One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

Tesoro abruptly stopped in his tracks, his teeth clenched, his eyes shifting as he pondered something.

Time passed slowly in the silence of Rorschach, Tezzoro, and Yixiao.

Soon, the ten-minute deadline given by Rorschach was approaching.

According to Rorschach's Observation Haki, many people on the golden ship had already laid down their weapons and stood in an open space, waiting anxiously.

It seems that his words were quite effective in deterring people.

However, only a minority of people voluntarily stepped forward.

The vast majority of gamblers and criminals spontaneously gathered together, forming groups of hundreds or even thousands of people, seemingly wanting to unite and stick together for mutual support.

In the distance, Drake's fingers tightened and loosened around his weapon, unsure whether he should heed Rorschach's advice and surrender.

Or will Rorschach cooperate with him to stage a play, like they did in Sabaody last time, and secretly let him go?

Just as he was struggling with this dilemma, a sky-blue warship with a dragon's head and outstretched wings soared into the distance, attracting the attention of everyone.

The solemn-faced naval warriors standing aboard the ship left the pirates on the golden ship dumbfounded and filled with fear.

Who would have thought that they would all be sent thousands of meters into the air by a smile?

Even naval warships were chasing after us!

Drake looked at the dragon-headed warship that flew a hundred meters above the golden ship, with the huge letters "G5" on its white sails, and his face fell.

"I knew it! I knew this would happen!"

"It's the army of the Navy's G5 branch. That ship... is the world-famous Feng Lei Qilin, Vice Admiral Lan Lin's warship."

Kira tensed, his eyes warily fixed on the hovering ship in the sky.

Upon seeing the approaching Kirin, Luo Xia raised his hand to look at the bracelet on his wrist, and gently shook his head at the extremely nervous pirates on the golden ship.

"Time's up, and I regret to inform you of the choice you made."

He pointed downwards with his right hand and shouted, "G5, listen up! Carry out the mission!"

"Yes, Lieutenant General Rorschach!"

The elite warriors who had come down from the hovering Kirin to carry out the mission responded with a resounding roar.

The next moment, a series of agile figures flew out of the warship, leaping dozens of meters into the air and rushing towards the golden ship.

These two hundred of G5's most elite warriors are all proficient in the Six Styles of the Navy.

There are quite a few that have awakened the domineering aura of either single color or two colors.

The most eye-catching figure is Pamel, a giant with wild, exposed muscles, carrying a battle axe more than ten meters long, resembling a Titan.

He leaped into the air, his massive body rising like a cannonball, tracing an upward parabola before crashing directly into the broad chest of the hundred-meter-tall stone statue controlled by Pica.

Amidst the flying debris, Parmel's outstretched hand gripped Pica's head, smashing the statue's chest through a hole tens of meters in diameter before slamming it heavily in front of the eccentric monk Urki.

A massive shadow covered Urki's four-meter-tall body.

Parmel grinned.

“Urki the Strange Monk, I’ve heard you’re incredibly strong, and that you get stronger the more you fight? I’m very interested in you.”

Chapter 629 The Monster of the G5 Branch

Under the watchful eyes of Drake and the others, one after another, burly naval officers and officers, clad in snow-white cloaks of justice, jumped off the hovering Kirin like dumplings being dropped into a pot, crashing heavily onto the golden ship.

Once all the marines on deck had left, the Kirin immediately flapped its wings, left the airspace above the golden ship, and flew into the distance.

With Youxiao, who can freely manipulate gravity, around, Rorschach wasn't entirely comfortable leaving the ship there.

Lark was not on the Kirin; the ship was being piloted by a regular officer from G5.

After the warship is fully charged, even ordinary marines, as long as they are familiar with the ship's controls, will be able to maintain the Kirin's stable flight.

The warship's complex propulsion system, which has undergone several modifications at Egg Point Island, is now capable of easily converting between electricity and wind power, allowing the Kirin to fly in the air like an airship without needing Luo Xia's abilities to propel it.

The technology on Egg Point Island is already extremely advanced. The robots that Vegapunk and his crew created weigh several thousand tons and can easily fly in the air.

Looking at the G5 warriors scattering to the ground behind Luo Xia, he smiled after a long silence and finally spoke in a deep voice.

"Rorschach, is there really no room for compromise?"

"There's no way to ease the tension, so I'll just laugh it off."

Luo Xia jumped down from the head of the Golden God and landed in front of Yi Xiao.

He glanced at Luffy and the others standing behind Issho, his gaze lingering on Bartolomeo for a moment.

"Bartolomeo the Ogre, you've even dragged this kind of trash who ravages the countryside and oppresses the common people into your ranks. Is this the mercy you're so sure of?"

“Barto… has changed a lot, Rorschach. No one is born without making any mistakes. For some people who are not inherently bad, I think we should give them a chance to reform, rather than condemning them outright.”

He smiled and sighed.

"Don't just laugh it off. You should ask the common people he oppressed if they're willing to forgive him."

Rorschach's icy tone sent a chill down Barto's spine.

Luffy and his crew couldn't help but glare at him angrily.

“Barto is not a bad person! He has saved us many times! He is an important partner to us, and I will not allow you to say such things about him!”

It was Luffy who spoke.

Franky, who was standing nervously to the side, chimed in, "Rorschach, Luffy is right. Barto isn't a heinous criminal. He was just a thug at most before, and he hasn't done anything too heinous."

"Not a bad person? The classic kind of bad isn't bad. Being a thief, eating and dashing, being a local thug bullying ordinary people, being an exhibitionist with your bare butt exposed, and you don't think there's anything wrong with that. Forget it, I'm too lazy to talk about it anymore, I'm annoyed."

Luo Xia scoffed, too lazy to continue arguing with Luffy and the others, and directly confronted Yi Xiao.

"Issou, now that you've firmly decided to walk the path of piracy, then we are enemies."

I won't make things difficult for you. I won't bully the weak. Let's go up and fight one-on-one.

Leave Luffy and his crew behind you to my subordinates.

If they win, I'll let the Straw Hat crew go.

If they lose, the Straw Hat Pirates will disband, the guilty will face trial, and I won't make things difficult for the innocent. I'll let them return to their hometowns and go about their lives as usual.

Whether they go back to selling oranges, opening a restaurant, becoming boatmen, or doctors, I won't care.

What do you think?

Hearing Luo Xia's words, Yi Xiao turned around and glanced at Luffy and the others, then looked at the G5 elites behind Luo Xia who had already begun to clean up the Golden Ship, and was somewhat undecided.

The Straw Hat Pirates versus Rorschach's subordinates, the elite of G5?

Yi Xiao felt that it would be better not to give Luo Xia's suggestion.

Although Luffy and his crew have made considerable progress in strength under his tutelage, they are simply no match for the G5 elites who have fought and battled for two years on the brutal seas of the New World.

Seeing Yi Xiao's hesitation, Luo Xia turned around and called out to those behind him.

"Enel! Law! Hibari! Come here for a second!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a dozen seconds later, three figures shot in from three directions and appeared in the open space in front of Luffy and the others.

Rorschach pointed at the three of them.

"Hey, don't say I'm bullying you. Pick any one of the three. If you win, you can leave. I mean what I say."

"What? You mean, we all have to attack together and just defeat any one of them?"

Barto was taken aback.

Rorschach nodded. "That's right, you can choose whichever you like."

"I guess I'm really being looked down upon." Sanji lit a cigarette, took a deep drag, and looked at the three people in front of him through the hazy smoke.

A blond, squinty-eyed man, about the same height as Rorschach, with earlobes almost reaching his shoulders, holding a golden spear in his hand.

A young man with a long knife, letters tattooed on his hands, two earrings on his ears, and a somewhat thin build.

A tall, sweet-looking female soldier with her long hair tied into a ponytail.

All three were dressed in the snow-white uniforms of naval officers and cloaks of justice.

The rank insignia on their shoulders indicated that they were all major generals in their respective units.

The cute-looking female soldier was someone Sanji and his crew had met once before on Enies Lobby.

"We agree!"

Without saying a word, Luffy immediately agreed.

Sanji and the others naturally had no objections.

In fact, they all knew that this was the most advantageous situation for them at the moment.

The question now is, which one should we choose?

The three people in front of them didn't seem very strong.

They didn't have overly strong muscles, nor did they exude an overly fierce aura.

Aside from Enel's slightly taller stature, Law and Hibari are of average build, similar to Luffy and the others.

Luffy wanted to point at Enel, the most conspicuous of the three, but Sanji stopped him.

Sanji turned around and looked at Robin, the most knowledgeable person among them.

"Robin-chan, who do you think we should choose?"

Franky's gaze swept back and forth between Hibari and Law, and he muttered while stroking his chin, "I saw them fight in Water 7. They were quite strong, but they didn't seem that strong. I think Luffy should be able to handle them with his current strength. After all, we even defeated the Seven Warlords of the Sea."

Robin looked at Enel and the other two standing next to Rorschach, her expression extremely solemn, and she did not offer any advice for a long time.

When Sanji saw her expression, he immediately felt something was wrong.

Nami clutched her aching shoulder and looked at Robin.

"Robin, what's wrong? Are you having a hard time? Are all three of them difficult to deal with?"

“Yes, they are difficult to deal with.” Robin nodded slowly.

"Who are they? They don't seem very strong," Chopper whispered.