"Kid, let's go to that island over there and have a good fight!"
Not far from where Whitebeard surrounded Red-Hair, there was a fragmented, deserted island with no magnetic field...
It seems he had already planned it out in advance—the two sides skipped the naval battle and went directly to the island to "challenge each other."
At this point, Shanks naturally wouldn't consider running away and would directly let Morio take the helm.
After that, the Mobydia led the way and sailed directly towards the deserted island, clearly showing that Whitebeard was not worried about Shanks escaping.
After Whitebeard sat down again, he touched his left cheek and pressed his tongue against his teeth—damn, that's really loose!
Thankfully, they didn't actually knock them out. Otherwise, given Whitebeard's age, it would probably take him ten days to fifteen months to extract calcium from his flesh and grow new teeth...
It's just loose now; it will grow back strong in two hours.
"Old Man! I'll deal with that Fish-Man afterwards!" Jozu angrily volunteered.
Originally, we weren't this serious. The Whitebeard Pirates already knew about Sig's existence, and because of Whitey Bay, they even knew him better. However... the original plan was Marco vs. Shanks, Jozu vs. Beckman, and as for the Fish-Man... we'd leave it to Nami, the captain of the eighth division, who is also Fish-Man.
Whitebeard wasn't even planning to do it himself...
But now Jozu is furious— his Old Man, under his protection, has been smeared in the face, Jozu is determined to get revenge himself.
"Gurararara... Alright! Go knock his teeth out, Marco. You go face that Beckman, the brat from Roger's ship... I'll teach him a lesson myself!" Whitebeard laughed.
Shanks' extraordinary Conqueror's Haki piqued Whitebeard's interest even more, and... since it was already smeared all over his face, Whitebeard wasn't going to just stand by and watch any longer!
Whitey Bay had already jumped from his own ship onto Whitebeard's ship—although he was now the Captain of a subordinate pirate crew, Whitey Bay was a veteran member of the Whitebeard Pirates and was very familiar with everyone.
"That's right, teach him a lesson!" Whitey Bay slapped Jozu's waist repeatedly—after all, Jozu five meters tall, and Whitey Bay could only reach his waist with his raised hand.
In the blink of an eye, they arrived at the deserted island. Marco immediately transformed his arms into blue flame wings, flew around the Red Force, and after clearly locking onto Beckman with his Observation Haki, flew towards a small fragment of the deserted island. His meaning couldn't be clearer.
The deserted islands are not large, and the water between the "fragments" is not deep, but the vegetation on the islands is still quite lush. The term "deserted" refers to the fact that no one lives on them, not that they are truly barren.
Seeing this, Beckman gave chase, disappearing from sight, but the intense aura of their struggle remained palpable...
Although the Whitebeard Pirates had far more members than the Red Team, as the established dominant force, they naturally had no face to launch a siege. Basically, however many people the Red Team sent, they followed suit!
Shanks went head-to-head with Whitebeard, Sig estimated... the boss's head might get smashed, especially now that Whitebeard's mood was somewhat irritable for some unknown reason.
"Little Sig, I was hoping to have another three hundred rounds with you, but you've really angered the big guy this time. Get ready to get a beating! Hopefully, I'll see your Vivre Card again soon..." Whitey Bay shouted, shaking the Vivre Card between her fingers.
Sig ignored her and instead stared at Jozu —this guy had been locking onto him with his Observation Haki, and his fighting spirit and hostility were extremely high.
Sig, naturally, wouldn't back down. He pointed at Jozu and then gave him a thumbs up.
Before Jozu could say, "It's too late to beg for mercy now," Sig had already turned his wrist 180 degrees, tapped his thumb down twice, grinned, and tossed a mini trident onto a deserted island nearby before disappearing from the deck.
Jozu felt that Diamond's body could no longer contain its boiling blood...
With a powerful stomp on the deck, even the Mobydia trembled, while he himself was sent flying like a giant cannonball, crashing into the island that Sig had entered.
Jozu and Shanks are probably the most serious people right now!
Jozu now gets so itchy just looking at Sig that even his diamond teeth itch to bite...
Shanks looked at Whitebeard and felt that if he didn't go all out, the Old Man might really knock his head off!
As soon as Jozu landed, before he could even react, more than a dozen mini tridents were hurled at him—but none of them were aimed at him!
Given Jozu's physical defense, Sig didn't intend to test him with his trident. The mini tridents either stuck into the trees and ground around Jozu or were still flying and hadn't landed.
However, just as Jozu was surrounded by the mini-tridents, Sig's figure seemed to "split into multiples," appearing "in groups" around Jozu, and at the same time...
Fish-Man Jujutsu: Water-Splitting Thunder Ball!
Sig swiftly moved around Jozu, repeatedly slapping compressed water spheres crackling with electricity from his palms at Jozu from all directions.
Because of the incredible speed, it looked as if many Sig were attacking Jozu.
However, although Jozu couldn't keep up with Sig's speed, his entire body transformed into a dazzling diamond. Even the Armament Haki covering him was like a layer of varnish, not only colorless but also adding to the brilliance of the diamond!
Faced with Sig who couldn't keep up, Jozu stopped following and simply stood still, enduring the attacks from all directions.
And indeed, Sig's attack failed to budge Jozu in the slightest...
Only when the mini-trident's positioning time was about to expire did Sig retrieve them one by one, and then, in Flash of Lightning, he returned to his original position!
As Sig retreated, Jozu's eyes flashed, and he instantly threw a downward punch. Although he didn't hit Sig, the force of the punch still created a large crater in the ground.
Sig immediately realized that if it was just a "Flash of Lightning" and not a true "teleportation," Jozu's Observation Haki would still be able to react to some extent, but it was clearly not as fast as his speed.
Sig wasn't surprised that he hadn't managed to hurt Jozu; he had just been exchanging greetings...
In the original work, Jozu, ten years later, is a formidable figure like Marco, capable of holding off Admiral, and is known for his pure defense.
Jozu is now thirty years old, and his strength has basically taken shape. Considering the issue of Haki decline, even the strongest fighters in this world don't necessarily see their strength steadily increase between the ages of thirty and forty.
Jozu, nearing his peak, isn't so easy to break through...
"With this kind of half-baked understanding, you can't break through a diamond! Kid, are you planning to keep hiding forever?" Jozu said, trying to provoke him.
"You've got a great physique, so let's give it a try."
Sig spoke, his body swelled up, and a layer of even finer scales covered him...