I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

Sieg pondered to himself.

In addition, Lockes' attitude also made Sieg suspicious.

"Aren't you going to hold a grudge about me poking your butt earlier?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lockes' eyes widened, he coughed heavily, and vomited a mouthful of blood.

Then he spoke:

What are you saying?

"We are pirates, and being a pirate is not some harmonious and friendly child's play game."

"Attacking the body's weaknesses, fighting two against one, using tricks and schemes... these are the methods of us pirates."

At this point, Locke frowned. He had been waiting for a long time, but Sieg still hadn't made a move.

What are you waiting for?

"You won't give me a quick death, do you want me to suffer and die?"

Lox's expression darkened further.

The torment of double the pain was extremely unbearable for him at this critical moment when his life was hanging by a thread.

"Captain Rocks, you've misunderstood. I really didn't have any conspiracy. The Vegapunk incident was just... an accident."

Sig said seriously.

Lox glanced at Sig, a look of approval in his eyes.

"Excellent!" Rocks praised.

"Even at this moment of great victory, you remain calm and composed. I knew I hadn't misjudged you."

“Wang Xige, you and I are the same kind of people.”

"On this vast ocean, only you have seen my true ambition."

"Only a true pirate like you, who is ruthless, thick-skinned, ambitious, and cunning, might have the potential to achieve great things!"

Lockes held Sig tightly with one hand. The massive blood loss had turned his face as white as paper, but the light in his eyes had not dimmed at all.

"Go! Go conquer, go destroy, go tear those useless bastards off their thrones as kings of the world!"

"It's much more interesting for people like you and me to be the rulers of the world than for the Celestial Dragons."

Lox smirked and burst into loud laughter that shook the heavens.

Sieg sighed softly and began to explain:

“Lox, I don’t have such ambitions.”

He pondered for a moment, then, before this dying man, he revealed his true feelings:

"My simple goal is just to live a peaceful life."

Lox glanced at Sig, but the smile on his face didn't fade.

"After conquering the world, do you plan to live a peaceful life?"

"Although it's a bit of a surprise, it doesn't sound bad. It's better than me now."

After a long while, his loud laughter gradually subsided, and a self-deprecating smile appeared on his lips.

"What kind of world king is he... in the end, he still died in this nameless place."

His voice grew weaker and weaker until it finally faded away completely.

"Dead? Really dead?"

Sieg's heart trembled violently; he had already realized that Rocks in front of him was no longer breathing.

Now, how should this end?

A system light screen automatically unfolded in front of him, and a prompt appeared before his eyes.

"Warning: A major plot event has been irreversibly altered; the power of causality is insufficient to mitigate its effects..."

"warn:....."

The system warning beeped three times, while Sig stood in front of Lockes, his face showing a mix of panic and confusion.

Even now, he still finds it hard to believe what he just witnessed.

Having accidentally killed the sea tyrant Rocks, Sieg is now in a panic.

How to do?

Urgent, waiting online!

"It seems there's no other way?"

Sieg sighed softly.

He gently bent down, picked up the captain's hat that Rocks was wearing, and put it on his own head.

Speaking of which, this hat was placed on Lox's head by Siegfried himself a week ago during the Battle of Scarborough.

.........

Coastline of the island.

The Rocks Pirates crew members who were waiting all looked up towards the depths of the island.

Although they couldn't hear the sounds of Sig and Lox fighting, and their view was blocked by mountains and forests, they could tell from the violent tremors of the earth and the surging waves around them that an extremely fierce battle had taken place in the center of the island.

"There's no more noise, it seems to be over."

“Serrent, we should head over there too, to pick up Captain Lockes.”

One of the pirates suggested this.

Serent pondered for a moment, then stood still and waited. Seeing that there was no further movement in the distance, he nodded slightly.

With a wave of his hand, the invisible wall of silence was removed.

Then, the pirates headed towards the depths of the island.

Crossing forests and mountains.

The deeper they went into the island, the more awe they felt.

The battle between the two, Rocks and his companion, didn't last very long, but it nearly shattered the center of the island.

A deep ravine bisected the entire mountain, with broken giant trees and rocks scattered everywhere. The area deep within the mountains was a mess, with wide cracks everywhere and hardly any intact ground.

"Look! Captain Rocks is over there!"

A sharp-eyed pirate shouted.

Everyone looked up.

Before the abyss-like crater, Lox stood alone with his back to them beside a pool of blood, his robes fluttering in the wind and his disheveled black hair being blown about by the gale.

“Captain Loro...”

"By the way, where is First Mate Wang Xige? Where is he?"

Someone asked.

Lox turned around and looked at his crew with a blank expression, his eyes burning with what seemed like dark flames, forcing everyone to lower their heads instinctively.

Rocks' robes were stained with blood and torn in many places, but he did not have any obvious injuries.

Whitebeard's pupils contracted slightly. His gaze swept over Rocks for a moment, then finally settled on the broken sword at Rocks' feet.

This is a straight-bladed longsword, the blade of which has been broken off and is now only half intact. The remaining half of the blade is also twisted and bent.

Whitebeard knew that this was Wang Sig's sword.

The longsword was broken and clearly subjected to a tremendous external force that distorted it, obviously the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit.

"Wang Xige is dead."

Lox spoke indifferently, his voice low and resonant, echoing in the abyss beneath his feet.

“Wang Xige was disobedient and disobeyed my orders. He deliberately let Vegapunk, an important figure I needed, go. I have already killed him with my own hands.”

His indifferent gaze swept across the entire room.

"Anyone have any objections? Speak up."

The voice was resounding and echoed for a long time in the abyss.

Everyone fell silent, terrified.

Rocks was still alive, with almost no serious wounds, but there was a pool of blood on the ground, and Wang Xige's body was nowhere to be seen...

Therefore, Wang Xige's body either fell into the abyss below, or his body was incomplete and died a gruesome death.

Judge followed in the crowd, squinting at Rocks with a complicated look in his eyes.

Panda Rum hesitated for a moment, then lowered his head slightly and sighed softly.

Whitebeard gripped his large naginata, Murakumogiri, his knuckles turning slightly white from the slight pressure, but he ultimately said nothing.

This scene was also witnessed by Silent, who was standing nearby.

"Whitebeard, if you have any objections, say them now in front of Captain Rocks."

Silent sneered:

"You were so arrogant when the captain wasn't around, you didn't even respect me. Now, just say what you want to say."

The atmosphere immediately became heavy upon hearing this.

Many pirates turned their attention to Whitebeard and Rocks, wanting to see how they would react.

However, neither Whitebeard nor Rocks maintained their composure.

No one noticed that Rocks' fingers trembled slightly behind his back.

After a long pause, Whitebeard finally raised his eyes and glanced at Silent:

"Pirates are not child's play."

"The winner lives, the loser dies. That's the rule of pirates, it's only natural. Pirates don't care about revenge."