PIRATES: I WORK IN NAVY FROM NINE TO FIVE

The enormous floating platform fell into utter silence.

Everyone—from pirates to Marines, to even the recently escaped inmates like Catarina Devon—felt as if a fishbone was lodged in their throats.

What they thought would be an easy reversal—relying on numbers and the arrival of Kaido's forces—had just imploded in front of their eyes.

Even someone as smug and calculating as Doflamingo was now unable to stay calm.

"Kaido, what do we do now?""We can't afford to lose this war!"

He had already openly betrayed both the Marines and Blackbeard. If they won, he'd still have leverage to negotiate, but if they lost—he'd have nothing.No throne. No title. Just ruin.

"Shut up!" Kaido roared, spinning in midair like a furious beast."Hold off Yamato! That brat is mine!"

His mind burned with fury.

He had just left Wano…

And his base had been stolen.Even worse—his own heir, Yamato, had switched sides.

It was a humiliation he could not forgive.

"You bastard, Kaido!""You've tried to kill me over and over… and you still expect me to call you 'Father'? Not in this lifetime!"

Yamato bellowed back, gripping her kanabo tightly.

BOOM!

The platform quaked as she exploded forward, thunder crackling around her body.

"Thunder Bagua!!"

"Foolish son," Kaido snarled."You still don't get it, do you? This is a world where the strong eat the weak!"

"That brat is scared stiff. Without these so-called 'special forces,' he wouldn't even dare show his face!"

"And you—your technique doesn't even deserve to be called Thunder Bagua!"

CRASH!!

Lightning burst into the air again as Kaido's Kanabo smashed directly into Yamato.

The shockwave hurled her across the battlefield like a cannonball.

"Doflamingo, NOW!" Kaido roared.

Doflamingo's eyes sharpened. He clenched his fists and screamed:

"Blackbeard! If you want to make it out alive, help me stop Yamato now!"

"White Shield Line!"

With a wave of his hand, Doflamingo summoned twisted white threads, pulling nearby debris into a coiling dragon of string, launching it toward Yamato.

Blackbeard frowned—but the chaos left him no choice.

He had to join in.

In an instant, Yamato was surrounded.

Magellan, standing nearby, prepared to break through and help.

But he had barely taken a step when a tall figure blocked his path.

Shiryu of the Rain stood before him, cigar clenched between his teeth.

"Shiryu! Are you blind?! Look at the situation! There's still time to back off and help restore order!" Magellan shouted.

Shiryu's eyes were cold.

"Back off?" he sneered."I've spent my whole life rotting in that prison. This is the only way out."

"And Kaido was right—if this new admiral was really that powerful, he wouldn't need a circus of special warriors."

"We just need to hold you off. That brat'll be dead before long."

He turned to Catarina Devon and the other escapees.

"What are you waiting for?! Move!!"

The prisoners hesitated only a moment longer before gritting their teeth and stepping forward.

Even King and Queen arrived on the scene—just as things reached critical mass.

But before they could act, a calm voice interrupted:

"Heh… seems like you've all misunderstood something."

Fujitora opened his eyes slightly beneath his blindfold, smiling dryly.

"We were only invited here for formal reasons—so Luo Yu could claim performance bonuses.""We weren't forced to fight."

"And those who did act earlier… well, they were just showing off."

He tapped his sheathed cane-sword against the platform.

"Now that even old man Nagli's made his move, I guess I can't just sit around sipping sake either."

"Gravity Field: Meteor Shower!"

Fujitora drew his cane-sword and swirled it several times in the air, forming radiant arcs of motion before resheathing it with a sharp click.

It looked… unimpressive.

Just a few flashy slashes, then done.

"That's it?" someone muttered.

"What kind of admiral-level attack was that?"

Then—

"LOOK UP!!!" a pirate screamed in horror.

Dozens of massive shadows began to descend from the clouds above, burning hot and growing larger by the second.

"M-METEORS!?!"

"THERE'S DOZENS OF THEM!!!"

The battlefield erupted in chaos.

And the meteors weren't heading toward some distant location…

They were falling right on top of them.

This wasn't a war anymore.This was a mass extinction event.

Twelve thousand pirates…

Completely irrelevant in the face of this dimension-breaking assault.

"What kind of cheat code IS this?!""Twelve thousand versus a few people—and we're the ones getting wiped out?!"

Fujitora smiled awkwardly, already walking away.

"Don't look at me. What comes next is your own problem.""I won't be helping again."

King and Queen's faces were ashen, trembling with fury.

If not for the situation, they would have immediately tried to kill Fujitora.

But now?

They could only turn back and look to their boss.

"King! Queen!" Kaido growled."Save our men!"

"This brat—I'll kill him myself!"

The two nodded and turned, rushing toward the pirate fleet to try and intercept the falling meteor storm.

On the shattered platform, only two figures remained.

Luo Yu and Kaido, facing each other.

Kaido's gaze was murderous.

But Luo Yu took a swig of cheap rice wine and grinned:

"You want to save them?""Sorry, I can't let that happen. My salary depends on this."

"Plus… old man Sengoku told me that if I push you back—I'll get a 100 million berry bonus."

"100 million?"Kaido froze, then burst into a thunderous rage.

"You DARE insult me with such a puny price tag?!"

"I'M BEAST KAIDO!! I'M WORTH MORE THAN THAT!!"