Chapter 276: Screw Your So-Called Justice 3

A few minutes ago.

Along the coast of Seven Water Capital.

Countless survivors, having struggled to live through the claws and fangs of the IQ beasts, had gathered here.

They looked excitedly at the warships anchored in the distant sea, their eyes filled with indescribable excitement and relief.

"The reinforcements Mr. Bingshan spoke of are over there!"

The young girl who had once questioned Bingshan stood alone in the crowd.

Now she had lost everything; from family to friends, all had either died in pirate attacks or perished under the claws and fangs of the IQ beasts.

Fortunately, the Marines had come, and justice had arrived; thus, all evil in Seven Water Capital would vanish!

"Hey~"

"My lord Marines, we are over here!"

The girl danced and waved her hands, shouting toward the warships on the sea, eagerly awaiting their response.

At the same time, countless other survivors on the beach issued calls, yet they received not a shred of response.

Those who had first reached the beach watched those few warships with indifference, their faces written with confusion, while a trace of unease quietly rose in their hearts.

It was only because the steel behemoths anchored on the sea had already bared their claws and fangs; the so-called righteous Marines could transform into butchers in the next instant.

"I hope I'm overthinking it... How could the Marines possibly do such a thing?"

A survivor looked into the distance, opened his mouth, and barely suppressed the unease in his heart.

Yet in the next instant, a powerful large hand pushed him aside.

"Could it be... could it be... could there really be such a thing?!"

By the time T-Bone, bearing an ugly appearance and heavy injuries, arrived here, several hours had already passed.

But looking at the row of warships lined up on the distant sea, he felt chilled to the bone.

The commoners present did not understand the situation, but as an officer from Marine Headquarters, T-Bone was all too familiar with the spectacle before him.

"Buster Call."

T-Bone struggled to spit out these few words.

Whoosh—!

A sea breeze blew past, whipping up the cape behind T-Bone and fluttering the flags of justice waving on the warships.

The moment T-Bone raised his head, he noticed Akainu standing on the warship's deck, and rage instantly burned through his rationality:

"Sakazuki, have you gone mad?"

A furious shout interrupted Akainu's thoughts; he looked up toward the person in the distance and immediately spotted T-Bone, covered in blood.

"Peng En, you're still alive?"

"The Pluton blueprints have already leaked; must the Marines, no, the World Government, go to such lengths?"

"What do the lives of tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of people here mean to you?!"

"Is this the justice of the Marines?!"

Faced with T-Bone's hysterical questioning, Akainu had no reply.

He could only lower his head, hiding his gaze beneath the brim of his hat, while his hands, stuffed in his trouser pockets, involuntarily clenched tight.

The pale-faced CP0 standing beside Akainu lowered his eyes to look at T-Bone.

His figure was upright, his pure white suit spotless, forming a sharp contrast with the refugees below, and his voice revealed a tone that brooked no argument:

"The will of God is absolute; the will of God is justice."

"If God says to destroy Seven Water Capital, then destroying this place is justice."

The crowd in the distance instantly fell silent, only to become immensely chaotic the next second, with faint screams emerging.

"The Marines... the Marines are also here to destroy Seven Water Capital?!"

"How is this possible?!"

"Then how do you explain that since they arrived here in the middle of last night, they have made no move at all?"

"This can only mean they are waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity to annihilate everyone together, and we... are also among those to be erased!"

"You can't possibly have never heard of the Buster Call?!"

Panic spread.

Some suffered mental breakdowns, turning to flee toward Seven Water Capital behind them, only to be swallowed in one bite by an IQ beast darting out from the ruins.

Countless survivors were struck with terror.

Only then did they realize that only two paths of death lay before them.

The Marines they had long awaited had suddenly become the executioners slaughtering them, and everyone's expressions turned pale in this moment.

Similarly, some recalled Gao Wen and his group, asking in confusion:

"But isn't Vice Admiral Lancelot..."

"They are not Marines."

In the crowd, Paulie, who had escorted everyone here alongside Franky, struggled to speak the truth:

"They are merely..."

"This is impossible!"

A commoner fell to his knees, clutching his head with both hands, weeping bitterly:

"If they are not Marines, then why..."

"But the real Marines... they want to kill you too."

Paulie threw the cigar from his mouth onto the ground, then lifted his foot and crushed it viciously, cursing loudly:

"Pirates acting as champions of justice, while Marines have become executioners of slaughter..."

"This fucking world!"

Hearing these words, T-Bone's eyes turned completely red:

"Fuck your justice!"

The pressure T-Bone had been bottling up finally erupted in this moment; even the Knight's Code, nearly carved into his marrow, was cast to the back of his mind.

He tightened his grip on the blood-stained longsword in his hand.

If he could, he would be willing to trade even his own life for the lives of these commoners.

But T-Bone knew all too well just how powerful the man standing silently on the deck at this very moment was, and just how utterly ruthless he was in his actions.

If Akainu's will could not be turned, even gambling his life would change nothing.

At the very least...

He had to carve out a path to survival for these commoners!

"Fuck the World Government! Fuck the Celestial Dragons!"

"I—"

Bang—!

Beside Akainu, a muzzle flash suddenly exploded.

In the distance, T-Bone collapsed at the sound, crimson blood spreading out.

The world fell silent in this instant; the surging crowd on the beach froze along with that gunshot.

They had not expected the other party to act so decisively; after all, unlike Gao Wen and his group, T-Bone was truly a Marine.

"What are you doing?!"

Akainu turned his head, looking expressionlessly at White-Face CP0, who held a flintlock pistol, its barrel emitting white smoke.

"Eliminating threats to the World Government—"

Boom!

Crimson magma surged and flowed in this instant, illuminating the surroundings brightly and casting a red glow upon Akainu's cold, hard face.

That was rage bordering on loss of control!

His character was upright and rigid; he left no room for compromise in his actions, and could count the number of people he called friends on one hand.

Aside from Kizaru at Headquarters, who was lazy and seemed to care about nothing, there was only T-Bone, whose will was equally unshakable.

T-Bone was even the one who mattered more to Akainu.

One crimson lotus giant dog after another surged forth from Akainu's arm, lunging to bite at the White-Face CP0 beside him.

"Do you intend to defy the gods?!"

White-Face CP0 instinctively let out a furious roar, but the magma giant dogs lunging at him arrived even faster; in his rage, Akainu was nearly unstoppable.

At this very moment, White-Face CP0 finally realized that the World Government, the Celestial Dragons, and the Five Elders were merely a tiger's skin that allowed him to borrow the tiger's might to intimidate those who followed the rules.

But once the other party chose to fight to the death, no one could help him.

"You're mad!"

White-Face CP0 withdrew rapidly; his speed was extremely fast, and his combat power surpassed that of an ordinary Vice Admiral, yet facing Akainu, he could not even protect himself.

Hiss—!

The sound of magma searing flesh made White-Face CP0 let out a piercing, miserable scream.

His right arm was torn off by the crimson lotus giant dog, instantly burned to charcoal.

Yet he had no time to care about this, for as he lifted his head, he saw Akainu's fist right before his eyes.

Am I going to die?!

The thought flashed through White-Face CP0's mind, but at that moment, a roaring sound reached his ears.

Akainu's fist stopped a hair's breadth before his eyes; the high temperature radiating from the dispersing magma had already scorched the tip of his nose.

Immediately after, an arrogant laughter spread from the center of Water Seven,

"Hahahahaha—"

This laughter was unruly and domineering, yet carried the implication of a candle flickering in the wind, about to extinguish.

The enraged Akainu also came to his senses in this instant.

He forcibly suppressed the fury in his heart and turned his head, only to see a scene so terrifying it was beyond description.

The floating island high in the sky was cracking and plummeting as if out of control.

The massive floating island, with a diameter exceeding ten kilometers, even with just the wind pressure generated by its fall, pressed down like a heavy hammer, making the people around the beach unable to breathe!

The commoners looked despairingly at the island falling from the high sky, having already lost the strength to resist or even feel anger.

"So even the true gods want us to die?!"

"This is..."

Akainu's pupils contracted sharply.

In his memory, only the power of the Float-Float Fruit possessed by the Jin Shizi could achieve a suspended island.

Since the beasts released by the Jin Shizi were still within Water Seven, it was impossible for the Jin Shizi to have acted voluntarily.

That left only one possibility: the Jin Shizi's ability had completely failed.

This meant that the Jin Shizi, who had traversed the seas for decades, clashed with the God's Knights at the God Valley War, contended with Roger and Whitebeard, and made the name of the Flying Pirate Crew resound across the oceans, had at this place and time...

Died in battle!

And the title of the person who killed the Jin Shizi was on the tip of everyone's tongue...

"Knight Gao Wen!"

In Akainu's mind, this name surfaced once again, but the meaning it carried was now entirely different from before.

A new Lion King must ascend the throne by trampling on the corpse of the decrepit Lion King, and at this moment, Gao Wen is the new king!

From now on, the title of Knight Gao Wen has qualified to stand alongside those legends of the past.

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Mary Geoise.

The Five Elders watched the footage transmitted by the projection Den Den Mushi, falling into an eerie silence for a time.

Even Mars Saint, who had originally obeyed Im's command and resolved to personally intervene to keep Gao Wen in Water Seven, remained silent.

"Jin Shizi Shi Ji, has this fellow finally died in battle as well?"

Nusjuro Saint frowned tightly, an invisible aura radiating from his body, causing several cracks to appear on the low table in front of them.

"Tch—!"

"The Jin Shizi is dead, but the title of Lion has been passed down, and what's more, it has left behind Gao Wen, who is far more troublesome than the Jin Shizi!"

Warcury Saint raised his eyes, looking at Gao Wen sheathing his sword in the center of the battlefield, and at the Jin Shizi standing before Gao Wen, swallowing his last breath while maintaining a bold smile, and said with a Solemn tone:

"Now, even if we intervene, we may not be able to keep Knight Gao Wen."

"No, we definitely cannot keep him!"

"This fellow has completely lost control; the best course of action now should be recruitment, rather than pushing him entirely to the opposing side."

"A combat power at the level of a Yonko, even possessing a near-immortal body, is something no one can ignore."

"But my lord's command must be executed..."

Clack—!

Nusjuro Saint gripped the long sword in his hand, already prepared to make a move.

"Speaking of which, just how long has it been since the five of us last made a move?!"

"So long that I have almost forgotten."

"But on this sea, there truly cannot be a second Rocks standing against us—!"

"Wait!"

Saturn Saint raised his hand to stop the actions of the others, instead turning his head to look at the projection Den Den Mushi screen with great interest, a slight smile curling the corner of his mouth as he said:

"It seems that this time, we might not even need to launch a Buster Call."

"That fellow Jin Shizi is dead, yet he has left us a bit of an unexpected surprise..."

The few of them were stunned, and turning their heads, they saw several floating islands falling from the horizon within the projected image.

The volume of these floating islands had already surpassed that of the vast majority of towns; falling from high altitude, their destructive power could only be described as absurd!

Water Seven had absolutely no chance of survival!

"This counts as a Buster Call of another sort, another..."

"The will of God!"

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Water Seven.

Center of the battlefield.

Law resisted the wind pressure from high above, struggling to stand his body upright.

He glanced at the Jin Shizi, then shifted his attention to Gao Wen.

In Law's view, since the Jin Shizi was dead, his grudge with him ended here.

At this very moment, Law felt only that his heart was about to leap out of his mouth, his soul and blood nearly boiling!

No one is absolutely invincible.

Among the strong there are always stronger hands; for every mountain, there is always a higher one.

There are no unbeatable monsters; it was only that I was too weak in the past.

But now everything is different...

As long as I am strong enough, even a monster like the Jin Shizi can be defeated; if Gao Wen can do it, I certainly can too!

While pondering this, Law gripped the long sword in his hand even tighter, feeling that something had been added within his body, yet ultimately lacking that final thread to release it.

High in the sky.

With every passing instant, the speed of the falling floating islands grew faster, and the accumulated impact force became even greater; once they hit the ground, the entire Water Seven would sink to the bottom of the sea.

Law, however, no longer wished to flee.

Having personally witnessed the final chapter of the Jin Shizi, he now wanted to see just what extent the man who cut down a legend could reach when facing this natural disaster before his eyes!

Just then, a familiar yet Add Heaviness voice sounded beside Law.

"Law, I've finally found you; what are you still standing there dazing for?"

"The floating islands are about to fall; we must retreat!"

Although this voice was slightly different from what Law remembered, he still realized the identity of the newcomer in an instant.

"Bepo?!"

Law's eyes lit up at this moment, yet froze the instant he turned his head; appearing before his eyes was nothing but a snow-white wall.

"Hm?!"

Law froze for a moment, then slowly raised his head.

Only then did he realize that what was before his eyes was not some wall, but a snow-white ferocious bear over ten meters tall, its body knotted with muscles and its features ferocious.

He even saw the pulsating veins on the latter's exaggerated pectoral muscles.

"Damn it!"

"What the hell is this thing?!"

Luo's brain instantly crashed.

Compared to this thing, he would rather believe that the Bai Xiong he saw at the very beginning was Bepo.

But both the voice and that familiar feeling were proving that this thing was indeed Bepo.

Are you telling me Bepo turned into this in just over a month?!

No way...

Who fed him what kind of fodder?!

(End of Chapter)