From that day on, Akira never edited the same way again. Every lightning overlay he touched bent to his will. Other editors asked for his presets. He just smiled.

“It’s not the preset,” he said. “It’s whether you have the spirit to command it.”

That night, the video hit a million views. Comments flooded in: “This is canon now.” “How did you make the lightning look alive?” One user, @RedHaired_Editor, simply wrote: “You bent it to your will. That’s not an effect. That’s Conqueror’s Haki.”

Akira smiled. Exported. Uploaded.

He unlocked it.

The screen roared . Crimson and violet lightning erupted from both characters, clashing in the middle, warping the air. Zoro’s eye gleamed. Kaido grinned. For three seconds, it felt less like a video edit and more like a prophecy.

Akira didn’t scream. He didn’t run.

And the overlays were moving on their own.

The lightning bent. It followed the blade’s arc.

The lightning paused. Then it wrapped around his arm like a loyal serpent. The pressure lifted. A single word typed itself into the comments of his video:

He dragged the first overlay onto the track. A crackle of deep crimson static bloomed over Zoro’s swords. Too red. He tweaked the blend mode to Screen , dropped opacity to 70%, and added a slight directional blur.

Akira stared at the timeline. Three hours of work, and it still looked weak .

He looked into the glowing screen—at his own reflection standing in a dark room—and whispered, “I made you. You bow to me.”