Chapter 75: Sabaody Archipelago: Shameless Warring States
The sound of the sword shook the sky, and all the members of the left wing naval fleet were dumbfounded, looking at the half-broken warship that was lifted into the air after being chopped off by the sword.
Some Marines hadn't noticed yet that their comrades around them were chopped into a bloody mess by the sword's energy.
Screaming.
The coasts of the Chabaoti Archipelago.
“That’s real.”
"Hey, is the incident of cutting off the town of Judicial Island with one sword happening again here?"
"Oh my god, am I seeing things? This is right in the middle of the ocean."
On the offshore coast, the residents of the Sabaody Archipelago who were not afraid of death and were watching the excitement were looking at the shocking sight of the battle in the sea in the distance.
The warship fell from mid-air into the sea and sank to the bottom of the sea. The tsunami torrent it created splashed high and washed the cracked deck of the nearby warship.
The gunpowder and shells in the warships exploded, turning the left wing of the naval fleet into a sea of fire.
"My wife and children are waiting for me to return to Marinford... Help...!"
"I still have a family, I don't want to die!"
"What happened? Why did our warship suddenly become suspended in the air?"
"My waist was cut by the sword..."
"His head! His head fell off! Ah!"
Miserable screams spread among the split warships. This blow caused many navy men to lose their families and pillars of support.
Arthur was ruthless in his killing spree, and he almost threw away any sympathy he had for the navy.
But this was nothing compared to Roger's conflict with Garp.
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After finishing his move, Arthur took a deep breath and looked at the young naval officer in front of him: "Kuzan...?"
When Arthur came to his senses, he recognized the guy in front of him.
One of the three future admirals, Aokiji Kuzan.
Arthur stared at his body that was cut off at the waist by him. It was like a block of ice being cut into two pieces by the sword energy, and no blood flowed out.
"During this period of time, he has already eaten the natural fruit!" Arthur was sure that Kuzan had eaten the ice fruit, and immediately clenched his fists, wrapped around the flowing cherry blossoms and rushed towards him.
The Ryuying lingered on Arthur's left fist and struck hard, striking Kuzan's two halves through the air.
“Haki…?! Hey! This is going to hurt… ah…” Kuzan, who had just graduated from the navy, was still in shock when he saw Arthur’s fist wrapped in Haki and coming towards him.
Boom! Ryuu's domineering power shattered Kuzan's body through the air, breaking it into pieces.
Through observation, Arthur found a painful expression on Kuzan's face and a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth, and he was sure that he was injured.
Kuzan turned into broken ice and flew into the sea. Suddenly, the sea surface near the Sabaody Archipelago was instantly frozen and turned into a bright blue ice field.
Arthur slowly stretched his hand out from the gap in his clothes, walked to the edge of the deck with his upper body naked, holding a knife, and stared with sharp eyes at the crazy freezing air released below with Kuzan as the center point.
The shaking hull soon stopped and the surrounding sea was completely frozen.
"What's going on..." The cold air began to condense in the air. Kuzan, who was shattered into pieces, knelt on the ice surface with an embarrassed look on his face: "It hurts so much, my body is going to explode..."
Kuzan, who was on his first sea mission, had no combat experience at all.
His strength comes entirely from his own natural ice devil fruit ability and his own physique.
Everyone was shocked by Arthur's horrific killing move that cut off a large number of warships, but the battle on other ships continued.
"Eh?" As Arthur took a quick breath and rested, his Observation Haki was activated. He turned his head and looked at the figure of a swordsman on another boat behind him rushing towards him.
The figure seemed very familiar to him, or rather, he knew almost all the officers on the left wing of this large naval fleet.
"It's only been two years since we last met, have you improved your swordsmanship so much?!"
"Don't come near me..."
The person who came was Gion, who had joined the navy with Arthur. She crossed the air and rushed towards Arthur, slashing him with a sword.
The moment the familiar Jinpira blade collided with the ice dragon blade, Arthur's right arm suddenly burst out with power, bouncing her whole body away, causing her center of gravity to be unbalanced.
“It’s the same trick again…” Gion’s hands, which were tightly gripping the hilt of the knife, were bounced above his head. He gritted his teeth and looked at Arthur, who was full of murderous intent in front of him: “My body is going to be chopped off. I’m going to die…”
At this moment, time seemed to stand still. Gion looked at Arthur's expression, which showed that he was reluctant to swing the knife but had no other choice.
His actions seem to show that he doesn't care about the old friendship, but in his heart he seems to be still resisting.
In a battle against a swordsman, victory or defeat is often determined by a single move. Gion slowly closed his eyes and accepted this fact.
"Gion...!" A voice came from far away and near.
Arthur gritted his teeth in resistance and slashed directly at Gion's chest with the blade.
boom!
A man with ordinary appearance, even ugly, punched the side of Arthur's blade at the moment when Arthur's blade was about to hit Gion's body, changing its trajectory.
"Kaji..." Arthur looked at him and uttered his name, thinking of the time when he was rescued by the warship led by him not long ago.
The tip of the knife fell into the nearby board, cutting a flawless gap.
Seeing this, Arthur quickly retracted the blade and moved back a long distance from them.
"Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!" After Kaji rescued Gion, he saw that she was fine, and walked towards Arthur angrily: "What were you doing just now, you damn bastard? Did you want to kill Gion?"
"I..." Steadying himself, Gion looked at Kaji in front of him with an uncertain mind: "I didn't ask you to save me, Kaji..."
"Huh?! What are you talking about, my goddess!" Kaji was stunned and looked at Gion with disapproval and concern.
"I didn't ask you to save me!" Gion responded. For some reason, she found that she could never admit how good the man in front of her was to her.
Kaji was stunned for a few seconds, then smiled calmly and said, "It's okay, I just attacked this ruthless, cold-blooded bastard!"
After saying that, Kake turned his gaze away from Gion and pointed angrily at Arthur who was right in front of him: "Did you forget something some time ago? Is the blood flowing in your body cold now?"
Arthur was alert to his surroundings and looked at the two people in front of him seriously: "Don't try to persuade me. My innocence was taken away by Zhan Guo on the Judicial Island a long time ago."
"Ice Sabre." While Kaji and Arthur were talking, Kuzan leaped back to the half of the warship where Arthur was, and used his ability to create an ice blade in his hand: "Kaji, use your ability to distract him, and Gion and I will launch the main attack."
As the commander-in-chief of this special military operation, Zhan Guo felt sorry for Arthur's current strength after seeing the scene just now.
He then rushed to the left wing where Arthur was, and looked at Arthur who was surrounded by Kuzan, Gion, and Kake: "Arthur, I will give you another chance to mend your ways."
"Ah?!" When Arthur heard Zhan Guo's voice and words, the blue veins on his forehead and the blood vessels appeared on his face at the same time.
He looked extremely angry, and looked up at the half-section of the warship where Zhan Guo was with murderous intent.
"I also want to thank you for this operation, Arthur. If it weren't for your life card and Morgans' information, we still wouldn't know the whereabouts of Roger's pirate group."
Zhan Guo personally extended an olive branch to Arthur:
"Knowing that there is nothing you can do about it, just accept it as fate. As long as you accept your fate, after this incident is over, I will let you return to the navy with a new identity to make up for your mistakes!"
"And the Roger Pirates will be completely wiped out from history in this encirclement and suppression operation."
After hearing what Sengoku said, Kuzan, Gion, Kake and the others could clearly feel that the murderous aura on Arthur turned into endless rage burning in their hearts.
As the unbearable domineering aura rushed out and spread wildly around them, even their skin felt a tingling sensation.
"Haha." Arthur was suddenly so angry that he laughed, his chest shaking. "I didn't expect that you would have the nerve to ask me to return to the navy?"
Arthur said, in front of Zhan Guo, he stretched out his left hand and slid it across the scar on his chest:
"Look at these overlapping scars. I have been through so many battles. You are so cruel, Buddha's Warring States!"
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