Starting as a Roger Pirates Apprentice

Chapter 568: Chapter 568: Celebrating the Arrival of the 【Strongest Creature】

The atmosphere suddenly froze.

Everyone was stunned that a monster possessing Conqueror’s Haki at the king level was actually a brat about the same age as Luffy and the others.

And Dante simply couldn’t believe it...

The fat and ugly person in front of him... was actually his mom?!!!

Although she really didn’t look alike at all, the feeling couldn’t be wrong. Her Devil Fruit ability and several minor traits matched perfectly.

But...

Dante stood there in a daze for a moment, then lightly stepped forward.

[Multiplier · Hundredfold Speed]

In an instant, he crossed several thousand meters.

Under the glow of the sunset, the two Yonko stood directly before his more-than-three-meter-tall figure.

"So it really is..."

Now Dante confirmed it—this was indeed his mother, just in a severely out-of-shape state with a weakened will.

In his original world, even at sixty years old, his mother had always maintained a youthful and beautiful appearance.

The sudden comparison made it difficult for him to accept.

Meanwhile, Linlin and Kaido were completely dumbfounded.

What did this brat just say?

"Hey!!! Linlin!!!"

"When did you have a son like this?!!!"

Kaido asked in disbelief, cold sweat forming on his dragon-transformed face.

"I’ve never had one..."

Linlin wanted to deny it, but the more she looked at the young brat before her, the more familiar he seemed—especially that aura and that long hair.

As she stared, even her tone began to falter.

Could it be...

"Hey!!! Brat!!!"

Linlin hurriedly bent down and stared at Dante.

"Who is your father?!!!"

"My father?"

Dante hadn’t expected that his parents in this world weren’t a pair.

Well... even in his original world, they weren’t a pair either.

"Of course it’s..."

"The guy who planned all of this~"

As he spoke, Dante glanced up at the sky, seemingly meeting the gaze of a smiling Den Den Mushi somewhere far away.

And he publicly revealed his origins to everyone.

"Th—!!!"

Everyone froze on the spot. Even Linlin herself couldn’t believe it; her plump face twisted slightly.

Only Luffy looked confused, still curious about who this seemingly powerful newcomer was—

Until Zoro told him.

"Huh?!!! No way?!!!"

"You’re Orin and Big Mom’s son?!!!"

Luffy nearly dropped his jaw in shock and shouted.

In his mind, those two people barely had any connection at all—yet they actually had a son???

Dante returned to his initial calm demeanor. Facing the gazes of numerous monsters, he casually picked at his ear.

"Well... honestly, I’m not completely sure myself."

"Whether I was born naturally or scientifically cultivated by Vegapunk or someone else. Anyway, I carry the bloodline of those two."

Leaving aside everyone else’s reaction, Linlin felt overwhelming joy descend from the sky. Her head spun with excitement.

How could this be...

Had her dream suddenly come true?

That Orin guy really went and secretly used her blood for scientific cultivation. Things like this should be purely natural, shouldn’t they?

Linlin clasped her hands together beside her face, revealing a gentle motherly smile.

"So, Dante, what did you come here for?"

Faced with the maternal aura radiating from Linlin, Dante seemed completely unmoved, his expression remaining emotionless.

"What did I come for?"

"Of course—to complete a mission."

Dante vaguely knew that during the God Valley incident, his unreliable old man Azure Orin seemed to owe Black Gun a huge favor.

A father’s debt is repaid by the son, so he came here quite calmly to help.

One task was to beat all the monsters into the ground.

The other was to force the Straw Hat’s Devil Fruit to awaken.

"My old man told me to go on a killing spree here~"

"Kill? Who?"

Linlin asked, confused.

"Everyone, of course."

The strange atmosphere was instantly replaced by chilling killing intent. Dante’s expression didn’t change at all, yet it sent shivers down everyone’s spine.

Linlin shouted in disbelief:

"Impossible!!! I’m your mother, my child!!!"

Kaido, however, saw things clearly. This was clearly a hostile arrival from the start.

As for family affection between parent and child?

After raising Yamato for so many years, Kaido had long understood one truth—even blood relations meant nothing. Betrayal would still come when it came.

So striking first was the best option.

"Taking us down won’t be that easy!!!"

"Thunder—"

Kaido raised his kanabo high behind him. Linlin wanted to stop him, but it was already too late.

Dante looked at the raised spiked club as if he hadn’t seen it at all, calmly standing in place.

"—Bagua!!!"

Under the gazes of the Supernovas, Bullet, and Linlin, the blow powerful enough to knock Gear Fourth Luffy unconscious came crashing down toward the pink-haired figure without holding back.

The immense force created a sonic boom as it slammed violently into Dante.

"It hit!!!"

"That guy... is he okay??!"

Zoro stared at the smoke-filled area with a complicated expression. After all, he was his teacher’s son. Even if the man often toyed with them, the debt of gratitude still existed.

If his teacher’s son really died here...

It wasn’t that he lacked confidence—but taking that attack head-on without defense would severely injure even someone as tough as Luffy.

Even a Marine Admiral probably wouldn’t come out unharmed.

Kid stared intensely at the smoke.

"Did he really just die like that?"

Law shook his head.

"No... it can’t be that simple."

The Haki-coated kanabo continuously emitted black-red lightning. Though Kaido’s strike had landed cleanly, there was no joy on his face.

Instead, his pupils shrank, cold sweat running down his face.

"You’ve got to be kidding me..."

Before everyone’s eyes, the dust from the violent collision dispersed.

That figure still stood there.

Almost completely unchanged.

Calmly looking at Kaido.

The Haki-coated kanabo was pressed directly against his head, sparks flying like metal grinding against metal.

Because of Conqueror’s Haki Infusion, a few drops of blood slowly fell—but they healed and vanished almost instantly.

The entire battlefield fell silent.

Especially Bullet, a monster obsessed with physical strength, who now began questioning reality itself.

"He actually... tanked it purely with physical durability?"

"Is that really human???"

Dante replied expressionlessly:

"When you have the world’s strongest physique, isn’t this completely normal?"