"Luffy, you can be considered the passionate idol that I longed for when I was a kid."
"Unlike other pirates, your adventure is indeed wonderful."
"I also longed for the freedom of the sea just like you."
"They are full of infinite desire to find a place in society where their souls can be freed and released."
"But now I am in the position of Marine General."
"Representing the spokesperson of justice, guarding the front of the people."
"When I take up the heavy responsibility that cannot be shied away from my shoulders and bear the justice that cannot be blasphemed in my heart."
"My mission has been determined and my future has a direction."
"Personal freedom is indeed valuable."
"However, the freedom of the whole world and the liberation of all mankind are the ultimate dreams that I pursue throughout my life!"
"Everyone wants to live freely."
"But how selfish it is to sacrifice the interests of others to satisfy your own pursuit of freedom!"
"Pirates, burning, killing, looting, and doing all kinds of evil!"
"They are nothing more than moths in the sea. What qualifications do they have to talk about freedom?"
"Luffy! Regardless of whether what you did before was right or wrong, today you released all the criminals who pushed into the city for your own selfish purposes."
"Do you understand what a horrific bloody storm tens of thousands of pirates will cause on the sea? Do you know how many ordinary civilians will have their families destroyed?"
Luffy heard Sakazuki's stern questioning behind him. While running in the direction of Ace and Aokiji, he turned back and shouted:
"I want to save Ace! You Marines are the ones who want to stop me!"
"Also, my name is Luffy, and I want to be the man who becomes The King OF PIRATES!"
"Really stubborn," Sakazuki snorted coldly. "Let me see how you, the chosen one, can survive today!"
Sakazuki immediately increased his pace, clenching his right hand into a fist, and the magma rolled out spontaneously. The hot lava shot directly toward Luffy's back.
Not only did the reckless Luffy not dodge when he sensed the attack from behind, but he immediately used the second gear, and the fiery red rubber skin was steaming.
"Rubber rocket launcher!"
Luffy used the power of the Nika fruit to turn around and counterattack, trying to resist the fist made of lava.
Sakazuki thought, "You really think that just because you have faced Aokiji, Kizaru, Garp, and Sengoku without incident before, you can withstand my attack?"
The rubber fist that shot out was insignificant under the power of the lava fire fist.
Luffy struggled to resist, and his steps kept retreating.
"How can the light of fireflies compete with the bright moon!"
"Come die!"
Sakazuki suddenly increased his output, vowing to execute the next King Of The Pirates on the spot!
Finally, Luffy's counterattack momentum collapsed at this moment.
An unprecedented sense of fatal threat came over him, as the hot magma was about to annihilate Luffy's body.
A figure appeared in front of Luffy as quickly as lightning. Then a hard fist emitting dazzling black light directly shattered the lava fist.
"Boom!"
With a loud bang, the broken magma scattered all over the ground, and bursts of thick black smoke were emitted.
As soon as Sakazuki noticed a breath approaching quickly, he thought it was Ace who had been let go by Aokiji. But now that he saw the iconic Iron Fist attack, he didn't need to wait for the smoke to clear to know it was Garp!
It was reasonable, though unexpected!
Unexpectedly, Sengoku failed to stop Garp. Thinking about it, after all, Luffy was his grandson. Even Ace, his adopted son, made the lieutenant general violate the principles of justice, let alone his own grandson.
Seeing that the attack failed, Sakazuki kicked the ground hard with both feet and immediately dived forward. Bypassing Garp at a weird angle, the magma fist covered with top-level Sakura armament color and domineering power hit Luffy's head directly.
If he was hit by this punch, Luffy would definitely die on the spot.
But at the critical moment, Sakazuki felt that his wrist was firmly grasped by an iron claw, and he could no longer move forward.
Garp's arm muscles bulged, terrifying veins covering the entire forearm, and his fingers flexed. A steel-like palm firmly fixed Sakazuki's wrist.
After being blocked twice in succession, Sakazuki knew that he would not be able to kill Luffy this time.
"Lieutenant General Garp! What do you mean?"
Sakazuki deliberately raised his voice and asked sternly.
Sure enough, the movement here immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding Marines.
"What is Lieutenant General Garp doing? Why is he protecting pirates?"
Seeing this scene in front of them, the Marines all looked in disbelief. Except for a few Marine executives, most Marines didn't know that Luffy was Garp's grandson. Of course, they didn't even know that the leader of the Revolutionary Army,Monkey D. Dragon, was Garp's son.
Originally, this epic war had caused indelible trauma to the hearts of the Marines. Coupled with Whitebeard's previous monster-like large-scale attack that destroyed the world, the mental blow to them was even greater.
Now everyone was fighting to the death based on their belief in justice. Now, as a Marine card, Lieutenant General Garp, a Marine hero, had turned against the enemy and helped the pirates. This would undoubtedly cause the Marines' faith in the Marine hero to begin to collapse.
"Sakazuki, for my sake, let Luffy go! I will educate him myself when I go back!"
Not daring to face the questioning looks of many Marines, Garp lowered his head and prayed to Sakazuki in a low voice.
Hearing Garp's words, Sakazuki couldn't help but shake his head.
"As long as you educate him well, you can educate him anywhere."
"Should we educate a son who betrayed Marine and formed a revolutionary army, or should we educate a grandson who clamored to become The King Of Pirates every day and foolishly ran away to join someone else's pirate group?"
Sakazuki added inwardly, "Another one became the second-in-command of the revolutionary army."
"Uh!" When asked by Sakazuki, Garp didn't know what to say for a moment.
After all, he hadn't realized that his method of education was completely wrong.
"You said you'd be given a nice treat in Windmill Village, but you wanted to send Ace and Luffy to the bandit's house. Isn't this a set of educational concepts that have been adopted by thieves and bandits since childhood?"
There was also domestic violence at every turn, and as the name suggested, the "Iron Fist of Love", the result was good, and he beat away Dorag, a future general.
"Lieutenant General Garp! Please open your eyes and look at the fallen Marines around you!"
Sakazuki pointed his other hand hard at the Marines lying in a pool of blood and shouted angrily in a low voice.
"They also have families, they are also their parents' children, and now they are sacrificed on the road to uphold justice."
"Parents have lost their sons, and children have lost their father!"
"Many of them, Marines, died at the hands of your own grandson. Is it worthy of letting your grandson live? Is it worthy of these dead comrades? Is it worthy of the justice written on the cloak on your back?"
"Ah!? Answer me!"
Speaking of this, Sakazuki could no longer control his inner anger. A majestic momentum burst out from his body, and the powerful momentum blew the cloaks of justice behind them.
Luffy was also knocked over by this energy and couldn't help but scream.
At this time, the veins on Sakazuki's wrist that was grabbed by Garp popped out, magma splashed out, and his right hand slowly broke free from Garp's hand!