"Crack~"
Elsewhere, the World Government's Live Den Den Mushi had successfully connected as well!
At that moment, the scene at Marine Headquarters Mary Geoise was being transmitted to the entire world through the Live Den Den Mushi's wires!
"This is New World G3 Branch! The Whitebeard Pirates have made no movements!"
"This is New World G14 Branch! The Beasts Pirates of Wano Country show no signs of coming down from the waterfall! Even if Kaido led the Beasts Pirates toward Marineford now, they still wouldn't make it in time..."
"This is New World G11 Branch! The BIGMOM Pirates have made no movements!"
"This is New World G7 Branch! Ochoku of Hachinosu Island has made no movements!"
After Shiki was escorted onto the execution platform under Steel-Bone Kong's watch, Kong, the current Fleet Admiral, took out a Den Den Mushi and listened to reports from the various Marine branches regarding their surveillance of the monsters in the New World.
Yes, the reason Steel-Bone Kong had summoned Zephyr, Sengoku, Garp, and all those Vice Admirals was not because he feared the remnants of the Flying Pirates. He feared that great pirates from the former Rocks Pirates—Whitebeard, Kaido, Charlotte Linlin, Ochoku, and the rest—might suddenly lose their minds and come to Marine Headquarters to rescue Golden Lion. Looking at it now, he had worried for nothing.
"Golden Lion Shiki, it seems your companions have abandoned you!"
Kong held the Den Den Mushi in one hand as he looked at Golden Lion Shiki, who was kneeling beside him, covered in chains and tortured beyond recognition, and spoke softly.
"Shut up! They were never my companions!"
After hearing Kong's words, Shiki replied stubbornly.
Shiki had known from the very beginning that Whitebeard and the others would not come to save him...
After all, he and Whitebeard's group had never truly been companions!
They had merely been a band of robbers gathered by Rocks, bound together by profit~
At most, the former Rocks crew had a little personal friendship between them~
But they absolutely did not share the bond of comrades. If they had even a shred of such feelings, they would not have disbanded immediately after Rocks fell, without even the desire to avenge him...
"How miserable, Golden Lion..."
"You're about to be executed, yet no one has come to save you!"
Kong ignored Golden Lion's words and continued speaking to himself.
"Idiot! Do I need anyone to save me?"
"Who do you think I am?"
"I'm the renowned captain of the Flying Pirates, Golden Lion Shiki!"
Shiki roared disdainfully.
"Reporting to Fleet Admiral Kong: several hundred pirate ships have been spotted one hundred nautical miles from Marine Headquarters Marineford! They are currently advancing toward Marine Headquarters Marineford at full speed, at two hundred nautical miles per hour! Based on the pirate flags on their masts, preliminary judgment indicates they are pirates under Golden Lion Shiki's Flying Pirates..."
The very next second after Shiki had spoken so boldly to Kong, a Marine report immediately came through the Den Den Mushi in Kong's hand.
"Did you hear that, Shiki? Your subordinates have come to save you..."
Kong smiled as he looked at Shiki beside him.
"Idiots, why did you come?!"
Shiki's expression changed instantly, and he roared.
Unfortunately, his companions could not hear his roar at all...
After Kong announced the arrival of Shiki's Flying Pirates!
Shiki felt nothing but torment in his heart!
Yet time would not stop because of that!
On the Marine Headquarters building, the clock continued ticking as the minute and second hands moved, and time slowly passed second by second...
"The enemy is fifty nautical miles from headquarters!"
"The enemy is thirty nautical miles from headquarters!"
"...Twenty nautical miles!"
"...Ten nautical miles!"
"The enemy pirate ships are now visible!"
As report after report came in, pirate ship after pirate ship emerged slowly from the thick fog, entering the sight of countless Marines at Marineford!
"Captain Shiki, we've come to save you!"
On the flagship of the Flying Pirates, Indigo, the Flying Pirates' second-in-command and ship doctor, grinned broadly as he called out to Shiki.
"Idiots, don't come!"
Shiki was both moved and despairing. Based on his understanding of the Flying Pirates, even if these fools had made every possible preparation, daring to come to Marine Headquarters was no different from smashing eggs against a rock.
To face the Marines' strongest lineup and retreat unscathed required the combat power of the Rocks Pirates at their peak! They were nowhere close to enough...
"Close the gates!"
The moment Shiki saw Indigo.
Kong mercilessly issued an order to all Marines.
Boom!
The instant Kong's words fell, Marine Headquarters' gates slammed shut. Dozens of steel gates, each weighing hundreds or even thousands of tons, blocked all several hundred pirate ships under the Flying Pirates outside Marine Headquarters!
However, that was not all...
Ice Age!
With a shout from Marine Headquarters Vice Admiral Aokiji Kuzan, the sea instantly froze, and the hundreds of Flying Pirates ships were frozen in place!
"Damn it! The sea is frozen—we can't move..."
For a time, the pirates roared in despair.
"Rest easy! You won't need to move ever again..."
"Just stay quiet and all perish here!"
As the pirates stood at a loss, Marine Headquarters Vice Admiral Sakazuki had already stepped onto Marineford's thick walls...
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh..."
As his words fell, he repeatedly punched toward the sky, sending one enormous fist after another blazing with scorching magma soaring upward!
Meteor Volcano!!
As the sky let out anguished cries!
Countless enormous volcanic meteors broke through the clouds and descended from above, carrying boundless power as they smashed toward the pirates!
"Not good! Magma Bombs!"
"Evade! Evade!"
"We can't evade—the ships are frozen!"
The moment the pirates looked up at the sky, they were dumbfounded and cried out in shock.
It was as though they had forgotten how to run...
Boom!!
For a moment, all the pirates froze! After realizing their ships could not move, they could only watch helplessly as the Magma Bombs fell from the sky like meteors...
The next second, the pirates' doom seemed to arrive! Sakazuki's enormous magma fists tore through every pirate ship they struck, along with the pirates aboard and the ice beneath the ships, burning everything to ashes!
"How terrifying~"
"It's practically like the end of the world~"
Up in the sky...
Borsalino, who had arrived at some unknown point, looked down at the pirate ships burning one after another, casually pursed his lips, and assumed an attacking stance.
Yasakani no Magatama!
As Borsalino's words fell, tens of thousands of lasers rained down like a torrential downpour. Every pirate struck by them was instantly pierced through and blown apart...
Perhaps because none of these pirates were Garp's grandson, every single Yasakani no Magatama successfully struck the Flying Pirates' men!
In an instant, the Flying Pirates' several hundred warships were completely wiped out!
Just like the Battle of Edd War all those years ago...
Three chapters today! Let's crush the old lion's spirit outright! Please keep reading, brothers!
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