Chapter 554 Arthur vs Arthur! The Vanished Arthur.
Marineford, late at night, a torrential downpour begins.
With his head completely white and already looking like an old man, Sengoku was working diligently for all departments of the navy.
Several people wearing cloaks walked in and stood outside his office door.
Sengoku, thinking it was some new military report, spoke up:
"Enter."
The door was pulled open, but it wasn't soldiers in naval uniforms who walked in.
Instead, they were a group of young-looking CP intelligence agents.
"Vice Admiral Sengoku the Buddha! According to years of government investigations, you have been found to have colluded with various countries in secret, triggering the massive war that broke out thirty years ago..."
A barrage of accusations and accusations poured into the ears of the Warring States period.
When he heard this news, his eyes widened in disbelief.
He devoted his entire life to the navy, so why did the government pin the blame for war crimes on him?
What exactly are these fabricated charges?
"Pfft—!" Sengoku was so angry that his blood rushed to his head and he spat out blood.
Ultimately, he was publicly detained and taken away by the CP0 team, who were preparing to publicly execute him to give the world an explanation.
……
Above the red earth continent—
After the meeting, the members of the Ice Pirates arrived at the surface of a desolate red line continent.
It is thousands of miles away from Mary Geoise, and the central part of the interior of the red earth is nowhere in sight.
"What are you doing here, boss? This place is deserted, what do you want?"
"Are they testing some new type of weapon?"
Everyone was positioned less than a hundred meters away from Arthur, forced to watch helplessly as he roared at the sky.
"Come out! I can wait another sixty years?! A man like me will only die in battle! I will never live like a puppet!"
Arthur planted the Frostbite in the red earth in front of him and then kept repeating the word "come out".
Amidst the shouts, the space in front of Arthur seemed to distort before everyone's eyes.
Flashing, twisting, and then, without their noticing, another figure, exactly the same as Arthur and the same height, appeared in their sight.
He wore a black robe and had black hair; apart from his skin, his entire body was black.
Even his aura was one of endless darkness; he stood coldly before Arthur, holding a black knife.
Everyone was startled, and even Gion, who was not easily frightened for decades, was filled with shock.
"Heh, I know this ability better than you do." Arthur saw his other self appear, grabbed Ao Shuang in front of him, and pointed the tip of his knife at him.
"Two bosses!"
"Two Arthurs?!"
"No... what's going on?!"
Gion secretly pinched the flesh on her thigh, and only when she felt the pain did she realize that what she was seeing was not a dream, but reality.
The stories Arthur told back then were all true; there wasn't a single lie.
This world truly contains a past world and a future world.
"The Soul Cage should have exploded long ago!" Arthur looked at his former self and shouted at him.
"Why is it still on you?"
Arthur, with his black hair and black robes, stared at him silently, not wanting to waste his breath on these pointless questions.
The cage may have exploded, but the power to control the soul remains.
"Don't you want to dream anymore?" Arthur, clad in black, spoke in an extremely cold tone, glancing up at the sky.
Thunderclouds had already covered a large area of this place. Over the course of thirty years, Arthur went to Sky Island and absorbed the power of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
He cannot naturally transform into elements, but he can control lightning.
"Is there any point in continuing this nightmare?" Arthur drew his sword and, in the process, unleashed a bolt of lightning that struck his other self.
"Since we are all on our own, how can we possibly succumb to power!"
In less than a second, a blinding white light erupted in the distance, right before everyone's eyes.
The light was so bright that they could hardly open their eyes, and they all covered their eyes to avoid the white light.
Little did they know, a fierce battle had already begun in the world of "time stop".
When everyone came to their senses, in the blink of an eye, the surrounding red earth was riddled with holes, and everywhere there was the remnant of ice and the aura of Conqueror's Haki.
A hazy cloud of smoke billowed up, and when everyone looked ahead again, only one figure remained, bending down to pick up another black knife.
As the smoke cleared, all they could see was Arthur standing there, watching them all from afar.
What was different was that the Arthur in front of them felt completely unfamiliar.
He exuded a chilling murderous aura and had a cold, pale face.
He had three scars on his left cheek, and his body was covered in sores under his black robe. He was not the same person as the Arthur they knew.
Even Cooper, smelling the unfamiliar scent, didn't recognize him at all.
"Who are you, Cooper!" Cooper shook his head, finding it extremely unreal.
"Huh?" The people standing behind Cooper were startled again.
If even Cooper doesn't recognize him, is he still the Arthur they know?
Arthur picked up the two black swords, sheathed them at his waist, and then gave the crowd a cold look.
Yu Guang only lingered on Gion and Cooper for a little longer.
The rest of them, whether they were the three sexy pirate empresses or people trained from the common people,
Neither Shanks nor Shamrock received a second glance from him.
He determined a direction, which was the direction of Mary Geoise, and then walked in that direction.
"Speak!" Cooper broke the silence, recklessly spreading his wings and charging towards Arthur's back.
"Where is Arthur! Where is Arthur from just now?!"
No matter how it asked, Arthur no longer responded, as if a familiar person was standing beside it, trying to strike up a conversation, but the person felt completely foreign to it.
As his anger grew, Cooper unleashed a powerful shockwave at Arthur.
The moment Zhanbo approached Arthur, it was instantly neutralized by his aura and vanished into thin air.
"Give Arthur back to me!"
"Hehe..." Leia caught up, laughing as if she didn't know what had happened.
"What are you talking about, Cooper? Arthur is right in front of us!"
"No! Ku! He's not Arthur!" Even if they look exactly alike, even if the person in front of it is Arthur, it just can't accept that he is Arthur.
Because he didn't have Arthur's aura; all he had was an extreme negative energy.
A darkness that is indescribable yet directly perceptible.
Arthur's right hand glided lightly through the air, and in an instant, he swung it sharply at the members of the Ice Pirates.
Everyone felt as if space itself was being distorted and torn apart. After a flash of white light, they disappeared from the Red Earth Continent.
Just this moment.
Bomb Maniac Maple has appeared in the Western Flower Country.
The devastated land was filled with signs of war, and the Flower Kingdom, once hailed as the strongest country in the Western Sea, was now littered with the bones of those who had starved to death.
Arthur's servant, Leia, appears in a rapeseed field in Rapeseed Flower Village, East Sea.
A peaceful scene, devoid of the smell of blood and gunpowder, only the scent of nature.
In the first half of the Grand Line, Shamrock and Shanks appeared on a street in some unknown place, staring at each other in disbelief.
Gion instantly returned to G6.
The three empresses, who had just been manipulated by Arthur and forcibly taken out of the country, returned to the Kingdom of Women once again.
Pangu City —
The Five Elders, who were organizing the ceasefire agreement and distributing relief supplies to the lower realms, watched as Arthur walked in on foot.
"You've arrived, Your Excellency."
"The armistice agreement and the naval rescue plan are all ready. The only problem now is how to get all the countries to submit."
"It's a tricky situation. Getting people who originally owned and were proud of their country to recognize a new one, and having former enemies coexist in the same country, is a very difficult thing to do."
"That's a difficult problem too."
They naturally mistook the Arthur before them for the Arthur of the past, unaware of the changes in him.
