Chapter 38 Golden Lion Shiki

"Sengoku, Garp, and some officers and generals recruited from the World Recruitment also went with them. Although apart from them, there is nothing powerful enough to warrant your fighting."

After finishing the information, Xia Qi's voice quieted down and she did not hang up immediately.

"Hahaha, it's no wonder he is like that...! Those two people have been in conflict from the beginning to the end." Roger laughed when he heard that.

Jabba, who was standing next to him, was sweating profusely, realizing the seriousness of the situation: "They want to make contact? Hey, are they going to fight?"

After the destruction of the Rocks Pirates, the World Government ordered a worldwide search for their whereabouts.

Now, the strongest leader of the former Rocks Pirates wants to get close to them? This is enough for the government to mobilize and go to stop it.

What if they form an alliance?

"What is Shiki's purpose? Should we get involved in this mess?" Rayleigh said, preparing to hang up the Den Den Mushi.

Xia Qi's charming voice came from the other end of the Den Den Mushi microphone: "Did you forget to say thank you or something to me, Lao Lei? I'm in the Sabaody Archipelago. Can you come and see me when you have time?"

These words successfully brought the tense atmosphere in the room back to joy.

Jabba immediately teased: "Oh ho ho! Rayleigh, someone is thinking of you."

"Hahaha, hurry up and say something nice, Rayleigh." Roger laughed and patted Rayleigh on the shoulder: "Thanks to Xia Qi, we got to know a lot of secret information in advance."

Rayleigh blushed and put the microphone to his mouth: "Thank you, Xia Qi, I will find time to come and see you."

Rayleigh, who is not good at expressing himself, can only make an appointment with Xia Qi to meet.

"I've been waiting for you and brewed the wine you like."

After Xia Qi finished speaking, the Den Den Mushi was hung up.

"Hey, Rayleigh, Xia Qi will definitely be a virtuous wife in the future. Next time you go to the Sabaody Archipelago, why don't you two have a baby as soon as possible?" Roger said seriously.

"I also think that your relationship is right. She has feelings for you." Jabba cheered from the side.

Rayleigh, wearing a purple leather jacket and with blond hair, suddenly turned around and looked angrily at Roger and Jabba who had just teased him in front of Shaqi.

"You guys!"

Bang, bang, bang! The sound of fists whistling could be heard from the communications room.

On the deck, a blue-haired child and a red-haired child were fighting, causing many crew members on the deck to laugh.

"Shanks, I've already told you, if I meet a guy like this, I can knock him down with just one punch!" the blue-haired kid shouted sharply, and kept hitting the red-haired kid Shanks on the head with his hands.

"Bucky, have you carefully observed the contents of the newspaper? This time it doesn't seem to be public opinion in the navy. The knife in his hand and his serious look, he doesn't look like a weakling at all!"

The two were discussing the contents of a new newspaper released by the Navy on the ship. The headline boy was Arthur.

Suddenly, the door of the communication room opened, and Rayleigh and Roger, who were carrying bags on their heads, came out and ordered: "Turn the ship around, destination, Sphinx Island——!"

"Captain!" When the blue-haired kid saw Roger's head full of bumps, he immediately let go of the red-haired kid in front of him and ran to him: "Why did the vice-captain beat you up like this again?!"

"Where's your Captain's Majesty?"

"You are too young to understand, Bucky." Although Roger was beaten, he still laughed heartily and told Bucky.

"It's best not to make fun of someone when he's talking to his girlfriend..." Jabba, who was beaten, immediately added.

All the members of Roger's pirate group shook their heads and looked at the three people, saying in unison: "I really can't stand you, Captain, Vice Captain, Mr. Jabba."

"You're over a hundred years old in total, stop playing like a child!"

……

New World, waters off the coast of the Sphinx.

The moonlight shone down and a strong wind blew on the sea.

The whole world turned dark blue, quiet and restless.

Arthur was lying on the towering mast lookout, covering his entire face with his navy cap.

The sea breeze blew past, making the sails rustle.

Like a lone eagle, Cooper stood on the wooden pole at the top of the mast and overlooked the fleet sailing on the sea below.

"He's right. Apart from living a hard life, I haven't experienced any pain at all." Arthur lifted the brim of his hat. There was no light in his eyes these days.

Suddenly, a famous saying came to my mind: "Don't advise others to be good unless you have experienced their suffering. If you have experienced their suffering, you may not be able to learn from them."

He didn't know what kind of tragic experiences Sakaski had had, but the look in his eyes when he questioned him a few days ago was filled with sadness and hatred.

"Could it be that I'm too sensitive to other people's emotions?" Arthur was lost in his own confusion.

He was suddenly brought back to this cruel reality and didn't know what to do.

"What I want to do is thirty years from now. By then I will be..." Arthur did some calculations in his mind and continued, "I will be a 45-year-old old man. Will I still be able to keep my original intention?"

"Thirty years, that's most of my life... I feel heavy after a week at sea. Thirty years..." Arthur felt that he could never rely on the enthusiasm he had when he first came into this world to persist for another thirty years.

"Arrived in the Sphinx Sea, all troops on alert!" A warning signal came from the warship's microphone.

After hearing the order, Arthur stood up, wiped the gun in his hand, and checked the bullets on his waist.

After confirming that he was right, he jumped down from the observation deck. Seeing this, Cooper quickly spread his wings and swooped down to him, grabbing Arthur's hand.

Arthur grabbed one of Cooper's eagle claws, landed lightly on the deck, and stared at the team of a hundred men lined up in front of him.

After becoming a major, he was asked by Garp to command a team of 100 people to serve as combatants in invading enemy ships.

"This mission is to intercept the Golden Lion Shiki. Every warship will become a battlefield. No one will take care of you. Be careful."

Bogart, the adjutant under Karp, went to the officers of each squadron on each warship and issued orders.

Night enveloped the sea, it was pitch black and silent.

Suddenly, the vague outline of a fleet appeared on the sea in the distance and gradually became clear.

The ships of the famous pirate groups appeared one by one, their figures looming in the darkness, like ghosts sailing out of the abyss.

The enemy ship's cannons suddenly opened fire, sending a low roar that fell into the sea near Arthur's warship.

"Enemy ship spotted, prepare for battle--!"

On this dark sea, the sound of cannonballs breaking the silence.

"They've appeared, the large fleet under that bastard Shiki..." Garp stood at the bow, beads of sweat appearing on his forehead, staring at the dozens of pirate ships approaching in front of him.

Then, he silently looked at Sakaski who was standing on the deck behind him and said, "Let's dampen their spirits, Sakaski."

Sakaski took his hands out of his pockets, stepped forward and raised his hands in the air.

His two arms turned into flowing high-temperature magma, like a demon standing on the bow of a ship, constantly ejecting his fists into the air.

"Meteor Volcano!" Sakaski shouted the name of his own move.

A few seconds later, the sea was lit up by a huge magma fist that fell from the sky, and the terrifying disaster-level natural devil fruit ability was once again displayed in front of Arthur.

"Hehe, hahaha, I expected that you would come to meddle in other people's business, Garp, Sengoku!" A figure stood high in the air, holding a knife in both hands and overlooking the sea with a lit cigar in his mouth.

“Uh…!” Sakaski, who was launching the “Meteor Volcano”, was startled when he saw the figure.

"Ski!" Garp looked at the familiar figure in the air and shouted with a gloomy face.

"Golden Lion...!" Sengoku was horrified. He didn't expect that Golden Lion would fight on the front lines. "What are you looking for Whitebeard for? The government should have issued a strict order prohibiting contact with the remnants of the Rocks Pirates!"

Shiki looked at the warship where Admiral Sengoku was standing below the sea with an unhappy look on his face: "Sengoku, you are a loyal lackey of the government, but you still say unpleasant things as usual!"

After saying that, he slowly raised the blade in his right hand and swung it swiftly towards the navy ship where Sakaski was below.

"Chop!"

Sakaski, who was releasing the meteor volcano, immediately stopped the volcanic eruption, and Cap's figure appeared in front of him.

He punched the hundred-meter-long wave that was powerful enough to split the sea.

"Hehehe, before we fight, you'd better worry about your own fleet." Garp smiled at him teasingly, his fist filled with domineering aura, and he smashed Shiki's slashing wave with a punch in the air.

Then he used the Navy's Six-style Shave to quickly return to the bow and let Sakaski retreat temporarily.

"Stop pretending to worry about this, Garp." Shiki waved his hand quickly, activating the ability of the Float-Float Fruit, summoning an island from behind the pirate fleet to cover the entire pirate fleet.

The huge lava fists all fell on the island, and the island acted as a shield for the pirate fleet.

Everyone watched in amazement as Sakaski's destructive move was intercepted by an island.

"That catastrophic attack was stopped for the first time!"

"Is this the Golden Lion Shiki? So scary..."

"Wait, he's not going to use that island on us, is he?"

The soldiers talked loudly, unable to hide their shock.

Shiki looked down from above, standing in the air and waved his arm again towards the island above his pirate fleet:

"Don't forget who controls the air."