One Piece: Saving Hancock with the Batto Batto no Mi

After a tense tripartite negotiation, Sephiroth signaled his subordinates to release the captives from their bonds. The Sky Knight members and the Shandia guerrilla fighters exchanged glances. Not long ago, both sides were prepared to engage in a bloody battle, but now they suddenly found themselves at peace. Their mood could be described as a mixture of bewilderment and relief. However, since the leaders of both parties had agreed to shake hands and make peace, they naturally couldn't refuse.

"New God, I don't know when you will take us to find the Shandora Lamps?" Leaning on his staff, the Shandia Chief gazed at the silver-haired youth. He had little resistance to referring to Sephiroth as "God." After all, "God" was merely a name for the highest administrator of the Sky Island, and even Gan Fall used to call himself God.

"Right now is fine," Sephiroth replied casually. As he spoke, Sephiroth carefully sensed one of the bats he had released. Under his deliberate control, the bat had flown to the center of the island, right at the peak of the Giant Jack, above the island clouds, at the dozens of meters high Golden Bell tower.

He drew the long blade at his waist and opened a spatial door with a single slash, creating a dimensional portal. Instantly, the massive Golden Bell tower appeared in everyone's eyes, shimmering brightly.

"The Shandora Lamps..." The old chief's eyes welled up with tears, and his slightly frail body quickly passed through the spatial door, falling to his knees before the magnificent, massive Golden Bell tower.

Both the Sky Knight members and the guerrillas followed, walking into the portal, and observing this astonishing masterpiece. Under the sunlight, the colossal bell, entirely made of pure gold, shone with dazzling brilliance. Upon the vast, enormous golden base, two thick golden pillars were erected, and at their peak, two widening rods poured with gold, lifting the large golden bell beneath them. Beneath the bell's base, an ancient light blue tablet was inscribed, with unknown ancient script carved on its surface.

"New God, how did you find this Golden Bell tower?" Gan Fall glanced down at Cloud Island and realized that their current location was much higher than the Giant Jack's location. He even saw his own temple in the center of the Giant Jack looking a bit unrealistic from this height.

"Just stumbled upon it," Sephiroth smiled and said casually, offering no specific explanation.

Among the Shandia people, a fat man reached out and gently touched the ancient text that Gol D. Roger had asked Kozuki Oden to engrave. He said with a surprised look on his face, "Look, next to the inscription, there are lines on the golden base... Why is this kind of text also marked?"

Sephiroth looked at the white-haired old man and asked doubtfully, "Since it's marked on the outside of the stone tablet, it shouldn't be a big deal, right? Old Chief, can you read the text on it?"

"I don't know what it says either. The method of reading these words has long been buried in history." The Shandia Chief walked to the golden base and gently reached out and caressed the ancient text carved by Kozuki Oden, and he said with a sigh and a shake of his head.

"Oh~! That's it!" Sephiroth, feigning surprise, acknowledged. He didn't explain to the crowd about the words Gol D. Roger had left behind. The Shandia Clan was obsessed with the Golden Bell, first to fulfill the agreement between Mont Blanc Noland and Kalgara four hundred years ago, and second to protect the light blue historical text. If they knew that this piece of historical text had been led by Gol D. Roger to Laugh Tale, it would mean that the Shandia Clan had completed their mission. In this way, the significance of the Golden Bell would be greatly reduced, and the trump card he used to restrain the Shandia Clan would diminish considerably.

After much deliberation, the crowd, through the spatial door, moved the Golden Bell to Gan Fall's temple... Oh! No, it was Sephiroth's temple now.

With excitement, the old chief stood on the bell's stand, pulled the golden chain, tugged the bell's clapper, and struggled to ring the Golden Bell.

Clang~! Clang~! Clang~!

The mighty and beautiful sound of the bell, rippling through the sky, spread out from the temple, and echoed across Angel Island and Upper Yard. The Sky Island residents, all subconsciously looking towards the temple, were immersed in the beautiful sound of the bell.

Sephiroth left the specific three-party negotiation matters to Gild Tesoro, while he spread his black flesh wings and flew to Birka, Sky Island, along the cloud path in Skypiea's southeast. He flew for about two hours before he saw a city built upon white island clouds.

Sephiroth observed that the residents of Birka Sky Island generally wore white religious attire. His gaze, following the somewhat winding white cloud stairs, led all the way to the top, where he saw the city's peak, with a religious temple guarded by many clergy guards on its periphery. In the sky, extraordinary black bats, separated from Sephiroth's body, spread towards the island from all sides.

Birka Sky Island, in front of a wooden house, in a pumpkin patch.

Five men in white religious attire, with mocking expressions on their faces, stood before a slightly thin young man with a hoe in his hand. His upper body was bare, his lower body wore baggy pants, and a white turban covered his head, revealing two distinctive long earlobes.

"Hey! Enel, it's time to make offerings to the Gods again this month."

Hearing this, Enel suppressed the anger in his heart, and he said firmly, "But I already paid the money once at the beginning of the month, and now it's only the middle of the month. According to regulations, don't you only need to pay once a month?"

"Hah! Because you used to blaspheme God, you dared to say that God's incarnation is just a somewhat strange fruit. If you don't double the offerings, the Gods will not forgive you!"

Enel's face grew gloomier. He truly didn't understand why the islanders regarded a blue fruit with spiral patterns on its skin as the incarnation of God! It was said that hundreds of years ago, Birka had a powerful and extremely prestigious God whose soul attached to that fruit after his death. It was said that as long as people put the fruit in the temple and devoted themselves to offering to it, that God would be able to revive.

In Enel's opinion, this was pure nonsense! What kind of God's incarnation was it? Just an excuse for those priests to use this as a pretext to constantly fleece money from the islanders! If the priestly community wasn't large and the islanders couldn't fight back, they would never willingly hand over that so-called offering money! Therefore, he would complain to the people around him that the God they worshipped was just a strange fruit.

"I don't have extra money to provide."

"No!?"

"It seems, we'll have to teach you a little lesson."

The five men in white religious attire, with sinister sneers on their faces, punched Enel in rapid succession.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The fists landed on Enel's body one after another, but he didn't dare to fight back at all. Aside from the fact that he was unable to defeat them, these self-proclaimed priest bastards never hesitated to retaliate mercilessly against those who disobeyed them, provoking and ganging up until the victim was completely crushed!

After a while, Enel fell to the ground, with a bruised nose, a swollen face, and bruises all over his body, but he could only choose to hold his head and be beaten, enduring it in silence.

One of the priests spat on Enel and said in a fierce tone, "Bah! Listen to me. If you can't come up with it tomorrow, we'll keep beating you up. Let's go!"

Only when the five priests had gone far away, Enel staggered and rose from the field.

Squeaking, squeaking.

A swarm of black bats flew from a distance, and in front of Enel, to his astonished gaze, the bats quickly converged into a silver-haired youth with a mask on his face.

Sephiroth looked him up and down, and the young man with long earlobes in front of him said with a hint of surprise, "Your name is Enel?"

"My name is Enel, and you are....."

Sephiroth, who didn't report his name, said with great interest, "I'm curious, what fruit were you just talking about?"

Enel glanced at the silver-haired youth slightly before continuing, "You're from outside Birka, aren't you? The fruit we were just talking about is a fetish offered in the center of the temple, but... It's just those hateful priests, just a disguise to keep asking for money from the islanders!"

"Interesting.... Is that the temple?" Sephiroth extended his finger towards the highest point of the island, the religious temple.

"Yes!" Enel nodded with a grim face. Those priests relied on their large numbers and monthly worship to demand money from them. He had long been extremely displeased with the priests in his heart!

Sephiroth, sensing the shift in Enel's mood, smiled faintly, "It seems you resent them? Do you want revenge?"

Hearing this, Enel immediately looked at the silver-haired youth with an inexplicable expression on his face. He said in a low voice, "The priests are so numerous that revenge is impossible."

"If you don't try, how do you know it's impossible? Are you always willing to be hunted by them and not want to teach them a harsh lesson?"

Hearing this, Enel clenched his fists tightly, and a hint of cruelty flashed in his eyes, "How will you teach them a lesson?"

"Teaching those people a lesson isn't too difficult for me... However, I have a condition."

"What condition?"

"If I help you get your revenge, how about you become my little brother in the future?" A faint smile flashed in Sephiroth's eyes.

After all, Enel was a villainous boss in the original work. In terms of potential, he should be far better than an ordinary passerby. Although this person hadn't eaten the Goro Goro no Mi now and seemed average, he felt that he could make the other his little brother first. If the other person did well in the future, Sephiroth wouldn't mind giving him a Devil Fruit.

Enel pondered for a moment before nodding and saying, "Deal!"