Chapter 253
Chapter 253
Rorschach flicked his finger, and a mass of rock softened like mochi, wrapping around Whitebeard’s body and moving it to his side.
When the rock dispersed, only a massive rectangular black box remained.
From its appearance, the material looked extremely hard — like steel, yet slightly different.
This was Rorschach’s secret weapon, and one of the reasons he had come to this war.
It was a giant box made entirely of seastone. Inside were various kinds of fruits.
Seastone had the effect of suppressing Devil Fruits. Rorschach’s theory was that it could prevent the Devil Fruit power from leaving the host’s body and attaching to another fruit. Instead, it would be forced to attach to one of the fruits inside the box.
This was his hypothesis.
According to the information he obtained in Alabasta, a Devil Fruit would return to the last place its host thought of before dying. Therefore, seastone — which suppressed Devil Fruit powers — should be able to play a role in preventing the power from escaping.
"Damn bastard!"
The stone pillar that had been twisted like a pretzel was sliced open.
Blackbeard and his crew jumped out.
"Pops’ body is gone too! Where is it?!"
Teach looked toward Rorschach and locked his eyes on the black box beside him.
"You really want to make an enemy out of us, huh?! All for the sake of one old man’s corpse?!"
Blackbeard glared at Rorschach with a vicious expression.
"What? You want to have a go with me too?"
Rorschach spread his hands. Lightning crackled at his fingertips.
This posture actually made Teach hesitate.
However, his plan had failed. If he did nothing to Rorschach now...
He glanced at the extremely vicious criminals beside him.
Especially Avalo Pizarro, the "Evil Ruler."
From his words and actions, this man was clearly not someone who would stay obedient. If Teach couldn’t keep him in check, he would definitely rebel.
Teach could only steel himself.
"Perfect! Let me see just how strong this so-called ’strongest rookie’ really is."
Teach’s expression turned arrogant. Even if he didn’t want to fight, he couldn’t afford to lose face in front of his crew.
"Hahahaha! Then why not team up with me instead?" Doflamingo suddenly jumped in with a sinister smile. "We can work together to kill Rorschach, then split all his assets!"
Doflamingo wouldn’t miss any opportunity to create more enemies for Rorschach.
"You? Doflamingo?"
Blackbeard turned to look at him, his eyes filled with suspicion.
"An enemy of my enemy is my friend. We both have the same enemy. If we join forces, our chances of success will be higher, right?"
Doflamingo wore a ’friendly’ smile as he spoke slowly.
"Fine! Just like you said — an enemy of my enemy is my friend. Then let’s team up and take him down."
The two of them turned to look at Rorschach.
Blackbeard was thinking about Whitebeard’s Tremor-Tremor Fruit power. Even if he couldn’t get that, Rorschach’s Float-Float Fruit was also extremely powerful!
If they could kill Rorschach, his crew’s combat strength would increase dramatically!
And if they could capture that dragon and tame it, that would be even better!
The two of them, sharing the same stench, quickly formed an alliance.
Blackbeard Teach originally didn’t have many teeth left. After being hit by Whitebeard’s quake, he had even fewer. Now when he smiled, air leaked through the gaps, making him look rather comical.
Rorschach ignored them and instead spoke toward Marco’s direction.
"Go. Marco. I’ll hold them here. You guys just focus on escaping safely."
Rorschach nodded, signaling for them to leave first.
"Thank you very much for your help, Mr. Rorschach!"
"If you ever need our strength in the future, I will come without hesitation!"
Marco respectfully bowed to him, then wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and turned around to lead the main force in their retreat.
Aokiji and Kizaru immediately moved to pursue the remaining pirates.
Rorschach looked up and gave a signal. Little Silver instantly appeared in front of the two Admirals, blocking their path.
Aokiji and Kizaru were forced to stop.
"Oh my, it’s that extremely troublesome dragon. This just got complicated."
Kizaru scratched his head in annoyance.
Boom!
What greeted them was Little Silver firing a lightning roar without any warning.
The violent lightning beam chased after them like a laser, no matter which direction they tried to escape.
Even when they split up, Little Silver’s spear-like wings fired two more lightning beams. Three lightning lasers chased after the two Admirals.
Left with no choice, both of them could only elementalize and let the lightning pass through their bodies. Still, they felt a numbing sensation and couldn’t completely nullify it.
Only after the lightning had engulfed the two of them did Little Silver slowly stop firing.
On the ground, some melted ice and pieces of flesh slowly turned back into light or ice and reassembled.
"It looks like we have no choice. If we want to stop those guys, we’ll have to defeat this dragon first."
Aokiji spoke seriously, cold air already gathering in his hand.
He fired an Ice Block: Pheasant Beak.
"Looks that way."
Kizaru also prepared Yasakani no Magatama, sending countless light bullets raining down from the sky.
"Chirp!"
Little Silver roared toward the sky and then charged forward like a whirlwind.
Its body continuously spun in mid-air, looking like a red drill.
The ice bird was shattered, and the light bullets were deflected. Little Silver’s figure shot past between the two Admirals.
Its spear-like wings transformed into dual blades and slashed horizontally at both of them.
It then used its claws to brake sharply, turned around, and fired another roaring blast.
Boom!
A massive explosion rose like a mushroom cloud.
"Admiral Aokiji! / Admiral Kizaru!"
The Marines shouted worriedly.
"Don’t panic. An attack of this level isn’t enough to kill us. Continue pursuing the pirates."
From within the smoke, Aokiji’s voice rang out.
"As expected, it can use Haki. Good thing I sensed the trajectory with Observation Haki in advance."
When the smoke cleared, Kizaru’s voice also came through.
Both of them were completely unharmed.
At the moment of Little Silver’s attack, they hadn’t tried to block it head-on. Instead, they had elementalized and dodged along its trajectory.
It was this keen perception that saved their lives.
The previous attack had been coated with dense Armament Haki. If it had landed, even they would have been seriously injured.
"Can you hold it off?"
Aokiji turned and asked.
"I don’t know, but I can try. You go on ahead first. Your ability is better suited for stopping the pirates."
Kizaru’s usually sleazy face showed a rare seriousness. His words lacked confidence — something extremely unusual for him.
Normally he wouldn’t be like this, but right now he was facing a dragon with abilities extremely similar to Rorschach’s. He didn’t dare make any guarantees.
"Then I’ll head over first."
After leaving those words, Aokiji used Soru and appeared on the other side, continuing to advance.
Little Silver keenly sensed his movement and immediately accelerated toward him.
"Oh right, I can’t let you leave so easily. Why don’t you stay here and play with me for a while?"
Kizaru transformed into yellow light and appeared in Little Silver’s path.
He gathered light at his fingertip and fired a laser.
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