One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

His reply came from a mocking voice.

The voice sounded somewhat familiar, causing Doflamingo, who was flying at high speed over the distant sea using threads hanging from the clouds, to suddenly stop and hover hundreds of meters in the air.

When Doflamingo finally saw the face of Rorschach mimicked on the Den Den Mushi he was holding, veins immediately bulged on his forehead.

A terrifying aura of Conqueror's Haki burst forth uncontrollably from his body, like an expanding storm, impacting the surrounding air and scattering the seawater below.

"It's you, you little navy brat!"

He gritted his teeth, his scarlet eyes fixed on Rorschach through his flamingo-patterned glasses, and said, word by word, "Where is Monet?"

"What do you think? Of course I took her down. Do you think I would treat your subordinates with any courtesy? Doflamingo. But she was quite a beauty, it's a real shame to kill her like that." Seeing Doflamingo's furious expression, Rorschach's mood became pleasant.

"You little brat! You dare to mock me? I can make you get off that damn general candidate position right now, you believe me?"

Enraged, Doflamingo paused briefly in mid-air before accelerating rapidly towards Punk Hazard.

"I do not believe."

Rorschach gave a very straightforward answer.

"Fine! Very well! If you've got the guts, just wait there. I'm coming over there right now to take your head!" Doflamingo could no longer hold back and roared angrily.

"Come on, if you don't come, you're a coward, a spineless coward. Doflamingo, you piece of trash, a stray dog ​​kicked out of the Celestial Dragons' home. Grandpa is waiting for you in Punk Hazard."

Without waiting for Doflamingo's reply, Rorschach quickly hung up the Den Den Mushi.

Furthermore, no matter how much the Den Den Mushi rang, he would no longer answer it.

Rorschach's mood grew even more cheerful as he watched the Den Den Mushi ring incessantly.

He casually stuffed the Den Den Mushi into his pocket and looked towards the corridor of the laboratory.

There, Luo and hundreds of naval soldiers, along with dozens of children of all ages and a few emaciated adults, were walking out of the laboratory.

Most of these children looked quite healthy and were not as thin as the adults.

However, some children were clearly injected with drugs, and they were too weak to walk normally.

The soldiers carried and held the children on their backs.

Among these children, Rorschach also saw several exceptionally large children, who looked to be five or six meters tall.

A little boy, over five meters tall, was being carried on Parmel's back, fast asleep, his face covered in lingering tear stains from pain.

"Have you found everyone?" Rorschach asked Rorschach.

“There shouldn’t be any omissions. The guards on the island have all been killed, and of the innocent people imprisoned, apart from some who have already died, these are the only ones left.” Luo pointed to the dozens of people in front of him, his brows furrowing slightly, his expression not looking too good.

“What’s wrong? They…” Luo Xia’s heart sank slightly.

Luo shook his head. "It's not optimistic. These children have basically been injected with various experimental drugs. Some of them suffered severe damage, their bloodline factors collapsed, and they died on the island. Even those who survived have contracted various strange diseases to varying degrees. And these few..."

He pointed to Adams, who was being carried on Parmel's back, and several other exceptionally large children, and said:

"These people's bodies have irreversibly grown larger. Although their strength seems to have increased dramatically, they are not giants, but humans, and they did not grow naturally. Many of their organs have been severely compressed and damaged, and their bone density is very low, making it difficult to support their enormous bodies. If they are simply sent back to their original families, they will probably die in a very short time."

"Can you cure them?" Luo Xia sighed, smiled, patted the head of a little girl who brushed past him, and asked Luo.

"It should be possible, but it will probably take a long time," Luo nodded.

“Then take the sick children back to G5, and send the rest of the healthy children back to their relatives. If their relatives have passed away, take them back to G5 as well.”

Rorschach made his decision without thinking for long.

With a wave of his hand, signaling everyone to leave the laboratory, Rorschach unleashed his Observation Haki, sweeping across the entire island and examining every corner several times. After confirming that there were no innocent people on the island, he raised his right hand.

A surge of lightning crackled and surged in Rorschach's raised hand, radiating an aura of destruction.

Just as he was about to completely destroy the laboratory base, Luo Xia stopped in his tracks.

As if he had thought of something, he withdrew the lightning that had surged from his palm, and strode along the wide steel corridor toward the depths of the laboratory.

Soon, he entered the rooms of the laboratory, looking around as if searching for something.

"Momonosuke and Kin'emon haven't been sent over by Amaterasu yet, so the artificial Devil Fruit Vegapunk created should still be stored in Punk Hazard's laboratory. However, some things that happened on this island happened more than a year earlier than expected, so there's no guarantee that other changes won't occur. Hopefully, it's still there. That artificial Devil Fruit seems to be the first and most successful artificial Devil Fruit. Unlike the half-baked artificial Devil Fruit that Caesar created, which exhibited all sorts of bizarre changes."

Rorschach searched each room one by one, releasing lightning to enhance his Observation Haki as he explored.

Suddenly, a fierce wind howled from the depths of the passage ahead, rapidly approaching, accompanied by a deafening roar of a beast.

Rorschach seemed not to hear and walked straight up to her.

Soon, a large lizard with wings, resembling a Western dragon, flapped its wings, opened its blood-red mouth full of fangs, and roared as it flew out from the front, aggressively swooping down towards Luo Xia.

Judging from its appearance, it wanted to catch Rorschach and eat him.

I don't know why this ugly dragon didn't appear when so many people went in earlier.

As the enormous dragon, reeking of a nauseating stench and stirring up a gust of wind, swooped down, Luo Xia remained unfazed and pointed a finger.

"Crack!"

A thick bolt of lightning shot through the air, piercing the dragon's head and turning it into a sizzling, oily mess before it hit the ground.

Rorschach stepped forward, grabbed a leg of the dragon from which black smoke was billowing, tore it off, and held it in his hand, eating as he walked.

"Hmm, the taste is indeed not bad. However, this thing should not be the dragon that Shimotsuki Ryoma killed two hundred years ago, right? Although its body looks quite strong, any swordsman who can cut through iron could probably kill it."

Rorschach ate as he strolled around.

Soon, a spacious and enormous laboratory room appeared before him.

Several huge steel cylinders stood tall in the room, with the letters 'SAD' written on them, and a strange smell permeated the air.

SAD is the raw material for artificial Devil Fruits. With it, the basic conditions for creating artificial Devil Fruits are met.

This raw material has always been manufactured at the SAD factory in Dressrosa, Doflamingo's stronghold.

The raw materials here are simply delivered from Dressrosa by Don Quixote family executives every so often.

"what?"

Suddenly, Rorschach, who was looking around the room with great interest, had a bright look in his eyes. In the glass container in front of the cylinder containing the SAD raw materials, there was a strange pink fruit covered with spiral patterns.

Rorschach crushed the glass container with a large squeeze, took out the fruit inside, and examined it carefully.

After a long while, he finally confirmed that the pink Devil Fruit he was holding was the first artificial Devil Fruit created by Vegapunk.

It is a copy of the Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit that came from Kaido.

Artificial Zoan-type Devil Fruit, Mythical Zoan type Fish-Fish Fruit, Azure Dragon form!

While Rorschach was happy because he had obtained a powerful Devil Fruit.

On the other side of the sea, Doflamingo, whose forehead veins had nearly burst from Rorschach's words, sped through the sky with bloodshot eyes.

As he flew, his speed gradually decreased.

As Doflamingo drew closer to Punk Hazard, a sense of unease began to rise within him.

This feeling made his face grow even more gloomy.

Because his intuition told him that going head-to-head with Rorschach now was not a wise choice.

Although he was very annoyed, that navy brat had indeed become quite troublesome.

Although Doflamingo doesn't believe he will lose, it's not the right time to fight Rorschach to the death yet.

Because he has more important things to do.

"Fufufufu, you arrogant brat, I'll let you be smug for a few more days."

Doflamingo grinned maliciously, then suddenly picked up the Den Den Mushi and dialed a number.

"Your Excellency Charlotte Linlin, I am the Joker. Please allow me to tell you some bad news. The human giantification potion that Caesar just created for you has been stolen by the Navy's Rorschach. Yes, that's the same Vice Admiral Bluescale who killed many of your children. He is currently on Punk Hazard Island."

Chapter 491 'Peach Dragon' Bepo

"boom!"

More than half an hour later, the crew, who had brought the rescued children back to the Kirin, saw a deafening explosion suddenly erupt from Punk Hazard Island in the distance.

With a massive mushroom cloud rising into the sky, this laboratory base, abandoned by the World Government, was reduced to ruins in a violent explosion.

"Clap."

A tall, imposing figure suddenly appeared on the deck of the Qilin, which was rocking and swaying.

"Lieutenant General!"

The voices of Palmer and Bepo rang out almost simultaneously.

Even the children standing nearby could hear the genuine respect and affection the two men had for Rorschach in their shouts.

This is true.

Since Bepo and Palmer both awakened Armament Haki, they could clearly feel their strength improving rapidly.

Those opponents that seemed invincible in the past are now not so untouchable.

For example, just now, with their perfect teamwork, the two of them defeated a powerful Logia-type Devil Fruit user with just one combined attack.

Respect for the strong is part of it, but more so, it stems from a growing conviction in Rorschach's unwavering belief in eliminating all pirates.

Pirates are indeed a major reason why the world is in such chaos.

In the past, Bepo and Palmer would definitely have stood up to refute Rorschach's statement.

Because they themselves were once pirates.

Both of them had a clear conscience about what they had done during their time as pirates, feeling that they had not done anything wrong.

Not only did he not do anything wrong, but on some occasions he would also help those in need, such as villages and towns in trouble, and deal with pirates, bullies, or corrupt naval officers who were oppressing the local people.

But as they followed Rorschach to various parts of Paradise and witnessed towns and even kingdoms ravaged by pirates, their views on pirates gradually changed.

In the past, they thought pirates were adventurers on the sea.

They set sail in pursuit of freedom, thrilling adventures, and the search for treasure on nameless islands.

It sounds so romantic.

But once they reach the sea, and lose themselves amidst the ever-growing power, 99% of pirates become a scourge on the ocean.

Even those last 1% who truly possess dreams, freedom, and adventure are still unstable factors.