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Chapter 124

Title: Plans...

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Shadows.

Shadows have no weight nor mass.

Shadow's are just the lack of light on a certain spot.

Considering that, shadows shouldn't be tangible, let alone be manipulatable. Yet, the Shadow-Shadow fruit user has the power to touch shadows and even to control them. In that sense, by controlling the shadow, Yona could force people to use their DF power as well? Right, theoretically.

This was Amon's goal. He wanted Yona to learn this. That way, she might be able to one day control people whose Haki is weak enough for the 'Shadow Possession' to work, and use them against their own allies. A perfect victim candidate should be Blackbeard with his fruit.

'Not considering Teach, this is still a necessary powerup.' Amon thought while lying on the ground.

When Amon's shadow was possessed by Yona, he could have resisted it with his Haki, but he didn't do so since it would ruin the whole point of training her.

He assumed that even if she did succeed in controlling his fruit power since it was her first time, the effect would be bearable. The worst could have been that his fist would just come towards his face super fast, but in that case, he would just stop it with the other hand.

It was because he was confident in his buff-less Observation Haki as it was even able to follow some of Kizaru's attacks. But who would have thought the punch almost surpassed his regular Observation's limit speed?

Without transforming, Amon's hand can endure the force of punching at 3/10 of lightning speed, so his hand breaking only meant it surpassed that speed, which is theoretically speaking, shouldn't be possible in his human form.

The shadow moved that fast, faster than Amon expected, and his fist was forced to follow its movement.

Amon still could've stopped it just by thinking, but to help Yona understand her own capacity, he let himself get hurt.

But, the question was, why did it move so fast? Yona wasn't fast enough to make his hand move at that speed, right?

Yes, she wasn't that fast. Rather, it's just that since Amon's shadow is massless, it was faster than him, who has mass. She just controlled that Shadow.

Anything that is massless would be faster than something with mass, it's a fact. The punch of the massless Shadow mixed with lightning was faster than Amon's normal lighting punch, so his punch surpassed 3/10 of lightning speed.

At that speed, Amon's hand was forced to follow that massless shadow's punch speed, thus breaking down since it couldn't endure the force.

He was amazed by the combined power of lightning speed and a massless shadow. The power that broke his nose even though he imbued Haki on his face.

The moral of the story, Yona didn't hurt Amon, Amon hurt himself. Also, Gecko Moria was an idiot for not fully using such a devastating fruit...

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Amon kept laying down on his back. His nose twisting strangely, slowly recovered by itself, the same goes for his broken hand. Amon was using Seimei Kikan, one of his trump cards.

Raki crouched down as she inspected his face. She couldn't sense any enemy in this vicinity, then who hurt him like this?

Her hand went to her sword while shaking. Her eyes were red. "Who the fuck did this?"

"Brother, tell me the name and I will kill them."

Amon laughed. "Calm down," it sounded rather weird since his nose was broken. "It's nothing, I was just training Yona."

"Huh...?"

Raki's killing intent vanished. After a short silence, she sighed.

"Such a powerful devil fruit... Did that overpower yours?"

"In a sense, yes. Maybe..."

Raki averted her hand from her sword.

"I want one too... better than yours." She simply remarked.

"You will get one one day, but not anytime soon. Haha-fuck, it hurts."

Amon made a pained expression while his hand made a *crack* sound. Fixing a broken hand was painful as hell.

Not only that, his nose hurt too. His own punch hurt more than Kizaru's countless attacks. He was proud that his attack power was so high, but he felt that he now needs to pay attention to his defense.

'Shank's body is weak enough to allow a puny sea king to bite his arm off.... While old Whitebeard died of gun bullets in the canon timeline.' Amon found a point to pay attention to rather than just increasing attack power. 'I was already training my defense, but it seems I need to pay more attention.'

As if the injuries never existed, the broken nose and hand went back to normal in a matter of minutes while he groaned every now and then, even his blood was absorbed. All the time, Raki sat beside him stroking his hair.

Yona, who was shocked, also ran towards him by then.

"K-Kami...!" She instantly jumped to the ground and bowed towards Amon. "P-Please kill me, kill me for doing that to you!! I am incompetent mortal!"

Raki turned her head towards her and sighed after a short silence. She would have killed the culprit if it wasn't Yona. She knew her brother probably asked her to do that, to begin with. He always was like that.

Amon just sat up and looked towards Yona while stretching his hand. "Calm down, this isn't your fault."

Indeed, it wasn't her fault, rather, his previous assumption was wrong. Yona wasn't talentless, she was just not creative enough. But for that, he was here.

'Also, Robin. I need Robin to teach her things... She is surprisingly creative.'

Walking towards the shaking and crying Yona on the ground, Amon decided his next course of action.

'Time to meet the 'Sky Pirates'.'

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[–4-years-ago–]

At a corner of the upper yard, a young Amon was standing in front of a few Birkans and a few Skypieans. Among them, a young man with a neatly trimmed beard stood out most.

This bunch of Birkans were the few people who worked under Enel in the canon timeline. Named: Ohm, Satori, Shura, Gedatsu, and a few goat-people.

And the Skypiean people were some random nobodies Amon picked up to fill the names. Among them, only the 1st Commander of God's Militia and son of Gan Fall, Reo, was worth mentioning. He was the strongest among all of them here.

"Okay, guys, I am preparing to leave for a long journey... We already talked about it, so let's cut to the chase and remind you one last time."

They nodded.

This wasn't a sudden meeting, they were thoroughly explained about things beforehand.

"You will go down in the sea and form the 'Sky Pirates'. You will also pick fights with the Wingless Valkyrie Guild so that nobody suspects we are from the same side. Also, don't forget to do things against Skypiea, make yourselves seem like criminal runaways from here. I will take care of your backgrounds and the paperwork."

Amon explained as everyone nodded. "This is a serious mission, we need to fool the masses to gain specific things that strength can't guarantee, understood?"

Again, everyone nodded. They didn't have any questions and were happy to be picked like this. This bunch of Skypieans assumed this was all for the safety of Skypiea! The Birkans just did as Amon ordered without any questions.

"So," Reo opened his mouth. "I will try my best as their leader. I will play the captain role as you have assigned me."

Amon nodded at Reo's words. "Yes, also, I am sure you are aware why I chose you as the captain. You are the person with the most experience in handling a group since you were a Militia Commander."

Amon just stared ahead with his serious face, "I don't care if you get a huge bounty or no bounty at all, just don't mess up. Or things will be bad."

"You guys will have important roles to play in the future, it's a given. Having a hidden group is a must to survive in this world."

They nodded, without realizing that they were basically scapegoats. To them, they were doing this for honor and to obey their God, but in the end, they were just sacrifices.

Amon grinned lightly and nodded. "Now then, I hope you have a safe and enjoyable journey."

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[Present-Time]

Just like Amon had predicted, the 'Sky Pirates', after 4-years of staying away from their families and friends, were having their uses.

Today, Amon was sitting on a pirate ship with 2 wings and a skull in their middle printed on the jolly roger.

He was enjoying tea with a man sitting opposite him. The man had a neatly trimmed beard with no mustache. He was wearing a robe, a grey dress designing similar to Ancient One's suit from Doctor Strange.

Around the right shoulder of the robe, there was a special sign that he had as the leader of this pirate crew. Two wings with a pirate skull between them, and three triangles below the 2 wings, and one a little further below the skull symbol.

He then talked in a deep voice: "I heard about what happened on the 400th anniversary. The Nobles got what they deserved, I have watched the stream."

As he said this, he had a small hardly noticeable smile on his face.

He sighed soon after. "It's a pity that I am stuck here in the mission, or I would have participated in the war for sure." This was when his voice became a little shaky and his grip on his teacup tightened. "I heard many of us died, leaving their families behind. For all of this, Marines are at fault."

As a person who has been running from marines for 4 years, the man formed some kind of hatred towards them. But after learning about the things that happened in the sky, he was enraged.

This was when Amon moved his mouth. "Indeed, marines are the ones who are responsible for their death, but it is also true that we were weak. If we were strong enough, none of us would have died. Reo, I am glad that you were able to control your emotions and not go to the sky after learning all of this."

"I wanted to... but I recalled your words." The man, Reo, said. He was referring to, 'Just don't mess up. Or things will be bad...' From 4 years ago.

Amon grinned lightly. "If you had done that, things would have gotten really messed up." His eyes looked within Reo's eyes as they shook. "You are a smart man, I will give you that."

"But never get too smart, please. Or I need to make sure your head doesn't work properly anymore." Amon told the truth, Reo knew it.

Reo gulped, he felt his initially boiling blood become calm. 'He hasn't changed... just like a predator.'

Amon sipped his tea while enjoying his inner thoughts.

While Amon returned from the moon every now and then, he met up with Reo and took a recollection of his actions. Meantime, Amon showed his ruthless side more and more, making Reo frightened, thus learning how insignificant he was.

"Ahem, anyway." Amon took out a paper from the pocket of his black luxurious leather jacket. "We have a new mission, Risky Red island."

"There is supposed to be an Ancient Zoan at that place, this attracted a lot of attention," Amon explained while looking at the paper, it was a map of Risky Red Island. "Jack from Beast Pirates will be there as well. The reason I am taking you is, Reo, I want to see if you can defeat him." Amon looked at his face. "I will go with you, but I won't take any actions. You have to do everything by yourself."

"If you win, I will reward you an Ancient Zoan."

Even if there was no Dragon fruit, Amon can make it seem like Reo killed Jack, even if Reo isn't strong enough, he himself would kill him, after that, he would get his hands on Jack's ancient Zoan fruit. He might then give the fruit to Reo since he still doesn't have any fruit.

'But if there is a Dragon fruit... Then things will get more interesting, haaah~'

Amon smiled and stretched his limbs.

"It will take 2 days to reach Risky Red from here, I got an Eternal Log Pose." Amon glanced at the people behind him, the Birkans. "Meanwhile, let me see how much you have all grown."

"I need to make sure if you guys are strong enough to match the Beast Pirates or not. Hehe..."

Amon's passive aura leaked out made everyone gulp in fear.

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