal. He blew lightly on it and it disappeared from view. Opera's body dropped down lifeless on the ground a second later, he had a small hole in his forehead from that very same petal.

"Go in without expectations and you won't be disappointed. I Wasn't expecting a challenge, and I got none, so thanks for teaching me that valuable lesson." Byakuya leaned to the side and dodged Custard's sword slash. He tapped her blade with his finger and the blade exploded into thousands of pieces, some of which lodged themselves inside her eyes and skin. "AAAAAAAAAH!" She screamed out in pain after having her eyes and skin pierced by shrapnels of her own sword.

"Sir Byakuya, can I finish her off?" Ginrummy came and asked from behind. He had barely woken up from his nap so for a second he forgot she was still alive, the screaming was something he was completely immune to. "Sure, I'll be going again, I only got four hours sleep yesterday. I am going to take a nap." He started walking up towards the heavens, where only gods and apparently sleepy cold-blooded killers reside.

"Told you I was gonna eat you!" Ginrummy said with a cruel smile as her body started to change again.

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