One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

"Because I don't want those people at the bottom to live a life of hardship, not to mention being exploited by the rich, taxed by nobles, and repeatedly robbed and killed by pirates. I don't want you to live in this muddy world, and I don't want our children to live in a world without hope or future."

"Our child? Brother Luo Xia is talking about... a Qilin?" In the darkness, Yun Que's little face flushed slightly.

Luo Xia shook his head, "No, not just Qilin, we will have other children in the future."

"No...other children?" Hibari's body went limp, and his voice was weak.

Rorschach smiled, gently stroking her hair, and whispered, "After we wipe out Kaido this time, let's have a child. Let's not let that old man Vegapunk cause trouble. If we want a child, we can have one ourselves."

"Mmm..." Yun Que had already slumped softly into Luo Xia's arms, too shy to look up.

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Song World.

As Shanks and Issho watched Rorschach's menacing hand slowly pull out of Luffy's chest, their minds went blank.

At this moment, Luffy finally stopped his bizarre, loud laughter. He stared blankly at his torn chest and his vanished heart. The upward grin on his face slowly subsided, and instead of pain, he appeared calm.

He looked at Rorschach, at this mortal enemy who had killed Ace, and felt an extraordinary calmness in his heart.

"So this is what death feels like? It doesn't seem to be that painful."

Luffy raised his hand and pressed it against his empty chest, as if he could still feel the pounding of his heart that had been beating just a moment before.

His gaze shifted from Rorschach's face, mechanically and stiffly turning his head to look at the vast earth below. He saw Shanks in agony and collapse, Uta weeping incessantly, and a self-reproachful smile.

No, he saw even more people.

He saw Garp, his face aged and filled with guilt and struggle in his eyes; he saw Ace, smiling; he saw Rayleigh, showing approval; and he saw Yasopp, Lucky Strike, and others telling him stories in the Windmill Village bar.

I saw Sanji, Nami, Robin, Usopp, Chopper, Sabo...

"So everyone's been here all along. Thank you for being there for my capricious self for so long."

Luffy murmured, his lips slowly curving downwards, his hair turning from white to black, the flame ribbon behind his head disappearing, his eyes returning to their original state, and two streams of hot tears flowing down from the corners of his eyes, dripping into the void.

"Rorschach, thank you too, thank you... for letting me find my sadness again, for letting me find my tears again."

Rorschach remained silent, his face hidden in the darkness, his expression unreadable.

He calmly said, "I will devour the will of Nika within you, making it disappear completely from this world, so that a Pirate King who will usher in a new era of pirates will never appear again. The Great Pirate Era ends here, completely."

Luffy could no longer hear what he was saying.

His eyes slowly closed, and his body fell backward, plummeting from the sky.

A giant hand reached out and caught his broken body, cradling it in its palm.

"Rorschach, are you...Joy Boy?"

"No, Straw Hat Boy is."

"No...you already are."

For some reason, Rorschach suddenly recalled the conversation Kaido had with him before his death.

His massive arm trembled slightly, and his resolute face emerged from the shadows, two shocking lines of blood sliding down his cheeks—it was hard to tell whether they were blood or tears.

"I am not Joy Boy! I am Rorschach!"

"Naval Rorschach!"

"General Luo Xia of the Blue Scale!"

Rorschach roared to the sky, and brilliant lightning surged into Luffy's shattered body. A massive suction force targeting his consciousness erupted, enveloping Luffy. The next moment, a phantom figure appeared amidst the shattered lightning, gesturing wildly, accompanied by billowing flames, beating a drumbeat, and emitting Nika's laughter.

The phantom danced merrily, laughed heartily, and beat the drums in its chest, resisting the devouring force emanating from Rorschach.

Despite Rorschach's powerful devouring ability—enough to easily swallow Totemjika—it failed to work amidst Nika's laughter and the resounding boom of the Liberation Drum, and he was locked in a stalemate with the rubber spirit Nika, the sun god, who had not yet dissipated within Luffy's body.

He stood a thousand meters in the air, endless lightning surging from his body, enveloping and binding himself and Luffy, whom he held in his hands. The space within a radius of several thousand meters, even tens of thousands of meters, distorted around them. The immense suction force was even more terrifying than the suction of Barrett's Dark-Dark Fruit.

Under the dazzling, sun-like light of lightning, a girl's sorrowful and painful song suddenly rang out across the dark earth.

"Where does this gentle breeze come from?"

Even with such an inquiry, the sky did not answer.

Where will this song ultimately end up?

I want to find the answer that belongs only to me.

Let's stride forward towards the unknown shores of the sea.

That one and only dream, I will never give up.

Raise the sails in your heart and move forward with your wishes.

I only wish that I could convey this song to you, no matter when.

Set sail on the sea and become a breath of fresh air.

Each of them moves towards their own happiness.

Even though he was covered in wounds, he still stretched out his arm.

If sadness can be transformed into strength.

It should be able to overcome even fierce winds and torrential rain.

I firmly believe that at the end of that journey, we will meet again.

One cannot wake up from a dream while fully awake.

On the other side of the horizon, I wave goodbye to that shadow.

I only wish that I could convey this song to you, no matter when.

The unfurled sails were blown by a gentle breeze.

That one and only dream, I will never give up.

Even as I am gone, the song will continue to resonate.

I only wish that I could convey this song to you, no matter when.

Set sail on the sea and become a gentle breeze...

Amidst the soaring and sorrowful melody, the figure of Shanks, struggling to soar into the sky to find Lufly, suddenly dimmed, gradually fading away and disappearing from this world of song.

Shanks felt a jolt in his heart and turned around sharply to look at where Uta was.

"Uta!"

"I'm sorry, Shanks, I'm so sorry. It's all my fault for being so willful. I caused all of this. I killed everyone, I killed Luffy, I killed Beckman, I killed everyone." Uta knelt on the ground, her hands clasped to her chest, singing with tears streaming down her face.

“I will send you away, then close this place, shut down this world forever, and bury you with the devil and the demon king, to be forgotten by the whole world. Consider it my final atonement.”

"Farewell, Shanks, farewell, my...father."

Chapter 826 The Ruthless Rorschach

"No! No! Uta!" Shanks was overwhelmed by endless pain. He screamed hysterically, trying to stop Uta. He struggled desperately to rush toward Uta.

But it was all in vain. No matter how much he struggled, his figure was rapidly dissipating, which meant that his consciousness was being rejected by this world and was about to return to the real world.

With the death of the Song Demon King Totemjika, Uta, after awakening, became the sole ruler of this Song World. Even someone as powerful as Shanks could not resist her power and was irresistibly sent out of the Song World by Uta's songs.

He was the first to be sent away by Uta, followed by Issho, Aokiji, and then the billions of innocent people scattered all over the world who were drawn into this world because of her singing and Barrett's Horn-Horn Fruit ability.

As tens of millions of people were driven away by Uta's song, the world gradually returned to its former desolation.

Uta actually hates the world she created.

Because this place has always been deserted.

There was no Shanks, no Red-Haired Pirates, no Luffy, only her, all alone.

Even though she knew that Shanks had left her because of Totemjika, she still stubbornly clung to her own ideas and childishly cooperated with that devil, Bullet, wanting to use her abilities to create a free, equal, happy world without pirates.

She didn't really want to do this, she didn't really want to kill so many people, and she didn't really want to bring everyone into this eternally sleeping utopian dream.

She simply wanted Shanks' approval, Shanks' acceptance, and Shanks' love.

But Uta never expected that her little act of willfulness would lead to such a terrible consequence.

Millions died in this disaster, including many people she knew, her loved ones and family.

Yasopp, Lucky Strike, Drogon, Beckman, Luffy...

"Luffy, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, it's my fault that you died."

After seeing off the vast majority of people in this world, Uta's physical strength was on the verge of exhaustion.

At this moment, the only people left here were Rorschach, who remained motionless in the sky, Barrett on the ground, and Kizaru, Zephyr, and other marines.

Uta hesitated for a moment, but gritted her teeth, suppressed her fainting spell, and continued singing, sending off G5 and the headquarters' navy one by one.

"Brother Luo Xia!" As the light faded and disappeared, Yun Que watched Luo Xia, who was enveloped in electric light, from afar, her heart filled with worry.

Then, Kizaru, Zephyr, and Enel, who were entangled with Barrett, were also sent away one by one, leaving this world.

With their departure, the world became completely empty.

On the dark earth, only Rorschach in the sky, Barrett on the ground, and Uta himself, slumped on the ground, remained.

Having lost its target, Barrett let out a beastly roar and went berserk, smashing everything in its path and shattering countless pieces of the earth.

But soon, his attention was drawn to the intense energy fluctuations in the sky, and he turned and walked towards Rorschach.

Unfortunately, Uta, who was slumped on the ground, happened to be in his path.

Looking at Barrett, who was a hundred meters tall, covered in all sorts of bizarre limbs, constantly oozing black pus, and with three faces, Uta just sat there blankly, his empty eyes devoid of any life.

She was not dead yet, but she felt no fear of her impending death.

For Uta, being able to leave Rorschach, who killed Beckman and Luffy, and the devilish Bullet here was already the best possible outcome.

In Uta's eyes, the two of them were demons, even more terrifying than Totemjika, that ancient demon.

Uta actually wanted to keep Enel, since that guy killed Luigi and Yasopp. But Uta worried that keeping him would give Rorschach an ally to help him win the fight against Barrett.

Uta knew that a battle between Rorschach and Barrett was inevitable, and that neither side could escape this world in the end, regardless of who won. Uta still didn't want to see Rorschach have a chance to win.