The Monkey Act

"All forces, attack! Wipe out the Whitebeard Pirates!"

As Sengoku's voice rang out in every direction.

The hundred thousand elite officers standing in neat ranks in the plaza immediately turned into a blue-and-white torrent.

They poured down from the harbor in the inner bay and charged toward the pirates on the ice.

At the same time, the many pirate captains under Whitebeard also began shouting orders to charge.

"Kill all the Marines!"

"We've got the perfect landing point! Jump off the pirate ships, follow the ice, destroy every obstacle in sight, and charge into the plaza!"

The pirates immediately grabbed all kinds of weapons and leaped off the ships with howls, like dumplings dropping into a pot.

In an instant, the armies of both sides collided and began slaughtering one another in a frenzy.

The metallic clang of blades and spears rang across the frozen sea.

The coastal artillery batteries surrounding the inner bay also began to roar, firing enormous shells one after another.

The shells fell into the crowds, inflicting massive casualties on the pirates atop the ice.

On the towering embankment within the harbor, some of the Seven Warlords of the Sea who had been watching finally chose to act.

"Clang!"

A clear ring of steel sounded.

A man wearing a black top hat trimmed with white fur, a burgundy patterned shirt,

a black trench coat, white trousers, and black ankle boots,

with a small cross-shaped dagger hanging on his chest, reached behind himself and drew that enormous black cross-shaped blade.

The man had a short beard, and his eyes were as sharp as an eagle's.

"Fuffuffuffu, are you making a move?"

Doflamingo, dressed in a pink shirt and a pink flamingo-feather coat, flamboyant beach shorts and pointed leather boots, with pink sunglasses over his eyes, revealed a surprised expression.

Even Akainu, sitting as still as a mountain beneath the execution platform, could not help looking over after noticing the commotion.

"Dracule Mihawk, he wants to make a move? What a rare sight."

Mihawk gripped Black Blade Yoru. Beneath his black top hat, his eagle-sharp eyes locked firmly onto the towering figure standing on the distant deck.

"I merely want to know the true gap between that man and me."

As his calm voice fell, Mihawk raised his longsword and slashed downward.

Whoosh!

A dazzling light instantly illuminated the entire bay.

It was the slash unleashed by Black Blade Yoru.

Crack, crack, crack!

Where the sword light passed, the thick ice in the bay was effortlessly torn open by a crack more than a hundred meters long.

The sword light split the ice and shot straight toward the Moby Dick ahead!

Faced with that astonishing slash, powerful enough to split the entire ship in two.

Whitebeard, standing on the deck, seemed not to notice it at all.

He still held his bisento, unmoving as a mountain.

Just then, a burly, powerful figure flashed past and spread his arms toward the terrifying slash hurtling at him.

"Clang!"

It was like a jet of water striking a hard reef.

The slash from Hawk-Eye Mihawk, the world's greatest swordsman, was forcibly stopped.

"Woooahhh!"

The muscular figure let out a thunderous roar. Clasping the tangible sword light in both hands, his arm muscles bulged as he violently heaved upward!

The sword light shot into the sky and exploded above the clouds.

Boom!!

A violent burst of force erupted in the high sky, scattering patches of dark clouds.

"Who was that? He actually blocked the slash of the world's greatest swordsman?"

As the icy mist dispersed, a mountain-like, muscular figure appeared beneath the Moby Dick.

The man's entire body had transformed into sparkling, translucent diamond. Even the teeth revealed by his wide grin had turned to diamond.

"That's the Third Division Commander, Diamond Jozu!"

A blinding light suddenly flashed through the sky.

A thick beam of light, constantly refracting, shot over from afar in an instant.

Countless particles of light gathered above the Moby Dick, forming the figure of a man in a yellow suit and white Justice coat, wearing yellow sunglasses.

Kizaru spread his hands and fired countless lasers directly at Whitebeard before him.

"Yasakani no Magatama!"

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

The dense light bullets rained down like a storm, filling the entire sky and bathing the ice in golden light.

"It's Kizaru!"

On the deck, Whitebeard shielded his eyes with one hand. "Hey, hey, that's too dazzling, brat."

Whoosh!

Behind Whitebeard, a swift figure suddenly flashed forward like the wind, darting in front of the barrage of light bullets and colliding head-on with them.

Fwoosh!

Bang, bang, bang!

Amid a string of explosions, a pair of blue flaming wings spread open, blocking every particle of light fired by Kizaru.

"Even Admiral Kizaru was stopped! What is that form surrounded by blue flames?"

"That's the First Division Commander, Marco the Phoenix!"

"That astonishing form is the legendary Mythical Zoan, Phoenix form!"

In midair, Marco's hands had transformed into two enormous wings of blue flame. Looking at Kizaru before him, the corners of his lips rose slightly.

"How could we let you take down our king so easily?"

The dense light bullets continued to fire, piercing through Marco's body again and again.

But in the blink of an eye.

Every part of Marco's body that had been pierced rapidly healed, restoring him completely.

Marco beat the wings on his back, accelerating in a mad burst. In an instant, he arrived before Kizaru, hung his right leg upside down in midair, and kicked at Kizaru's head.

Caught off guard, Kizaru could only raise an arm to block.

Bang!

The right leg coated in Armament Haki struck Kizaru's arm solidly, kicking him out of the air and down to the ground.

Boom!!

Kizaru's body descended from the sky as a golden streak at light speed, crashing straight into the earth and exploding on impact.

Before the Marines could cry out in alarm, countless particles of light flew from the ruins and gathered into Kizaru's tall form.

He looked up at Marco flying in midair.

"How terrifying. Every single one of the Whitebeard Pirates is as strong as a monster."

"Giant Squad, watch the sky!"

Rumble, rumble! The earth roared and trembled.

Jozu's burly figure rampaged across the broad ice, smashing every Marine in his path until they spat blood and flew backward.

"Get out of the way!" he shouted at the pirates on the ice before him.

Then his body abruptly leaped high into the air before crashing down, throwing a punch at the ice below.

Crack!

His fist blasted deep into the ice. Under his precise control over his own strength.

Two curved cracks spread out to either side, rapidly extending across the ice before joining together to form a perfect circle more than a hundred meters in diameter.

Then Jozu shouted, thrusting both hands into the ice.

He tore the enormous hundred-meter block of ice from the frozen sea, then furiously exerted both arms and hurled it toward the plaza ahead.

"If you've got what it takes, try stopping this!"