"Hmmm, Smoke Man, you're way too loud!!"
Seth said in a cold tone, then looked around and frowned in thought.
"This current transformation doesn't suit the situation..."
He quickly canceled his transformation and formed another connection with one of the DNA sequences stored in the watch's genetic library.
[Pressure Man]
He sheathed his sword.
"Let me show you a visual trick..."
He said in a low voice as he advanced through a battlefield covered in chaos, with the marines aiming their weapons at him, waiting for the order to fire from Smoker, who was watching Seth's movements with a deep frown.
Seth extended his right hand forward, then suddenly grabbed the space between his hands as if it were transparent fabric, pulling it back like he was folding the air itself.
Zzzzt!!
[Gravity Suppression]
The space in front of him shrank for a moment, and the air began to collapse with a faint sound, as if something invisible was being compressed in place...
Craaaack!!
Craack!!
Suddenly, one of the soldiers closest to Seth screamed,
"Aaah!"
and collapsed to the ground without being touched. Immediately afterward, everyone in the square felt their bodies start to tremble, their skin wrinkling, as if an invisible mountain was pressing down on them from above.
"Damn it!! What is this pressure... My body... can't move!!"
Smoker gritted his teeth as he struggled against the pressure.
"Damn it, even the smoke can't move. Just what did this guy do!!?"
Smoker thought in terror as he saw that not even his smoke form managed to escape the pressure.
Craaaack!!
Another screamed before falling to his knees, his head being forcibly driven toward the ground.
"Hah! Hah! ... Ouff..."
Seth breathed deeply.
"This consumes a lot of energy, I need to hurry..."
he thought as he moved toward Smoker, unaffected by the suffocating pressure that every marine was experiencing.
"For a marine soldier, you're really strong..."
Seth said as he took the rifle from the hand of a strangely resilient soldier who hadn't collapsed like the rest.
"Well, no need to worry. I'm not going to kill you..."
He patted him on the shoulder and then walked toward Smoker.
"You too, don't worry. I won't take your life..."
He picked up the Sea Stone staff by the handle. He didn't want to test the effect of the stone on himself now. If it truly worked, he would lose his power, and with it, the skill that was keeping the marines restrained.
Smoker gritted his teeth and spoke with difficulty and helplessness,
"Who are you really!?"
"Me!?..."
Seth smiled beneath the mask.
"You can call me... the Masked Destroyer."
"Don't mess with me!!!"
"Save your strength, Smoke Man. If your personality were like the rest of those bastard marines, you'd be dead already..."
He fell silent and focused on the watch's alert.
[New DNA form detected...]
[Confirm DNA scan...?]
"Use the temporary storage function..."
Seth commanded the watch to store the DNA temporarily so he could stabilize it later.
He refocused on Smoker, who was still trying to break free.
Suddenly, he grabbed the rifle and aimed it at the left side of Smoker's chest. He was still pressing the Sea Stone staff against him, preventing Smoker from returning to his natural state.
"Hmmm, it's better if you stay down for a while. Don't worry, this won't kill you..."
Without hesitation, he pulled the trigger and fired.
Bang!!
Seth stared in surprise at Smoker, who didn't scream in pain. He threw the rifle aside.
"Wow! , But I doubt you'll stay that way once my ability fades..."
He strapped the staff to his waist, then said as he grabbed the food bag and began to leave,
"Goodbye, Smoke Man. Stay alive!"
He ran quickly toward the port.
"I've got a bad feeling, I'd better get out of here fast..."
he thought grimly as he ran.
He changed his path when he saw marines approaching from the port, where a Marine ship had just docked, bearing a dog-headed emblem and a Marine flag fluttering with the wind.
"Where do you think you're going!?"
Whoosh!!
While running, he heard someone shout, and immediately his body hair stood on end and a chill ran through him.
He sensed the attacker with his sixth sense , or rather, with Haki , but didn't have time to dodge.
Without hesitation, he activated the Pressure Fruit's ability to the max and created a low-pressure shield around him like a transparent barrier.
Zzzzt!!
"Tch! , You think this can stop me..."
The shield was easily pierced by a fist that, in Seth's eyes, looked like a giant punch closing in on his face.
"Damn it..."
he screamed internally in helplessness as he saw the old man's fist just centimeters from his face.
Zzzzt!!
He activated the Pressure Fruit's power again to its maximum, ignoring energy consumption, as he was in full panic mode. A transparent aura burst from him and engulfed a large area in the blink of an eye. Without hesitation, he detonated the pressure with all his might.
Craaaack!!
Boom!!
An explosion rocked the ground and swept across a large part of the port. Everything within the area was dented or deformed in strange ways. Even people in the port weren't spared , some were turned into bloody paste.
The blast covered a radius of about 100 meters. This move was almost identical to the one he used when he wanted to destroy Arlong Park, but this time he unleashed it randomly and without regard for energy cost.
Boom!!
His body, flung backward, collided with one of the ships, destroying a large section of it, but in return, he broke several ribs.
"Aghhh!!"
He groaned in pain, lowered his head, and stared with blurred eyes at the sharp piece of wood piercing his right thigh. Due to the intense adrenaline flooding his body, he didn't feel the pain.
He gritted his teeth and painfully removed the wood, tore part of his cloak, and bandaged the wound that was bleeding heavily.
"That man just now... was the Marine Hero, Vice Admiral Monkey D. Garp..."
he muttered bitterly as he wiped blood from his mouth. But his hand froze when he finally realized that his mask had fallen off at some point. He sighed wearily and whispered as he tried to catch his breath and recover some energy.
"Tch!, My identity doesn't matter. What matters is getting out of here... I'm no match for that man at all..."
He stopped talking when he saw Garp heading his way at terrifying speed, with clear rage on his darkened face.
"Bad, bad..."
Seth quickly canceled his current transformation and formed another connection with one of the DNA sequences stored in the watch's genetic library.
[Hybrid Form: Sea King , The Electrified Serpent]
Without even waiting for the transformation to complete, he jumped straight into the water, uncaring about anything. His only concern was escaping from that monster.
He swam rapidly into the depths, as far away from the port as possible.
"He's on a completely different level..."
he thought in panic as he pushed his speed to the limit. But suddenly, he froze in place, his muscles tensed, and from the corner of his eye, he saw red lightning flashing through the sea, followed by an immense shockwave unlike anything he had ever experienced.
It felt like his internal organs had shattered and been crushed. His pupils vanished, replaced by whiteness, and as he lost consciousness, his transformation was canceled, and he returned to his human form.
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In early 1520, near Loguetown, the journey of one of the Supernovas with a dual identity came to an end
"Seth the Rebel," with a bounty of 523 million,
and
"The Masked Destroyer," with a bounty of 59 million,
at the hands of the Marine Hero, Monkey D. Garp.