One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

Usopp and Chopper were so frightened that they fell to the ground.

Sanji was still lying on the ground with a nosebleed.

Franky was about to reach out to block the two flying slashes when he was stopped by Yixiao.

"Even if your body is made of steel, it can't withstand Franky's slashes."

With a smile, he opened his scarred eyes, his eyes showing only the whites, and looked past Zoro towards the group of bounty hunters behind him.

"Jonathan, it seems you've finally found the successor you've been looking for. Congratulations!"

He chuckled softly, then prepared to draw his sword.

But at that moment, a transparent barrier unfolded horizontally, blocking the front of the ship's side.

"I said, no one can hurt my most admired Luffy-senpai in front of me!"

"Invincible Barrier!"

With two loud clangs, to the astonishment of Zoro and the bounty hunters, the two slashes that shot out from Zoro's twin swords collided and exploded on the suddenly appearing transparent barrier, without harming the Straw Hat Pirates standing behind the barrier in the slightest.

"What is this? A Devil Fruit ability?" Zoro stomped his foot, the air exploded, and he fell back to the ground.

Hawkins slowly drew his longsword from his waist and said calmly without expression, "It's a Paramecia-type Barrier-Barrier Fruit. It's said that the defense of this ability is absolutely impenetrable. It can block attacks from the Four Emperors and Admirals without a scratch."

"You can even block attacks from the Four Emperors and their generals?"

Zoro raised his eyebrows, tapped his foot again, and this time sheathed his two swords, replacing them with another great sword.

He held the scabbard with his left hand and the hilt with his right.

Zoro flicked his right wrist, unleashing the power within him. A jet of black energy surged from his hand, spreading across the blade of Wado Ichimonji and quickly enveloping the entire longsword.

He stepped on the air and actually used the Moonwalk technique of the Navy's Six Styles, running at high speed in the air and in the blink of an eye, he was more than ten meters in front of the Thousand Sunny, which was separated by the barrier.

He bowed, his right wrist sank, and the air beneath his feet exploded with a roar.

"Lion's Song!"

The next moment, the long sword was drawn instantly, its gleaming blade flashing, and a sword cry like a dragon's roar echoed throughout the entire port.

A dozen meters behind the Thousand Sunny, above the sea, Zoro frowned as he looked at the buzzing, vibrating blade of the Wado Ichimonji in his hand, turned around, and looked at the transparent barrier in front of Issho that was completely unharmed and motionless.

"It's... not a single scratch. My strike could split a steel ship in two, yet it couldn't cut through this glass-like barrier. A Devil Fruit ability? That's truly unreasonable."

Luffy looked at Zoro, who had suddenly appeared behind him, with a look of surprise on his face.

"Wow, you're amazing! How did you suddenly appear behind us?"

Usopp and his friends are terrified and in complete chaos.

Bartolomeo, who had recently joined the crew as a fanboy of Luffy, was so frightened that he quickly opened a huge hemispherical barrier again, covering everyone on the deck.

This move was quite physically demanding, causing beads of sweat to appear on his forehead.

"Alright, it's okay, Barto, release the barrier."

At this moment, Yixiao spoke up.

"Okay, Senior Yixiao."

Upon hearing this, Barto obediently released the barrier covering the Thousand Sunny.

The moment the barrier disappeared, Zoro's figure outside the ship vanished instantly.

While Usopp and the others were still searching for him, Issho drew his staff-sword and held it in front of him, blocking a long black sword.

The two swords clashed, creating a long string of sparks.

"He's really ferocious, Roronoa Zoro, the Asura Swordsman."

With a flick of his wrist, Zoro, who had been slashing down in mid-air in front of him, let out a muffled groan and flew backward like a cannonball, flying straight from the Thousand Sunny for over a hundred meters before crashing into the sea in front of the harbor with a splash.

"Zoro!"

Sera and the others, who were standing at the port, were shocked to see this. They jumped up and either boarded the large ship at the port or drew their swords and guns and launched an attack on the location of the Thousand Sunny.

A bounty hunter jumped into the water, intending to find Zoro who had fallen in.

Some people boarded the ship and began to move the ship's cannons, preparing to fire at the Thousand Sunny.

The vast port was filled with a somber atmosphere.

Sera, Hawkins, Brook, and the others jumped up, all of them using Moonwalk to fly through the air, leaving Luffy and the others dumbfounded.

"What's wrong with these bounty hunters? They all know CP9 techniques." Nami was very puzzled.

Robin seemed to be deep in thought.

She had served in the Revolutionary Army for a period of time and learned about Jonathan's past from Sabo, knowing that Jonathan had been a high-ranking officer in the Navy many years ago.

Furthermore, the nature of the Bounty Hunter Guild should be similar to that of the Navy; both are large organizations targeting pirates.

It's likely that there will be a lot of cooperation between the two.

Therefore, it's not a big deal that some powerful bounty hunters might be able to master some of the Navy's physical skills.

"Issho! What do we do? Do we really have to fight?" Sanji finally got up from the ground, took out a strange cylinder with the number 3 printed on it from his waist, and looked at Issho.

“I don’t think this is a good idea. I think we should leave immediately and use the Wind Cannon from the Thousand Sunny. I’ve been here before, and they’re not bad people. Besides, the Bounty Hunters Guild has close ties with Rorschach. If we really clash with them, that guy will definitely come knocking on our door again.”

Franky shouted as he turned the ship's rudder on the deck, changing the direction of the Thousand Sunny and dodging Brook's aerial thrust.

A flurry of activity ensued, but Luffy and Issho remained motionless at the bow of the ship.

"Luffy! Fight or flee, give me a decision now!"

Sanji kicked Andre's turtle shell, but was bounced back and crashed into the mast behind him.

Seeing the tiny cracks appearing on the mast, he no longer hesitated and pressed the cylinder in his hand against his waist.

Accompanied by a dazzling light, Sanji's body was wrapped in a very cool scientific combat suit, making Franky and the others look on with envy.

"Sanji transformed! So cool! I want to transform too!"

Seeing Sanji, after transforming, kick Andre, who was lunging at him, away with a single kick, Luffy couldn't hold back any longer. His expression as he looked at Sanji was practically dripping with saliva.

Seeing that dozens of cannons not far away were about to fire, Yixiao finally moved.

All anyone saw was him extending his right hand and making a slight upward gesture.

An invisible force immediately spread from his hand, instantly engulfing an area of ​​several hundred meters around the entire port.

Everything affected by this invisible force, whether human or object, was immobilized in place.

Sera and Hawkins, who were using Moonwalk, were frozen in mid-air.

The bounty hunter, who was loading shells, paused in his hands, holding both the shells and the tinderbox.

Several ships that had already left the port and were rapidly approaching the Thousand Sunny were also frozen on the sea and could no longer move forward.

With a smile, he waved his right hand upwards again.

Those bounty hunters who fell into the water, including Sauron, were all involuntarily lifted up from the sea and landed back on the port ground.

The bounty hunters on the ship, Sera flying in the air, Hawkins, Brooke running on the sea, and others were all pulled back to their original positions.

Even the ships that had left the port automatically moved back to the port, as if they had never left.

"That's amazing! It's like magic, Senior Issho!" Barto looked at Issho with immense admiration.

"Long live Mr. Smile!" Usopp, Chopper, and the others cheered.

The bounty hunters, now back in their original positions, looked at each other in bewilderment, a deep sense of defeat creeping into their hearts.

Their collective charge of thousands was thwarted with a wave of his hand, and everyone was sent back to their original positions intact.

What immense power this is!

Faced with this power, even the mighty Zoro, Hawkins, Brook, and others were completely powerless to resist.

Just as the bounty hunters were at a loss, an old voice came from behind them at just the right time, ringing out in the sky above the port.

"A smile, is this the gift one should give when meeting an old friend?"

As the aged voice rang out, a powerful black aura surged from the direction of the town, quickly enveloping the bodies of Sera, Zoro, and the others who were imprisoned by the invisible blue scales.

As their bodies were enveloped by the domineering aura, the bounty hunters, who had been sent back to the port by Yixiao, were surprised to find that they could move again.

Sera and Zoro quickly turned around and saw the old man Jonathan, hunched over, slowly walking over and giving them a wry smile.

"Hey kid, that's not fair of you. You said you were going to join the Navy to uphold justice, but you turned around and became a pirate, and even joined a bunch of brats' pirate crew, playing house with a bunch of kids. Aren't you ashamed?"

“This is the bet I’m making, Jonathan. That’s life. It’s often full of unknowns. You know me. The thing I like to do most is gamble on this kind of uncertain future.”

With a slight smile and a hint of apology, he bowed slightly to Jonathan.

Jonathan, who was being supported by Zoro and Sera, coughed and sighed upon hearing this, "It's clear that you've made a very big decision."

Then, he shifted his gaze from Issho to Luffy's face, who was standing next to him.

"You're that bastard Garp's grandson?"

Luffy was taken aback. "Old man, you know my grandfather?"

"Of course I know him. I was that bastard's instructor when he was still a greenhorn." Jonathan forced a wrinkled smile onto his orange-skinned old face. "I never imagined that bastard's grandson would become a pirate. Hahaha, what an irony. But actually, I'm not surprised at all. With Garp's unreliable nature, he couldn't possibly produce any obedient descendants. His son was like that, his grandson was like that, and his disciple... is the same."

Luffy was a little confused, unsure whether Jonathan was a friend or foe.

He was about to jump off the Thousand Sunny and onto the port when Yixiao suddenly reached out and stopped him.

Luffy was taken aback and looked up at Issho, only to find that Issho wasn't looking at him, but instead turned his head to look at the sea in another direction.

At the same time, Jonathan, standing at the port, also opened his cloudy old eyes and looked in the direction that Yixiao was looking.

"Grandpa, what are you looking at?"

Sera was puzzled by the two's unusual behavior and couldn't help but ask them.

Jonathan didn't say anything, he just kept watching.

A dozen minutes later, on the sea in front of the Queen's City in Spring, at the end of everyone's sight, a rough-hewn large ship made of more than a dozen large logs tied together appeared, its sails billowing, and it was speeding toward them.

Judging from its direction of travel, it was heading straight for the Straw Hat Pirates' Thousand Sunny.

Even from a great distance, everyone could hear the arrogant laughter coming from that strange, large ship.

"Hehehe, hehehehe. Hey! You blind guy, you're the first mate of the Straw Hat Pirates, the strongest pirate supernova of the Worst Generation? I'd like to borrow your head. Hmm, your ship is pretty good too, we've got our eyes on it. Oh? There are a few beauties on board, hehehe, great! We'll take them all!"