One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

Over the years, he has been recommended by many people to serve as the captain of the ship, but he has declined them all.

"The Sea King BBQ is here! My little ones, eat to your heart's content! Eat as much as you want, and leave the cooking to me!"

Sachi, the captain of the Fourth Division, wearing a chef's hat, walked over carrying a mountain of roasted meat, a hearty laugh on his face.

"Hahaha, with Captain Sachi's cooking skills, it'll be hard for us to go hungry. Captain Sachi, I want a big one!"

"No problem, eat up, Digi!"

The banquet continued. The pirates sitting on the outskirts saw newspaper seagulls on the horizon, so they took out their Berries, bought all the newspapers on the seagulls, and presented them to Laco and the others with a smile.

"Captain Lacjo, Captain Sachi, there's a newspaper to read again! Quickly read it to us illiterate bumpkins. What interesting things have happened on the high seas these past few days?"

"There aren't that many interesting things to talk about. Shanks has already become one of the Four Emperors, and the situation in the New World is becoming more stable."

Lacjo took the newspaper and said something instinctively.

"That's not necessarily true. Several new pirates have emerged this year, haven't they? I heard there's one particularly powerful one, something like Avenger, with an incredibly high bounty. Marco even told me last time that we should keep an eye on him. If he enters the New World, we must seize the opportunity to recruit him..."

Sachi was handing out the roast meat while muttering to himself.

Suddenly, he sensed that the atmosphere in the room had become somewhat quiet.

"what happened?"

Sachi turned around and saw the newspaper that Lakyo had spread out in his hand.

"The Roger Pirates have reappeared in the Sabaody Archipelago!"

"Rayle, the Dark Lord, attacked and killed World Nobles, and a bounty of three..."

"3.9 billion Berries??"

Every pirate who saw the large, bold font on the front page of the newspaper, the Oro Jackson on the cover, and Rayleigh's incredibly familiar face held their breath.

A few minutes later, on Sphinx Island.

"Dad! Dad! Something terrible has happened! Something incredibly important has occurred!"

The usually mature and composed Lacour was now filled with shock. Holding a newspaper, he rushed into the island and shouted to the tall man who was sitting on a grassy area in front of him, drinking.

Marco, the pineapple-headed man who was pouring wine for the white-bearded man, was somewhat surprised by his urgent call.

"Uncle Lacjo, what's making you so anxious?"

A man with a wide cloak draped over his shoulders, a head of slightly graying golden hair, and a crescent-shaped white beard, holding a huge wine bowl in his hand, also looked up.

"Don't be rash, Lacjo."

"No, Dad, Marco, this is truly explosive news! You need to see this! The Roger Pirates have reappeared!"

Lakyo's forehead was covered in sweat, but his face showed a strange excitement.

"What did you say? Roger?"

Upon hearing Roger's name, Whitebeard paused, involuntarily putting down the wine bowl he was holding and taking the newspaper from Rakuyo's hand.

He only glanced at it, and a huge smile spread across his face.

"Kulalalala! Kulalalala!"

"It's the Oro Jackson. It brings back so many memories. I never thought I'd see Roger's ship in the newspaper again."

"That's not the point, is it, Dad?"

Marco's face was full of shock, and his hand holding the newspaper was trembling slightly.

"Rayle, who has disappeared for more than ten years and hasn't made a splash on the high seas, would actually attempt to assassinate a Celestial Dragon? And he even has a bounty of 3.9 billion Berries on his head! That bounty is just outrageous!"

"Kulalalala! Exaggerated?"

Whitebeard put down the newspaper in his hand, chuckled, and shook his head.

"It's not an exaggeration at all."

"The Celestial Dragons, who are high and mighty, have been attacked. Although it is not explicitly stated how many were killed, even if only one Celestial Dragon died, it would still be a world-shaking event."

"only……"

The white-bearded man frowned slightly, looking puzzled.

Based on his understanding of Rayleigh, Hades, whose personality was even more composed than Roger's, would never do something so attention-grabbing.

Roger is dead.

But Roger's chosen successor has not yet appeared, and Rayleigh and the other remnants of Roger's pirate crew should not have appeared so abruptly in the World Government's sights at this time.

It was still done in this blatantly provocative manner.

"Huh? Besides Rayleigh having a bounty of 39 billion Berries, there's also news about this year's Supernova pirates in the newspaper."

"let me see……"

"The Avengers Pirates were wiped out. Captain Aristotle was killed by Navy Lieutenant Commander Rorschach. First mate Dafilon was also killed."

"The Decalban brothers have been arrested by Navy Lieutenant Commander Rorschach."

"The giant pirate Palmer has been arrested by Navy Lieutenant Trafalgar Law."

Marco sighed after reading it. "Dad, it looks like we won't be able to add any fresh blood this year. All five Supernova pirates are wiped out."

"Where did this Navy Lieutenant Commander Rorschach come from? How could a mere lieutenant commander capture four pirates with bounties exceeding 100 million? Has some monster emerged within the Navy again?"

"Monster? Kuralalala. You're far from being called a monster."

Whitebeard picked up his wine bowl and drank it all in one gulp, but other thoughts were surfacing in his mind.

The world is about to change.

Such a major incident in Sabaody Archipelago will affect more than just this year's rookie pirates.

Although the New World is geographically vast, the first half of the Grand Line and the four seas are the origin of the vast majority of pirates.

"Marco, contact Shanks and ask him if he knows what that old man Rayleigh is up to."

"I'll call his Den Den Mushi right now."

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Hundreds of pale white lightning bolts pierced the sky and tore through the dark curtain, enveloping the entire island.

The sea surface was filled with roaring, churning waves, as if an invisible giant hand was stirring the dark waters wantonly.

This is Thunder Isle in the New World, an island forever bathed in lightning.

"Honestly, why did we have to rest in this godforsaken place? If I were to get struck by lightning, I would die here."

On the shore, a large red dragon boat bobs up and down in the waves, making one worry that it might be capsized by the surging waves at any moment.

"Haha, Yasopp, have faith in our luck. By the way, have you found Shanks yet?"

Lucky, who was as fat as a ball, was laughing as he tore into a chicken leg and looked toward the center of the island where the lightning was striking even more intensely.

Yasopp raised his sniper rifle and aimed at the dark island.

"I saw them... they're actually fighting on the mountaintop with the densest lightning. They're really courting death."

Yasopp put down his sniper rifle, shook his head, and glanced at Beckman sitting not far away, holding a newspaper in his hand.

"It's pitch black here, how can you still be in the mood to read the newspaper? Beckman, aren't you worried that the boss will suffer? He's missing an arm."

The cigarette butt dangling from Beckman's mouth glowed red in the darkness.

"Kaido has already come out to fight, and the duel with Mihawk is just a friendly spar between old friends. What's there to worry about? Compared to that, what's interesting is what's in the newspaper. Shanks will probably find it very interesting."

"Boom!"

Streaks of pale lightning, like the branches of ancient trees reaching for the sky, shot out from the dark clouds, completely covering the entire mountain below.

On the mountaintop, where the light and shadow flickered, stood two slender figures, one on the left and one on the right, each holding a long sword in their hands.

"Haha, Mihawk, think about it, how about coming aboard my ship? There are banquets every day, it's very lively."

Shanks held Griffin in one hand, his smile radiant, seemingly oblivious to the thunderbolts raining down from the sky, his eyes fixed solely on the figure standing a hundred meters away.

"Didn't I say that if you can beat me, I might consider it?"

Two sharp, hawk-like eyes gleamed in the darkness as Mihawk, wielding the Black Blade of Night, one of the twelve Supreme Grade Swords, slowly raised his weapon.

As the black blade in his hand was raised, the pitch-black night seemed to be sliced ​​open by an invisible blade of energy, cutting through the hundreds of bolts of lightning that were falling.

A bright flash of light appeared on the mountaintop, creating a dazzling halo in the sky above the island, as if daytime had suddenly arrived.

"Alright! You said it yourself! Haha, it seems I'll have one more companion on my ship today."

Shanks laughed heartily, took a step with his slippers, and instantly transformed into a phantom, soaring into the air. Black and red lightning flowed on the Griffin sword in his hand, instantly unleashing an unparalleled domineering aura.

"boom!"

A deafening roar of black thunder, louder than the sky filled with lightning, erupted above the island. Griffin swung his blade, the black and red light slicing through the sky and cutting through the lightning, meeting Mihawk's bright halo of light.

"Gods, beware!"

"Clang!"

The deafening clash of swords, capable of tearing the heavens and earth apart, instantly resounded throughout the sea area spanning thousands of meters.

The two sharp energies clashed and vibrated against each other, cutting large cracks into the iron-hard mountain.

The mountain peak, spanning hundreds of meters in diameter, crumbled in the midst of the two flashes of sword light, turning into tiny fragments of stone, which were then further broken down into even finer powder by the surging sword energy.

Mihawk gripped the sword with both hands, his aura soaring to the heavens, and slashed vertically with his blade.

"You've lost an arm, yet you can still spout such boasts. It seems your battle with Kaido has restored your confidence, Shanks."

As the blade was raised, a violent vortex gathered in mid-air, and an invisible domineering aura flowed across the black blade. The supreme swordsmanship of the world's greatest swordsman was finally fully revealed.

"Shh!"

A thick sword aura cleaved the sky, extending for an unknown distance, like a magnificent pillar of heaven crashing down, sweeping across the land towards Shanks.

"I've always been very confident in myself!"

As if he had anticipated this, Shanks' figure gradually dissipated from the spot.

The next instant, a rapier wreathed in black and red lightning slashed straight toward Mihawk's side.