RawrSoFierce: [image] [image] [image] — Beat up a giant fox today. Pretty sure foxes this size are rare, right?
The three images Ryū had posted to the Dinsional Chat Group were high-definition shots of Kurama's most undignified monts: its face caved in and eyes rolled back; the full-body faceplant crater; every humiliating detail in crystal clarity.
A portion of Kurama's lifeti collection of embarrassing monts, immortalized forever.
Yes. Ryū was, in fact, a monster.
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Kaguya-sama: Huh? Is that a fox? It has nine tails.
Kaguya-sama: Could this be the legendary nine-tailed fox spirit?
Eternally Seventeen: My my~ Looks like a big male fox. Bit rough around the edges, though—not handso enough for my Ran.
Eternally Seventeen: Although… sothing about it seems off. Its body feels like it's made of pure energy. Whoever created it knew what they were doing.
RawrSoFierce: You're right—it's a body composed entirely of a special energy. You can beat it all day and it won't bleed. Even when you knock its teeth out, the teeth dissolve back into pure energy.
Edward Newgate: Gurararara! Looks like soone got absolutely demolished.
Crazy Diamond: Its entire skull is caved in by half. Any normal creature would be long dead, right? But it doesn't seem to have actually kicked the bucket.
Eternally Seventeen: The real question is whether fox at is edible.
RawrSoFierce: …
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If Kurama ever learned that soone in the Dinsional Chat Group was discussing whether its flesh was edible, one could only imagine the existential crisis that would follow.
Especially since the person asking could, in all likelihood, pin Kurama to the ground and grind it into the dirt.
Yakumo Yukari's combat power absolutely eclipsed the Nine-Tails. Not even close.
Could you actually eat the Nine-Tails, though? Its flesh is pure chakra. A normal person ingesting raw Nine-Tails chakra would probably die horribly. The only canon precedent was the Gold and Silver Brothers—Kinkaku and Ginkaku—who survived being eaten by the Nine-Tails and erged with partial Tailed Beast transformation abilities. If mory serves.
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RawrSoFierce: By the way, @WolfKingOfQingQingGrasslands — any interest in this? It's a local specialty from my world.
RawrSoFierce: [image] — These are called Sharingan. At max upgrade they supposedly evolve into sothing called the Rinnegan, which has world-ending power.
Eternally Seventeen: World-ending EYES and the Admin just… gouged them out?!
RawrSoFierce: …These are just the lowest-tier one-tomoe Sharingan.
WolfKingOfQingQingGrasslands: *surfaces*
WolfKingOfQingQingGrasslands: Eyes that can upgrade to world-ending power? And they're a LOCAL SPECIALTY of the Admin's world? Of COURSE I'm interested! Are you giving them to ??
RawrSoFierce: Yeah, they're useless to . Might as well send them your way for research.
RawrSoFierce: Red packet sent via DM.
WolfKingOfQingQingGrasslands: Received! Admin is the GOAT!
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The Sharingan genuinely was useless to Ryū at the mont. Operating them required chakra, and he had no chakra whatsoever. Was he supposed to learn chakra refinent for the sake of a single-tomoe Sharingan?
Or burn Chat Group Points to sohow generate chakra from nothing?
Neither option makes sense. And a one-tomoe Sharingan isn't remotely interesting enough to justify the investnt.
Better to hand them to Wolffy for research. Maybe the wolf genius would find sothing useful in the cross-dinsional biology.
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Just as Ryū was about to log off, a crisp notification chid—and a new system ssage appeared in the chat.
Every mber could see it.
[Ding! "Admiral Kizaru" has joined the Dinsional Chat Group!]
Ryū: ?!
What the—?
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Admiral Kizaru: This is… a Devil Fruit user? Soone's causing trouble inside Marine Headquarters. Ohhh my, how scary~ But a fruit that can create illusions… that's actually a pretty nice ability.
Admiral Kizaru: I wonder which Marine is playing a prank on this old man?
Admiral Kizaru: Or maybe a pirate snuck into HQ?
Wandering Little Planet: Pirates, Marines, Devil Fruits—that's a lot of keywords at once.
Kaguya-sama: Devil Fruits… shouldn't we @Whitebeard-ojisan?
Kaguya-sama: And probably @Admin-san too!
Admiral Kizaru: Whitebeard? Admin? Whitebeard… are you people from the Whitebeard Pirates? Pirates… oh my, how frightening~
Admiral Kizaru: Does this an the Whitebeard Pirates want to wage war on Marine HQ? But it's after hours… what a hassle.
Edward Newgate: Gurararara! An interesting brat has joined.
Admiral Kizaru: Edward Newgate. So it really is you… Whitebeard.
RawrSoFierce: …
RawrSoFierce: @Admiral Kizaru — New mbers should read the Group Bulletin. It has everything you need to know. And we're not the Whitebeard Pirates—although Whitebeard is in the group, yes.
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anwhile, in the One Piece world—the first half of the Grand Line, Marine Headquarters—
Borsalino, who had just clocked out and was heading ho, slowly furrowed his sparse eyebrows. His typically languid expression sharpened into sothing resembling actual thought.
His formidable Observation Haki swept the area around him.
Nothing. No trace of an intruder.
That person just called Whitebeard by his real na—right in front of Whitebeard—and the old man didn't even react. Like it was normal?
Staring at the bizarre chat interface floating in his consciousness, Kizaru's mind filled with questions.
Sothing called a "Group Bulletin." Where do I find that, again?
Everything about this feels strange. But if these were really Whitebeard Pirates, they wouldn't be making small talk—they'd have attacked already, right?
While Kizaru stood there in confused contemplation, a familiar voice ca from behind: "Borsalino? It's past quitting ti—why are you still here?"
He turned. A tall man—yawning hugely, looking perpetually half-asleep—stood behind him.
"Oh… it's you, Kuzan. Just thinking about sothing. I'll head out in a bit."
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