One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

Rorschach's left hand transformed into a ferocious Qilin claw, grabbing Barrett's right shoulder. With his right fist, he unleashed a barrage of punches on Barrett's head and face, causing blood to splatter everywhere and the sound of bones cracking to echo continuously.

Barrett roared repeatedly, swinging his fists like a child in a fight, relentlessly pounding at Rorschach.

The two remained locked in combat at an altitude of two to three thousand meters, exchanging blows as they plummeted downwards, crashing into the towering, deep blue behemoth's body, yet still relentlessly bombarding each other.

On the turbulent sea outside the island, Hibari, Yamato, and the others were speechless with shock as they watched the colossal beast's body crumble.

Such a terrifying creation of power was destroyed by Rorschach in less than a few dozen seconds.

Chapter 756 Aftermath

The Land of Harmony, the Capital of Flowers.

"Lord Mingwang! Please stop! General Orochi didn't mean it, please don't ruin our relationship!"

The old ninja with long earlobes, Fukurokuju, shouted anxiously, trying to stop the conflict in front of him.

"Help...help me, Kaido! I...I didn't mean to, I really didn't hear the Den Den Mushi ring! Ah...!"

The Orochi, whose head was being held by Kaido, screamed in terror and begged for mercy, but the enraged Kaido had no intention of listening to his explanation.

"Why didn't you wake me? You've caused me to lose several of my best men! Lingling!"

Kaido roared to the sky, two streams of hot tears flowing from the corners of his eyes. His voice choked with sobs as he wailed, "Waaaaah, I'm so sorry, I didn't protect your children, waaaaah!"

Just now, he woke up from his drunken stupor and received a Den Den Mushi from Jin.

The Den Den Mushi says that Katakuri may have died in battle on Soft Island, and that Rorschach killed him.

This shouldn't have happened so easily. It was all because I was drunk and made a mistake. And Orochi, the guy who hosted the banquet, acted as if he knew nothing about it. He knew the situation was urgent, but he didn't wake me up.

They deserve to die!

Seeing Kaido crying loudly, Fukurokuju, Kyoshiro and the others were very anxious. They wanted to say something more, but then they saw Kaido, who was holding the giant snake's head, clench his fist.

"Oh!"

With a muffled thud, the giant snake's head, enveloped by Kaido's massive hand, was squeezed out like a watermelon being crushed, releasing crimson juice from Kaido's palm.

Some of it even splashed onto the faces of Fukurokuju and Kyoshiro, causing the surrounding courtesans to scream and flee in terror.

"General Orochi is dead! The general is dead!"

Some servants screamed in terror, but the screams quickly stopped, because a terrifying storm of Conqueror's Haki suddenly erupted from Kaido's mountain-like body, sweeping outwards and causing them to fall to the ground like wheat being harvested, blood gushing from their mouths and noses.

With a deafening roar, Kaido soared into the air from the courtyard, transforming into a gigantic blue dragon amidst the raging winds. Supported by clouds of flame and the fierce winds, he swiftly flew out of the Flower Capital and headed towards Wano Country.

In the courtyard, Fukurokuju and the others rushed to the headless corpse of Kurozumi Orochi.

Just as a hint of pleasure appeared in the eyes of Komurasaki, the courtesan whose face was stained with blood, and Kyoshiro, the yakuza boss of the Flower Capital, they saw Orochi's headless body sit up straight.

Then, a black human head emerged from the headless chest cavity of Orochi, slowly transforming back into Orochi's appearance, leaving Kyoshiro and Komurasaki astonished.

"The general's secret must not be revealed. Get rid of all these servants and courtesans."

Fukurokujucho Kyoshiro made a decapitation gesture.

"Yes." Kyoshiro stood up indifferently and, with a group of thugs, took away all the unconscious people in the courtyard.

Soon, only the still-shaken Kurozumi Orochi and Fukurokuju remained in the courtyard.

"I want him dead! I want him dead!" Orochi's face was contorted as he grabbed Fukurokuju by the collar and pulled him in front of him, spitting as he roared, "Fukurokuju! Think of a way for me, I want Kaido dead!"

Fukurokuju's eyes flickered, but he calmly nodded. "I understand. I'll find a way. But for now, I think the general should find a place to hide. At least until Kaido returns, he must not find out that you are still alive."

"Kaido!! Wano Country is mine! It belongs to my Kurozumi family! Neither you, nor the Kozuki family, nor the Shimotsuki or Amezuki families, are worthy of it!"

The black charcoal serpent's face was contorted, and it roared madly at the sky as Fukurokuju and his men took it away.

After sending away the once-dead Kurozumi Orochi, Fukurokuju instructed his ninja subordinates: "Go, tell the guards watching Raizo to relax their guard and give him a chance to escape."

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A sea area more than 100 miles away from Songruan Island.

"Shanks! Shanks! Something terrible has happened! Come out and see!"

On the Redford, which was sailing on the sea, came Laquiru's loud shouts.

Shanks, who was talking to Luffy and the others in the cabin, came out in confusion upon hearing this.

"What happened?"

"Take a look for yourself." Lakiru held a large chicken leg in one hand and pointed to the sea outside the ship with the other.

Shanks, Luffy, and the others looked in the direction he was pointing and were all stunned.

"The sea... is frozen." Luffy's mouth dropped open as he muttered, "This is that stick-thin guy's ability. I saw it on Long Chain Island."

"Aokiji! Damn it, the sea is frozen. By the time we get there, the battle on Soft Island will be over, right?" Vista frowned, puzzled. "Didn't Aokiji leave the Navy? Why would he be helping them?"

Yasopp looked at Shanks, "What should we do, Shanks? Should we continue?"

Shanks scanned the vast ocean ahead and saw a white, frozen mist rising from the expansive sea in front of the Redford. An endless expanse of glaciers blocked their path, freezing the sea in place.

They can only move forward if an icebreaker comes and breaks through the thick ice.

With a casual sweep of his Observation Haki, he discovered that the massive ice surface was at least tens of kilometers wide. Even with icebreakers, it would probably take a long time to reach their destination, which was over a hundred kilometers away.

“Let’s get off the ship and run there; that would be faster,” Laquiru suggested.

"What will we do when we get to the other side of the ice? Swim? Aren't you afraid of exhausting yourself? I'm afraid of freezing to death." Yasopp rolled his eyes.

"Bucky, how about you fly me there?" Shanks turned around and looked at the red-nosed Buggy beside him.

Bucky, bristling with rage, jumped up and down, yelling, "Are you an idiot, Shanks? My legs can't fly! If you wanted to fly over there, why didn't you tell Issho earlier? He could have just flown our ship over from the sky!"

Shanks' eyes lit up, and he exclaimed in surprise, "Ah? Yes, how could I forget about this?"

Everyone looked at him and smiled.

With a smile, the scar on her eye caused her to open her eyes, revealing the whites of her eyes beneath her eyelids, as she looked ahead.

"I can take you there, but the place we're going to, the battle between the Navy and the pirates, seems to be nearing its end."

"What? It's over? Yixiao, what do you mean by that?" Bucky asked in astonishment.

"It means exactly what it says. The pirates over there have been wiped out by the Navy. Now only the Devil's Heir and Lone Red are left, and they are still holding on under the siege of three Navy Admirals."

"What? So fast? Weren't there supposed to be the Devil Pirates, the Ward Pirates, and the Beasts Pirates on Soft Island?"

Yi Xiao's words shocked everyone on the ship.

Shanks, Marco, and the others weren't surprised that Ikki knew what had happened over there.

Issho's Observation Haki covers an extremely wide range, making him undoubtedly the best among everyone, even Shanks can't compare to him.

However, even Shanks found it hard to believe, or rather, hard to accept, the result given by Issho.

He frowned and said, "Logically speaking, the Navy shouldn't have been able to resolve the battle so quickly. Even disregarding the Ward Pirates and the Beasts Pirates, Bullet's Devil Pirates alone are among the strongest in the New World. Bullet and Red are both world-class powerhouses..."

"It's Rorschach." Yi Xiao sighed and uttered a name that made Marco, Luffy, and the others change color.

"Rorschach!" Vista gritted his teeth upon hearing this name, wishing he could use his twin swords to sever Rorschach's head as a sacrifice to the spirits of his father, Ace, and Jozu.

"Is it related to Rorschach? What did he do?" Luffy pressed.

Yi Xiao's expression turned solemn as he said in a deep voice, "He's too strong. I'm afraid even I'm no match for him now. The Devil's Heir... is going to lose."

"what?!"

The crews of the two major pirate groups on the ship were all terrified.

Bucky was the most excited, flying into the air and shrieking, "Impossible! How could that madman Barrett lose to that Rorschach guy? I've never even heard of this Rorschach guy when I was in the East Blue. How can an unknown nobody be worthy of defeating Barrett, who is on par with Uncle Rayleigh?"

“Buggy!” Shanks stared at Buggy with a serious expression, slowly shaking his head: “Rorschach is no nobody. Shiki and Whitebeard both died at his hands. If someone like that is no nobody, then there are no celebrities in this world.”

As he spoke, he turned to look in the direction of Soft Island, his gaze becoming focused.

'If even Bullet isn't a match for that boy, then Luffy's only chance to defeat him is...'

Shanks fell silent for a moment, then turned to Yixiao and said, "Yixiao, let's go take a look."

However, he smiled but then shook his head.

Faced with the puzzled looks of the crowd, he looked up at the distant sky.

"We're afraid we won't be able to get through."

"why?"

Luffy was puzzled, and everyone looked up to see a sky island slowly falling from the depths of the clouds and hovering above their heads.

An elderly man with purple hair, smoking a cigar, sat on the edge of the floating island, smiling as he looked this way.

"Just as I guessed, Zephyr never really betrayed the Navy. The gold mine and the Tremor-Tremor Fruit on Soft Island were just a show put on by the NEO Navy and the Navy Headquarters, with the aim of targeting the Ward Pirates and the Devil Pirates."

Shanks looked up and saw Zephyr, and also a tall, thin figure standing behind Zephyr.

"Aokiji..."

Chapter 757 Killing Ryder

"Those two guys are terrifying. Are they trying to sink this island?"

On the western side of Soft Island, in one of the few remaining forests unaffected by Barrett's abilities, Kizaru, wielding a golden lightsaber, slashed at Ryder while looking eastward.

Over there, the earth continued to shatter and rumble, billowing smoke and dust that obscured the sky, as if the end of the world had arrived.

In the shadows, two burly figures could be seen tumbling and entangled deep within the smoke and dust, exchanging blows and colliding wildly, like humanoid war machines that would never tire.

Two powerful, deep blue auras surged and rolled across the shattered earth, like two tsunamis colliding violently.

After glancing at the battlefield in the distance, Kizaru turned to look at Ryder in front of him, pouting and saying, "Hey, Earl, aren't you going to surrender? If you keep fighting like this, your hard-won youthful body will be replaced by old age again."

"By drinking your blood, I will become young again."

Opposite Kizaru, Ryder, who had been besieged by him and Aramaki for a long time, had transformed from a radiant young man into a middle-aged man with noticeable wrinkles around his eyes and on his forehead.

Although his slashes were still sharp, Kizaru and Aramaki, who were opponents of the same level, could clearly feel that Ryder's aura was gradually weakening.

"That was truly terrifying, but in my body, there is only light, no blood."