Liam pointed at Teach and said he wanted to kill him.
The members of the Whitebeard Pirates thought they had misheard…
"You bastard!" Ninth Division Commander Blenheim grabbed his sword hilt and shouted angrily, "What did you just say?"
"The one you want to kill is Teach?!"
"Have you lost your mind?!"
On the deck of the Moby Dick, everyone's expressions changed drastically as they surrounded Giorno, loudly questioning him.
"Why are you all shouting so loudly?" Liam said, dissatisfied.
"Is that even the issue right now?!" The Whitebeard crew roared, anger surging. "You want to kill someone on our ship, Giorno Giovanna? Are you looking down on us?!"
The commanders' expressions also turned cold. If Giorno really intended to repay a favor by killing one of their own crewmates, they would never agree to it.
The atmosphere instantly became extremely tense!
Many hot-tempered pirates had already drawn their swords and firearms. If Giorno dared to attack Teach, they wouldn't hesitate to strike. Because of the debt they owed him, they wouldn't kill Giorno, but they would never stand by and let him harm their companion!
The black armor silently drifted toward Robin, fitting onto her body like a real suit of armor.
Robin's Flower-Flower Fruit ability was already primed.
Out of the corner of her eye, she observed the tense pirates across the ship, especially the dozen or so truly powerful commanders… If anything went wrong, she wouldn't hesitate to reveal her true identity and go all out.
Robin was completely confident that the moment she summoned Hana Jizai: Whitebeard, she could use that Supreme Grade blade to split the Moby Dick in half.
Her flower clones could replicate clothing, and naturally, when reproducing aura or "log" presence, even the target's weapon. The "flower mustache" she had updated captured Whitebeard at the moment he split the sea, including the Murakumogiri in his hand.
Many pirates on this ship were Devil Fruit users. As long as she created the flower mustache and cut the Moby Dick in two, they wouldn't be without a chance.
After all, this was Whitebeard, the strongest man in the world. Having personally witnessed the terrifying power of this legendary pirate restored to his peak, Robin didn't dare be careless in the slightest.
But even the strongest man was still a Devil Fruit user, once he fell into the sea, he would lose his power.
Robin herself was also a Devil Fruit user, but… before leaving the Sabaody Archipelago, Liam had specifically removed both his own and his Stand's Devil Fruit abilities.
Robin was certain that Liam had already anticipated the current situation back then, including the possibility that she would log everyone's aura, including Whitebeard, using Hana Jizai.
Thinking about how he had entrusted her as the final trump card without reservation, Robin couldn't help but feel a little happy.
Suddenly, her eyes widened in surprise. "You guys…" she said, noticing three figures stepping forward.
The Fish-Man Lobster, the human Herman, and the Longleg Tribe's Rege stood in front of Robin, taking defensive stances against the Whitebeard crew.
"Hey! What are you doing?!"
"Aren't we already comrades? Why are you standing on her side?!"
The Whitebeard pirates shouted one after another.
Lobster assumed a Fish-Man Karate stance and said solemnly, "Sorry…"
"Jolyne Cujoh saved us from the Celestial Dragons," Herman said with a smile.
Rege stretched his long legs as if warming up and said cheerfully, "Worst case, we'll let Pops deal with us after it's over."
Robin sighed. "You didn't have to do this…"
"Zehahaha!" Amid this tense atmosphere centered on himself, Marshall D. Teach faced the finger pointed at him and laughed loudly without a care. "Giorno Giovanna, you want to kill me? We've never even met before, have we?"
Liam shrugged. "Is this your first day at sea? If you want to kill someone, do you need to know them first?"
"That makes sense!" Teach grinned widely.
Honestly, Giorno's words suited Teach perfectly. He was exactly that kind of person; if he wanted to kill someone, he didn't necessarily need to know them.
As long as he needed to kill them, or was able to kill them, that was reason enough.
Liam's words pushed the already tense atmosphere to the brink. Commanders like Jozu and Vista were fully prepared for battle, watching Giorno from all directions.
Hopefully, when he said something like that, he had already prepared himself for the consequences…
Whoosh! After remaining silent since Liam's declaration, Whitebeard suddenly stood up and gripped his massive Supreme Grade blade, Murakumogiri.
"Pops! Wait!"
Still in shock, Marco rushed forward, positioning himself between Whitebeard and Liam.
"… " Whitebeard looked down at Marco, leaning on his weapon.
"Marco! You're not seriously going to help him, are you?!" The crew shouted. "He wants to kill Teach!"
"I brought him here!!" Marco roared at everyone. "If he wants to kill Teach, he'll have to step over my dead body!!! But before that, at least let me get a clear answer!"
The crowd fell silent. Commanders like Jozu, Thatch, Vista, and Izo watched calmly. Ironically, the two people at the center, Teach and Liam, were the calmest of all. One was declaring he'd kill; the other was the target, yet both acted as if it were nothing serious…
Marco turned back to Liam, his expression extremely grim. "Giorno… when you asked for our help to kill someone, you didn't say that person was one of our crewmates!"
Liam replied modestly, "Well, I was worried you wouldn't accept it…"
"Drop the fake modesty, damn it!!!" the Whitebeard pirates shouted in unison.
"Marco, step aside," Whitebeard said in a low voice from above.
Marco's expression darkened as he shouted, "Pops! Let me handle him!"
Whitebeard laughed. "Gurarara… don't be stupid. Your Phoenix Fruit is still with me."
Marco glared at Giorno and gritted his teeth. "Even without my Devil Fruit, I won't let him go… He actually tricked me like this!!"
Liam said, displeased, "Why are you talking like some melodramatic girl…"
Teach burst out laughing. "Zehahaha! Pops, it's fine! Everyone's got dozens or even hundreds of people who want them dead. Let him try! A fighter like him, I'd actually like to test myself against him! Zehahaha!"
"You foolish son!" Whitebeard slammed his naginata against the deck, then looked down at Giorno and grinned. "Coming onto my ship, saying to my face that you want to kill my son… Do you really think his target is Teach?"
Marco was stunned! Jozu, Vista, Izo, the commanders, and the rest of the crew were all shocked as they looked at Giorno Giovanna, tall and strong, yet small compared to their towering captain.
Teach pulled out a bottle tied to his belt, took a swig, and laughed. "Zehahaha! This guy… he's challenging a legend. What an arrogant rookie! Zehahaha!"
After locking eyes with Giorno for a moment, Whitebeard's gaze sharpened.
Bang!
An invisible aura burst from his body, a crushing pressure sweeping outward, ignoring everyone else on the ship and targeting Liam and Robin directly.
'Conqueror's Haki…' Robin's heart tightened. Fortunately, with her armor equipped, she wasn't knocked down by Whitebeard's Haoshoku.
Amid the storm-like, overwhelming pressure of Haoshoku Haki, Liam only grew slightly more serious. He stood firm before Whitebeard without taking a single step back. He reached his hand behind him. Robin took a golden iron staff from Vane's mouth and hurled it toward him with a whistling spin.
Smack! Liam caught the gilded iron staff and rested it on his shoulder.
"Don't get the wrong idea!" He pointed toward Teach, who was casually drinking as if watching a show. "I do want to kill him…"
The Whitebeard commanders' faces turned cold, and the crew gritted their teeth. "This guy…"
"But of course, you're right." Liam balanced the staff on his shoulder, smiling brightly, and beckoned to Whitebeard. "Let's fight!"
"Hmph…" Whitebeard's battle intent surged as he raised his Supreme Grade blade and laughed loudly. "You brat… you sure know how to talk big!!!"
Liam gripped the iron staff tightly as Haki flowed into it.
"Could it be…" Izo's eyes widened suddenly.
Haki wrapped around the staff like flowing water, condensed yet unscattered. Without the slightest hesitation, Giorno swung the staff toward the massive naginata crashing down,
...
BOOOOM!!!
Even from such a great distance, the overwhelming force erupting from the Moby Dick could be clearly seen through a telescope.
"Actually clashing head-on with Whitebeard…" Strawberry said in shock aboard the battleship. "And this is Whitebeard at his peak! This level of collision is no joke… Has Giorno gone insane, fighting the Whitebeard Pirates on their own ship?!"
BOOOOM!!!
On the Moby Dick's deck, storm-like shockwaves exploded between the massive naginata and the iron staff.
Many younger crew members were sent tumbling by the sheer force, while others struggled to remain standing.
"His weapon and Pops' blade… they're not even touching! What incredible, AAH!!"
They were blown away by the shockwaves before finishing their words.
Liam's Armament Haki surged endlessly into his staff. Across the invisible clash of overwhelming force, he locked eyes with Whitebeard above.
As their contest of strength intensified, the invisible collisions between their weapons grew more and more violent!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Black-and-red lightning crackled wildly. Violent currents surged through the gap between blade and staff, throwing people off their feet across the deck.
Jozu, Thatch, Vista, and the other commanders showed astonishment. Marco looked toward Izo, who stared without blinking and murmured:
"No doubt about it… That's Ryuo… the same Haki Oden used! He actually mastered it…"
'Liam…' Robin clenched her fists, watching nervously as Liam clashed with Whitebeard.
"Zehahaha! So a monster this strong is after my head?" Teach laughed while drinking. "But Pops can't lose to him… Restoring Pops to full health beforehand, that was his biggest mistake!"
"Kid, you're still too green." Whitebeard smiled. His eyes sharpened, and his arm seemed to swell as a raging torrent of Haki poured into his Supreme Grade blade.
Like oil poured onto fire, the Haki flowing along Murakumogiri surged explosively!
"Hm?" Liam blinked.
The next instant, it was as if he had been struck head-on by an atomic blast…
BOOOOM!!!!
He was blasted away, sent flying dozens of meters…
Splash.
He hit the sea. Before everyone's eyes, Giorno Giovanna was sent flying by a single strike from Pops and fell into the ocean.
Seeing this, many aboard the Moby Dick let out sighs of relief.
Although Giorno had claimed earlier he wasn't a Devil Fruit user, few had truly believed him…
"I won't forgive you… you despicable guy." Marco stared at the spot where he fell.
"You tricked me… Aren't you going to save him?" he asked, looking at Jolyne Cujoh.
Robin replied calmly, "I'm a Devil Fruit user…"
"Hmph…" Marco scratched his pineapple-like hair and sighed. "Guess there's no choice…"
Just as he was about to jump in and rescue that bastard, he suddenly looked toward the sea closer to Whitebeard,
A figure burst out of the water, leaping high into the air.
Everyone on the Moby Dick turned to look at the soaking-wet Giorno, all showing varying degrees of shock.
"…But he isn't," Robin finished with a smile.
Teach stared wide-eyed at the water-drenched figure leaping high. 'This guy really isn't a Devil Fruit user?!'
"Human, Jeet Kune Do!" Midair, Liam threw a punch toward Whitebeard from afar!
"Could it be?!" The Fish-Man Lobster exclaimed in shock from the deck.
(End Of This Chapter)
Liam pointed at Teach and said he wanted to kill him.
The members of the Whitebeard Pirates thought they had misheard…
"You bastard!" Ninth Division Commander Blenheim grabbed his sword hilt and shouted angrily, "What did you just say?"
"The one you want to kill is Teach?!"
"Have you lost your mind?!"
On the deck of the Moby Dick, everyone's expressions changed drastically as they surrounded Giorno, loudly questioning him.
"Why are you all shouting so loudly?" Liam said, dissatisfied.
"Is that even the issue right now?!" The Whitebeard crew roared, anger surging. "You want to kill someone on our ship, Giorno Giovanna? Are you looking down on us?!"
The commanders' expressions also turned cold. If Giorno really intended to repay a favor by killing one of their own crewmates, they would never agree to it.
The atmosphere instantly became extremely tense!
Many hot-tempered pirates had already drawn their swords and firearms. If Giorno dared to attack Teach, they wouldn't hesitate to strike. Because of the debt they owed him, they wouldn't kill Giorno, but they would never stand by and let him harm their companion!
The black armor silently drifted toward Robin, fitting onto her body like a real suit of armor.
Robin's Flower-Flower Fruit ability was already primed.
Out of the corner of her eye, she observed the tense pirates across the ship, especially the dozen or so truly powerful commanders… If anything went wrong, she wouldn't hesitate to reveal her true identity and go all out.
Robin was completely confident that the moment she summoned Hana Jizai: Whitebeard, she could use that Supreme Grade blade to split the Moby Dick in half.
Her flower clones could replicate clothing, and naturally, when reproducing aura or "log" presence, even the target's weapon. The "flower mustache" she had updated captured Whitebeard at the moment he split the sea, including the Murakumogiri in his hand.
Many pirates on this ship were Devil Fruit users. As long as she created the flower mustache and cut the Moby Dick in two, they wouldn't be without a chance.
After all, this was Whitebeard, the strongest man in the world. Having personally witnessed the terrifying power of this legendary pirate restored to his peak, Robin didn't dare be careless in the slightest.
But even the strongest man was still a Devil Fruit user, once he fell into the sea, he would lose his power.
Robin herself was also a Devil Fruit user, but… before leaving the Sabaody Archipelago, Liam had specifically removed both his own and his Stand's Devil Fruit abilities.
Robin was certain that Liam had already anticipated the current situation back then, including the possibility that she would log everyone's aura, including Whitebeard, using Hana Jizai.
Thinking about how he had entrusted her as the final trump card without reservation, Robin couldn't help but feel a little happy.
Suddenly, her eyes widened in surprise. "You guys…" she said, noticing three figures stepping forward.
The Fish-Man Lobster, the human Herman, and the Longleg Tribe's Rege stood in front of Robin, taking defensive stances against the Whitebeard crew.
"Hey! What are you doing?!"
"Aren't we already comrades? Why are you standing on her side?!"
The Whitebeard pirates shouted one after another.
Lobster assumed a Fish-Man Karate stance and said solemnly, "Sorry…"
"Jolyne Cujoh saved us from the Celestial Dragons," Herman said with a smile.
Rege stretched his long legs as if warming up and said cheerfully, "Worst case, we'll let Pops deal with us after it's over."
Robin sighed. "You didn't have to do this…"
"Zehahaha!" Amid this tense atmosphere centered on himself, Marshall D. Teach faced the finger pointed at him and laughed loudly without a care. "Giorno Giovanna, you want to kill me? We've never even met before, have we?"
Liam shrugged. "Is this your first day at sea? If you want to kill someone, do you need to know them first?"
"That makes sense!" Teach grinned widely.
Honestly, Giorno's words suited Teach perfectly. He was exactly that kind of person; if he wanted to kill someone, he didn't necessarily need to know them.
As long as he needed to kill them, or was able to kill them, that was reason enough.
Liam's words pushed the already tense atmosphere to the brink. Commanders like Jozu and Vista were fully prepared for battle, watching Giorno from all directions.
Hopefully, when he said something like that, he had already prepared himself for the consequences…
Whoosh! After remaining silent since Liam's declaration, Whitebeard suddenly stood up and gripped his massive Supreme Grade blade, Murakumogiri.
"Pops! Wait!"
Still in shock, Marco rushed forward, positioning himself between Whitebeard and Liam.
"… " Whitebeard looked down at Marco, leaning on his weapon.
"Marco! You're not seriously going to help him, are you?!" The crew shouted. "He wants to kill Teach!"
"I brought him here!!" Marco roared at everyone. "If he wants to kill Teach, he'll have to step over my dead body!!! But before that, at least let me get a clear answer!"
The crowd fell silent. Commanders like Jozu, Thatch, Vista, and Izo watched calmly. Ironically, the two people at the center, Teach and Liam, were the calmest of all. One was declaring he'd kill; the other was the target, yet both acted as if it were nothing serious…
Marco turned back to Liam, his expression extremely grim. "Giorno… when you asked for our help to kill someone, you didn't say that person was one of our crewmates!"
Liam replied modestly, "Well, I was worried you wouldn't accept it…"
"Drop the fake modesty, damn it!!!" the Whitebeard pirates shouted in unison.
"Marco, step aside," Whitebeard said in a low voice from above.
Marco's expression darkened as he shouted, "Pops! Let me handle him!"
Whitebeard laughed. "Gurarara… don't be stupid. Your Phoenix Fruit is still with me."
Marco glared at Giorno and gritted his teeth. "Even without my Devil Fruit, I won't let him go… He actually tricked me like this!!"
Liam said, displeased, "Why are you talking like some melodramatic girl…"
Teach burst out laughing. "Zehahaha! Pops, it's fine! Everyone's got dozens or even hundreds of people who want them dead. Let him try! A fighter like him, I'd actually like to test myself against him! Zehahaha!"
"You foolish son!" Whitebeard slammed his naginata against the deck, then looked down at Giorno and grinned. "Coming onto my ship, saying to my face that you want to kill my son… Do you really think his target is Teach?"
Marco was stunned! Jozu, Vista, Izo, the commanders, and the rest of the crew were all shocked as they looked at Giorno Giovanna, tall and strong, yet small compared to their towering captain.
Teach pulled out a bottle tied to his belt, took a swig, and laughed. "Zehahaha! This guy… he's challenging a legend. What an arrogant rookie! Zehahaha!"
After locking eyes with Giorno for a moment, Whitebeard's gaze sharpened.
Bang!
An invisible aura burst from his body, a crushing pressure sweeping outward, ignoring everyone else on the ship and targeting Liam and Robin directly.
'Conqueror's Haki…' Robin's heart tightened. Fortunately, with her armor equipped, she wasn't knocked down by Whitebeard's Haoshoku.
Amid the storm-like, overwhelming pressure of Haoshoku Haki, Liam only grew slightly more serious. He stood firm before Whitebeard without taking a single step back. He reached his hand behind him. Robin took a golden iron staff from Vane's mouth and hurled it toward him with a whistling spin.
Smack! Liam caught the gilded iron staff and rested it on his shoulder.
"Don't get the wrong idea!" He pointed toward Teach, who was casually drinking as if watching a show. "I do want to kill him…"
The Whitebeard commanders' faces turned cold, and the crew gritted their teeth. "This guy…"
"But of course, you're right." Liam balanced the staff on his shoulder, smiling brightly, and beckoned to Whitebeard. "Let's fight!"
"Hmph…" Whitebeard's battle intent surged as he raised his Supreme Grade blade and laughed loudly. "You brat… you sure know how to talk big!!!"
Liam gripped the iron staff tightly as Haki flowed into it.
"Could it be…" Izo's eyes widened suddenly.
Haki wrapped around the staff like flowing water, condensed yet unscattered. Without the slightest hesitation, Giorno swung the staff toward the massive naginata crashing down,
...
BOOOOM!!!
Even from such a great distance, the overwhelming force erupting from the Moby Dick could be clearly seen through a telescope.
"Actually clashing head-on with Whitebeard…" Strawberry said in shock aboard the battleship. "And this is Whitebeard at his peak! This level of collision is no joke… Has Giorno gone insane, fighting the Whitebeard Pirates on their own ship?!"
BOOOOM!!!
On the Moby Dick's deck, storm-like shockwaves exploded between the massive naginata and the iron staff.
Many younger crew members were sent tumbling by the sheer force, while others struggled to remain standing.
"His weapon and Pops' blade… they're not even touching! What incredible, AAH!!"
They were blown away by the shockwaves before finishing their words.
Liam's Armament Haki surged endlessly into his staff. Across the invisible clash of overwhelming force, he locked eyes with Whitebeard above.
As their contest of strength intensified, the invisible collisions between their weapons grew more and more violent!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Black-and-red lightning crackled wildly. Violent currents surged through the gap between blade and staff, throwing people off their feet across the deck.
Jozu, Thatch, Vista, and the other commanders showed astonishment. Marco looked toward Izo, who stared without blinking and murmured:
"No doubt about it… That's Ryuo… the same Haki Oden used! He actually mastered it…"
'Liam…' Robin clenched her fists, watching nervously as Liam clashed with Whitebeard.
"Zehahaha! So a monster this strong is after my head?" Teach laughed while drinking. "But Pops can't lose to him… Restoring Pops to full health beforehand, that was his biggest mistake!"
"Kid, you're still too green." Whitebeard smiled. His eyes sharpened, and his arm seemed to swell as a raging torrent of Haki poured into his Supreme Grade blade.
Like oil poured onto fire, the Haki flowing along Murakumogiri surged explosively!
"Hm?" Liam blinked.
The next instant, it was as if he had been struck head-on by an atomic blast…
BOOOOM!!!!
He was blasted away, sent flying dozens of meters…
Splash.
He hit the sea. Before everyone's eyes, Giorno Giovanna was sent flying by a single strike from Pops and fell into the ocean.
Seeing this, many aboard the Moby Dick let out sighs of relief.
Although Giorno had claimed earlier he wasn't a Devil Fruit user, few had truly believed him…
"I won't forgive you… you despicable guy." Marco stared at the spot where he fell.
"You tricked me… Aren't you going to save him?" he asked, looking at Jolyne Cujoh.
Robin replied calmly, "I'm a Devil Fruit user…"
"Hmph…" Marco scratched his pineapple-like hair and sighed. "Guess there's no choice…"
Just as he was about to jump in and rescue that bastard, he suddenly looked toward the sea closer to Whitebeard,
A figure burst out of the water, leaping high into the air.
Everyone on the Moby Dick turned to look at the soaking-wet Giorno, all showing varying degrees of shock.
"…But he isn't," Robin finished with a smile.
Teach stared wide-eyed at the water-drenched figure leaping high. 'This guy really isn't a Devil Fruit user?!'
"Human, Jeet Kune Do!" Midair, Liam threw a punch toward Whitebeard from afar!
"Could it be?!" The Fish-Man Lobster exclaimed in shock from the deck.
(End Of This Chapter)
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