One Piece: My Crew is from Other World

Chapter 220: The Devil Touches the Root!

In an instant—he was dead.

Their captain.

Gone.

Even with all five of them combined, they wouldn't have been able to take him down… and yet, Ryuunosuke did it with barely a movement.

Just one breath's worth of time.

Maybe even less.

The captain of the Dwool unit, the man they looked up to as invincible—was crushed like a bug.

"Quick! Release your forms!"

"Scatter—get away from him!"

The remaining five agents began chanting frantically. As they activated their power, pitch-black magic patterns crawled across their bodies like living tattoos. Each person's markings were different—some elaborate, some crude—but they shared the same result:

Their physical strength increased drastically.

Ryuunosuke narrowed his eyes.

"Interesting," he muttered. "A change in their Devil Fruit abilities?"

He could sense it—the signature fluctuations of Devil Fruit energy.

But this wasn't natural.

It felt… corrupted.

Ever since recruiting Escanor, Ryuunosuke had gained awareness of magic energy. And what he sensed now didn't match any known Paramecia, Logia, or Zoan.

"Are these all Devil Fruit users…? No… it's something else."

"How did they all gain such synchronized abilities?"

Something wasn't right.

Then—"Bang!"

The corpse of the man he had just killed—moved.

He lunged forward and landed a heavy punch on Ryuunosuke's side.

"Hm?"

Ryuunosuke didn't even flinch.

The man's head had fully regenerated, as if it had never exploded. And even more shockingly, the regeneration was faster than Life Return techniques.

But Ryuunosuke remained unmoved.

He simply glanced down.

"You're still alive?" he said flatly.

The attacker's expression changed from triumphant to terrified.

"I-I hit you with everything I had! The waist—your core! You should be—!"

"You aimed for my kidneys? Tsk, that's low," Ryuunosuke said with mock disappointment.

"Trash move."

"BANG!"

A whip kick severed the man in half.

Without hesitation, Ryuunosuke activated his Observation Haki and locked onto a strange presence inside the man's body.

He reached into the shattered corpse.

"Schluck—!"

From the remains, he pulled out a black, twisted, twitching object.

It writhed in his hand like a parasite from hell.

"What the hell is this?"

The thing looked like a corrupted tentacle, its flesh warped and oozing. As soon as it left the host's body, the man's corpse began to rapidly decay, rotting away in seconds.

Escanor stepped forward, frowning.

"Captain, that's a Demon Root," he said grimly. "A low-level demonic parasite. But if one's here… it means high-level demons have already reached this world."

The silence that followed was heavy.

Escanor clenched his fists. "That shouldn't be possible. These things don't come from our world. And they can't be born naturally—they have to be brought in."

"In other words, this world is being invaded."

Ryuunosuke raised an eyebrow, then crushed the twitching tentacle in his palm.

BOOM!

A pulse of energy dispersed from his hand.

Ding! Congratulations! You have destroyed a Demon Root. +3000 Reputation Points earned.

Ryuunosuke paused.

"...System?"

That was unexpected.

He had earned reputation points before—usually from public feats like defeating a warlord or conquering a territory.

But this battle had no audience.

Everyone from the G-5 branch was already dead. There was no one to witness his strength.

So why the reward?

"System," Ryuunosuke said calmly. "Explain this reputation gain."

[Destroying demonic entities grants special reputation points. This is a world-recognized merit.]

[Current status: Demonic invasion classified as global threat. Reward issued accordingly.]

Ryuunosuke's expression darkened.

"So… this world knows these demons aren't supposed to be here. And the system's rewarding me for cleansing them."

"That means they're not just anomalies."

"They're a threat."

He turned to Escanor.

"Can you sense more of these parasites?"

Escanor shook his head. "Not directly."

"Before they activated, their presence felt identical to Devil Fruit users. If I didn't know better, I'd assume that's all they were."

"They're using the fruits as camouflage."

"I see…"

Ryuunosuke took a deep breath.

Then turned to Najenda.

"No more tests," he said coldly. "Kill them all."

"But don't let them die easily."

Najenda eyes glinted with understanding.

"Yes, Captain."

The Dragon Hunter Pirates unleashed their fury.

All pretense vanished.

Power surged from every crew member like a tidal wave.

The Dwool agents—who had believed they still stood a chance—suddenly realized the truth.

They were already dead.

They just didn't know it yet.

Chrollo summoned his Dark Chamber and opened the pit.

Inside, his phantom fish waited—teeth gleaming, eyes soulless.

One by one, the agents were dragged in, screaming.

The demon tentacles inside them squirmed in panic—then vanished, consumed bite by bite.

Not even ash remained.

At last, Uvogin came strolling over, holding one of the writhing black roots.

"Aw, it's already over?" he pouted. "I wanted to keep one. These things are fun to punch!"

He tossed the twitching object into Chrollo's chamber like garbage.

In under an hour, the entire Dwool team—a squad personally authorized by the World Government—had been wiped out.

Not a single survivor.

Not a single trace.

Najenda approached, notebook in hand as always.

"Captain, earlier you told Morgans we were going to attack Mariejois."

"Should I mark that after our expedition to the Valley of the Gods?"

Ryuunosuke looked up at the smoke rising from G-5.

His voice was cold.

"Gunnado's squad lost 218 people."

"Including him."

He stepped onto the deck of the Leviathan Warship and looked toward the horizon.

"Then let's take 218 Celestial Dragons..."

"...and send them to hell with him."

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Meanwhile, across the seas, various pirate crews had begun eyeing the Dragon Hunter Pirates' territory—including Whiskey Peak.

But just as they made their move—

—news broke.

Ryuunosuke's declaration, delivered by Morgans, had already spread.

The Fifth Emperor of the Sea had declared war on the World Government.

Even the Grand Line's first half received the broadcast.

The world trembled.

The World Government… had heard the call.

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