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OPI Chapter 247: Icy Silence Before the Storm
🕑 Added 2024-10-15 01:47:22 +0000 UTCTeigu World, The Empire, Imperial Capital.
Esdeath, with a cold expression, walked out of the Hachimon no Nirvana space.
Without wasting a second she nimbly leapt onto a dragon resting on the ground.
"Roar!"
Feeling the familiar tap of high heels on its back, the startled dragon quickly took flight.
"Return to headquarters at full speed!"
With a firm shout, Esdeath ordered the dragon.
Inside the imperial palace.
The Emperor, his face pale, slammed his fists on the table as he read the urgent report. "How could the navy headquarters have been taken in one night?!"
"The report says that the entire port has been completely frozen, but no trace of any enemy fleet has been seen." Najenda said seriously.
"That suggests there may not be many people involved, and that mass freezing ability may be some kind of weapon... or perhaps a supernatural ability, similar to General Esdeath's."
"Based on the information provided by the prisoners, it is highly likely that the person responsible for the attack is Admiral Kuzan of the enemy navy." Najenda concluded.
At that moment Akame asked: "Is it appropriate for General Esdeath to go alone?"
"There should be no problem." Gozuki replied with a confident smile. "Before, the inability to harm an enemy with elemental powers posed a great danger."
"But now that General Esdeath has mastered Haki, the enemy's advantage in that aspect has disappeared. If they really only have one or a few individuals, we'll just have to wait for good news soon."
Gozuki is obviously full of confidence in Esdeath, the so-called strongest admiral in history.
Furthermore, now that she had acquired Haki, Esdeath was stronger than ever.
How could she lose?
"Indeed." Budo nodded, smiling in agreement. As the second to master Busoshoku Haki, he understood its power very well.
And not only that. Esdeath and Akame had also awakened Kenbunshoku Haki.
...
Fifty hours earlier.
Headquarters of the Imperial Navy.
It was just before dawn, the sun was just beginning to peek over the horizon.
A man with curly black hair was pedaling a bicycle through the rough waves. Behind him, about five hundred meters away, a cruise ship and the surrounding sea surface were completely frozen, giving off an icy mist.
This man was Kuzan.
During the next two hours of cycling, he passed many patrol boats, but the result was the same: they were all frozen within seconds of passing by.
"Ah, I've finally arrived. This world's naval headquarters isn't as impressive as ours." Kuzan muttered, as he stopped his bike and looked into the distance, where the island stood with nearly a thousand warships of different types in the harbor.
"I wonder if General Esdeath will be here... I hope so, otherwise this will get complicated. My mission is to capture her alive." Kuzan sighed, scratching his head, as he rested his bike on the ice.
He bent down and placed his right hand on the sea water.
"Ice... Age..."
In the blink of an eye, the sea in front of him froze, transforming into vast sheets of ice.
In less than ten seconds, the waves, the fish, the warships, the port and tens of thousands of people inside were instantly frozen by the icy wind.
There was no time to even scream, and the alarms never went off.
A deadly, icy silence.
“Ah, there are actually two intact breaths?”
At this time, Kuzan just stood up and showed a surprised look.
"Could it be Esdeath? Fine, then let's go meet her."
...
"Haa—haa—how dangerous! What the hell is going on?"
The current Vice Admiral of the Imperial Navy, Liver looked at the ice wall in front of him in doubt. He subconsciously controlled the water in the nearby fish tank to protect himself after sensing the crisis.
If it hadn't been for that wall, he would surely have ended up like everyone else in the room: frozen like an ice sculpture.
"What is this...?"
Liver stepped out of his office at the top of the tower and looked out at the port in horror. Everything he saw had completely frozen over, even part of the island had been transformed into a world covered in frost.
The Imperial Navy Headquarters was completely destroyed inexplicably!
[Bang!]
Suddenly, a loud crash brought him out of his thoughts. Liver looked over and saw his companion, Vice Admiral Enshin, emerging from a destroyed military dwelling, bare-chested and wielding a long, curved-edged sword.
One could tell that he was also in shock.
Enshin looked around the Marine Headquarters with a sullen face.
"Liver, what's going on here?"
Enshin, struggling to bear the cold, ran towards Liver while shouting. Even though Liver disapproved of Enshin's promiscuous actions within the navy, at that moment she had no choice but to cooperate with him, so she simply shook her head.
"I left my office just now, just like you. But from what I can see, we've been attacked. And whoever did it seems to have abilities very similar to General Esdeath's."
But Enshin said with a sullen face: "Is it possible that it was her?"
"What did you say?!" Liver was furious. "Do you know what you are talking about?"
"Humph, only those of us above the rank of lieutenant general know the specific information about the World Government. Esdeath must know more. Who knows if she has directly defected to the other camp?"
Enshin voiced his suspicions loudly and firmly. After all, he had been severely punished by Esdeath in the past, and his resentment towards her had not disappeared.
"You...!" Liver looked at Enshin in disbelief.
But the next moment a calm voice interrupted the tense atmosphere.
"Ahlalala~ Are you really fighting each other at a time like this?"
"Who's there?"
"Who are you?!"
Liver and Enshin turned towards the voice and saw a very tall man, dressed in a white suit and with curly hair, about thirty meters away.
Kuzan looked at the two of them calmly and asked: "Excuse the interruption, but do you know where Esdeath is?"
Liver and Enshin exchanged glances. Realizing that Esdeath had not betrayed the empire, they both breathed a sigh of relief. But that also confirmed that the ice surrounding them was the other party's work.
"You moron! As if we were going to tell you! Die!"
Enshin launched himself at Kuzan at breakneck speed. His Teigu, Shamshir, glowed dangerously in his hand.
"Moonlight Sword Dance!"
With a flurry of slashes, the wind blades formed a spherical shield around Enshin, protecting him as he launched his attack.
At the same time, Liver bit his arm, using his Teigu to draw out some of his blood and form crimson blades in the air.
"Blade of Blood!"
With a ferocious cry, sharp blood blades flew towards Kuzan from multiple angles.
"Wow, it seems Esdeath isn't here... how troublesome."
With a sigh, Kuzan exhaled a breath of icy cold air in Enshin's direction, enveloping him completely.
When the icy fog cleared, Enshin was completely frozen inside a block of ice.
"Ahlalala~ sorry, I don't like people who are full of swear words."
Kuzan looked indifferently at the frozen Enshin, knowing that he had killed him by freezing his organs and brain completely.
At the same moment, Liver's blood blades pierced through Kuzan's body, but it was only an afterimage.
"What...?!"
Before Liver could react, a large white hand, covered in frost, approached his face at a speed his body could not process.
In the next instant, everything went black for Liver, and he lost all consciousness in an instant.
Kuzan withdrew his hand, and with both hands in his pants pockets, he looked at the scene of destruction he had left behind.
"If Esdeath isn't here, she must be on the mainland, perhaps in the imperial capital."
...
Not even two days passed when Esdeath's dragon appeared in the sky, approaching at great speed.
"It's interesting that the entire Navy Headquarters was frozen."
Esdeath, standing on the back of her dragon, enjoyed the cold wind hitting her face.
In the face of the destruction of her subordinates, she did not show a hint of anger or sadness. On the contrary, an excited smile appeared on her face.
"Kuzan, the admiral of the World Government, huh? Then let me see the so-called highest combat power!"
The dragon sped toward the ice world below.
"Ahlalala~ you're finally here?"
Kuzan watched in surprise as Esdeath approached at high speed.
"She dared to come here alone, she really has the momentum of a navy admiral~"
