Azure Dragon Arrives!

Ron himself probably never imagined that an ordinary thought to him, a belief he took for granted, would have such a tremendous impact on others.

It was not only Law, who had treated it as his creed in life and spoken those words during his battle against Zoro. Smoker was the same now... and perhaps Koby, who had yet to leave the danger zone, should be included as well.

Beyond them, among the millions of Marines stationed across the world, who knew how many others still held fast to that principle?

What was influence?

This was influence!

Perhaps in Ron's eyes, everything he did was merely for his own goals, for the sake of realizing his ambitions and constantly challenging his limits.

But in the eyes of others, it was precisely this Ron, this persistence of his, that moved them!

Since the Summit War, over the past two years, countless hot-blooded men had joined the Marines and charged bravely into battle because of a single sentence from him.

Just as he had said, knowing that anyone could die—their comrades, their families, even themselves—they faced that cruel reality and stepped onto the battlefield time and time again!

So it did not matter... that people would die.

For justice, they had long been prepared!

"Madman!"

King could not help but shudder at Smoker's madness. With every punch that landed, the impact traveled through his own body and into Smoker's. He was injuring himself eight hundred to kill the enemy one thousand.

Before long, Smoker's internal organs would be completely mashed to pulp. Yet as a Zoan Devil Fruit User in the awakened stage, so long as King still had one breath left, he would always recover.

So was there any point in doing this?

King wanted badly to ask, but the relentless