Buggy VS Aokiji

"Ice Time!"

Aokiji, with curly hair and dressed in a white military uniform, suddenly appeared before Buggy, emanating a chilling aura. Immediately, the bone-chilling coldness gathered around Buggy like streaks of Lightning Flash, climbing up Buggy body in the blink of an eye, spreading layer by layer, freezing him into a motionless human ice sculpture in less than a breath!

"That's Marine Admiral!"

"Aokiji has made his move!"

"Oh no! Buggy the Clown is in danger!!"

The pirates who noticed the battle were now seeing Buggy encounter Aokiji, and they couldn't help but feel uneasy for him.

"Um...?"

Aokiji's brow twitched slightly. He saw that the center of the ice sculpture began to crack with a series of intricate fissures. It didn't make much of a sound, but it just broke into countless ice shards, like layers of old, dead skin peeling off!

He suddenly looked relieved. "Oh... I've seen your file. You're a split personality, right? It's true, [Frozen] is very difficult to freeze [Split]..."

"Marine Admiral Aokiji, don't act innocent after getting the better deal..." The ice shards on Buggy's body had all fallen off, and he shivered slightly, his skin turning slightly purple from the cold. "You almost killed me..."

"Is that so... What a pity..." Aokiji looked at Buggy, "You should have died twenty-two years ago. Now that you've lived another twenty-two years, what more could you want?"

"Is this a death sentence for me...? I'm still quite dissatisfied... So please make way!" Buggy took a step forward, instantly closing the distance to Aokiji, and unleashed a punch covered in Haki towards the latter's chest and abdomen.

Aokiji did not retreat, but quickly turned a part of his body into elemental form, allowing Buggy to attack him.

However, Buggy also used the ability to Chop-Chop during his attack, which caused the part of Aokiji's body that had become ice elemental to be instantly shattered into pieces.

After the ability to Chop-Chop Awakening, it can affect non-living entities, but it has no effect on living entities. This means that the parts of the opponent that have not been split apart are the entities that can be captured!

Buggy's tentative punch missed, and he immediately aimed a side kick at Aokiji's physical body. However, Marine Admiral is Marine Admiral after all. The moment Buggy touched his opponent, his fist was already covered in a layer of ice under the influence of the [Freeze] ability, which spread from his arm to his entire body. The speed of the infection far exceeded the speed of his kick, so much so that his entire body was frozen again while his foot was still in mid-air!

This time, Aokiji showed no mercy, casually kicking out and shattering Buggy's ice statue into several pieces of varying sizes, which flew out in all directions.

He calmly put his hands in his pockets. "If it's a [split personality], this level of damage shouldn't be a big problem, right?"

The ice debris, kicked dozens Chop-Chop meters away, shattered in mid-air. The bodies encased within the ice statue flew from all directions, coalescing into a human shape. Buggy stopped, stretching his numb body, frowned, glanced at Kuzan, then looked up at Little Oars Jr.., whom he had been protecting and who was now nearing the Execution Platform. He muttered to himself, "My training really isn't enough. This is going to be difficult..."

Just as Little Oars Jr. was about to reach for Ace, countless flying shadow bats formed the [Shadow Horn], which plummeted straight down. Its terrifying penetrating power made even a giant's body seem as fragile as a cicada's wing. The [Shadow Horn] mercilessly Little Oars Jr.'s back through his chest, pinning him to the ground!

As Ace watched the massive figure before him gradually weaken and collapse on the Execution Platform, he roared with a mixture of excitement and agony, "Oars!!"

"Hehehe--Look, this is such a beautiful kill! The perfect corpse is about to be ours!" Gecko Moria laughed excitedly, revealing two rows of sharp teeth, but then he closed his mouth and frowned deeply.

"I won't... give up, Brother Ace, I'll be able to see you soon..." Even with his face covered in blood and his body pierced through, Little Oars Jr., with his last bit of consciousness, still reached out his arm to grab Ace on the Execution Platform.

"This is..."

"This is a braiding technique I learned in Wano Country, Oars, try it on, because you're too close to the sun!"

"Haha, this is so much cooler now... Even if it snows, I won't be cold anymore, because the snow won't cover me. This is really great!"

"Really? That's great!"

His first encounter with Ace replayed in his mind like a film, his face a mixture of blood and tears. Even as his vision blurred as he looked at Ace, he kept repeating the same phrase like a phonograph, "Wait for me... wait for me..."

"Don't go any further... Ice Time Capsule!" Standing there, Kuzan opened his palm and suddenly fired a compressed blast of cold air at Oars, dozens of meters away. The blast froze Oars' body instantly upon contact, shaping him into a gigantic ice sculpture from head to toe!

Looking at the ice sculpture created by Little Oars Jr., tears welled up in the eyes of the pirates in the fleet, and they gritted their teeth.

"Captain Oars!!"

"That damned Marine Admiral!!"

"Fufufu--I can't take it anymore!" Donquixote Doflamingo laughed wildly, spreading his arms wide. "I really want to kick this whole thing to pieces!"

Gecko Moria cursed, "Damn the Navy, how am I supposed to 'enjoy' this corpse?!"

Sengoku stood solemnly on the execution platform, glancing out of the corner of his eye at Ace, whose head was bowed and whose expression was unreadable. He then said, "Aokiji, if you had acted any later... the condemned prisoner would have been saved!"

"How could that be? You're still here..." Aokiji scratched his head nonchalantly. "By the way, where are the crew members of [Pirate King]?"

Buggy has been retreating, putting some distance between himself and Aokiji. His plan to use Oars' size advantage to save Ace has failed. Now he is surrounded by enemies, and it would be bad if he were to get entangled with Aokiji as well.

"What are you looking at, Buggy the Clown...?"

Before Buggy could even regain his footing, he quickly turned his head to dodge, and a Bullet String, almost invisible to the naked eye, grazed his cheek and went astray!

He stopped, looked up to wipe the small, linear wound on his face, and turned to look at Donquixote Doflamingo. "You really are persistent..."

"Fufufufu--It's just a tit-for-tat exchange!" Donquixote Doflamingo stood about ten meters away from Buggy. "My intuition tells me you have many similarities to me. This war is just a stepping stone for you to climb higher, isn't it? The bloodline of the rescue captain, that's just an excuse..."

"Don't slander my loyalty..." Buggy's lips curled into a smile. "Besides, you're Shichibukai of the Navy, while I'm a pirate assisting the Whitebeard Pirates. Our positions aren't the same..."

"Fufufufu--" Donquixote Doflamingo laughed wildly, "Standing? Pirates are evil, or the Navy is righteous, this concept has been refreshed countless times... Children who don't know what [peace] is and children who don't know what [war] is have different values. Only those who stand at the top can rewrite good and evil at will, and right now, here and now, is neutral..."

"Justice will prevail? Of course! Only the victor... is justice achieved!!!"