122 No Ordinary Demon

Going back a few minutes to when all the Demons moved towards their targets and position.

As Roman was charging at Daifuku he knew he had to try and finish his target off as soon as possible.

[Malia won't be able to last that long against a man like that, even with the support of Shaya and Benji. I need to finish my target off and help her before she's overwhelmed.]

Thinking to there, Roman dragonized and with a flap of his large Golden Wings shot towards the Yonko Executive.

Seeing the transformation of the incoming rookie and remembering his older brothers warning, Daifuku didn't dare to take him lightly. He rubbed his belly and summoned a giant Halberd Wielding dark blue skinned Genie.

"It was you who killed my brother Oven wasn't it?"

Hearing his question, Roman didn't bother lying. He calmly nodded as he flew towards him.

"And what if it was?"

Daifuku's eyes went red as he said coldly.

"Then you can go apologise to him in your next life.

Fiend Cut!"

The giant blue genie turned black in colour, Halberd and all and swung his halberd down aiming to chop the Dragon man in 2.

When Roman saw the incoming attack, his pupils dilated.

[Halberd Grandmaster!]

Roman himself was still only at the peak of the Halberdsman Boundary. For his age that was an impressive accomplishment, comparable to both Katakuri and Kurogane, but the man he was fighting against currently was not his age. The gap in comprehension was like a giant rift, but Roman wasn't scared. He could feel that although he had been surpassed in comprehension, after his most recent breakthrough, the powerup from dragonizing and the energy channelled from Benji's music he had surpassed his opponent in raw power.

"Halberd of the Rising Sun!"

A blazing golden aura surrounded Roman's Halberd as he slashed out from bottom to top aiming to intercept the genie's attack.

As the 2 attacks met the impact was enough to create a giant crater in the ground around them. Both Roman and Daifuku's genie were forced 10 meters back before stabilizing. The halberd in the genies hand had actually melted slightly at the point where the weapons collided and even though Daifuku wasn't the one taking the attack directly, when he saw that attack he still felt as if a small sun was rapidly approaching.

[Neither Akainu nor Oven could make me feel like that…

What's with this rookie?]

As for Roman, he noticed that even though the raw power behind Daifuku's attack wasn't equal to his own, it was as if the halberd in the genies hand became an unstoppable force of nature. He had been at the peak of the Halberdsman boundary for quite a while and now for the first time since reaching that point, the bottleneck he had faced had seemed to loosen slightly. Feeling the slight progression is his Halberdsmanship he excitedly looked at the Yonko Executive as if he saw a new play thing.

"Again!"

As he said that, the young First Mate darted straight at the Genie hoping to learn as much as he could from their battle.

Jack who was watching Roman's battle with Daifuku couldn't help but want to get his hands on the Heavenly Demon's first mate now more than ever.

[With his strength he'd be 2nd only to us Disasters and with his strength and age his future is simply limitless, he could end up being the first mate to the captain in the future. I have to get my hands on him!]

On the other side of the street Malia had already started her battle with her old boss Vernon. Even though her former superior wasn't going all out, and she had the support of Benji's music, she was finding herself on the losing side.

Just as Vernon seemed to teleport behind her and casually thrust a knife like hand towards her heart, Vernon felt his blood stir as if it wanted to break free from his body, before an arrow pierced a whole in the side of his head.

The crowd looked at Vernon's arrow pierced head in shock.

"Did he die?"

"Just like that?!"

Shaya who had shot the arrow, ignored his 'body' and sighed as she said indifferently.

"That technique of yours… I presume it's the League's famous movement technique, "Transient Shade". It really does somewhat resemble the "Vanishing Step"…"

As she said that, Vernon's 'dead body' vanished into the wind and his real body appeared directly in front of her. He coated his index finger in a layer of haki and calmly thrust his hand out. As everyone saw his attack they were stunned as his hand seemed to multiply, one was aiming to pierce between Shaya's eyebrow and the other aimed at her heart.

The audience thought it was too fast for Shaya as she acted as if she hadn't even seen him move.

"Is this the end of one of the Demonic Trio?!"

Even Vernon thought it was over after his attack.

"But not as good as the real Vanishing Step."

When he heard the sound of a female's cold indifferent voice appear behind him, he couldn't help but spin round in shock. As he turned around he saw Shaya flying in the sky with 2 scarlet wings attached to her back. She looked at him with the 2 black rings in her scarlet iris' spinning in opposite directions.

He frowned as he saw her form. As a powerhouse from the same generation, he'd also clashed with Mihawk before. So when he saw Shaya's Vanishing Step and her eyes, he quickly saw the link.

"The Dracule family's Vanishing Step and their Hawkeye technique…

Who are you exactly?!"

In fact he wasn't the only person to wonder about that. Shaya didn't pay his question any mind as she turned to look at Sabo and Silk who were slowly being overrun by the combined forces of the Marines and the remaining Big Mom Pirates present. She then looked over to Malia and asked.

"If you were to go all out would you be able to last 1 minute against him?"

When she heard her question, she didn't know how Shaya was able to know she was holding back. She couldn't possibly know that Shaya had the spiritualist attribute of observation haki and when using the Hawkeye technique she was able to see through the abilities of those whose observation haki was weaker than her own.

When she looked at Malia she noticed that Malia wasn't a paramecia as she had previously thought when seeing her using her shadow powers, but a Zoan. Even though she wasn't able to see what Zoan it was, she could see that the energy of her devil fruit was no weaker than Sabo and Roman's meaning she too was a Mythical Zoan!

No one alive knew the truth about her Devil Fruit, not even Benji. She kept it a secret as having a secret like that could save your life at the right moment. Even though she was reluctant to go all out in such a public environment she didn't have a choice anymore.

Suddenly she started growing pitch black feathers from her snow white skin, a pair of black feathered wings sprouted from her back and her normally shaped nose grew out in a cone shape.

"CAWWW!"

As she screamed everyone present looked at the girl in shock, the weaker present even covered their ears as blood trickled out.

Vernon looked at Malia's bird like form in shock and a hint of regret.

"You're not a Paramecia?!"

Jack's eyes burned with undisguised lust when he saw her.

"Mythical Zoan; Tengu! The beast pirates only have a total of 6 Mythical Zoan's out of thousands, but these Heavenly Demon's only have 3 Zoan's and each and every one of them are Mythical Zoan's?! Since when do Mythical Zoan's grow on trees?!"

Ori smiled when he saw her transformation.

"There really is no such thing as an ordinary Demon!"