One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

Aokiji gave Rorschach a faint smile before his figure transformed into shattered ice mist, carried by the sea breeze, and flew towards Punk Hazard Island.

Chapter 704 Akainu VS Aokiji

On the sea off Punk Hazard, Rorschach stood quietly on the watchtower atop the mainmast of the warship, gazing in the direction where Akainu and Aokiji were.

At this moment, he is about to witness an epic battle that will determine the future of the entire navy.

At the heart of Punk Hazard Island lies a ruined laboratory.

Since Rorschach dealt with the illegal laboratory that Doflamingo had set up here, this place has been destroyed by the massive explosion he caused.

The G5 has not established a naval base here.

The island is now a completely deserted island; even without a navy stationed there, there isn't a single pirate in sight.

The reason is that the island is still filled with thick layers of toxic gas.

When Aokiji landed in the center of the island, close behind Akainu, the battle between the two did not begin immediately.

Akainu and Aokiji stood facing each other, no more than three meters apart, and could see each other's expressions.

Aokiji's indifference is undisguised.

Akainu, on the other hand, has his mouth slightly upturned, resembling a vicious dog ready to devour its prey, making him appear both evil and cruel.

The expression on his face was exactly what Aokiji hated most.

Because whenever Akainu displays this expression, it's always during a bloody battlefield.

Both sides, friend and foe, will suffer enormous sacrifices.

His existence didn't resemble that of a navy officer upholding a belief in justice at all, but rather that of a brutal warmonger.

Every time Aokiji sees Akainu make that expression, he thinks of Kaido.

He was also a complete fanatical warmonger.

Aokiji stared coldly at Akainu, his voice chilling, like an Arctic wind.

"Do you know what? Someone like you shouldn't be a Marine. Since you enjoy killing so much, you should be a pirate."

"Don't you like killing, Kuzan?" Akainu surprisingly called out Aokiji's name, which made the coldness in Aokiji's eyes even more intense.

Before Aokiji could answer, he flexed his wrist, which was covered in black gloves, and chuckled, "That's right, you're kind-hearted and don't like to see your hands stained with too much of the blood of those so-called innocent people, so you don't like killing."

As he spoke, he suddenly took a step forward, standing only two meters away from Aokiji. His muscular body leaned forward slightly, and a smirk appeared on his lips, revealing an undisguised mockery.

"So I want to ask you a question: Was the war at Marineford fun?"

Aokiji's eyes were cold, and he remained silent. White frost began to rise from his thin body, and the surrounding temperature began to plummet.

Akainu remained unfazed, raising his black-gloved right hand and pointing his index finger at Aokiji's face. His voice grew colder, "You keep saying Rorschach did a good job, but what have you, a Marine Admiral, done? After a major battle, all you've accomplished is a mere buffalo, Atmos? As a Marine Admiral, on a battlefield where soldiers are dying and being wounded at the hands of the enemy every moment, you still cling to your laughable, foolish, and utterly irresponsible kindness?"

“I’m telling you! Kuzan! Of the 23,700 people who died in this war, at least 7,000 are responsible for their deaths! It was because of your hypocrisy that they lost their lives!”

His voice was like a series of heavy hammer blows, striking Aokiji's heart, causing his eyes to flicker and making him even more silent.

"War has begun and you're still hesitating? What do you think this place is? A game of make-believe?"

Akainu's face was full of sarcasm.

He slightly raised his chin, looking at Aokiji, whose face was slightly pale, with disdain, and sneered: "And that old bastard Garp, you two are truly master and apprentice. You learned your indecisiveness from him, didn't you? A dignified naval hero, yet he raised the son of a world-class criminal and two pirate grandsons. Is this what you call a naval hero?"

"Shut up." Two cold words were squeezed out from between Aokiji's teeth.

A terrifying killing intent, like a biting north wind, enveloped Akainu's body.

Akainu, however, remained unmoved, coldly sneering, "Now you're crying and wailing in Marineford? If he had refused Roger's request back then, would so many innocent pregnant women and babies on Baterilla Island have died? If it weren't for his deliberate cover-up, there wouldn't have been this war at Marineford that cost tens of thousands of soldiers their lives. If we're talking about the biggest executioner and butcher in Marine Headquarters, isn't it me..."

He pointed at Aokiji's nose and angrily rebuked, "It's you and Garp, those hypocrites!"

"Shut your dog mouth!"

Aokiji's eyes blazed with fury, and a chilling aura condensed on his right hand, gleaming with a glassy, ​​icy luster. It was wrapped in high-level, jet-black Armament Haki, and he punched Akainu in the face.

Akainu clenched his right fist, and a blinding red light burst forth from it. The surging heat distorted the air around his body, trailing billowing black smoke. He threw a punch straight at Aokiji's incoming right fist.

"boom!"

The two fists collided instantly, and two violent forces poured out of their bodies towards each other without reservation. The powerful Armament Haki, enhanced by the extreme cold of the freezing air and the extreme heat of the magma, also carried an untouchable destructive power.

Amidst the swirling, overflowing air currents, Aokiji, who had unleashed his fury, only managed to hold his own against Akainu's crimson punch for less than two seconds before his body tilted slightly backward, as if unable to withstand the terrifying, volcanic-eruption-like energy erupting from Akainu's right fist.

"Let me tell you! What is true justice, and what is true kindness!"

Akainu gritted his teeth, and a rumbling vibration emanated from his right arm. A torrent of fiery red lava gushed out from his arm, exerting an irresistible force on his fist. It crushed Aokiji's right fist, pressing him off the ground. With a loud bang, he smashed through the air behind him and flew backward like a cannonball.

"Justice is to kill every single pirate, leaving none alive!"

Akainu stomped his foot, causing the ground to collapse, and he was lifted into the air, unleashing a massive fire breath at Aokiji, who was flying backward.

A giant magma fist, the size of a house, trailing long plumes of black smoke, roared through the sky like a train, crashing down on the massive ice shield that Aokiji had instantly deployed in front of him, slamming him and the ice shield into the depths of Punk Hazard.

Akainu swooped down from the sky like a volcanic bomb, crashing heavily into the shattered ground, smashing and scattering the flowing lava and the ever-freezing and spreading ice.

He raised his right foot high, like a battle axe, and stomped down on Aokiji's face, which was locked in by his Observation Haki.

"To kill off the enemy before our own side suffers heavy casualties is the greatest act of kindness!"

"Boom!"

The fiery red lava sprayed out like a fountain, exploding and scattering in all directions.

Akainu's right foot stomped on Aokiji's right arm, which was blocking his way, causing the Haki armor covering Aokiji's body to tremble.

Scorching hot magma erupted from his right foot, pouring down on Aokiji like a torrent, burning and consuming his Armament Haki, while simultaneously burying his body deeper into the ground.

"Akainu! You're still as good at sophistry as ever! Stop making excuses for your bloodlust! Justice? Kindness? You think you're worthy of it?" Aokiji gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with icy killing intent, and an endless chill erupted from his body in an instant.

"Frozen! Thorns!"

"Pfft!"

Countless thick, sharp, crystalline ice spikes pierced outwards from his body, piercing through Akainu's body with a soft "plop," bringing out a large patch of fiery red magma as they pierced through Akainu's body.

Aokiji, who was pinned under Akainu's feet, instantly transformed into a giant sea urchin.

The ice spikes protruding from his body resembled giant stalactites hanging upside down in an underground cave, constantly increasing in size and length.

Akainu, whose chest was pierced by an ice spike, was propelled upwards by the ice spike, slanting straight into the air, and was instantly lifted to a height of over a hundred meters.

The ice spike that pierced his chest grew thicker and thicker until it completely burst his body, turning it into a shower of lava and fire.

From the deck of the warship beneath Luo Xia's feet came the shocked exclamations of the soldiers responsible for steering the warship.

In their view, a giant ice flower with a diameter of over a hundred meters suddenly bloomed on Punk Hazard Island.

The crystal-clear ice flowers are covered with countless huge ice spikes, which pierce the sky like hedgehogs.

"Freeze! Thousand-Thorn Spear!"

Amidst the hedgehog-like ice flowers, Aokiji's icy voice boomed, and the massive ice flowers exploded, shooting hundreds and thousands of enormous ice spears, each tens or hundreds of meters long, towards Akainu, who had just materialized in the sky.

At that moment, a hail of bullets rained down, shooting upwards against the sky, the sound of them tearing through the air like a sudden storm, rain pattering on banana leaves.

"Meteor Volcano!"

A hundred meters in the sky, Akainu clenched his right fist and blasted out a series of raging, burning volcanic bombs at the countless ice spikes that were shooting in from all directions.

The magma, radiating terrifyingly high temperatures, seemed to have just erupted from a volcano, trailing thick, sulfurous smoke and carrying immense, unstoppable kinetic energy, as it slammed into the oncoming ice spear.

With a crisp, cracking sound like shattering glass, thick ice spikes were pulverized by giant magma fists the size of houses, turning into countless ice shards that scatter across the earth.

After crushing the barrage of ice spears that rained down from the sky, the volcanic bombs, resembling meteorites, continued their relentless descent towards Aokiji, who stood on the ground.

"boom!"

As the first volcanic bomb landed, Aokiji's tiny figure was swallowed up by the exploding torrent of lava.

What followed was a cluster of crimson meteorites.

"Boom boom boom boom boom!"

One after another, fiery red magma fists crashed down on the earth, causing Punk Hazard Island to tremble violently and shatter.

In the blink of an eye, a large lake of fiery red lava, steaming with intense heat, appeared on the ruins of the enormous laboratory.

Meanwhile, the warship where Rorschach was located was pushed backward away from Punk Hazard Island due to the violently shaking sea below.

This forced Rorschach to order the marines on the warships to move away to avoid being destroyed by the aftershocks of the battle coming from the island.

He himself moved swiftly, transforming into a streak of lightning, soaring thousands of meters into the sky, overlooking the battle situation from the heavens towards Punk Hazard Island.

Almost the instant Rorschach soared into the sky, the ground where the laboratory ruins had been transformed into a turbulent lava lake was instantly covered by an extremely cold ice storm.

Ice Age!

"Click-click-click..."

The thick ice layer instantly encased and froze the raging magma, turning the entire surface of Punk Hazard Island, including mountains and rivers, into glacial land.

The fiery red magma, frozen by a thick layer of ice, shimmers like crimson crystal under the sunlight, a breathtaking sight.

With a wave of his hand, Aokiji froze the entire island. Emerging from the shattered lava lake, he instantly bent down and placed his right hand on the ice in front of him once more.

"Ymir's Spear!"

Amidst the continuous crackling sounds, a massive ice spear, hundreds of meters in diameter and resembling a towering pillar, suddenly and rapidly rose from the frozen glacial ground in front of him. Extending infinitely into the sky, its tip, wreathed in flowing black aura, continuously pierced through layers of air shockwaves, like a rocket taking off, and stabbed towards Akainu.

However, Akainu had already transformed into an erupting pillar of magma when he froze Punk Hazard, soaring thousands of meters into the sky before turning around and diving headfirst down at Aokiji.

His body was like a volcano filled with billions of tons of magma, gushing out fiery red lava and enveloping his body layer by layer.

In just a few breaths, he was enveloped by the rapidly gushing magma, becoming a giant magma meteor hundreds of meters in diameter, and crashed to the ground with a thunderous roar.

"Heavenly Fire Meteor!"

Chapter 705 The Sword of Magma and Flame

On Punk Hazard, the battle between Akainu and Aokiji had only just begun when it caused devastating damage to the island, which was no smaller than G5.

Looking down from several thousand meters above where Luo Xia was, the entire island below had now turned into a vast expanse of white glaciers.

The towering mountains and the low-lying lakes in the center of the islands are all covered with thick layers of ice, emitting frigid air at temperatures tens of degrees below zero.