One Piece: Starting with the execution of Pirate King Roger

After living as roommates for so long, the name Ryan had long since become as important to Smoker as Hina.

"What exactly are you trying to say?!" Smoker pressed.

"it is good."

Renn nodded. That was exactly what he was waiting for.

He took a deep breath and, under everyone's gaze, uttered those earth-shattering words:

"I plan to save all these scholars."

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Smoker and Rosinandi both gasped in shock.

"Are you insane?! Raine!" Smoker practically jumped up, his voice low and menacing. "This is the Buster Call! It's the World Government's highest order! Even if we don't carry out the order, openly disobeying it?! Do you want to be executed as a war criminal?!"

“An order from the World Government?” Rein sneered. “Smoker, look around!”

He pointed to the unarmed people trembling in the firelight.

"What crime did they commit? Just for studying history? Just for knowing things that some people shouldn't know?"

"I don't care what the government's orders are!" Ryan's voice suddenly rose, filled with unquestionable authority, "But this is a massacre!"

These words struck Smoker and Rosinante like a heavy hammer blow.

Rosinandi was kind by nature and already deeply resented such indiscriminate attacks. At this moment, he clenched his fists so tightly that his nails dug deep into his flesh.

Smoker's chest heaved violently. He believed in "justice," but he believed in the justice in his own heart, not in the indiscriminate orders from above!

"...Oh shit."

Smoker spat angrily on the ground, "I knew nothing good would come of hanging out with you!"

He raised his head, his bloodshot eyes fixed on Renn: "Tell me, what are we going to do! There are at least dozens of scholars here, we're too big a target, how are we going to escape?! There are warships everywhere outside!"

A slight smile finally appeared on Ryan's lips.

"now it's right."

He didn't answer immediately, but walked straight to Smoker and ripped the military satchel he was carrying off his shoulder.

"Hey! What are you doing?!" Smoker was taken aback.

Ryan unzipped his jacket, reached inside, and pretended to rummage through it.

The next second, to everyone's astonishment, Ryan pulled out a whole bunch of things from his small satchel: sterile gauze, hemostats, rolls of bandages, several large bottles of medical alcohol, suture needles and thread, and seven or eight small pill bottles filled with various kinds of pills.

The items quickly piled up into a small mountain on the ground.

Smoker rolled his eyes on the spot.

He glanced down at the pile of supplies, then at his own deflated satchel, too lazy to even shake it.

"I...I knew it...it's that trick again," Smoker muttered, clearly unfazed by it.

Ignoring his two companions' reactions, Ryan grabbed some essential first-aid supplies and shouted to the group of scholars behind him, "Does anyone know anything about medicine? This lady is in critical condition! Help her control her injuries!"

Several scholars in the crowd immediately realized what was happening:

"I know!"

"I used to be a doctor!"

"Okay! Come here quickly!"

Raine handed them the things and then knelt down beside Olvia. Her breathing was very weak, and the wound in her abdomen had started to bleed again.

Looking into her gray eyes, which were beginning to glaze over from blood loss, Ryan said softly:

"Hang in there, madam. Soon you will be able to reunite with your daughter and live together forever."

Olvia's unfocused pupils suddenly contracted! With her last ounce of strength, she gripped Rein's wrist, her lips parting slightly: "Who...who are you...why are you helping us...helping Ohara..."

“There will be plenty of opportunities to chat later.” Ryan gently placed her hand back. “Let’s save your energy for now.”

He stood up and watched as the scholars, though somewhat clumsy, began to clean and stop the bleeding for Olvia.

Renn's gaze fell upon the blazing Tree of Omniscience.

He asked himself whether he would have chosen to save these scholars had the Tree of Omniscience not intervened.

The answer is yes.

This has nothing to do with any "saintly heart." Rather, it's because his soul from a past life cannot tolerate being a bystander.

If today, having the power to rewrite everything, he still chooses to ignore it like a tortoise, and afterwards comforts himself that it is all their fate.

He would despise himself for the rest of his life; he didn't want to live like that kind of useless person.

Chapter 62 It's Not That Easy

Just then, Dr. Clover, leaning on a cane and supported by several scholars, walked over.

He bowed deeply to Renn.

“Thank you for saving our lives,” he said sincerely, “but… the World Government has issued a Buster Call against us, and there is nowhere left for us on this vast ocean. You saved us, but where can we go?”

Despair still looms over everyone.

"Do not."

Ryan shook his head: "I know a place. A place that is absolutely safe and perfect for you to do your research in peace."

He raised his head, his gaze seemingly piercing through the thick smoke and flames, looking up at the sky.

"We'll set off once Ms. Olvia's injuries have been treated."

For the first time, a glimmer of hope truly shone into the hearts of the scholars.

Ryan turned back, wasting no more time, and began giving instructions to Smoker and Rosinandi:

“The plan is simple. Smoker, you’re in charge of creating a large area of ​​smoke to engulf us all. Rosinandi, you’re in charge of eliminating all sound. We must break through to the port undetected.”

He paused, then added, "I will take care of any 'minor troubles' that may arise on the way."

Upon hearing this, Rosinandi felt that his abilities were finally going to be put to good use! He nodded heavily, eager to prove himself, and immediately activated his abilities!

"The Realm of Silence!"

An invisible circular domain unfolded instantly!

In an instant, the sounds of wind, fire, cannon fire, scholars' discussions, and weeping... everything was silenced!

The scholars, who were engaged in a heated discussion, suddenly found themselves unable to utter a sound! They opened their mouths in horror, but could only see each other's silent mouth movements.

A new wave of panic is spreading!

Raine opened his mouth as well, but found that no sound came out.

He was so angry that the veins on his forehead bulged.

Boom!

He swung a powerful punch, slamming it into the back of Rosinandi's head.

"Pfft—!" Rosinandi was hit so hard that his eyes rolled back.

Ryan mouthed a silent roar at Rosinandi: "Idiot!! At least wait until I've finished explaining to them before you start driving!!"

"Ah! Sorry!" Rosinante finally realized what was happening and quickly deactivated his ability.

A piercing noise surged back instantly.

The scholars were taken aback at first, then erupted into an even bigger uproar. They looked at Ryan and Rosinandi in horror and instinctively took a few steps back.

"What...what just happened?"

Why can't we speak all of a sudden?

"Is it... is it the power of a Devil Fruit?"

This unknown fear of Devil Fruit abilities lasted only a few seconds before being replaced by another, much larger emotion.

"what--!!"

An elderly scholar abruptly turned to the burning giant tree, tears streaming down his wrinkled face. He rushed over, grabbed Renn's sleeve, and pleaded desperately:

"The Tree of Omniscience is still burning! Please help us, for it contains all the fruits of our wisdom."

"Yes! I have to go back! Those manuscripts haven't been backed up yet!"

"Yes! Let's go back!"

"Death is not terrible! But knowledge must be preserved!"

His words ignited a powder keg, and the other scholars became agitated, some even desperately trying to rush back. Looking at the giant tree was more painful than seeing themselves die.

"Stop right there, you bastards!"

Raine's voice even drowned out the artillery fire from not far away.

"Books?! You're still thinking about books?!"

"Books are merely vessels of knowledge! They are inanimate! You are the living ones!"

"As long as you live, knowledge exists! When you die, those books, even if they remain, will be nothing more than waste paper for future generations to admire!"

He pointed to the burning giant tree, his voice filled with unquestionable authority:

"Human wisdom and its inheritance depend on your minds, not on those pieces of paper! If you survive, you can create ten or even a hundred times more knowledge than those papers contain!"

"Now, everyone follow my orders!!"

The scholars were stunned by these words. Although their faces were still full of grief, the madness in their eyes finally faded and was replaced by the will to survive.

Raine quickly informed all the scholars of the plan to break out in smoke and silence, and sternly warned them not to fall behind no matter what happened.

Faced with the threat of death and the hope of new life, the scholars displayed astonishing determination.

"Smoker!"

"White smoke!" Smoker transformed his arms into smoke, creating an unprecedented thick fog that resembled a moving white wall, enveloping dozens of scholars.

"Rossinandi!"

"Silent Domain!" Rosinandi activated his ability again, this time being more careful and confining the area to the smoke.

"set off!"

Renn waved and walked at the front, and the group began to silently advance toward the port amidst the smoke and silence.

“Speaking of which…” Raine sensed the chaos around him with his Observation Haki, “Where’s that Giant Vice Admiral Saul? Why didn’t he rush over as planned? Never mind him… Anyway, I remember in the story, although he was frozen by Kuzan at the end, he didn’t seem to die…”

This combination worked surprisingly well.

The island was in chaos, with the navy carrying out bombardment and encirclement missions. This "silent fog" moving in the chaos did not seem particularly abrupt, but rather resembled a huge cloud of smoke and dust stirred up by artillery fire.

A dozen minutes later, the port came into view in the distance.

Just as a glimmer of joy began to rise in everyone's hearts—

Renn suddenly stopped in his tracks.

Smoker and Rosinante stopped in their tracks and looked at him with puzzled expressions.

Raine didn't answer; he simply looked up and gazed at the back of the line.

The temperature... seems to be dropping?

Rein's extraordinary Observation Haki spread out like a radar network covering the entire island.

Not far behind them, from the other end of the island, a powerful, icy aura was rapidly approaching along the coastline at an incredible speed!

This aura was cold and powerful... without a doubt...

"Kuzan".

Renn was instantly paralyzed.

"I knew it wouldn't be that easy!"

"This aura... it's clearly coming straight for us. It seems like he knew we were here from the very beginning!" Rein's Observation Haki detected that Kuzan's icy aura was rushing straight towards their cloud of smoke at high speed, without the slightest deviation.

"Where's Saul?!" Renn screamed inwardly. "Come out and save him! You should be the one stopping him!"