"Can't Celestial Dragons be defeated? Can an Admiral never lose?"
"Don't make me laugh! If the Navy uses force to suppress the seas!"
"Then we'll use force to overturn the world!"
"Kill! Until every opponent is defeated!"
Rocks stepped over Saint Saturn's body.
The pirates surged forward.
Shane heard Rocks's words.
Something seemed to strike home in his heart.
A pirate.
Since crawling out of that pile of corpses, he had truly secured a place in this world for the first time.
Then he would fight to the very last moment!
"Don't just stand there, young man!"
Linlin flew past Shane, wielding the hat sword Napoleon.
Zephyr leaped up, heading for higher ground.
His fist met the sword's gleam head-on!
"Join my pirate crew with Kaido, Shane!"
"That guy owes me. He agreed long ago."
"With you two helping me, I'll definitely become the ruler of the seas!"
Linlin's Haki collided with Zephyr's.
The impact rippled outward, tearing at the flames on the ground.
An invitation?
He had only just become an apprentice with the Rocks Pirates.
In the blink of an eye, Linlin was formally inviting him to join her.
Sure enough, even at a moment of life and death, these people were always thinking about splitting up.
No wonder Rocks had ended up unable to hold everything together alone!
If they succeeded, they would divide the world among themselves.
If they failed, everyone would simply go their separate ways.
"Linlin, nobody wants to be someone else's subordinate!"
Shane punched down a Marine charging toward him.
His body already surpassed those of most people.
He was also getting ever closer to the essence of Life Return, squeezing the last bit of potential from his body.
Shane found a large quantity of food in a collapsed tavern.
He wolfed down the meat.
Using the techniques of Life Return, he rapidly converted it into vitality.
With that, he restored his body and compensated for the overload caused by Sulong.
"What a stubborn brat!"
"What do you mean, Linlin? Next time, call me big sis!"
Seeing that Shane would not accept her offer, Linlin turned and brought her blade down on Zephyr.
"Elbaph Spear: Ikoku Sovereignty!"
She wore a long pink polka-dot dress and a round-crowned, brimmed hat.
She faced every enemy in her youngest, most perfect form!
On Hachinosu, a paradise for pirates.
Charlotte Linlin was known as the pirate queen.
Her Soul-Soul Fruit, which commanded all things, and her innate monstrous strength made people shrink back.
Kaido, one of the few nonhumans, had become prey she deemed worthy.
Unfortunately.
Monsters never cherished one another; they guarded against each other!
Kaido had never intended to submit completely. He was determined to establish his own pirate crew!
Shane had ambitions too.
Since he had set foot on the seas and possessed great strength and a Devil Fruit.
And had something as good as the Devil Compass, why should he live under someone else's roof?
After the God Valley Incident.
Whether they succeeded or failed, he would naturally establish his own pirate crew and roam the seas!
Among the great heroes of the future, Shane would surely earn the name of a ruler.
"Linlin! Give it up. The Navy is everywhere outside!"
Zephyr threw a powerful punch. At this age, he had neither illness nor the frailty of old age.
Armament Haki and Observation Haki complemented his agile movements.
If Garp, who refused promotion to Admiral, was excluded.
He should have been the only Admiral without a Devil Fruit in fifty years!
"What nonsense are you spouting, you purple-buzz-cut idiot!"
Linlin gripped her sword with both hands and slashed at Zephyr's waist!
Boom!
Their Haki collided in midair, forming a storm.
Kaido sped past Shane.
Holding an iron club he had seized, he swung at everyone he saw!
Until a Marine swordsman wearing a formal hat and sunglasses appeared before him.
Bogard!
"Kaido? Sooner or later, you'll become a scourge of the seas. Why not die here!"
Bogard had followed Garp like a shadow for decades.
They had already known each other well since their time at God Valley.
What many people could never let go of was this.
Why hadn't Bogard acted on Hachinosu thirty-eight years later?
At this moment.
No one yet knew just how low-profile he was.
The moment Kaido saw Bogard, he knew this was one of the Navy's few current masters of swordsmanship!
"Thunder Bagua!"
"Three-Masted Ship Slash!"
Another collision of Haki sent loose stones flying from the ground.
The stones struck Shane one after another, but could not even break through his defenses.
The last mouthful of roast meat went into his stomach.
Only then did the hot breath in Shane's mouth cool.
He had finally mastered Life Return completely.
He could restore his vitality with greater ease!
"Rest can wait until the war is over."
"Now is the time to fight!"
Shane's muscles and bones shuddered as he rose to his feet.
He had not expected it.
He was already caught in the battlefield!
On one side was Sengoku in Buddha Form, looking up at the enemy in the sky.
On the other was Golden Lion Shiki, looking down from above with several Navy warships suspended in the air.
"Sengoku!"
"Give it everything you've got! After all, with me here, not a single one of your ships can sail!"
"Jihahahaha! This is the world of pirates!"
Golden Lion blew a smoke ring.
With a swing of his twin swords, his sword energy carved furrows through the ground.
At the same time, several warships crashed straight toward Sengoku!
"Don't think these little tricks will let you rule the seas!"
"Justice won't perish because of this, Shiki!"
Sengoku slammed his fist into the warships, shattering them outright.
He even tried to leap into the air to attack.
"Jihahahaha!"
"You're helpless, Sengoku!"
Golden Lion laughed heartily.
He loved watching others struggle like this, unable to do anything to him.
The Rocks Pirates had quite a few ability users who could turn an entire island into a battlefield.
Wang Zhi was foremost among them, along with Golden Lion Shiki and Whitebeard Newgate.
Even Linlin could use the Soul-Soul Fruit to control an island to the greatest possible extent.
Not to mention so many of them appearing on the same battlefield at once.
Archrivals clashed.
Sengoku was simply a scholar dealing with a brute.
As long as Golden Lion fought dirty and kept fighting from the air.
Even knowing Geppo would leave Sengoku hard-pressed.
Caught by the shock waves, Shane felt the terror of Haki combined with Devil Fruit abilities.
He had only just turned around when he encountered Tsuru, who had removed her gloves and was lying in wait.
Tsuru was at the peak of her beauty at this age, with plenty of admirers always trailing behind her long ponytail.
She was no less attractive than Momousagi, whom Tokikake would later pursue so fervently.
Of course, the two were only ten or twenty years apart in age.
She tried to use the Wash-Wash Fruit's ability to wash all the ambition and evil from Shane's heart.
"You're still a young pirate without a bounty. Why not turn back before it's too late!"
Tsuru also knew that Shane had no way back after killing a Celestial Dragon.
Recruiting him as a Marine, as Garp had suggested earlier, was even more impossible.
But she had to hold to that conviction for her fruit to become stronger!
"Once an arrow is loosed, there's no taking it back!"
"If a pirate's ship wants to reach shore, he has to dominate the world like Rocks!"
Shane preferred ambition to evil.
He transformed into a black dragon to fight Tsuru, his Bolo Breath raging.
A flame also appeared at an unhurried pace.
"Hey, is that Tsuru? How about using your fruit to sober me up?"
Captain John swayed on his feet and appeared before Tsuru in the blink of an eye.
Bang!
The two exchanged dozens of blows in an instant, their attacks too fast for others to distinguish.
Shane was helpless too. Someone had stolen his opponent again!
There were too many powerful fighters on this battlefield.
They could encounter their respective opponents in the blink of an eye.
"With a fruit like that, why don't you give the Celestial Dragons a wash?"
Wang Zhi blinked his large eyes.
Shane looked down and saw that the man had directly merged with one-fifth of the island.
And he seemed to have seized something important in his palm.
It was an egg!
Wasn't he afraid of it getting caught in the crossfire?
"That enormous egg still needs a long time to hatch."
Rayleigh was still very young, wearing a purple coat with his blond hair and beard.
He was a famously womanizing pirate!
Seeing Shane, the newcomer, in the sky.
The two shouted at the same time, "Don't interrupt our fight, brat!"
Shane was speechless.
God Valley was so chaotic that he could not find an opponent at all.
Could he only go clear out the rank and file?
Everyone within sight was in their thirties, at the peak of their strength.
Even someone as young as Kaido was equivalent to an enhanced Supernova who had mastered Haki.
Younger than Shane were Red-Haired and Buggy, who were hiding in the treasure chest.
"Are you looking for an opponent?"
Kong's towering figure blocked out the moonlight.
Just as Shane swiftly turned around.
A fist was already hurtling toward the back of his head.
High in the sky.
Giant Ape Kong's strength was unstoppable!
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