One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

Golden Lion put a cigar in his mouth, snapped his fingers, and used the rapid friction of his fingertips to create a flame. He took a deep drag, exhaled a long plume of smoke, and grinned.

"Speaking of which, I do remember the three of you. Back then, following behind Sengoku, Garp, and Zephyr, those three old devils, you caused us a lot of casualties. Admiral, hahaha, actually, I've never understood why you guys, with such great power, are willing to serve in the Navy."

Looking at the changing expressions of the naval officers below, Shiki relentlessly belittled the World Government, the Navy, and the Navy's sense of justice.

His clothes were stained with a lot of blood, and it was unclear whether it was from Kizaru.

"If I don't want to be a navy officer, do I want to become a pirate like you and wreak havoc on this world?"

A cold voice rang out from the ground.

Everyone looked over and saw Onigumo carrying his long sword on his shoulder, looking at Golden Lion with an indifferent expression.

"What's wrong with being a pirate?" Golden Lion spread his arms wide, his booming voice echoing across the entire island like thunder. "Being a pirate is carefree. As long as you're strong enough, you can enjoy everything in this world at will. Wealth, power, fame, beautiful women—everything is within your grasp!"

A naval lieutenant commander, covered in blood, glared at Golden Shiki through gritted teeth and roared, "All that you've said is built on the suffering of others! Pirates plunder the seas, slaughtering civilians and bringing so much pain to this world. We uphold justice and will not associate with someone like you who doesn't value other people's lives!"

"Upholding justice?"

The golden lion was stunned, as if it had heard the best joke in the world.

"Hehehehe, justice? Hehehehehe!"

He laughed so hard he was doubled over, his body shaking with laughter. He choked on the cigar in his mouth and coughed uncontrollably.

"What are you laughing at!" the naval lieutenant commanded through gritted teeth.

"What am I laughing at?" Golden Lion straightened up, his smile vanished, and he looked down at the naval lieutenant commander.

"What do you think I'm laughing at?"

"I laugh at the justice you speak of!"

"When did being a dog to the world's most brutal ruler, an accomplice to that cruel killing game, and a slave to a bunch of disgusting Celestial Dragons and Pigs become what you call justice?"

The naval lieutenant clenched his fists and glared at the golden lion.

The surrounding naval officers also wore angry expressions.

Many of the pirates, however, showed expressions of fear on their faces.

The only person who would dare to openly insult the world's nobles who rule this world is a great pirate like Shiki.

They actually dared to directly call the Celestial Dragons pigs.

How arrogant is this?

"Shiki! If you want to fight, then fight! When did you become so fond of empty talk?" Garp shouted, frowning.

"Words of wisdom? Hmph! I just can't stand it." Golden Lion took his burning cigar from his mouth, flicked off the ash, and pointed at Garp with a mocking expression. "Especially you, Garp. Your so-called title of Marine Hero was nothing more than protecting a bunch of pigs. 33 years ago..."

"Borsalino!" Garp shouted.

"Excuse me, Golden Lion, that's a taboo subject."

A dazzling beam of golden light shot towards the golden lion in an instant.

The golden lion did not move. Suddenly, an old man holding a long sword appeared out of thin air in front of him and slashed at the incoming laser beam, shattering it in mid-air.

"Shh!"

Wang Zhi shattered the laser beam fired by Kizaru with a single slash, then flashed again, appearing behind Kizaru as if by teleportation, and slashed at his neck.

"Wow, that's fast! It's terrifying, it's teleportation!"

Kizaru pulled with both hands, and a dazzling golden light sword condensed. His figure flashed, and he turned around to strike with the sword.

"Clang!"

Clang! Clang! Clang!

A sword and a blade clashed rapidly in mid-air, producing a crisp metallic clang. The two figures became blurry afterimages as they fought at breakneck speed in the sky, their movements barely perceptible to most.

With Kizaru gone, Shiki spoke up again.

"Thirty-three years ago, in the Kingdom of God Valley in the West Blue, those pig-like Celestial Dragons started a triennial hunting feast to satisfy their disgusting desires as superiors..."

On the island, both sides, who had temporarily stopped fighting, were looking at the Golden Lion, wanting to hear what he had to say.

Even Aokiji's newly emerged Haki faded, and he didn't attack Katakuri.

Karp caught sight of Rorschach hovering in the sky and immediately shouted, "Rorschach!"

He thought Rorschach would immediately attack the Golden Lion, but to his surprise, Rorschach remained floating a few hundred meters away from the Golden Lion, without moving.

Garp froze upon seeing this, his lips moving slightly, "Rorschach..."

Golden Lion had already noticed Rorschach, who had regained his human form.

Although I was a little curious about this navy officer who could fly, Rorschach looked far too young.

He only glanced at it and then ignored it, continuing to talk to himself.

"Slaughtering an entire nation every three years, gathering slaves from hundreds of races around the world onto an island, and having the best Celestial Dragons hone their skills through hunting. Hahaha, what a wonderful activity, don't you think? Righteous Navy."

"Every three years, a non-member country is randomly selected for a hunting activity. Your World Government has been conducting this activity for a full eight hundred years! No one knows how many people have died because of this activity, how many kingdoms have been destroyed, or how many races have been slaughtered throughout history. And these world rulers, who are a thousand times more cruel than us pirates, have become the objects of your so-called righteous Navy's pursuit and protection."

"If it weren't for those pig-like bastards being terrified by Rocks 33 years ago, they would have continued to destroy countries! Garp! You tell me!"

Golden Lion raised his voice, staring intently at Garp, and demanded, "Don't you know what they've done? But what did you do in God Valley? Help those pigs? Is this your justice? Your heroism? Ha, utterly laughable!"

Garp clenched his fists, his nails digging into his palms, his burly body swayed violently, he gritted his teeth, and his face turned somewhat pale.

Aokiji watched his aged back in silence.

Upon hearing Shiki's words, the naval officers and soldiers on the island looked confused and turned to Garp.

"Vice Admiral Garp, what Shiki said was..."

The naval lieutenant commander who was refuting Golden Lion had barely opened his mouth when Onigumo coldly interrupted him.

"Stop asking! It's just the barking of a loser. Today it's either him or me, what's the point of saying all this!"

"Yes." The naval lieutenant commander lowered his head, his eyes looking confused.

For a moment, he even began to waver in his belief in justice.

Just as the naval soldiers were feeling lost and confused, a faint voice rang out in the sky.

"So, we should thank the Rocks Pirates on behalf of this world and those ordinary people?"

The golden lion looked up and saw Rorschach flying slowly towards it, and was taken aback.

"Kid, who are you?"

Rorschach did not answer, but said in a low voice, "Indeed, I know that many pirates are forced to become pirates because they cannot survive for various reasons."

The bewildered naval soldiers all looked up at Rorschach.

“Even in your most vicious Rocks Pirates, there are quite a few people like that.”

Luo Xia flew to within a dozen meters of the golden lion, holding the Heavenly Dragon Halberd in his hand, and looked at the golden lion standing in front of him.

"But after you became powerful, how did you treat those ordinary people who were just as weak as you were in the past? Did you ever think about protecting them? You refuted the justice of our Navy to the point of being worthless. So who the hell is protecting those weak ordinary people? Is it you? Is it the pirates? Is it the Whitebeard Pirates, the Big Mom Pirates, or the Beasts Pirates?"

"In this world, there are kind-hearted pirates and evil marines. I don't want to condemn everyone. But we uphold justice and only seek to have a clear conscience!"

"A clear conscience?"

Garp stared blankly at Rorschach, who was facing the Golden Lion.

"A clear conscience, a clear conscience! That's right! We uphold justice and only seek to have a clear conscience!"

"Being true to yourself and to the uniform you wear is enough. Why think so much? Hahaha, if I'm not going to be in the navy, am I going to be one of you pirates who keep civilians captive?"

"They're just making up high-sounding reasons. Pirates are pirates. They just wander around the sea all day. If they don't work, where do they get the money to eat, drink, and have fun? They just rob those poor, helpless ordinary people."

Hearing the snickers coming from below, the Golden Lion's face turned ugly.

He stared coldly at Luo Xia, "Kid, who exactly are you?"

"In the Kingdom of Chongfeng, there are 23,575 people who have been turned into monsters by a woman's power. In your eyes, this may be a negligible number."

Luo Xia's body swelled up, the air in front of him exploded, and the Heavenly Dragon Halberd blasted towards the Golden Lion.

"I am Rorschach, a Marine. I killed your wife!"

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Rorschach's words instantly turned the Golden Lion's eyes bloodshot.

"Rose, did you kill her?"

The black halberd slashed towards him, and the Golden Lion raised his right leg high to block the Great Grade Sword Sakura Jū in front of him, seemingly trying to block Rorschach's Heavenly Dragon Halberd.

"Kid, I want you dead... What?"

The moment the black blade of the Dragon Halberd struck the raised Sakura Ten Sword, the words in the Golden Lion's mouth were forcefully swallowed back down by an overwhelming force.

"Clang!"

A burst of bright sparks erupted from the blade of the sword on his right leg. His body, which had been raised on his right leg, seemed to have been struck by a meteorite falling from the sky. The thick ice layer where he stood collapsed in large chunks amidst a series of cracking and popping sounds.

The massive, thousand-meter-high ice wave that stretched across the top of G1 Island collapsed in large sections under the impact of this unstoppable force, turning into house-sized chunks of ice that crashed down.

The golden lion itself, bearing the brunt of the impact, was like a meteorite, blasting through the ice and crashing straight into the depths of the island below.

"Boom!"

The ground within a radius of several hundred meters shattered, as if it had really been hit by a meteorite.

The Golden Lion vanished from the surface, and it was unknown how many meters deep he was slammed into by Rorschach's attack.

Ignoring the pirates and marines who were stunned by his attack, Rorschach covered his entire body in high-grade armor crackling with electricity and plummeted downwards, diving towards the Golden Lion who was locked on by Observation Haki.

"Hahaha, no wonder you were able to kill Rose. This level of power is indeed remarkable."

From the depths of the shattered earth came the golden lion's loud laughter, causing Rorschach's pupils to shrink as he swooped down.

He was well aware of the force behind his strike.

After Charlotte Linlin used lightning to replenish the lightning power in his body, his physical strength was fully restored.

This attack was basically the strongest attack Rorschach could unleash without using Overdrive mode.

The ultra-high intensity discharge of up to 400 million volts, coupled with the amplification effect of advanced Armament Haki.