Chapter 779: The Battle of the End 3

[Chapter Serialization·Three Kingdoms 8·"It's really, too beautiful..."]

[Followed by a team of nine snake warriors, the empress stepped onto the land of Fishman Island with no expression. Countless fishmen and mermaid residents gathered on the island and in the surrounding calm waters, and exclamations of fascination came one after another. The mermaid princess was also very beautiful, but her beauty was pitiful, but this empress was so beautiful that she was almost domineering and unparalleled, making people have no intention of accepting or resisting... Hancock ignored Neptune who came over to shake hands, walked straight to Shirahoshi, and looked up.]——

〖New World, Sphinx——〗

The island got its name because of the many lion-faced sphinxes that live on it...

It is also the hometown where Whitebeard, once the strongest man in the world, was born.

The wind of the Grand Route is blowing slowly.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…

The tattered black pirate flag fluttered in the wind.

White beard, skull smile.

It is not the new Whitebeard Pirates, but the pirate symbol that belongs uniquely to old father Whitebeard. Along with this flag of the old times, it is tied to the hilt of the six-meter-long supreme sword "Kurokumo-kiri" that has accompanied the old man in his battles throughout his life.

It is exactly the same height as Whitebeard himself.

The torn pirate flag was his head, the supreme sword Kusugawa cut through bones, and the tattered coat hanging on the sword was like his immortal body...

Edward Newgate (1450-1522)

Looking at the words he had carved on the tombstone, Ace stroked his specially grown beard and said to himself, "Every time I stand here, it's as if I see him again."

“…”

Looking up at the tattered coat hanging on the hilt that fluttered in the wind, Marco smiled and said, "Dad has always been stingy, hasn't he? He would drink other people's wine and never treat customers to his store. Everyone knows that every time he got a share of the treasure, he would secretly give it to the people in the village he built on this island..."

Edward Newgate had never known who his parents were, and most of his old friends were no longer alive. He had longed for his family all his life, so he considered this place his hometown, and the people in this village his relatives who needed his protection. The man who was known as the strongest man in the world had spent his entire life trying to heal his childhood.

"This pirate coat is so tattered..."

Marco took off his glasses, pressed his eyes to hold back tears, and grinned, "He has worn it for more than ten years. Sometimes he would rather use his domineering aura to protect it than buy a new one... He is such a hateful father who always likes to make his son worry. We can't do anything to him!"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Why are you on our ship?!"

At the same time, on this day, on the Sunny ship, which was continuing to follow Ace's life paper fragments and heading to Sphinx Island at full speed, Usopp, Luffy and others suddenly shouted.

"Ah?" Perona drank her drink with question marks on her head and said angrily, "What do you mean! Who are you going to deal with Blackbeard? Isn't that old woman who killed Moria and that ugly old lady also there? Then of course I have to go with you! Did you just notice me? That's too rude! "

"Oh, so you're going for revenge." Luffy and Usopp nodded and breathed a sigh of relief, "That's fine."

"How can you be so rude to a lady! Assholes!" Sanji lit a cigarette while controlling the golden flying disc to deliver dessert. He was immediately annoyed when he heard this.

While Luffy and Usopp were having fun, they realized something seemed to be missing. They looked around and found that Chopper was not with them!

"Chopper is adapting to his new devil fruit ability in the mirror world."

Nami, who had changed her clothes, came out, with Robin, who had tied her hair into a ponytail, beside her.

Pah pah.

The navigator snapped his fingers twice, attracting everyone's attention, and said, "Regarding this operation and our future sailing plans, I got some information from Sister Robin..."

Sanji who was being attentive to Perona, Zoro who had just woken up from a nap on the deck, Franky who was replenishing his Coke, Brook who was maintaining the musical instruments, and others couldn't help but look over at them.

"This is about... how to find the final island and the key to becoming the 'Pirate King'!"

Nami raised a finger and said seriously, "You can't reach the real Final Island by just recording the pointer! The key lies in the four 'Signpost Historical Texts' that record the coordinates of the Final Island! Only after collecting all the four historical texts and deciphering the information recorded on them, can we piece together the real location of the Final Island!"

"I see..." Zoro murmured.

"No wonder!" Franky laughed, "I knew it, if the destination of the route is the Final Island, then this Final Island should have been under the control of the World Government long ago!"

"That's right." Sanji exhaled a puff of smoke, "However, in order to collect these four pieces of historical text, what we need is 'information'..."

"The good news is that Sister Robin and Lin Qi already have information about the historical texts of the two road signs."

Nami smiled and sighed again, "But the bad news is that we have no idea where the remaining two signposts are..."

"Wow, the difficulty has been reduced by half, that's pretty good!" Brook said with a smile, his hands behind his back. "Since Miss Nami mentioned this to us now, I guess... Miss Nami thinks that among the Whitebeard Pirates, Big Mom Pirates, and Blackbeard Pirates, there may be two other landmark historical texts, or at least some information about their whereabouts."

"That's right." Nami smiled, "These pirates have done nothing for so many years, right?"

"One of our two historical landmark texts was obtained from Big Mom back then." Robin said slowly, "Blackbeard is a traitor to the Whitebeard Pirates. The Blackbeard Pirates he led were officially established just over a year ago. It is unlikely that he has mastered the historical landmark text. So I guess... he is so obsessed with the new Whitebeard Pirates and Whitebeard's hometown, perhaps because he knows what Whitebeard has in his hands. And for Blackbeard, who is aiming for the throne of Pirate King, the most attractive thing is most likely the 'historical landmark text'..."

Everyone listened and nodded.

At this time, it seemed that someone was particularly quiet. Nami looked at Luffy, who was looking up at the sky with his legs crossed, and was speechless. "You are the one who is going to be the Pirate King! Can you at least listen carefully?"

"If he listens to others, he won't be Luffy." Usopp sighed and held his forehead.

"Huh? What are you talking about?" Luffy came back to his senses, turned his head and looked around, and said with a sly smile, "Where are Lynch and Merry? Listen to me... I just thought of a very interesting way to make an appearance!"

Is this guy really the captain? Holding tea and holding dessert, Perona fainted and sighed to Zoro and others: "You are really hard-working."

～～～～～～～～～～～ “No news from Joz yet?”

"No. Same with Reg and the others."

"They should still be on Fishman Island. We can't use Den Den Mushi to contact them there."

"I hope so..."

On Sphinx Island, in front of Whitebeard's tomb, Marco and Ace were talking. Suddenly, they stopped talking and their eyes changed at the same time.

They turned their heads and looked around.

The wind has changed...

Hula! In the distance, among the mountains surrounding the island, flocks of birds kept rising up like dark clouds.

The animals living on the island seemed to be frightened and fled in panic.

Even the Sphinxes, who were strong enough to be captured by the city's prison and sent to guard the level 2 beast hell, seemed very uneasy, and looked towards the distant sky on one side of the island from time to time.

Behind the surrounding mountains, dark clouds covered the evening sky, and darkness was slowly approaching the island.

The Sphinxes showed expressions of fear on their human-like faces, and they tucked their tails and ran away.

"Here they come." Ace looked at the dark sky over there, "It's Teach."

"He is now 'Blackbeard'." Marco said with a smile.

"That depends on whether our 'Whitebeard Pirates' agree or not." Ace rubbed his fists and smiled.

"Ace, you can go."

Marco said, "This year, when I heard that Teach had become a dual Devil Fruit user, I understood that Teach's body was indeed a special 'alien'. I am the ship's doctor, and I know his peculiarities very well. Until now, I have never heard of Teach having a third Devil Fruit ability... He intentionally kept the third ability for himself, don't you understand?"

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

The former phoenix smiled and said, "He will never give up the ability of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit that I inherited from my father."

"What are you talking about? My Flame-Flame Fruit isn't powerful?" Ace joked, "It's also a nature-type fruit after all. How could that guy not like it?"

"..." Marco adjusted his glasses and just looked at him.

"Marco, I'm the captain."

Ace smiled, but his expression was serious, "They are still behind me, how can I escape?"

Behind Ace and Marco, there were members of the Whitebeard Pirates, as well as many pirates affiliated with the Whitebeard Pirates.

The captain of the 6th Division, Bramanque, the captain of the 7th Division, Lakeyo, the captain of the 10th Division, Kuliel...

Ice Witch Whitebee, Giant Spider Squard, Ranger Doma... and the giant demon Little Oz squatting on his knees at the foot of the mountain. Little Oz held the bamboo hat that Ace had given him that year, buried his head in the shadow of the bamboo hat, and said in a low voice: "One year ago, if I could have arrived in Marinford in time, would my father's ending have been different? Ace... What do you think, one year ago, if I could have arrived in Marinford in time, would my father's ending have been different? I really want to know..."

Everyone was silent as they looked at the little Oz who had been autistic for almost a year. No one could comfort him, unless time could be turned back, unless his father came back to life, otherwise this would be the knot in little Oz's heart for the rest of his life.

Looking up at the little Oz who was talking to himself, Squard clenched the knife tightly, his ghostly pale face expressionless, and he said to himself: "I once betrayed my father, and the reason I shamelessly live until now is just for this day... The guy who betrayed my father must not live. This is true for me, Teach, and you too!"

"Let's go, brothers..."

Ace didn't turn around, but just raised a clenched fist with a red flame burning on it.

He shouted, "Let's go and finish this with Teach!"

"oh!!!"

The captains and members of the Whitebeard fleet clenched their fists and raised them.

Marco took a deep breath, put on a faint smile, and calmly followed Ace towards the mountains and coast on the other side where the dark clouds were moving.

…

"Thief hahahaha..."

Beyond the mountain range surrounding Sphinx Island, the wind was raging and the waves were surging. On a huge pirate flagship, the Blackbeard Pirates' Grand Admiral Marshall D. Teach stood on the bow, opened his arms, and laughed loudly.

"Ace, Marco, you can't escape now! Whether it's dad's inheritance or the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, they all belong to me!!"

In front of them, from the front of the mountain valley, Ace and Marco walked towards the sea, bumped fists with each other, and tacitly moved a little further apart. One looked to the left, and the other looked to the right, counting the number of pirate ships around the main ship where Teach was.

"One, two, three...why are there only five pirate ships?"

Ace was very surprised.

Marco flexed his hands and said with a slightly cold smile: "Marshall D. Teach, don't you have at least ten pirate ships and nine captains under your command? You only brought half of them. Aren't you looking down on us old friends?"

Crash! On the mountain behind the two of them, a mass of white pirates jumped out like a tide, crossing the mountains and hills.

The demon little Oz climbed over the mountains and looked coldly at the five pirate ships offshore that were pointing their black guns towards the island. On each of the ships was flying a black pirate flag with three skull patterns.

"Thief hahaha!"

Teach laughed wildly, "Captain Ace! Marco! We have been on the same boat for how long, how could I look down on you? Hey, Sand Crocodile, get the other five ships back from the other side of the island! Since Captain Ace and Captain Marco are here, there is no need to worry about them escaping!"

The captain of the Blackbeard Pirates' ship number 3, the former Shichibukai, Crocodile, wearing a cloak and biting a cigar, said unhappily, "Stop giving me orders! I just haven't had the right opportunity to leave yet!"

In this time and space, because Luffy has mastered Haki, his overall strength has been strengthened under the love of Tulip, and he has not been defeated by Crocodile several times like in the comics, including Zoro and others. Because of this, Crocodile did not have the opportunity to see how far the Straw Hat Boy and his friends would go to help each other without regard for their lives... Therefore, Crocodile's personality did not change like in the comics.

Crocodile is still the cold sand crocodile, and his pride remains.

Blackbeard only has one requirement for his subordinates, that is, they must obey his orders. Most of the time, he lets them do whatever they want, and it doesn't matter how lawless they are. As a result, Crocodile has never been able to find a suitable excuse to leave the Blackbeard Pirates - after all, he has to save face.

"Shiryu, Van Kao... Ace and Marco have appeared on our side, come over here."

At the same time as Crocodile was communicating with the Den Den Mushi, Teach on the main ship waved his hand, and amidst wild laughter, the five pirate ships fired at the same time, and in bursts of fire, countless shells flew towards Ace and the others.

"Is this how you say hello?" Ace asked, "Marco."

Boom! Marco clenched his fist and swung out with the force of an earthquake.

Click!

The invisible shockwave shattered the oncoming rain of shells one by one in mid-air...

The battle to settle this feud has officially begun!

(End of this chapter)