Chapter 205: Death of Roland, card · virtue
In the sky behind Luffy, Youbike's temporal illusion continued. In the desert kingdom of Alabasta, the dying Roland was covered in blood. He watched in despair as his teammates turned into scarlet drop cards, and the Morning Star of Hope fell. He looked at the overlord's egg that had appeared in his hand at some point. Due to the violent throbbing of his heart, the overlord's egg quickly hatched.
Then came the descent of the Netherworld, and Roland became a God Hand in immense sin. Guts, who had rushed over, watched this scene in despair.
Guts painfully put down the dragon slayer sword, his expression a mix of tears and laughter. It turned out he had never escaped the Abyss God's deception. After Griffith, another close friend of his, by fate, activated the overlord's egg.
When that new eclipse fell, Guts calmly accepted everything. He no longer resisted. After leaving the dark dragon slayer sword, Guts voluntarily leaped into the Netherworld's vortex and disappeared.
Subsequently, God's Hand Roland on Sky Island corrupted everyone, until Black King · Luffy arrived, killed everything, and ended this tragedy.
The true Roland should have died back then, but his obsession made him a target for the Abyss God to exploit, or rather, even Roland's obsession was within causality.
It was precisely because Roland was an extremely idealistic, pure good person, holding the wish for everyone to have a good ending, that he plunged into the Berserk derivative world, wanting to give Guts a good ending, which is why he was targeted by the Abyss God.
Because of his inclination towards good, he was coveted by evil;
Because of hope, he ultimately fell into despair.
It wasn't Guts who failed to escape causality, but himself…
Roland showed a smile of complete understanding, but that smile was more painful than crying.
Luffy looked at this kind good person showing such an expression, and veins bulged on his forehead one by one. This damned Space, those damned worlds, always made these good people bear suffering, while those evil ones, even in death, had no regrets.
A strong murderous aura appeared on him. The Black King · Luffy no longer showed any trace of his former innocence and purity. The boy who laughed heartily, wanting to be the freest Sea Thief on the sea, had died in countless worlds. What remained was only a King of Vengeance who wanted to destroy everything with violence.
More ferocious than Reincarnators, more brutal than Reincarnators.
With a cold snort, Luffy turned his head, his dark long hair swaying, and Haki of the Conqueror once again wrapped around his body.
Roland watched Luffy walk away from him. He recalled that on Sky Island, after the other party killed him, he also left with such resolve. Perhaps, in the heart of this former youth, after countless losses, each loss was another cut to his heart.
And his own persistence in clinging to life, stubbornly wanting to strike that blow against the Abyss God, in a sense, was also repeatedly stabbing the other party's heart.
He was forcing Luffy to kill his friend again.
"Ha…"
Roland looked at his dark spiritual body. The cloth covering his head was the shroud used in his hometown for the deceased. Looking down, his spiritual body was already riddled with holes, disfigured by the God Hand's erosion.
The Abyss God would not directly control him. He merely saw all his possibilities, and thus knew what choices he would make given his character. Therefore, the Abyss God only needed a little arrangement to achieve His goals while making him believe he was acting according to his true self.
Roland looked at the Netherworld Demons and the shattered Skuld Island. He suddenly realized that he had once again caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people.
Counting the nearly ten million people who disappeared in Alabasta, he might be more ferocious and brutal than the Reincarnators who had done those terrible things to Luffy.
Roland looked at his hands, feeling they were already stained with blood.
He looked at Luffy, who was about to walk towards Bai Cangshu, and suddenly spoke,
"Luffy."
Luffy stopped. That name already felt somewhat unfamiliar to him. He remembered that only these friends and those companions from his past memories would call him that.
Others, the Marine and Sea Thiefs, used to call him Straw Hat Kid, and later Reincarnators called him "that guy," "the one from the Black King Society"…
He turned his head, and through the Netherworld entrance he had broken, illuminated by the pillar of light, Roland seemed to return to his former appearance, that pure and idealistic look with golden hair draped over his shoulders.
"Please apologize to the Captain and everyone else for me."
"This time, I caused trouble for everyone."
Luffy's pupils trembled, and his heart felt that familiar surge of warmth for the first time in a long while.
Roland was in tears. At this moment, his spiritual body no longer held any regret or resentment.
"Walking this path since joining Azure Sky, I… have no regrets."
Buzz!
Roland's spiritual body stretched. On the other side, a white light suddenly lit up in Bai Cangshu's body.
Luffy became aware of his body, his right arm instinctively wanting to lift, but he quickly forced it down.
A companion's resolve, even in death, should be upheld.
In Bai Cangshu's sea of consciousness, Gojo Satoru looked at the incomplete spiritual body that suddenly glowed with white light. In an instant, he formed a hand seal, preparing to activate Domain Expansion, but the white spiritual body was already illusory. As soon as it bloomed with light, it turned into white mist and dissipated on the Heart Throne.
Bai Cangshu was enjoying the slaughter when he suddenly found his body starting to glow, and strong soul fluctuations appeared. He turned his head and saw Roland's spiritual body, half-eroded by the God Hand, pouncing towards him.
Bai Cangshu instinctively raised his right hand.
Pfft!
Without needing to use any abilities, he already possessed the characteristic of touching and attacking spiritual bodies. The pouncing spiritual body had no defenses, its hands spread open, allowing Bai Cangshu's right hand to pierce through its chest.
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Bai Cangshu's pupils constricted, seeing Roland's relieved smile.
And through Roland's transparent spiritual body, the Black King in the distance, with his long hair flying and dark Haki of the Conqueror constantly impacting all directions, slowly closed his eyes with a sorrowful expression.
"You…"
Roland looked at Bai Cangshu, who had transformed into an ugly appearance, but said nothing before dissipating with the wind.
You have killed the special Reincarnator · Roland.
Special Cooperation Mission · Chaos's End has been completed. All Reincarnators will now undergo mission settlement.
Settlement complete. Your completion rate for this cooperation mission is: S+.
You have obtained A-rank singularity points *1, dimensional points 12000.
You have killed a supernormal creature · God Hand (secondary Demon).
Special Trial · Path of the Supernormal progress updated. You have broken through your Mental extreme, obtaining the supernormal characteristic · Active Spirit.
Active Spirit: Your Mental has powerful invasiveness and infectivity. You can use Mental power to intervene and control weaker creatures, and when in direct Mental contact, cause erosion and infection effects on others' Mental. This ability's effect is influenced by the Mental power difference between both parties.
You have unlocked a new efficacy · Mental.
Efficacy: Physique (Flame Dragon Scales) · 1.8.
Efficacy: Mental (Active Spirit) · 1.7.
(Note: Efficacy represents the conversion efficiency of physical abilities. Currently, your Mental attribute's conversion efficiency in corresponding Mental resistance, Mental power, and exemption abilities is 1.7 times the default value of the first tier.)
A white-glowing card slowly condensed in Bai Cangshu's right hand. That was the last thing Roland left in this world. His Reincarnator body had long since died, and not even a scarlet drop card appeared.
You have obtained a special item, card · virtue.