Arceus in One Piece - Chapter 22

Kaido jumped into mid-air with his legs powered up and then activated his ability to change into his human-beast form.

“Descend the Third – Draw Nanoha!”

He descended from the sky with his iron rod, but his target was not the pirates but the building inside the naval base. The pirates looked menacing and fearless, but they were too weak to stop Kaido.

Kaido completely ignored the pirates and smashed the building down, creating a hole in the ground.

Underneath was the basement of the naval base, and there was a man sitting there with a mask engraved in his hand, looking at Kaido, who appeared in front of him with an incomprehensible shock on his face.

“I’ve found you, and your aura is as obvious as a torch in the night amongst these fish.”

Everyone’s aura is subtly different. Fujitaka was able to detect that subtle difference with his super wide range of perception, and although he wasn’t sure of everyone’s face, he was able to tell everyone apart despite his blindness.

Kaido’s sensory colour is not developed in this direction, but sensing the strengths and weaknesses of individuals is one of the basic abilities of the sensory colour, and through its development, it is able to make a general judgment of the strength of the enemy.

Although there was more than one aura in the building, how could Kaido not sense a relatively strong aura mixed in with such a group of mongrel pirates?

“You know so many things, but you don’t even know the most basic common sense. Where the hell did you come from? For the last time, where is John? The knife marks outside are obviously the handiwork of John’s gang. He must have been here now; where did he run off to?”

The man didn’t say anything. Instead, he raised the mask in his hand and placed it on his face. The mask carried a pair of ghostly horns. Although the mask was suddenly a bit abstract, the overall appearance could still be seen as that of Kaido.

“Hee hee hee hee, I’m the one who ate the ability of the Superman System’s Play Fruit; the power of your family members will eventually be used for me!”

Only to see the masked man’s figure abruptly changed, actually becoming Kaido’s form, only it was not in the form of a man-beast, but a humanoid form.

With the Drama Fruit, the person with the ability will have the ability to act like a drama. The unconscious pirates that looked like zombies earlier were the effect of his fruit’s ability – Puppet Theater.

Within the confines of his stage, he can manipulate other people into performing as puppets, but the stronger the individual, the more difficult it is for him to manipulate them, and he can’t even manipulate someone of Queen’s strength easily.

However, puppetry is all about numbers, and he intended to send the Marines into chaos when they arrived, but he didn’t expect to use it on the pirates first.

Kaido even indirectly helped him; if not for those people who were unconscious, it would be impossible for him to manipulate such a number of puppets.

Moreover, he could only manipulate the puppets within the area of the stage. These days, he had never left this place, so he had turned this base into his stage with his ability.

The John in the centre of the stage is his theatrical doppelganger. Using his carved mask as a carrier, he can create and manipulate a doppelganger that looks just like the person depicted in the mask, but it requires some of the mimic’s blood or body parts in order to achieve the resemblance.

The mask he wears on his face at this time is another application of his ability, the Dramatic Bilocation.

The Drama Bilocation can feel the power of the enemy, while the main body can create a mask of the enemy based on the feedback from the Bilocation. When the main body puts on the mask, he will gain the power that the Bilocation has felt, but only if the power has been felt within a few hours for the mask to be created.

He can only gain physical power if the opponent is a power user, and then he can’t have the power belonging to the opponent.

In other words, right now, he is using the mask to imitate Kaido’s power, using Kaido to fight Kaido.

“Props.”

As he said those two words, a wolfsbane stick of Kaido’s model appeared in his hand. On his stage, he could obtain the props he needed for his “performance”, and naturally, weapons were included.

Kaido’s behaviour also surprised him. Seeing that he couldn’t replicate his fruity ability, Kaido actually dismantled his human-beast form.

“Disguise? No wonder you were able to disguise John’s appearance so that I can see how far this impostor of yours can imitate.”

Not only was he disguised as John, but he also seemed to know a few things that only John should know, such as the fact that he knew about the trainees but not about John’s relationship with Caddo.

This means that he has met John, and Kaido wants to pry his mouth open to get information about John, and he also wants to see what it would be like to fight himself.

After a brief exchange of blows, the smile on Kaido’s face faded and was replaced by a sense of loss.

“What the hell, you guys just mimic the force of a blow? That’s too disappointing!”

Fake Kaido could also wield Thundering Eight Trigrams, but the force was the same one Kaido had used earlier when he had attacked Fake John, and it hadn’t been enhanced in any way, so of course, he could sense the situation after a few rounds of sparring.

The most important thing is that this person’s overbearing aura needs to be better cultivated, and the light colour of the martial arts costume does not match his Thundering Eight Trigrams. Calling it Thundering One Trigrams is more like it.

His ability seems weird, but he is weak in combat. That’s how Kaido evaluated him, and eventually, Kaido lost interest in this boring drama.

“Come and feel what Thundering Eight Trigrams is!”

The ruins of the base building left a huge humanoid imprint, and the rest of the pirates were paralysed to the ground once again. As the ability users lost their consciousness, their abilities would also be invalidated, and the drama would come to an end when the ability users of the Juggling Fruit would fall unconscious.

“This guy won’t die, will he?”

“No, I’m not. He should know where John is.” Kaido had a lot of experience in bringing people to the brink of death, so that he could do it with ease.

Instead of staying at the base, Arceus and the others left Branch 277 with the knocked-out man, taking a patrol ship with them and leaving behind the unconscious pirates.

The pirates, who were quick to run away, had already sailed out of there. They had come here because of the convergence of interests, so it would be strange if they didn’t run away when they saw the situation was getting worse.

As the sky darkened, Queendrove his ship across the wide sea. Although this ship was not as large as the large warships of the Lieutenant General, which carried more than 800 people, it was still much more spacious than Queen’s small ship.

This kind of ship is also good for maneuvering. Two or three people can barely maneuver it.

Even if they were given a large warship, they would need more men to handle it.

Inside the patrol ship, there is also a prison for pirates, and the man is handcuffed to a Seacrest, but since Kaido stays his hand, he gradually regains his consciousness.

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