As Sherwin and the Felynes were playfully bickering while continuing their journey, a sudden presence appeared abruptly aboard the Dodo Advance.
Sherwin and the others instantly froze in place and turned toward the source.
There, sitting cross-legged on the ship railing, was a man wearing a white headscarf and bare-chested.
Unlike the Skypieans, he bore no white wings on his back. Instead, behind him was a set of drum wheels—the sa kind depicted in Japanese myth for the thunder god.
Resting casually across his shoulder was a staff made entirely of gold.
He also had long, dangling earlobes that reached down to his chest, resembling braids or the cords of a hood.
With such a distinctive appearance, there was no mistaking his identity—the self-proclaid "God" of Skypiea, the user of the Logia-type Rumble-Rumble Fruit—Enel.
"..."
Enel had originally intended to make a grand "divine entrance" to shock Sherwin and his companions.
But as so many eyes turned toward him at once, even he felt a mont of discomfort.
However, he quickly regained his usual lazy—and arrogantly detached—deanor.
"Yehahahahahaha... So you can use Mantra, too? No wonder you managed to defeat my four priests. In that case, you shall serve as my new priests."
Enel paid no attention to the fact that his subordinates had been defeated. Instead, he extended what he believed was a generous offer.
"I can forgive your previous disrespect toward God—and your sin of joining the Shandians and that old man, Gan Fall, in invading God Island.
Furthermore, I will grant you the honor of accompanying to the Infinite Vearth.
How about it, Blue Sea dwellers? Even most Sky People would never receive such divine favor."
From his words, it was clear that the Shandians and Gan Fall had already reached God Island, and were likely engaged in battle with Enel divine soldiers at that very mont.
In other words...
All Sherwin and his group needed to do now was defeat Enel, and their expedition to God Island would be complete.
With a flash, Sherwin appeared directly before Enel, a rubber-coated shield materializing in his left hand. Without hesitation, he swung it straight at Enel smug face.
Overconfident in his Devil Fruit powers, Enel didn’t even try to dodge. In fact, he was planning to use this chance to show the foolish Blue Sea man what "divine power" truly ant.
And then—
BANG!
Sherwin shield landed squarely on Enel face, smacking him clean off the Dodo Advance.
What just happened?!
Crashing onto the ground below, Enel wore a stunned expression, unable to comprehend the fact that he—the so-called God—had actually been hit.
Feeling sothing hot and wet beneath his nose, Enel instinctively wiped at it. When he saw the sar of nosebleed on his hand, realization struck him like thunder.
"You... You actually dare to strike a god?!!!"
"It just a Logia-type Devil Fruit," Sherwin said as he leapt down from the ship, a crooked grin tugging at his lips. "And yet you’ve got the nerve to call yourself a god?"
He stopped before Enel, smirking."Well, we’ve got our own god over here too... Klee! Use Fla Fist!"
"Klee ow is here, nya!"
The tiny plush Felyne leapt high into the air, swinging her paw mid-flight. A massive flaming cat paw burst forth like a falling teor, crashing down toward Enel with blazing fury.
The fiery paw was so enormous that even the nearby Hunter was caught in its strike zone.
Sherwin: "..."
Faced with such an overwhelming attack, Enel imdiately turned into a bolt of lightning and darted far out of range.
Watching Sherwin being engulfed by Klee ow Fla Fist, Enel burst out laughing.
"Yehahahahaha! Foolish Blue Sea man! I am lightning itself! How could re flas ever touch ?! Die at the hands of your own ally!"
But his laughter quickly faded.Sothing was wrong.
Through his Mantra, he could still clearly sense Sherwin presence—and his "voice" hadn’t wavered in the slightest. It didn’t sound like soone who’d been burned at all.
Then he heard it—Sherwin calm, steady voice rising from within the flas:
"Bankai—Zanka no Tachi, West—Cloak of the Setting Sun, ow!"
As Klee ow soft, childish voice echoed from the sky, the raging flas that had swallowed Sherwin suddenly began to shrink. Within monts, they condensed into a cloak of fire that wrapped snugly around his body.
For Klee ow, who had already awakened her Fruit ability, controlling flas so that they wouldn’t harm allies was an easy task.
Otherwise, the Dodo Advance (Magnamalo) form wouldn’t have been able to use her flas as its skeletal frawork.
Still...
"Klee, take the fire off , will you? It getting a bit hot," Sherwin said helplessly, wiping the sweat from his forehead.
When the flas only covered one arm, it didn’t feel like much. But once they wrapped around his entire body—no matter how careful Klee ow control was—it was unbearably hot.
"Sherwin-nii, you’re such a spoilsport, ow!"(=｀3=)
The little plush Felyne landed back on Sherwin shoulder, pouting, but obediently dispersed the flas.
"Hmph!"
Enel expression darkened slightly. Deep down, he had to admit—his control over lightning wasn’t nearly as precise as Klee ow mastery over fire.
Realizing that his opponent also possessed the powers of a natural elent, Enel dropped his earlier arrogance and launched an attack first.
"Judgnt of God!"
"Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation ow!"
A massive pillar of lightning clashed head-on with a roaring wave of fla, the two forces colliding in mid air.
In an instant, lightning and fire intertwined, their brilliance illuminating the entire sky severalfold.
When the flashes of lightning and fire dimd, Sherwin was still completely unhard, firmly holding down that other Logia-type Felyne.
The "divine punishnt" had been effortlessly blocked. As the self-proclaid "God," Enel expression darkened.
He raised the golden staff in his hand and struck the thunder drum on his right shoulder—
"Thirty Million Volts — Thunderbird!"
"Explosive Spark · C1 · Spark Sparrow ow!"
A much smaller flaming sparrow was flung out by Klee ow. It was instantly swallowed by the electric light of the thunderbird, but in the next mont—
Boom!
The Spark Sparrow exploded from within the thunderbird, blowing it apart into scattered bolts of lightning.
By now, Sherwin had neatly put away Snow Walk — which he had just been using as a sword-and-shield combination — back into his pack. Then he deliberately stepped aside, leaving Enel entirely to Klee ow to deal with.
This action only made Enel, the self-styled God, feel all the more insulted and belittled.
"Sixty Million Volts — Thunder Dragon!"
This ti, Enel didn’t even bother striking the thunder drum on his back. He simply lifted his golden staff, pointed it toward Klee ow, and released an enormous thunder dragon.
"Fire Release — Golden Fire Dragon Technique ow!"
A female Rathian as large as the thunder dragon appeared, summoned by Klee ow.
But this ti, the flas that made up the Rathian were no longer orange-red—they had turned into a dazzling golden hue.
The two dragons—composed of completely different elents and forms—clashed and tangled together. In just monts, the victor was decided...
Enel Thunder Dragon was forcibly torn in half by Klee ow Golden Fire Dragon, which then dissipated once again into scattered lightning.
Yet the Golden Fire Dragon that had done all this was almost completely unhard. It spread its wings wide, lifted its head, and let out a mighty roar.
"Rooaaar—!"
It was clear that when Klee ow had summoned the Golden Fire Dragon, she had used the awakened form of her Devil Fruit.
Unaware of this fact, Enel face had gone as dark as charcoal—while Sherwin stood off to the side, still making sarcastic remarks.
"Looks like our Fire God is stronger than you, Thunder God~"
The next instant, a violent bolt of lightning ca crashing straight toward Sherwin.
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