Pirates on Rocks' Ship 996

Kaku, whose eyes were already bloodshot, began to regain his senses after hearing Lucci's words. The Five Elders were watching from the warship, and he couldn't let CP0 down.

After regaining his senses, Kaku stopped insisting on fighting Zoro one-on-one and started having the surrounding Marines and World Government personnel gang up on Zoro, which caused Zoro's energy to increase rapidly.

Meanwhile, Lao Cai, who had already escaped the encirclement, saw that his companions had not been able to retreat in time. His first reaction was to rush back and rescue them, but Baby-5 stopped him.

“What good will it do you to go back now, except send yourself to your death?” Baby-5 grabbed Lao Cai and questioned him loudly.

Without wasting words, Lao Cai went straight up and hugged Baby-5. After the Dressrosa battle, he had kept his promise and married Baby-5. Although it was just a misunderstanding, it was a beautiful one.

After getting married, Baby-5 essentially joined Lao Cai's Eight Treasures Navy, belonging to the Straw Hat Grand Fleet, so she came with Lao Cai on this mission.

"My partner is there. Whether he lives or dies, I must go back!" Old Cai said in a deep voice, embracing Baby-5.

"Idiot!" Baby-5, her face flushed, shoved Lao Cai away and shouted, "Going in now is suicide! Don't you know we should attack from the outside? If we break through the Navy's encirclement, the Straw Hats can escape, and you won't have to die!"

Old Cai blushed, turned around and ordered the pirate ships to attack the navy's encirclement from the outside. Then he quietly came to Baby-5's side and whispered, "You can't call me stupid anymore, and you can't bring this up again, understand?"

Looking at her husband, who was so obsessed with saving face, Baby-5 suddenly felt a surge of happiness. This was the feeling she had always longed for—to be needed.

Nestled in Lao Cai's arms, Baby-5 whispered, "In my heart, you are the best hero!"

At this moment, Lao Cai tried his best to appear serious, but he was already feeling a little embarrassed. After all, it was a bit hard for Lao Cai to accept that Baby-5 was saying such sweet words to him in front of so many subordinates.

The surrounding pirates seemed to have long been used to this; this was the kind of person who would become the pillar of their new generation.

Cai's counterattack caused some trouble for the navy, but under the suppression of the navy's numerous warships, Cai was unable to break through and could only buy some time.

On the other side, Luffy, who had already activated Gear Fourth: Balloon Man, attacked and destroyed several warships on the Navy's ships. However, he was soon surrounded by the Navy and the World Government. Especially after the arrival of the Navy Admirals and CP0 members, Luffy was unable to achieve his goal of destroying the warships.

Chapter 1109 Tension

With Marco's addition, the World Government's remaining two Seraphim units also joined the battle, making the fight even more intense. However, even with Marco's involvement, the Navy and the World Government still held the overall advantage.

The Straw Hat crew tried to break out, but were surrounded by the Navy. Only Sai and the others who had retreated earlier escaped the encirclement. With Baby-5's reminder, they began to attack the Navy's encirclement from the outside, trying to break it and give Luffy and the others trapped inside a chance to escape.

"Damn it, it's the Swim-Swim Fruit! Wasn't that fruit with Señor Piqué?" Marco, who was fighting two Seraphim, suddenly discovered that one of the Seraphim, the Sea Knight, could actually use the Swim-Swim Fruit's power. Combined with the characteristics of the opponent's Fish-Man race, it was practically pushing the fruit's power to its limit.

Señor Piqué had been on Crescent Island the whole time, so Marco was very familiar with the Swim-Swim Fruit. When Seraphim the Sea Knight used his power, he recognized it immediately.

In fact, Vegapunk had already reached the pinnacle of his research on Devil Fruits, and his goal was not to create Devil Fruits, so he never mentioned this to the Whitebeard Pirates.

Copying the Swim-Swim Fruit's ability was not difficult for him. He even perfectly copied Kaido's Mythical Zoan fruit. Of course, he didn't consider it perfect because the color after transformation was different, so Vegapunk considered it a failure. However, after Momonosuke ate it, he used the exact same ability as Kaido. This is the power of science.

The Straw Hat crew, along with Shanks and Marco, each had to deal with a large number of enemies, so there was no time or space for them to help each other. However, the situation was much better for the Navy and the World Government; they only needed to proceed step by step to eliminate the enemies.

With the Five Elders present to oversee things, they didn't need to consider the consequences at all; they just needed to follow orders, making the battles very easy.

On the other side, after arriving at Xuan Yue Island using the teleporter, Reina immediately led his men towards Kaka Island. Reina also used the Surveillance Eagle to set off ahead of time and arrive at the battlefield first, wanting to understand the situation there.

However, when Surveillance Eagle arrived at the battlefield, he found that everyone was engaged in a fierce battle. The number of the Navy and the World Government was greater than he had expected, and the number of strong individuals was also greater.

He became especially alert when he discovered a significant number of CP0 members.

Don't underestimate CP0 just because it's the World Government's intelligence agency. Its members are quite strong, with even the weakest having the strength of a Yonko (Emperor of the Sea) executive.

"Something's not right!" On the deck of the whale pirate ship, Reina frowned immediately after discovering through the perspective of the surveillance eagle that the number and strength of the enemies were somewhat excessive.

"What's going on?" Vista asked in surprise.

"Admiral Kizaru from the Navy has arrived, along with at least ten vice admirals. The World Government has even deployed a large number of P0 members, as well as three Seraphs. With such a lineup, they have the strength to fight even a Yonko pirate crew. But isn't their target Uta? Even with the Straw Hat crew escorting them, they shouldn't have deployed so many people! And we even saw Shanks!" Reina said, puzzled.

"Red-haired Shanks? He's helping the Navy too?" Ace asked in surprise.

Based on his understanding of Shanks, even if Shanks didn't help Luffy, he definitely wouldn't attack Luffy.

“No, he’s helping Luffy, he’s fighting Kizaru!” Reina shook his head and said.

"Huh? With Shanks' help, the Straw Hat crew actually used a signal flare? What are the Navy and the World Government trying to do?" Vista asked, puzzled.

“I don’t know either!” Reina shook his head and replied.

"Hmm~!" Just then, Reina suddenly let out a muffled groan, drawing everyone's attention to him.

"What's wrong?" Everyone looked at Reina in surprise and asked.

"The Surveillance Eagle has been discovered!"

Just now, Reina suddenly lost sight of the Surveillance Eagle. Through communication, he discovered that the Surveillance Eagle had been attacked and turned into a cloud of smoke, returning to its own world. It was also seriously injured and would probably not be able to be summoned back to the eagle for a while.

Meanwhile, on the World Government's warship, Jegarcia Satan Saint, who was standing at the cabin door, lowered his raised arm.

He had just sensed the presence of the surveillance eagle and made a move, but unexpectedly, the eagle in the sky turned into a white mist and disappeared.

“This must be Akame Reina’s summoned beast! I heard that he summoned a giant nine-tailed fox back then, which gave Garp a hard time!” Jegarcia Satan Saint said softly.

“Yes, Akame Reina’s summons have certain characteristics. When they appear or disappear, white mist will appear!” A World Government official immediately stepped forward to explain.

"It seems the Whitebeard Pirates have realized something's wrong!" Jegarcia Satan Saint chuckled and said, "But even if they come, it'll be too late. Notify Kizaru; if he doesn't show his true strength... he knows the consequences!"

Although he stayed on the ship, his Observation Haki had already covered the entire battlefield, so he knew what was happening in every corner, which is why he was able to detect Surveillance Eagle as soon as it arrived.

"Yes, sir!" The World Government personnel didn't dare ask any more questions and immediately turned to relay the orders.

Having received orders from the Five Elders, Kizaru had no choice but to abandon his nonchalant attitude and said to Shanks, "Honestly, they're too old to let people rest properly. Why go all out in a battle that's clearly pointless?"

He knew all along that if he fought Shanks, there would be no clear winner, at least not for a while. Moreover, if either of them wanted to leave, the other would be unable to stop them. That's why Kizaru chose to go through the motions at the beginning. In his view, as long as he could hold Shanks off, his mission would be accomplished, and killing him would be virtually impossible.

As for Shanks, he was constantly looking for an opportunity. He knew that fighting Kizaru wouldn't be very effective, so he was trying to find a way to break through Kizaru's blockade and go to another place to provide assistance.

However, Kizaru is naturally skilled in speed, and if he has any idea of ​​rescuing someone else, Kizaru will immediately rush up, making it impossible for him to leave.

Now that Kizaru has received orders from the Five Elders, Shanks dared not be careless and immediately put aside his own thoughts, intending to deal with Kizaru's attack.

Chapter 1110 The Five Elders Take Action

After receiving orders from the Five Elders, Kizaru began to take things seriously, and his battle with Shanks intensified. The surrounding Marines and World Government personnel had to stay away from the battleground, as they would be unable to resist if caught in the crossfire.

Aside from Kizaru and Shanks, the Straw Hat crew's main fighting force consists of Luffy, Sanji, Zoro, and Jinbe.

Sanji and Zoro are tied up by Lucci and Kaku respectively, and Jinbe is also being targeted by Seraph Hawkeye. Only Luffy is currently without any top-tier fighters to battle him.

However, besides Shanks' side, Marco, who arrived later, also needs to deal with more than one enemy. The Navy's admirals and the World Government's CP0 members will not be watching them.

Although the Navy and the World Government do not have as many top-tier fighters in a one-on-one situation, they are far superior in numbers.

Therefore, everyone, including Shanks, was caught in a fierce battle. Sanji, in particular, would have been injured long ago if Zoro hadn't been there to occasionally lend a hand. Even though he was wearing his Raid Suit, he was no match for Lucci and the other strong fighters.

"boom!"

While Sanji was attacking someone else, Lucci once again used his "Ten-Finger Gun" to strike Sanji directly in the back, sending him flying into the sea.

"Sanji!" Not far away, Luffy and Jinbe both saw Sanji being knocked away and falling into the sea.

"What an idiot!" Zoro muttered under his breath as he parried the enemy's attacks.

Although he was cursing, he quickly retaliated and rushed towards the direction where Sanji had been shot down.

"Want to save your companions?" Kaku suddenly appeared in front of Zoro, blocking his way, and said with a light laugh, "Too bad, you can't save them!"

"Jinbe, go save Sanji!" Luffy, in his Balloon Man form, went straight to Jinbe's side and blocked the Seraph's attack for him.

"Alright!" Jinbe didn't waste any words and went straight into the sea. As a fish-man, the sea was his home turf.

Soon, he found the injured Sanji in the sea. His battle suit was badly damaged, and he was unconscious.

Fortunately, Jinbe's timely rescue allowed Sanji to regain consciousness immediately after surfacing.

However, Sanji's injury made the already unfavorable situation even worse.

"We must get the situation here to Reina as soon as possible. With the Five Elders here, they're bound to make a big move!" Marco looked around, feeling a little anxious.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa..."

Taking advantage of Marco's distraction, Seraph Empress launched an attack on him, with Kizaru's laser ability heading straight for Marco.

"Boom~~~"

However, the laser beams passed directly through Marco's body and struck the distant sea surface. This was his Phoenix Form ability, which possessed a Logia-like ability to neutralize attacks that did not contain Haki.

Unlike Seraph Empress, Seraph Sea Knight chose close combat. When Marco nullified the Empress's attack, he had already arrived next to Marco and launched a Fishman Karate attack directly at Marco, forcing Marco to give up the opportunity to counterattack and dodge Sea Knight's attack.

"Bang bang bang..." Taking advantage of the opportunity to dodge the Sea Knight's attack, Marco kicked several World Government personnel away, making his own space more spacious.

However, the Empress and the Sea Knight's offensive did not stop at all, constantly using their numerical advantage to suppress Marco, leaving him no time to think.

On the other side, Luffy finally breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Jinbe rescue Sanji. However, he also knew that if things continued like this, his crewmates would be in danger. Franky on the Sunny had long been surrounded by the Marines. If Jinbe hadn't been nearby and occasionally helped take care of the Sunny, it would probably have been taken over by the Marines by now.

"Phew~" After clearing away the surrounding Marine soldiers and World Government personnel, Luffy looked at Seraph Hawkeye in the sky.

Fifth gear... Go!

Taking advantage of the fact that the Balloon Man hadn't exhausted his Haki, Luffy directly activated the Nika form, which is the awakened form of the Zoan-type Mythical Zoan-type Nika Fruit.

As Luffy awakens, the beating of his heart is like a drumbeat that resonates with the voice of freedom, igniting the passion of all his crewmates.

"That voice..." Upon hearing Luffy's heartbeat, Jegarcia Satan Saint, who was on the warship, dropped his relaxed expression and became somewhat serious.

"Sir..." The World Government official beside him was somewhat puzzled, as he had not heard any sound.

“Heh heh… Nika… Interesting!” Jegalsia Satan Saint said, then vanished from the spot.

The World Government personnel around them were taken aback by what they saw and immediately began to take action. Their mission was to protect Jegalsia Satan Saint from any harm, so they had to stay by Jegalsia Satan Saint's side at all times.

Luffy's change made Seraph Hawkeye hesitate. Although he knew Luffy was an enemy, the Luffy grinning in front of him gave him a very dangerous feeling.

However, the program still caused someone to raise their hand and attack Luffy.

Luffy in his Nika form didn't even glance at Seraph Hawkeye's attack. He grabbed the mast from the warship next to him, turning it into rubber. Then, he flung the rubberized mast away, not only shattering Seraph Hawkeye's attack but also binding him.

"It really is a robot, how interesting!" After retracting the mast, Luffy looked at the Seraph Hawkeye bound in front of him, but instead of killing him, he curiously began to play with it.

However, Seraph Hawkeye showed no fear. His star-shaped eyes suddenly turned blazing hot, and he fired two laser beams directly from them, hitting Luffy who was right in front of him.

"Boom!"

Hit by two laser beams, Luffy's facial features were completely disfigured, making him look terrifying, but he quickly recovered.

Faced with the enemy's attack, Luffy in his Nika form seemed a little angry and threw a punch at Seraph Hawkeye.

"Oh!"

Luffy's attack did not hit Seraph Hawkeye, but was blocked by someone who suddenly appeared.

"This thing isn't very strong, but it's very expensive, so I can't let you destroy it!" Jegarcia Satan Saint appeared in front of Luffy, seemingly blocking Luffy's attack with ease.