One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

The venom poured into the bear's body from Satan's spider legs, corroding most of the modified steel structure inside the bear, causing the bear's eyes to glow red and large amounts of black smoke and steam to billow out from its body.

"Kuma!" Ivankov cried out in alarm and rushed over, only to be kicked in the face by Kizaru and sent flying back with a scream.

"Airwalk!" Sanji used Moonwalk to increase his speed, bypassing Kizaru and rushing towards Kuma.

"Sorry, I can't let you pass, Black Leg Sanji." Kizaru scratched his head, and in a flash, he was in front of Sanji, kicking out.

With a dull thud, the person who was sent flying was not Sanji, but a burly Marine.

“Senmonomaru…” Kizaru was stunned, his raised right leg stopped in mid-air.

Sanji seized the opportunity to rush past him and kicked Satan in the face.

Satan was humiliated again, and was so angry that he raged. His huge spider leg swept down and hit Sanji in the waist, causing him to cough up blood and fly away.

"Grandpa! Stop being so stubborn!" Sentomaru braced himself on the ground, his eyes red as he looked at Kizaru, tears streaming down his face. He roared, "The World Government doesn't represent justice! Haven't we known that for a long time? Things have come to this point, what are you still insisting on? Why do you continue to help these monsters?"

Kizaru remained silent, then spoke in a hoarse voice, "This old man... has no choice."

"Nonsense!" Sentomaru shouted hoarsely, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth, "Everyone has the right to choose their future, and so do you! The World Government is no longer worth your continued sacrifice! Think of Rorschach! How much has he sacrificed for the Navy and the World Government? Countless charges into battle, life-or-death struggles, and what has become of him?"

"He's dead! He died at the hands of his own people, at the hands of the World Government!"

"You know better than I what destroyed Manbetx Island!"

Sentomaru cried almost pleadingly, "Grandpa, think back to when you first joined the Navy. Don't continue down the wrong path... I don't want to see you end up like Rorschach and Vice Admiral Garp, suffering the same tragic fate."

Kizaru stood there blankly, his lips moving, his fists clenching and unclenching. Behind his sunglasses, his eyes looked at Sentomaru, who was covered in blood and tears streaming down his face. Finally, as if he had made up his mind, he took a deep breath and was about to say something when his body jolted. He grabbed the sunglasses off his face, looked up at the sky, and his pupils dilated.

"Rorschach...?"

Not only him, but also the Five Elders, Dragon, Big Bear, and others who were fighting on Egg Point Island looked up.

In the distant horizon beyond their sight, a streak of light and fire cut through the sky and clouds, approaching at breakneck speed. In an instant, it descended upon Egg Tip Island, showing no sign of slowing down, and crashed down at an angle, striking the back of the Bull Demon Satan like a meteorite falling from the sky.

In an instant, Satan's massive, mountain-like body exploded, and a head with bull horns flew high into the air, where it was caught by a muscular hand that swelled up like an inflating balloon.

Amidst billowing smoke and dust, a towering figure, over ten meters tall, rose from the ground and looked down into the arena.

"Rorschach? You're not dead?" The faces of Maz and the others were filled with disbelief.

Chapter 839 Two Deaths and Three Escapes

In an instant, it traversed tens of kilometers of sky, rushing in like a comet, and with one blow blasted Satan's Oni form into a pile of minced meat. This caused the Five Elders and the Revolutionary Army, who were fiercely fighting on Egg Point Island, to stop their battle at the same time. Pairs of eyes filled with shock, anger, and surprise converged from all directions and fell on the majestic figure that stepped out from the rolling dust.

"Rorschach! You...you're not dead?" Satan, whose head was being grabbed, stared wide-eyed in astonishment at Rorschach, who was surrounded by blood-red thunderclouds and fiery clouds. His expression was as if he had seen a ghost, and his mind was in turmoil.

Nassou, Maz, and the others stared at Rorschach in shock. Their attack on Dragon stopped because of this shock, allowing Dragon to escape.

They couldn't help but be shocked.

It's important to understand that Rorschach was struck head-on by Uranus's destructive beam of light, and the destructive energy it received was several times greater than the energy that had previously destroyed a country. Under such a cataclysmic energy attack, even a Logia-type Devil Fruit user whose body can transform into elements would be annihilated into nothingness and die completely.

Although Rorschach's Mythical Zoan ability had awakened, he should have been completely obliterated by this level of power.

While mythical beasts possess strong vitality, can they compare to Zunesha? Can they even compare to them?

Even Zulu, the elephant king, was instantly killed by Uranus's attack.

Throughout this long history spanning eight hundred years, they have never seen anyone survive a direct hit from an ancient weapon, not even someone as strong as Joy Boy.

This is the unparalleled power of ancient weapons, the fundamental reason why they were able to firmly rule the world for eight hundred years.

But now, Rorschach's appearance has shattered their understanding, to the point that Satan and the others haven't even realized that Rorschach has already defeated Satan as soon as he appeared.

Unlike the Five Elders' shock, Sabo, Sanji, and the others showed anger and hatred when they saw Rorschach.

Grief-stricken by Luffy's death, they ignored the oppressive aura emanating from Rorschach and immediately charged forward with a furious roar, attacking him.

"Rorschach!! I'm going to kill you!"

Sabo's eyes were bloodshot as he unleashed a powerful, dragon-claw punch aimed at Rorschach's face. Due to the excessive speed, his fist ignited a raging fire as it scraped against the air.

Sanji's demon bloodline factor had awakened, and his Demon God Kaze Jambe, which was also burning with flames, and Sabo's Dragon Claw Fist, one on the left and one on the right, almost simultaneously struck Rorschach's left and right cheeks.

A violent burst of power erupted, shattering the flames and creating a deafening impact. The towering flames engulfed Rorschach's upper body.

However, Luo Xia did not make the slightest move in the face of the two's strongest attack.

He just stood there, in his human-beast form, which surpassed the ultimate form of Devil Fruit awakening, 'Mythical Beast,' and his strongest attacks were barely comparable to those of top-tier fighters like Sabo and Sanji, yet they didn't harm him in the slightest.

Their punches and kicks couldn't even break through the armor that stretched across Luo Xia's body; they were blocked a meter away from him. That tough, domineering armor flowed and swirled across Luo Xia's towering body, which was over ten meters tall, radiating an aura as heavy as a mountain. No matter how much the two roared and exerted their strength, it remained unbroken.

“Rorschach…” Vegapunk looked at Rorschach from afar, his eyes filled with complex emotions.

In the past, he had seen Rorschach's intention to save the world from the World Government by his actions in saving Kuma and Bonney. So he subconsciously felt that perhaps one day in the future, Rorschach would cooperate with Nika, the sun god who would bring freedom and liberation to the world as recorded in the Ohara Poneglyphs, to resist tyranny and fight against the World Government.

To this end, he risked offending Satan and the World Government, using Rorschach's bloodline factor and at a great cost, to create a near-perfect Seraph Kirin based on Rorschach, and then handed over the highest authority to control the Kirin to Rorschach.

However, no one expected things to turn out this way.

When the final outcome of the Expo Island incident was revealed, the world was in uproar. At the same time, a group of people who knew the truth of the past felt disbelief, anger and pain over Luffy's death.

This includes Vegapunk.

Much of the knowledge he acquired came from the vast library of Ohara, a kingdom from eight hundred years ago. He was fortunate enough to peruse most of the books there and recorded them in his mind using his Brain-Brain Fruit powers.

It can be said that he is one of the few people in the world who knows the truth about the world.

It is precisely because he knows those hidden truths that he understands even more what the sun god Nika means to this world, and how important Luffy is.

It is no exaggeration to say that Nika's existence is a belief. Countless people in this world are waiting for his appearance to lead all races and nations to resist the world government and move towards a beautiful future of racial equality and equality for all.

Now that Luffy is dead, the sun god that everyone has been waiting for is gone. This means that the person who would become the brightest light has disappeared, people will lose hope, the world will lose its light, and will fall back into a long night.

The eight-hundred-year wait of countless people has turned into nothing.

Without Nika, who will unite the diverse forces around the world?

Giants, fish-men, bakani, and minks—these powerful races were all once protected by the sun god, and their legends and prophecies about him remain in their respective clans. Only the existence of the sun god can bring these races together, setting aside their differences, to fight for the dream of equality for all.

Without Nika, all the backup plans left by Joy Boy, which could only be activated by Nika's Drum of Liberation, became useless.

For example, on Egg Point Island, there's an ancient robot with immense combat power that attacked the Holy Land two hundred years ago. He'd studied this robot many times in the past, trying countless methods, but to no avail. Vegapunk speculated that its activation was likely related to Nika.

For example, Laugh Tale, the final island reached only by Roger and his pirate crew, is the one treasure that ushered in the Great Pirate Era. Perhaps only Nika could open it. Otherwise, Roger would not have returned empty-handed and chosen to create a future that could overthrow the World Government's rule by sacrificing his own life.

But now, all of that is gone.

And the culprit who brought all these illusions and dreams to an end was Rorschach.

This man, who single-handedly ended the Great Pirate Era started by Roger, has enough pirate blood on his hands to stain the oceans of the New World red. Today, just hearing his name or code name is enough to make even pirates far away in the world turn pale and go limp.

He is the most dazzling existence of this era. In just a few short years, through countless life-and-death battles, he climbed to the top by stepping over the corpses of countless great pirates, becoming the strongest navy of this era, and now the strongest man and the strongest creature recognized by countless people, kingdoms, and forces all over the world.

Vegapunk initially thought Rorschach would be another Nika.

Although his sense of justice is somewhat extreme and his methods of dealing with pirates are exceptionally cruel, Vegapunk has always believed that Rorschach is not another Akainu.

But now...

"Rorschach, why did you kill Straw Hat Luffy? You could have gone together and saved this world together." Vegapunk sighed, feeling somewhat saddened. Even he didn't know where the future of this world would lead.

Dragon flew over from a distance and came to a short distance in front of Rorschach, looking at him with a complicated expression.

In his eyes, there was both the guilt and sorrow of being a father who could not protect his son, and the anger that Rorschach had destroyed a hope of saving the world.

At the same time, he was also impressed and shocked by Rorschach's actions in using the world of Gaga with unimaginable determination and courage to eliminate millions of criminals in one fell swoop.

If it were him, Dragon felt he absolutely could not make that decision.

Although those people were unforgivable criminals, they still numbered in the millions. These people came from various kingdoms and factions, spanned all industries, and some even had close ties with the Navy and the World Government.

Eliminating these people might bring some peace and stability to the world, but in the short term, it will inevitably cause greater chaos.

Just as the death of the loan shark king would not lead to the disappearance of loan sharking, but would instead trigger competition among Dufield's rivals for territory in the short term, thus leading to more crimes.

After Whitebeard died, his territory descended into even greater chaos.

Even if the World Government were destroyed, it wouldn't necessarily lead to world peace and equality; it would only be equivalent to removing a corrupt ruling class.

Without the World Government's high-pressure control, the kingdoms and forces around the world that already possessed powerful military might go out of control and begin to reveal their previously hidden sharp claws.

After all, without the suppression of a powerful regime like the World Government, the only thing left to restrain the mighty power of those individuals is their personal morality.

And morality is the least valuable thing.

However, Rorschach's actions on Expo Island, to a certain extent, severed the claws of these powerful forces. If they were to have the opportunity to overthrow the World Government's rule in the future, the new era they would usher in would certainly be much less chaotic as a result.

"You monster, why won't you die?"

Sabo continued his frenzied attack, tears streaming from his bloodshot eyes.

He hated his own powerlessness. His enemy, Rorschach, was right in front of him, yet he couldn't avenge Ace and Luffy.

Rorschach treated his frenzied attacks like ants on the roadside, completely ignoring his existence and not even retaliating against his actions. There was no anger on his face; his eyes were calm and unwavering, as cold and hard as ice.

Rorschach, with Satan's head still in his hand, walked unimpeded through the barrage of attacks from Satan and Sanji, standing in front of Dragon and looking down at him.

As their eyes met, Dragon felt the terrifying pressure emanating from Rorschach. This pressure was far stronger than that of the Five Elders, and even the combined pressure of several of the Five Elders couldn't match the pressure Rorschach alone exerted on Dragon. This caused Dragon to feel a profound sense of awe.

He had no doubt that Rorschach, if he wanted to, could kill him and all the Revolutionary Army members here in a very short time.

The two stared at each other for a long time before Dragon broke the silence.

"Rorschach, what... do you want to do?"

Unlike Sabo and Sanji, he did not take action against Rorschach because of Luffy's death.

While Luffy is certainly important to him, he is the leader of the Revolutionary Army and bears the future of the Revolutionary Army on his shoulders, so he cannot act impulsively.

Under the wary gazes of Ivankov and the others, Rorschach extended a monstrous hand crackling with lightning and fire, easily brushing aside Sabo and Sanji in front of him, and held it out to Dragon, saying expressionlessly:

"Let me see your memories."

"What?" As soon as Luo Xia said this, not only was Dragon stunned, but everyone else was also stunned.

Dorrag frowned, not believing he had misheard.

Although he didn't know when Rorschach had acquired the ability to see other people's memories, he still asked in return, "Why do you want to see my memories?"

“I want to see your determination to save the world.” Rorschach’s voice was calm, as if he were talking about something trivial.

"If you are a hypocrite who created the Revolutionary Army with the aim of replacing the World Government and becoming the ruler of this world, I will kill you here and all the members of the Revolutionary Army."

Rorschach's words caused all the Revolutionary Army members present to change color in shock.