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

The moment Jinbe leaped out of the ranks of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, a huge dent was created in the ice beneath his feet.

The Fishman Karate starting stance was completed the instant he leaped up, and the power of a 5,000-watt straight punch was concentrated in his fist.

He landed exactly thirty meters in front of Luffy, where an entire squadron of elite Marines was blocking his way.

"Fishman Karate - Five Thousand Tiles Straight Fist!"

Jinbe's fist slammed into the ice.

The ice exploded from the center of his fist, and the shockwave spread forward, sending an entire squadron of naval soldiers flying.

The ice surface shattered instantly, and the hole was immediately filled with seawater.

The soldiers tumbled several times in the air before crashing onto the water.

"Jinbe! What are you doing—!!!"

Zefa roared from the command platform.

Jinbe raised his head, his eyes showing no hesitation.

"I'm creating a battlefield that suits me!"

The simultaneous "defection" of three Shichibukai caused a brief period of chaos in the Navy's command system.

On the execution platform, Zhan Guo's face was ashen. He stared intently at the three figures that were rampaging across the battlefield, his fingers clenched so tightly at the edge of the platform that his knuckles turned white.

Moria's shadow tentacles cleared a path for Luffy on the left, while Hancock's petrifying arrows cleared a path for Luffy on the right.

Jinbe's Fishman Karate smashed a hole right in front of Luffy.

Three roads converge into one.

A road leading to the execution platform.

And Luffy is sprinting along this road at full speed.

"Rubber rubber—rocket!"

Luffy compressed his legs to their limit and launched himself out, moving so fast that he left a trail of afterimages.

He skimmed across the ice, passed through the gaps between the battles between pirates and the navy, and burst forth from the gunfire and smoke.

He knocked away the naval soldiers blocking his way one by one—the passive ability of the Gum-Gum Fruit made him completely immune to blunt force attacks.

The elasticity made his impact incredibly powerful; the naval soldiers he hit flew out like bowling pins, knocking down a group of people behind them.

A rear admiral tried to stop him, slashing his long sword down at Luffy.

Luffy didn't even look, and smashed the major general's face with his Gum-Gum Pistol, sending him flying more than ten meters away, sword and all.

Another naval commodore cut in from the side, and his seastone handcuffs were about to slip onto Luffy's wrists.

Luffy twisted his body at an odd angle in the air, lashed out with his Gum-Gum Whip, and kicked the commodore in the side, turning him into a U-shape.

Luffy charged forward with unstoppable momentum, stretching out his arms to reach the top of the encirclement wall. With a "thud," a rubber rocket shot out, propelling Luffy into the sky and making him the first to reach the top of the wall.

Luffy stood atop a hundred-meter-high steel wall, the sea breeze blowing his straw hat, and the sunlight shining on his scarred face.

His gaze swept across the entire square, past tens of thousands of sailors, past the artillery batteries and warships, and locked onto the kneeling figure on the execution platform.

"Ace—!!!"

Luffy put his hands on his hips and grinned, revealing an extremely bright smile.

"Wait for me—!!!"

On the execution platform, Ace raised his head.

Across the entire square, amidst the sounds of cannon fire and battle cries, and beyond tens of thousands of naval forces and a dense array of swords,

Through the hundred-meter-high wall and countless obstacles, he looked at the figure standing on top of the city wall.

That little brat who used to follow him around shouting "Ace Ace" since he was a child.

That little brat who was beaten up countless times by him in the back mountain of Windmill Village but never cried.

That kid whose eyes lit up like they had light bulbs when he said, "I want to be the Pirate King."

She is now standing atop the hundred-meter-high city wall, smiling at him.

"Luffy..."

Ace finally couldn't stop crying.

These weren't the suppressed, silent tears of before, but real, loud sobs.

He knelt on the execution platform, his hands bound behind his back with sea stone chains, his whole body trembling so that the chains rattled.

"You idiot—who let you come—!!!"

His voice was trembling with tears, but the corners of his mouth involuntarily turned up.

That curve was so ugly that even the Warring States period turned their faces away.

Garp stood on the edge of the execution platform, his hands covering his head, and squatted on the ground.

His eyes reddened, but he gritted his teeth and didn't let the tears fall.

"Luffy—you brat—!!!"

His voice was hoarse, as if he had swallowed sand.

Sengoku looked at Garp, who was squatting on the ground, and then at the figure wearing a straw hat on the wall of the encirclement. Veins bulged on his face.

"Garp—you bastard!!!"

Sengoku took a deep breath and picked up the speakerphone Den Den Mushi.

"All troops, listen up—stop Straw Hat Luffy at all costs!"

Meanwhile, high above the clouds, Roy on the Ark Proverb withdrew his gaze from the battlefield.

A slight smile played on his lips as he tapped the hilt of his Autumn Water Blade twice with his fingers.

"Luffy, that kid, is still as troublesome as ever."

He tore down Impel Down.

"The old man from the Warring States period must have turned green with rage."

Barrett paced anxiously behind Roy.

"Roy, when are we going down?"

Luffy has already charged up to the wall!

"What's the rush?"

Roy turned his gaze back to the battlefield, toward the direction of the Whitebeard Pirates.

"The real show has only just begun."

Luffy descended from the sky with the prisoners of Impel Down, and with the sudden "betrayal" of the three Shichibukai, the attention of the entire battlefield was drawn to them.

The mid-ranking officers of the Navy turned their guns and surrounded Luffy.

Some of the artillery fire was also shifted away from the Whitebeard Pirates and turned towards the group of prisoners who had escaped from Impel Down.

The pressure on the Whitebeard Pirates has been greatly reduced.

"Dad!"

Marco landed back on the bow of the Moby Dick from the air, blue flames dancing on his shoulder.

His voice was filled with barely suppressed excitement.

"That kid in the straw hat is Ace's brother! He's here to save Ace!"

The white-bearded man stood at the bow of the ship, his naginata resting on the deck. His gaze pierced through the smoke-filled battlefield and landed on the small figure on the wall of the encirclement.

That straw hat.

The white-bearded man's eyes narrowed slightly.

He remembered that straw hat.

Now that brat is standing on the hundred-meter-high wall, shouting to Ace on the execution platform, "I've come to save you."

"Gula la la la—"

The white-bearded man laughed loudly, his laughter shaking the sails of the ship.

"Ace's brother?! This kid's got some nerve!"

After he finished laughing, the hilt of his naginata slammed heavily on the deck.

"My sons—cover Straw Hat Luffy!"

Whitebeard's orders were relayed throughout the fleet via Den Den Mushi (snail phone) on each ship.

Upon hearing this order, the pirates on the ice felt as if they had been given a shot of adrenaline.

"Cover the Straw Hat Boy!"

"Don't let the navy get near him!"

"Charge—!!!"

The pirate formation, which had almost been broken up, was regrouped.

The wounded pirates got up from the ground, wiped the blood from their faces, raised their swords, and charged the naval defenses again.

A captain with a missing left arm charged ahead, holding a knife in his right hand and shouting, "For Dad!"

A pirate with three slashes in his chest tied the sword to his hand with a strip of cloth and continued charging forward, shouting "For Ace!"

There was also a kid from some unknown ship, who looked about sixteen or seventeen years old.

Holding a knife taller than himself, he followed at the back of the group, his face filled with terror, but he didn't retreat an inch.

Luffy's roar against the wall was like igniting a fire.

The fire spread rapidly, burning from one person to another.

The fire spread from one pirate crew to another, until finally all the pirates on the ice were engulfed in flames.

But just when everyone thought the situation was improving—

On the bow side of the Moby Dick, a figure silently approached the white-bearded man.