"Let's do it. Help Whitebeard."
"He's probably the only one besides me who wants Blackbeard dead!"
Uchiha Tamaharu made his final decision.
At the same time, both his eyes transformed into Mangekyō Sharingan, boosting his mental power.
Just as Squard's long sword fell from its sheath onto the ground, with the blade only half a meter from Whitebeard Edward's chest—
"Genjutsu: Sharingan!"
A powerful surge of mental energy struck Squard's mind.
Squard's sword, which he had been about to plunge into Whitebeard Edward, pierced the skin by barely an inch before falling from his hand and clattering onto the ship's bow, shaped like a whale's head.
"You!"
Whitebeard Edward's pupils contracted sharply.
He had never imagined that the son who had just been fired up and ready to fight his way through the battlefield would suddenly stab him in the back.
The shallow wound barely affected Whitebeard Edward physically, but the shock to his heart was immense.
Why would his own son do this?!
His face filled with disbelief, he stared at Squard, who stood frozen in place.
"Squard, what the hell are you doing?!"
Marco, who had been covering Luffy, flew back at full speed and kicked Squard onto the deck behind him.
His face was full of rage!
All the composure he'd shown when he first arrived on the battlefield had vanished. He wanted nothing more than to kill Squard on the spot!
"Why?!"
"Why did you stop at the last moment?!"
"Pirates really are useless!!"
But there was someone even angrier on the battlefield: Akainu Sakazuki.
Everything had been going so smoothly, and then this cowardly weakling had stopped at the crucial moment.
If Whitebeard could have been seriously wounded first, the Marines would have suffered far fewer casualties in the battle to come!
Squard woke up