Pirates on Rocks' Ship 996

"Ace...you wouldn't want your comrades to fight to the death for you, would you?" Shanks said to Ace.

Ace's hesitation became even more obvious, but he did not speak.

"You idiot!" Reina walked over and punched Ace on the head, knocking Ace senseless.

“Look…who is he?” Reina asked, pointing at the white beard.

“It’s…it’s Dad!” Ace replied instinctively, though he was puzzled.

"Then who are these people?" Reina asked, pointing to the other captains and crew members.

"Yes……"

“They’re family!” This time, Reina spoke before Ace could answer.

"I'll just ask you this: if any one of them were in trouble, would you risk your life to save them?"

“Of course!” Ace nodded and replied firmly.

"But what if they won't let you save them? What would you think?" Reina continued, "Would you think they look down on you for not being strong enough?"

"This..." Ace's mind was still a little fuzzy, so he followed Reina's guidance and started thinking.

"So shouldn't family members help each other? As Whitebeard's son... are you going to run away from your battle? No matter who the opponent is, as long as they dare to provoke us, no matter what their reasons are... what we need to do is... make sure they don't leave alive! Hehehe..." Reina said with a strange laugh.

"Phew~ Mr. Reina is right! Although I don't want everyone to risk their lives for me, the Whitebeard Pirates... are never afraid of battle! My father's honor cannot be ruined in my hands!" Ace said with full fighting spirit.

Seeing Reina's smug look, Shanks knew that no matter how much he said, it would be useless today, so he had no choice but to leave dejectedly.

After the Red-Haired Pirates left, the Moby Dick returned to Crescent Moon Island.

“Brother… I think Shanks is right. Now that the news has been leaked, Ace’s existence will inevitably attract the attention of others. We should prepare as soon as possible!” After disembarking, Reyna walked beside Whitebeard and said softly.

Whitebeard nodded and said, "Notify the Doctor that starting today, Sky Island will be on alert. If any force enters our waters, immediately sound the alarm!"

“Yes, brother!” Reina nodded and headed straight for the sky island.

Besides relaying orders, there was another matter he also intended to handle.

After telling Dr. Asie about Whitebeard's decision, Reina then went to find Black, the vice-captain of the Skypiea Guard.

He was a member of Reina's team when Reina temporarily took over the Second Division. After Teach's betrayal, he followed Hansen to the Sky Island Guard Team and assisted Hansen as the team's top combatant.

"First mate!" Upon seeing Reina, Blake immediately bowed and greeted him.

"Come in and sit down, and close the door!" Reina said with a smile.

He was using Dr. Assie's room at the moment, so it was just the two of them there.

"Is there anything I need to do?" Blake asked Reina after he sat down.

Reina shook his head and said, "I just want to ask you something!"

“Huh?” Blake looked at Reina with a puzzled expression, not understanding what Reina wanted to ask him.

"How did Hansen die?" Reina asked calmly.

"First...first mate...?" Blake was taken aback, a little nervous and stammering as he lowered his head and replied, "I...I didn't know about the captain's death."

"Since you don't know... why don't you dare look me in the eye?" At this moment, Erena had already activated his three-tomoe Sharingan and looked at Black, asking.

“I…” Looking into Reina’s eyes, Blake was momentarily speechless.

"Take a look!" Seeing the other person's expression, Reina sighed and threw a stack of photos at Blake.

Chapter 335 The Great Transformation of Xuan Yue Island

Black, sweating profusely, stared at the photograph on the ground. It showed him sketching something in a corner of a street in Golden City.

"Don't you want to explain?" Reina asked softly.

Blake took a deep breath, slowly calmed down, shook his head and said with a wry smile, "Since the first mate came to me, he must be 100% sure, right? In that case, there's no point in me denying it!"

“Not bad. If you were to kneel down and beg for mercy, I would have cut you down with my sword immediately! That would be too disgraceful for the Whitebeard Pirates! I'll give you a chance to defend yourself. If you can persuade me... I'll take you to see Big Brother. Otherwise... you know what will happen!” Reina nodded, picked up the teacup on the table, took a sip, and said.

“Teach saved my life back then!” Blake said after a moment of silence.

"And then? That's it?" Looking at the silent Blake, Reina said with some dissatisfaction, "He saved you... so you betrayed your brother to help him?"

"Of course not! When I learned that he planned to betray us, I was against it and tried to persuade him, but he seemed to have made up his mind and didn't listen to me! Later, when Xuan Yue Island fell and Captain Hansen returned seriously injured, I became quite dissatisfied with Teach!"

"But then one day, Teach sent someone to me and said that he didn't mean to injure Captain Hansen. He said that he had been visiting famous doctors and found a great doctor who could restore Captain Hansen's strength!" Blake said calmly.

"You wouldn't be stupid enough to take Hansen to see Teach, would you?" Reina couldn't help but interject when he heard this.

Blake paused, then sighed and said, "That's right. He said everyone knows he's a traitor now, so don't let anyone know, and don't tell Captain Hansen! He won't show himself either, he'll just send the doctor over, otherwise Captain Hansen might not accept him if he finds out it was him who brought the doctor!"

I was thinking that if I could save Captain Hansen, that would be great. If I could really save him, I'd tell everyone that Teach wasn't actually that bad! But I never expected…”

“I didn’t expect that after he tricked you, he would kill Hansen… right!” Reina finished what he hadn’t said.

“He didn’t kill Captain Hansen in front of me. Instead, a guy who looked half-dead and claimed to be a doctor took Captain Hansen away, saying he would treat him! But Captain Hansen came back that night, and I always felt that something was wrong with him. Later I found out... that wasn’t Captain Hansen at all!” Blake said painfully.

“Since you knew the truth back then… why didn’t you tell me?” Reina asked, looking at Blake.

“Because… Teach’s men told me that I was also an accomplice in the murder of Captain Hansen, and I know very well what I will face once everyone finds out about this!” Blake said, slumping to the ground with his head down.

"Have you thought about how to face Hansen?" Reina chuckled and said, "Ah~ I forgot, Hansen is dead! So you don't need to face him at all, right?"

Blake's expression changed, but he did not refute it.

Looking at Black's expression, Reina knew that Teach must have been using these weaknesses to gradually lure Black into becoming a thorn in the side of the Whitebeard Pirates.

This way, Teach could always obtain information about the Whitebeard Pirates. Reina also understood why Teach always managed to evade their actions. The only exception was the last trip to Alabasta, which was decided on the spur of the moment by Teach and Marco, so they didn't know about it.

“Let’s go!” Reina said, standing up. “You can talk to the captain yourself!”

He brought Black to Whitebeard's room, explained the general situation, and then left, leaving Whitebeard to deal with Black himself.

In the end, Whitebeard did not reveal Black's crimes. Instead, he applied to guard the grave in Black's own name as a way of atoning for his deceased comrades.

Reina knew that Whitebeard's order to him was that he must never step out of the cemetery for the rest of his life.

Even so, Black knelt down to thank Whitebeard with tears of gratitude before entering the cemetery. From then on, he never stepped out of the cemetery again, making it his daily duty to clean and tidy it up.

After resolving the internal issues, Reina began discussing with Whitebeard how to deal with the exposure of Ace's identity. Neither the Navy nor those ambitious pirates would likely let Ace off easily.

“Big brother… how about I take Ace and disappear for a while? Or take him around so no one will know his exact whereabouts!” Reina asked after thinking for a moment.

"No need, this is the safest place. Even the Marine Headquarters would need to be well-prepared to start a war with us!" Whitebeard said confidently.

Reina nodded, indicating that he understood.

He knew perfectly well how powerful the Whitebeard Pirates had become over the years. The current Whitebeard Pirates were even stronger than in the original story, otherwise they wouldn't have the title of "Uncrowned King".

With his help, the captains of each team have all improved their strength to some extent. With the addition of him as a combatant, even the Navy Headquarters will not find it easy to deal with them.

"Then let's set sail!" Reina said with a smile, "Let's continue our adventure!"

"Gurararara...that's a good suggestion! But what if the Navy attacks Crescent Moon Island...what do you plan to do?" Whitebeard asked with a light laugh.

"The doctor's recent research... hasn't been told to you yet, brother?" Reina asked with a smile.

"Hmm? Has the Doctor come up with something strange again?" Whitebeard asked curiously.

"That's right. It seems that the Doctor found a lot of inspiration during his trip to Golden City. He started to modify Xuan Yue Island as soon as he came back. Didn't you notice, Brother, that the Doctor called everyone away?"

"Huh?" Whitebeard was taken aback. He had indeed noticed that there weren't many people active on the island recently. He thought everyone was too tired from their trip and was resting. He didn't expect that the professor had called them away.

"Boom boom boom~~~"

Just then, a strong tremor suddenly struck Xuan Yue Island. Whitebeard and Reina exchanged a glance and immediately left the room.

"What happened?" the white-bearded man asked, frowning.

"I don't know, I'll go check right away!" Marco came out of the house next door, spread his arms, which turned into wings, and took off to look around.

"Dad... I didn't find anything unusual!" Marco circled in the air but found nothing unusual.

"Ask the Sky Island if any enemy ships are approaching?" Reina asked after thinking for a moment.

"Okay!" Jozu, who had just arrived, heard Reina's words and immediately took out a Den Den Mushi to contact Skypiea.

Olga is currently in charge of Sky Island. Firstly, she is the one who knows Sky Island best, and secondly, the girl has become much more mature since she grew up. Therefore, Reina is willing to put some pressure on her and let her do some things.

“Brubrub... Brubrub..." While Jozu was still contacting Olga, Reina’s Den Den Mushi rang first.

"Hello... what's up?" Reina answered the Den Den Mushi and asked.

"Um... Reina! This is the Doctor!" Dr. Assie's voice came from the other end of the Den Den Mushi.

"Doctor? What's wrong?" Reina was taken aback and asked curiously, knowing that the Doctor rarely called Reina unless it was something important.

"Um...we're trapped underground...can you send someone to rescue us?" the doctor said somewhat awkwardly.

"Underground? Did you make that explosion just now?" Reina asked in surprise, taken aback.

"Hahaha... That's right! There was a little accident, don't worry... It's nothing serious, we just need to get us out of here first!" the doctor said with a loud laugh.

"Okay!" After finding out the exact location, Reina decided to go and see for himself. This time, he didn't know what the doctor was planning to do.

"Come on, I'll go take a look too!" The white-bearded man, who had overheard their conversation, also became interested and decided to go and see for himself.

So the two of them led Jozu and Marco toward the central building. The doctor said that they had set up a basement there, but when they were installing some machinery, an explosion accidentally occurred, trapping them in the basement.

When Reina and Whitebeard violently broke open the basement door, they discovered that this was no basement at all. They had almost hollowed out the underground of Xuan Yue Island, and mechanical lifting rods were everywhere to support the entire island.

"Doctor... what are you doing?" When they found Dr. Assie, there were also hundreds of Whitebeard Pirates members trapped with him. These were all people the doctor had brought in to work as handymen.

"Didn't I tell you before? I've successfully produced some of those industrial technologies you mentioned. Look, these lifting rods are all made by me! When the time comes, I'll use a mechanism to connect all these lifting rods, and the entire Crescent Moon will be able to rise and fall!" Dr. Asie said to Reina and Whitebeard with a smug expression.

However, Reina and Whitebeard, looking at the chaotic basement, still couldn't figure out how to use it.

"Gurararara... I don't know what the doctor is doing, but if you like it, just do it. As long as you don't sink Crescent Moon Island!" Whitebeard was quite polite to Dr. Ashie.

“Sink? I intend to sink Xuan Yue Island into the sea!” Dr. Asie said with a loud laugh.

Reina was stunned, not understanding why Dr. Asie said that. He had spent a lot of money building the entire Xuan Yue Island. If it sank to the bottom of the sea, what was the point of building it?

Whitebeard, however, seemed to be deep in thought as he looked at Dr. Assie and asked, "How confident are you, Doctor?"

“Right now, there are at least six floors! But if the captain could take me to Fishman Island… we could add at least two more floors!” Dr. Asie said with a smile.

He knew that Whitebeard had understood his meaning.

"Fishman Island?" Reina's eyes widened in disbelief. "A boom lift? Fishman Island? Doctor... you're not planning to turn Crescent Moon Island into a city that can descend to the seabed, are you?"