One Piece: Lightning's Heir

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"Sir Arthur, are you looking for Money, women, or power and status? Boss Bege can provide you with all of it, as long as you cease your advance!"

The Den Den Mushi's forehead was visibly sweating, as if Vito, on the other end, was under immense pressure.

"I want Capone Bege's head. Can you give me that?" Arthur paused for a moment, drumming his fingers on the table, a playful smirk on his face.

"Nyorororo, Then there's nothing to discuss. It just so happens that Boss Bege has a group of former Seabury family servants. It seems they'll be fertilizer for the back garden!" Vito reverted to his true nature. The Den Den Mushi's tongue lolled out, giggling.

His negotiation style was always like this: threatening people with their families. It was very effective.

Unfortunately...

"Oh??" Arthur raised an eyebrow. "The Seabury family's former servants? A bunch of purchased slaves? What do I care?"

"Tell Capone Bege to prepare his own coffin. Oh, wait! Don't even bother buying a coffin. I'll sink the whole island. Consider it his burial!"

With that, Arthur signaled Aurora to hang up the Den Den Mushi and waited for the cook to serve lunch.

He had no feelings for the Seabury family's servants. What did their deaths matter to him?

Besides, those purchased slaves had fled after the Seabury family's decline. They had committed a capital offense. Their deaths were not to be mourned.

As for the so-called equality of all people and the abolition of slavery? Sorry, Arthur had never considered that. The weak obeyed the strong, and the strong could kill the weak at will.

Wasn't that the natural order of things?

If everyone were really equal, who would strive day and night to become stronger? Might as well just eat, drink, and wait for death.

Only the Revolutionary Army would treat such childish, foolish ideals as their mission!

Weakness was the original sin!

"Arthur... thank you!" Aurora was moved. She originally thought Arthur would accept Vito's threat and compromise.

"Have the crew speed up!" Arthur wolfed down the delicious seafood, his words muffled.

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The Mafia headquarters was located in the eastern part of the West Blue.

It was a medium-sized island, large enough to accommodate over a million people. It was firmly controlled by Capone Bege, who had driven out the original inhabitants and taken it over.

Tens of thousands of Mafia underlings were gathered here today, awaiting Arthur's arrival.

The atmosphere on the island was solemn. Squads of Mafia members in black suits, black hats, black leather shoes, and pistols at their waists patrolled every three steps and every five steps.

In the lavish manor in the center of the island, security was even tighter.

The chubby Capone Bege was smoking a cigar, his expression grave. The smoke blurred his features.

"Boss Bege, he refused!" Vito's snake-like tongue flicked. He was ashamed of his first failed negotiation.

"I expected as much!" Capone Bege flicked the ash from his cigar, a headache coming on.

He had risen to the position of Mafia boss at a young age, relying not on luck, but on his own schemes.

But today, his schemes had failed against someone he had never even met.

"That damned Logia Fruit! Why wasn't I the one who found it?" He was filled with resentment, but there was nothing he could do.

He had always prided himself on his schemes, but now, it seemed, in the Grand Line, strength was king! A Logia fruit had rendered him helpless. Tens of thousands of Mafia members were useless.

"Boss Bege, what should we do now?" Vito was spinning in circles, unable to even utter his trademark laugh.

Extinguishing his cigar, Capone Bege made an important decision. Without alerting anyone, he took Vito into a secret underground chamber in the castle, known only to him. This secret passage led to a isolated, abandoned port.

"Let them fight it out!"

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Two hours later.

The ship finally approached the island. As the crew reported, Arthur stretched lazily and stood up from his deck chair.

"So many people guarding? Capone Bege is afraid of death, huh?" He scoffed, his Observation Haki sweeping across the island, revealing over thirty thousand white silhouettes.

"Arthur..." Aurora was about to see the death of Capone Bege, the man who killed her father. Her emotions were understandably turbulent.

"The guards are most heavily concentrated in the central island. It seems Capone Bege is hiding there!"

Arthur clearly heard the hushed conversations of the Mafia guards defending the castle. He immediately knew where Bege was hiding. But for some reason, there was no one speaking inside the castle, making it impossible for him to distinguish which one was Bege.

"Tell your crew to retreat a dozen miles or so. Otherwise, the aftermath of sinking the island might affect you!"

"Once I destroy this island, we'll have nothing to do with each other. I'll be leaving immediately!"

With that, he didn't wait for Aurora to respond, his body transforming into lightning and soaring into the sky.

The Castle-Castle Fruit and the Devil Fruit Compendium were in hand. There was nothing else here that he wanted.

Aurora held out her hand, unable to stop him. She watched Arthur depart.

Arthur slowly ascended to the sky above the island's center, looking down at the land below. The houses were the size of matchboxes. The Mafia members were like ants.

"Using the Destruction of an island to announce the arrival of Arthur—It's not a bad way to make an entrance!"

"Well then, let's use this move. It's convenient, quick, and saves time!"

He stood in mid-air as if on solid ground, his gaze indifferent and cold. He slowly raised his hands.

"Zzzzzzt!"

At that moment, the lightning went wild. The entire sky flashed with lightning and thunder. Dark clouds covered an area of dozens of miles. Bolts of lightning churned within the clouds.

"What's going on? Why did the sky suddenly darken?"

"I don't know, maybe it's going to rain!"

The patrolling Mafia members below looked at each other, bewildered. They were frightened by the sudden change in the weather.

"Look, what's that?"

A sharp-eyed underling shouted, pointing to the sky. The people nearby looked in the direction he was pointing.

In the sky...

Arthur held his hands aloft. The restless thunder seemed to be drawn to something, gathering in his hands from all directions, like a snowball rolling bigger and bigger.

Not a single trace of electrical energy leaked out. It was madly compressed into a ball. Eventually, that ball of lightning became a dazzling blue sun!!

"Zzzzzzt!"

"Raigo!!!"

Arthur's wild laughter spread to every corner of the island. He slammed his hands downwards. The enormous, sun-like Raigo descended like a meteor...

The intense blue light burned everyone's eyes.

"BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!"

A deafening explosion. It was as if the tectonic plates had been shattered. Earthquakes and tsunamis erupted simultaneously.

Everything on the island was destroyed and vaporized by the lightning in Arthur's all-out attack!

The sinking of the island triggered a giant tsunami that spread in all directions...

"Hahahahaha!"

Arthur panted slightly. His stamina consumption was rapidly recovering. He looked at the vanished island below with burning eyes, as if it were his most perfect masterpiece.

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