One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

One second, two seconds, three seconds...

In about ten seconds, the sky above the entire Enies Lobby turned orange-red.

The clouds overhead looked like a fiery sunset, being forcibly pushed aside by an invisible hand.

"Boom!"

The heavens and earth trembled, the atmosphere hummed, and howling winds whipped up.

Onigumo and the others on the Buster Call warship all changed their expressions, staring in shock at the massive fireball in the sky that was constantly growing larger and falling. They managed to utter two words.

"Meteorite!"

"I'm sorry, but if I don't do this, I really don't have the confidence to get my companions out safely."

With a smile, he turned around and, without even looking at Aokiji who had materialized, flew directly towards where Luffy and the others were.

"Issou!" Luffy looked at Issou flying towards him, his voice choked with emotion, almost bursting into tears.

Yi Xiao smiled at him, then landed in front of Luo Xia.

“Rorschach, I know your style. Although you are decisive and ruthless, you are not like those extreme Marines like Akainu. You would never sit idly by and watch those Marines be killed in front of you. Release Sanji, and I can stop the meteorite that is being pulled down.”

"How do you know I can't sacrifice everything for justice?" Upon hearing this, Rorschach took Sanji, whom he was holding, and slowly closed his fingers, which were as powerful as a hydraulic clamp.

"Issue!" Luffy looked on with despair.

Yi Xiao sighed, shook his head slightly, but did not intervene.

“You’re not that kind of person. I’m always very good at judging people.”

Behind him, a fiery red meteorite, hundreds of meters in diameter, trailing a long tail of flame and emitting scorching flames, crashed down from the sky like a burning miniature sun, about to smash into the heads of Onigumo and the others.

Before it had even fully crashed down, the hot winds carried by the meteorite had already scorched the sails of the warship, causing the sailors on board to collapse onto the deck, unable to bear the heat.

The hundreds of miles of glaciers below were also melting rapidly, producing countless plumes of white steam.

"Alright, you win. Trading five thousand men for five lives is indeed a huge loss." Luo Xia chuckled, tossing Sanji, whom he was about to crush to death, onto the ground, his god-like, imposing body slowly shrinking.

The wide cloak of justice slowly unfurled on his back, and Rorschach no longer looked at the Straw Hat crew, whom he had once loved so much.

Watching Rorschach's tall figure disappear into the distance, Robin, who was holding Nami, suddenly spoke up and shouted:

"Rorschach! I also want to ask you a question!"

Sanji, Luffy, Franky, and the others all looked at Robin in astonishment.

Luo Xia paused in his departing steps, without turning back.

Robin took a deep breath and asked loudly, "What is your dream?"

"My dream?"

Luffy and the others faintly heard a soft chuckle from the monstrous-looking Marine Vice Admiral.

"If I said that my dream is to change this disgusting world, so that ordinary people living in suffering can also live a relatively stable life and have a relatively bright future, would you believe me?"

Behind Rorschach, a smile appeared, and Luffy and the others were all stunned, staring blankly at Rorschach's tall and straight back.

Robin pursed his lips and nodded, saying, "I believe you."

"You really believe that?" Luo Xia chuckled, turning around to look at the group of people with complicated expressions. "Even I don't believe this myself, how could you believe it?"

“Some things you can’t fool yourself about, Rorschach. I know your past, which is why I believe that the dream you speak of is real.”

Robin looked at Rorschach intently.

“I also believe that, Rorschach, the justice you seek is precisely to protect the ordinary,” Franky said suddenly, wiping away his tears.

He pointed at Rorschach, then at Luffy, "Actually, in a sense, you and Straw Hat Luffy are the same kind of people. I think if you weren't on opposite sides, you two could definitely become very good friends. Straw Hat Luffy, he's really not a bad person."

Rorschach looked at Robin and smiled, "I think that's not the question you really want to ask, Robin."

"Yes, the question I really want to ask is the same one you just asked Luffy."

Robin pointed to the lark flying behind Rorschach and looked at him, saying, "Between your dream of changing the world and protecting the ordinary, and the person you cherish most, which would you choose?"

The lark that flew in was startled and stopped in mid-air.

On the distant ice, Aokiji stood quietly with his hands in his pockets.

“Only children make choices. I’m an adult.” Luo Xia’s lips curled up as he glanced at Yun Que and laughed, “So I want them all.”

Hibari blushed and turned her head away, avoiding the gazes of Robin and the others.

Aokiji, who had been quietly perking up his ears in the distance, slipped and almost fell.

Franky silently gave a thumbs up, "As expected of you, Rorschach, amazing."

Sanji's lips twitched, and he couldn't help but point at Rorschach's nose and yell, "You can only choose one, you bastard! Didn't you just ask Luffy that?"

“Yes, you can only choose one, Lieutenant General Rorschach.” Robin looked at Rorschach seriously, waiting for his answer.

"When you are successful, you should help others; when you are unsuccessful, you should cultivate your own virtue."

“If I can’t have my cake and eat it too, I’ll definitely choose the bigger one.” Rorschach smiled slightly. “Therefore, I choose to pursue world peace.”

"Liar." Franky's lips moved, silently uttering his true feelings.

"I can detect a lie in your answer." Sanji glanced coldly at Rorschach, then stared at Hibari with shining eyes. "Besides, how could you, you bastard, possibly give up such a lovely beauty!"

"Watch your expression, or I'll strangle you, you lecherous chef."

Rorschach cracked his knuckles so hard that Sanji shuddered and dared not look at Hibari again.

After saying that, he turned and flew towards the lark, not caring how Xiao would deal with the meteorite floating in the sky.

Lark followed Rorschach as he walked away, secretly glancing up at his profile from beside him.

After a while, Luo Xia felt a little awkward under her gaze, touched his face and asked in confusion, "Is there something dirty on my face?"

The lark shook its head.

"Then why are you looking at me like that? Do you want a kiss? It's broad daylight, and lots of people are watching. Isn't that a bit inappropriate? But if Yun Que wants it, I can reluctantly oblige." Luo Xia teased, bringing his face closer, making Yun Que blush and pull away.

"I...I didn't."

"It's a timid thing to say," said the lark.

She hesitated for a long time, fiddling with her fingers, before finally mustering her courage and looking earnestly at Luo Xia, saying, "Brother Luo Xia, I don't want to be a burden to you... Waaah~."

Before Yun Que could finish speaking, Luo Xia grabbed her little face and kneaded it like dough. She couldn't say anything more and could only let out pitiful whimpers, like a little white rabbit unable to escape the clutches of humans, pitiful, weak, and helpless.

Some of them are even quite cute...

Luo Xia gently kneaded her soft little face, leaned close to Yun Que, and whispered, "Listen carefully, Yun Que. I'm just an ordinary person, not a saint. I'm really not as great as you imagine. That arrogant dream I mentioned is just my own wishful thinking and overestimation of my abilities. If possible, if given the opportunity, I will do many things for this dream. But if you want me to sacrifice the people I cherish for the sake of this world, I will not do it."

"And you are the person I cherish most."

Lark froze, even forgetting to blush, staring blankly at Rorschach.

"Oh my god, I swear, this is absolutely the most cheesy love confession I've ever heard in my life. Rorschach, I never expected you to have this trick up your sleeve."

Aokiji's exclamation came from ahead, his face filled with deep admiration, as if he were meeting Rorschach for the first time.

"Sincerity is the ultimate weapon; I never say sweet words. Uncle Kuzan, but when are you going to invite us to your wedding?"

Rorschach descended from the sky, pulling a lark that was as stiff as wood.

"What wedding banquet? Stop talking nonsense, kid." Qingzhi's face darkened, and he reached out and smacked Luo Xia hard on the head, sending up a spray of ice shards.

Luo Xia didn't care at all. He turned around and looked at the burning meteorite he was manipulating, throwing it into the bottomless abyss of Enies Lobby. He smiled and spread his hands, saying, "So this big Buster Call ended so anticlimactically?"

He pointed at Aokiji, "They deployed a top-tier Buster Call with one Marine Admiral and six Vice Admirals, and they didn't even manage to capture a single hair on the Straw Hat Pirates. Uncle Kuzan, how do you think we're going to explain this to the World Government afterwards?"

"We really want to capture the Straw Hat Pirates for offending the World Government's authority, but unfortunately, the blind swordsman Issho in the Straw Hat crew is too powerful, possessing cataclysmic power capable of destroying the world. If we forcibly eliminate them, it will inevitably cause a large-scale loss to the forces of justice, which would be a loss for the current world situation. It would be better to let them enter the New World and wear down the Four Emperors."

Aokiji's unwavering words prompted Rorschach to slowly give him a thumbs up.

However, Rorschach added one more thing.

"To borrow Smoker's words, let them eat shit."

"Cough cough cough!" Aokiji coughed repeatedly, choked by the cough.

Only then did Hibari, whose brain had been stunned by Luo Xia's earlier words, gradually come back to her senses. Her pink face turned visibly red, and smoke began to rise from her head.

"When are we getting married? I still have some savings, so I can give a small gift when we get married."

Aokiji patted Rorschach on the shoulder.

Chapter 588 Next time, I won't hold back.

"Oh? Grandpa Garp, you've come at the right time. Come and help us out. Here, these two ships are yours."

Worried about his grandson's safety, Garp sped up to catch up and finally arrived by taking a shortcut through the Calm Belt. Before he could even stand up, Rorschach pulled him in front of the five Buster Call warships whose hulls were frozen and unable to move.

"What are you doing?" Garp looked completely bewildered.

"What do you mean, what do you mean? Of course, we need to get the warships out and carry them to the open sea. Otherwise, what if they get attacked by pirates if we just leave them here in the middle of nowhere?"

Luo Xia said matter-of-factly.

"Get the frozen warships out and carry them to the unfrozen sea?"

Garp looked up at the Buster Call warship, which was fifty or sixty meters high and five or six hundred meters long, and then at the endless, frozen sea stretching for hundreds of miles. His cheeks twitched, and he looked at Rorschach, who was rolling up his sleeves to carry the warship, with a look that said, "Are you kidding me?"

"Has living in the city driven you crazy? Carrying such a huge warship for hundreds of miles, are you insane or am I? Besides, there are five warships in total, why do I have to carry two of them? Do you even know anything about respecting the elderly and caring for the young?"

Before he could finish speaking, he heard a series of explosions on the ice.

Then, thick cracks appeared on the thick ice beneath their feet. Before them, the towering warship, resembling a mountain, was lifted up by Rorschach, who had rolled up his sleeves. With both hands supporting the warship, which weighed an unknown number of tons, he exerted all his strength and, to the astonishment of the Marines, managed to lift the entire giant warship, which was more than ten times larger than the Kirin.

To prevent the fragile ice beneath his feet from collapsing and cracking, a layer of deep blue Armament Haki covered and secured an area hundreds of meters in radius around his feet.

From a distance, Rorschach's actions resembled an ant carrying a boulder, the awe-inspiring sight of which was indescribable.

The marines were completely stunned.

Ghost Spider, Flying Squirrel, and the others looked at each other, speechless.

Kuzan stood with his arms crossed, his face blank.

"Hey, really? You're really planning to carry these warships hundreds of miles away?"

Garp was completely baffled by Rorschach's actions.