Doflamingo

A massive block of ice, a hundred meters in diameter and like the peak of a mountain, was hurled from Marineford's bay into the sky above the plaza by Jozu's inhuman strength.

The Marines on the ground stood with their mouths agape, staring speechlessly at the mountain-sized block of ice, stunned beyond words.

"It's huge!" Even the giant vice admirals trembled with a fear they could not suppress.

"Honestly, if we all go out there, who's going to guard this place?"

Beneath the execution platform, Akainu slowly rose to his feet and clenched his right fist as scorching red magma began to surge forth.

His face remained impassive as he threw a punch at the enormous block of ice about to crash into the plaza.

"Great Eruption!"

Scalding magma roared from his arm, transforming into a gigantic magma fist that effortlessly punched through the massive ice block.

Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!

Massive clouds of steam billowed out. In an instant, the mountain-like block of ice was completely vaporized by the scorching magma fist.

In midair, the blazing magma fist continued flying forward.

Then, above the frozen surface of the inner bay, it transformed into a rain of fiery meteors that whistled down toward the ground.

On the ice, both pirates and Marines wore expressions of indescribable terror as they scattered in every direction.

"Run! They're volcanic bombs!"

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Volcanic bombs wreathed in thick black smoke fell from the sky like miniature meteors, smashing through the iron-hard ice and leaving it shattered and pockmarked.

When the volcanic bombs fell into the sea, they immediately boiled the frigid water until it became scorching hot.

Pirates who had fallen into the sea as the ice melted—

Before they could even rejoice at being saved, the boiling seawater scalded them, drawing out utterly miserable screams.

Boom!

Whitebeard tilted his head slightly as a black ship behind him was smashed in half by a falling volcanic bomb.

Raging flames swiftly engulfed the vessel.

Whoosh!

A millstone-sized volcanic bomb flew toward him, only for Whitebeard to easily pierce it with the bisento in his hand.

He blew out the flames on the volcanic bomb and teased, "Isn't this firework display a little too fancy?"

"Hehehe, Whitebeard, don't you like a luxurious funeral?"

From several hundred meters away, Akainu's lips curled into a chilling smile.

"You're only fit for lighting candles at birthday parties, magma brat."

At this moment, bloody fighting had already broken out across both the frozen inner bay and the plaza beneath the execution platform.

Whitebeard's forty-three pirate fleets clashed with the Marines' hundred thousand elite officers and soldiers.

Meanwhile, the fourteen powerful division commanders had already engaged the vice admirals of Marine Headquarters.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

The ground trembled, and the entire sheet of ice shook violently.

An enormous figure strode over from the direction of the harbor.

It was Little Oars, a pirate captain under Whitebeard and a descendant of Oars, the Continent Puller.

"Ace! I'm coming to save you!"

Little Oars opened his mouth and shouted, his voice rolling outward like thunder.

On the execution platform, Ace's eyes were red as he watched the brutal battle below, where blood flowed like rivers.

"Oars! Don't come over! You're too big—you'll be treated like a target!"

Before the disbelieving eyes of the many giant vice admirals of Marine Headquarters, Little Oars ignored the artillery fire and blades coming at him, directly lifted a Marine warship around its middle, and hurled it at them.

"Stop him!"

"You damn demon! He's way too big! This completely defies common sense for giants!"

On the embankment of the inner bay, Moria's eyes gleamed as he watched Little Oars. "Oars's descendant is actually on Whitebeard's ship. I really want his corpse."

Thud!

Just then, a dull sound came from beneath their feet.

Bartholomew Kuma, who had been standing beside him like a statue, slowly removed his gloves.

"You..." A trace of wariness entered Moria's eyes, and he quietly moved aside.

Bartholomew Kuma was a Paramecia user of the Paw-Paw Fruit.

With the paw pads on his hands, he could easily fire Pressure Cannons capable of piercing steel.

He could also compress vast amounts of air at will, creating air bombs powerful enough to destroy an island in a single strike.

Bzzz! Bzzz! Bzzz!

Kuma extended both hands toward the air. The atmosphere trembled between his palms, faintly taking the shape of a gigantic bear paw.

Amid the buzzing vibrations, Kuma compressed hundreds of cubic meters of air into a fist-sized mass and flicked it toward Little Oars.

The bear-paw-shaped air projectile looked cute, and it did not fly particularly fast.

But when it struck Little Oars in the abdomen, it unleashed a terrifying impact.

The blow made the thirty-eight-meter-tall demon bleed from all seven orifices, scattered his consciousness, and sent his entire body crashing to its knees.

Little Oars's face was covered in blood, and his vision blurred.

Through the haze, he saw Ace kneeling on the execution platform, shouting himself hoarse.

He remembered how Ace had worried about him getting soaked in the rain and painstakingly made him a huge straw hat.

Ace was a Flame-Flame Fruit user, so if he was not careful, he would have to start all over again.

"Ace... is the gentlest person."

Little Oars forced himself to hold onto his fading consciousness, gripped the longsword in his hand, and slashed down at the people standing before him.

"At least... I'll take down one Seven Warlord."

Rumble!!

The blade, more than ten meters long, instantly shattered the harbor shore and blasted countless boulders apart.

"Fufufufu, fufufufu, interesting, interesting."

Doflamingo flashed forward like a crimson bird, leaping over Oars's head as he curled his fingers.

Rip!

A tearing sound rang out as Little Oars's right leg was severed at the knee and flew high into the air.

"Damn Doflamingo! You cut off Oars's lower leg! Doesn't that ruin the integrity of the corpse?"

Moria shouted in fury. Activating his Shadow-Shadow Fruit power, he gathered countless shadows beneath Little Oars, then shot them straight upward!

"Shadow Horn Spear!"

Pfft!

The black shadow spear pierced Little Oars's heart and nailed him to the ground.

"Oars!!" Ace's eyes nearly split apart.

In the distance, Whitebeard involuntarily tightened his grip on his bisento. "Oars."

"Fufufufu, fufufufu!"

Doflamingo threw back his head and laughed.

"What's so funny, Doflamingo?!"

Atmos, commander of the Thirteenth Division, glared furiously at Doflamingo and swung his longsword straight at him.

Doflamingo neither dodged nor blocked, merely curling the five fingers of his right hand.

Swish!

The longsword stopped one centimeter from his face.

"Fufufufu, you're asking me what's so funny?"

"It's precisely this feeling of standing at the very center of the era that makes me laugh!"

Doflamingo resembled an elegant musician, his fingers nimbly moving as though playing the most stirring melody.

A flicker of terror appeared in Atmos's eyes. Suddenly, he opened his mouth and shouted at the pirate subordinates beside him:

"Not good! Get away from me, now!"

"Why, Captain Atmos?"

The pirates were somewhat confused.

But in the next moment, the buffalo went mad, swinging his longsword at his own subordinates.

Rip! Rip!

More than a dozen heads flew high into the air, their eyes still filled with confusion and bewilderment.

"Stop! Doflamingo!"

Tears streamed down Atmos's face as he frantically slaughtered his own men.

Doflamingo spread his hands as though embracing the world.

"Pirates are evil?"

"Marines are justice?"

"Those concepts have already been rewritten countless times."

"The values of children who know nothing of peace differ from those of children who know nothing of war!!"

"Only those standing at the summit can rewrite good and evil!"

"Will justice prevail?"

"Of course!"

"Because only the victors are justice!!"