"Conqueror's Haki?! Besides Cain and Katakuri, there's someone else?!"
Sengoku's pupils contracted.
His shocked gaze locked onto the area beneath the execution platform.
Beside Garp, the air around Zephyr surged violently.
The other source of Conqueror's Haki that Sengoku had mentioned was clearly coming from Zephyr's own Guerrilla unit.
Zephyr's expression turned as hard as iron.
Those students were already precious enough for him to entrust his life to them, he would never allow the slightest mishap to befall them.
Before Sengoku could even give an order, Zephyr was already rushing out.
On the execution platform, Ace was even more dumbstruck.
He could understand Cain coming to save him.
He could barely accept Katakuri showing up as well. But when he saw that familiar figure, he finally could not hold back and roared.
"WHY ARE YOU HERE?! WHY DID YOU COME HERE, YAMATO?!"
"WHAT KIND OF STUPID QUESTION IS THAT?!"
Yamato swung her kanabo, crushing Zephyr's elite troops in a one-sided clash.
Their resistance to Conqueror's Haki was far above that of ordinary soldiers, forcing Yamato to retaliate with her club.
"WE PROMISED WE'D MEET AGAIN ON THE SEA! HOW COULD I LET MYSELF STAY TRAPPED IN THAT HELLHOLE AND JUST WATCH YOUR VIVRE CARD BURN AWAY IN FRONT OF ME, BIT BY BIT, UNTIL IT TURNED TO ASH? SOMETHING LIKE THAT—"
"I'LL NEVER ALLOW IT!"
"THUNDER BAGUA!"
Conqueror's Haki wrapped around her kanabo as it came smashing down with a piercing howl that tore through the air.
Zephyr had already charged forward.
His Sea-Prism Stone mechanical arm braced firmly against the devastating blow.
The savage impact traveled down his arm and through his entire body, cracking the stone tiles beneath his feet.
He was forced back several steps before he finally steadied himself.
"Hah… that move…"
Zephyr stared at the girl before him, his voice grave.
"No mistake. That's…" Sengoku's brows were tightly furrowed, veins bulging at his temples.
"And those horns…" Whitebeard said with certainty. "She's Kaido's brat."
Sengoku looked down at the three separate battlefields below and could not help but sigh inwardly.
Cain's move was ruthless!
Now the fighting forces of the Whitebeard Pirates, the Big Mom Pirates, and the Beasts Pirates had all gathered here.
Of the Four Emperors upon the sea, only Red-Hair had yet to appear.
"DIVINE DEPARTURE!"
Below, Cain moved through the battlefield as though no one could stop him.
Several Marine vice admirals surrounded him, but with a single attack, he sent them all flying.
The Marines who arrived afterward immediately raised their rifles and took aim.
A dense storm of bullets shot toward Cain.
Cain did not dodge at all.
The instant the bullets touched his skin, they were directly bounced away.
"Roger's technique…"
Veins throbbed on Sengoku's forehead. He abruptly turned to look at Garp beside him!
The angry rebuke already on his tongue was ultimately forced back down.
In his heart, however, he cursed furiously.
'Garp, what exactly is your grandson trying to do?'
'Was one son of Roger throwing the seas into chaos not enough?'
'Was he trying to recreate the chaos of the Rocks era?'
…
"I didn't expect even Zephyr-sensei to make a move. But with his body… this war has completely deviated from the plan."
Kizaru lounged lazily in one of the three admiral seats.
His tone was as casual as ever, though a trace of concern hid within it.
Sengoku shot him a fierce look and barked, "BORSALINO! WHAT ARE YOU STILL DAWDLING FOR?!"
"Yes, yes, Fleet Admiral Sengoku~"
Kizaru complained with his mouth, but his body had already turned into a streak of golden light, flashing rapidly across the smoke-filled battlefield.
Before the war began, Sengoku and Garp had already spoken with Kizaru.
Because Cain had introduced far too many unpredictable elements, the task of rescuing the soldiers had fallen to him.
"Whew, sounds easy when you say it, but there are tens of thousands of them!"
Kizaru moved at high speed while grumbling endlessly. Whenever he found an unconscious soldier, he casually slapped them awake.
If they could not be woken, he simply kicked them toward the safer rear area.
On the other side, because Katakuri had previously been mixed in among the rank-and-file Marines, the sweep of Conqueror's Haki had instantly cleared out a dead, empty zone around him.
Even now, not a single Marine dared to rashly approach.
Such a conspicuous disturbance naturally entered Kizaru's eyes as he moved around rescuing people.
His gaze lifted faintly.
A brilliant point of light gathered at his fingertip, and he casually fired a scorching laser in Katakuri's direction.
Katakuri's body turned into flowing mochi and avoided it with ease.
His Observation Haki had already seen the trajectory of the attack clearly.
He ignored Kizaru's harassment and instead turned his gaze toward Whitebeard aboard the Moby Dick.
…
Seeing the disturbance Cain had caused, Whitebeard naturally had no intention of standing idle.
He threw his head back and laughed, his voice shaking the clouds.
"Gurararara! That brat Cain is right! Now isn't the time for catching up! Men, we're all Ace's family! Don't let Ace's little brother look down on us! Attack!"
At Whitebeard's command, the pirate fleet under him threw out ropes and laid down boarding planks, charging bravely toward the harbor.
Only a handful of powerful fighters leaped directly from the ships, crossed the sea, and landed near the port.
The Marine cannons deployed around the area had already locked onto their targets.
But just as the shells were about to be fired, Whitebeard swung both arms.
Crack—crack!
Around Whitebeard's fists appeared cracks like shattered glass.
The sound was sharp and clear, as though space itself had been torn apart.
In an instant, the shockwave spread outward. The Marine cannons that had been ready to fire trembled, then collapsed into scrap metal.
Their shells exploded inside the barrels one after another.
"The air… cracked!"
"Why is the ground shaking under our feet?! Hold steady! Everyone, hold steady!"
"Look at the sea over there! What the hell is that?!"
"The sea level is rising like crazy! That height… that isn't an ordinary wave!"
A violent tremor swept across the entire island of Marineford.
The earth cracked, buildings shook, and even the Warlords who had been waiting for their chance to act restrained themselves for the moment.
Towering waves were stirred up by the force of the tremor, transforming into a tsunami that seemed ready to swallow heaven and earth.
With world-ending force, it came crashing down toward Marine Headquarters.
"ALL HANDS, LISTEN! PREPARE AT ONCE TO WITHSTAND THE EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI! DO NOT LET YOUR GUARD DOWN FOR EVEN A SECOND!"
Sengoku shouted, "WHITEBEARD, EDWARD NEWGATE, IS A TREMOR HUMAN WHO ATE THE TREMOR-TREMOR FRUIT! THAT MAN POSSESSES THE POWER TO DESTROY THE WORLD!"
"UNDERSTOOD! EVERYONE, BRACE YOURSELVES! HOLD THE HARBOR LINE TO THE DEATH! NO MATTER WHAT, WE CANNOT LET WHITEBEARD SET FOOT ON MARINEFORD!"
A Marine commander roared.
He had already resolved himself to die!
Even if he drowned beneath the tsunami, it did not matter. As long as Whitebeard and his men remained at sea, the Marines on land would have the advantage!
But in the next second, his mouth fell open, his face going blank.
Admiral Aokiji, Kuzan, leaped high from his seat.
His arms spread wide, and streams of ice carrying extreme cold extended outward as he activated his technique.
"Ice Age."
The surging tsunami stopped the instant it touched the ice, then rapidly froze into a massive glacier.
Although Aokiji did not take the initiative to attack Whitebeard as he had in the original course of events and was therefore not knocked down onto the sea, he still intended to freeze the surrounding waters and stop them from advancing.
He then increased the release of cold air.
The seawater beneath the pirate ships froze as well, forming a flat expanse of ice.
Seeing this, the pirates stepped onto the ice and accelerated their charge. What had originally been the obstacle of the sea instead became a shortcut for their assault.
Very quickly, they rushed into the crescent-shaped harbor and collided with the Marine soldiers charging toward them.
The sharp clash of blades rang out one after another. Battle cries, screams, and the sound of weapons breaking wove together.
Marineford's harbor had completely become a battlefield.
"Although that brat Cain interrupted what I was about to say earlier, I'll say it now."
Whitebeard stood at the bow of the Moby Dick, then jumped down from the ship with Murakumogiri in hand.
"We've come to save you, Ace."
Only Squard the Maelstrom Spider was left standing there in a daze.
"Don't think everything will go your way, Whitebeard."
Sengoku stood on the execution platform, his voice spreading across the entire battlefield through the loudspeaker.
Even amid the chaos, he still intended to reveal Ace's identity to the world.
And so, the war between the Marines and the pirates began in full!
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