At Marine Headquarters, Whitebeard, due to the Navy's divisive tactics, begins to unleash his full power on the battlefield, facing off against Akainu.
Meanwhile, Luffy, under the cover of the pirates, was sprinting towards the Execution Platform.
After he jumped Encircling Wall, he kept rushing forward.
One by one, the naval soldiers along the way were knocked away by him, but more and more naval soldiers kept pouring in.
However, Luffy discovered something—the resistance he faced was much less than he had imagined.
Whenever a powerful Marine Vice Admiral- level officer tries to stop him, an "accident" always happens.
A Marine Vice Admiral admiral drew his sword and charged at him, but halfway there, a shadow suddenly grabbed his ankle, causing him to fall flat on his face on the ice.
Another naval Rear Admiral attempted to flank from the side, but before he could even make a move, a pink arrow struck his shoulder, turning him into a stone statue.
Another commodore Commodore Seastone Handcuffs, Luffy.
As a result, he was thrown dozens of meters away by a water column that came from the side, and he tumbled seven or eight times in the air.
Luffy didn't have time to think much; he just focused on charging forward.
Behind him, Marco transformed into Phoenix Form and soared through the air.
Blue flame wings unfurled above Luffy's head, deflecting several cannonballs Luffy at him.
" Straw Hat Boy!"
Marco did a somersault in the air. " Pops said—we'll cover you!"
Vista charged in from the side, his twin swords crossed to block a Marine Vice Admiral's slash, and without turning his head, shouted to Luffy, "Run! Leave this to us!"
Jozu's body turned half diamond, and he used his shoulder to knock away a whole row of Marine soldiers who were trying to stop Luffy.
Luffy gritted his teeth, compressed his legs to the limit, and launched the Gum-Gum Rocket.
His body bounced rapidly on the ice, each landing creating a dent.
He slipped through the gaps between the pirates and the navy, burst through the gunfire and smoke, and swept past countless fallen figures.
Finally, Luffy rushed to the bottom of the Execution Platform.
He looked up at the towering Execution Platform. Ace knelt on the cold ground, bound tightly by Seastone chains.
Ace had his head down, so his expression was obscured, but Luffy could see that his shoulders were trembling.
" Ace --!!!"
Luffy's shout made Ace suddenly look up.
The brothers' eyes met in mid-air.
One was on the Execution Platform, and the other was Execution Platform.
Separated by a height of tens of meters, by the blades of two executioners, by tens of thousands of navy personnel and a dense array of swords.
But they can see each other's eyes.
Luffy took a deep breath and compressed his legs again--
But just as he was about to jump up, a streak of blue flame swooped down from the sky.
Marco bypassed Luffy and charged straight toward the Execution Platform.
With its blue flame wings fully extended, it trailed two dazzling tail flames in the air, and its whole body shot upwards like a blue meteor.
" Ace --!!!"
Marco's hand was already outstretched, his fingertips less than three meters from the edge of the Execution Platform.
At this critical moment, a figure suddenly leaped up from the Execution Platform.
Garp's right fist was covered in jet-black Armament Haki, and the fist left a black afterimage in the air.
His face was expressionless, but something was glistening in his eyes.
"I am— Marine Vice Admiral!!!"
The iron fist slammed viciously into Marco's head.
The Phoenix's azure flames were shattered by this punch.
Marco's body traced a straight line through the air before plummeting from a height of tens of meters, crashing into the ice with a deafening roar, sending shards of ice flying everywhere.
Before Marco could even get up, more than a dozen Seastone chains flew in from all directions and precisely wrapped around his body.
Onigumo stood at the other end of the chain, hooked his finger, and the chain tightened suddenly, pinning Marco firmly to the ice.
" Marco --!!!"
The pirates on the ice screamed in terror.
Marco the Phoenix, the first division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates, was captured.
On the Execution Platform, Sengoku put down the Amplifying Den Den Mushi ) with a determined glint in his eyes.
"The situation has exceeded expectations."
He looked down at the chaotic battlefield, at the Straw Hat Boy charging toward the Execution Platform, and at the naval positions turned upside down by Whitebeard.
Then he made a decision.
"There's no need to wait until the execution."
Sengoku's voice Amplifying Den Den Mushi, spreading across the entire battlefield; every word felt like an ice pick striking everyone's eardrums.
"Execute Portgas D. Ace immediately."
Sengoku's voice was amplified and broadcast throughout Marineford (Amplifying Den Den Mushi).
For a moment, everyone on the battlefield was stunned.
The pirates were stunned.
They risked their lives to save Ace, and now the Navy wants to execute them prematurely?
The naval soldiers were also stunned.
The execution was carried out ahead of schedule because the situation had become so urgent that even the Fleet Admiral Sengoku felt that they could no longer wait.
Luffy froze on the spot as if struck by lightning.
His legs were still moving forward, but his mind was completely blank.
He watched as the two executioners on the Execution Platform raised their long swords, the blades reflecting a blinding, cold light in the sunlight.
The blade began to fall, very slowly, like a slow-motion scene in a movie.
"Stop--!!!"
Luffy's voice exploded from deep within his throat.
But the two executioners couldn't hear it, or rather, even if they had, they wouldn't have stopped.
The blade continued its downward trajectory, getting closer and closer to Ace's nape.
Luffy's body reacted before his brain did.
He opened his mouth and took a deep breath.
He inhaled with tremendous force, his rubber lungs stretched to their limit, and the surrounding air swirled slightly as he breathed.
Then he roared.
That roar didn't come from the throat; it erupted simultaneously from the depths of the bone marrow, from the very core of the heart, from every single cell.
"Stop----!!!"
The Conqueror's Haki exploded outwards from Luffy.
Dark red arcs of electricity surged from Luffy's body, like countless uncontrolled bolts of Inazuma striking in all directions.
The shockwave spread in a ring, cracking the ice surface and distorting the air in its path; it even tore a hole in the clouds in the sky.
The naval soldiers directly below the Execution Platform were the first to suffer.
The soldiers closest to Luffy rolled their eyes back, their bodies went limp, and their weapons clattered and fell to the ground.
Then came the second, third, and fourth shockwaves—the shockwaves pushed outwards like Domino, and one ring after another of the naval soldiers fell down.
Hundreds of people. Thousands of people. Several thousand people.
A large area of the ice had collapsed.
The fallen soldiers' eyes were all spinning, and they were foaming at the mouth. Some of them fainted while still holding their swords.
Only a few officers of general rank are still struggling to hold on.
They stood in the shockwave, gritting their teeth, their legs trembling, veins bulging on their foreheads, but they stubbornly refused to fall.