Chapter 984: Decapitation

Chapter 984: Chapter 984: Decapitation

Aboard the Gran Tesoro.

"Henry Needle!!!"

With a ferocious roar, Niji blitzed forward like a bolt of lightning, unleashing a sweeping kick aimed squarely at Dace’s neck.

A heavy, muffled thud echoed out as a violent shockwave erupted. Blinding currents of electricity burst from Niji’s leg, instantly coursing through every fiber of Dace’s body.

In the next instant, a sadistic grin broke across Niji’s face. He applied a sudden burst of leverage, forcefully kicking Dice away.

BOOM—!!!

Dice was sent hurtling over a dozen meters backward, snapping a specially cultivated palm tree right in half before slamming onto the ground. The visible electrical currents crackling across his skin took several seconds to finally dissipate, leaving a few wisps of dark smoke drifting into the air.

"How do you like that, you bastard?!" Niji laughed triumphantly.

The sheer kinetic force behind that single kick was more than enough to topple a hundred-meter-tall Sea King.

"O-ohh..."

Yet right after, Dice stood back up with a slightly flushed face. He wore an expression of sheer ecstasy, looking as though he had just consumed several pounds of the finest hallucinogens and reached absolute bliss.

Seeing this, the smirk froze instantly on Niji’s face. He stared open-mouthed at Dace’s thoroughly euphoric expression.

"D-Don’t let your guard down..." Vinsmoke Judge leaned weakly against a golden wall, his voice incredibly frail. "That guy’s durability is on a monstrous level, and he’s a notorious masochist. Unless you can take him down in a single blow, any other attack is just..."

Before Judge could even finish his sentence, Dice completely recovered. He fixed Niji with a savage glare and barked, "Give me more of that!"

As he spoke, Dice, donning his heavy golden armor, gripped his giant golden battleaxe and charged forward like a rampaging bull, swinging the axe downward with a ferocious cleave.

Right at that moment, a stream of blue smoke trailed closely behind Dice’s back, rapidly materializing into a massive djinn wielding a long-handled halberd.

"Who’s there?!"

Sensing the anomaly behind him, Dice skidded to a halt. Twisting his torso with immense core strength, he swung his giant golden battleaxe backward in a defensive counter-slash.

CLANG—!!!

A titanic metallic screech rang out, accompanied by a sharp shockwave that rippled outward. The golden ground beneath Dice’s feet instantly fractured, splintering into dozens of jagged cracks of varying lengths.

"What on earth is this thing? A Devil Fruit user?"

Dice stared in bewilderment at the Genie before him. This blue giant stood over three stories tall, yet its lower body remained entirely composed of swirling smoke.

Suddenly, Tanaka-san, with his massive head and doll-like face, submerged from the floor, also clad in a suit of golden armor. He quickly shouted a warning: "Careful! That’s Daifuku of the Charlotte Family! This is the Genie he summons!"

Hearing Tanaka’s explanation, Dice let out an enlightened, "Oh." He muttered, "And here I thought this guy himself was an officer of the Big Mom Pirates!"

Tanaka’s mouth twitched in exasperation. "Dice, there should be a limit to your ignorance!"

Meanwhile, seeing Dice’s back turned completely exposed, Niji snorted coldly. "You left yourself wide open!"

SWOOSH—!!!

Niji vanished from the spot as if teleporting, leaving only residual arcs of static electricity crackling in the air.

By the time he reappeared, Niji was directly above Dice’s head, his hand gripping a literal beam saber coiled in highly visible, condensed electricity.

"Electric: Beam Saber!!!"

The energy blade sliced downward, practically tearing through the atmosphere.

However, the giant golden battleaxe in Dice’s grip suddenly morphed into several golden tentacles. They shot outward with lightning speed, instantly binding Niji in midair.

One particular golden tentacle tightly coiled around Niji’s right arm, forcing his descending beam saber to freeze a mere few centimeters away from Dice’s neck.

"What the hell is this?!"

Niji’s face drained of color. He struggled with all his might, but suspended in midair by multiple golden tentacles, his body couldn’t budge a single millimeter.

"It’s useless. This is a weapon Tesoro-sama forged for me using his abilities, which means it remains under Tesoro-sama’s direct control. You cannot break free from Tesoro-sama’s power!" Dice said, looking down at Niji with utter contempt.

With that, Dice delivered a devastating headbutt straight into Niji’s abdomen.

"Pfft—!!!"

Niji sprayed a massive mouthful of blood on the spot. His internal organs were practically pulverized by the sheer force of Dice’s impact.

"Hahaha! Daifuku, welcome to the Gran Tesoro!"

At that moment, the hundred-meter-tall Golden Armor Giant spun its massive frame around, unleashing a booming laugh as it looked toward a burly man with short, dark hair standing at the harbor entrance.

"Gild Tesoro, are you certain you want to interfere in this war? Aren’t you afraid of incurring Mama’s wrath?!" Daifuku demanded coldly, his expression harsh.

"Do you think I’ve just been playing around all this time?" The gargantuan Golden Giant leaned forward slightly, Tesoro’s mocking voice echoing from within.

"Very well, Genie!"

A ruthless expression crossed Daifuku’s face as he let out a sharp roar.

Instantly, the Genie’s smoky body swelled at an extreme rate. In the blink of an eye, it transformed into a colossus that rivaled a proper giant. Clutching its long-handled halberd, it soared into the sky and slashed down furiously at the Golden Giant before it.

"Genie Slash!!!"

"I’ve never killed a top officer of a Yonko crew before!" Tesoro’s face contorted in fanatic excitement. He bared his teeth and roared, "This is getting me thrilled! Gold: Hellfire!!!"

Under Tesoro’s precise control, the Golden Giant raised its heavily armored right fist and drove a colossal punch downward, slamming straight into the Genie’s halberd.

BOOM—!!!

A thunderous explosion shook the area, forcing the atmosphere to shudder violently. Blistering flames erupted from the collision, the intense thermal glare illuminating the dark skies.

In the next instant, a cascading wall of wind burst outward, sweeping across the sky and the earth alike in a fraction of a second. Countless fragments of stone were sent flying into the distance as more than half of the Gran Tesoro fell into a state of violent tremors.

"Damn it! A collision of this caliber—"

"Are you kidding me?!"

The Vinsmoke siblings found themselves struggling just to hold their ground against the sudden, ferocious tempest.

"Genie Guillotine!!!"

Suddenly, the Genie burst through the raging inferno with its halberd raised high. It let out a booming cry, unleashing a midair downward cleave directly toward the Golden Giant’s chest.

CHSHHH—!!!

A vacuum blade as sharp as a razor whipped through the air. Before Tesoro could even react, an invisible, high-powered slicing force tore open a deep, elongated fissure across the Golden Giant’s chest, spanning all the way from its left shoulder down to its right hip.

"What? It didn’t cut all the way through?!"

Seeing the narrow fissure on the Golden Giant’s chest, Daifuku couldn’t help but gasp in shock.

One had to understand that this particular technique was potent enough to slice several Marine battleships cleanly in half. Even a Sea King hundreds of meters long would be bifurcated in a single strike. Yet, it had failed to slice completely through the opponent’s body. Could the material properties of mere gold actually possess such absurd defensive capabilities?

Tesoro was caught off guard initially, but his shock instantly gave way to blinding rage. "You miserable piece of trash! I’ll slaughter you!"

As he roared, the narrow fissure on the Golden Giant’s chest began to rapidly stitch itself back together. Simultaneously, its massive right eye widened, locking onto the Genie.

SHOOT—!

A brilliant beam of golden light erupted from its eye, instantaneously piercing straight through the Genie’s body.

BOOM—!!!

The golden laser beam continued forward with undiminished momentum, slamming into the golden wall of the harbor district. A massive explosion rang out as towering flames erupted into the sky. The dozen-meters-thick golden wall was blasted open, leaving a gaping hole over twenty meters in diameter, while countless shards of debris rained outward amidst the intense shockwave.

The Genie’s body collapsed entirely under the blast, dissolving into a massive cloud of pale blue smoke that swirled around the Golden Giant.

Tesoro was just about to pilot the Golden Giant forward to stomp Daifuku into a bloody paste two hundred meters away when he realized something was amiss. The pale blue smoke showed absolutely no signs of dissipating.

Suddenly, the swirling blue smoke rapidly coalesced behind Tesoro’s back, reforming into the twenty-meter-tall Genie suspended in midair.

"Genie Guillotine!!!"

The Genie bellowed, swinging its halberd in a devastating arc.

FLASH—!!!

A razor-sharp glint of blade-light flashed past, instantly slicing through the Golden Giant’s neck.

"Tesoro-sama!!!"

"The h-head... Tesoro-sama has been decapitated!!!"

"This can’t be happening—"

"Are you kidding me?!"

Aboard the Gran Tesoro, the eyes of the onlookers nearly popped out of their sockets in sheer horror as they watched the Golden Giant’s massive head go flying into the sky.