The aftermath of the earth-shattering battle shook nearly the entire Grand Line.
Hadō no Ninety-Nine: Five Swirling Dragons of Destruction—five colossal, almost materialized Reiatsu dragons, hundreds of meters long, spiraled through the battlefield, consuming everything in their path.
Perospero, aboard the flagship of the Big Mom Pirates, desperately erected a candy barrier in an attempt to resist.
The result? It was obliterated in an instant, swallowed whole by the roaring dragons.
Then, in the face of such overwhelming power, Four Emperors Charlotte Linlin could only watch in horror.
In a single moment, the flagship of the Big Mom Pirates was completely shattered!
At that very moment, the "Lonely Red" Baloric Redfield and the gravely wounded "Devil's Heir" Douglas Bullet unleashed their most powerful abilities in unison.
One drenched the entire sea in blood, while the other activated his Combined Devil Fruit Awakening, merging all the wreckage of the sunken pirate ships in the vicinity into a colossal, island-sized purple-black monstrosity.
Raising its enormous right arm, Bullet charged up his Ultimate Cannon, aiming to counter the devastating force of the Reiatsu dragons.
The result?
Despite his monstrous attack, it only managed to delay the dragons for a fleeting moment before being ruthlessly devoured.
BOOM! BOOM!
The sea boiled.
The very fabric of space trembled, splintering into white cracks that spread across the sky.
Such was the terrifying destructive power of Hadō no Ninety-Nine: Five Swirling Dragons of Destruction.
The sheer might that nearly shattered the Grand Line left everyone—Revolutionary Army forces, Magellan, and countless others—trembling in fear.
Then, as the cataclysmic storm of destruction subsided, silence fell upon the battlefield.
A battlefield where one man had stood alone against the Great Pirate Alliance.
And now, within reach of his overwhelming terror—
Only silence remained.
Before their eyes lay a vast, desolate sea—a "Death Restricted Zone" with no visible boundaries. Every force that had gathered against him—thousands of pirate ships, escaped monsters from Impel Down, the formidable Big Mom Pirate Alliance—
All had vanished.
The waters in front of the Red Line, nearly destroyed, ceased their torrential downpour as the high temperatures evaporated the storm, leaving only the sun shining once more.
"This power... Is that man even human?"
"Even a god... No, perhaps even gods would be nothing before him?!"
The battlefield was frozen in an eerie, stunned silence.
As they beheld the sheer, crushing dominance of one man against an entire Great Pirate Alliance, their gazes turned toward the black-haired young man standing amidst the devastation.
Bai Ye.
He had single-handedly obliterated the strongest forces of the New World.
Yet, his expression remained indifferent.
There was no excitement in having eliminated Big Mom and her forces.
No sense of satisfaction in crushing Lonely Red and Bullet.
Instead, his gaze was calm—detached, as if everything that had just transpired was nothing more than a trivial inevitability.
Because from the very beginning—
Bai Ye never considered them a threat.
It didn't matter how many pirates, how many forces, or even if the underground world, bounty hunters, and power-hungry kingdoms joined the fray.
Their fate had been sealed from the start.
Current Status
[Host: Bai Ye]
[Current Template: 'Yamamoto Genryūsai']
[Zanpakutō: Ryūjin Jakka (Remnant Fire Sword) - Unlocked]
[Shinigami Abilities: 'Kidō' - Unlocked]
[Physical Arts: 'Ikkotsu', 'Nikotsu' - Unlocked]
[Template Unlock Progress: 95.2%]
With the fall of Im and the obliteration of the Great Pirate Alliance, Bai Ye's template had reached 95.2% completion.
Only a sliver remained before full mastery.
Even before this battle, after reclaiming his youth, a mere leak of his Reiatsu had caused the sea to overturn and the skies to collapse.
Now, with his template nearly at its peak—
If Bai Ye were to unleash his Bankai once more…
The entire Grand Line wouldn't just be altered—it would be completely and utterly evaporated.
Bai Ye turned his attention inward.
"System, I have the ability to decide when to leave this world, correct?"
Two options surfaced before him.
Since Bai Ye had accomplished everything he set out to do, he now had time to make his final decisions.
[Yes, the system only provides auxiliary functions. When the Host leaves is determined by the Host's will.]
[However, if the Host remains in the current world for more than ten years at a time, they will lose the ability to travel back and forth—unless they replenish the world's "Origin Power".]
"Ten years?" Bai Ye mused. "That's more than enough."
"But what exactly is 'Origin Power'?"
For forty years, Bai Ye had lived in the world of One Piece as a transmigrator, but this was the first time he had heard of such a concept.
[The Origin Power is the core energy that maintains a world's stability. Every living being contains traces of it, and it exists everywhere. If a world loses too much Origin Power, it collapses.]
[Because each world's Origin Power is unique, outsiders are naturally repelled. To remain, an outsider must continuously consume Origin Power to stabilize their existence.]
"I see…"
Simply put, the Origin Power maintains a world's stability.
As an outsider, Bai Ye's very existence consumed it.
And the stronger he became, the more Origin Power was required to sustain him.
In the past, before awakening the Shinigami template, the consumption had been negligible.
But now, after cutting down countless powerful foes and pushing his template further toward completion—
His presence in this world was devouring Origin Power at an alarming rate.
Now, with nearly ten years at his disposal and the ability to travel back and forth, Bai Ye had no further questions for the system.
Instead, he turned his focus to the future.
What would he do with the time remaining?
With the world government gone, what new life and beginning awaited him?