One Piece: Starting from Awakening the Cosmo at Marineford

Soon, the dozen or so henchmen were unable to escape and were killed one by one by Gerst.

Gerst was both angry and saddened.

"Haha! Pirates! Pirates have no sense of honor! They're nothing but a rabble!"

Aaron clapped and laughed, "That's right, Captain Gerst, you're absolutely right. You personally killed your first mate and so many of your underlings; it's truly admirable and lamentable!"

However, there's another saying you've probably heard: anger can lead to bad decisions. Your first mate wants to take his place, but those dozen or so underlings don't; they're innocent.

Gerst was taken aback: "What are you talking about?"

Aaron said, "I'm telling you, you're really stupid. I'd love to know if all pirates are as stupid as you; if that's the case, our job as marines would be much easier."

Gerst's eyes widened in fury: "So, it was you who was behind all this!"

Aaron smiled dismissively: "You only realize this now? It's too late. But you should thank me. I made your first mate fight you openly. If he had secretly launched a rebellion one day, you would have been the one dead."

Gerst roared furiously, "Damn marine! I'll kill you!"

Aaron shook his head: "Kill me? You think you can?"

"kill!"

Gerst, carrying his knife, mustered all his remaining strength and lunged at Aaron, slashing at him with the blade.

Unfortunately, his knife stopped, held between two fingers, and he couldn't press it down any further.

With a "crack," the blade shattered into dozens of pieces.

Gerst's eyes widened, and he wanted to burst into a tirade.

A sharp pain shot through my chest.

Gerst looked down and saw a bloody hole in his chest.

"I...hate...so much..."

Gerst collapsed to the ground, his eyes wide open, dying with his eyes still open.

Aaron crouched down, expressionlessly wiped his face with his hand, and closed his eyes.

Just then, the sound of a lark came from the treetop above.

"Senior Aaron, two more pirate ships have approached. They came together."

Aaron stood up and looked towards the sea: "It seems there's no time to collect these bodies."

Hibari added, "They're Kaido's men! The ship is flying the Beasts Pirates' flag!"

Aaron became interested: "Oh? I wonder what level of officers are coming. The Flying Six, or is it a real fight? But Wano Country is more than ten days' flight from here, they can't get here so quickly."

Fombey poked his head out from the treetop: "Boss, since they're just lowly minions of the Beasts Pirates, how about I go and give them a surprise?"

Aaron laughed and said, "Alright, go ahead."

"Okay!"

Fenbdi jumped onto the treetop and transformed into a pink dragon tens of meters long.

"Boss, Hibari, do you want to go see the power of this fruit?"

"OK!"

Aaron used his Moonwalk to leap onto the treetop, then, holding the lark, jumped onto the dragon's back.

The pink dragon snaked and coiled, flying towards the sea.

A minute later, the three of them were already above the two pirate ships.

The pirates on both ships had naturally seen the enormous figure in the sky long ago.

"It's Governor Kaido!"

Before they could even cheer, they realized something was wrong.

"This color...it looks a bit girly..."

What terrified them even more was that the pink dragon's mouth had begun to glow, as if it were holding a small sun.

"Oh no, turn around quickly!"

"Heat Breath!"

"Boom!" A pillar of fire several meters thick spewed out from the pink dragon's mouth and crashed into the sea.

Before the pirates could even scream, they were burned to death by the flames.

The two pirate ships shattered and burst into flames instantly.

Flames, corpses, and pieces of wood swayed on the sea with the waves.

Hibari hesitated, "That's too cruel..."

"They did feel fear, but only for a few seconds," Finbdi said. "They didn't feel any pain either; compared to being killed by guns and swords, they were already fortunate."

Yun Que sighed and stopped pursuing the matter: "Senior Aaron, the wreckage of these two ships should be enough to deter some ordinary pirates and keep them from coming ashore."

Aaron said, "For ordinary pirates, it's enough. But for some pirates with bounties of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, it will excite them even more. Seeing these wreckage will make them even more certain that Caesar Clown is on the island."

The three returned to the cabin in the woods.

Lark hugged the gun, wiping it repeatedly: "I thought my gun would always be a kind gun. But now, it has killed someone."

Finbdy asked in bewilderment, "Guns can be benevolent?"

"Yes, as long as it doesn't kill people, a gun is benevolent."

Aaron suppressed a laugh: "Lark, guns have no inherent good or evil. The difference lies with people. It's not the gun that's killing, it's the person. I used your gun to kill a pirate."

Lark said dejectedly, "I feel like I've changed."

Aaron comforted him, "Don't feel pressured. Didn't I tell you before that killing one pirate can save several, or even dozens, of civilians? From this perspective, eliminating evil is doing good. We are doing a good deed."

Lark sighed, "Senior Aaron, you're always right. I feel a bit better now."

Finbdi said, "You're not upset that the boss killed someone with your gun, you're upset that I wiped out two ships of pirates with my heat breath."

Hibari didn't deny it: "I guess so."

Finbdi said, "I don't understand any grand principles, but I agree with what the boss said: eliminating evil is doing good. Those pirates deserved to die. Besides, we are marines, and it's our duty to catch and kill pirates. If you can't understand this, you'll be in a lot of inner turmoil."

Yun Que nodded: "Actually, after following Senior Aaron for this period of time, I've figured things out. It's just that seeing these scenes of killing still makes me feel reluctant, and I even dare not watch."

Aaron smiled and comforted her, "Lark, you're a kind girl. You need some time to adjust to all this fighting and killing."

Hibari nodded and said, "Senior Aaron, don't worry, I will definitely grow into a qualified marine as soon as possible."

Aaron chuckled: "Just being qualified isn't enough. You have to be excellent enough."

"Yes, sir!" Hibari rallied his spirits. "I will definitely become an excellent marine!"

"So good that I can stand beside you..."

As the lark thought about it, a sense of happiness began to well up inside her, and she was filled with fighting spirit for the future.

After finishing their meal, Aaron called to Finbuddy, "Let's go. There aren't many people coming to the island yet, let's go bury those pirate corpses."

The two men, armed with shovels, dug a large pit using only their physical strength. They then threw the hundreds of corpses from the two pirate crews into the pit and covered it with soil.