Pirate: This Marine has two Rinnegan.

"Black coffin."

Two dark masses emerged from either side of Whitebeard, then suddenly closed together, forming a black coffin that enveloped Whitebeard's body, leaving only his face exposed.

Whitebeard tried his best to break free from the black coffin, but under the pull of darkness, it was already a miracle that he could keep his physical body intact, let alone break free.

At this moment, only the muscles in Whitebeard's face could move. He stared wide-eyed as Chiga approached him, a deep sense of powerlessness welling up from the bottom of his heart.

Am I really getting old?

For the first time, Whitebeard questioned his own strength, but he quickly dismissed the thought.

"No! This Zi Lin is a monster! He's not human at all!"

Shanks, seeing Whitebeard's situation, immediately wanted to go to his rescue, but Big Mom clung to him like a stubborn leech.

Even though his strength far surpassed that of Big Mom, he was still unable to break free from the clutches of a fearless Yonko and could only watch helplessly as Chiga walked up to Whitebeard.

Chiga's Rinnegan eyes remained calm and still, as if he didn't take the white-bearded man known as "the strongest man in the world" seriously. He asked indifferently,

"Whitebeard, do you have any last words?"

Looking at the young face before him, the white-bearded man sighed softly and said,

"You must have your eye on my Tremor-Tremor Fruit, right? Take it if you want it. I have only one request: spare my sons' lives!"

"Daddy!!!"

Upon hearing Whitebeard's words, the members of the Whitebeard Pirates burst into tears. They were so close to Whitebeard, but Akainu stood in their way like an insurmountable wall, and their hearts were filled with despair.

Chiga ignored the commotion behind him and shook his head at the white-bearded man.

"You seem to have misunderstood something. I don't need your permission at all to obtain the Tremor-Tremor Fruit."

These words immediately plunged Whitebeard's spirits to rock bottom, but Chiga's next words rekindled his hope.

"I'll spare their lives, but I want you to say something in front of everyone."

"What?"

Chiga stared into the white-bearded man's eyes, and a voice echoed in his mind.

"Just shout, 'OnePie is a scam! It doesn't exist!'"

"Nani!?"

Chapter 265 Metamorphosis

Whitebeard was stunned; he really hadn't expected Chika to ask him to say that!

He knew that once he uttered those words, it would have an extremely explosive impact on the entire pirate crew, and the Great Age of Pirates that Roger had started would suffer an unimaginable blow.

But when he thought of his sons, a look of pain appeared on the white-bearded man's face.

Chiga wasn't in a hurry; he just quietly watched Whitebeard.

In his view, the pirate world was already his property, and the fewer of those troublesome marine creatures, the better.

This is something he should do from the Navy's perspective.

Ultimately, the lives of his sons outweighed everything in Whitebeard's heart. He closed his eyes and said, trembling.

I agree!

A smile appeared on Chika's face, and he deliberately asked,

"Whitebeard, what exactly is One Piece?"

With the appearance of "One Piece," everyone, from pirates and marines in Marineford to people all over the world, focused their attention on Whitebeard.

Whitebeard took a deep breath, then suddenly opened his eyes wide and roared with all his might.

"OnePie is a scam! It doesn't exist at all!!!"

Whitebeard's voice echoed in every corner of the world, and the entire pirate world fell into a deathly silence at that moment.

Windmill Village

Luffy stared blankly at Whitebeard in the picture, and suddenly a lot of tears welled up in his eyes.

Seeing this, Makino quickly knelt down to wipe away Luffy's tears and asked with concern,

"Luffy, what's wrong?"

Luffy stiffly turned his neck and said in a trembling voice,

"Sister Machino, is what that white-bearded man said true?"

This was the first time Machino had seen Luffy like this, and she knew how much Whitebeard's words had affected him, who had always dreamed of becoming the Pirate King.

But she really didn't want Luffy to go down this path. What would happen to Luffy if he encountered Mr. Senga?

So Makino said cruelly.

"Whitebeard was a powerful figure from the same era as Roger, so he must be right!"

Luffy was clearly unable to accept this cruel reality, and he shouted at Whitebeard in the image.

"No! This isn't real! OnePie is real!!!"

hum!

An overwhelming aura erupted from Luffy's small body, stunning everyone around him into unconsciousness.

Luffy swayed, then his eyes rolled back, and he fell backward.

No one saw that a wisp of white ribbon was faintly circling behind Luffy, and then disappeared after a while.

Back in Marineford,

The battle between the Navy and the pirates had ceased, and they were still reeling from Whitebeard's words.

Shanks' expression turned ferocious, endless rage burning within him. He punched Big Mom in the face, sending her flying into Marineford, and then charged towards Whitebeard.

"Whitebeard! What nonsense are you spouting!?"

After Whitebeard finished speaking, he lowered his eyes and did not say another word.

Chiga nodded in satisfaction, then used Shinra Tensei to send the charging red-haired man flying. A wisp of darkness then appeared in his left eye.

"ended."

Puff puff!

The sound of flesh being pierced came from the black coffin. The white-bearded man's facial muscles twitched. In his last moments, he looked at the White Team members behind Chihiro, his gaze filled with lingering affection.

"My dear sons, this is the last thing your father can do for you. Live well!"

Chika sighed softly.

"Don't worry, I will keep my promise and spare their lives."

"Thank you very much, Kuralala. I never imagined a monster like you existed. To have fought you is enough; I have no regrets!"

After saying this, Whitebeard closed his eyes forever, and the story of the world's strongest man came to an end.

The black coffin encasing the white beard dissipated into wisps of darkness, and the corpse, under Chiga's control, slowly fell onto the ice, maintaining its standing posture.

Chiga deliberately gave Whitebeard a final moment of dignity, a stark contrast to the treatment she received from Big Mom.

Reaching out and pressing his hand on Whitebeard's body, the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, drawn in by the Preta Path, flowed into Chiga's left eye, becoming the final tomoe.

Upon seeing Whitebeard's death, the Whitebeard crew members all knelt on the ground, desperately calling out "Old Man!"

Several squad leaders desperately attacked Akainu, letting the lava leave scorched wounds on their bodies.

After defeating Whitebeard, Chiga stood quietly in place, his demeanor completely out of place with his surroundings.

Shanks arrived at that moment and immediately saw the dead Whitebeard. He was enraged, his hands turned completely white, and his aura reached a new level.

"Die to me!!!"

A punch landed on Chiga's back. This time, Chiga was not covered by Susanoo armor, and he did not even use Haki.

Shanks' face lit up with joy, thinking that his attack had succeeded.

However, when Chiga turned around, Shanks saw a pair of Rinnegan eyes covered with twelve tomoe, and six black spheres that suddenly appeared behind Chiga.

One of the black spheres suddenly transformed into a sharp black spear, instantly piercing Shanks' body and slamming him into the ground.

Suffering this severe blow, the white wedge on Shanks' body began to dissipate. He desperately tried to preserve the white wedge on his abdomen. His powerful Observation Haki told him that once the white wedge on his abdomen also dissipated, his body would face destruction.

Indeed, these six black spheres are Truth-Seeking Balls. Without the protection of Six Paths level power, an ordinary person would be instantly reduced to nothingness upon touching them, even an immortal body reborn through Impure World Reincarnation.

Chika glanced at Shanks indifferently, then turned and walked toward the battlefield behind them.

But before he could take more than a few steps, Qianhe suddenly stopped again. Strands of white substance appeared out of thin air, enveloping his body and eventually forming a white cocoon.

The strange phenomenon occurring on Chiga caused everyone to stop what they were doing and stare blankly at the cocoon in the center of the battlefield.

At this moment, the world's attention also turned to that cocoon.

Mary Geoise, Among the Flowers

Im stared intently at the cocoon in the image, then let out a morbid, maniacal laugh.

"Hahahaha! He succeeded! I can feel it! It's the aura of one of our own!"

The voice in his mind rang out again, tinged with mockery.

“That is not your kind, but mine.”

Im was in high spirits and completely ignored the mockery. He gazed fascinated at the flawless white cocoon and murmured,

"Come on! I've been waiting here for far too long!"

Chapter 266 Breaking out of the cocoon

The entire Marineford was eerily quiet until a heartbeat was heard coming from inside the cocoon.

Thump, thump.

The heartbeat sounded like a war drum, the ice cracked, the sea surged with the heartbeat, and the sky darkened completely at that moment.

The people standing on the ice couldn't help but swallow hard, and they all looked at the cocoon again without prior arrangement.