Chapter 731 Ace's Regret

[Chapter Serialization·Darkness Attacks 9·"High Winds and Rough Waves"] [The Impel Down Prison is a self-operating institution. Except for contacting warships for special needs, there are no additional ships here to prevent prisoners from escaping. Blackbeard laughed a few times and took his men to build a huge raft. However, it seemed that fate was against them. After they went out to sea on the raft and left the sea area of ​​the prison, the sky was covered with dark clouds. Soon, strong winds blew, heavy rains were like whips, and black waves were like mountains...]——

Bang! Bang! ... The waves hit the coast of the Alchiman mangroves, and the entire Chabaobab Archipelago seemed to be shaking.

The earthquake-like environment added countless times to the sense of presence for the people gathered in the Chambord Park Square to watch the live broadcast.

Frost giants, molten lava, blazing lights, and earth-shaking mountains...

And the great pirate from the past reappeared, beating the Navy Admiral Sengoku with an iron rod and making him exhausted...

Navy hero, Admiral Black Arm! The world's strongest Whitebeard! This was an unimaginable battle at the top of the world... Then the Fire Fist Ace escaped, and the great pirate named Lynch blew away all the Marines of Marinford in one breath, and the intensity of the battle was raised to another level! However, as the "camera" moved to the frozen sea far away from Marinford, people could not see the real battle scene in the ruined Marinford clearly. They could only see the waves of celestial changes, and many figures who could control the sea situation shuttled through the terrifying battlefield of frost, fire, lightning, and light...

Until the remnants of the navy on the frozen sea and the remaining pirates had another full-scale confrontation. After the shrill screams of several members of the Straw Hat Pirates were heard on the live broadcast screen, the camera suddenly shook, and the Den Den Mushi seemed to have fallen accidentally. Only the ice surface was left on the screen for the time being, and all that could be heard was the continuous sound of swords chopping, muskets and cannons bombarding, and the frantic roars of the navy and pirates.

"Rubber, rubber--Jet gun shoots randomly! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!" After eating the Senzu Beans, Luffy's eyes turned white, his whole body turned red and steam came out of it. His rubber fist turned into an afterimage and knocked away a large number of marines in front of him.

"Ten million volt sky lightning net--" Nami's orange hair fluttered, and her golden staff swept across. The upper and lower two large lightning nets intertwined, crackling, and electrocuted a large number of marines so that their skeletons could be seen.

"Devil's Wind Kick: Golden Recipe!" Sanji quickly shuttled through a group of marines, leaving behind a trail of fire and the marines being kicked away wherever he passed.

The members of the Straw Hat Pirates, together with the remaining remnants of the Whitebeard Pirates, tore a hole in the dense encirclement of the navy like a sharp knife.

However, there were also experts in the navy. Several vice admirals from the headquarters stepped forward and repelled the people who had finally managed to get out. The remaining two pacifists also provided support from time to time. As cyborgs, they absolutely obeyed orders and were tireless. The same was true for the pacifist Unit-01's Big Bear himself. Whenever the pirates rushed out of the encirclement, he raised his hand and used a bear charge, a large-scale shock wave, which repelled countless pirates back.

"Hehehe, so many people died, there are too many corpses for me to use!"

Moriah, who was also one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, happily controlled hundreds of zombies on the ice. It wasn't that so many people died, but that he only brought so many shadows. No matter how many corpses there were, without shadows, it was useless.

Ace, who was behind the group of people who were being protected by Chopper, Brook, Cavendish, Bonnie and others and clearing the way ahead, was supported by Franky. He asked tiredly, "Doctor Deer, do you still have the beans you gave Luffy and the others?"

"Why are you messing around?" Chopper was shocked.

"Three Swords Style: Three Thousand Worlds!"

In front, another group of navy were swept away by the fierce sword energy, but almost at the same time, Zoro was slashed by the swords of two vice admirals of the headquarters, and his body was covered in blood. He slid backwards on the ice, leaving two straight bloody trails under his feet.

With a "plop", blood flowed down the chin and the Kadoh Ichimonji and fell onto the ice in large clumps.

Zoro's muscles were sore and it felt like all the bones in his body were broken, but his spirit was extremely excited due to the stimulation of Chopper's secret medicine.

Strength and weakness tore at his will, and the figures of the two vice admirals who were swinging their swords at him again gradually blurred... Suddenly, Hawkeye swung his sword again.

"How many times have I told you this, this is my prey!"

"Hawkeye, what exactly do you want to do?" The two vice admirals of the headquarters had already exhausted their physical strength, so naturally they could not "compete" against Mihawk.

Mihawk swung his sword horizontally, knocking Zoro, who was gritting his teeth and holding on, flying across the ice. He was too lazy to pay attention to the navy's questions. Why explain? Mihawk tapped his feet and chased after Zoro.

Dang! Zoro landed on the ground, turned over, and his blade collided with the black knife that was coming at him.

"Is there any Haki left?" Mihawk smiled faintly.

"..." Zoro panted tiredly, trying his best to use the three-sword style, but under Hawkeye's airtight black sword defense, he only produced dense sparks of tinkling, "You keep interfering with me, what on earth do you want to do? If you want to fight, fight seriously! You are so careless... Are you looking down on me?!"

"Oh? Did I remember it wrong?"

Mihawk easily blocked Zoro's intensive slashes, tilted his head and frowned, "But why can't I remember anyone crying and swearing that they would never lose again?"

“……?!”

A vein popped up on Zoro's forehead, and he slashed at Hawkeye's face, but was easily blocked.

Mihawk said calmly, "If I fight you seriously now, you will definitely die. Roronoa, are you sure about this?"

Zoro was extremely annoyed by the opponent's ease and his own powerlessness.

But just as Mihawk clenched his black knife and seemed ready to strike, he suddenly retreated backwards, avoiding Zoro's knife, and looked towards Marinford in amazement. Rayleigh, who was protecting Ace not far away, also put down his knife and turned his head to look at the peak battle in Marinford. On the ice, many marines looked at the figure of the flying phoenix Whitebeard, and they all showed expressions of despair.

"Whitebeard has become a Phoenix ability user?"

"The immortal Whitebeard? Are you kidding me..."

"How can we fight this?"

Compared to the navy's morale, the pirates were overjoyed. Even the captains of the White Team who were crying while holding the seriously injured Izo in their arms, looked up and saw that scene, and their tears could not help but reveal a look of relief.

"That's great, Dad..."

After eating a Senzu bean, Ace suppressed his trembling body, raised his head and smiled - but not long after, the smile froze on his face.

The phoenix blue flame on Whitebeard's body suddenly disappeared, and was replaced by his entire body bursting apart, blood splattering, and he fell to the ground almost collapsing, kneeling heavily on the ground, spitting blood in large mouthfuls.

Seeing this scene from afar, the Whitebeard Pirates were all horrified. As Marco shouted at the top of his lungs from Marinford Island, Ace also shouted with bloodshot eyes: "Dad!!!"

Boom! His body turned into a raging fire, and wherever he passed, everything turned into a sea of ​​fire. Almost in the blink of an eye, Ace swept a line of fire and flew towards the ruined Marinford, which looked like the end of the world.

Has the ability awakened?! Aokiji, whose half body floated out of the ice, the golden Buddha who was struggling to hold on, Garp, who was exhausted, and even Kizaru, who was affected by Medusa's toxin and was aiming a laser gun at his temple... all of them couldn't help but shrink their pupils.

Just at this time, the ability of Fire Fist Ace awakened?

Whitebeard, covered in blood, was in front, and Lynch, who was flying over, was behind. The two of them threw punches with their domineering colors intertwined, squeezing and colliding with Akainu's head, causing it to explode.

The magma splashed and Akainu died on the spot.

Even Smoker and other elite troops far away on the frozen sea saw this scene, and everyone's heart sank as never before.

General, killed in action?!

"Sakaski...!!" Sengoku, Garp, and Aokiji all looked unhappy.

No matter how much they usually disagree with Akainu, at this moment, in this situation, seeing Akainu burning everything, risking his life, and ultimately sacrificing himself for the justice he insisted on, their hearts were filled with grief.

"Sigh..." Kizaru sighed softly, aiming the laser on his fingertips at his temple. Just as he was about to fire and pierce his head, a majestic figure rushed over from the side.

BANG!!! Zefa used his only remaining arm to punch Kizaru's head, causing him to bleed and fly backwards, creating a deep pit on the already broken ground of Marinford.

"Dad!" A ball of fire rushed over, and Ace's grief-stricken face with bloodshot eyes emerged in the fire, and rushed towards Whitebeard who was kneeling on his back covered in blood.

"go back!"

Lynch supported Whitebeard, who was unable to speak loudly, and raised his head with a fierce momentum in his eyes. His domineering color turned into tangible blue-black domineering aura visible to the naked eye, and he knocked away Ace, who was rushing towards him with the Fire Fist.

Let's repeat the "fate" in the comics where Ace could have run, but turned back and died? Stop talking nonsense!

Lynch did not hesitate. He did not have time to talk to Ace. He just used his Conqueror's Haki to attack Ace from a distance, knocking the emotionally out-of-control Ace back.

"Today, I don't want to see another student die in front of me..."

Zefa clenched his trembling fists, panting tiredly, and grabbed Garp's rough big hand and lifted him up. He said calmly, "Garp, can you still hold on?"

"Ah, barely enough." Garp wiped the blood off his body, his fists shaking slightly uncontrollably. He is old after all! He looked up, not at the blood-covered Whitebeard, but at Ace who wanted to rush back at all costs, but was shocked away by Lynch's eyes... It is undeniable that Garp wanted to thank Lynch in his heart at this moment. Thank him for taking prompt action and directly hitting back the impulsive brat Ace, otherwise... Alas! Ace, Luffy, why didn't you listen to grandpa...

In the flames, Ace was shocked and flew back to the frozen sea. He looked at the bloody back of Whitebeard going away, looked at Lynch who was holding Whitebeard, and the black armor floating on his body. He suddenly remembered that it was the black armor that was on Luffy's ship like Nico Robin, and it was also the black armor that had specially given him kind advice...

Bang! Ace was blown back to the frozen sea. "Ace!" Luffy shouted, jumped over to catch his brother, looked down, and was stunned.

"What kind of life is this without regrets?"

Ace bit his lip and covered his eyes with one hand, tears slowly streaming down his cheeks, "I'm really...too willful...!!"

"Ace." Luffy murmured. He had never seen his brother look so vulnerable and helpless.

The members of the Whitebeard Pirates nearby were in grief, and when they heard Ace's sobbing filled with self-blame, they fell silent.

Luffy helped Ace up, took a deep breath, and shouted in the direction of Marinford: "Lynch!!! Robin!!!"

…

"Dad...Jinbei..."

Marco climbed out of the pit using his hands and feet, looking at Whitebeard covered in blood and Jinbei with a big black hole melted on his chest with difficulty accepting it.

Robin and Hancock were both shocked by what happened to Whitebeard, and then they looked at each other from a distance. It was obvious that they immediately understood what happened. It was the mysterious existence in the depths of Marijoa who had captured Lynch and had also taken Hancock's Medusa Fruit in the same way... Was that person the one who took action? !

"Lynch!!! Robin!!!!"

At this moment, Luffy's shout was heard from the frozen sea in the distance.

Robin and Hancock turned their heads to look over and saw Luffy supporting the Fire Fist Ace, his head, face and body covered in blood and scars, shouting to them: "We're taking Ace away, everyone will be waiting for you at Lab!"

"Luffy..." Nami, Usopp and others couldn't help but exclaimed when they heard this.

Sanji kicked a marine away and dragged his heavy body back to his companions.

Ding! Zoro shook off the blood on his eyelashes. Hawkeye in front of him said to himself: "A wise choice! But, Lab? Is this a secret code?"

"Yes, this is a secret code that only we... can understand!" Zoro's eyes went dark and he kept gasping for breath.

He held up his white beard, raised one hand high, and pointed a finger.

Luffy smiled and saw Lynch pointing his finger, as if urging them to hurry up, or pointing in the direction of the Sabaody Archipelago.

"Run away as fast as you can!"

Luffy held down the straw hat on his head and ran wildly with Ace, his head down.

"What are you dreaming about?"

Smoker threw out two rows of black cage nets to cover the pirates, and angrily said with a gloomy face, "How can I let you escape at this point?!"

Just at this moment, there were bursts of exclamations from the navy crowd, and everyone avoided it. It turned out that the ice under their feet suddenly cracked rapidly. Crackling, crackling - soon a complete ice canyon was formed. Under the frozen sea canyon, an astonishing knife light flashed up, and countless heads, limbs, and bodies of navy people were swept by the knife light, and they were all chopped off silently and bloodlessly, as if they were nothing, and thrown all over the sky.

"Terra?" Luffy ran with Ace, looking up with surprise on his face, "Didn't you say you didn't want to come?"

BIU, Luo appeared out of nowhere in the air above the ice canyon with a group of people, and said angrily: "The seabed suddenly froze... Who did it?!"

His ROOM ability couldn't work on the sea, including the frozen sea. It took Bepo and the others a long time to pry open the exit without destroying the submarine, and then he tried his best to use the scalpel to cut, and tried countless times before he finally cut the frozen sea.

"Little grass!"

Luo glanced around, quickly assessed the situation, and shouted.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

"I've been holding back my anger for a long time!"

Xiao Cao bit the cigarette and jumped up, turning into a cruise bomber, and launched fire at the navy on the ice. Boom! In just a blink of an eye, groups of explosions and flames with thick smoke burst out everywhere on the ice.

“Ah!”

White Bear Bepo fell into the crowd of pirates and fought against the navy back to back with Chopper.

"Marian!"

Exhausted, Cavendish, who had been fighting and charging with Brooke and the others, raised his head and shouted angrily, "Do you still want to take a 'holiday'? Isn't it time to do something?!"

"Why……"

Marian, who was carrying a drawing board, had also been lazying around in the submarine with Luo before. Hearing this, she reluctantly took out her paintbrush, splashed paint into the air, and cried out, "Rainbow of Seven Colors, Harmonious Eden!"

Swish! The colorful dream colors flowed among the people on the ice sea as Marian painted out of thin air. The invisible spiritual power, like the top hypnotist, made the marines one after another suddenly lose their anger. Even the pirates, who were fighting each other just now, sat together in harmony and friendship, and even seemed to want to talk about their ideals in life.

"It's the 'Dreamer' from the Handsome Pirates!"

"Don't let her hypnosis control your mind!"

“Wake up!”

The navy camp was in chaos, and the pirates were no less upset, especially Ace who stumbled. He said in surprise: "Luffy, how come you are also affected?!"

"Hoo...Hoo..." Luffy actually fell into a deep sleep.

Ace had no choice but to wipe the tears from his face, put his brother's arm on his shoulders, turned around to take one last look at Marinford, bit his lip and walked towards the other companions on the frozen sea.

"Leave now!"

All the pirates shouted while holding back their grief.

The Queen of Weapons, Xiaocao, unleashed her firepower to her heart's content, suppressing the thousands of navy...

In such an open area, Luo's scalpel slash was invincible. A horizontal slash across the waist could cut the navy in half like the scythe of the god of death. Although they were not injured, they also lost the ability to continue fighting...

The speed at which the pirates break through the navy's defense line has greatly increased!

Boom, boom…

Against the backdrop of war on the ice, Luo, wearing a black feather cloak and holding a long sword, suddenly stopped.

"Mr. Corazon..."

In front of him, a familiar tall blond man walked out from a large group of sailors with their upper and lower bodies separated.

"What's the matter? Luo..."

Rossinandi bit his cigarette and opened his arms, "Go ahead, I'm a marine!"

Luo closed his eyes, opened them quickly, and smiled: "I am a pirate, will I listen to a navy?"

The blade of the surgery fruit swept up diagonally over the frozen sea...

Lynch and the others on the side of Marinford paid no attention to the distant chaos and explosions. He supported Whitebeard, who was bleeding and collapsing, and with a shake of his shoulders, he took out without hesitation the ball of physical strength accumulated by countless pirates in the prison for ten years - or in other words, the ball formed by life energy.

The colorful mixed air was of little help in this situation. Without thinking, Lynch extracted the pure gray energy at the bottom and pressed it into Whitebeard's collapsing body.

"Ahem...boy, what are these?" Whitebeard asked with a smile, spitting out blood, "Good stuff..."

"Stop talking." Lynch sighed.

"Such a good thing... cough cough... don't waste it on me..." Whitebeard kept spitting blood. Although his speed slowed down, his whole body continued to collapse. "I can feel... my voyage has come to an end..."

Lynch just said: "Life is the most important." He continued to inject gray energy into Whitebeard's body without stopping, trying his best to delay his injuries.

"Dad..." Marco found it hard to accept. He tried to suppress his grief, but he didn't know what to do. He turned to look at Lynch.

Lynch took out the Tremor-Tremor Fruit chip stored in the reactor on his chest armor and pressed it into Whitebeard's body.

The collapse of Whitebeard suddenly stopped, and just when Marco showed a look of joy, Whitebeard violently spat out a mouthful of blood. The injury that had just improved suddenly collapsed again. Blood was all over his body. Whitebeard's face turned visibly pale, revealing a deathly blue aura.

"Dad..." Marco's eyes widened, his heart sinking to the bottom as never before, cold as ice.

Behind him, Aokiji was filled with coldness and reached out to grab Marco with an expressionless face.

A dark shadow appeared on Lynch's body, and "BIB" grabbed the golden iron rod with one foot, wrapped it with domineering power, and shattered the frost giant that was freezing towards Whitebeard on the other side.

Over there, Marco was also fighting with Aokiji, but unfortunately, without the Phoenix Fruit, Marco quickly fell into a disadvantage, and his arms and shoulders were frozen by a layer of frost.

Zephyr, Garp, and Sengoku also wanted to take the opportunity to attack Whitebeard and Lynch. The battle had become so brutal that life and death were at stake. No one was in the mood to care about trivial matters like fighting with more people against fewer or whether to launch a sneak attack.

If your life doesn't matter, why should you care about your face?

Bang! However, the Pirate Queen and the Devil's Son obviously would not let them do what they wanted, and even though it was very reluctant, they tried their best to help stop the three old generals.

『BIB』 turned into a black shadow and flew over. The end of the gold and iron rod was overflowing with blue-black domineering aura. The secret of the Lily Wave Fist: The End of the Sky - while Hancock and Robin tacitly retreated from both sides, 『BIB』 swung the rod, and the attack was so strong that it seemed to have not weakened at all, and Zephyr, Garp, and Sengoku were knocked away.

There was a fight going on behind. On Lynch's side, Whitebeard was holding up his tattered body, and the big hand that had been repaired by the power of the phoenix pushed Lynch away.

"I appreciate your kindness... Stop wasting your energy on me..."

Whitebeard said tiredly, his face full of blood. Marco, who was half frozen by Aokiji, couldn't help but shed tears and murmured: "Dad... we are useless..."

“Gulala…”

Whitebeard tried his best to stand up and laughed loudly, "Marco, I am your father, I hope I am not embarrassing you, am I?"

Marco couldn't help crying. He ignored Aokiji who was watching him closely. He knelt on the ground with his half frozen body in his arms and kowtowed to Whitebeard. Tears instantly filled his forehead. "You will always be... our dad!"

“Gulala…”

Whitebeard's loud laughter danced in Jinbei's vague consciousness, and this laughter gradually overlapped with another laughter.

Who is laughing? Oh, yes... it's Brother Tiger... He is also like that, like the most reliable mountain, protecting everyone from wind and rain...

Brother Tiger... I, today... died for a human being...

Will you blame me? Lynch and Whitebeard lowered their eyes and looked at Jinbei, whose Sun Pirates' symbol had been melted and pierced by Akainu's punch. They saw that the expression on his face was scattered, and he looked like he was about to die.

The big mouth full of shark-like fangs opened, breathing weakly, as if he wanted to say something.

Jinbei raised his hand with difficulty and grabbed Lynch's arm. His scattered eyes suddenly focused a lot and asked directly: "Giorno, why did you want to kill Aaron so much that day..."

Lynch was silent.

"Do you... hate fish-men... or... hate Arlong..." Jinbei's mouth hardly moved, and Lynch had to rely on his powerful observation Haki to hear the subtle voice clearly.

Lynch held Jinbei's arm and sighed, "Don't worry, I don't hate fishmen. I don't hate Arlong either."

The blue fishman's arm slid down, Jinbei half closed his eyes, with a faint smile on his face, and his breath stopped.

"Go up and prepare."

Lynch put Jinbei's hand away and said this suddenly without any context.

Behind him, upon hearing that, "BIB" without hesitation raised a black shadow and flew into the air. With a wave of his arms, the black armored body completely materialized, shrouded in a layer of dark, flame-like energy.

What is he going to do? Sengoku, Garp, and Zephyr climbed out of the ruins, they were confused.

Lynch, Whitebeard and the others were also suddenly startled at this moment - Marco's eyes widened, and the tears that had just flowed all over the ground suddenly evaporated, and even the entire ground burst into brilliant golden light.

The half of the Marinford port where the few people were located was reduced to ruins. All the ground and the ruins of the buildings turned completely into golden light in an instant.

“Oh, oh, oh!” Marco shouted, his panicked expression drowned by the golden light gushing out from the ground, “It’s Kizaru’s awakening ability—”

Endless golden light gushed out and rumbled up to the sky, and the figures of Whitebeard, Lynch, Marco, Robin, Hancock and others were completely submerged in it. In the golden ocean that was so gorgeous that it was impossible to look directly at it, endless golden light flew through them at a high speed, and thousands of knives and swords were like intertwining and flying over them...

(End of this chapter)