This is a lucky day for Raptor. He has found one of the people who crushed the cult in Dressrosa, and it's the one who knows of other worlds.
And now the Compsognathi are ready to apprehend him. Pan is surrounded, and, aware that he can't take them all on his own with his sword, decides to go all-out. He unleashes a technique he hasn't used in a long time, the Flash Burst, which blinds all the Compsognathi, but doesn't do any significant damage.
Quickly, he jumps out of the circle and prepares a Thunderstorm, but the Compsognathi get close to the captive.
And Raptor sneers. "If you use something too destructive here, you will sink the ship. And I don't know if your powers come from a Fruit, but we have captives, and you will kill them as well. So, go ahead, maybe that would make Akainu favor you once more."
So, Pan stops the attack.
Raptor chuckles. "You chose to be honorable? Good idea, but that was the hard choice. Get him!"
The Compsognathi rush at him from the front, while the other Gifters lead the Pleasures and Waiters from the sides.
"What will you do now, outsider? Use Conqueror's Haki? If you do that, I will fall on my knees and call you Captain. But unless you have that, you can't beat us all at once without harming the captives!" Raptor taunts.
Pan tries to take them out with a glare, but fails.
"Well, it was worth a shot!" Pan goes to Plan B.
Which involves coating his fists in Armament Haki and punching the deck underneath his feet repeatedly until it breaks.
"He fell down! What do we do?" a Waiter asks.
"Wait!" Raptor commands. "You saw he used Haki and broke through the deck. If we follow him through the small hole he made, we will have to go three by three at most, and he will kill us. Don't fall for his trap."
"Shit!" Pan says between his teeth as he realizes he has been outsmarted, but he is still safe as long as he remains under the deck.
So, remembering the Beasts Pirates keep a lot of slaves, he starts looking for them. He doesn't just want backup, he also wants to allow the slaves to stand up for themselves.
He wishes his friends from his own world could be here to help him, but on the other hand they would also be put in danger. Then again, if a bigger team was here, maybe it would be harder for all of them to be framed.
As he is thinking about his friends, he gets to the ship's hold, where a Gifter is blocking his way. His name is Orthros, and he is a two-headed dogman with a snake tail.
"You will not pass!"
Pan smiles. "Is that the favorite phrase of all the guards!"
"Well, it's our job!" one of the heads complains.
"Shut up and fight!" the other head tells him.
Orthros sends twin sonic waves from his mouths and stuns Pan, then lunges with his spear and stabs him in the torso, barely below the left kidney. Before Pan recovers, the guard quickly whips him with his tail.
"Nobody passes from Orthros except those working for Lord Kaido!" the guard gloats.
Pan gets back up with some effort. "Ready for Round 2, asshole?"
Orthros sends two more sonic waves, but Pan avoids them by sensing them with his Observation Haki, then makes golden energy gather in his hands. Sending a Golden Wave, he strikes the guard hard, making him skid backwards, towards the door he is protecting.
"You will not get through this door!" Orthros declares.
"Actually, YOU will get through this door."
And Pan jumps over a quick tail swing, he lands a flying kick infused with Armament Haki, sending Orthros crashing through the door and knocking him out.
After he draws his gun and shoots the guard in the chest to make sure he doesn't recover soon, Pan checks the hold for slaves.
He is not disappointed. He finds slaves who have bound feet and are forced to store the food and the rest of the loot properly so the pirates will find it perfectly organized. Anyone who escaped would face the wrath of Orthros.
The slaves are about thirty five, and among them are Pandaman, as well as his rival Unforgivable Mask, as well as a few civilains and pirates. One of them is a Fishman who once worked for King Neptune.
They all freeze as they see their tormentor getting sent flying.
"Are we free?" Pandaman asks.
"If so, we will be enemies like before," Unforgivable Mask tells him sternly.
"I wouldn't say free..." Pan tells all of them. "Not until Raptor is down. Will you help me with that?"
"And what will you offer us?" the Fishman slave asks.
"Not only freedom, but revenge as well. And if you don't trust my skills, I will just point out I beat your guardian in three hits. And the last one, the bullet, was just so I could be sure."
"We can't help you with bound feet..." a slave protests.
"Oops!" Pan draws the Sword of Truth and with perfect accuracy cuts all the stocks, freeing the legs of the slaves. "Better?"
Raptor has felt the battle with Observation and heard the noise. "The scurvy scumbag! He is freeing the slaves! Get after them and don't let anyone escape!"
"Should we go first?" a Compsognathus asks.
"No. We are not facing a brute, he and the slaves are preparing a trap. The Pleasures will go first, and when they will no longer be able to ambush us, you will kill them all."
And so, the Pleasures charge towards the hold, laughing maniacally all the time, unable to do anything else.
Pan and the slaves listen to them in disgust.
"Look what they did to their own men!" Pandaman comments.
"I hate to say this, Pandaface, but you are right," Unforgivable Mask replies. "This is utterly atrocious."
"Whom did you call Pandaface? Have you seen how you are?" Pandaman snaps at him.
"At least mine is a mask," Unforgivable Mask snaps back. "And remember, I am this close to do anything short of giving you a SMILE so you can repay your debts!"
Pan quickly draws a baseball bat and strikes both of them on the head.
"OW! What was that for?" Pandaman asks.
"First of all, we are gonna get spotted, second, I feel like I want to club someone because I heard "Pandaface", and third, we are going to end up like them if we fight each other," Pan explains. "Now, take positions, we are going to kick ass."
And as the Pleasures come rushing in, laughing as they are drawing their swords, they encounter Pan alone, who has a gatling gun equipped. "Consider this an act of mercy! Eat lead!" And he fires his gatling gun nonstop, taking out thirty Pleasures before he needs to reload. But the Pleasures keep coming, and two of them are about to slash him.
However, Pandaman dropkicks one of them with the Bamboo Leaves Panda Drop, while Unforgivable Mask takes out the other with his Merciless Karate Chop, which is what it says.
Pan kicks a Pleasure towards two more and reloads, then starts firing again as the rest of the slaves surround and beat up the Pleasures. Pandaman lands a hard flying kick and takes out a Pleasure, while Unforgiveble Mask ducks a cutlass and takes out a foe with three quick front kicks.
The Fishman slave, known as Roy, gets a cutlass from a fallen Pleasure and takes down a few more of them. "I heard you Pleasures are just as strong as Arlong himself! Where is your strength?"
However, the Pleasures did actually show their strength, three slaves are already slaughtered before they can even get armed.
Pan, seeing this, sheathes the gatling gun and just fries the rest of the laughing enemies with thunderbolts.
A slave woman takes out a Pleasure with a chokehold, then parries a second enemy's slashes with a cutlass she has picked from the ground. Roy sees an opening and takes out the Pleasure with a basic strike of Fishman Karate.
Once Unforgivable Mask smashes the face of the last enemy through the wall, the rebels advance towards the deck, only for one of them to be gunned down by a Waiter before they reach the surface.
A rebel uses Armament Haki to punch out a few Waiters, but a Compsognathus dashes at him and stabs him in the heart with his daggers. Then he unleashes a flurry of powerful slashes, cutting him down.
But Pandaman grabs hold of the elite guard and with a Giant Panda Deathlock breaks his back instantly.
Pan fights another Compsognathus using his Sword of Truth, parrying several rapid strikes until his foe stops to catch his breath, and with three kicks he stuns his foe long enough to break his jaw with a Thunderpunch.
Quickly, he rushes at the last captive and is about to cut his Seastone cuffs, but Raptor himself gets between them and strikes him with a hard flying kick. "You will not free anyone else!"
But one of the slaves, who recognizes the captive, charges at Raptor. "This man has saved my life from the corrupt Marines under Whip-Hand Reed and her tyranny, and I am going to repay the favor!"
Raptor parries the slave's attacks and cuts him down quickly with his swords, but Pan has already cut the cuffs of the last captive off, freeing him.
And the man immediately sends a barrage of mercury at the nearby Waiters, taking all of them down. Raptor tries to stop him, only for the man to attack with the Will of Hermes and knock him down on his back.
However, Raptor gets back up and turns into his Velociraptor form. "Ruthless bite!"
The captive prepares to fill his mouth with mercury and poison him, but the Headliner is too fast and uses Armament to bite him hard in the arm, drawing blood.
"In the New World, the strongest Haki always wins!" Raptor taunts.
Pan sees who the downed captive really is. "Gin? You got in the New World?"
"Who are you?" Gin asks.
"Well, someone who saw your stories and hasn't heard of you in a long, long time!" Pan replies. "I thought Krieg's poison gas killed you!"
"Almost. And that's why I chose to become a poisonous metal, so I would never be afraid of poison or fire again!" Gin explains. "Just make sure you fire your thunderbolts away from me."
"I will, Gin!" Pan nods, and as Raptor tries to take advantage of them talking, Pan blasts him with a yellow thunderbolt.
But the Compsognathi, except one that's struggling with Unforgivable Mask, charge at Pan and Gin.
Gin immediately makes two of them slip on mercury, then creates sharp mercury arrows and pierces them, poisoning them quickly.
However, a third one turns into his dinosaur form and prepares to bite Gin. Gin sends a punch made from mercury, but the guard turns back to his human form and draws his twin daggers, slashing him and drawing blood.
"I suppose all of you can use Haki. No matter, I am still the former Captain of the Starved Hound Pirates!" Gin boasts as he strikes the corporal with a jet of mercury.
Pan attempts to punch a Compsognathus, but the elite corporal dodges the attack and slashes at him with his daggers. Pan avoids it and attacks with Shodukin, sendsing multiple energy fists that knock the corporal out.
"Raptor Razors!"
It's only because he has heard the attack and his Observation Haki that Pan barely dodges the twin razors coming at him. He retaliates with a Lightning Spear, but Raptor dodges it easily and attacks quickly with his swords.
Pan, even with his Observation, still barely senses the incoming blows quickly enough to block them, and eventually Raptor gets through, cutting his side and drawing blood.
Pan flinches, which allows Raptor to slash him in the belly and force him to jump back.
"Rehehehehehe! You are done for! Two-sword style... Predator Lunge!"
Pan, realizing the attack is too quick to dodge and his sword won't be enough, draws the Shield of Hope. This shield is bright red, shiny, and has the face of a lion on it. Thrusting it at the right time, he parries the mighty double slash without having to use Haki and makes his enemy reel. Seeing an opportunity, he seizes it and performs a powerful riposte, penetrating Raptor's liver. As his opponent is stunned, Pan fills his sword with a powerful current of electricity, burning his insides.
Meanwhile, a Waiter known as Tongr sees the battle raging. He once was a pirate, and not a successful one. He stole berries from children and often scammed people.
With those crimes, he reached the bounty of ten million berries. Once, he stole thirty thousand berries from Doflamingo's thugs and hired Duval's Flying Fish Gang to beat them up, giving them a fake location for negotioations as well.
But Doflamingo had eyes everywhere and discovered the pirate's real location, so he asked Page One to deal with him. Page One and the thugs that were robbed surrounded Tongr and demanded the money. Tongr didn't give it back, instead he fell on his knees and begged for mercy. Page One spared him, in the condition he would serve Kaido as a Waiter for all of his life.
And now, Tongr sees a chance to repay his debt. Seeing a rebel woman breaking her row on a Pleasure's head and a rebel man fending off another Waiter by pushing him to a puddle of mercury Gin made, he draws his knife and charges. "MOTHERFUCKERS!"
However, Roy appears before him and disarms him with a quick kick, using Fishman Karate.
So, Tongr runs away with the tail between his legs.
As Roy chases after him, some Waiters see the example their ally provides and retreat.
Twoclub advances towards Gin, clubbing two rebels into unconsciousness, but Pandaman bashes him hard with his belly. Twoclub gets up and jumps high, attacking with a double club bash, but Pandaman jumps backwards and strikes him with Bamboo Leaves Panda Drop, knocking him back. However, the Gifter is still able to fight.
Unforgivable Mask, after being launched by his opponent, grabs hold of a mast and spins around it, then launches himself with great strength at the Compsognathus he is fighting, as well as three Pleasures and a Gifter behind him. The momentum he gets makes him like a rocket, allowing him to knock all of them out cold.
Raptor has recovered from the powerful riposte and turns into his orange Velociraptor form. Suddenly, he vanishes from Pan's eyes, and not even his Observation Haki can sense him.
And Pan suddenly screams in agony as sharp teeth sink inside his left arm, threatening to rip it off.
"Bastard!" Pan uses Armament Haki to break the dinosaur's sharp teeth, and while he does hurt them due to catching him off-guard, Raptor retaliates by using Haki on his teeth as well.
But Pan has a shocking surprise for the predator, as he fills his whole body with electricity, electrocuting him as well.
Raptor doesn't let go, despite the excruciating pain he is feeling.
So, Pan uses his free hand and releases a spark of electricity straight into the beast's left eye, blinding it temporarily.
The Headliner finally breaks free and roars in pain, as Pan attacks with Megawatt Rifle and shoots an electric beam through the dinosaur's chest.
But before he can run at him and finish him off with the Sword of Truth, a Compsonathus dashes at him with his daggers and stabs him with both of them in the back.
Gin sends the Compsognathus overboard with a massive stream of mercury, then gets behind Pan and extends his arms to make two gigantic ones made of mercury, which melt several bullets coming for both Pan and himself.
Swinging his new arms, Gin punches out a hundred enemies.
~0~
Two Emperors of the Sea, two titans from the old era, two champions of the Rocks Pirates, have a duel in Onigashima.
All the Beasts Pirates are watching in horror as their master and Big Mom split the sky during their clash.
"Mama Mama Mama! Looks like the little oni has grown since I gave him his Fruit!" Big Mom taunts as she swings her giant sword, Napoleon, like a huge club.
Kaido parries with his kanabo, making Advanced Conqueror's Haki burst from it. "Worororororororo! I should thank you, not for my Fruit, but for the fight! I was afraid I would get rusty!"
As the two keep fighting, Queen is cheering on his captain. "Crush her, Kaido! Teach the hag a lesson for trying to eat my food and hitting me for not letting her do so!"
Two Gifters whisper to each other. "I think the hag did him a favor."
"Yeah, he needs to be a bit slimmer."
But Queen overhears them. "You two are talking about something very interesting!"
"Sorry, boss."
"Talk to the Brachio-Launchers!" Queen atomizes both of them quickly.
Then he keeps watching the battle as if nothing happened.
Smoothie is on her ship, and can feel the battle happening. "We must go help Mama!"
"Mama can handle her own against even Kaido," Citron reassures her.
"I hope, because I am willing to blow King out of the sky the next time he intercepts our climb."
"Sister, I see you are in a very bad mood!" Citron tells her as she watches her drinking as much juice as she can.
"It's because I let that Cat Burglar escape! And she's got Zeus, a part of Mama's soul! As long as Nami is still roaming and commanding part of the soul of my Captain, I refuse to forgive her. I will wring her to the last drop for what she has done!" Smoothie declares.
"Revenge can cloud someone's judgement," Amande tells her. "You shouldn't be too obsessed with a person who is so beneath you, sister."
"Wanna get something to make your day?" Citron asks.
"Maybe one or two natives will be fine. I feel thirsty," Smoothie replies.
Just then, Flampe arrives, holding a paper.
"Smoothie, look what I have found!" she squeals.
"Flampe, don't bother me..." Smoothie requests, looking away.
"But... it's a new rookie! His name is Pan, and he comes from outside of this world supposedly. I also heard he helped take out the cult stationed not far from Totto Land!" Flampe says, pouting because her sister is paying no attention to her.
"Which is his bounty?" Smoothie asks.
"300 million berries," Flampe says quickly.
"Oh, I think he could make a quick drink, but nothing too juicy. Inform me if he starts... bothering us," Smoothie orders her sister.
~0~
Pan and Raptor have recovered, and the latter dashes at the former faster than the human eye can see. But this time, Pan is ready, and with a Flash Burst all around blinds the dinosaur.
Without wasting a moment, he dashes at the Headliner, holding his sword in both hands, which is glowing yellow. And so, he lands a devastating strike with Heavenblade, which sends Raptor flying towards the edge of the ship. One little push and he will be thrown overboard.
However, a hedgehog Gifter rolls at him several times, wounding him more and more with his thorns.
One Flash Burst later, Pan has blinded the Gifter and dodges the next charge, causing him to strike the last Compsognathus as he was about to decapitate Gin with his daggers.
Quickly, he strikes the hedgehog with a single Thunder Drop. The thunderbolt is attracted to all those thorns and burns the Gifter, instantly knocking him out.
At the same time, Raptor recovers and charges at Pan, stunning him with another move, his Predator Roar. However, before he can land a hard bite, Raptor is struck by Mercury Arrows from all sides.
Then a jet of mercury strikes him from below and nearly knocks him down. Raptor recovers, spots Gin and charges at him, but Gin makes a puddle of mercury appear in front of him. The Zoan simply jumps over it and prepares for a savage bite, but Gin sends the Will of Hermes just as he lands, landing a powerful blow and reverting him to his human form.
Raptor snarls and turns into his hybrid form. "Now you shall see... why I have a bounty of three hundred million!"
In this form, he gets orange scales covering most of his body, is humanoid, and hie eyes are reptilian. He still has his tail and very sharp teeth, which heal from the damage they got from Pan's Haki.
He draws his twin swords once more and roars.
Gin sends a massive punch out of mercury at him, but he only hits an afterimage and Raptor stabs him in the back. "Logias that rely too much on their powers have short lifespans. Take it from a New World veteran," he boasts.
Gin wraps the hybrid's legs with mercury, but Raptor stops the corrosion with his Haki. Then he stabs him with his other sword before removing both of them at once and making blood spray everywhere.
"If there are some underlings I always cared about, it was my Compsognathi. And you hurt most of them yourself. Prepare to be punished!" Raptor declares.
A Thunder Drop stops him.
And Pan appears, his hands crackling with electricity.
"Let him go, scum. Your fight is with me!
Our bounties are equal, Raptor. Let's see who deserves the higher one!"
And he draws his Shield of Hope, rushing straight at his opponent and making him jump far away from Gin.
Raptor attacks with a paralyzing roar, but Pan gets away from the soundwave and draws his Sword of Truth.
"Two sword style! Predator Onslaught!"
And he darts towards Pan's location in a way Pan can only parry, releasing a powerful barrage of attacks. Pan parries all of them at just the right time, but Raptor infuses his tail with Haki and strikes his legs, tripping him. "Rehehehehehehehe! You are no match for a Headliner of the Beasts Pirates!"
"You know I can't go all-out, right?" Pan tells him.
Raptor licks his blades. "Too bad I can! Two sword style! Predator... Blast!"
Pan dodges as fast as he can, exploiting the fact that his enemy had to say five words, and a powerful cyclone comes from Raptor's swords, ripping one of the masts apart.
Pan uses his Hookshot to climb on the top part of the falling mast, fills it with Armament Haki and hurls it straight at Raptor. Raptor dodges it, then silently sends two Raptor Razors to his enemy while he is landing. However, Pan stops them with two energy fists and forces him to dodge two more before landing on his feet. Quickly, he charges his Sword of Truth.
"A heavy attack? Nothing I can't interrupt." Raptor sends six more Raptor Razors, his hybrid form allowing him to send more of them quickly.
One milisecond before the razors connect, Pan sends his Strike of Truth, a magical golden energy disc, which effortlessly overpowers all the razors without even slowing down, making a deep cut on Raptor's side.
"You bastard!" Raptor growls. Then he lunges at Pan faster than the human eye can see and the two trade blows so fast, the Waiters and the rebels can't see them.
While they keep trading blows, Roy is throwing a Pleasure overboard, but another Pleasure shoots him in the left shoulder. As Roy screams in pain, the Pleasure laughs at him. However, Roy dodges the next shot.
"Fifty Tile... True Punch!" With a very strong right punch he knocks the Pleasure out instantly.
Pandaman defeats a scorpion Gifter with his Giant Panda Deathlock, then grabs another Gifter's fingers with his own. "Skadoosh."
A powerful current of Ki takes the Gifter down.
Meanwhile, Unforgivable Mask is bashing the heads of two Waiters together. "If I beat more foes than you, you have to go back to Tomato Gang!"
"If I beat more foes than you, my debt will be erased!" Pandaman replies.
"Deal!"
~0~
A slim, middle-aged Marine with very few black hair and sunglasses is bowing down. He is in a small office where a white elephant is wandering and mirrors are everywhere.
"I am glad you made me an Inspector again, sir. I heard you have a soft spot for those who, while they have a low Doriki, wield powerful superweapons," the man says.
"I do, I happen to be such a case myself," Spandam, sitting on the office, tells the man. "I heard your Eagle Launcher is almost as strong as my Funkfreed. Also that you are ruthless and eager to prove yourself.
Just remember, you owe me this one. I want you to take a squad of Marines and arrest the outsider. And if you do this... maybe you will be promoted to CP-5. Understood, Shepherd?"
"Yes, sir!"
As Shepherd gets out, Rob Lucci and Stussy are talking.
"Lucci, your secretary made a very dumb choice. He chose Condoriano of all people. Why him?" Stussy asks.
"Because he can be as cruel as he wants and still have the loyalty of those even less competent than himself. In a way he never could do so with me while he was my Chief," Lucci replies.
"On the flipside, you were successful enough to boost his image while you two were in CP-9. So, what would matter the most, loyalty or competence?" Stussy asks.
"For me, competence. I don't care how loyal people are to me. I just want blood, and a world where the strong thrive," Lucci tells her.
"Then, why do you keep serving weak cowards?" Stussy asks.
"Because they allow me to fight their battles."
~0~
As Shepherd prepares to depart, Pan and Raptor are still fighting faster than the human eye can see. Pan gets kicked in the jaw, but he recovers quickly and counters an attempted bite with a headbutt, forcing his enemy's mouth closed. Then he lands a very hard kick to his gut and slashes him with his sword, sending him crashing to the rear of the ship.
"Enough! Two Sword Style! Predator Whirlwind!" Raptor starts spinning, accidentally cutting down one of the Waiters, and Pan jumps to the crow's nest for safety.
Once Raptor stops, Pan jumps at him, grabs him with his Hookshot and quickly unleashes a flurry of slashes at the Headliner. With a Haki-infused punch he sends him flying backwards.
"You will die for this! Two sword style! Predator Onslaught!" Raptor attacks with yet another flurry, and Pan parries all the strikes. But this time, when the Beasts Pirate swings his tail, Pan jumps above it and lands a hard flying kick, knocking him on his back.
Raptor spits some blood. "Do you know when a hunter becomes more dangerous than ever? When starving, when threatened, and when wounded. In general? When they are cornered."
He clenches his muscles, grits his teeth and starts growing feathers all over his body, except his legs. Bright red feathers. However, he doesn't have full wings. His eyes now are no longer reptilian, instead they are like a bird's. "Feathered Fiend!"
Then he silently fires a barrage of feathers, which are all infused with Armament Haki. Pan blocks them all with his Shield of Hope and fires Sunlight Beams from both his sword and shield.
However, he only takes out an afterimage, and Raptor fires a second barrage of feathers. These strike Pan hard in the back, and Raptor further stuns him with a roar.
Seeing an opening, he prepares his ultimate technique. "Two sword style... Feathered Predator Rush!"
Going even faster than before, he unleashes a flurry of slashes infused with Armament from all directions.
Not even Pan is fast enough to react and he gets cuts all over his body.
"You are already dead," Raptor tells him.
And the young man collapses.
"Rehehehehehe! Looks like your bounty was completely unearned! And now, let's crush this rebellion by force," Raptor gloats.
He immediately goes for Pandaman, ready to chop off his head.
To his surprise, Pandaman dodges at the last second, grabs him and throws him overboard.
However, using his feathers and imperfect, primitive wings, Raptor glides down to the deck.
"Nice try. But I am one of the Headliners for a reason!" He draws his swords and coats them black once more.
"RAPTOR PACK RAZORS!"
Dashing faster than the human eye can see, he sends razors from everywhere, cutting Unforgivable Mask's right ear, or at least that of his mask, and the entire left arm of Roy, as well as the leg of another slave. He also injures Pandaman.
But the screams make Pan get up, full of determination, as much as he had shown in his world when he faced a mechanical monstrosity full of futuristic weapons.
He draws his pistol and fires a bullet, which is pitch black, carrying his will to punish Raptor and save the innocent rebels. Seeing it going for his arm, Raptor coats it with his Armament to block it, but the bullet still gets through.
"How... how did your Haki surpass mine?" Raptor asks.
"Haki is willpower. And currently, I have the willpower to keep fighting to save these innocents and teach you a lesson!" Pan replies.
"Very well. Two sword..."
Pan, narrowing his eyes, electrocutes him with very fast thunderbolts. "Too late."
Before he recovers, Raptor gets shot by six Haki-infused bullets. "Do you know why I learned Haki so fast? Because I have already a lot of experience, even before I came here. And also, it blooms better when you want to do something really badly. And of course, I got some formal training."
Pan gets close to him and strikes him hard with a Free Will Slash, drawing blood. Then he attacks a second time with that heavy strike, only for Raptor to raise a sword to parry it. Alas, a combination of better weapon and better Haki makes a difference, and Raptor's sword breaks.
Gin, enraged by everything Raptor has done, sends a powerful stream of mercury straight at him, filling his feathers with the liquid metal and slowing him down.
And so, Pan prepares the final blow. The fearsome Lightning Rocket. The electric explosive strikes home and sends Raptor way off the ship.
"Looks like my bounty," Pan stops to catch his breath "wasn't so unearned."
~0~
In Wano, two hours later, Page One is talking to Sasaki. "Any news from Raptor's group?"
"Nothing at all. He didn't report recently. I am checking on him every twenty minutes," Sasaki replies.
"You worry about him that much?" Page One asks.
"No, not since I know of how much he wants to replace one of us. I just want to make absolutely sure the outsider killed him."
"By the way, where are the others? I know Ulti is training, but..."
"Black Maria is having special training with her pets," Sasaki explains, making Page One shudder. "Who's Who is training his Fruit when we are looking and Rokushiki when we aren't, and X-Drake is training in the ways of the sword."
"So, nothing has changed," Page One comments.
Meanwhile, Big Mom and Kaido are still fighting to a standstill. Big Mom sets the King of the Beasts ablaze with Prometheus, her flaming homie, and quikly slashes him with Napoleon, using Advanced Conqueror's Haki.
However, something is heard from the flames. "WORORORORORORORORORO! That was the best sauna I had in a long time! Now, prepare to see some real flame clouds!" Kaido creates one and jumps on it, using it as a platform, then leaps and charges his kanabo with lightning, striking Linlin hard.
As Prometheus devours the Flame Clouds, Kaido bashes him with a Thunder Bagua. "Something is wrong. Didn't you have a lightning homie as well?"
That results in a punch to the face, which is followed by the two Yonko trading a headbutt. "We will not talk about that now, Kaido!"
~0~
The Straw Hat Grand Fleet, while they have casualties, twelve dead and thirty six wounded, have taken out all the Writhing Deceivers. However, they are still trapped in the storm, and one of their losses is a navigator, while all helmsmen are either dead or wounded.
So, when a massive tidal wave threatens to drown them all, the common troops are all panicking.
But Cavendish and Bartolomeo aren't. The former sends a massive gust of wind with Durandal, repelling the wave and giving Bartolomeo enough time to surround all the ships in large green domes, resulting in nobody getting thrown overboard.
~0~
Pan, Gin, Pandaman, Unforgivable Mask, Roy and the other survivors have left the pirate ship, taking all the boats for themselves.
They have seen a strange bird flying away from the ship in the opposite direction of them, but they consider it a harmless bird of prey.
Taking all the supplies as well, they made sure they wouldn't starve. Orthros did recover, but a Mercury Arrow stopped him.
And now, they stop at a shipwright's.
Pandaman and Unforgivable Mask are both looking down.
"What's wrong?" Pan asks.
"Well, we had a bet that would free me from my debt if I won," Pandaman replies.
"Or would force him to pay it instantly if he lost," Mask adds.
"Let me guess, draw?" Pan asks them.
Both of them nod sadly.
"Don't worry, you will get another chance. Once we get our ship, we are going to face Raptor's masters. We are going straight to Wano!"