One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

The pirates screamed in agony as they were forced to retreat and huddle together by the onslaught of the newcomer's rapid attacks.

When they finally saw what the enemy standing on the deck looked like, everyone's face was filled with disbelief and terror.

"Ghost... ghost!"

At this moment, the enemy in front of them, holding a thin rapier, was actually a skeleton dressed in a tattered suit, with no flesh or organs left on his body, only a white skeleton.

The skeleton stared with empty, deep-set eyes, revealing its stark white teeth, along with its protruding cheekbones and gums, all exposed to the air, making it look just like the skull and crossbones emblem tattooed on its sails.

What's puzzling is that although this skeleton has no flesh or blood left on its body, it still has a thick head of hair and a fluffy afro.

However, this bizarre afro did not detract from the skeleton's terrifying style; on the contrary, it added to the eeriness, causing the pirates on the ship to wet themselves in fear.

"Brook, forget about these pirates and deal with those guys who are getting close to your comrades first."

On the small boat stood a similarly tall, blond man.

"Okay! Mr. Hawkins, please, help me stop those pirates. Please don't let them hurt Laboon, sob... Laboon, I never thought it would actually wait for me here for almost fifty years! If you hadn't told me, Mr. Hawkins, I wouldn't have believed it was true. Also, thank you so much for helping me find my shadow."

Brook quickly jumped back from the pirate ship to the small boat and rushed towards the ship where Krieg and the others were.

“I already told you, I didn’t find your shadow. In fact, even I don’t know who found our shadows. Thriller Bark, where Gecko Moria was, is nowhere to be found either. Could it be that someone defeated Gecko Moria?” Hawkins glanced back at the pirate ship they had left behind, reached into his waistband with his right hand, gripped the hilt of his sword, and drew it with lightning speed, slashing towards the pirate ship.

"Iai! Shadow Flash!"

"Shh!"

The gleaming sword light sliced ​​through the sea and plunged into the side of the ship with a whoosh, cutting through the steel cannons mounted on the side of the ship, along with the thick wooden vessel.

Amidst the pirates' terrified screams, the entire ship snapped in two and quickly sank into the sea.

On the sea behind, Crocus stared blankly at Brook's afro, muttering absentmindedly, "That afro... looks kind of familiar."

Ahead, Creek, wielding a large battle gun, grinned maliciously as he thrust the gun tip into Lab's body, crawling along the countless huge scars on its forehead towards the top of its head.

Those hideous, enormous scars were formed by Lab's repeated impacts on the Upside Down Mountain over the years.

"Ah Jin! Enemies!" Iron Wall Baru, whose entire body was covered in iron shields, called out a warning.

He had already seen the small boat rushing from behind and noticed that one of their ships had already been sunk by the enemy.

"Enemies? Heh heh heh, daring to oppose the invincible Governor Creek is simply courting death!"

Akin took two iron hammers from his waist, walked to the ship's side with a wicked smile, watched the small boat rapidly approaching, and ordered the pirates on board to fire in that direction.

"Boom boom boom!"

Several black shells streaked across the sea, whistling as they hurtled toward the oncoming small boat.

Just as the cannonball was about to hit, Hawkins, who was standing on the small boat, drew his sword and swung it again.

"Shh!"

A thin, arc-shaped sword light swept across the air, slicing through the incoming cannonball before it exploded with a deafening roar.

Brooke felt a pang of envy as he watched the slash fly from Hawkins' longsword.

"Mr. Hawkins is truly remarkable; he was able to unleash such a powerful aerial slash."

"You go stop that pirate who climbed onto the whale's body first. Leave this to me," Hawkins said calmly.

"Then please."

Brooke raised his hand to press down his hat, let out a strange laugh, and then jumped directly off the small boat, landing on the sea.

He ran swiftly, his movements as light as the wind, and so fast that he didn't sink into the sea, but instead walked on the water's surface.

"Yohohohoho! Yohohohoho! Lab! I'm back! It's Brook! Do you remember me?"

As he ran, hot tears welled up in his skeletal eye sockets. He raised his hand and took off his old, tattered top hat, exposing his thick, frizzy hair to the air.

He moved with lightning speed, traversing the sea surface to reach Rab in a flash, his eyes wide with fury as he stared at Creek, who was wildly slashing at Rab's head.

"Damn it! Stop it right now!"

Brook leaped from the sea and sped along Labs' body toward Creek.

Krieg saw an afro-haired skeleton charging towards him, but he wasn't afraid. He simply swung his heavy battle lance and delivered a powerful downward slash at Brook.

"boom!"

The great battle lance, with a strange, shield-like device attached to the tip, slammed into the air with a dull roar, creating a shockwave that blasted towards Brook.

"Revolutionary Dance! Piercing Heart!"

Faced with this enormous impact, Brook neither dodged nor avoided it. His emaciated frame spun in a spiral, rose up from the ground, gripped his rapier, and transformed into a black phantom, passing through the rolling shockwave.

"Pfft!"

Blood spurted out, and Creek stared in disbelief at the rapier piercing his heart, then looked up blankly at Brook.

"You...you, how is this possible? I am the great pirate with a bounty of 1700 million Berries, the great Governor Krieg, the man who will become the Pirate King! I haven't even ruled...the world yet..."

Even the heavy armor he wore couldn't protect him from Brook's spinning thrust. Blood kept spilling from Creek's mouth, and the great spear he was holding fell limply to the ground. He clutched his chest and knelt down.

Brooke looked at Creek, whose eyes were filled with confusion and hatred, and pity welled up in his empty eye sockets.

"A bounty of 1700 million Berries? Oh ho ho ho, I forgot to tell you, I had a bounty of 3300 million Berries forty-seven years ago. You think you can become the Pirate King with a bounty of 1700 million Berries? You probably don't even know who Rocks is, do you? Do you know how much the bounty of that Pirate King you're talking about, that rookie named Roger, was after that?"

Brook kicked Creek off Laboon's back, and looking at Creek's unwilling eyes, he said mockingly, "I learned from Mr. Hawkins that his bounty is 5.5648 billion Berries, which is 327 times yours."

“5…55 billion?” Creek’s eyes widened, his lips trembling as if he wanted to say something.

But in the end, his head tilted to the side, his life force dissipated, and he died completely, falling into the sea.

On the other pirate ship, Hawkins' battle had also ended.

On the deck, countless straws sprouted from the cracks, growing wildly and piercing the bodies of the pirates in their terrified gazes.

In just a few seconds, the bodies of the overlord of the East Sea, Governor Creek's subordinates, the most ferocious ghost Akin, Iron Wall Baru, and others were filled with countless straws.

Straws sprouted from their eyes, ears, mouths, and noses, turning them into scarecrows.

Hawkins, meanwhile, casually sat on the gunwale and took out a stack of tarot cards from his pocket, fiddling with them.

He remained focused, unaffected by the terrifying scarecrows around him, and slowly drew a card and turned it over.

Hawkins looked at the images on the cards with a hint of surprise in his eyes.

"justice?"

A face involuntarily surfaced in his mind.

"Will he come here? The world changes so fast. In such a short time, he has already reached a level that I can't reach."

Just as Brooke was about to run down to greet his partner whom he hadn't seen for forty-seven years, a deep, aged, and unusually powerful shout suddenly rang in his ears.

"Hey! You skeleton man, I don't care what kind of monster you are or what kind of Devil Fruit user you are, get off that whale's back right now, or I'll kill you!"

"What? There are enemies too?"

Brooke was startled and quickly looked in the direction the sound came from. He saw a luxurious two-masted sailing ship, its entire body golden as if it were covered in gold, rushing toward Labab at high speed as if it had just rushed down from the current of Upside Down Mountain.

That aged, deep voice came from an old man on the golden ship.

The other person was five or six hundred meters away, yet the voice was transmitted so clearly, which made Brooke somewhat terrified.

"Oh no! That old man is definitely a terrifyingly powerful expert!"

On the golden ship, the green-haired man with three knives hanging from his waist looked up in awe at the giant whale before him, which was as big as a mountain. "What a huge whale!"

Beside him stood a short-haired woman dressed in a heavy metal style, her gaze fixed on his face as if trying to find something out.

Sera had been looking for several days, but still couldn't figure out what was so special about this man named Roronoa Zoro that made Rorschach so admire him, and that her grandfather had traveled thousands of miles to the East Blue and searched for him for months before finally finding him.

"Isn't he just a hopeless navigator? What good qualities does he have? Can he really become a pillar of our Hunter's Guild?"

Sera was somewhat skeptical.

It's no wonder Sera was suspicious; the green-haired man in front of her was only so-so in terms of strength.

Although the other party has the reputation of being a pirate hunter in the East Blue, judging from the bounties on the pirates he has captured, they are at most small fry with a few million.

Aside from his bizarre three-sword style, which was somewhat surprising, Sera couldn't find any other redeeming qualities in him.

But that's what Rorschach said.

Sera believed that since it was that man who said it, then this green-haired man must have some unique qualities.

Otherwise, how could she possibly catch his eye?

You know, that man is now the third candidate for Admiral in the Navy Headquarters!

The man who slew the great pirate Shiki!

Sera pulled a photograph cut from a newspaper from her chest and stared at it intently.

The withered old man Jonathan Barnett, who was standing in front of her, snorted coldly, stepped on the ground, and quickly drew a long sword from Zoro's waist. He then leaped into the air and soared hundreds of meters into the sky, slashing at Brook, who was standing guard above Laboon.

"Last time we went to the East Blue, we fought off a group of pirates who were trying to capture Laboon. I didn't expect another group of blind fools to show up now. Since they're not going to get down here, then they can just die, Skull!"

A massive flash of light erupted from Jonathan's longsword, obscuring Brook's vision.

Fear surged through Brooke's heart like a tidal wave.

His fear was not that he was about to die, but that he would not be able to reassure Rab in his last moments and tell it that he had returned.

The enemy before him was too powerful; their terrifying aura pressed down on him, rendering Brook unable to move.

Even Gecko Moria, the Shichibukai who stole his shadow, couldn't give him this irresistible aura.

Just as the enormous blade of light was about to completely engulf Brook, who was standing on top of Laboon's head.

A gentle voice rang out above everyone's heads.

"Hey, Joe, you've hit the wrong person."

Chapter 419 Old Friends

The sudden sound startled both Jonathan and Brooke.

A look of surprise appeared on Jonathan's old face, and he exclaimed in astonishment:

"Rorschach?"

Upon hearing Luo Xia's voice, he realized that he might have really killed the wrong person and immediately wanted to stop.