I'm Not Targeting Anyone

Whitebeard, hailed as the strongest man on the sea, could still hold on for an unknown amount of time.

Luffy and Kaido probably would not have much trouble either.

Dragging things out until Red-Hair made his appearance was not a problem, but that would go against Su Lin's original intention.

Points, points—the important thing was still points!

This would not do. Fine, no investment, no returns.

He glanced at the several props and skills he had selected in the shopping cart. This should be the final harvest of points.

"Buggy, it's me." Su Lin patted Buggy on the back.

Buggy was so startled that his head spun 360 degrees.

"Why do you always appear out of nowhere?!"

Buggy asked irritably, "Is the map you gave me real?!"

After saying that, Buggy realized this guy had just fought an Admiral and impersonated one of the Four Emperors. He probably could not beat him...

Was his tone a little too arrogant?

"Of course the map is real. Take this." Su Lin hooked an arm around Buggy's neck and stuffed a box into his arms. "A treasure map. You'll understand in a bit. I'm going big this time."

"Sure, sure."

Buggy, who was watching the battle from the ravine while acting as a broadcaster, did not understand what Su Lin was talking about. He only understood that he could charge more money.

"What exactly is that guy trying to do?"

Great Buggy had given this opportunity to appear on stage to this youngster whose hair had barely grown in.

Yet this guy kept doing all sorts of mysterious things.

Forget it. For the sake of the gold, he still had to work.

"Men! Stay sharp and keep your eyes open!"

Buggy ordered his underlings holding Surveillance Snails in the trenches.

"Yes! Captain Buggy!" XN

[Light Scroll: Angel's Feather] Price: 500 points. Healing, restoring physical injuries, purification, removal, greatly reversing negative bodily conditions and restoring the recipient to health. —Very traditional, very commonplace, but that did not stop this skill from looking cool.

[Heaven Rank] Rental price: 50 points. It did not do much. It just looked cool.

[Concealed Loudspeaker] 10 points: High-tech equipment from the 22nd century. Even sound distribution, automatic charging, wireless endurance.

He pulled out a historical projection—it was himself from five minutes ago.

His true body hid within history, and his consciousness began controlling this projection.

He tore open the scroll with both hands.

The sky, darkened by gunpowder smoke and warfare, suddenly brightened somewhat.

Everyone who noticed the change looked up.

Countless shimmering, glowing objects fell from the sky.

"What is that?"

A pirate lying on the ground stared up at the sky. He no longer had the strength to care about how the battle was going.

Covered in gunshot wounds and sword cuts, he began to miss the things from his hometown in the West Blue.

It was a modest town by the coast, relying mainly on port trade for its economy.

His father had once run a small merchant guild. Every time he returned from sea, he brought gifts from distant lands for him and his sisters.

His mother would bake the local xiru fruit cake, while the servants prepared a table full of food to celebrate his father's gains.

Why was he here?

Why...

Oh, he remembered.

That day, pirates had ravaged his hometown...

The ruined manor. The shattered windows.

His family had hidden in the cellar, only to be discovered.

At the critical moment, they had been saved by another group of pirates.

That pirate crew had stayed in their town for a while, until the town gradually recovered and the Navy received word and sent people to surround and suppress them.

To repay that kindness, he had become a pirate.

"Old man... Ace..."

The Marine leaning against a broken stone slab had no time to care about what the dying pirate across from him was muttering to himself.

To lessen the burden on his family, he had joined the Marines at a young age from that inland country where he would never see the sea in his entire life.

All for the extra enlistment subsidy back then.

Sixteen years had passed without him realizing it.

He had risen from a new recruit to a Marine colonel.

He had not seen his family for sixteen years.

He had planned to take leave and return home this year. Staring blankly at his severed arm, he felt his consciousness gradually fading.

"Feathers?"

Voices of surprise sounded around him.

Countless feathers, carrying their own radiance, slowly drifted down from the sky.

They formed a strange and beautiful sight over Marineford, where war and smoke intertwined.

Like a snowy night, yet unlike the cold loneliness of one.

"It feels kind of warm."

Devil Fruit users always had all kinds of strange abilities. Some were incredibly powerful, while others were completely useless.

When he was young, he had picked up a Devil Fruit, only for a close colleague to tell him it was a Dung Beetle Fruit.

In truth, it had been a Zoan Gorilla-Gorilla Fruit.

That colleague who had deceived him and secretly eaten his fruit had perished alongside a pirate with a bounty of 200 million Berries while protecting him during a previous voyage.

"No matter which ability user did this, forget it. I'm tired."

"It's quite pretty."

One exhausted Marine and pirate after another stretched out their arms and opened their palms, wanting to touch them.

A glowing feather landed in his palm, and its light vanished.

Was it just for show?

Just as he felt disappointed.

The pain from his injuries gradually faded, and the wounds on his battered arm began healing at a visible rate.

"So warm."

"God..."

Scenes like this were constantly playing out across the battlefield.

"Whose ability is this?"

Sengoku and Whitebeard felt the healing warmth carried by the glowing feathers landing on them. The pain from their injuries was slowly fading.

Feathers of light rained down from the heavens like snow on Christmas Eve, bringing a sliver of comfort to this battlefield of blood and fire.

"Hm?"

Luffy and Kaido, who had each taken a blow from the other, paused briefly at the sight.

"Boring."

Kaido tossed aside his spiked club, transformed into an azure dragon, and charged at Luffy again with Conqueror's Haki. Then, just like in the future, the giant Luffy turned him into a jump rope, leaving him dizzy.

Then he whipped him back and forth.

If nothing unexpected happened, the result would remain the same.

In everyone's eyes, more and more glowing feathers fell across the battlefield from the skies above Marineford.

Regardless of friend or foe, they healed every wounded person equally.

Several dozen seconds later.

A massive beam of light pierced the dark clouds and descended upon the center of the battlefield.

"What's going on?!"

A staircase formed from pure white light spiraled down from the clouds above.

Su Lin wore a black cape, a white top hat, a pure white suit, and white leather boots as he slowly descended the spiral stairway of light from the sky.

Every few unhurried steps he took, he transformed into a flash of light and appeared on the next level.

Accompanied by glowing feathers filling the sky, Su Lin looked like a messenger from heaven descending upon the war-torn land below.

When Su Lin set foot on the ground, the staircase dissolved into countless specks of light and vanished.

"That guy is so cool." Buggy was crying tears and snot from all the flashing light. After living for so many years, he had never imagined someone could show off this hard.

If he had not made a deal with Su Lin from the start, he might have been fooled by this entrance too.

After secretly shooting Buggy a glance in the distance, the Surveillance Snail's camera suddenly zoomed in.

"Give me some face. Let this conflict end here."

Su Lin's voice echoed through every corner of the battlefield.

"Pirates or Marines, it doesn't matter."

"Everyone has done their best. Go home tonight, have dinner, and get some sleep."

"You have already done your best. What comes next is no longer something you can control."

"Enough pointless sacrifices have been made. Preserve your lives. Whatever grudges you have can be settled later."

Su Lin spoke with seventy percent sincerity. His voice was not loud, yet it unexpectedly reached every corner of Marineford.

"Damn it, his spotlight and entrance are even cooler than Great Buggy's!" Buggy bit his clothes in envy.

"He's amazing." Buggy's underlings said, "He even turned into Kaido earlier and fought Garp and Sengoku."

"Someone that powerful was just standing arm in arm with Captain Buggy, discussing something."

One underling recalled the scene of Su Lin whispering with Buggy off to the side earlier.

"So that's it! Captain Buggy, you were planning some world-shaking event, weren't you?!"

"As expected of Captain Buggy!"

"Huh? Hahahaha." Buggy had no idea what these people were thinking. He only knew he could not give himself away, or these guys from Impel Down with bounties higher than his would probably not let him off.

"That's right. Just wait and see, men!"

Buggy would never tell them that Su Lin had hooked an arm around his shoulders earlier, and the two of them had been discussing prices with lecherous grins.

In the end, Su Lin had traded a treasure map and a blueprint that could automatically search for gold in exchange for the broadcasting rights.

Still, who would've thought...

Buggy rubbed his chin and smiled somewhat lecherously.

"That guy is the same kind of person as Great Buggy."

At that moment, Sengoku had just withstood one of Whitebeard's shockwaves, while Whitebeard had taken a punch to the face from Sengoku and pulled back to catch his breath.

"That brat who came with Straw Hat."

Sengoku took out the loudspeaker in his pocket and roared, "What kind of joke is this?!"

"You think our Marines will just let you and the Whitebeard Pirates go? Not one of you participants will escape!"

"Don't think you can confuse people's minds here!"

Hearing this, the Marine soldiers emerged from that miracle-like scene, and many of them responded in agreement.

"Fleet Admiral Sengoku is right. Pirates are pirates!"

"Don't think healing our wounds will make us stop trying to arrest you."

Some on the pirate side also felt Su Lin was being foolish. Why was he healing the Marines?

"Hey, go help that guy! He's about to get surrounded by the Marines."

"But he seems pretty strong. He even turned into Kaido earlier and showed Conqueror's Haki."

"Kizaru has already gone over. He might not be able to handle him." The captain of the Whitebeard Pirates' Seventh Division said.

Because Su Lin was currently at the exact center of Marineford, and due to the earlier retreat, he was now surrounded by Marine elites.

Numerous vice admirals and rear admirals stared at Su Lin like tigers watching prey. Kizaru had also flown into the sky, ready to attack.

Some pirates moved closer toward Su Lin.

"Who I am isn't important. What's important is my ability."

Su Lin looked at the Marines closing in without panic. He continued speaking calmly, ignoring Kaido in the distance, who wanted to swing his club at him but was stopped by Luffy.

"I'm sure you're all curious about what kind of ability user I am."

That was true. Many people were curious about what kind of ability user Su Lin was, but he was not planning to reveal his ability, was he?

Wouldn't it be better if enemies did not know that kind of information?

"I am a Copy-Copy Fruit user."

"Every ability I have seen can be copied by me."

Whoosh—

A bullet passed through Su Lin's back, but all it left in his body was a glowing hole.

"Admiral Kizaru's ability?"

Su Lin glanced at the Marine soldier who had ambushed him, but he did not care.

"No way, does such an absurd ability really exist?!"

"He can copy every ability?!"

"How frightening~." Kizaru was also wondering whether Su Lin's words were true.

Sabaody Archipelago · Gossip Square and Gossip Tavern

"Headquarters! Headquarters!"

"Huge news, huge news!"

"The war isn't over yet, but news even more explosive than the outcome of the war has emerged!"

"The most powerful Devil Fruit ability has appeared!"

"A Book-Book Fruit user capable of copying every Devil Fruit ability!"

Inside the tavern.

Pirates' wine cups fell one after another, striking the wooden floor with crisp clatters.

"This kind of thing..."

"I'm not a pirate, nor am I a Marine. I'm only here to end this war."

"Whoever attacks first, I'll join the other side."

"Do you understand now?"

Su Lin spread his arms as if to embrace everything and smiled openly.

Then he opened his eyes again, his expression changing.

His face held thirty percent disdain, thirty percent mercy, thirty percent arrogance, and ten percent seriousness—at least, in his own opinion.

He had pondered that expression in his mind for a long time.

The expression of a strong man.

"What a joke!"

"Just a mere criminal!"

Naturally, some Marines stepped forward to object.

Su Lin had never intended to make them stop so easily.

"Then!"

"Let me show you!"

He spread his arms even wider, forming a cross.

Two white semicircles appeared in his hands.

Crackle.

Crash.

It sounded like shattering glass, yet also like firecrackers being lit and exploding.

The ground began to shake.

"This is!?"

Sengoku and Garp were growing anxious.

Whitebeard raised his chin and looked at Su Lin.

"Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit ability!?"

"It's actually real!?"

The ground shook more and more violently, and the tremors continued to intensify.

"Stop! Do you want to destroy Marineford!?"

Hearing that, Su Lin lowered his arms and slipped his hands into his pockets, unleashing Roger's Conqueror's Haki to its fullest extent.

"Do you understand now, everyone?"

"I'm not asking you, nor am I trying to persuade you."

"You must listen to me and end this war."

Kaido's eyes gleamed with fighting intent. He even found it amusing; among everyone present, this guy cared the least about the consequences.

Of course, Su Lin knew that.

He reached into the air and pulled.

Su Lin, who had taken Kaido's appearance dozens of minutes earlier, was dragged out. He continued using the Haki he had exchanged for, and the spiked club in his hand was eager to strike.

Seeing the identical appearance, Kaido himself was stunned.

Does he have a cloning ability? Or is this copying?!

"Sure enough, that guy's Conqueror's Haki reminds me of Roger," Garp said solemnly, staring at Su Lin as sweat appeared on his forehead. "When did such a powerful man quietly emerge on these seas?"

Even if Roger had come back to life, he would not have been afraid. Back then, he had chased Roger for many years.

But today's situation was different. The guy before them possessed a combination of Devil Fruit abilities.

"This is terrible." Sengoku stood shoulder to shoulder with Garp, looking in Su Lin's direction.

"I'm not targeting anyone."

Su Lin decided to be arrogant to the very end today. After all, it was all historical projection talk.

He pointed his thumb downward, completely unlike the peacemaker he had been earlier.

"I'm saying that everyone here is trash."

End of Chapter.