Both start in hell: but their talents are multiplied a hundredfold.

Before Akainu's roar had faded in the sea breeze, Shen Jue, transformed into a ten-thousand-meter-tall silver-armored giant, once again raised his three-pointed double-edged sword.

Above the blade, the white flame cloud suddenly contracted, transforming into an extremely thin silver line, as if it were about to slice the entire sky in two.

The air whistled, and even the naval soldiers on the outermost edge of Red Harbor could feel their dough tightening, and their throats felt like they were swallowing hot coals when they breathed.

"All troops! Fire!!"

Akainu pressed his chest down and roared as he gave the order.

His right fist had completely turned into lava, and the scalding magma dripped onto the flagship's deck, burning through the iron plates and making a teeth-grinding hissing sound.

However, none of the dozen or so lieutenant generals behind him turned around to relay the order.

Akainu suddenly turned around, his eyes bloodshot as if they were burning charcoal.

"Are you deaf?! I'm ordering artillery fire!!"

The lieutenant general closest to him slowly lowered his head and reached for his right arm.

The movement was slow, as slow as if it were a process of making peace with oneself.

He grabbed the sleeve of his navy uniform and ripped it off.

"Sizzle!"

The sound of fabric tearing was terrifyingly clear amidst the roar of the ten-thousand-meter-tall giant.

A red rope was clearly tied to the right arm of the lieutenant general.

It was a blindingly red.

He raised his head and looked at Akainu, his eyes filled with complex emotions, but without the slightest hesitation.

"I apologize, Admiral Sakazuki."

He paused, then added in a very steady voice.

"We will no longer fight for the Celestial Dragons."

The lieutenant general's words were like toppling the first domino.

The dozen or so lieutenant generals acted almost simultaneously, tearing open their right arms.

One red rope after another was revealed.

They had clearly been hiding the red string in their sleeves for quite some time.

Some of the lieutenant generals even gripped their weapons, but instead of aiming them at the ten-thousand-meter-tall deity in front of them, they slowly turned to the side, facing away from Red Harbor and towards Shen Jue.

"You...you dare to betray the Navy!"

Akainu's face was flushed, and a low, almost animalistic hiss came from his throat.

Cracks appeared in the iron-clad, cold expression on his face.

But a voice that made his eyes widen in fury came from another direction.

"Bang!"

Momousagi stood by the railing, a broken teacup at her feet.

She sighed, as if she had finally made up her mind, and gently pinched the cuff of her military uniform with her fingertips, tearing it downwards.

Another red string.

This secret, which she had kept hidden in her sleeve for so long and had never let anyone discover, was suddenly exposed in the smoke-filled sea breeze.

"I'm sorry, Sakazuki."

"We're not using smashing a cup as a signal."

"Didn't we say we really don't want to fight Shen Jue?"

Momousagi's tone remained slow and leisurely, but her smile was no longer the teasing one she used to have.

She gazed at the ten-thousand-meter-tall silver-armored giant, her eyes bright.

"Now, there's no excuse left to withdraw from the World Government a little later."

Akainu stared at her as if he wanted to devour this admiral candidate.

His breathing was terribly heavy, his chest heaving violently, and lava dripping uncontrollably from his right fist, igniting tiny flames wherever it passed.

"Momouri! Even you!!"

Even me.

The peach rabbit spoke softly, almost like a sigh.

"To put it another way, people like me have long been fed up with the atrocities committed by the Celestial Dragons and the World Government."

At the same time, outside Honggang.

The defensive line, composed of two hundred naval headquarters warships, did not fire a single shot.

Not only the vice admirals, but even the ordinary naval soldiers on the deck, holding cannon rigging, wielding muskets, and standing on the watchtower, began to tear open their sleeves in silence.

Some people's red ribbons are very old, and have been washed until they are white;

Some people's red strings still had a fresh sheen, as if they had just been tied last night.

In this red expanse permeated by the sea breeze and Shen Jue's imposing presence, there were no cheers, no shouts.

Only a long-suppressed silence finally turned into action at this moment.

"What are you all doing?!"

Akainu was almost roaring.

The veins on his face bulged, and scalding lava gushed from between his clenched fingers, turning the entire foredeck blood red.

"Are you even still the Navy?! Where is your justice?!"

No one answered him.

Only more tearing sounds.

The sound was initially sparse, like raindrops.

Gradually, it turned into a storm that swept across the entire fleet.

The soldiers tore off their sleeves and threw them into the sea.

The red sleeves and red rope twirled in the wind.

From a distance, it doesn't look like the first line of defense of the world government at all, but rather like a grand and silent rebellion.

Just then, on one of the most remote cruise ships, a loudspeaker Den Den Mushi suddenly rang.

The voice coming from inside was one that every navy officer knew all too well.

Lazy, rugged, with a hint of impatience, yet also a strange solemnity.

"Tsk, I am Garp."

Garp's voice came through the Den Den Mushi.

He sat cross-legged at the bow of the ship, holding half a rice cracker in his hand.

Sengoku, who was standing next to him, adjusted his glasses but did not stop him.

"Listen up, you damn Navy bastards."

Garp patted the senbei crumbs off his hands, stood up, looked at the ten-thousand-meter-tall silver-armored giant, and suddenly grinned.

"Those with a red rope tied to their right arm, now, leave the battlefield immediately."

"Turn the warships' guns around and move them to the sides. Don't block Shen Jue's way."

He paused, then his smile deepened.

"I and the Warring States period have long wanted to do this."

"Let the World Government and the Celestial Dragons die."

The last sentence was spoken softly, yet it exploded in the loudspeaker of every warship.

"Now, execute the order."

Garp's order caused countless naval vessels to silently turn around.

This order is completely different from Akainu's order to fire.

It was like a key that completely unlocked the door in the Navy's heart that had been sealed off for too long by ironclad rules.

"Yes, Lieutenant General Garp!"

"yes!!"

"All troops! Change course!"

"Make way! Make way!"

On nearly two hundred warships, soldiers responded with almost screams.

The mooring ropes were cut, the anchor screeched, and the bow traced a white arc in the waves.

The naval soldiers with red ropes tied around their right arms ran along the ship's side like a red tide, pushing the wheel and pulling the ropes.

The ships began to retreat to the sides, clearing the widest sea lane outside Red Harbor.

The flagship where Akainu was located had been completely turned into an isolated island.

He stood at the bow of the ship, watching the warships that had once obeyed his every command sail away.

Watching the lieutenant generals leap off the ship's railing and board the warship to move to both sides, Momotaro also stepped onto the spiral staircase outside the bridge without looking back.

He finally uttered that "Ah".

It was a short, stuck sound, like someone punching you in the chest.

pain.

But more than anything, it was incredibly embarrassing.

From beginning to end, he never imagined that his fortress of "absolute justice" would collapse silently from within.

Akainu always believed himself to be a rock, the last line of defense for the Navy's absolute justice.

Only now do we realize that he was merely standing in the middle of a long deception, the last person to know the truth.

Even those naval personnel who had followed him the longest and were most steadfast in upholding absolute justice abandoned their allegiance to him.

"Shen Jue, Garp, Momousagi, you traitors!" He clenched his teeth so tightly that blood seeped from between them.

His face turned bright red, and even his temples were trembling.

He tried to straighten up, wanting to maintain the dignity of a naval admiral.

But his disheveled hair, with his military cap swept away by the gale, and his lonely, disheveled figure standing at the bow of the ship, looked so comical under the radiance of the ten-thousand-meter-tall silver-armored giant.

"Seriously, this is so embarrassing."

Akainu squeezed out those words in a low voice.

As if to accentuate his comical state, a gentle wave suddenly rose on the sea, pushing a Kuja pirate ship to the side of the flagship.

Hancock stood at the bow of the ship, arms crossed, glancing at Akainu out of the corner of her eye.

Then she looked up at the silver-armored giant that almost filled the entire sky, and suddenly whispered:

"Foolish man, does he still believe the world revolves around his sense of justice?"

Crocodile then emerged from the cabin, a cigar dangling from his lips, and leaned against the ship's railing.

He looked at the ten-thousand-meter-tall divine body and suddenly smiled.

"Ha, how ridiculous. In the end, the Navy only has one 'Admiral' who has been abandoned by everyone."

Surprisingly, Gecko Moria stood in the shadows without saying a word.

He slowly raised a chubby hand and touched his empty neck.

"Hiccup... This is quite a scene. The Navy, the New Navy, the Revolutionary Army, and the King Hunter Guild are all on the same side now."

"Unfortunately, even for us who are being driven."

"They'll stand on the new navy's side too!" Moria laughed!

"That Lord Shen Jue!"

"But he is my benefactor, Kozuki Moria!"

"Slay Kaido of the Beasts! Lord Shen Jue, liberate Wano Country!"

"Please allow me to repay your kindness!"

Kozuki Moria laughed maniacally as countless zombies, stuffed into his shadow, surged toward Mary Geoise like ants!

CP agents have begun a chaotic battle with Mary Geoise's criminal forces!

"I think so too," Hancock said, her face slightly flushed, "that Lord Xiaotian who executed the Celestial Dragons in the Sabaody Archipelago!"

"Let me repay your kindness!"

"The Nine Serpents! They will attack Mary Geoise together!"

"So, all my teammates are from the new Navy faction?" Crocodile muttered speechlessly, a cigar dangling from his lips.

"That's right, I'm preparing to defect to the new, more powerful Navy."

"But what kind of operation is this?"

"So, are there World Government personnel among the warships in this area?"

At the very top of Red Harbor, the World Government officials were already in complete chaos.

Meanwhile, in Mary Geoise, above the city of Pangaea, the eye hidden in the shadows is slowly opening.

Between the sea and the sky, in the field of vision of Shen Jue, who had transformed into a giant ten thousand meters tall.

He looked down at the lonely flagship, and down at the only admiral on the flagship who wasn't tied with a red rope.

Shen Jue's third eye on his forehead narrowed slightly, as if showing pity, or perhaps mockery.

The three-pointed, double-edged sword was slowly lowered, its tip pointing towards the Red Earth continent.

Just then, Akainu suddenly roared to the sky.

That was the struggle of a person whose pride had been completely shattered, desperately trying to prove to everyone that he was still a warrior.

He simultaneously transformed both fists into magma and unleashed a powerful punch in Shen Jue's direction.

"A massive fireball!!"

A massive lava fist burst forth, turning half the sea surface crimson.

However, on the scale of a giant ten thousand meters tall, an attack that would have melted a town was merely a tiny, insignificant red spark.

Shen Jue didn't even try to dodge.

Before the lava fist even reached his feet, it was easily swallowed by the white cloud of flames, like a pebble falling into a lake, creating only a tiny, barely perceptible ripple.

"The Navy... is finished."

Akainu muttered.

His body swayed, and he knelt down on the deck, which was already burning red-hot.

Lava slid down his fists, much like someone who had just lost everything, even his blood turning scalding hot.

Outside Red Harbor, the naval soldiers tied with red ropes had all retreated to both sides.

A straight road was cleared across the sea.

Sunlight burst forth from behind Shen Jue's shoulders, illuminating the avenue as if it were a stairway to a divine kingdom.

Garp stood at the bow of the distant warship, watching this scene, and slowly his smile faded.

He whispered to Sengoku beside him, "Now it's up to the younger generation."

Sengoku nodded, his gaze passing over the ten-thousand-meter-tall giant and looking towards Mary Geoise.

"It's time to show the Celestial Dragons what the new era should look like."

Illuminated by the red ribbons of countless naval soldiers, the silver-armored giant, shrouded in white flames, officially embarked on the sea route to the Holy Land.

Behind Shen Jue, the Hades warship and a massive fleet of terrifying numbers were also ready to land!

Only Akainu knelt there alone, gradually surrounded by the lava dripping from his hands, like a joke forgotten by the world.

The sea breeze ruffled his disheveled black hair. He opened his mouth, but ultimately couldn't say anything more.

Akainu knelt on the red-hot deck, the surrounding seawater reflecting the lava rolling down his body like shattered mirrors, showing his current disheveled state.

No more World Government officials sent him any more orders, and no more messengers came to report.

Not a single naval commander or soldier was willing to stand behind him and help him protect the outdated order of the World Government.

The atrocities committed by the Celestial Dragons, exposed by the King Hunter Guild, have already plunged the World Government into a state of widespread alienation and betrayal.

Akainu Sakazuki heard his own breathing.

Heavy and urgent, he was like a wild beast driven to the brink of despair.

"Hahaha......"

Akainu suddenly laughed, the sound squeezed out intermittently from his throat, like metal scraping against a rock wall.

"A bunch of traitors! They're all a bunch of traitors!"

He muttered to himself, his fists braced against the deck, the lava overflowing from his fingers scorching the surroundings black.

"The Navy's justice! My absolute justice..."

"Such betrayal will never be tolerated!"

Akainu suddenly tilted his head back, his messy hair plastered to his face by the sea breeze, his features contorted with rage.

"Absolute justice!!"

He roared like a madman.

The final cry of someone utterly betrayed by the world.

Akainu suddenly stood up, and magma gushed from his arms, enveloping his entire body into a flowing fiery golem.

He roared and slammed his right fist into his chest.

That's where the badges still remain on the naval uniform.

"I, Sakazuki, will walk the path of absolute justice!!"

"All those who defy the World Government and rebel against the Navy deserve to die!"

His figure leaped high into the air, bursting forth from the solitary bow of the flagship.

He transformed into a streak of crimson light and charged toward the ten-thousand-meter-tall silver-armored giant.

A long trail of black smoke stretched out behind him, like a meteorite flying backwards.

"A massive fireball!!!"

He poured all his courage, all his strength, and all his dignity into that one punch.

His right fist swelled to its limit, and the gushing lava almost dyed half the sky blood red.

Beneath the sea surface, countless naval soldiers involuntarily looked up.

They witnessed that scene.

A lonely man, as insignificant as an ant, yet he charged madly toward the gods.

"General Sakazuki..."

Momousagi stood on the departing warship and whispered the name.

She knew that Sakazuki's attack was not for victory.

That's seeking death.

That was his last, foolish, stubborn absolute justice.

The silver-armored giant, standing ten thousand meters tall, lowered its gaze.

Within the Heavenly Eye, the crimson light was approaching at an extremely fast speed.

Like a moth drawn to a flame.

Shen Jue saw Akainu's face clearly—a face twisted by madness, yet still exuding a certain lofty conviction.

This made him sigh slightly.

"Sakazuki".

Shen Jue's voice descended from the clouds, both distant and clear.

"You didn't have to do this."

But Akainu did not stop.

Instead, he laughed even louder and more wildly.

"Shen Jue!!"

He roared the name, and the Lava Fist had already struck in front of Shen Jue.

"The paths you and I follow are absolutely different!!"

"Don't put on that ridiculous act of pity in front of me!!"

Shen Jue did not refute it; he knew that Akainu had already made his choice.

This man can tolerate failure and betrayal, but he absolutely cannot tolerate living and witnessing absolute justice being utterly crushed.

So he was destined to die on the charge.

As a naval admiral, he died by the very blade that was already pointed at Mary Geoise.

Shen Jue gripped the three-pointed double-edged sword tightly in his hand.

The white flames reignited on the blade, like a white dragon winding its way upwards.

The light was so intense, it seemed to evaporate the entire ocean.

He raised his three-pointed double-edged sword high, and a white light slowly illuminated the chest of the silver-armored giant.

The third eye on his forehead opened fully, and a beam of silver light that pierced through the heavens and earth suddenly fell, shining on the figure of Akainu who was rushing forward madly.

"In that case, I will grant your wish."

Shen Jue said in a low voice, his voice devoid of hatred or anger, only a faint sigh between old acquaintances.

Shen Jue swung his sword, and the three-pointed, double-edged blade fell gently.

When that blade cleaved down, a straight white crack appeared between the sea and the sky.

The crack stretched from the tip of Shen Jue's blade all the way to the surface of the sea, as if the world itself had been slashed open.

A white cloud of flame surged along the crack, engulfing Akainu and the sea thousands of meters behind him.

The magma fist evaporated instantly.

Then came Akainu's entire body.

His body shattered little by little in the white light.

But his lips were still moving.

In that all-encompassing light, he looked up, and the madness and ferocity on his face suddenly vanished, leaving only a faint calm.

With his last ounce of strength, he uttered four words:

"Absolute justice..."

In an instant, Admiral Akainu Sakazuki turned into a speck of dust in the world.

There was no trace of blood left behind, only some dust blown away by the sea breeze and settling on the boundless blue sea.

The giant's slash cleaved the ocean in two.

The sea surged to both sides, revealing a bottomless chasm.

Giant waves surged outwards like white mountain ridges, causing all the warships to shake violently.

As the light faded, the sea slowly closed up, like a piece of blue silk that had been cut open and then restored.

"General Sakazuki has been killed in action."

In the distance, a lieutenant general spoke in a low voice.

But the many naval personnel did not cheer or rejoice at Shen Jue's victory.

The naval soldiers simply lowered their hat brims in silence and gripped the red rope on their right arms tightly.

Shen Jue slowly retracted his three-pointed double-edged sword, and the white flame cloud on the tip of the sword gradually subsided.

He stared at the spot where Akainu had just disappeared, and remained silent for a brief moment.

He then raised his eyes and looked at the red earth continent in front of him.

"What a foolish man," he said softly.

"You wouldn't even look back before you died; what exactly were you protecting?"

After that, he stopped looking at the empty sea.

The ten-thousand-meter-tall silver-armored giant strode forward, and the seawater parted beneath his feet.

With each step he took, the red earth continent trembled.

The clouds above Mary Geoise were torn to shreds by his oppressive aura, as if countless storms were brewing.

Behind him, the navy tied with red ropes, the Kuja warships, the Hades warships, the combined fleet of the Revolutionary Army and the King Hunters, and even the zombies who had just defected, all began to press towards Red Harbor.

Shen Jue's voice came from high above, making everyone feel their blood boil.

"Let the world's nobles also taste what it's like to be judged."

"Shirahoshi, please unfold our encirclement."

Between the sea and the sky, the voice of Shen Jue, the ten-thousand-meter-tall silver-armored giant, had just fallen when the entire nearshore waters of the Red Earth Continent suddenly fell silent for a moment.

It was an extremely abnormal silence.

The wind stopped, the waves calmed, and even the sea surface that had just been cleaved open by Shen Jue and rolled back fell into an eerie silence.

Everyone on the ships outside Red Harbor instinctively gripped the gunwale, a chill emanating from the deep sea creeping up their spines.

Beneath the deep sea, something is awakening.

The seawater along the coast of the red earth continent began to recede in all directions, as if the ocean itself was avoiding to the sides.

Then, a deafening roar erupted from the base of the red earth continent.

The sound came from the deepest part of the ocean, like the crust of the entire planet being turned over little by little.

"White Star".

On the Hades warship, Shen Jue's voice fell again, spreading to every corner like a divine decree.

"Let them show themselves."

In the distance, on one side of the Hades warship.

Bai Xing slowly emerged from the sea, her long hair spreading out in the water like ocean currents.

She closed her eyes, her hands gently pressed against her chest, as if she were chanting or calling out.

Tears of joy slid down her cheeks, but her expression was gentle yet firm, without a trace of fear.

"Friends, please respond to my voice," she whispered.

"Show yourself, my friend."

As the sound rang out, the color of the seabed changed.

The sea surface on both sides of the red earth continent rose up almost at the same time.

The entire sea level is rising, as if countless mountains are raising their heads from the bottom of the deep sea.

The deep blue sea surface appears to be pushed open by countless giant backs, with water cascading down from those backs to form hundreds and thousands of waterfalls.

Then, they appeared.

Those are super-sized sea kings.

Dozens of monsters, each thousands of meters long, emerged from the deep sea.

Their bodies were so large that they almost blocked out the sunlight, rising slowly along the cliffs of the red earth continent.

Each of these colossal sea kings has a body far exceeding that of Kaido's Azure Dragon!

These dark behemoths from the deepest reaches of the One Piece world! Silently surround the Wailing Wall of the Red Line!