Akainu's Endless Chatter

"Shut up!"

"Pops gave us the will to keep living!"

"How could you possibly understand Pops's greatness?!"

Furious, Ace advanced on Sakazuki step by step, babbling on nonstop, every word explaining Whitebeard's greatness.

However.

For Sakazuki.

This was precisely why he had deliberately provoked Ace.

Besides, Whitebeard was a pirate. Emperor of the Sea or not, before Sakazuki's justice, any pirate—no matter who they were—was unworthy of respect.

"Whitebeard strayed from the righteous path, so he had no value in living. That is why he died!"

"And the same goes for you so-called pirate underlings who followed Whitebeard!"

"You have no reason to keep living either!"

Sakazuki clung to his rhetoric of justice and somehow made it sound perfectly reasonable.

As he spoke, Sakazuki began unleashing the power of his Magma-Magma Fruit. Two streams of dense, scorching magma rapidly flowed from his arms.

Ace!

Don't fall for Sakazuki's scheme!

Garp gritted his teeth and muttered inwardly.

Though Garp, as a Marine, could not step in to save Ace, as his grandfather, he desperately wanted Ace to survive.

After all, Garp knew that Marineford was already in utter chaos, with the other two Four Emperors, Blackbeard Teach, and even Roya present. If Ace fled desperately alongside the Whitebeard Remnants and took Luffy with him, they could certainly leave Marineford alive.

If Ace could escape and return to the seas, it would mean his life had not ended here. It might even be a new beginning for his life.

However.

What Garp could think of.

Sakazuki could naturally think of as well.

It was because he had considered this that Sakazuki decisively chose to use provocation.

Such tactics might be somewhat beneath contempt, but Sakazuki had always been accustomed to handling matters with extreme methods. As long as he achieved his goal