Chapter 240

Garp stepped up onto the execution platform, sat cross-legged beside Ace, and said, "Adding Luo En, all four of you are gathered now."

"Bai Huzi has already gone all-out, yet we still have combat power to spare."

Sengoku stood on the execution platform with his arms crossed, gazing down at the plaza where a fierce battle raged.

"Borsalino, Green Bull, and Momotu—plus this old man and you—even if that guy makes a move, he won't stir up much trouble. This battle can be called our victory."

Garp listened to Sengoku's words, then looked up at Luo En in the air, who had shown no movement all this time.

"The premise is that no accidents happen…"

Just at that moment.

On the battlefield where no one could approach Akainu or Bai Huzi.

At the cost of having his abdomen pierced through by Akainu, Bai Huzi seized Akainu in one grasp, and under the latter's horrified gaze, condensed a terrifying shockwave into a single fist that slammed into him. The earth rumbled, and a deep, enormous fissure split the plaza's ground, nearly cleaving it in two. Akainu was sent flying by that one punch straight from the surface into the depths below!

Bai Huzi, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, gripped the void before him with both hands. His aura erupted completely, beard and hair flying, his expression sinking slightly. From his massive frame burst an almost invincible, terrifying presence. Boundless, endless trembling force exploded outward from the fingers of both hands. With a violent wrench, the entire expanse of void before him shattered like glass.

All of Marineford was shaking violently!

As the buildings swayed, cracks snaked upward from the Root, and rubble collapsed.

The sea too was heaving, as if doomsday had arrived.

Everyone stopped fighting, staring at Bai Huzi in shock and horror.

"!!"

The ordinary people of the whole world watching this war through the image-transmitting snails all gaped, their eyes vacant, their expressions utterly horrified.

A war of this magnitude was, to these ordinary folk, simply like a myth.

"If we let him run rampant like this, a few more strikes and this Marineford will sink."

Sengoku said in a heavy voice.

"Yare yare, can't be helped."

Huang Yuan's form flashed, and he appeared in the air before Bai Huzi.

"It's Huang Yuan!"

"Huang Yuan has made his move!"

Many pirates looked at him with panic on their faces.

"Bai Huzi, I can't let you keep destroying things like this."

Huang Yuan raised both hands, radiating dazzling light, toward Bai Huzi.

"Not good!"

Flower Sword Vista's face showed an ill omen. Just as he tried to rush over there, a slash carrying ghostly aura came cleaving down at him.

"Where do you think you're going?"

Spider the Kage, wielding twin blades, entangled him tightly.

"Damn it!"

"Yasakani…"

Huang Yuan had just been about to strike at Bai Huzi.

"Desert Spada!"

A sharp, keen-edged sand blade slashed toward Huang Yuan in the air.

Huang Yuan dodged by elementalizing.

He looked toward Crocodile on the ground, a flicker of surprise crossing his eyes.

"Oh ya?"

"Crocodile—did that guy go to the Whitebeard Pirates?"

Sengoku said, frowning.

Bai Huzi cast a glance at Crocodile not far away, his eyes narrowing slightly, and said with an overbearing air, "Sand brat, who told you to step in?"

"Shut up! I didn't step in for your sake."

Crocodile said with his back to him. "In this war, whether it's the Marines, you, or that guy—every single one of you is my enemy!"

Bai Huzi grinned and chuckled, "Big talk. Where do you have the strength for that?"

Over at Luffy and the others' side.

Zoro took on the troublesome Smoker for him, and Sanji likewise went up against a vice admiral skilled in the Six Powers of the Marines, carving out a path for Luffy.

"Ace!"

Luffy shouted toward the execution platform as he ran, swinging his fists to drive back the marines attacking from both sides.

"Luffy!"

Sabo, after forcing Law back, ran shoulder to shoulder with him, both of them rushing toward the execution platform.

"Cover them!"

Jinbe shouted loudly, slapping Tobiroppo back with one palm.

"No need for you to tell me!"

Ivankov, who had driven back Moria with a Death Wink, also followed close behind.

Escorting the two, they punched through the enemy formation and headed toward the execution platform.

At once, this group became the closest bunch to the execution platform.

"Cover those two!"

Ma Erke, locked in combat with Fujitora, shouted loudly.

"Understood!"

"Cover Straw Hat!"

GLOSSARY:

【Luo En, Hu Zi, Huang Yuan, Bai Huzi, Zhang Da, Ma Erke, Kage, the Root】

"Don't let the Marines get near them!"

"Charge! Straw Hat!"

……

Zhan Guo gazed at the force gradually assembling, especially Sabo and Luffy at its head, then turned to look at Garp and said: "Garp, the guys you've raised really are more troublesome than the last."

"Troublesome, huh…"

Garp scratched his head and laughed, but a trace of bitterness showed through his smile.

"I really did sincerely hope these brats would become Marines. Never expected things to turn out like this."

Ace glanced at him, at a loss for words.

"Old man…"

When Luffy and the others were still a few hundred meters from the execution platform.

"Ice World!"

A thick, long wall of ice, like a mountain range, rose up in front of Sabo and Luffy.

Kuzan, half his body frozen over, stood in the center of the plaza and looked toward Sabo and the others, saying flatly: "It ends here."

Before him was the frozen Jozu.

Bang!

Crocodile, struck by Huang Yuan's light-speed kick wrapped in Armament Haki, was kicked from the plaza all the way to the frozen inner sea, and the moment he landed he spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.

Boom!

Ferocious magma surged up from the enormous fissure in front of Bai Huzi.

Within the magma, Akainu's figure condensed—blood trickling from the corner of his mouth—his whole body radiating a savage aura that made anyone who looked upon him tremble in fear.

"White… Bear…!"

At this moment, the Navy's three Admirals fully displayed their monster-level strength before the world!

209, Luo En Makes His Move (combined chapter)

Gulp.

Countless ordinary people watching their screens stared at the battlefield on the display, swallowing hard in utter shock.

"To think the entire situation of the battle changed in the blink of an eye… what astonishing power! This is the three Admirals, this is the Navy's supreme combat strength!"

"The Whitebeard Pirates are already completely on the back foot, and Fleet Admiral Zhan Guo and Vice Admiral Garp haven't even made a move yet!"

Some were extremely excited.

"This is the hegemon of this sea, the power of the Navy!"

"As expected, no matter what, evil cannot be the opponent of justice!"