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Chapter 175

Title: New Sword (2)

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"'Brat, put me down!'" A deep voice with an old Samurai accent sounded out in the room.

Hearing the sword speak, Amon was speechless for a second before frowning. 'A talking sword...? A weapon doesn't need to talk.'

A weapon was made for destruction, what's the point of conversing with it?

He then looked at Yona, who was staring at the talking sword with glittering eyes. It seemed she was happy seeing her experiment being successful.

"'Brat, you are too young to wield this great me. Put me down and let this one wait for someone who truly deserves this great me-"

Amon ignored it and asked Yona, "Oi, is there a way to stop this thing from talking?"

This seemed to make the sword shake heavily. "'Brat, brat! Calm down, take things easy! I was just cracking jokes to make you laugh!'"

'Laugh? What does he think he is? A Joker?' Amon chuckled internally. It really seemed granting this sword the ability to talk would be a hassle.

Seeing this, Yona shook her head. "There shouldn't be any way to make it stop talking. The only way would be to remove your shadow from it, but in that case, it would return to its previous form."

Amon nodded at her hearing this. He had some ideas, but he didn't want to harm the sword, so he didn't test them on it.

'...Actually, it's not necessarily a bad thing. After eating the devil fruit, I should be able to command it how to use it if we can communicate freely.' Amon thought, trying to convince himself, and it worked.

"'Oh, it's good that you understand.'" the sword made a sound that Amon could only deduce as a sigh.

Amon raised his eyebrow. "You know what I was thinking?" It was strange how he understood Amon's internal monologue just from his facial expression alone.

"'Slightly. I might have this strange sense of humour, but I am still a part of you. Look at it this way, you and Kitetsu 1 are my parents and I am your children. I am none of you, but at the same time, I am both of you. It's pretty complex.'" The sword answered, making Amon think.

'Interesting.' A child, it said. Amon was feeling like chuckling softly. "Well, then why do you want me to not wield you?"

"As I said, brat, I was joking. How could I not want you to wild me? You already claimed me by inserting Conqueror's Haki in me for hundreds of hours!'"

Amon hummed. "That's true. You started being obedient after that incident."

Amon then ordered, "All right, then stop calling me brat. Call me master."

"'But I am a proud Samurai! How can I-'"

"Yona,"

"'Alright, come down. I understand. I will do it. I will call you M-M-Master.'"

Amon curled his lips upward, hearing this. "Good boy. Then let's do the last procedure."

Amon slipped his hand in his bag and took out a large devil fruit, placing it on the table.

"Eat this."

"..." The sword stayed silent upon hearing him. "'How?'"

Amon raised his eyebrow. 'Doesn't he have my memory? That's good then.'

"Making an object eat a devil fruit isn't really that complex. In Wano, there is a teapot that has eaten fruit. After asking Otama, I found out she had one day tried to boil a fruit in that pot, and when she was done she saw the change in the pot."

"Ohhh!" Yona exclaimed in surprise. "That's not really complex, so do we just put Kiyu in the pot along with the devil fruit?"

"'Kiyu...?'"

"Kiyu?"

Both Amon and the sword asked at the same time. Yona nodded. "Of course, Kiyu said he is the child of Kitetsu 1, so we can't use the previous name. So I thought of Kiyu! Isn't that a cute name?"

"That's cute but-"

"'But I'm a proud sword! Why would I need a cute name?!'"

Amon stayed silent for a few seconds. It wouldn't have been possible to make the sword lively without Yona's help, so he would listen to her suggestion this time.

"Okay, you're Kiyu from now on."

"'But, Master-'" of course, it was partially to tease the sword.

"Anyway, the thing is, putting Kiyu and the fruit in a pot might not work. Because for all we know, the pot might get the fruit in place of Kiyu."

"'...'"

"I see." Yona nodded. "Then?"

"It's simple. Kiyu just has to cut the fruit in half, while intending to 'devour' the fruit." Amon completed his sentence.

"Will that really work?"

"We can only try," Amon answered Yona's question as he then put the fruit on the table beside Kyu and then ordered the sword. "Now, cut it with the intent of eating it."

"'...Okay...'" Kiyu, the sword, then floated in the air and pointed its blade towards the fruit. Immediately rushing down and cutting the fruit in half!

Sslt!

The fruit was cut in two pieces, and those two pieces of devil fruits glowed with Kiyu in the middle, as suddenly-

Ring! Ring! Ring!

While the devil fruits disappeared into thin air, Amon's dial rang. He soon accepted the call as Urouge's voice flowed from the other side.

["Kami-sama, Commander Wyper is in severe danger. We need you."]

Amon frowned with the dial in his ear. 'Did he fail...?' It was highly unlikely, at least with Urouge there.

'Let's see...' Amon looked at the sword that now had a slight golden hue in its blade. "Time to test you, Kiyu."

«...★...»

Meanwhile, in the Germa Kingdom, Tsumi was fighting the enemy soldiers with many injuries in her body.

Bang!

"Kueh!" she groaned as a bullet penetrated her thigh. She somehow stood up as she fired an arrow made of ice towards the shooter.

'..!!' She sensed another bullet coming towards her neck, as she crouched down and evaded the shot.

Just as she was preparing to shoot an arrow towards the other sniper, a loud rumbling sounded out.

The tall wall which was circling the kingdom shook. And immediately, a man ran through the wall, crumbling it to dust!

Bam! A hole got created in the wall, as a tall Urouge came through the broken wall like an Armoured Titan! From his posture, it seemed he had busted the wall with his shoulder.

The soldiers' eyes grew seeing this. This monster was back again?

Before they could regain their composure, something else entered their vision.

"M-Master!" they yelled as they noticed Vinsmoke Judge's fried body above Urouge's shoulders, along with the other Vinsmoke members being in his large hands.

Urouge then announced in a loud voice, "Our Commander Wyper has defeated all of your commanders by himself, surrender now, or the lives of five people would be lost!"

Hearing Urouge's threatening comment, the soldiers' bodies shook. But they had no choice; they were programmed to lay their lives for the Vinsmoke Family, so it's no wonder they would listen to Urouge when he was using their lives as a bargaining chip.

Immediately the soldiers dropped their weapons on the ground as they kneeled on the floor as well.

Tsumi and the others sighed seeing this. This battle has caused many casualties, people dying from both sides with the Skypieans dying more because of their lack of defence against the armour piercing bullets.

Tsumi dropped to the ground as she sighed another time. But it was then—the sky darkened.

Rumble!

With a bolt of lightning, a man appeared beside her.

"Tsumi, you are pretty injured." The man commented as Tsumi looked at him with lazy eyes.

"My lord, I almost died." Hearing her, the man, Amon, chuckled.

"Get some rest." He commented. "I will take all of you back to skypiea real quick. All of you, along with the ships."

While Tsumi looked at him with strange eyes, barely believing him, Amon teleported to the air again.

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Amon stopped in the air, looking down as he took out his sword.

Kiyu asked: "'Master, should I activate my power?'"

"Yes," Amon said with a grin. He then pointed his sword towards the sea inches beside the ships.

Amon streamed his strength in his arm and raised his sword in the air, slashing downwards!

«Dimensional Slash»

Ssslt!

With a crispy sound, as the airstrike left the sword, space itself got cut, revealing a dark world on the other side.

"...Wow," Amon mumbled as he stared at the abyss.

While this caused a batch of cry coming from the Germa Kingdom, the massive artificial island then slowly entered the cut in space because of the sea current.

And soon after, the Kingdom, along with the Einherjer ships, disappeared in the darkness.

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—Amon Pov—

Seeing the ship disappearing in the darkness, I also slowly floated inside the crack in space.

I assumed it would be fully dark in the world inside, but as I went past the "gate", everything regained light.

There was a sea, there were islands around, there were also houses in the islands kilometres away from here. The only change was, there was no life in this world, nor was there any colour. Everything was grey...

This was a copy of the world on the outside, everything as present here, from poop to food.

"Arguably a perfect world," I mumbled as I went closer to the massive artificial island with 10 Einherjer ships floating in the grey sea.

"?" I raised an eyebrow as I looked at the ship that had also become grey with the surroundings. Most astonishingly, the people in the ship were also grey, frozen in time...?

"' Yes Master, everyone other than the user of the fruit becomes frozen in time here.'"

"I see... but why am I not frozen? I certainly did not eat the fruit." At my question, the sword shook.

"'Hahaha, of course. It's because I don't want Master to freeze. And also because you are touching me.'"

I frowned. 'Does that mean I am at his mercy in this world? Well, not like he would betray me, considering he is a part of me. Still... even if he tries anything, I highly doubt I would get frozen.'

The world becomes frozen in time every time I enter Lightning speed too, so I assume when I enter lightning speed here, it would nullify the effect.

Anyway, "Alright, since everyone is frozen in time, they are like statues. I can teleport with a bunch of statues, I think." I can't teleport with living beings, not because it would fry the being within the immense heat inside the electrical field, but because it's not possible.

Something restricts me, most likely the force of the universe. Oda's rules, maybe?

Anyway, let's try to see if I can teleport to the entire ship or not. If I can, it would boost my mobility a lot.

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