One Piece: The Salted Fish Fruit

Chapter 226 The New Fishman Pirates! War Begins!

"Jinbe! You traitor who betrayed Tiger!" Hody, who had run back, bared his fangs at Jinbe, his frenzied emotions instantly spreading to the new fishmen behind him as he roared!

The shouts and curses rose and fell, and emotions surged instantly!

"It's amazing that someone of their caliber gets along so well with humans! Brother Arlong is only doing this because of them..."

Hody Jones's snarling, fang-baring voice echoed throughout the square!

Behind them, the New Fishman Pirates brandished their weapons wildly, every accusation and pronouncement stirring up their thoughts!

Rise above humanity! Crush the holy land!

On the distant platform, the fish-men huddled together, trembling under this propaganda. Their shared ideals of peace, along with those of the eldest prince, crumbled in an instant under this violence! The palace's strongest forces had already been defeated; their trial was imminent! Who could save them now?

"Straw Hat Luffy, do you want to fight us? We could blow you away with a single breath! Hahahaha! You're only a dozen or so people, what makes you think you can fight us!"

"There are a full 100,000 of us!"

"Aww! Haha! Haha!"

Xuan Yang's roar instantly ignited the entire arena! Countless merfolk had ferocious eyes, as if the dozen or so pieces of meat in front of them were not enough for each of them to be slaughtered.

"Lord Luffy! Please save our people! Our people shouldn't shed blood for this violence. We've always wanted to live together with humans!" Shirahoshi's childish yet resolute voice seemed to suddenly appear in a concert's suona horn. The sound wasn't loud, but it had an extremely piercing power, directly awakening the fish-men who were lost and confused about the future.

That's right! We still have the Straw Hat Pirates! And Boss Jinbe! The desperate fish-man clung to that last straw!

"Straw Hat Pirates, please help us!" One person's words stirred up thousands, and hundreds of thousands of fishmen gathered on the high platform, chanting in unison. That was their only hope for salvation!

"Hahahaha! These noble merfolk actually dare to beg for human help? I'll show you how they die by my hand!" Hody Jones roared with laughter, raising his arm high and swinging it forward!

"The new Fishman Pirates! They killed the Straw Hat crew!"

"Ah!" In his excitement, the merman completely forgot the fear of being electrocuted and fell to the ground, and leaped forward rapidly, holding his weapon high.

"Has the battle begun?" the group of people standing in front of the Sunshine asked with a smile, casually drawing their weapons.

Luffy walked slowly forward with a gloomy expression. Facing tens of thousands of fishmen attacking in unison, his red figure was like a lonely red giant hammer, crashing heavily into the surging crowd.

A sharp, cold light swept across his eyes, and a powerful aura of dominance burst forth from his body as if it were a tangible force, crashing into the running fishman in front of him. It instantly entered the fishman's mind like a resounding bell, causing those with weak mental strength to have their eyes roll back and collapse to the ground.

Thump! The advancing fish-men instantly collapsed and lost consciousness under the powerful impact, startling the pirate fish-men behind them who pressed their legs firmly into the ground, creating deep furrows as they looked at each other, not daring to take another step forward!

"Ah! What on earth is going on?" The fishmen on the same high platform were also stunned into silence!

That's 50,000 people!

One look was enough to knock them unconscious!

What kind of ability is this?!

Hody, who was in charge of commanding the battle, also had his pupils contract, but when he saw the pirate crew of only a dozen people, a look of madness reappeared in his eyes!

"Charge! All of you, charge! They only have a dozen or so men! We still have fifty thousand!"

"Ah!" The merman commander guarding him took the lead and set an example to restore his original fighting spirit.

"Let's go too! Angelia, go rescue Neptune and the other two." Maggie laughed as she looked at Luffy, who had finished showing off.

“No problem, leave it to me!” Angelia replied, her wings flapping as she transformed into a white lightning bolt and arrived beside Neptune.

"This kid's Conqueror's Haki is getting stronger and stronger!" Zoro chuckled to himself as he drew his longsword, two cold beams of light flashing by!

Two colorless air blades were instantly fired, clearing an empty passage below Angelia.

"Angelia, wait for me! I'll help you fend off those evil fishman bastards! Let the grilled fish fillets burn!" Sanji's entire body instantly collapsed, and black sand drifted along with Angelia's figure, not just some black sand particles sticking to the fishman's skin.

"Ah! My skin is on fire!" The merman, who was moving forward, suddenly discovered that clusters of flames were burning on his body and screamed wildly. No matter how he patted it, he still felt a burning sensation. He gritted his teeth and stuck his weapon under the flames. He dug out a burning charcoal ball the size of a ping-pong ball and it fell to the ground with a smelly sound of charred meat.

"Hehehe! Everyone's started, so let me give you a battle background music!" Brooke took out a guitar and looked at his comrades in battle with a happy smile. His white fingers lightly plucked the strings, and a passionate sound resonated from the guitar body, enhancing the battle atmosphere of his comrades' swords.

In an instant!

The sounds of piano music, sword chopping, lightning strikes, and fists colliding echoed and reverberated throughout the square.

“It’s time for us to go too.” Mia and Jack exchanged a glance.

The giant axe and the swift rapier appeared simultaneously, transforming into two beams of light, one white and one yellow, rushing towards the murloc team and carving two paths through the crowd.

"It seems everyone has improved quite a bit. Looks like we need to finish this quickly so we can go shopping and have a banquet," Maggie laughed, drawing two long swords from her waist and preparing to rush out.

"Mabi!" Jinbe shouted, seeing Mabi's posture.

"Is something wrong?"

"···"

“I have a favor to ask: Brother Mabi, please spare more lives on Fishman Island. After all, they were only misled by Hody,” Jinbe said after a moment’s thought.

Upon hearing this, Mabi glanced at Jinbe. As expected of a renowned chivalrous figure on the high seas, he was willing to spare even his own country's enemy.

“Alright, I agree!” Mabi nodded. Since her companion had spoken, she couldn’t refuse. She sheathed her sword and punched a merman who was lunging at her.

If we can't kill with a knife, then let's use the wildest method!

Every punch landed squarely, shattering bones!

With a sudden stomp of her foot, the earth and rocks below instantly shattered, and under the powerful reaction force, Mabi's figure crashed directly into the arms of a merman.

"Crack!"

The hard bones cracked and popped, countless bones breaking under Mabe's powerful impact!

Looking up at the pained merman's face, he slightly raised his right fist and then suddenly struck down, sending the merman crashing into his companion behind him and slamming into the distant stone wall, creating a circular crater forty meters in diameter.

"That felt good! I haven't felt this good since I fought Charlotte Bellbell. Punches are so satisfying." Mabi stretched her shoulders and arms and laughed. Her figure disappeared again as she punched the fishman to the side, aiming only to knock him away, not to kill him!

Otherwise, if he were to strike the air with a single blow, probably not many of them would survive; they would all turn into sashimi!

Chapter 227 Sweeping Away Everything! A Victory Without a Tense Implication!

"Thirty million volt thunder beasts!" Several blue-white thunder wolves, each ten feet tall, formed in the void, took agile steps, and galloped past. Wherever they passed, the fishmen were covered in blue smoke and collapsed to the ground.

"Thunderclouds!" Clumps of dark clouds floated in the sky, and countless blue-white lightning bolts were drawn into the steel weapons below and rushed into their respective owners' bodies.

"Nami!" Several furious roars echoed.

"Sorry! I couldn't control myself for a moment!" Nami winked mischievously, showing no remorse for attacking her friend.

"My turn! Franky's Mechanical Laser Cannon!" Franky stopped his motorcycle and activated the mechanical switch on his arm. One by one, blue plasma cannonballs burst from Franky's hand, forming a barrage of bullets. He stood guard on both sides of the Sunny, preventing the chaotic fishmen from advancing an inch!

"A Hundred Flowers in Full Bloom! Giant Tree!" Two enormous long legs swept across, each strike sending dozens of people flying, only to be sent flying again by others.

"Haha! Everyone's strong, so I can't fall behind." Usopp stood at the tank hatch, holding a plant slingshot and laughing loudly.

"Chopper and Apis drive into the crowd. I'm going to show them the results of my two years of training."

"Roger that!" Apis, who was in charge of driving the battle tank, excitedly stretched out her little hand. At the same time, Chopper, perched on her head, directed the battle, flooring the accelerator and gripping the control stick as they swerved wildly towards the fish-like group.

"Hey! Apis, slow down! Don't step on the gas and don't add too much cola!" The violent shaking caused Usopp to sway back and forth.

Even so, he continued to launch slingshots. Countless vines flew through the air, binding all life around him.

"I want to participate too!" Old Tong, who existed in another dimension, said dejectedly as he looked at the illusory projection of everyone's struggle. As an elf, it would be difficult to move without the help of external forces, let alone a huge body like his with a diameter of hundreds of meters.

Snap, snap, snap! Several vines slapped against his round body, symbolizing that someone was with him.

"Hmm? You want to fight? Then go ahead, but open fewer portals so they don't invade our base. After all, this is the Straw Hat Pirates' reserve base." Old Tsuru replied, looking at the giant vines patting his body.

In his excitement, the vines formed circles around his limbs, using the Door-Door Fruit to open up the spatial barrier and extend the rest of the vines to specifically target and whip the large fish-men. The vines trembled involuntarily, a testament to his pleasure.

The merfolk watching from afar stared wide-eyed at the devastating battle below. A team of just a dozen or so men charged against a fighting army of fifty thousand, and they achieved an overwhelming victory. Rows of merfolk flew through the air like baseballs, and every second, thousands of them were rendered powerless and lay on the ground groaning like salted fish.

"Jinbe and the others are so strong." Shirahoshi said softly, her hand on the ground as she watched the Straw Hat Pirates in battle.

"I originally thought that only Luffy and the Maple brothers were the strongest, but I didn't expect that their companions also have combat power comparable to the captains of New World pirate crews. With two Logia-type Devil Fruit users and more than half of them being Paramecia-type Devil Fruit users, it's a truly terrifying team," Jinbe replied.

"Brother Luffy and the others will definitely save us." Shirahoshi clasped her hands together in front of her, waiting for the final outcome.

"Leave it to them. I'll join the battle and help them." With that, he stepped forward, leaving Franky to control the laser cannon and block all the fishmen.

One minute later!

No more fishmen took flight in the entire square; only a dozen or so figures stood calmly in the center. Under the sunlight, their figures resembled demon kings descending to earth, startling the nearby fishmen who forced themselves to retreat cautiously and slowly!

Their formidable combat abilities were already ingrained in their minds. Even several commanders were no match for them; they could be dealt with in just a few moves. Their idea of ​​being superior to humans crumbled instantly, and they lost all will to resist.

Fifteen versus one hundred thousand!

One minute! A complete victory!

"Hehe! This is so boring. We lost completely with just basic attacks!" Zoro chuckled, sheathing his three longswords.

"Fists feel the most comfortable," Mabi replied, kicking away a merman who was about to slash at her. Her figure, like a cannonball, was once again embedded in the distant wall.

"Hoo hoo! Should we fight this one?" Sanji exhaled a puff of cigarette smoke, staring at the mountain-like figure in front of him. He huddled up like a quail, trembling with his back to Mabi and the other two.

"You'll have to ask him. If you don't mind, let Xiao Lü give you another beating; she was quite a handful just now," Mabi replied.

Swish! A white flag was raised from the mountain of flesh to signify surrender.

"Tch! Boring!" The three immediately scattered, and the mountain of flesh behind them trembled violently.

Boom! The two figures collided in the square, and huge rocks shattered with the sound of their collision, sending up wisps of smoke and mist.

"Phew, only Luffy is left." Usopp said as they regrouped.

“Everyone’s gotten a lot stronger, huh?” Chopper said with a laugh, slinging onto Franky’s shoulder.

“Yes! I didn’t waste those two years.” Usopp pointed to the tip of his nose and became confident.

"Miss Nami, Miss Mia..."

"Please drink the combat drink I prepared for you; it's enough to replenish the water your bodies have lost." Sanji conjured several black, coal-like arms on his shoulders and respectfully offered them to the girls. The Devil Fruit's ability freed his hands, allowing him to cook several times faster.

"Straw Hat Boys, thank you so much! I don't know what would have happened to me and my country without you!" Neptune's deep voice rang out above everyone's heads, and a huge shadow loomed over them.

"Haha! Your Majesty only needs to continue the banquet that was not finished earlier," Maby laughed.

"sure!"