NovelOnline Chapter 535: SFDI - 535
Chapter 535: SFDI - 535
Drake was holding the Den Den Mushi’s microphone, and Drake could sense Luffy’s resolve just from his voice.
"I see! Then let’s wait until I get back to discuss it properly."
After saying this, Drake had hung up the Den Den Mushi, beginning to think.
It had been impossible for Luffy to not have been disappointed after learning that Drake hadn’t been able to save Ace.
But after Drake had left, Luffy had also learned what would happen next from Shakky.
Next, the marines would publicly execute Ace at the marine headquarters, Marineford, which would draw the Whitebeard Pirates, and that would be an incomparably tragic war.
And that would also be the last, and only, opportunity to save Ace. Luffy had wanted to save his brother, and he had wanted to save Ace himself.
But after having seen Drake’s battles with Crocodile and Kuma, Luffy had known that it would have been hard for him to even protect himself in that war with his strength.
So the contents of the new request that he had made to Drake had been that he had hoped that Drake could help the Straw Hat Pirates train and become stronger.
According to the information that Shakky had given him, there had only been about half a month until the execution date.
It would have been almost impossible to grow to the level that they could have participated in that Marineford War in just a little over ten days.
But the Straw Hat Pirates had had the protagonist’s halo covering them after all, and Drake had also wanted to see if they could have truly created a miracle.
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Half a month later, a giant screen had appeared on the Sabaody Archipelago, and the images on the screen had been the scene of the marine headquarters, Marineford.
The marines had announced the news of the execution of Ace, the commander of the Whitebeard Pirates’ second division, in the newspaper several days ago.
Anyone on the sea who had known Whitebeard’s name had known what that man’s greatest taboo had been.
The marines doing this had simply been declaring war on the strongest man in the world head-on?
Everyone had understood that this had been an unavoidable war, and it had also been a war that would have determined the future direction of the world.
If the marines had won, they could have proven their strength to the entire sea. Taking advantage of the momentum, the marines could have entered the New World, where the Four Emperors’ power had been collapsing in one corner, and the other sea emperors wouldn’t have been able to stop the marines’ footsteps at that time.
And if the marines had lost, their authority would have naturally fallen sharply. The great pirate era would have completely gotten out of control.
And it had been very obvious that the marines had made thorough preparations for this war.
Everyone could have seen the marines’ lineup from the images that had been projected by the Den Den Mushi.
A full 100,000 elite soldiers who had been summoned from the four seas, and all of the elite officers, had made people sigh at the splendor of the marines’ military appearance just by looking at them.
The true pillar combat strength had been even more dazzling, and the well-known group of marine vice admirals, the giant vice admirals who had been stationed at the headquarters, and the Shichibukai who had been summoned.
The marine admirals, who had been sitting right below the execution platform, the marine fleet admiral Sengoku on the execution platform, and the marine hero Fist Garp had given all of the marines the confidence to defeat any enemy.
Before the war had even started, Sengoku had dropped a big piece of news. The Fire Fist Ace, who was about to be executed, had actually been the Pirate King’s bloodline, which could have been considered to have proven the necessity of this execution.
And after that, the other protagonist of the war, the Whitebeard Pirates, had appeared.
They had sent their military force to within the marines’ encirclement directly from underwater by coating their ships, truly catching the marines off guard.
But Sengoku had then explained what home-field advantage had meant to the Whitebeard Pirates.
The power to take the initiative in the war had been destined to be in the hands of the marine side from the time that Ace had been captured, and the marine headquarters, Marineford, had also been transformed into a trap that had been targeting the Whitebeard Pirates long ago.
But Whitebeard himself had also known this very well, and he had never thought that he could have won this war easily, and in the end, only the stronger side could have obtained victory on the battlefield.
Ace’s friend, Little Oars, the descendant of Oars the Land Mover, had been advancing towards the execution platform step by step, withstanding the marines’ attacks.
The Oars race that Little Oars had belonged to had indeed been blessed by heaven, and the giant figure had brought a power and destructive force that had far surpassed that of the giant race. But he had just been an easier target to hit on this battlefield.
Who knew how many more cannonballs had exploded on his body, making Little Oars sway a bit, but his footsteps had still stepped out.
On the high platform, Doflamingo had grinned, wiggling his fingers, and a string had then flown over.
The sharp string could have definitely caused a destructive force that hadn’t been less than a swordsman’s slash, and just as Little Oars’s calf had been about to be cut off by the string, a figure had suddenly appeared, blocking the string with his palm directly.
Doflamingo’s fingers had used strength, and the string on his fingertips had been looming, but it had only produced teeth-aching sounds, and it hadn’t been able to move.
"This is a touching reunion between friends, so don’t come to get in the way!"
Flames had emerged from Drake’s palm, and a line of fire had then stretched out, burning Doflamingo’s string into nothingness.
Doflamingo had cut the string on his finger to avoid getting burned, and he had then looked at Drake, saying, "Who are you?"
This hadn’t just been Doflamingo’s question, and it had also been the marines and the Whitebeard Pirates’ question.
Although this had been a chaotic battlefield, none of these strong people had noticed how Drake had appeared.
Drake had smiled, saying, "Who I am isn’t important, and I’ve just been asked to help, and the real protagonist has just made his debut!"
While saying this, Drake had stretched out his finger, pointing at the sky, and everyone had looked over, following Drake’s finger, and they had only seen a fiery red large bird that had been circling in the sky, and the figure that had been jumping down directly from above.
"Ace!!! I’ve come to save you!"
Ace, who had been on the execution platform, couldn’t help but open his mouth wide, and Garp, who had been beside him, had also revealed a shocked expression with the same style.
"Luffy?!"
Luffy had raised his hand, pressing down on his hat, revealing his signature smile, falling straight towards the execution platform.
Sengoku had naturally also recognized that this had been his old partner’s troublesome grandson, but there hadn’t been enough time to think about other things at this time, saying coldly, "Stop him!"
A yellow ray of light had formed a passageway in the air, forming a human form after stretching to before Luffy.
"You actually appeared here, that’s really scary! Speed is power, have you been kicked by a lightspeed kick?"
There hadn’t been Luffy beating up a Celestial Dragon on the Sabaody Archipelago this time, so the famous scene of Kizaru one-shotting the Supernovas hadn’t happened, but Luffy had still run into Kizaru’s lightspeed kick at this time.
Luffy, who had been in mid-air, had clenched his fist, blasting a punch up directly.
Boom! Luffy had been kicked away like a rubber ball, crashing heavily into the plaza of Marineford, which had already transformed into a battlefield.
But what had been surprising had been that Kizaru had also taken a step back, landing on the execution platform. Looking at the wrinkles on his clothes, Kizaru’s tone had been different even though he had still had that expression.
"How scary, he’s actually able to use Armament Haki!"
And Luffy had also climbed out of the large pit that he had smashed out himself at this time, and he hadn’t looked like he had received any injuries.
His devil fruit ability had originally given him a high immunity to damage apart from slashes, what’s more, he had also had the defense that Armament Haki had provided.
That’s right, and Drake hadn’t thought that Luffy had actually learned haki early under Rayleigh and Jinbe’s guidance.
Although Luffy had made a request to Drake, hoping that Drake could have helped them train and become stronger. But Drake hadn’t been able to guide either the development of devil fruit abilities or the training of haki.
But the candidate who could have done it had been ready-made, so Rayleigh and Jinbe had been pulled in to become coaches.
Although Luffy’s three types of haki had been inconsistent, he had undoubtedly discovered his potential, and he could be considered to have had the strength to participate in the war.
"Gurara! So that’s the little brother that Ace has always been talking about, what an energetic brat!"
On the Moby Dick in the bay, Whitebeard had laughed heartily. That familiar hat had made Whitebeard think of a lot of familiar people.
"Men, cover Ace’s little brother, and save Ace!"
The marine admiral Kizaru actually hadn’t been able to defeat a rookie, and this had already greatly boosted the morale of the Whitebeard Pirates’ side.
Drake couldn’t help but sigh, and as expected of the protagonist, he had influenced the war just by appearing.
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