PIRATES: I WORK IN NAVY FROM NINE TO FIVE

"Quick! Somebody stop him! Kyoshiro! Fukurokuju! Get up there now!"Orochi howled, his voice cracking with sheer panic.

He had the rare Mythical Zoan—Yamata-no-Orochi fruit.But right now, that power was meaningless.

Against that overwhelming wave of Conqueror's Haki…

Thinking he could withstand it was no less than a delusion.

Kyoshiro's face turned equally pale.His eyes fixed on the incoming storm as he clenched his katana and growled:

"Fukurokuju! Take the Oniwabanshu and attack!"

The entire Oniwabanshu froze, their expressions tight.

They wanted to run.

Desperately.

But Orochi and Kyoshiro had both given the order.

With no choice, they could only grit their teeth and obey.

"Attack!"Fukurokuju shouted, his voice heavy and reluctant.

He leapt to shield Orochi.

The rest of the Oniwabanshu followed, armor clanking and blades drawn.

Orochi, seeing this, laughed with glee—Only to turn and find something that made his blood run cold.

Kyoshiro—who had just ordered the counterattack—was sprinting full speed ahead, carrying Hiyori over his shoulder!

Not only was he running—He was outrunning Orochi himself, vanishing hundreds of meters away in the blink of an eye.

Even Fukurokuju and his elite ninjas stared in disbelief.

"Kyoshiro!! You dare betray me?! I'll never forgive you!!"Orochi roared, his face twisted in rage.

Kyoshiro glanced back mid-sprint, never breaking stride:

"My deepest apologies, Orochi-sama…

But I am Denjiro of the Red Scabbards."

"And this suicidal battle? I'll leave that to you."

Orochi stood frozen, dumbfounded.

"You… you're one of the Red Scabbards…?"

Before he could process it—

"Orochi-sama! It's coming!!"Fukurokuju shouted.

BOOOOM!!!

The full force of Luo Yu's Conqueror's Haki slammed into the castle wall.A tsunami of energy ripped through the sky, its thunderous shockwaves splitting the air itself.

Fukurokuju and the Oniwabanshu barely had time to brace themselves.They crossed their weapons and tried to block.

But it was futile.

CRACK!

The sheer pressure struck like a mountain crashing into their chests.Bones shattered. Blood sprayed.Several figures flew like cannonballs, smashing into rubble.

Behind them, just a few meters away, Orochi watched in horror as his elite guards were swept away like ants.

He tried to turn and flee again.

But it was too late.

The second shockwave, the true bulk of Luo Yu's Conqueror's Haki, came crashing down—

Like a tsunami smashing into a coastal cliff.

CRACK!!

Orochi felt his entire skeleton rupture.

BOOOOM!!!

The earth trembled violently, the heavens shuddering in response.Sand and dust exploded upward, blocking out the sun.

For a moment, it felt like the end of the world.

No one knew how long had passed before the dust finally began to settle.

Those who had fled beforehand collapsed in place, legs limp with fear and relief.

They slowly turned their eyes back toward the battlefield—

To the castle gate, where Orochi had stood.

Or rather…

Where the castle gate used to be.

Everything within several thousand meters had been leveled.

Not even a shadow of the castle remained.

The only figure still standing—

Was Luo Yu.

Calmly sipping from his gourd of cheap sake.

Those who had listened to Nekomamushi and Inuarashi and escaped in time now shuddered.They remembered that overwhelming wave of Conqueror's Haki—

And realized, with chills down their spine:

That blow… wasn't even meant for them.

Had they stayed just a moment longer—

They'd be corpses buried in the rubble.

The Oniwabanshu were unconscious, bloodied and broken.

Orochi himself lay half-buried in debris.

The once-proud "supreme commander" of Wano…

Was a pathetic wreck.

It was a scene so surreal—so overwhelming—that many questioned reality itself.

Had Luo Yu… just opened Wano's borders in one strike?

Because everything Orochi had relied on—his soldiers, his elite ninjas—

Had been annihilated in that single moment.

No one else dared move.

No one else even could.

Silence fell over the ruined land.

Everyone stared at Luo Yu, still sipping sake as if nothing had happened.

For decades, they had fought and bled for this moment.They had believed opening Wano's borders would cost them everything.

But now…

Luo Yu had done it effortlessly.

With one word.With one wave of his power.

Hiyori dropped to her knees, legs trembling.

"Uncle Kyoshiro… am I dreaming?"

"I… I was ready to give my life to open Wano…"

She stared at the still-smoking ruins.

Her voice grew hoarse:

"I finally understand… why he said my father was a fool."

"To us, opening Wano was everything.

But to people like him—it wasn't even worth mentioning."

Tears welled in her eyes.

"If Father had asked Whitebeard… or Roger…

Wano might never have suffered these long, painful years.

It was Father who doomed Wano…"

Kyoshiro stood silently beside her, dazed.

As a Red Scabbard, he had once been filled with resentment when Luo Yu mocked Oden.

Now?

He had nothing left to say.

No more pride. No more arguments.

Only… absolute conviction.

Then—

Luo Yu took one last sip of sake and tossed a glance toward the rubble.

He said casually:

"I'll leave the rest to you."

He looked down at Orochi's twitching body and sneered:

"Stop pretending. You're not dead.

The Yamata-no-Orochi fruit… is wasted on you."

Orochi's eyes snapped open.

He stood up, bloodied and shaking.

"Y-You… You know my secret?!"

"I'm a Mythical Zoan! The Shogun of Wano!

Don't kill me—I can give you anything you want!"

His voice turned to an animalistic screech.

In a flash, his body transformed—

The monstrous eight-headed serpent of legend rose from the rubble.

But just as he prepared to roar—

CRACK—!!

All seven heads froze mid-air.

And then…

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

One by one, the heads crashed into the ground like falling towers.

Dust plumed.

Rubble flew.

Orochi's eyes went wide as realization hit him.

"D-Did I just die seven times…?"

Only one head remained.

*Even his final form…

Had been swatted down like an insect.*

And in that moment—

The once-feared Shogun Orochi knew:

His final act… was over.