One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

Whitebeard's thunderous voice echoed throughout Marineford, stunning all the pirates who were engaged in battle.

Marco stared at the towering, mountain-like back of the white-bearded man, a sudden sense of foreboding washing over him. He stammered, "Father! Then you…"

"I'm going to stay and settle things with the Navy one last time, and rescue Jinbe."

Whitebeard's words caused an uproar throughout the Whitebeard Pirates, and countless dissenting voices immediately arose from every corner of the battlefield.

Ace abruptly stood up from his kneeling position and excitedly shouted, "No! Dad! Let me fight alongside you! I..."

"This is the captain's order!"

Whitebeard said decisively, while looking at Sabo behind Ace, "You're Ace's brother, aren't you?"

“Yes, my name is Sabo. Thank you for going to such lengths for Ace.” Sabo took a deep breath, stood beside Ace, looked at Whitebeard, and his eyes showed admiration and gratitude.

Whitebeard waved his hand. "I should be the one thanking you, Sabo. I'd like to ask you to take Ace away, is that alright?"

Sabo paused, glanced at the excited Ace beside him, and nodded solemnly: "Don't worry! I will definitely get Ace away from here safely. I obtained the Teleportation Fruit ability from the Great Pirate King. In terms of speed, no one here can..."

"Hey, what are you guys talking about all this time?"

Suddenly, a calm, even voice interrupted Sabo's assurance, echoing in the square not far behind them.

Ace, who was in the midst of his excitement, and Sabo, who was speaking, were startled and turned around abruptly. They saw a figure covered in blood, like a demon god, who had appeared in front of the collapsed execution platform at some point, silently watching them.

The moment they saw that figure, a terrifying sense of oppression instantly weighed on the hearts of Ace, Sabo, and Luffy.

Rorschach!

The Whitebeard Pirates, who were engaged in a fierce battle with the Navy, felt a chill run down their spines and couldn't help but scream when they saw Rorschach appear not far from Ace.

"Damn it! It's Lieutenant General Lan Lin! What's that guy doing there? Where's Rayleigh? Wasn't he...?"

The pirates' questions abruptly ceased as a barrage of laser beams shot down.

"The Eight-Foot Jade Curved Jewel!"

Laser beams rained down from the sky like a storm, completely engulfing an aged figure, similar to Rorschach, covered in blood, on the ice of the inner bay.

A series of dazzling explosions bombarded the ice surface.

Those were none other than Kizaru and Rayleigh, who were currently engaged in combat!

Unlike his usual lazy and casual demeanor, Kizaru's attacks this time were incredibly precise. Every laser beam that struck Rayleigh, who was trying to escape the laser blast range, was sent flying back. At the same time, the laser beams also damaged the surrounding ice, forcing Rayleigh to expend energy to use Moonwalk to take off and dodge.

As a result, his speed became increasingly slower in the face of Kizaru's laser, making it impossible for him to break through the laser's blockade and catch up with Rorschach again.

What was even more shocking was that Rayleigh's hands were empty; the long sword he used to unleash his amazing swordsmanship was not in his hand.

Meanwhile, on the vast ice surface of the inner bay, pacifists who looked exactly like Bartholomew Kuma appeared, spreading their arms and shooting beams of scorching, dazzling lasers at the pirates on various battlefields.

As Rorschach approached Ace step by step, a flash of anger appeared in Whitebeard's eyes.

"Rorschach, you brat! How dare you!"

Just as he was about to take a step and rush towards Luo Xia, the rocky ground within a hundred meters radius where he stood suddenly turned bright red.

The earth softened, turning into flowing magma, bubbling and churning, before erupting violently into the air above the ground!

"You're not allowed to go anywhere! Just stay here and watch your son die here, Whitebeard!!"

A deep, furious roar, like that of an angry dragon, resounded from the surging torrent of lava.

"Annoying lava brat!"

The white-bearded man's feet rippled with shockwaves. His towering body was about to smash through the magma in front of him and continue his charge when he saw that the uncontrollable torrent of crimson magma, which was like a wild horse galloping, suddenly stopped after erupting to a height of more than ten meters. It spun and twisted in the air, transforming into the head of a ferocious dog that was hundreds of meters long. The dog opened its mouth with fangs and seemed to be about to swallow the sky whole, and then bit down.

Whitebeard unleashed a shockwave with a punch, shattering the magma hound that lunged at him.

But in that one second of delay, Akainu, whose lower body had transformed into a giant pillar of erupting magma, bursting out of the bottomless abyss, had already spread his arms and crashed into him, locking him in place around the waist. Together, they flew away from the square in front of the execution platform, tearing through the sky and crashing heavily through the collapsed Fortress of Justice, before slamming into the town behind Marineford.

“Ace, if we let you leave like this, then this public execution will make our navy a laughing stock in the eyes of the whole world.”

As Luo Xia strode forward, a large amount of blood mist rose from his burly body.

His imposing figure gradually became thinner, his thick tendons contracted and tightened, like tightly wound steel cables and springs, making him lean and upright. Against the backdrop of the billowing blood mist, he looked like a demon crawling out of hell.

"laugh!"

A grating, tearing sound rang out from Rorschach's chest.

A long, gleaming sword was drawn from Luo Xia's body, accompanied by a jet of blood.

Luo Xia, holding a long sword that was no longer than his own palm, suddenly flicked the sword with his finger.

With a whoosh, a painful scream rang out from the depths of ruins a hundred meters away.

Blackbeard, who was wearing sea stone handcuffs and trying to sneak away, was struck in the chest by the flying longsword and pinned to the ground, letting out a painful and furious scream.

"Ugh! Damn Vice Admiral Bluescale! Your Admiral Akainu promised me that he would let me go if I cooperated with him to demoralize the Whitebeard Pirates! Your Navy can't go back on its word again! You are the Navy of justice! This war is being broadcast live worldwide. If you go back on your word, the whole world will know how hypocritical your Navy is!"

Blackbeard gasped for breath, staring in horror at the long sword embedded in his chest, feeling the excruciating pain surging through his nerves in waves.

What terrified him even more was the undisguised killing intent emanating from Luo Xia, like a boundless ocean of blood, slowly engulfing him.

"Zizzizi..."

Above Rorschach's head, crimson lightning seemed to come alive, stretching across the sky in a long, cracking pattern, like some kind of strange blood vessel, instantly spanning hundreds of meters before landing on the long sword embedded in Blackbeard's chest.

"No! No!! You promised you wouldn't kill me! Akainu promised me!"

Feeling the approaching aura of death, Blackbeard screamed desperately.

“He agreed, but I didn’t.” Rorschach said expressionlessly.

The next instant, crimson lightning crashed down from the sky like an inverted waterfall, completely engulfing the wailing Blackbeard.

"Boom!"

Amidst a shower of crimson lightning, Rorschach's body seemed to break through space, appearing in front of Sabo, who was using his teleportation ability while pulling Luffy and Ace along, and slapped the three of them!

Chapter 670 The Extinct Flame

"Impossible! How can he be so fast? I'm a user of the Teleportation Fruit!"

Sabo looked at Rorschach, who had suddenly appeared in front of him and blocked their way, with disbelief in his eyes.

Unbeknownst to him, although his teleportation fruit ability allowed him to move quickly, Rorschach had already made the corresponding movement several seconds before he could even react.

This is Observation Haki that allows one to foresee the future!

Moreover, when Rorschach enters the Limit Break mode, the speed he unleashes during short-distance movement within a kilometer range is so great that it's no exaggeration to call it teleportation.

Seeing Luo Xia's massive, knotted hand descending like the collapse of the heavens, he gritted his teeth and activated teleportation once more.

In a flash, Sabo and his two companions vanished from Rorschach's sight once again.

But when he reappeared, what he saw was the same tangled giant hand as before, which shattered the air in front of the three of them with a single slap and crashed down with unparalleled force.

Behind the large hand that slammed down was Rorschach, his face cold and indifferent.

"King Hand Flying Car!!"

Sabo swiftly released Ace and Luffy, his hands flashing out in a flash, crossing into claws like the gaping maw of a dragon, wreathed in jet-black Armament Haki, as he faced Rorschach's descending hand alone.

Of the three, only his teleportation ability could keep up with Rorschach's attacks.

Ace and Luffy, who were thrown out by him, could only watch helplessly as Sabo flew towards Rorschach like moths to a flame.

"No! Sabo!"

The two men's eyes widened in fury, and before their shouts could even finish, they heard a loud cracking sound. Sabo groaned as his wrists, which were aimed at Rorschach, twisted and bent, and he was sent flying through the air by Rorschach's slap into the broken ice of the inner bay.

"Sabo!" Ace and Luffy cried out in grief and indignation.

As soon as Luffy landed, scalding steam billowed from his body. He tried to rush towards Rorschach, but a large hand descended from the sky and pressed him heavily to the ground.

"Who? Let me go! Let me go!"

Luffy struggled desperately, trying to break free from the large hand behind him and rush out.

However, the large hand pressing down on his back and head was like a ten-thousand-meter-high mountain, impossible to move.

At the same time, a hoarse, aged, and sorrowful familiar voice rang in his ears.

"Luffy, I won't let you pass."

Luffy's struggling body froze instantly, his eyes, which were practically spitting fire, filled with disbelief, before he struggled even more fiercely.

He screamed in distress, "Grandpa? Why are you doing this? Let me go! Let me go! Sabo... his life is in danger! Ace, and Ace! That devil is going to kill Ace! What are you doing? Ace... he's going to die!"

Garp held Luffy down tightly, raised his head, and looked at Rorschach chasing after Ace with his cloudy eyes. His burly body trembled, and his cracked lips quivered.

"Twenty years ago, when Roger entrusted Estoril to me, I agreed to his request without much hesitation. Because I always believed that Roger's crimes were his own business and had nothing to do with an unborn baby."

"For this reason, even when the World Government demanded that our Navy thoroughly investigate Baterila Island, and even when they cruelly massacred those equally innocent women and children, I... persisted..."

"The baby is innocent, and it is utterly absurd to hold an unborn child accountable for the sins committed by his father!"

"So, even though I watched the tragedy on Baterila Island unfold, I still didn't choose to hand Ace over..."

"I want to raise Ace to be a brave and righteous marine, completely severing ties with his father, Roger. That way, even if his identity is ever exposed and the World Government finds out, I will risk my life to protect him. Because he did not commit any crimes and should not die like Roger!"

"But... why doesn't Ace listen to me? He insists on becoming a pirate and following in Roger's footsteps."

“He’s going to be executed now, he’s going to…die, and I…I can’t stop him, because he’s committed a crime. He’s become a pirate, he’s killed many innocent sailors, he’s murdered many innocent civilians, he’s no longer the innocent baby he once was…”

“He is guilty! I am a marine! I cannot protect a sinner who has committed a grave crime, even if that sinner is my family member!”

Garp's pained voice, accompanied by hot tears streaming from his eyes, fell onto Luffy, gradually stopping his struggling movements.

Luffy was pinned to the ground by Garp, struggling to lift his head, staring blankly in the direction of Ace.

"Ace!"

"Damn you, Lan Lin! Stop right now!"

On the inner bay plaza, Marco, Jozu, Vista, and the others were all furious, their eyes bloodshot as they watched Rorschach chase after Ace like a crimson meteor. They unleashed their strongest power, desperately trying to break free from the Marines in front of them. Ignoring the risk of being injured, they charged towards Rorschach without fear of death, trying to stop him.

Ace was equally furious because Sabo, in order to protect himself, was thrown into the depths of the inner bay's ice by Rorschach, and his fate was unknown.

After being abandoned by Sabo, he did not turn around and run away, but instead threw a fiery punch at Rorschach who was rushing towards him.

The towering flames roared and engulfed Rorschach like a tsunami.

The intense heat emanating from the blazing flames distorted and burned the surrounding air.