Chapter 239
Chapter 239
"How terrifying... A Mythical Zoan, even rarer than Logia types."
Kizaru spoke in his usual sarcastic tone.
After exchanging a few blows, Kizaru took a kick from Marco and immediately "clocked out early." It was obvious he was in a hurry to finish work and go home.
"Well, well... As expected of you, Kizaru. Clocking out on time, huh? First you do a fake fall and publicly damage Marine property, then you have an excuse to leave early. If I couldn’t see that your clothes are completely undamaged, I would’ve actually thought you got kicked away by Marco."
Rorschach watched Kizaru’s performance from above and mocked him with great amusement.
Still, Marco was no pushover either. Kizaru couldn’t take him down quickly.
If Whitebeard hadn’t been injured and distracted, the division commanders could have held off the Admirals for quite a while.
The massive ice block Jozu threw was at least as big as Oars. Even the Giant race looked like children in front of something that heavy.
Without Akainu’s large-scale fire attack combined with his magma bombs, many of the Vice Admirals and regular Marines would have been crushed.
Rorschach was also considering whether he should develop some large-scale AOE skills. Using only Conqueror’s Haki to clear the field was getting boring.
Haven’t Whitebeard and Sengoku gone the entire battle without using Conqueror’s Haki to clear the field? With a battlefield this size, even Rorschach could cover it completely. He refused to believe that Whitebeard, Sengoku, and Garp’s Conqueror’s Haki couldn’t do the same.
Suddenly, Rorschach’s gaze shifted to a pink-haired Marine in the middle of the battlefield. The soldier was trembling in fear.
Rorschach watched him with interest.
Isn’t that Coby? The guy who would later be called "Captain Coby"?
Right now, the future deserter king was still quite green, yet he had awakened Observation Haki right in the middle of the battlefield — purely out of fear, without even fighting.
How lame.
Soon after, Little Oars Jr. made his appearance.
Compared to Pica’s stone giant, Oars was much smaller — only around 38 meters tall. He was tiny compared to Pica’s nearly thousand-meter-tall monstrosity.
Even so, the Marines had placed a bounty of 550 million on him. Rorschach felt the threat level was a bit inflated. Against ordinary people he might be troublesome, but against anyone with real strength, that size was hardly an advantage. Even the weakest Warlord, Gecko Moria, could deal with him easily.
Forget it. Nothing interesting to see here. Just a bunch of smelly men.
Rorschach shifted his focus to the Pirate Empress, Boa Hancock.
She truly lived up to the title of the most beautiful woman in the pirate world. Her appearance was stunning, and her elegance in battle was flawless. Combined with her Sweet-Sweet Fruit, it was a perfect combination.
Whoever draws this manga has pretty good taste.
He was getting more and more interested in claiming this woman.
Rorschach stared at Hancock with burning eyes.
At that moment, the massive ice block in the sky was suddenly shattered.
A huge warship came crashing down from above.
Rorschach looked at the figures on the ship and a smile slowly formed on his lips.
"Straw Hat Luffy, Buggy the Clown, Crocodile, Jinbe, Ivankov... and the Revolutionary Army’s Chief of Staff... Sabo!"
"Interesting... truly interesting. The world line has converged, but it’s also changed!"
"Instead of getting help from Hancock to sneak into Impel Down, Luffy got help from Sabo, a Revolutionary Army officer?!"
Rorschach couldn’t help but clap his hands.
The more chaotic this war became, the more entertaining it was.
Revolutionaries, pirates, Marines, and Warlords — this had turned into an all-out battle between four major forces!
Although the Revolutionary Army side only consisted of Ivankov, his okama army, Sabo, and a few others.
"But Crocodile... what are you doing here again? Don’t tell me you got thrown back into Impel Down?"
"You disappeared for so long, only to be quietly captured by CP and sent back to Impel Down? No wonder there was no news about you."
Rorschach was somewhat surprised to see Crocodile mixed up with the Straw Hats. In this world, Crocodile and Luffy had never crossed paths before. Yet fate had still brought them together on this battlefield.
"Well, it makes sense. After trying to dig up Alabasta’s buried secrets, the Five Elders would never let Crocodile off easily."
"This guy was probably already marked as a dangerous individual by the Five Elders — someone to be dealt with as a priority."
Rorschach rubbed his chin and quickly accepted it.
The Five Elders had actually been cautious and shrewd for once. It was probably because of his own influence.
"Long time no see, Whitebeard."
The moment Crocodile landed on the battlefield, he spotted Whitebeard and immediately charged at him without hesitation.
"What a guy who never learns his lesson."
Whitebeard didn’t even glance at him. He stood at the front of the ship with a dark expression.
Luffy then ran out and stopped Crocodile from attempting to assassinate Whitebeard.
Even without Luffy’s interference, Whitebeard could have easily blocked Crocodile’s sneak attack.
At that moment, Luffy shouted his iconic line.
The 2.0 version of Crocodile finally backed off. Since the assassination failed, there was no point in staying any longer.
"Has he already regained what he lost before? He can still keep growing, Crocodile. Don’t disappoint me."
Rorschach could sense more than others.
Crocodile was much stronger than before. At the very least, he had started regaining his Observation Haki training from the past.
Meanwhile, Kizaru had also begun engaging with his nephew.
That leg has been raised for more than ten seconds now... That light is way too blinding, and Luffy is still running forward? Where’s your Second Gear Soru?
If Sabo hadn’t helped, Luffy would’ve been sent flying back to the starting point — or maybe even gotten his life reset.
On Moria’s side, Rorschach had already seen the reports. After being defeated by Rorschach, Moria had once again been defeated by Luffy, just like in the original story.
After losing to Rorschach, Moria had definitely regained his confidence and ambition. However, he was still defeated by the protagonist who had powered up. It was possible that the injuries Rorschach left on him played a role.
Still, he had gained significant growth from the experience.
Rorschach glanced at the sun above, then at the zombies below.
Moria was actually summoning zombies from the seawater even in broad daylight!
At the very least, he had overcome the zombies’ weaknesses to salt and sunlight. Now he could summon zombies even during the day, and with countless corpses available on this battlefield, his advantage was quite significant.
As long as he had enough shadows, he could endlessly create fearless zombies that wouldn’t be affected by Conqueror’s Haki.
"It seems that after experiencing failure, these Warlords are no longer falling into depravity. They’re slowly getting stronger."
"But the time since their awakening is still too short. Even if they’ve regained what they lost in the past, they still can’t compare to the powered-up protagonist and other powerhouses."
Rorschach shook his head as he watched Moria get sent flying by Sabo’s Dragon Claw Fist.
The Shadow-Shadow Fruit’s ability was very good, but Moria’s imagination and development direction weren’t quite right.
Focusing only on the strategic use of zombies wasn’t enough.
If this fruit were in the hands of other strong individuals, the Shadow Doppelganger technique could be used to create multiple clones to gang up on enemies.
The stronger the user’s physical skills and overall strength, the stronger the shadow clones would be.
Creating several clones with strength close to the original body — clones that could also ignore physical attacks — and having them fight alongside the main body would be extremely powerful.
Rather than stealing other people’s shadows, strengthening one’s own shadow was the true path to power.
Rorschach’s gaze then shifted elsewhere.
Squard had finally made direct contact with Akainu.
"Here it comes... the ’Filial Son’s’ famous scene. But I won’t let you ruin my fun watching the show."
Rorschach’s expression turned serious.
"A completely uninjured Whitebeard fighting Akainu... That would probably be much more interesting. I wonder just how much damage they would do to Marine Headquarters? Hahahaha."
Rorschach paid closer attention to Whitebeard’s side, ready to intervene and stop Squard’s assassination attempt.
Thanks to Sabo’s protection, Luffy’s progress was much smoother than in the original story. At the very least, he wasn’t as helpless when facing Smoker.
Sabo could use Armament Haki. Even without the Flame-Flame Fruit, his Dragon Claw Fist was more than enough to let him hold his own against an Admiral for a while.
Among the three brothers right now, Sabo was probably the strongest.
The battlefield grew increasingly chaotic.
Clashes between new and old Warlords, battles between Admirals and Whitebeard’s division commanders, and internal conflict between the Revolutionary Army and Bartholomew Kuma.
However, Mihawk... your flying slashes don’t carry Haki?
They actually did no damage when they hit Buggy?
As time passed, Squard successfully made contact with Akainu and was turned.
He silently boarded Whitebeard’s ship and began talking with him as if nothing was wrong.
Rorschach clicked his tongue.
As expected of the "Filial Son." His acting is pretty good. Even after being turned, he could still calmly attempt to assassinate Whitebeard while saying things like "I’ll go through fire and water for the Whitebeard Pirates" and "I’m fighting to protect my family."
But just as he was talking and slowly drawing his long sword, Rorschach’s fingertip was already crackling with lightning.
Whoosh.
A bolt of red lightning struck the long sword in Squard’s hand.
Clang!
The sword spun twice in the air before stabbing into the deck not far away.
"!!!!"
Everyone was stunned.
The scene was broadcast worldwide through Buggy’s visual Den Den Mushi.
The entire world erupted into discussion.
The most shocked person was Squard himself. He had thought he was about to succeed, only for lightning to suddenly strike his hand.
"Squard! Why did you do that?! Answer me, Squard!"
Marco reacted first. He rushed forward and pinned Squard to the deck.
He was still somewhat shaken.
He had been suspicious when Squard suddenly appeared on the ship, but he never expected him to try assassinating their father.
"Shut... Shut up! Isn’t this all because of you people?!"
Squard was pinned down, eyes tightly shut as he struggled to speak.
"What did you say?! Do you even know what you’re doing?!"
Marco still didn’t understand.
"Squard..."
Whitebeard’s surprised expression faded as he looked at Squard pinned beneath Marco, then slowly raised his head toward the sky.
A small black dot entered his vision.
"Tch... Meddling again."
Whitebeard clicked his tongue.
That red lightning... it looked familiar. He had seen something similar just a few days ago.
This meant he now owed Rorschach another favor. He really didn’t like owing people.
"There’s still a hidden enemy! Is it someone on Whitebeard’s side? In the sky?!"
Sengoku, Garp, and the others also noticed the lightning and looked up in shock.
They didn’t know Whitebeard had a helper who could fly in the sky and shoot lightning.
"Damn it... Failed? What a useless bastard."
Akainu cursed under his breath, his eyes turning cold as he also looked toward the sky.
"I didn’t expect there would still be someone interfering. Just who is it?!"
It had been so close to succeeding. If that stab had landed, Whitebeard would have been heavily injured even if he didn’t die.
"Someone made a move? At a time like this... Just who could it be?"
Mihawk also stopped and looked toward the sky.
"Sky?! This feels bad..."
Cold sweat rolled down Kizaru’s usually lazy face.
Please don’t let it be the person I’m thinking of...
Even now, he still had some trauma from that person. He couldn’t do anything against him.
But when he looked behind him at Sengoku, Garp, and his two colleagues, Kizaru relaxed slightly.
Even if it really was that person, he could just slack off and let the others deal with him.
"Quickly order all the Marines in the bay to come up. We can’t wait any longer."
Sengoku immediately gave the order.
The Pacifista army also began surrounding the bay from outside, aiming to completely encircle and annihilate the Whitebeard Pirates.
On Whitebeard’s side, after Squard’s revelation, everyone now knew the Marines’ plan.
After shattering the ice wall that had been surrounding Marine Headquarters, the pirates’ morale was reignited.
Whitebeard was truly angry now. He jumped down from the ship.
The strongest man in the world was finally going to fight seriously.
Boom.
Whitebeard’s massive frame landed on the ice, kicking up a cloud of snow and dust.
Facing the endless barrage of cannon fire, he simply swung his fist forward.
The power of the quake shattered space itself. The shockwaves sent every cannonball flying straight back.
Whitebeard pointed Murakumogiri forward, and countless pirates roared as they charged.
"Oh↗↘~~ This is getting troublesome. We can’t let them break through to the plaza like this."
Kizaru scratched his head, looking quite troubled.
He still wanted to slack off a bit longer, but if he kept pretending, even Sengoku might start suspecting him.
However, at that exact moment, Giant Vice Admiral John Giant jumped out on his own to stop the pirates from landing on the plaza.
Kizaru let out a small sigh of relief.
Looks like I don’t have to work overtime after all. Something this troublesome is better left to Akainu.
Akainu would definitely be happy to do it.
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