“This is No Man’s Land, Diana. It means no one can make it across alive. Our army has been stationed here for almost a year and hasn’t gained even an inch of ground. On the other side, the Germans are waiting with machine guns trained on every inch of this battlefield. You simply can’t get through,” Steve said, still trying to persuade her.
“So what? We just stand by and watch them die?” Diana demanded.
She could not ignore the tragedy unfolding before her.
She had the power to save them.
“No! We are saving people. It’s just… we can’t save everyone in a war. That isn’t our mission…”
“Steve.” Samir quietly pulled him aside.
Logan suddenly stepped forward.
“He’s right. War is cruel. Sometimes, to achieve the final victory, you have to abandon… people… or things… that seem insignificant along the way.”
“These people are insignificant?” Diana shot back.
“They’re human beings. They’re living lives!”
“I was abandoned once too.” Logan shrugged.
“I’m just saying. What you choose to do is up to your own heart.”
Victor grinned, revealing his trademark fangs.
“No one can cross alive? Maybe that used to be true. But not anymore.”
Well… maybe not.
The Germans had Maxim machine guns.
A direct barrage from those monsters would probably turn Victor into Swiss cheese.
Sure, he wouldn’t die—but it definitely wouldn’t be pleasant.
“What do you think?” Diana turned toward Duke, who had remained silent.
“Protecting humanity—that’s your mission, isn’t it?” Duke replied with a smile.
“Yes.”
Diana smiled as well.
Then she put on Antiope’s Starlight Tiara, the symbol of her awakening as a true warrior and of accepting her responsibility.
Duke blinked.
Wait… where did that tiara come from?
Are you Doraemon or something?
And what are you, Sailor Moon?
Instant costume transformation?
Seriously?
Then something clicked.
Right—the Lasso of Truth had been coated with a special Amazonian substance that allowed Diana’s ordinary clothes to transform into Wonder Woman’s armor.
…Magic indeed.
In the next moment, Diana became Wonder Woman and calmly stepped out of the trench.
“Diana—!”
Steve’s eyes nearly popped out.
“What the hell is she doing?!” Charlie blurted.
Victor, however, planted a hand on Steve’s chest to stop him, grinning mischievously.
“Brother, if she isn’t yours, stop pining after her. And besides… who said nobody can make it across alive?”
He had noticed Steve’s feelings for Diana long ago.
With that, he waved at Logan.
“Let’s go, Logan! Time to show them what we’re made of!”
Logan smiled, flicked away his cigarette, and followed.
“Enemy approaching! Open fire!”
“Fire!”
“Fire!”
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The German trenches erupted with shouted commands.
Everyone in the Allied trenches froze.
Before their eyes unfolded a scene they would never forget.
The three charged forward from three different directions.
In the center, the woman casually blocked the incoming bullets with the silver bracers on her wrists.
They were the Bracelets of Submission, forged by Hephaestus from fragments of Zeus’s shield.
Only now did Diana realize that this battlefield wasn’t nearly as dangerous as she had imagined.
It was dangerous for ordinary humans.
Not for her.
The bullets meant nothing.
On the left, Victor raced forward on all fours like a wild beast.
On the right, Logan sprinted with astonishing agility, dodging bullet after bullet with uncanny reflexes.
The three of them charged through a storm of gunfire.
The Allied soldiers were completely dumbfounded.
Then, just as suddenly, their blood began to boil.
Steve looked over at Duke.
“Why aren’t you going?”
Victor’s earlier words had made him painfully aware of the gap between them.
They could casually knock artillery shells away.
And he…
He had just declared that no one could cross No Man’s Land alive.
Looking back, he felt like an absolute clown.
The difference between them was simply overwhelming.
Duke ignored him and instead turned toward Carlos.
“You don’t have Diana’s divine weapons or her strength. Those bullets can hurt you. Stay here with them.”
“Ah… okay.”
Du Chen Carlos understood as well.
Without someone shielding her, she couldn’t survive that hail of bullets.
She had already witnessed German gunfire during the defense of Paradise Island’s beach.
But this…
This was far denser and far deadlier.
Still, she gripped the twin swords at her waist tightly.
“Good. Stay safe. Don’t get hurt.”
As he spoke, Duke carved the Darkness rune onto his chest.
His body dissolved into ghostly black mist once again.
Like a shadowy phantom, he floated over the ground and glided out of the trench at incredible speed.
The soldiers around him were stunned once more.
Steve stood there with his mouth hanging open.
Samir’s eyes widened in excitement, his whole body trembling.
He had always assumed Duke was just some kind of stage magician.
Who would’ve thought…
The man could actually use magic.
A brand-new world had just opened before him.
He instinctively reached toward it.
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Even Du Chen Carlos looked surprised.
She had known Duke was powerful.
She hadn’t expected him to be this mysterious… or this bizarre.
“GRAAAAH!”
Logan burst forward like an Olympic sprinter.
At that instant, three bullets flew toward him in a triangular formation.
He dodged two.
He couldn’t avoid the third.
At the critical moment, he crossed his bone claws in front of him.
Bang!
One of the claws shattered, but the bullet was finally deflected.
“Logan!” Victor roared.
“I’m fine!”
Logan shouted back.
The bullets were growing denser.
He immediately threw himself into a roll, narrowly avoiding another barrage.
At the same time, the broken bone claw regenerated.
Victor wasn’t faring much better.
Under the relentless torrent of fire, even he was forced to take cover.
In the Germans’ eyes, two of the attackers had suddenly disappeared.
The Maxim machine guns immediately concentrated all their fire on Diana.
This time, they wisely aimed around her shield instead of directly at it.
Diana crouched behind the shield, enduring the storm of bullets.
Just then—
A mass of black mist shot forward from behind her.
Whoosh!
“You’ve done well, Diana. Leave the rest to me.”
A familiar figure appeared in her mind.
…Duke?
This was the only ability Duke currently possessed that resembled a true Logia-type power.
Darkness transformed him into black mist much like the powers of the Dark-Dark Fruit.
Physical attacks were useless against him.
They simply passed straight through his body.
Duke plunged headfirst into the German ranks.
Spinning rapidly…
He swept through them like a predator.
“W-What the hell is that thing?!”
“No—AAAGH!”
“Ghk!”
Slash!
Screams echoed one after another across the battlefield.
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