"No!" Bree's expression was determined, and she unfolded a rippled mirror in front of her chest with both hands, covering Katakuri from top to bottom.
The moment the mirror came into contact with Katakuri, Katakuri's strong body was sucked in by the mirror. Immediately afterwards, Bree also quickly got into the mirror, and the two figures disappeared in front of Hashirama's eyes. .
"Whizzing"
The wood thorns that followed flew out and pierced into the roots of the trees.
"Is this the Mirror Fruit?" Hashirama concentrated on sensing and found that the breath of the two people disappeared.
"However, with Katakuri's character, he will never run away..." Hashirama planned to deal with other members of the Charlotte family first.
"Huh..." Kricka let out a long sigh of relief. The wooden clones that besieged them were involved in this indiscriminate explosion and turned into humanoid wood that could not move.
"boom"
Clark smashed the remains of the wooden clone with a sword to vent his anger.
"All my subordinates were wiped out, and so were the enemies." Charlotte Dafu, a user with the ability to use the Transpiration Fruit, ignored her moaning subordinates who fell to the ground and stepped over their bodies: "At this moment, attack the enemy's main formation!"
"Bang!" Hashirama fell from the sky, and the hard tree trunk was cracked by his feet.
Dafu opened his eyes wide in surprise and shouted in disbelief: "Did Katakuri lose to you!?"
"He was rescued by others." Although Hashirama looked calm, his voice was full of anger: "I just saw it, you were indifferent to your injured subordinates and just watched them die!"
"Hmph." Daifuku scoffed at Hashirama's words. He rubbed his body quickly with his hands, and a large amount of smoke was emitted from the hole in the center of his belt. The smoke condensed into a lamp demon holding a long-handled sword.
"Go to hell!"
Dafu controlled the lamp demon and swung the long-handled sword towards Hashirama. The blade whipped up a strong wind in the air and immediately enveloped Hashirama.
Hashirama stepped around the blade and faced him, and his fist that gathered his strange power landed on the djinn's chest.
"Bang"
The surrounding space trembled, and the lamp demon was blasted into smoke with one punch. The shock wave that then spread set off air waves and blew away the smoke that the lamp demon turned into.
"What——!?" Dafu looked at this scene in disbelief.
"Dafu, be careful!" Krick's shout came from the side. Hashirama had already rushed in front of him, and his fist containing strange power was getting closer and closer to Dafu's shocked face.
"Bang!" The nearby Charlotte members were unable to save him, and hit Dafu on the cheek with a thunderous straight punch.
The punch was as powerful as a river and the sea, and it blasted into Dafu's slightly small head. Through the skin, flesh, and bones, the entire brain was shattered into a pile of paste.
Dafu's neck was crooked, and he flew backwards with his huge body. He was already dead and could no longer die.
In the mirror world, Bree was in shock, her heart was pounding, she was caressing her chest that was rising and falling violently, her breathing was rapid and heavy. If she were a step later, Katakuri might be impaled by the wood and turn into a hornet's nest.
"Bree, you shouldn't have taken such a big risk to save me." Katakuri propped his elbows on the ground and straightened his upper body with difficulty.
"No, Katakuri-nii!" Bree bit her lip tightly, not knowing she was bleeding. She shook her head slowly but firmly: "The situation of the Big Mom Pirates is very bad."
"You may not know that almost all the lower-level troops were wiped out, and several brothers and sisters also..." Bree did not continue and said, "We can't lose brother Katakuri again!"
Katakuri stood up and asked seriously: "How are the others?"
"..." Bree lowered her head, her lips trembling, and told Katakuri the specific battle situation succinctly and quickly.
Katakuri turned around so that Bree could not see his expression: "Bree, the statement that my back never touches the ground in daily life is actually all false."
"I knew it a long time ago." Bree lowered her head and whispered, "I secretly saw it in the mirror."
"Brother, you have been playing the perfect man for us who will never be underestimated by anyone, right?"
"..." Katakuri grinned, and finally said: "Brei, if it's you, you should be able to escape."
Bree held Katakuri's shoulders with both hands: "I, I won't run away!"
"Bree, listen to me." Katakuri continued: "You rush back to Cake Island immediately and escape with your young brothers and sisters. With the power of your Mirror Fruit, even the Dawn Pirates can It’s also hard to catch up with you.”
Bree said emotionally: "Brother Katakuri, please run away with us!"
"No..." Katakuri saw it clearly and said, "If I am with you, the Dawn Pirates will never let me go, and they will also harm you."
Bree burst into tears and asked, "Why!?"
"Because I am a pirate, even if I am hanged, there is nothing pitiful about me." Katakuri raised his head: "The crimes I committed are enough to sentence me to death."
"No, brother..." Bree continued to retort.
"I'm begging you, Bree."
"...!?" Bree opened her eyes wide and couldn't believe her ears. In her hazy vision, her brother, who had always been perfect, actually begged him!
"Being born into a pirate family has fixed our life trajectory and we can only become pirates...but I have never regretted it, because I am lucky to have a sister like you."
"Brother..." Bree pinched her knuckles until they turned white.
"To be honest, I hate my mother very much. She leaves this family without much affection, only violence and fear. Only by being with you can I enjoy the warmth of home."
"Mom will die today, and the country she built with her own hands will also perish, but..." Katakuri turned around: "My younger brothers and sisters who have not been infected by too many dye vats, there is still the possibility of re-cultivating them. Don’t deserve to die here.”
Katakuri put his hand on Bree's shoulder: "I will die today, but I want to die with dignity in the battle."
"At least, when you and your brothers and sisters remember me, you will know that I am a man who upholds justice and is not a coward who is greedy for life and afraid of death."
"I...get it." Bree's answer was weak and silent, her vision blurred by tears.
"Let me out." Katakuri said, "Let me stand in front of you for the last time."
…
Katakuri emerged from the rippling mirror, just in time to see Daifuku being punched to death by Hashirama.
"Brother Katakuri!" The Charlotte members around seemed to have found a backbone.
"..." Katakuri raised his eyes and glanced at everyone, hiding the pity in his eyes.
Although he knew the answer, Katakuri still asked tentatively: "Can you let my brothers and sisters go?"
"Brother Katakuri!?" The people around him were shocked.
Hashirama didn't lie to him and said bluntly: "Unfortunately, I can't make the decision."
"Really..." Katakuri took a deep breath, raised his arms in a fighting stance, clenched his fists, and said solemnly: "Come on!"
Hashirama took steps, one step, two steps, three steps, each step was faster than the previous one, and the stride became longer. A few seconds later, his figure was like an arrow leaving the string, rushing straight towards Katakuri.
Rice cakes emerged from the ground to form two donuts, and a huge fist covered in military colors protruded from the inside. Katakuri's red eyes stared at Hashirama who was charging towards him.
Katakuri waved his fists, and the fists extending from the inside of the donut hit Hashirama.
Looking at the extended glutinous rice fist, Hashirama did not retreat, but nimbly avoided it in the gap between attacks. The glutinous rice fist immediately landed on the vines, blasting out several large craters in an instant.
Hashirama rushed across the distance between the two in a blink of an eye. Katakuri lowered his center of gravity, grasped his balance, and aimed a jab at Hashirama's head.
Hashirama raised his arm to block Katakuri's fist. Without changing his posture, he punched Katakuri in the abdomen. According to the length of his arm, this punch would not touch Katakuri at all.
Unexpectedly, Katakuri's expression changed, and the glutinous rice in his abdomen turned into several holes.
Several wooden thorns shot out from Hashirama's fist and passed through the hole Katakuri had made in advance.
"Ah——!" A scream suddenly came from behind, passing through Katakuri's branches and mercilessly piercing into the bodies of several younger brothers and sisters.
Katakuri gritted his teeth, and the glutinous rice at the edge of the hollow squirmed quickly, sealing the branches that passed through his body inside his body to restrict Hashirama's movements.
"Click"
Unexpectedly, Hashirama himself broke the branch extending from his left fist first. A broken branch spun and fell into his palm. He threw it casually, and the branch turned into a javelin and went straight to Katakuri's face.
Katakuri tilted his head, narrowly avoiding the flying wooden thorns, but his posture changed, and the right arm blocking Hashirama's progress was swept away by Hashirama, and a straight punch exploded in his chest. .
"boom"
Katakuri's upper body leaned back, his strong body flew backwards, and the riding boots with spurs had already left the ground.
"Woo——"
His eyes widened, the soles of his feet off the ground were clasped on the ground, and with his amazing waist strength, he pulled his upper body back up again.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...!!" after regaining his strength, Katakuri let out a deafening war cry. His clenched fists filled the sky with fist shadows. Every time he punched, he was full of feelings for his younger brothers and sisters. Love.
“Oh oh oh—!”
"..." Hashirama noticed this from his opponent's fist, but still made up his mind and continued to attack Katakuri.
A battle that left no regrets and risked life and death unfolded in front of the eyes of several other people.
Cracker stood stunned on the spot. He had always believed that no matter how hard he tried, there was always someone he could not defeat. Understanding this truth was the real "growth".
But in front of him, even though Katakuri was at a disadvantage, he still waved his fist at the enemy he could not defeat, wounds accumulated on his body, and bright red blood flowed down.
Cracker gritted his teeth and said, "We... will come too!"
"But..." Several other people looked hesitant. Brother Dafu was punched to death by the enemy. He went up...
"Then I'll go by myself!" Crackle raised his sword and stepped forward to help.
"..." The other people looked at each other, gritted their teeth, and followed.
"..." In the midst of a fierce battle, Katakuri's blood-stained lips curved.
'You are my brothers and sisters that I am proud of...'
As several members of the Charlotte family joined the battle, Katakuri burst out with a powerful fighting force, and the balance of victory and defeat was once balanced.
But at this moment, Katakuri was like a rubber band that was stretched to the limit and could break at any time.
"boom!"
Another punch came, and Katakuri used his body to block the punch for his brother.
"Brother Katakuri!"
The tall body gradually collapsed, and the raised right leg slammed onto the ground. Katakuri's eyes fell on Hashirama's extremely calm face.
'Absolutely...absolutely...will protect you...'
"Oh oh oh——"
Blood continued to flow from the corners of his mouth, and Katakuri roared unwillingly. The ice under his feet turned into glutinous rice, and squirmed and quickly opened a huge cave. The shimmering sea water could even be seen directly above Hashirama.
Katakuri secretly activated his awakened ability and hollowed out the ice under his feet. He gathered the last bit of strength and pounced forward. In order to expand the capture area, his whole body turned into glutinous rice to form a surrounding net, and he tightly hugged Hashirama who was in mid-air. .
Hashirama shouted: "You will die!"
"Sorry, for my younger brothers and sisters..." Katakuri grinned, revealing a pair of sharp and terrifying fangs: "You come to hell with me!"
Katakuri enveloped Hashirama and slammed into the sea. As long as he fell into the sea, Hashirama, a Devil Fruit user, would definitely drown...
"Chi chi chi..."
The branches dyed bright red came out of his body, and Katakuri was instantly stabbed into a hornet's nest by the branches. Under the zero-distance contact, he could not avoid the sharp branches piercing out from Hashirama's body.
However, he didn't intend to hide.
"Ha ha!" Katakuri spat out a large mouthful of blood, still holding Hashirama in his arms, rushing towards the rising seawater as fast as a comet falling to the ground.
"Wow!"
The two fell into the sea, causing waves tens of meters high.
"Brother——!" Witnessing the last moment of Katakuri's battle through the mirror, Bray in the mirror world burst into tears and stumbled towards the mirror of Cake Island.
…
"You are a respectable opponent..." Hashirama laid Katakuri's body flat on the ground and closed his eyes.
The corners of Katakuri's slightly horrified mouth turned up, as if he was remembering something happy.
"Eric asked me to capture you alive before and wanted to control your body, but..." Hashirama shook his head.
"Brother Katakuri...!" Several members of the Charlotte family knelt on the ground, the sadness on their faces was beyond words.
A long time ago, his young brother died in front of his eyes. How was it similar to them...
Hashirama sighed with a heavy heart, but the Charlotte family's practice of using children for human experiments...
Although BigMom is the mastermind, these people are also accomplices and their crimes cannot be forgiven.
"We want to avenge Katakuri brother!" The remaining people didn't care about the difference in strength, with tears on their faces and weapons in hand, they rushed towards Hashirama regardless.
…
Sensing Katakuri's death, Charlotte Lingling was furious: "Useless thing!"
"..." Shanks frowned in disgust.
"Katakuri is so pitiful to have a mother like you."
"Guys who are useless are useless!" Charlotte Lingling raised the Napoleon sword wrapped in flames: "Eric, if you don't make it easy for me, I will never make it easy for you!"
Some people died, but not completely...
