One Piece: The user of the Nen-Nen Fruit, who overturned the sea.

The roar of the encirclement still echoed over Marineford, and the pirates on the ice were driven to the brink of despair.

Shells rained down from all directions, each one creating a gap in the crowd.

The navy's elite fleet advanced in orderly steps, their bayonet formations pushing the pirates' lines back inch by inch.

The ice surface was littered with corpses, and blood flowed into the sea through the ice cracks, turning the harbor's waters a pale red.

On the execution platform, Ace knelt on the cold stone slab, watching the figures fall one after another below.

As Oars fell, he was still calling his name. The pirates at the forefront were blown away by cannonballs, and those who risked their lives to save him died one after another.

His body trembled violently, the sea stone chains rattled as he pulled them, and the chain buckles rubbed bloody marks on his wrists.

"stop--!!!"

Ace roared with all his might, but his voice sounded so weak amidst the gunfire.

He lowered his head, his forehead pressed against the cold stone slab, and his tears splashed onto the stone, spreading a small patch of dark color.

He recalled his stubbornness when chasing Blackbeard, and the way he slammed the door and stormed out when his father tried to persuade him not to go.

I remember when Marco told me "Don't be impulsive," I couldn't listen at all.

It's all his fault.

If he hadn't insisted on his own way, his father wouldn't have brought everyone to rescue him.

If he hadn't been caught by Blackbeard, these companions he'd spent every day with wouldn't have fallen one by one on the ice.

If it weren't for him—

"Click."

A faint cracking sound interrupted Ace's thoughts.

The sound was so faint that it was almost inaudible amidst the roar of artillery fire.

But then came the second, third, and fourth sounds—

The cracking sounds grew more frequent and louder, as if something was spreading across the top of the frozen waves.

On the execution platform, Zhan Guo suddenly looked up.

Garp also raised his head.

The three generals looked up at the sky at the same time.

Cracks are spreading at an incredible speed from the top of the tsunami, which was frozen hundreds of meters high by Aokiji.

The cracks started from a small point and spread in all directions like a spider web, the sound of ice breaking cracking becoming more and more dense and piercing.

Then--

"Rubber, rubber—!!!"

A boy's roar exploded from inside the ice.

"Giant—Pistol!!!"

The top of the ice layer suddenly burst open.

A giant rubber fist burst out of the ice, its surface wreathed in visible Armament Haki, scattering shards of ice in all directions from the force of the punch.

Immediately afterwards, countless figures fell from the shattered ice.

Luffy was the first to break through the ice.

His clothes were tattered, and his face bore the scars left from Impel Down, but the straw hat was firmly on his head, and the eyes under the brim shone with an alarming brightness.

He was followed by hundreds of figures—

Ivankov's signature afro stood out in the crowd.

Bucky's red nose gleamed in the sunlight, alongside countless Impel Down prisoners.

The monsters from the second to the fifth underground level all followed behind Luffy.

"Luffy—!!!"

Ace suddenly raised his head, his pupils contracting sharply.

He stared at the figure descending from the sky, his lips trembling, unable to utter a word.

Garp held his head in his hands, frozen in place as if struck by lightning.

His eyes widened, his mouth opened and closed repeatedly, and finally he managed to squeeze out only one sentence.

Luffy—

How did you get here?!

Sengoku suddenly turned to Garp, veins bulging on his face.

"Garp! It's your family again—!!!"

Luffy didn't hear any of that.

His body plummeted through the air, the elasticity of the Gum-Gum Fruit propelling him like a cannonball as he crashed into the ice.

His gaze pierced the entire battlefield, through the cannon fire and smoke, through tens of thousands of sailors and countless swords, and locked onto the kneeling figure on the execution platform.

"Ace—!!!"

Luffy's roar shook the entire plaza.

"I've come to save you—!!!"

As soon as he finished speaking, hundreds of prisoners landed on the ground at the same time.

The ice surface was smashed into countless dents, with shards of ice flying everywhere and water spraying into the sky.

The prisoners of Impel Down rose from the ice shards, their eyes blazing with a frenzied fighting spirit—

They were imprisoned in the dark, sunless cells of Impel Down for who knows how many years.

Now that they have finally seen the light of day again, the flames of revenge burn in everyone's eyes.

Ivankov stood behind Luffy, hands on his hips, his voice loud enough to be heard throughout the entire battlefield.

"Imperial prisoners! If you want freedom, follow Straw Hat Boy!"

"oh--!!!"

The shouts of hundreds of prisoners merged into a giant wave, causing the naval soldiers to involuntarily take a step back.

The battlefield situation changed subtly in that instant.

The pirates' morale, which was on the verge of collapse, was reignited by this unexpected influx of new forces.

Although we don't know where these prisoners came from, and we don't know who that kid in the straw hat is, reinforcements have arrived! That's enough!

"Charge—!!!"

A pirate captain raised his sword and led the remaining crew in another charge.

Another captain got up from the ground, wiped the blood off his face, and rushed over as well.

The third, the fourth, the fifth – the pirates, who had been suppressed and forced to retreat, rekindled their fighting spirit and roared as they launched a counterattack against the naval defenses.

At that very moment, a voice simultaneously rang in the minds of the three people on the battlefield.

"Let's do it."

Moria stood in the shadows at the edge of the battlefield, a sinister smile spreading across his face.

The power of the Shadow-Shadow Fruit silently spread beneath his feet, and dozens of shadow tentacles emerged from the ground, binding the ankles of more than a dozen marines and pirates around him.

"Shadow Spear"

The shadow tentacles tightened suddenly, and the naval soldiers screamed as they were flung into the air.

Moria emerged from the shadows, hands in his pockets, stepping over the fallen bodies of the naval soldiers with each step.

His attacks were completely indiscriminate—

Whether they were navy personnel or pirates, all who stood in their way were swept away by the shadow tentacles.

"Moria! You're insane—!!!"

A naval rear admiral charged forward with a knife, but before he could finish speaking, shadow tentacles wrapped around his neck, lifted him up, and slammed him to the ground.

Moria didn't even glance at him, his gaze fixed on the direction Luffy was heading.

Hancock moved at almost the same time.

She was originally standing in the line of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, arms crossed, looking like she was ignoring everyone.

But the moment she received the telepathic message, her body blurred into a blur, her high heels making a series of crisp sounds on the ice.

"Fragrant feet".

Hancock's long legs swept out, instantly petrifying the three marines blocking her path, turning them into three stone statues while still in the position of charging with their swords raised.

She didn't even glance at them; her cloak billowed behind her as she dashed forward more than ten meters.

"Empress! What are you doing—!!!"

A naval vice admiral in the distance roared at her.

Hancock didn't even bother to reply.

Her fingers lightly touched her lips, drawing out a huge pink heart, then she released them—the Arrow of Captivity.

Dozens of pink arrows shot out from the heart of the peach, accurately hitting the marines on both sides of Luffy's path.

Those hit by the arrows instantly turned to stone, transforming into rows of stone sculptures in various poses on the ice.

Those stone sculptures were precisely the ones blocking Luffy's path to the execution platform.