Space-Space Fruit in One Piece

While Eren slowly turned around, he noticed that Enel had started looking at him with a hint of panic. During Paolo's speech, he had also taken off Eren's blindfold, enabling him to see the results of their fight.

The entire hall was completely destroyed, with pillars in small pieces and large amounts of the roof coming down from above them. Enel's opponent was barely recognizable right now, with burn-marks covering most of her body.

'He's really ruthless when his earlobes are insulted.' Eren thought.

Afterwards he looked towards Wyper, and his heart began to ache. The Shandian was covered in blood, with one of his arms weirdly dislocated and broken. His entire body was shaken and he was on his last leg.

Seeing how much the warrior he had forcibly recruited suffered, even though he didn't have to, made him feel bad. It was always hard to see your crew get hurt, as could be seen from Luffy's reaction in the anime.

And Eren truly considered Wyper as part of his crew now. Even after only traveling with the stoic warrior for a single week, he still felt like a part of the team. Seeing him in such a state made Eren's blood boil.

"You seem unhappy, what's going on, slave?" Paolo's voice resounded behind him, making Eren's rage increase to an even higher level. Paolo suddenly walked next to him and put his hand on his shoulder as if they were buddies.

"This dude is on his last leg already. What a poor guy. What do we say, do we put him out of his misery?" The warlord asked with fake sympathy, before giving Eren the command to kill Wyper.

He tried his best to stop himself from moving, but even with all his willpower working against his body, he was still taking small steps towards Wyper one at a time. The only positive thing he noticed was that Paolo seemed to be unable to use his Celestial Fruits powers.

Eren neared Wyper one painful step at a time, screaming and raging in his mind, but nothing was working. When he was just a few steps away from the extremely injured Shandian, Enel suddenly materialized on the spot and reappeared behind him.

He looked at Paolo angrily and tried to knock Eren out, but suddenly the warlords voice flared up again. "What do you think you are doing there? Stop it."

With just those words, Enel stopped moving completely. He had not noticed that Eren was hypnotized throught the sound of Paolo's voice earlier, so he fell for the same trick.

In his head Eren continued fighting against the oppressive feeling controlling his body, but without any result. The same was true for Enel, but he wasn't doing much better.

Wyper was meanwhile still lying on the ground, barely conscious after being continuously beat by Gerald. He lay in a pool of his own blood and looked weakly at Eren, who had been forced to pick up the spear that the Shandian had dropped earlier and aimed it at its owners head.

"Snap out of it, captain. There's no way someone as strong and talented as you will be controlled by such a pathetic man." Wyper spoke, his voice filled with emotion and his eyes burning with the will to go on.

He slowly stood up, by dragging himself upwards with his single still working arm, until he almost stood face to face with Eren. "You will not fall today." He spoke, before taking a fighting stance.

His plan was simple. Buy enough time for either Eren or Enel to escape from Paolo's control. Even if it cost him his life.

Seein this situation, Eren's eyes turned moist. After just a single week under him, Wyper was already willing to go as far as offering his own life for their cause. Of course he had given him the Golden Bellfry as a trade, but the two things were in no way comparable. Only he knew that the bell would have been found even without his interferance.

After Paolo heard Wypers insult towards him, he turned enraged and ordered Eren to immediately kill him. Eren was unable to resist and engaged Wyper, striking out with his spear.

The fearless warrior blocked the strike with his still functioning arm, but it was pierced in the process and fell down limply. Wyper now had nothing left to protect himself, while Eren pulled back the spear to strike out once again.

'No, I can not allow him to kill me before he regains control. I must hold out, just a bit longer. This is the promise I have made myself earlier and the will of a true warrior.' Wyper's thoughts raced, looking for a solution.

Meanwhile the same warrior with red hair appeared in his mind again. Only this time, he faced Wyper head on and walked towards him. His red hair that went below his shoulders fluttered in the wind, while he got closer to the imaginary figure of Wyper.

Just as Eren was about to thrust out his spear again, Kalgara arrived in front of the Shandian's imaginary avatar and laid one of his hands on his shoulder. Suddenly the hand turned black and Kalgara's voice resounded like rumbling thunder.

"Do what you need to do. If you take the following strike head-on, then you may call yourself a true warrior from today onwards."

Hearing the motivating words of his ancestor, Wypers eyes lit up with a newfound determination, as he threw himself forward into the spear.

The eyes of all people present widened in surprise, while Paolo laughed out wildly.

"Fyahahaha. Do you regret it now? Going against me? Even your crewmember died in your hands. Now-" Paolo was suddenly interrupted by a metallic clang, that didn't resemble a spear piercing flesh at all.

Looking at the scene, Wyper's chest had turned black and he was knocked back. In the last moment before his death, he was able to awaken Armament Haki and survived this fatal blow. This feat had used up the entirety of his remaining energy, rendering him unconscious.

Seeing his crewmembers action and current state, invoked a deep sense of gratitude in Eren. Knowing that someone would go so far for him and put themself in harms way weighed heavy on his mind.

'Wyper has put all of his trust in me. He put his life on the line with the deep belief that I would be able to break out of this situation. I can not betray his hope.' Eren thought, while battling his body that still moved to kill Wyper.

His spear made its way towards the now unconscious Shandian again, but with the help of his will power, Eren slowed its movement down by a lot.

"Don't think that you can break free after this small act of yours. This changes nothing, all of you will still die in the end." Paolo screamed in the back, his voice filled with madness. He couldn't stand the fact that even someone as weak as Wyper would awaken Haki so young. Even now he had barely grasped it to the smallest extent, so how could this random kid be more talented than him?

Eren was meanwhile filled with willpower, doing his best to break the shackles that bound him. He could feel that he was close, yet a small distance away from truly freeing himself. Something was still missing.

But he didn't have much time. His spear continued forward relentlessly, though at a very slow pace.

'Why, why is it not working? There's no way I'm going to lose a crew member to such a scummy pirate, come on!' Eren started panicking, as he noticed that nothing he did seemed to hold any meaning.

He was currently unable to control his body and the spearhead had already pierced Wypers skin, heading towards his heart slowly.

"Is this what you imagined would happen when you did the same thing to me earlier?" Paolo's hateful voice came from behind Eren.

His spear just continued, no matter what he did.

'No, this will not happen today. I will not kill a friend.' Unknowingly he had already started seeing Wyper as more than a crewmember or tool. He was someone important to him, that could be considered a friend.

Just as his spear was millimeters away from ending Wyper's life, something inside his mind was suddenly unleashed.

'I said stop. I will not kill a friend with my own hands before I die myself trying to save them.' Eren screamed in his mind.

"I SAID STOP!"

A shockwave was sent out from Eren's body, repelling all of the people that surrounded him and Wyper. Paolo, Valentina, Enel and Gerald were knocked back several steps, with Valentina even falling unconscious.

Eren immediately pulled back his spear, and it was just then that he finally realized it. He had just moved his mouth to scream. And he did so under his own free will.

He slowly moved his arms and legs, cracked his neck and turned around.

"Your Devil Fruit does not seem so invincible now, does it?" Eren said with a menacing grin as he looked straight into Paolo's eyes.

He knew what he had just done. Eren had unlocked his Conqueror's Haki. This meant that he wouldn't be controlled by such a weak Devil Fruit anymore, even if Paolo were to use it again. The only thing he now felt was a slight headache from the fruits powers that were still trying to invade his mind.

Paolo meanwhile fell on his back, trying to crawl backwards as fast as he could, while screaming in fear.

"This is not possible. How can someone like you unlock this type of Haki? Only the strongest monsters are supposed to have it. There's no way someone like you who barely looks 16 has already achieved it." He continued pushing himself backwards while his eyes were wide open in fear.

Meanwhile Eren only felt rage. He just wanted to get this over with as quick as possible. He used his fruit powers to arrive in front of Paolo in a single step, using the same spear that still held Wyper's blood to cut off his head cleanly in a single sweeping motion.

"So much effort for such a pathetic little man." Afterwards he also arrived in front of Gerald and Valentina and killed each of them in the same way. They were just too shocked to really react. But even if they were prepared, they wouldn't have survived more than one or two hits.

Finally Eren looked at Enel, who had also regained his consciousness after Paolo had been killed and his fruit powers dispelled.

"Well, that went way worse than I expected." Enel said in a slightly nonchalant tone, as if he hadn't just been on the brink of being mind-controlled forever if Eren hadn't broken free.

"It's not the time for jokes right now." Eren said with a concerned look at Wyper. While the warriors physique was really strong, he was still losing a concerning amount of blood each second.

Enel's eyes also betrayed a hint of worry, betraying his usually uncaring facade that he had carefully crafted for himself to bring across his image as a God.

He picked up Wyper, while Eren used the Space fruit to shorten the distance to the outside and escorted them out.

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