One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

"So you're a navy officer, sir. My apologies for not recognizing you."

With a smile, he reached out and shook hands with Rorschach, then picked up his cane and shook his head with a smile: "I'm glad you invited me to join the Navy, but unfortunately, I don't have that idea at the moment. Maybe I will in the future, so if I change my mind and want to become a Navy officer who upholds justice, I might have to trouble you to introduce me then."

"Mr. Ichisho, you're too kind. Rorschach is always ready to welcome you. By the way, do you have a Den Den Mushi, Mr. Ichisho? Where do you live? I'll find some time to pay you a visit later and give you my Den Den Mushi number..."

Luo Xia tightly grasped Yi Xiao's outstretched hand, his face beaming with joy.

This is a top-tier talent!

He would become a naval admiral in the future.

If they had been recruited into the Navy Headquarters a few years earlier, they might have been able to change the world situation.

"Hey, you better stop this now!"

...

In the stillness of the night, at the port of Queen's City in springtime.

Under the flickering gas streetlights, the three sat on the ground, a salty sea breeze blowing across their faces, making the seawater splash.

"What a stingy brat! He won't even buy the old man a drink. Are all the navy people this stingy these days?"

Jonathan put down the basket of wine he was carrying, took out a bottle and handed it to Yixiao, and tossed another bottle to Luo Xia.

He picked up a bottle, flicked the cork with his thumb, and gulped down more than half of it before letting out a satisfied sigh. He then leaned against the lamppost behind him and looked at Luo Xia.

"What's wrong with you that you have to say it here? Can't you let the old man rest in the middle of the night?"

Rorschach caught the bottle he was tossed to him, uncorked it, and smelled it.

The aroma of alcohol is strong.

It's strong liquor again.

He tilted his head back, took a sip, and savored it.

Well, Rorschach's assessment is that it's not as good as sherry.

The taste was so-so; besides a strong smell of alcohol, it also had a hint of black bread.

"I'm asking you a question, kid. That's incredibly rude of you," Jonathan snapped, clearly annoyed.

For some reason, he always felt that Luo Xia had some kind of problem with him.

Luo Xia held the wine bottle and clinked it against Yi Xiao's before his smile faded. He then looked at the old man, who was leaning lazily against the lamppost.

"Jonathan Barnett, the King of Hunters, the man who killed the great pirate Captain John?"

"Hehe, so you do know my great name after all."

Jonathan grinned.

Luo Xia's smile vanished.

"Before meeting him, I truly held immense respect for the man who could kill Captain John. But now, it seems..."

"It seems a bit overrated."

"What did you say?" Jonathan Barnett was taken aback.

The smile that was being shared with a drink suddenly stopped.

“Your Bounty Hunter Guild,” Rorschach said, looking at the brightly lit Queen City of Spring, “is utterly rotten.”

Jonathan frowned, gripping the bottle in his hand, and stared at Rorschach in silence.

"I haven't had any contact with low-level bounty hunters, so I won't make any conclusions."

"But based on my experience with the few high-ranking members of your Bounty Hunter Guild, not one of them is worthy of my attention."

Rorschach's voice was calm, as if he were talking about something trivial.

"Those so-called six-star bounty hunters, every single one of them, are morally corrupt individuals."

William Hanks, the "light bulb man," coveted what others had and, unable to resist the slightest temptation, chose to betray them.

Zipper Man, Ichiro Mori, harbors a large quantity of explosive rocks, intending to detonate them in a bustling city like Water Seven.

Andrei, the turtle man, was also a person blinded by greed.

Vice President Gulliver has betrayed his profession as a bounty hunter, seeking to create a dangerous assassin's guild, and also possesses explosives...

Rorschach looked at the silent Jonathan with a blank expression, his words like a sharp knife.

"Your men are all so corrupt, yet you, the King of Hunters, are just lounging around doing nothing. This makes me very suspicious..."

"Did you really kill Captain John? If you were truly the kind of hero capable of slaying great pirates, how could you have let such a large organization fall into such a state?"

"Kid, you've got some nerve. Even Sengoku from your Marine Headquarters wouldn't dare talk to me like that." Jonathan's expression turned cold as he downed the bottle of wine in one gulp and casually tossed it into the dark sea.

A cold smile appeared on his face. "You say my Bounty Hunter Guild is rotten to the core? Heh heh, what do you think of your Navy? Are you truly upholding the righteous ideal of maintaining world peace? Or are you just cleaning up the messes of a bunch of fat pigs, working for a group of executioners who harvest the world?"

Luo Xia remained silent, tilted his head back and finished the wine in the bottle, then placed the bottle on the ground in front of him.

He slowly stood up. "At least, it's not like the Hunter's Guild, which has been completely rotten. The new recruits who joined the Navy still have the passion to uphold justice. At least the vast majority of Navy soldiers are still fighting desperately against pirates all over the world."

He gripped the black halberd in his hand, his eyes lowered, and said in a cold voice:

"President Jonathan, I'm here to inform you..."

If your Hunter Guild can't resolve its own problems internally, then our Navy will have to step in.

From then on, there was no need for a force like the Hunter's Guild to exist on the high seas.

Bounty hunters can exist, but they shouldn't band together to form this kind of unorthodox pirate crew.

"Hmph, you really dare to say that, kid. Who gave you the courage to say you want to disband the Hunter's Guild I founded? That brat Sengoku? Back when I was slaying pirates at sea, he was still eating dirt at Marine Headquarters!"

Jonathan Barnett stood up and put his hands on his waist.

He pulled out the belt from his waist, which suddenly unfurled and transformed into two gleaming longswords.

"Your next sentence will be, 'It's pointless to say more; whoever is stronger is right.'"

Rorschach raised the halberd in his hand.

"Kid! Enough talk! Whoever is stronger is right! If you want me to disband the guild, show me your strength!"

Jonathan gripped the swords in both hands, stomped his feet, and charged forward, swinging the swords out in two dazzling streaks of light under the streetlights.

Dual-wielding swords! Swallowtail slash!

"Shh!"

The gleaming blades flashed across the left and right, like the forked tails of a swallow, slashing at Rorschach's neck like scissors.

Rorschach spun his halberd, his right arm muscles bulged, and he gripped the halberd and slammed it horizontally towards the charging Jonathan!

"Boom!"

The air in front of him surged and crashed in all directions like a turbulent ocean current.

This caused a sudden, powerful gust of wind to sweep through the port of Queen's City in spring.

The ships anchored in the harbor rocked and collided with each other, making dull thuds.

"what?"

Jonathan's eyes twitched, as if a thousand cannonballs were exploding at the same time beside him.

A powerful shockwave swept in, crushing his body.

too fast!

So fierce!

In the rush, he could only swing his knife to block.

"when!"

A loud bang pierced the darkness.

The twin swords Jonathan held hummed and vibrated, and his emaciated body was sent flying like a baseball by Rorschach's halberd.

"Hey, can't we just have a good drink?" Yi Xiao scratched his head with a wry smile.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Yixiao, but the split in the Bounty Hunter Guild concerns the safety of many people at sea, and our navy must intervene in this matter."

Luo Xia smiled apologetically.

He took a Den Den Mushi from his pocket and handed it to Issho: "Please keep this Den Den Mushi safe for me, Mr. Issho."

He then leaped into the air, a whirlwind swirling around his body, and in an instant, he was already chasing after the flying Jonathan.

Yi Xiao put down the wine bottle in his hand, sighed, and his tall body soared into the sky, closely following Luo Xia, and together they disappeared into the dark night.

"What kind of superhuman strength is this? Kid! Are you even human?"

On the sea thousands of meters away, Jonathan, who had been sent flying by Rorschach's halberd, stopped and flew into the air using Moonwalk, looking at Rorschach who was flying towards him with a look of disbelief.

"Don't make excuses for your poverty, Mr. Jonathan."

Luo Xia gripped the heavy Heavenly Dragon Halberd with both hands, raised it above his head, and unleashed boundless power from the muscles in his arms, delivering a simple and unadorned downward slash towards Jonathan, who was more than ten meters away.

"Boom!"

The air exploded layer upon layer, the explosive shockwaves surged forward wave after wave, crashing down on Jonathan, whose lips were twitching uncontrollably.

"Paper-drawn martial arts!"

Jonathan's gaunt figure suddenly became light and airy, and was blown aside by the gust of wind.

A mighty wave crashed past him with a thunderous roar and plunged into the sea below.

"boom!"

The sea surface, spanning hundreds of meters in radius, burst open, sending hundreds of tons of seawater splashing out.

A deep trench was cleaved into the sea surface, and several unfortunate small sea monsters were blasted to pieces by this sudden strike.

"Wow, the strength of this young naval officer is truly as terrifying as a ferocious beast."

In the distance, a smile floated quietly in the air, watching this place from afar.

"Stop pretending, Mr. Jonathan, and show us your true strength."

Rorschach held the Heavenly Dragon Halberd, pointing it at Jonathan, who was a hundred meters away.