What If the Fleet Admiral Lost? (Basically Today's First Chapter)

Borsalino, who had mostly recovered, sat up in bed and, together with Vidal, blinked at Sakazuki. Then, under the latter's bewildered gaze, they exchanged a glance.

"I'll feed him two Green Beans first, that'll make sure he doesn't die."

"I'm going to find the Camera Den Den Mushi!"

It's unclear how they communicated, but they each said a sentence and then got up to attend to their own business. However, their conversation suddenly made Sakazuki, who was lying on the bed, feel uneasy.

"Cough cough cough, what are you doing?!" Sakazuki's face was grim, but he was seriously injured and could barely speak for the time being.

"It's nothing, eat two Green Beans to calm your nerves, or better yet, just one!" Vidal changed his mind at the last minute.

[Crack]

Sakazuki chewed up Green Bean and swallowed it. A faint green light slowly appeared on his body, but this effect was only enough to make his breathing a little easier, which meant that he could speak more clearly.

"Heal me right now!"

He glared fiercely at Vidal, but Vidal wasn't afraid of him, smiling and remaining silent until Borsalino brought over a Camera Den Den Mushi Den Den Mushi.

"This is a rare opportunity, we can't waste it!" Vidal casually created a Wood Clone and had it take the Den Den Mushi. "Come on, let's think about how to handle it."

Borsalino sat down in the chair to Sakazuki's left, while Vidal returned to the chair to his right. One stroked his chin, the other crossed his arms, both staring intently at the dark-faced Sakazuki.

"Stop right now! Otherwise, when I recover, I'll make sure you two pay!" Sakazuki panicked and started threatening them. His murderous look was indeed terrifying, but it had no effect on the two of them.

"How about we braid his hair into two little braids, and then the three of us take a picture together?" Vidal suggested. Borsalino added, "We can pinch Sakazuki's cheeks from both sides, that would be fun, but Sakazuki's hair is too short to braid."

"Um"

Vidal fell into deep thought. At this moment, Sakazuki panicked completely. He tried to struggle on the bed, but every movement caused him to gasp for breath in pain. He could only try to stop the two of them from doing anything reckless by cursing them viciously.

"Stop joking around, you two bastards!"

"I'm warning you both, I won't let you get away with this, I'm serious!"

"Are you going to break off our friendship? Oh, if you dare to do anything reckless, then we're breaking off our friendship!"

At this moment, Vidal clapped his hands excitedly, "I've got it! I'll make a wig out of vines for him to wear, and then tie the wig into two braids, green braids!"

"Hey, that's interesting~" Borsalino first showed a surprised expression, then nodded repeatedly in agreement with the suggestion.

"Vidal!!" Sakazuki was furious. He imagined the scene himself, and it was utterly ridiculous.

"Hehe." Vidal and Borsalino exchanged a sly glance and grinned. Since their previous life-or-death battle, their relationship had become even closer.

Vidal finally opened up to them and began to joke and play with them like a young man.

"Hey, you guys better remember this!"

"One day I'll unleash Great Eruption on you all!"

Outside the medical ward, Lieutenant Vice Admiral Amyz, commander of the G-2 Branch, stood at the door. Upon hearing Sakazuki's roar and two sinister laughs from inside, he immediately stopped knocking.

"Forget it, let's just keep watching the Fleet Admiral's battle."

Outside, the Nine Pillar Domain, surrounded by ten warships, had lost all its intact trees. Even the domain itself was shattered and swaying in the waves. The dark clouds in the sky were split in two, making it hard to believe that this was a scene created by humankind.

The massive, crimson blades of light, each capable of easily cleaving an eight-hundred-person warship in two, left behind scars on the sea that would never heal. The deafening roars, no less devastating than the blades themselves, were the true culprits that shattered the Nine Pillar Domain.

"Redfield, you've dug yourself into an unbearable mess!"

"Wouldn't it be better to just be your 'Red the Aloof' and stay quiet, Red Count?"

Kong's appearance has changed drastically. Not only is his body five or six meters tall, but his forelimbs are as strong as Sakazuki's waist. You can see at a glance that his muscles contain explosive power, and his body is covered with a layer of smooth and metallic black fur.

Zoan, Gorilla-Gorilla Fruit, Ancient Zoan, King Kong Gorilla Form: A giant Masira comparable in size to a Tyrannosaurus Rex or a mammoth!

"Hmph, stop acting like you've got me cornered. You can't stop me, Kong!" Redfield retorted arrogantly, his purple umbrella, wrapped in a layer of red light, colliding horribly with the Giant Fist that came crashing down on him.

[Boom!]

Streaks of crimson and blackish-red Inazuma, each over ten meters long, spread out from the collision, causing the roaring, undulating waves below to surge into towering high tides. By this time, their battlefield had long since shifted from the ground to the air, and the few remaining large wooden planks were simply insufficient to support the battle between the two sides.

"Even if I had known that brat's background back then, I, Redfield, would still have hunted him down!"

"No one in this world can hold me back. I can go wherever I want, do whatever I want. Unburdened and unattached, I am the freest man on the sea!"

Redfield's aloofness reached its peak at this moment. If the future Empress Hancock was an act to conceal her inner misery, then this Red Count's arrogance was genuine, and he had the power to be so arrogant.

[Boom--]

The Haki originated from within, from will, from spirit. A haughty expression filled Redfield's face, and his sharp gaze stared straight ahead like a dagger. The Conqueror's Haki within him was released completely without any reservation.

"But now, I've changed my mind!"

I want to fight!

"I will defeat you, Fleet Admiral, right here and now, and make the sea bow down beneath my feet. From this day forward, no one will dare to hinder me in anything I do, not even if I kill that Vidal!"

"Dream on!!" Kong, now transformed into a Kong.

[Boom--]

A truly earth-shattering event erupted at the point of another clash between the umbrella and the fist. The black clouds, split in two, resembled menacing black dragons, Coating with their respective crimson or black-red Inazuma.

Below, a visible ring of air surged up like a giant hand, pushing the seawater up and forming a massive tsunami that surged in all directions. This threw the distant warships into chaos, causing them to retreat further away.

"What terrifying power! Tell me, when will we ever be as strong as them?" On the deck of the G-2 Branch's warship, Vidal stood behind Vice Admiral Amyz and said to his two companions.

"Hmph!" Sakazuki snorted coldly, not wanting to pay him any attention.

"How scary!"

Borsalino, hands in his pockets and a wry smile, replied, it was unclear whether he was referring to the earth-shattering battle in the distance or to Sakazuki beside him.

He suddenly thought of this question, and it immediately silenced everyone on the deck.

"What if the Fleet Admiral loses?"