Chapter 157: Straw Hat Luffy Appears

Real world.

As the probing attacks conclude.

Whitebeard’s side begins their offensive, and a massive figure appears on the sea in the distance, heading toward the Crescent Moon Bay.

Little Oars Jr.

The descendant of the demon Oars from the ice room of Lin Yu’s Thriller Bark, his size is several times that of a normal giant; even the giant battleship Sanjuan Wolf would need to use the Expansion-Expansion Fruit to reach his current size.

"Ace."

Little Oars Jr. breaks through the Marines' defensive perimeter, arriving on the battlefield with 20,000 pirates from the Whitebeard-affiliated crews.

After defeating two giant Vice Admirals, Little Oars Jr. walks straight toward the execution platform where Ace is held.

However, standing in his way are three of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.

Seeing Little Oars Jr. approaching, Kuma spreads his hands and begins to compress the air.

When Little Oars Jr. reaches the wall of the Crescent Moon Bay, a paw-shaped bubble of compressed air flies toward him, landing on his belly.

Boom!

Light shines brilliantly, and a massive shockwave instantly pierces through Little Oars Jr.’s entire body, sweeping through the surroundings.

Little Oars Jr. roars in pain, collapsing to the ground covered in blood.

"Fufufufufu..."

Doflamingo curls his body into a ball, laughs, and flies into the air, bending the middle finger of his right hand.

Swish!

One of Little Oars Jr.’s legs instantly flies into the air.

Seeing the demon Oars, Hancock frowns.

Recalling her promise to Lin Yu, she reaches up and presses her lips, and a pink heart appears before her.

Perfume Femur!

Hancock pulls on the heart, and a giant pink arrow shoots toward Little Oars Jr.’s body, petrifying a large portion of him.

Inside the pocket dimension.

Having finished assigning plans and waiting for the right moment, Lin Yu shakes his head in silence as he watches the massive Little Oars Jr. being easily dealt with by the three Warlords.

He then says to Aferlandra beside him:

"See that? No matter how massive your size is, if you haven't mastered Armament Haki, you’re just a living target in the eyes of others. You must master advanced Armament Haki as soon as possible, do you hear me?"

As a warrior of Amazon Lily, Aferlandra has already mastered Armament Haki, though it is not very high-level.

Aferlandra sticks out her tongue, "I understand."

Hearing her reply, Lin Yu smiles and beckons her over:

"Come here, I’ll feed you something."

With that, Lin Yu takes a Devil Fruit from his interdimensional storage box.

This Devil Fruit is the Expansion-Expansion Fruit he just obtained from the giant battleship Sanjuan Wolf.

In Lin Yu’s view, Aferlandra is over three meters tall, has mastered Armament Haki, and possesses a natural talent for immense strength; she is the perfect candidate for the Expansion-Expansion Fruit.

With the bonus of the Expansion-Expansion Fruit and her natural strength, Aferlandra only needs to specialize in Armament Haki to possess very impressive strength.

And once her Armament Haki reaches an advanced or top level, she, as a super-giant, will possess the terrifying combat power to destroy a country single-handedly.

Hearing Lin Yu’s instruction, Aferlandra obediently kneels beside him.

Having already watched Lin Yu feed several others, she naturally knows the process, which makes her slightly excited.

As a female warrior raised on Amazon Lily, where martial prowess is everything, she naturally hopes her strength will be as high as possible.

Just as Lin Yu is playing his little feeding game in the pocket dimension, waiting for the best moment to act.

In the real world, the Ice Witch of the Whitebeard Pirates leads her ice-breaking ship to successfully breach another part of the Crescent Moon Bay, opening a path for the remaining 20,000 pirates under Whitebeard to enter the battlefield.

"Ace!"

Suddenly, a shout comes from the sky.

Hearing this familiar voice, Ace, Garp, Lin Yu, and others turn their heads toward the sky simultaneously.

They see several giant birds flying rapidly toward the battlefield from high above.

On the backs of the birds stand Straw Hat Luffy, Jinbe, Crocodile, Ivankov, Hawkins, Mr. 2, Mr. 3, and a host of criminals who escaped from Impel Down.

It turns out that after escaping Impel Down, Straw Hat Luffy arrived at Marineford with the help of the bird-tamer, but because the giant birds were attacked by Sea Kings in the Calm Belt while flying at low altitude, they arrived slightly later than Lin Yu.

Seeing Luffy running toward him, Ace breaks down in tears, shouting:

"Luffy, this is no place for you!"

Hearing Ace’s words, Luffy smiles and shouts:

"Ace, wait for me!"

With that, Luffy urges the giant bird beneath him to charge straight toward the execution platform.

"Artillery, aim at those giant birds."

Seeing this turn of events, Fleet Admiral Sengoku glares at Kuma in the distance; if not for his interference, Garp wouldn't be here, and Straw Hat Luffy would have already been captured.

Kizaru raises his hand and waves, and countless light orbs instantly fly toward the incoming giant birds.

Seeing this, Marco transforms into the Phoenix once more, blocking Kizaru’s attack.

He had originally wanted to obtain Lin Yu’s ship technology to increase the success rate of rescuing Ace, and now that Ace’s brother Luffy has brought giant birds, he naturally cannot let Kizaru succeed.

However, although Kizaru is blocked by Marco, the giant birds carrying Luffy and the others are intercepted by the Marines' dense artillery defense network, causing them to land on the ice within the Crescent Moon Bay.

One of them even falls onto the ice created earlier by Jozu and sinks into the sea.

Having delivered Luffy and the others, the bird-tamer drives the giant birds away from the area; he does not want to participate in the war between the Marines and Whitebeard.

"Whitebeard, long time no see."

Just after getting off the giant bird, Crocodile immediately charges toward Whitebeard.

Boom!

Luffy, in Gear Second, instantly intercepts Crocodile, who was preparing to attack Whitebeard.

And the division commanders beside Whitebeard also rush toward Crocodile, preventing him from continuing his attack on their father.

Is this the brat that Red-Haired Shanks has bet on?

Whitebeard looks at Straw Hat Luffy standing beside him, stares at the straw hat on his head for a moment, and says:

"That hat looks like it suits you."

Straw Hat Luffy smiles, "Shanks gave this to me. One day, I will return it to him personally."

"Is that so?"

Whitebeard laughs, "Brat, if you want to rescue Ace, you must be prepared to die."

"That goes without saying."

Luffy looks at Ace on the execution platform, leaves Whitebeard’s side, and joins Jinbe, Ivankov, and the others.

Arriving at Ivankov’s side, Straw Hat Luffy makes his request directly.

"Ivankov, sorry to trouble you, give me another dose of hormones."