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Chapter's Events:
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"He's falling!!!"
After Sengoku destroyed the execution platform with his immense power, Ace began to fall towards the ground.
"I'm making a key!! We'll get those handcuffs off in a second!!"
Mister 3 immediately used his wax ability to create a key.
"Got it!!!"
Luffy agreed, who was in his shrunken form after Gear Third had drained his strength.
Buggy's prisoners noticed Mister 3 near Ace and pointed at him in shock.
"Captain Buggy!! That's 3-bro!!!"
"Why!!?" Buggy was shocked.
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Seeing this, the Marines decided to engulf the platform in cannon fire to ensure none of them escaped alive.
"Fire!!!" "Take out the whole platform!!!"
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("Go save your brother!!")
This was the voice of the crying Mister 2, who said this to Luffy.
"If I told you the reason I'm here is to fulfill my lost comrade's final wish, would you laugh at me!!?"
By saying this, Mister 3 meant Mister 2.
"Of course not!!!"
Luffy vehemently denied it. Why would he laugh at him? Even if it wasn't to save Ace, he would never laugh at him.
Hearing that, Mister 3 threw the wax key, identical to the original key, to Luffy, who quickly caught it.
"Save your brother, Strawhat!!!"
Seeing this, Sengoku was shocked, "No!!"
In an instant, the shells destroyed everything around the platform, including the platform itself.
"Fire Fist is still defenseless, he won't survive!!"
The Marines felt they had succeeded in their goal.
"Hmm!?"
But suddenly, one of them noticed something strange.
"Inside that inferno!! A tunnel of fire…!!!"
In the sky, a golden flame appeared, surrounding the cannon fire;
"You've always been this way, Luffy!!!"
"You never listen to me, and you do the stupidest things!!!"
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Rob looked at the duo, who were engrossed in the scene of the manga where Ace was freed from his shackles, for the last time.
He smiled and took out a particular Devil Fruit, placing it on the table next to the door before leaving.
The Devil Fruit was orange with symbols resembling burning flames.
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Neither Roger nor Rouge noticed Rob's departure, nor did they care since they had already bid farewell to him before he left. Their only concern was the special manga scene.
They had waited for this scene for a very long time! At certain moments, they didn't believe this specific scene would actually happen.
"He... did it... Luffy..."
Rouge couldn't hold back her tears of joy at this moment. She was completely overwhelmed with emotions, feeling immense happiness as she witnessed this unexpected scene.
She even forgot the determined fate she saw in Rob's memories and convinced herself that this was the true end of this arc.
"Wahahaha! This is amazing! Even Sengoku couldn't stop him!"
"Let me mourn for Garp a little! Why does this manga make me feel like I'm riding a roller coaster of emotions with all its ups and downs?"
With a big smile on his face, Roger couldn't hide how happy he was with this awaited scene.
Luffy had finally succeeded in reaching his brother and removing his shackles. He had done exactly what he promised to do and saved his brother. Everything that happens from here on out can't be blamed on Luffy!
"Honey, don't forget that Mister 3 made the key to the shackles!" Rouge said with a smile.
"Of course, how could I forget? This was really unexpected, a small villain from the Alabasta arc having such a huge impact... truly impressive."
Roger said with admiration.
"Look, darling, it seems Newgate is also shocked as he didn't expect this... Now I bet he'll stay to die here while paving the way for his sons to retreat to the New World."
"I just want to see how he'll do it, what he'll say, and how he'll put an end to a legend like him! A fitting end..."
"Will the Marines allow this so easily? I mean Ace's escape?" At this moment, Rouge began to feel worried.
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Far from Baterilla, in the New World where there's no place for the sought-after calm except inside the Art Store, exactly on Sphinx Island, Whitebeard's homeland.
Here inside the Art Store, the sought-after calm became the last desire of the readers. Meanwhile, the readers' excitement overflowed with the scene of Ace being freed from his shackles.
Among the excited readers, the most enthusiastic were the Whitebeard Pirates and their allies themselves.
"Oh my God, he did it!! That kid!"
"Great! Strawhat!!!"
"These flames! That's Ace! Let me see how you'll capture and execute him this time after he's freed and regained his strength! Hahaha!"
"Come on! Come on! It's time to react! I want to see the crew destroy Marineford with Ace in our side!"
"I want a perfect ending for the Summit War with us on the summit!!"
"Calm down…"
At this moment, Whitebeard's voice echoed, silencing them.
"They succeeded in freeing Ace, that's our victory. Escaping this place and securing the most lives during that is the greatest victory."
"You want to defeat the Marines with just this strength? In your dreams."
Whitebeard didn't want to crush his children's hopes, but reality was imposing itself on them after all.
"I mean, if I were twenty years younger, you wouldn't need to do anything with me by your side... but I'm not, I have no doubt about it. This battlefield will be my counterpart's grave, I can see that."
The moment these words fell on their ears, they gasped in shock.
Marco couldn't comprehend that and shouted; "But Oyaji, why do you say that when the Whitebeard we know is still standing there like a mountain! That Whitebeard doesn't lose! He can't lose! Not to mention dying..."
He looked at Marco and smiled, saying; "When you have to secure your children's future, loss becomes less bitter, and death is the last of your worries, my son..."
"Listen, I bet that Whitebeard standing there in the middle of the Summit War will say this soon… 'Which ship can carry me to the new era?' Destroying Moby Dick already means my death, it doesn't take a wise mind or long thinking to come to this conclusion."
Hearing that, the pirates who were ahead in the chapters felt as if their very beings were shaking.
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"Buwahahaha! The old man's sacrifice wasn't in vain!"
"The scoundrel grandson succeeded in saving his brother! This is wonderful!"
In the Sorbet Kingdom, Garp was very happy with this outcome.
"What an emotional scene... after all this effort... after all this persistence... Luffy finally succeeded...!!!"
"What a great journey it has been!"
Ivankov felt great satisfaction and happiness after seeing how Luffy finally saved Ace.
"That's right, this perseverance and determination should be taught." Crocodile added with a smile.
"Which teacher can teach their students this? I bet they'll learn it much better just through the manga… to be a man who doesn't give up… for your most dominant trait to be not giving up, this is something that can't really be taught but must be born with."
"My son will be born with it, he'll be born with the destiny to be above these seas, my son will be born on top."
From these words, all the listeners felt the great pride Dragon had towards Luffy in the manga after all he had seen so far.
This made Garp more determined once again.
"Alright then… today we'll search for Luffy's mother more seriously."
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Upcoming chapter titles (spoilers):
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Chapter 741: Whitebeard's Final Order!
Chapter 742: A Loser from a Bygone Age?
Chapter 743: Whitebeard could have become king, but he didn't want to.
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