Starting as a Roger Pirates Apprentice

Chapter 531: The Chasm Between Observation Haki

In theory, the plan to assassinate Linlin was possible. Unfortunately, Luffy and the others were far too weak, not to mention the obstruction from Katakuri and the rest.

As the shattered photo of the nun appeared again, Big Mom began to go mad, letting out a piercing Conqueror’s Haki scream. Orin isolated the space and simply watched this farce.

In short, Germa 66 plus the Straw Hat Pirates plus Bege went on a frantic escape from Cake Island after failing to assassinate Big Mom. It could be said they pushed Devil Fruit usage to the limit: everyone hid inside Bege’s body, and Caesar carried Bege and flew away. Facing the many elites of the Big Mom Pirates, Caesar, already on the brink of death, was so scared he almost pissed himself.

"Orin-sama, save me!!!"

Hearing this, Orin set down his teacup and looked toward the distant Caesar with some resignation. This guy was really unlucky—ever since wrapping up the Dark Sun God research project, he’d been drifting around, used in turn by Doflamingo, Bege, Big Mom, and others—pitiful.

"Well... let’s just count it as helping Luffy live until the moment he awakens Nika."

And as a bit of payback for Caesar’s years of helping with research, Orin lightly tapped the table again. An earthquake began to spread across the entire Cake Island, and the whole cake castle started to shake!!!

Big Mom was thrown off balance by the quake and fell from the cake castle. Everyone was left in a sorry state. Only Katakuri sensed whose hand this abnormal quake came from.

Facing Katakuri’s gaze, Orin simply stood in midair, one arm around Sammi, and stepped into the mirror world.

Don’t be so angry~

At worst, I’ll give you a buff later.

Ignoring the little figurine’s dissatisfaction, Orin used the convenience of mirror space to send Sammi back to the Sabaody Archipelago. As for the other underworld bosses, including Stussy, they all had some strength of their own, so Orin couldn’t be bothered to care.

Looking at the Straw Hat crew who had already escaped the range of the cake castle, and at the castle reduced to ruins, the Charlotte Family fell into chaos. Big Mom’s hunger pangs flared up and she began to wreak havoc, casually crushing one of her own sons to death.

"Wedding cake..."

Katakuri’s head was about to explode—none of them were ever worry-free.

"What do we do?! The wedding cake has already been destroyed!!!"

One of the Charlotte children shouted.

"The head chef has already passed out—who can stop Mom now?!"

"If we have to say, it’s only that Orin-sama. There’s no choice—we can only lure Mom to the Straw Hat brat!!!"

...

The pursuit continued. Inspired by Orin, Katakuri headed toward the slowly healing crack between the mirror world and reality—he was going to lie in wait.

...

And Orin?

He doubled back, surveying the scenery inside the mirror world. It had to be said, it was a perfect transit space, and Orin liked it a lot.

With his Observation Haki and spatial power, he could use mirrors as a medium to forcibly tear open spatial rifts and use the mirror world for ultra-long-distance spatial movement—no worse than the Paw-Paw Fruit.

So...

Warp-Warp Fruit awakening = Op-Op Fruit + Press-Press Fruit + Tremor-Tremor Fruit + Mirror-Mirror Fruit + Float-Float Fruit + Slow-Slow Fruit...

Right???

After Katakuri and Brulee arrived, they naturally noticed Orin standing in front of a mirror, looking around.

"Orin-sama???"

Katakuri clearly hadn’t expected Orin to still be in the mirror world.

"Oh? It’s you two~"

Orin tilted his head to glance at them, then slowly walked over, looking around as he went.

"This really is a convenient ability~"

"You know, even with my Warp-Warp Fruit, a single teleport is at most tens of thousands of kilometers. But moving through space here only takes a few hundred meters~"

"Well?"

Orin suddenly turned back and smiled at Katakuri. The other’s eyes burst with a crimson glow—he had clearly already seen what Orin was about to say in the future.

So Orin didn’t say it out loud.

But Katakuri broke out in cold sweat, stumbled back several steps, and looked as if he couldn’t accept it.

"What’s wrong?"

"Katakuri!!!"

Brulee didn’t understand what was happening. Seeing Katakuri so shaken, she felt a surge of worry. After all, her Katakuri was always known for absolute calm and strength—this was a side of him she had almost never seen.

"No..."

Katakuri’s pupils trembled, because in his foresight he had already seen what Orin wanted to say, which was...

"Hand over that ability."

Hand it over?

How?

Either hand over Brulee as a person, or hand over the Devil Fruit ability—and for an ability to reappear, the prerequisite was the previous user’s death...

No matter which it was, for Katakuri, a man who cherished his siblings the most, it was unacceptable.

He clenched his fists, as if making some resolve. Even knowing the outcome ahead was likely death, he felt no fear.

"I refuse."

Katakuri said coldly.

"Is that so? Then that’s really troublesome~"

Hearing this, Orin didn’t seem angry at all. He pinched his chin thoughtfully.

Then, the two sides’ incomparably calm gazes burst into crimson light at the same time!!!

"This is?!!!"

The ordinary officers of the Charlotte Family were stunned by the scene before them. Looking at the two men, it was as if they were using the same move.

"It’s said that if Observation Haki is developed to the extreme, you can briefly glimpse a corner of the future. The two men in front of us actually both have such an ability!!!"

"Aren’t they basically monsters?!"

"Even though Katakuri is very strong, the other one is Orin..."

The people of the Big Mom Pirates basically had no will to fight. After all, the one they were facing was a legendary pirate!!!

And the two who could see the future at the same time wore very different expressions.

Orin looked relaxed, often seeing Katakuri struggle desperately, trying every way to change a losing future.

Katakuri’s face was covered in cold sweat. No matter what future he saw, it would be mercilessly broken by the other side—and in an instant.

He couldn’t see the path of the attack, couldn’t see the process of the strike—only a future of despair.

All there was, was instantaneous annihilation.

He had expected the gap in Observation Haki to be significant, but... but...

How could there be such outrageous nonsense in this world?!!!

Could the gap in Observation Haki really be this enormous?!!!!