Chapter 413: Chapter 413: The Storm Ends
Chapter 413: The Storm Ends
In the forest, the unique, heavy fragrance of grass and trees filled the air, mixed with a hint of saltiness and coolness from the sea breeze.
However, at this time, the deep and serene quiet was broken by the sound of battle. The ant army on the ground had their formation thrown into chaos as they fled. The startled birds on the treetops streaked across the sky and scattered.
Luffy was stunned for a moment. He recognized the two who had suddenly appeared, his eyes wide, his expression immediately turning to surprise.
"—Eh! Law, Kid! What are you guys doing here?!"
"Ah. I heard a huge war was about to break out here. Of course, I had to come and join in the fun."
Looking at the trench in front of him, which had been burned to ashes by the electromagnetic cannon and still glowed with a scorching light at the edge of the forest, Kid’s expression was teasing. He turned his head slightly, and his gaze passed over his shoulder-length, red, pointy, furry coat to glance at Luffy.
"As for the purpose... of course, it’s for fame. Do you understand fame?"
"Well. I’m about the same."
A corner of Law’s mouth lifted slightly. He wore a dark blue, pointy, furry coat and held a longsword as he flew down from the sky. He looked at Luffy.
"Long time no see, Straw Hat-ya."
"Hahaha! So that’s how it is."
Luffy put one hand on his hip and rubbed the back of his head with the other. He threw his head back and laughed, saying:
"I thought you guys had come specifically to help us."
"Are you kidding me!!"
"Stop being so full of yourself, you bastard!!"
Hearing these words, Law and Kid both rolled their eyes and bared their teeth at him, shouting.
Luffy blinked, a bewildered look on his face. He didn’t know why these two were suddenly reacting so strongly. He then waved his hand.
"Well, forget it. Anyway, thanks, you guys."
"But the opponent won’t be easy to deal with."
Luffy stepped forward, his face slowly turning serious, and he said with a grave voice:
"Those two guys seem to be immortal. No matter how serious the injury, they can recover quickly."
"Hah?"
"Immortal?"
The two couldn’t help but be surprised by these words. They followed the traces left on the ground by the attack and looked. At the end of the trench, in a cloud of smoke and dust, the dark silhouette of a horse-shaped figure seemed to be reassembling its body.
"Hey, hey, hey! Are you kidding me? Is that guy a special Zoan-type?"
Kid frowned. He had heard of the name of Phoenix Marco, but there was only one phoenix.
To be hit head-on by such an electromagnetic cannon... generally speaking, the physical body should have been annihilated, with not even ashes left. To be able to survive was already considered tough. Even for a Zoan-type, to say he was unharmed was a bit too exaggerated.
On the other side, the strange bird that had been cut in two by Law and had fallen to the ground was also frantically flapping its wings. The two halves of its body were joined at the cut, slowly healing.
"I’m not very clear, but the Five Elders all seem to have this ability. You need a massive amount of Haki to cause effective damage."
Luffy spread his legs and sank into a half-squat. He straightened his arms and pressed his fists on the ground, looking up intently.
His hair moved without any wind, and with the sound of his heart beating, a wisp of white spread from the roots of his hair to the ends. The clothes on his body also slowly changed color, and a burning white flame cloud, like a ribbon, wrapped around his shoulders and floated behind him.
Boom!!
A violent Haki impact blasted out, transforming into physical black lightning that exploded, furiously ravaging the surrounding earth and trees.
"Hey! What the hell is with that appearance of yours?!"
Kid’s eyes were shocked as he stared at the transformed Nika-form Luffy.
Law’s face also changed, but his gaze was fixed on the other side.
"Wait a minute! Did you just say those were the Five Elders?!"
"Ah. Anyway, thanks, you guys. Leave the rest to me."
Luffy’s eyes were resolute. A corner of his mouth slowly lifted into a grin, his smile carrying a fanatical fighting spirit. His two legs spun like pinwheels, pawing at the ground.
A large amount of sand and dirt was kicked up, flying everywhere. The Law and Kid behind him had veins popping on their foreheads, and their faces were full of anger as they covered them with their hands.
"You... cough, cough... bastard!"
"Ahahahaha! Let’s go!"
Luffy’s two feet, like wheels, flew through the air as he charged out.
"He’s appeared again, the Nika form...!"
"Wazawai Tsume: Naku!!" (Calamity Claw: Cry!!)
Seeing him charge up, the snake-bodied strange bird’s ferocious glint was exposed. It opened its long, sharp beak and emitted a piercing sound wave!
"Screech—!"
Boom!!
A pillar of roaring impact, like a storm, pierced through. Everything in its path was destroyed, and the branches and leaves of the trees were broken and flew.
Luffy crossed his arms to block, and was sent flying into the sky by this sound wave impact. He spread his arms wide, and the surging, chaotic wind was dispersed.
"Wazawai Tsume: Saien!!" (Calamity Claw: Disaster Flame!!)
Whoosh!
The strange bird’s mouth, with its one row of sharp teeth, leaked black flames. It flapped its wings and charged up, at the same time opening its mouth and spewing a fierce, pitch-black pillar of fire at Luffy.
"Hiss—!"
Luffy’s cheeks caved in. He pouted and took a deep breath. His belly then swelled up like a white hot-air balloon floating in the air. He blew hard at the surging black fire!
Whoosh—!!
It was a bit unbelievable to say that a person could blow out a storm with their mouth, but as long as one could imagine it, even this ridiculous way of fighting, Nika could do it.
Luffy’s four limbs were spread out in a great character shape. The airflow he blew out pushed his body to spin and fly backward.
And that stream of air also coiled around the pillar of fire like a long snake, blowing the pitch-black fierce fire to a standstill in the air, and then it began to burn backward, in turn engulfing the rapidly charging strange bird!
Boom!!
"Hee hee hee, haha! Eh?"
Luffy floated in the air, pointing at the strange bird and laughing. Suddenly, a skeleton figure flashed and appeared.
The skeleton warhorse’s four hooves trod on the empty air. Saint Nusjuro had freed his hands. His face under his glasses was cold. He held the cursed sword, Kitetsu, and quickly slashed horizontally!
The pitch-black blade was wreathed in the cold air of the underworld, carrying an ominous aura from hell. Wherever it passed, the air condensed into frost.
Zing—!
"Hah!"
Luffy let out a low shout. His two arms became as thick as Popeye’s, and his palms, as large as a tabletop, forcefully slapped together, tightly clamping the blade.
Slap!
Bare-handed blade catch!
Saint Nusjuro’s eyes hardened. He gripped the hilt with both hands and twisted with force, but found that the blade was as if it were clamped by a hydraulic press, and it did not move an inch.
"Hmm?"
"Hee hee."
Luffy grinned. His upper body remained motionless, but his lower body twisted rapidly into a rope.
"Gomu Gomu no: White Windmill!!"
When his lower body was twisted tight, Luffy spread his two feet, and instead, his upper body began to spin rapidly in the opposite direction, dragging Saint Nusjuro’s body in a circle, one after another, leaving afterimages!
Swish—
Then, with a powerful centrifugal force, he threw the horse skeleton, which crashed into the strange bird that had just broken free from the pitch-black flames, and the two of them fell heavily to the earth.
Bang!!
The huge commotion made the forest tremble, and countless birds were startled and flew up, scattering. A rolling cloud of dust and smoke rose.
"Cough, cough, cough!"
The two struggled to climb out of the deep pit on the ground. Saint Nusjuro covered his face and coughed, his expression incomparably grave.
Although it was just some seemingly out-of-place, and even one could say, playful moves, their power was inexplicably huge.
It was simply too ridiculous. If this went on, with the strength of the two of them, they would probably not be able to take down Straw Hat.
Saint Nusjuro thought to himself with a grim face. He swung his sword and sent out a sword energy, and the dust and smoke in front of him was blown away by the chaotic airflow.
A massive human figure immediately loomed over them.
"This is...!!"
Saint Mars’s eyes widened in shock. He stiffly looked up and found that Luffy in front of him had transformed into a giant dozens of meters tall!
"He can even do such a thing..."
"Hee hee hee."
Luffy still had a smiling face, his two large hands reaching down.
In the eyes of the Five Elders, his smile at this moment seemed to be full of an evil, playful meaning.
His palms, due to their huge size, seemed somewhat slow. In fact, by the time the two had reacted, Luffy had already grabbed their bodies.
"Urk!"
Saint Nusjuro gritted his teeth, a pained expression on his face. Scarlet blood seeped out from between his teeth and flowed from the corner of his mouth. His bones made a creaking sound.
Luffy’s palms increased their strength, and he even used Haki, causing black lightning to flash from his clenched fists.
"Ah—!!"
Under the terrifying grip, the demon-faced strange bird was in so much pain its face contorted. It threw its head back and let out a hoarse wail. Its bound body couldn’t even exert force, let alone break free.
Not being afraid of injury didn’t mean not being afraid of pain.
His bones were quickly healing and then being crushed again and again. At this moment, immortality, for them, had instead become a cruel torture.
"Gomu Gomu no: White Vise!!"
Luffy held the two of them and spread his arms wide. He roared and slammed them together in front of him!
Slap!!!
A giant, crisp sound was heard. It lifted a terrifying palm wind, which blew the trees until they bent.
Saint Nusjuro and Saint Mars, between his two palms, were directly flattened.
They were flattened in the physical sense!
Luffy laughed and released his palms. The Five Elders had turned into two human-shaped pieces of paper, which slowly floated down with the wind.
Below, Kid and Law were rooted to the spot, dumbfounded.
"He really... flattened them...!"
"What kind of ghost ability is this?!"
This scene was simply bizarre, but it also had an indescribable sense of reasonableness.
"Still not enough?"
Luffy frowned and rubbed his chin. He looked at the two cards that were floating down but had not yet disappeared. His eyes gradually lit up, and he then smiled.
"Then let’s do it again. Hee hee. Watch me use this move."
Bang!
Luffy stomped his foot and leaped high, swinging his arm up towards the sky and stretching it out.
The other parts of his body began to shrink and get smaller, as if all the gas in his body were flowing upwards. Only the arm he had thrown out slowly grew larger.
At the same time, Luffy’s two legs spun like pinwheels. With his arm as the axis, his body ran in a circle in the air, causing the stretched arm to continuously twist like a rope.
A shadow covered the land. Kid looked up at the giant fist in the air, which was so large it blotted out the sun and was almost endless. He swallowed hard, a bad premonition in his heart.
"Hey, hey, hey! Don’t tell me that guy is going to..."
"It doesn’t seem good to be here. Let’s go, Captain Kid! ROOM!"
Before his voice had even faded, Law at his side had already understood. He quickly opened his five fingers to create an air vortex. He flipped his hand, and the prototype of his domain rapidly expanded.
"Teleport!!"
Swish! Swish!
Law took Kid and disappeared from the spot, instantly appearing on a large tree at the edge of the forest.
Standing in the distance, the two could finally clearly see the fist. It had clearly already pierced into the cloud layer!
"Gomu Gomu no!"
"Bajrang Gun!!!"
Boom!!
The roar of his roar was added to the pitch-black lightning that exploded in the air, as loud as thunder.
Luffy’s eyes were wide with anger. The super-massive fist spiraled at high speed and smashed towards Saint Nusjuro and Saint Mars!
At this moment, Conqueror’s Haki transformed into a physical attack and ravaged the earth. The fist dragged countless bolts of lightning as it fiercely exploded and smashed down!
Boom!!!
A dazzling light covered the land. The terrifyingly powerful giant fist, combined with the full-power release of his Haki, had directly produced a nuclear explosion effect!!
A vibrating impact, comparable to a storm, spread out. The trees, branches, and leaves rustled, and then their roots, along with the turf, were sent flying into the sky. The ground collapsed, and the bricks and stones were pulverized.
Everything in the path of the impact was destroyed, leaving nothing behind.
"That’s Straw Hat, isn’t it? How exaggerated, Dorry."
"You’re right. It’s many times bigger than a giant’s fist. Gegyagyagya!"
Having just led the giant warriors to charge into the island, Dorry and Brogy, who had seen this scene, threw their heads back and laughed.
"Even the Giant race has come... the legendary Giant Warrior Pirates, which have been gone for a hundred years, and which even this old one has never seen."
After sending Ace flying with one punch, Garp looked at the giants who had appeared at the main gate of the city, his expression grave and deep.
"Damn it!"
Sengoku clenched his fists and hammered the ground, roaring at the sky with unwillingness:
"Retreat! All hands, retreat from Egghead!!"
After shouting this, Sengoku lowered his head powerlessly, as if he had aged a lot in an instant.
To capture the Straw Hat crew was not the main thing. To have dispatched a large number of troops but failed to achieve any results was also not important. But to end this battle with a complete defeat for the Marines... that was something he found hard to accept.
The Straw Hat crew could escape, they could save Vegapunk. He didn’t even care about the truth of history. But to have the face of the Marine Headquarters so ruthlessly trampled...
He couldn’t imagine how terrifying the chaos that would engulf the seas would be after the news of this place spread in a few days...
Hearing Sengoku’s words, the Marine officers, who were struggling to resist the charge of the Whitebeard Pirates, had dejected expressions, and they all sighed helplessly in their hearts.
"...Are we retreating?"
"It’s already a lost cause."
"Let’s go. Take as many of the wounded as you can."
There were only a few officer-level officers on the island. Under the pursuit of the Whitebeard Pirates, they fled pathetically from this city, which had already been engulfed in cannon fire.
A beam of golden light flew down from the sky, and at a speed invisible to the naked eye, it launched a surprise attack on Reiner.
"Light Speed Kick!!"
Bang!!
Reiner noticed it and, at the fastest possible speed, he raised his hand to block. However, the kick, which had been accelerated to an exaggerated degree, still sent him sliding back several meters.
Just as he was about to make a move, an ice wall condensed and rose in front of Reiner.
At the same time, Kizaru had no intention of fighting him at all. He immediately grabbed Akainu’s collar and retreated at the speed of light.
"Sorry. Although I don’t like that guy’s way of doing things either, I still hope you can spare his life."
Standing on the ice wall, Aokiji held his forehead and said with a troubled expression:
"Let’s get this straight first. I don’t want to fight you again. And killing a few more Marines won’t do you any good."
"A person like you should understand, right? This world still needs the Marines to exist. After all, the civilians can’t count on anyone else to protect them."
Aokiji’s tone was a little helpless as he tried to persuade Reiner.
Seeing that Reiner did not respond, he was silent for two seconds. A cold, freezing air began to emanate from his body, and his fingertips moved slightly, as if he had already prepared for the worst.
Reiner still didn’t move.
"Sigh. Just consider it me owing you one. Please."
Aokiji sighed and, dispersing the freezing air around him, he said one last time.
Reiner glanced at the other, and then at Kizaru. He did not speak, and the azure flame on his body slowly dissipated.
Seeing this, Aokiji finally let out a sigh of relief.
"Thanks."
"No need."
Reiner replied faintly and turned to leave.
Didn’t these two guys just hide in the research institute and watch the show for half a day? Saving their strength, and then, at the last moment, whichever side was about to be wiped out, they would come down and save them?
Neither Aokiji nor Kizaru wanted the Straw Hat Pirates to be defeated and Vegapunk to be killed. And likewise, they did not want the Marines to be defeated and destroyed.
To put it bluntly, for them, this war was completely unnecessary. With their positions and styles of doing things, it was very possible that they had this kind of thought.
Two dogs.
Oh well.
Reiner actually didn’t intend to wipe out the Marines either.
If all four emperors died, a new batch could be replaced. If the Marines were gone, they were really gone.
Although the Marines were already rotten to the core, they still couldn’t do without them. Even in such a world, there were still many people in the Marines who were searching for justice in their confusion.
A world where only pirates had the say would only be even more rotten.
This war... ends here.
The Straw Hat Pirates... a complete victory!
(End of Chapter)
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