Aboard the Groseade.
Edward Weevil, who had eaten and drank enough, looked at this strange 'mother', but he couldn't tell the difference between this 'mother' and the previous mother.
After all, when he saw Whitebeard's reward order, he felt like he was looking in the mirror.
"Weevil, from now on you will follow your elder brother and take back your father's territory, do you hear me?"
"And you can only listen to your brother Basire from now on. I want to go back to retire, do you understand it or not?"
A little blond old woman, holding a small cane, was poking Edward Weevil's leg wildly.
"I know, it hurts, mom~"
Weevil felt that this was a familiar thing, because his mother always liked to poke him like this.
"I'll feel at ease when I hand you over to your brother Basire."
Bentham imitated Miss Buckingham and even cried a bit.
"I will be obedient, mom, don't cry."
Weevil said anxiously, feeling a little overwhelmed and not knowing what to do.
"Okay, from now on you just listen to Captain Basire, I'm going back."
'Miss Buckingham' left directly and disappeared from Weevil's sight, while Weevil also shook his white handkerchief, tears kept falling from his eyes.
"Okay, Weevil, you will follow me from now on, and we will grab Whitebeard's territory together!"
Basire finally appeared and comforted Weevil with his favorite Sea Kings meat.
"Okay, Brother Basire, I will listen to my mother and I will listen to you in the future."
Weevil took the meat from Basire's hand and started to chew it, as if he had forgotten the sadness of parting with his mother.
Seeing Basire conquering a Shichibukai like this, others were also shocked.
Isn't this too simple?
However, the addition of Edward Weevil has brought the strength of the Big Daddy Pirates to a higher level.
If the Sea Hero Jinbe also surrendered, then Basire's Imperial Shichibukai can be formed by most of the original Shichibukai.
"Damn it, Basire, I'm not willing to hand over Whitebeard's body like this!"
Gecko Moria shouted in displeasure. The body of a Yonkō disappeared in front of him, making him unable to sleep for several days.
"Don't worry, everything will be returned!"
Thinking of the threat from Red-haired Shanks, Basire said with a chuckle. He comforted the somewhat irritated Gecko Moria and promised to hand over Diamond Jozu's body to him.
This allowed Gecko Moria to be quiet.
Burgess, who was seriously injured by Shanks, finally regained consciousness under the emergency treatment of Doc Q and Law.
Basire immediately went to see this good and loyal man.
"Thanks for your hard work, Burgess, now it's up to you to choose your Devil Fruit ability."
"Is it Fire Fist Ace's Flare Fruit ability, or Diamond Jozu's Twinkle Fruit ability?"
Basire showed directly in front of all the cadres that as long as you follow him and work hard, even if your qualifications are slightly inferior, you can get powerful Devil Fruit abilities and enhance your strength.
"Then I want the Flare Fruit!"
Burgess showed a smile on his pale face and said, "If you can have the ability of a Logia Devil Fruit, of course you need to pick the Logia."
He had waited a long time for this day!
As for the ability of the diamond fruit, leave it to Shiryu.
"Okay, this devil fruit is yours!"
Basire took out the Flare Fruit directly and gave it to Burgess, while the other crew members looked at this lucky fool with envy.
Regardless of the pain of his injury, Burgess was so excited that he swallowed the devil fruit in one bite.
As flames erupted from his body, he laughed wildly, as if his injuries were more than half healed.
"Shiryu, do you want Diamond Jozu's ability? Or do you want to wait for other devil fruit?"
Basire asked Shiryu, because he might be willing to wait for Phoenix Marco's ability.
"Just this diamond ability!"
Shiryu grinned and seemed quite satisfied with this ability.
As for Marco's Phoenix Fruit?
Forget it, he felt that the remnants of the Whitebeard Pirates might defect to the Red Hair Pirates. In his eyes, Red-haired Shanks only showed up to stop the war in order to get some profit.
He snatched back the bodies of Whitebeard and Fire Fist, and rescued Whitebeard's remnants, probably to gain their loyalty and strengthen his own power.
This kind of plot has been seen in many story books when he was bored.
This should be a way of repaying a favor.
In this case, it will take him a long time to obtain the ability of Phoenix Marco, so it is better to get this diamond ability as soon as possible.
Otherwise, this ability will be given to others by Basire, and he will suffer a big loss.
And with the diamond ability, he might be able to have a fierce battle with Mihawk, the world's greatest swordsman, and shorten the gap in strength between them.
In this case, he may not be much worse than Mihawk, a pure swordsman.
"Then I'll give it to you."
Basire immediately went to the prison, killed Diamond Jozu, gave the devil fruit ability to Shiryu of the Rain, and left the complete strong body to Gecko Moria.
Let him make more powerful zombies.
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At this time, on the Marineford battlefield.
Under the cover and deterrence of the Red Hair Pirates, the Whitebeard Pirates quickly collected the bodies of their partners and sailed the pirate ships out of the bay port one after another.
Phoenix Marco, who was recovering from his injury, suddenly felt heat coming from his pocket, which made him feel bad and his face became even paler.
It's exactly the same feeling as when his father and Ace died.
He immediately took out a pile of vivre cards from his pocket and saw that one of them was burning rapidly and completely turned into ashes.
"Jozu!!!!"
"Basire, I will kill you!!"
He shouted angrily to the sky. His howl attracted the attention of other crew members, and they soon learned of Jozu's death.
Sadness and anger suddenly spread among the remaining members of the Whitebeard Pirates.
"Marco, now is not the time to be sad, the Marines will take action, we have to leave!"
Shanks saw that the Marines were also treating the wounded, but Akainu along with a group of Vice Admirals, looked at them maliciously, which put a little pressure on him.
If a war actually breaks out, the Red Hair Pirates will face the entire Naval Headquarters and might suffer heavy losses, which is not worth it.
Moreover, Basire's last words made Shanks very worried about what might happen to his territory.
If there really is an affiliated pirate group who fell into Basire's scheme and believed that Shanks was a Celestial Dragon and distrusted him, this would cause huge losses to the Red Hair Pirates.
After all, many pirate groups and non-member countries in the New World hate the Celestial Dragons with all their hearts.
They wouldn't let a Celestial Dragon rule over them, even though Shanks had a good reputation and was responsible for protecting them.
But this Celestial Dragon's bloodline will really make some pirate groups quit the Red Hair Pirates banner.
They would rather take refuge with the other Yonkōs than have a Celestial Dragon protect them.
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