"Teacher, it's time to switch shifts! Go get some sleep!"
When it was time for the shift change, Akira was directly awakened by the alarm clock he had set earlier.
He walked out of the tent, stored away his own tent, then casually pulled out another fully assembled tent and placed it beside Sakumo.
"Here! This tent's for you!"
"…Wait, what? You still have more?"
Sakumo was completely speechless.
"Exactly how many fully assembled tents did you prepare?"
Previously, Kakashi had already complained to him about Akira carrying spare tents around.
And according to Kakashi, Akira apparently had quite a lot of them.
"Who knows?"
Akira shrugged casually.
"There's no harm in preparing more stuff ahead of time. Anyway, Teacher, stop worrying about it and hurry up to sleep!"
What was the point of obsessing over such things?
Completely meaningless.
"…Fine."
What else could Sakumo say?
He could only helplessly crawl into the tent and begin resting.
Meanwhile, after confirming Sakumo had fallen asleep, Akira's thoughts shifted slightly.
He left a Shadow Clone outside while his real body quietly entered the small world inside his spatial ring.
Exactly twenty days had passed since the last exchange.
Akira had already accumulated ten exchange opportunities.
Today, he planned to test the new function of the Exchange Talent—locking onto a previously exchanged world to see whether he could obtain something he actually wanted.
"As for the world… let's choose the One Piece world."
"This time, I'll directly use all ten exchange chances at once. Let's see whether consuming ten times the exchange count can really get me what I want."
Thinking this, Akira picked up a copied manual of Thousand Hands Swordsmanship along with a Hatake-style swordsmanship manual.
Then he silently muttered "Exchange" in his heart.
The next instant, everything in his hands vanished.
…
One Piece World — Marine Headquarters, Marineford.
"ACE!!! I'm here to save you!!!"
At this moment, the Summit War had already erupted.
Looking at Ace bound atop the execution platform, Monkey D. Luffy shouted at the top of his lungs.
At present, none of his crewmates were by his side.
Although they had previously encountered two opportunities that significantly boosted both Nami's and the other Straw Hat Pirates' strength, they had still provoked a Celestial Dragon at the Sabaody Archipelago.
There had been no way around it.
Had it not been for one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea—whose true identity was Revolutionary Army commander Bartholomew Kuma—arriving in time to save them and scatter them across the first half of the Grand Line, they would have long since been captured by Admiral Kizaru and thrown into Impel Down.
Even so, Luffy had still managed to infiltrate Impel Down through Hancock before finally arriving at Marineford after countless twists and turns.
At this moment, the battle here had already fully erupted.
Not far away, Admiral Akainu was currently being violently beaten down by Edward Newgate.
Blood sprayed from his mouth by the liter.
"Luffy?!"
Ace stared at Luffy in shock before instantly roaring furiously with tear-filled eyes:
"You idiot! Why did you come here?!"
How could Ace not know his younger brother's strength?
Was this kind of battlefield somewhere Luffy should be involved in?
Wasn't he basically coming here to die?
Or was he worried Ace would feel lonely in the underworld and wanted to accompany him?
Ace truly felt both furious and deeply moved.
"Hehe!"
After hearing that, Luffy simply pressed down the straw hat on his head and grinned.
"I told you already—I'm gonna save you! Because you're my brother!"
"Huh? Straw Hat Luffy is Portgas D. Ace's younger brother? Then doesn't that mean he's also part of the Pirate King's sinful bloodline?"
"Are you stupid? Didn't you hear his name is Monkey D. Luffy? Doesn't that surname sound familiar?"
"Huh?"
"You're hopeless. Straw Hat clearly is the grandson of Marine Hero Monkey D. Garp. Can't you see how alike they look?"
"Garp's grandson?! Then doesn't that mean… that kid is also the son of the world's most dangerous criminal, Revolutionary Dragon?!"
"Probably."
"Zehahaha! What kind of ridiculous family is this? Pirates, Marines, and Revolutionaries all in one family? Are they trying to dominate every major faction in the world or something?"
Three generations of absolute freaks.
After hearing the conversation between Luffy and Ace, countless people began discussing it excitedly.
From this point onward, events proceeded almost exactly like the original story.
As time passed, thanks to Garp deliberately holding back, Luffy and the others successfully rescued Ace and began retreating.
Meanwhile, Whitebeard chose to remain behind to stop the Marines and the Seven Warlords from pursuing the Whitebeard Pirates.
"Zehahaha! Long time no see, old man!"
At this moment, Marshall D. Teach suddenly appeared while laughing loudly.
"Teach!"
The instant Whitebeard saw Blackbeard Teach, his pupils contracted violently.
Killing intent instantly exploded from his eyes as he roared furiously:
"You alone… I will never forgive! Die!!"
The next moment, Whitebeard raised his fist as dazzling white light gathered around it.
Then he suddenly rushed directly in front of Blackbeard and smashed his fist downward.
"Old man, calm down!"
Blackbeard immediately begged shamelessly on the surface while secretly preparing to retaliate and launch a sneak attack.
He understood Whitebeard too well.
Whitebeard was a foolish man who truly regarded his sons as family.
That fatherly affection was Whitebeard's greatest weakness.
No one understood Whitebeard better than Blackbeard himself.
Thinking this, Blackbeard still did not dare be careless.
He secretly activated Armament Haki to its limit to protect himself while simultaneously preparing to counterattack using the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit.
However—
Blackbeard's expression suddenly changed drastically.
"W-What's happening?! Where's my Armament Haki? My Observation Haki?! My Dark-Dark Fruit ability?!"
To his horror, the Armament Haki and Observation Haki he had trained for years had completely disappeared at that exact moment.
Even the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit—which he had schemed for years to obtain—had suddenly lost all response.
In an instant, overwhelming terror flooded Blackbeard's heart.
"CRACK—!!"
In the next moment, Whitebeard's fist descended violently.
Under Blackbeard's horrified gaze, the surrounding air shattered apart.
Having lost his Armament Haki, Observation Haki, and Dark-Dark Fruit powers, how could Blackbeard possibly withstand Whitebeard's rage-filled strike?
His entire body exploded apart instantly.
Blood splattered everywhere.
Whitebeard: "???"
Even Whitebeard himself was momentarily stunned.
He did not understand why Blackbeard had suddenly lost both his Haki and Dark-Dark Fruit ability.
Had he suddenly repented?
Obviously impossible.
That could only mean some unknown variable had appeared.
Still, none of that mattered to Whitebeard.
Blackbeard's death was what mattered most.
Only now could the resentment in his heart finally dissipate completely.
As long as he protected Ace and the others long enough for them to escape successfully, this journey would already be complete.
As for himself?
Feeling the state of his own body… feeling the heart within his chest that had already stopped beating…
Whitebeard suddenly burst into loud laughter.
"Gurarararara!!!"
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