[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio":3,"chapter-i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-chapter-11":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I, the System Protagonist, Joined a Cross-Dimensional Chat Group",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2292671,4485,"Chapter 11: Chapter Eleven: Rescuing Ace","i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-chapter-11",11,"\u003Cp>History repeats itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Buggy was thrown like a decoy weapon right before Eustass Kid, sliced clean through, interrupting his action.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hm?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Strange fruit ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sharp sword qi came from beside, unlike the previous weaklings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fifth Division Captain, Flower Sword.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Interrupted in his rhythm by two outsiders, Eustass Kid had no choice but to deal with the one before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Go save your brother, Straw Hat,” Flower Sword said, standing before Eustass Kid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thanks, you’ve been a huge help.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eustass Kid, no longer interested, turned his gaze to Flower Sword—he was at least a decent swordsman. Fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scissors Hand now appeared beside Luffy:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let me clear a path to the execution platform for you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Activating the Scissors Fruit ability, giant scissors cut the hard ground into long strips and hurled them onto the platform, forming a bridge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Luffy~.” Boa Hancock blocked Luffy’s path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, not to stop him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hancock! I was just looking for you!” Luffy ran over happily: “Give me the key.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Hancock’s heart bloomed, lost in a symphony of love.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Is this what spouses call heart-to-heart connection?! Ah~ Luffy.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly opening her palm, she pulled out a key and handed it to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thanks, Hancock!” Luffy leapt onto Hancock and hugged her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>World Government Seven Warlord Boa Hancock defeated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Karp, this is all your fault for failing to discipline them!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Admiral Sengoku glared at Karp, who wore a beaming smile: “Are you even listening to me, you bastard?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hahaha, my grandson is amazing!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>#\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Karp!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I understand.” Karp’s smile vanished, replaced by solemnity: “Then let me, personally, take responsibility.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Grandpa...” Ace looked down, tears falling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Both of you are absolute idiots.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Karp stood up and looked toward Luffy running toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am a qualified naval officer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But as a grandfather, I have failed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Karp recalled his past in the East Blue, over a decade ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, those two brats were still shouting they wanted to become pirates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After being scolded, they pulled his beard in defiance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My teaching.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where did I go wrong?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that he thought about it, Luffy had been the first to say he wanted to become a Marine like his grandfather.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn Red-Haired!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If not for that bastard—forget it, thinking about it now changes nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Luffy!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Luffy drew near, Karp roared: “Why can’t you two listen to me?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just become Marines like good boys.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Get out of my way, Grandpa!!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m a Vice Admiral of the Marine Headquarters!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they spoke, the distance between them shrank until they stood close.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is the path you two chose for yourselves!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don’t hate me!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at the moment of contact, Karp remembered those past days—and his invincible iron fist could not strike down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Karp.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sengoku’s pupils shrank, his heart tightening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘You bastard won’t...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, Karp landed on the ground, cratering it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though shocked, the surrounding Marines understood—among those in the know, the bond between Straw Hat and Karp was no secret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Put themselves in Karp’s place, they’d find it equally impossible to choose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Grandpa!” Ace bowed his head, tears streaming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of his recklessness, his family suffered—he didn’t regret becoming a pirate, only hated how powerless he was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sengoku’s beard stood on end from rage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As an old comrade, Sengoku knew perfectly well—Karp was faking this fight!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ace—!” Luffy cried out, thrilled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He ran to Ace’s side and inserted the key into the lock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sengoku frowned, deeply frustrated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, his fruit ability activated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind him, Sengoku transformed into a colossal Buddha form, his expression furious:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you think you can escape my grasp?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s Sengoku! The Admiral has acted!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sabaody Archipelago\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gossip reporters erupted in cheers again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pirates drinking and eating meat on Sabaody Archipelago watched the broadcast, tense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was a figure from Karp’s own era!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Marine Admiral—Sengoku.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luffy, nervous, fumbled with the key, unable to align it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who’d have thought there’d be a key? Straw Hat,” Kizaru, newly arrived, decided he ought to do something useful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His fingers glowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A laser, just like the one in the previous War, shot toward the key in Luffy’s hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hm?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another beam, arriving from afar, interrupted Kizaru’s attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Su Lin!” Luffy shouted in delight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless light dots appeared before him, coalescing into a human figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Su Lin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Third Brother, wake up,” Su Lin kicked the man lying at his feet, dressed as a Marine execution soldier—Mr.3.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh right, Mr.3 was here too!” Luffy suddenly remembered—during the last rescue, it was Mr.3 who had forged the key at the critical moment to save Ace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching this, Sengoku finally brought his fist down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You handle the lock, Mr.3!” Luffy tossed the key to Mr.3.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mr.3, barely awake, was immediately given a vital task.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Gear Fourth!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luffy transformed into a giant, his body covered in Haki, his massive fist wrapped in Conqueror’s Haki, resembling a colossal iron fist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Rubber...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Gorilla Rocket Fist!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The golden fist clashed with the iron-black fist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Waves of air and shockwaves surged—but their fists never touched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As an Admiral,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He naturally wielded Haki.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Haki and ability-powered forces collided and entwined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The resulting shockwaves overturned nearby soldiers and cannons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The execution platform cracked apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kizaru watched Su Lin, firing several more laser beams—each one blocked by the same technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That guy... his ability’s the same as Kizaru’s?!” the surrounding Marines cried out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hohoho~.” Kizaru turned into light, appearing midair, kicking toward Su Lin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Lin transformed into a beam of light and launched a counterattack, the two beams entwining as they departed the collapsing execution platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is that all you’ve got?!” Admiral Zhan Guo shouted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Straw Hat Kid!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s not over yet!” Luffy roared, determined to intercept this Marine legend’s attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Below the platform, the Marine artillery squad had assembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aim at the execution platform—fire.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ace is just a normal man now—attack!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sea-Prism Stone manacles have not been removed—this is the Marines’ opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shhh—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid the sound of cannon fire, the execution platform shattered and collapsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the shells screamed past, a thunderous boom followed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tornado of flames surged into the sky, before the eyes of everyone present!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ace!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At Luffy’s cry, Ace, gripping Mr.3 by the collar, used a barrier of flame to shield against the explosion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re such a disobedient brother, Luffy!” Ace laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ace—!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beyond the Marines, the entire crowd erupted in cheers; Whitebeard’s golden-amber eyes gleamed as he smiled with joy.\u003C\u002Fp>",1066,"2026-06-20T04:17:29.700Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","e9767d91a7d525fc8e8afa26a76f017a1a39a6c9aaad97dd8a0fb20a41df5694","i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-chapter-12","i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-chapter-10",720,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-cover.jpg"]