Chapter 49: Absolute Justice
Author: Geraint
Date Posted: May 08, 2024 Wed @7:11PM
"He--He defeated two Navy Admirals by himself!"
"Who is that monster?!"
While dragging the two unconscious Admirals with me, leaving a bloody trail on the ice ground, the Navy Officers who are blocking my path immediately moved away in fear as I glanced at the Fleet Admiral standing at the execution platform beside Ace who will soon to be executed.
"Hey, Old man! How about we make a deal?"
After yelling to him my demand, he was trembling in anger and glared to me while responding, "We don't accept any deals with pirates!"
"You should at least listen to my demand. I just want you to unlock Ace's seastone shackles in exchange of the lives of these two Navy Admirals. If you don't quickly make a decision, one or both of them might die soon from blood lost. Time is ticking away."
I can see frustration in Sengoku's expression as he hesitates a little bit.
"Don't accept them!"
Glancing to my side, Admiral Akainu appeared and launched enlarging magma fist towards me which made me jumped to avoid it but the two unconscious Admirals lying on the ground got caught in his attack and burned them to death. The Fleet Admiral and Garp together with the Navy Officers who saw what happened at the scene was completely shocked from the ruthlessness of Admiral Akainu.
"Akainu, What are you doing?!" Sengoku yelled at Akainu.
"Absolute justice must be preserve! We shouldn't make any compromises with these scums even it causes a lot of sacrifices!" Akainu responded with furious tone. Seeing their reactions, I laughed hard when I realized that they are already panicking as things aren't progressing as they planned.
"Hahahaha!"
Feeling of being ridiculed, they all glared to me as I decided to tell them that made a big mistake.
"My demand is only unlock Ace's shackles, not swapping hostages. That only means, you guys aren't confident enough to defeat me and capture him back. A big sign of weakness on your side!" They gritted their teeth hearing my words.
"Anyway, I will end this war with my ultimate secret technique!" They all show caution as I moved my arm while clapping my hands together with a pose.
*Clap!*
"Huh?"
They are all confused until they realized that Akainu swap position with Ace in the scaffold.
"Ace! Nigerundayo!"
"What? Huh?" Ace was surprise when he found himself in a different location and both of his wrist are unshackled.
"Hurry up!"
"Yes!" Both of us immediately ran away.
Akainu saw Ace running away when he's was locked in seastone chain and can't use his devil fruit abilities.
"Like I let you-- What?!"
Fleet Admiral Sengoku was shock to see Ace escaping with me and he immediately ordered his men to pursuit us.
"Ace has escape! Don't let him get away!"
The Whitebeard Pirates who did everything in their strength and sacrifices to break through the plaza when they heard Senguko's words and realized that Ace has escaped from execution scaffold and he is already on his way back to Whitebeard's ship.
"What?!"
"Everyone, turn back! Ace has already escaped!"
"WOAAAH!"
Several Navy Officers tried to block our escape path when I took off my blindfold and activated the Malevolent Shrine with my curse technique.
"Ace, let's go towards my shrine."
Sensing the malicious aura of my shrine, Ace was hesitant to move close to it.
"Is that thing really safe? Nothing will happen to me, right?"
"It's fine!"
The conditions I made with my curse technique is anyone I see as my enemy will be hit by Dismantle and tough enemies is hit by Cleave. For this happen, I need to use my Six Eyes to find the targets and hit them precisely with my slashes. Unlike the original, I don't use the cursed technique in indiscriminate way.
"Huh?"
Ace saw some the Navy Officers fall one by one after they received slashes on their body.
"Don't stop, Ace! Just push through!"
"Okay!"
The shrine finally crumbled down after I ran out of curse energy and black markings from the enhancement of Murasame has disappeared. At least, it lessen the number of Marines blocking our way. From here on, I won't be able use any of my cursed technique and can only rely on my teleportation skill in this war.
"Ace!"
Luffy came running towards us together with our comrades.
"Luffy! I can't believe what you did there!"
"Hahaha! I'm glad, you were able to escape!"
"Yeah, it's thanks to this guy!" Ace pointed his thumb to me.
"Haru! Thank you for saving Ace!"
"It's nothing. Have you seen what just I did? That's how you end someone's career." I pointed at the direction of Akainu who looks desperate to chase after us.
"Someone is getting demoted!"
"Hahahahaha!" We laughed together with Ace.
All the commanders of Whitebeard Pirates has ordered their squad to retreat back to their ship.
"Meteor Volcano!"
Multiple giant magma fists was launched by Akainu from the distance when my legs suddenly weakened and got stumbled down.
"Haru! Are you okay?" Luffy called for me when blood was dripping from my nose. Forcing myself to use domain expansion with low level Curse Energy Manipulation will put my body into strain.
"Don't slow down! You guys just leave him to me!"
Marco in his phoenix form grabbed me in the shoulders with his claw and flew me away from the falling magma fists.
*Boom!* *Boom!* *Boom!* *Boom!* *Boom!*
"Thank you for saving me."
"You've done already a lot for us. Thank you also for saving Ace."
We saw Whitebeard jumping down from the ship then he slammed both of his arm on each side and crack spreads through the air, destroying the giant wall of ice that blocked the escape path.
"This is gonna be my last order! All of you should leave this place!"
Aware of what he's thinking of dying in this battlefield instead of his life being taken away by an illness. I can already see the sadness from Marco and his fellow commander's expression that they are aware of their father's intentions. All they can do now is to watch Whitebeard fight until his last moments.
Our problem right now is the group of Pacifista attacking from behind and still trying to block our escape path.
"At this rate, they'll catch up with us--Huh?"
In the distance, I saw silhouette of a large ship and it's very humongous compare to the largest ship of Marines or the Moby Dick of Whitebeard Pirates. As the appearance slowly reveals, it was revealed to be an aircraft carrier with several scout planes flying around the ship.
"Don't tell me--"
My eyes widened in surprised, seeing them coming here and I immediately took out my flip phone to call them. After the ringing call end, the voice of my overzealous sister was heard and she sounded very worried about me.
*Hello, Haru-kun! Are you okay?*
"I'm fine, Shizu-nee. I just got a little nosebleed from straining myself."
*Why did you take a high-level quest without telling us?! We've been looking for you! Lolisa was already panicking.*
They are such worrywart until I remembered how I suddenly died and disappeared from their side which made myself sigh and understand how they felt.
"Don't worry, the quest is gonna be completed soon."
Seeing the pirates from the new world having a hard time defeating the Human Weapons led Sentomaru, I decided to ask for my big sister's help.
"I can't move right now. Can you help us take down those cyborgs? Also, please open a escape path for us from the Marines!"
The call ended without me hearing a reply from her until the silhouette of the aircraft carrier disappeared and several energy arrows raining down from above, hitting the cyborgs with precision.
*Boom!* *Boom!* *Boom!* *Boom!* *Boom!*
Several planes passed above us, turning around and dropping bombs on Marine Battleships, trying to sink all of them.
"What are those?" Marco asked while dropping me on their ship.
"Sorry, it seems like they have been looking for me."
"Huh?" All of them looks confused when suddenly, Lolisa appeared out of nowhere, jumping on me and hugging me tightly.
"Onii-sama! Why didn't you tell that you're going somewhere dangerous!" She missed me so much that she rubbed her cheeks on mine.
*Ding!*
Hearing that ring from my flip phone, I immediately went to check and see that the quest has been completed, receiving the rewards.
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Mission Completed!
Rewards:
x5 Gacha Pull
+120 Skill Point
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"Hm?" I can feel my cursed energy returning back to normal and my body was recovering quickly when I activated Reverse Cursed Technique.
Taking out and looking at my Adventurer's card, my curse energy manipulation has finally returned from Lv. 1 to Lv. 3 which was it supposed to be.
After regaining back my strength, I stood up while Lolisa was still hanging on me.
"Are you okay now?" Marco asked as I watch on his side, seeing Whitebeard toying with Akainu with one arm while the marine soldiers are surrounding him.
"Yeah..."
Whitebeard was smiling taking down a lot of Marine soldiers and sending all of them flying.
"Pops... I'm sorry..." Ace was crying in guilt.
"Even I save him from here, he won't last long since he's already on his death bed. I don't think he's planning of making out here alive. Dying an honorabled death was his last wish."
Whitebeard has reached the plaza and he got surrounded by seven warlords. He slammed his arm and crack spread to the ice ground, making it sink down at the bottom then the ship shook a little and it started to drift away.
I saw Shizu-nee riding on her plane then she jumped down from above and she landed on my side and then she hugged me tightly.
"Haru-kun!"
Now, there are people weighing me down.
"Who are those two beautiful girls?" Marco asked curiously.
"My siblings."
(To be continued.)