Animeverse Slayer!

Shiki raised his arms.

The ground trembled before cracking, large pieces of rocks floated towards him. The pieces crumbled and formed an incomparably large lion head.

Armed!

The lion head turned pitch black with a hint of purple.

"Lions Roar!"

Shiki punched out. The lion head pounced towards Leo with tremendous power.

Leo had a calm look on his face. His sword was turning blacker by the second. An overbearing sword intent was condensed on the edge of his blade.

"Merciful Rain!"

When the lion head was a feet away from him, he waved his sword.

Swish!

A sword ray flashed. The incomparably large lion head filled with power was sliced in half. It crumbled and fell apart.

The overbearing sword ray wasn't the least bit weakened and continued on it's path.

Shiki had a solemn expression on his face.

"Lion's Rage!"

He moved incredibly fast and slashed with his legs. Sword rays covered the sky and welcomed Leo's sword strike.

Boom! Crack!

The sword rays collided and a shockwaves spread out in every direction. The air was twisted and torn apart, the ground below was shredded to pieces.

Leo's sword strike was stronger and forced it's way through the sky full of sword rays created by Shiki.

This brat!

Shiki grinded his teeth.

Armed!

He clad his legs in busoshoku haki. He slashed across the sky and struck at Leo's sword energy.

Shiki felt as if he crashed into a rain of sword rays. His body was being subjected to innumerable amounts of condensed sword energy.

"Break!"

He roared and pushed forward. His busoshoku haki gave off even more frightening power and forcefully slashed through Leo's sword strike.

Shiki felt his c.h.e.s.t getting stuffy. He felt something sweet in his mouth.

I am gonna kill that brat!

He was furious and about to rush at Leo when he lost sight of the latter.

Suddenly he felt cold on the back of his neck.

Leo emerged behind him. His sword was darker than the darkest night, the edge was painted deep red in wave like pattern.

Tremendous amount of energy was condensed on his sword.

Merciful Rain!

Coldness flashed across his eyes as he slashed down.

After his battle with Big Mom he grew tremendously and was now able to do this move twice with full power.

An arc of blue sword ray flashed.

Armed!

Shiki immediately used busoshoku haki to protect his entire body.

Slash!

With no resistance Leo's sword energy cut into his body and drew blood.

Bleh!

Shiki spat out blood. He raised the strength of his haki to resist the sword ray but it was useless.

The sword ray only paused for a second before cutting deeper into his body.

How can I be defeated...

This was his last thought before the sword ray broke through his haki.

Leo put the sword back into it's scabbard. His face was pale and he was breathing hard.

"Your era has passed."

Shiki had an unsightly expression on his face. A thin red line extended from his temple, his body split in two and fell down with a rain of blood.

Shiki's death caused the island to tremble, whatever power that was keeping the land mass in the sky disappeared. It slowly started to drop down.

Leo used the remainder of his strength and used Geppo to control his descent.

Crash!

The huge land mass crashed into the sea and created large waves. For a while the sea churned before settling down.

Leo landed on the island and raised his left hand and on his wrist was a small watch type den-den mushi.

"Mace, follow my vivre card and come get me."

"Yes, sir!"

Mace's voice rang from the other side.

Leo lost all power and laid down on the broken ground. His eyelids felt heavy and he slowly closed his eyes.

When he opened them again he found himself in his cabin. The small wounds on his body was treated and he found several plates of grilled meat and soup on the table.

He cracked his neck and started to eat. He felt empty inside and wanted to fill it up as soon as possible.

After having his fill Leo walked out and saw Mace.

"Sir, you are awake!"

The crew reacted and greeted him.

"What's the status?"

He asked Mace.

"Sir, after your left several more of those beasts appeared. I took out men and took care of them, though none of our men was killed some were seriously injured."

Leo nodded and said, "Let's go back. Once we are on my island Shinobu can patch them up."

"Yes, sir!"

Mace suddenly said, "Sir, you defeated Shiki."

Leo didn't react much and said, "No, I defeated a broken relic of the past. He was old and weak, in his heyday I wouldn't be his match."

"But sir, this is Shiki! The Golden Lion Shiki! He was a legend in the seas. No matter what, you defeated him. Even if he was not at his best, there aren't that many people who could battle him."

Hm.

Leo tersely acknowledged and sat on the helm of the ship.

After a day of travel they got back.

Just as Leo got off a white figure rushed at him from the sky.

Leo was surprised to see who it was.

"Snow?"

On his shoulder was a snow falcon about a meter big. It had soft white feathers and pure blue eyes.

Snow rubbed her head against Leo's c.h.e.s.t and let out a satisfying yelp.

Mace was excited when he saw Snow.

"It grew so much in a several days! I knew it had a fast growth phase but I never imagined it to be so fast."

Leo nudged Snow's head and saw Shinobu coming from the distance. She had a bag on her shoulder.

"Get the injured men."

Leo said to Mace.

Immediately several men wrapped in bandages and groaning in pain was carried out.

Shinobu checked them one by one and mixed several bottles of drugs together before applying them over their wounds. She then used her 'Breath' to treat the wounds from inside.

"Have them take this once every three hours. Give them some light food as well, they will be alright after a day of rest."

Leo didn't bother her when she was working and waited on the side.

After she was done she asked Leo, "You coming?"

"In a minute."

Leo answered and called Mace over.

"Mace, our crew is weak. The top ranks are alright but the middle and lower ranks are a problem. Select a few with better performance, it's time to groom some fighters. I don't want to take care of every single task."