Hibari's small mouth was slightly agape. She stared blankly with her head tilted back, watching the Berries continuously fall from high in the sky, completely unable to react.
She blinked, looked at Rorschach in confusion, and asked softly, "Brother Rorschach, is there such a weather phenomenon as money falling from the sky?"
The most unpredictable thing in this world is the weather around the globe.
As Hibari, who was determined to become the world's best navigator, she had already learned most of the theoretical knowledge about weather in this world and knew that the weather changes in this world could definitely be called ever-changing.
It wasn't impossible to suddenly encounter a huge whirlpool, a thunder blast, a tornado, hailstones, or even a falling sky island.
But she had never seen a situation like the one in front of her, where money was falling from the sky.
And they were falling in bundles.
However, Hibari was only stunned for a brief moment before she came to her senses. Her eyes lit up, and she excitedly flew into the air, transforming into a rolling white cloud. She created a huge cloud-pocket with a diameter of a hundred meters above her head, opened her mouth wide, and caught the bundles of Berries that were falling from the sky.
"So much money! Brother Rorschach, we've struck it rich! Money is falling from the sky! Come and pick it up!"
While using the cloud to catch the money, Hibari shouted to Rorschach, who was still standing on the warship.
The Berries falling from the sky were simply too much. They were like rain, covering a space of a thousand meters in diameter.
If the paper Berries had not been bundled, they would have been blown away by the wind to who-knows-where.
On the warship, Rorschach had a strange expression on his face.
His gaze went past the cloud that Hibari had turned into and looked at the towering cliff of Reverse Mountain.
The Reverse Mountain here was actually part of the Red Line.
It was equivalent to the starting point of the first half of the Grand Line, facing the Holy Land Mariejois.
The two locations formed a sea passage thousands of miles wide, which was the so-called seven sea routes to the New World.
In other words, they were currently standing at the foot of the Red Line.
This made Rorschach's first thought when he saw the Berries falling: Could it be that a Celestial Dragon was throwing money from the top of the Red Line?
Fortunately, his overly powerful Observation Haki immediately cleared up his confusion.
He waved at Hibari, who was still catching money above his head, and shouted, "Don't pick it up anymore, Hibari. That's someone else's money."
"Huh? Whose?" A naive face appeared on the rolling cloud above, and it asked in confusion.
In just a blink of an eye, Hibari had caught at least a billion Berries.
The pleasure of continuously picking up so much money that she could barely hold it almost made Hibari think she was having a beautiful dream of picking up money.
"It seems to be... Germa's." Rorschach raised an eyebrow in surprise.
"Germa's money? Why would Germa's money fall from the sky and land right on our heads?"
A big question mark appeared above Hibari's head.
Her mind raced, and she suddenly came up with a guess.
"Could it be... that the people of the Germa Kingdom already know that you're coming to the North Blue to stop them, so they were waiting for you here in advance to bribe you with money and make you return to headquarters?"
Rorschach's mouth twitched. He waved his hand and said, "Don't guess randomly. How could a proud man like Judge do such a demeaning thing? In any case, you should move to the side first. The owner of the Berries is also falling down."
"Huh?"
Hibari was still in a daze when she felt her cloud-body being hit by a strong air current, which blew it apart.
The large amount of Berries she had just caught immediately poured down with a clatter, landing right on the deck in front of Rorschach, piling up and filling the small deck completely, leaving him with almost no place to stand.
And at this moment, a huge black shadow above the warship rapidly grew larger, stirring up chaotic air currents that scattered in all directions, blowing away the cloud that Hibari had turned into and falling straight down.
Having been blown to the side, Hibari hurriedly gathered her form and looked carefully. She saw a strangely shaped large ship falling down with a rumble, with its deck facing down.
The reason the ship was said to be strangely shaped was that it looked more like a castle and a small palace.
If it weren't for the obvious steam paddle wheels on both of its sides, the dark cannon muzzles, and the wide deck that was falling down, Hibari would have truly thought that this might be a castle that had fallen from the top of the Red Line.
This would also explain why Berries were falling from the sky.
However, when the distance closed in a lot more and Hibari saw the full outline of this strange large ship, a familiar term emerged from her mind.
"This is the Germa Kingdom's war dock!"
She saw that the ship was clearly being carried by a huge Den Den Mushi.
The Germa Kingdom's war docks were very famous all over the world.
This was because they had powerful mobility, the ability to adapt to any terrain, and a strong carrying capacity.
This allowed the Germa army, with the help of these war docks, to go to any country they wished to accept war employment.
This was the reason why the Germa army was called the world's most famous mercenary army.
These war docks were actually gigantic Den Den Mushi that had been modified with Germa's scientific technology.
Although the gigantic Den Den Mushi did not have communication functions, they had extremely strong adaptability. They could adapt to all kinds of extreme weather, easily carry a large amount of heavy objects and move on the sea, and could even climb the ten-thousand-meter-high Red Line while carrying heavy loads.
Germa relied on them to freely cross the Red Line without having to go through Reverse Mountain to go to the Grand Line and the New World.
The castles on their backs were actually their shells.
Seeing that Rorschach, who was under the huge snail ship, still hadn't left, Hibari couldn't help but anxiously shout, "Brother Rorschach! Get out of the way!"
Rorschach waved his hand, indicating that he was fine.
He spread the fingers of his right hand and aimed at the gigantic snail ship that was falling toward him.
"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!"
Electric currents moved between his five fingers. In an instant, they shot out from his palm, turning into a huge electric net that covered the incoming Germa war dock.
To Rorschach's surprise, in the face of the electric net he had sent out, the Den Den Mushi, which was carrying a large amount of heavy objects, showed a very human-like expression of fear.
It might have felt the terrifying energy contained in the electric net. Its long neck retracted, and it immediately pulled into its thick shell.
And the place where there should have been a hole was also tightly sealed with a thick, round shield, making the entire large ship look like a castle with no entrance.
However, Rorschach had no intention of blasting this large Den Den Mushi.
The electric net that shot out sizzled as it flowed through the ship's body. It quickly transformed into a huge magnetic force, controlling the large amount of steel structures within the war dock. It suddenly stopped an inch above Rorschach's head and quietly hovered in the sky, magically stopping its downward trend.
The people on the ship seemed to have noticed that the ship was stable. Rorschach and Hibari then saw the castle door on the deck being pushed open from the inside.
The moment the door was pushed open, several burly men immediately fell down in shock.
At the same time, a large number of bundled Berries poured out from the opened door with a clatter, spilling toward the ground below.
It was simply like a waterfall of Berries, which stunned Hibari.
The four burly men flailed their arms and legs, yelling as they struggled in the sky a few hundred meters high, but they couldn't stop themselves from falling.
Seeing that the men were about to fall into the sea, Hibari's heart moved. With a wave of her hand, she created a large area of white clouds, which gathered beneath the four men, catching them.
The door of the castle above was closed from the inside after a large amount of Berries had poured out.
It seemed that there were still quite a few people inside the snail shell.
And at this moment, the warship where Rorschach was was completely submerged in Berries.
He could only wave his hand to catch the air and create an air barrier to hold up the remaining large amount of Berries, preventing them from falling into the sea.
Rorschach flipped his right hand, and the upside-down Germa war dock above his head flipped over in the air and remained suspended in the sky.
He stepped on the warship that was submerged in money and flew to the deck of the war dock.
Not far away, Hibari also flew over, bringing the four burly men she had saved with her.
"They're Germa's clone soldiers." Hibari sized up the four burly men who were all different in height but looked identical.
She had already seen some clones in Mock Town last time, so she was not surprised now.
Rorschach was about to ask these clones something.
Who knew that before he could speak, the four clone soldiers pulled out their firearms from their waists, aimed at Rorschach and Hibari without hesitation, and decisively pulled the triggers.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
Bullets shot out from the muzzles of the guns in their hands, flying over with a 'whoosh.'
It was clear that the pistols they were holding were not ordinary flintlock pistols.
These pistols had great power, an amazing rate of fire, and an exaggerated magazine capacity. They were also semi-automatic.
Compared to the flintlock pistols Rorschach had seen in the North Blue, there was a world of difference.
Even at Marine headquarters, Rorschach rarely saw such good weapons.
Watching the bullets fly toward them, neither Rorschach nor Hibari dodged. They let the bullets hit them.
The bullets that hit Hibari passed directly through her body and flew into the distance with a 'whoosh.'
The bullets that hit Rorschach were like they had hit a brass wall. They were crushed with a series of loud 'crackling' sounds, but they couldn't even scratch him.
A clone soldier raised his hand and fired another shot.
"Bang!"
This shot was incredibly accurate and hit Rorschach's eye directly.
But it was still useless.
The bullet hit the layer of deep blue glow that had opened up on the surface of Rorschach's eyeball and was flattened into a piece of copper residue.
Seeing that the bullets were useless against Rorschach and Hibari, the four clone soldiers were not alarmed at all. They decisively pulled out another large-caliber pistol from their waists and aimed at the two of them, which made Hibari stunned.
"They know that bullets can't hurt us, so why are they still using guns..."
"You idiot, those are Sea Prism Stone firearms. They can shoot Sea Prism Stone nets."
Rorschach grabbed Hibari's arm and jumped away, dodging the four large Sea Prism Stone nets.
At this moment, the castle door opened again, and a large swarm of clone soldiers poured out from inside.
Every one of them was strong and robust, with bulging muscles. They were holding various weapons in their hands.
After nearly a hundred clone soldiers poured out, the thick door behind them was closed again.
"Only clones, no members of the Vinsmoke family?"
Rorschach was a bit surprised.
Even an idiot could see that these people were transporting Berries, probably to the Holy Land Mariejois.
It was very likely that this money was the heavenly tribute that Judge was paying.
Under the cover of Rorschach's Observation Haki, nothing on this ship could escape his eyes.
He had made a rough estimate and found that the money being transported by this ship was a whopping twenty-five billion Berries!
This was an incredibly huge sum of money.
It should be known that the Thousand Sunny in the manga was built for only three hundred million Berries.
And it was made of Adam Wood.
And since it was still year 18, Berries were definitely worth more than they would be two years later.
In other words, the money here could buy nearly one hundred Thousand Sunnies.
Even Rorschach's Thunder and Lightning Kirin would be able to buy ten of them.
And at this moment, there were a few white-coated individuals who had locked the door and hadn't come out of the castle. They were dialing their Den Den Mushi with a lot of sweat, probably trying to contact Judge.
But unfortunately, with Rorschach there, the ship was filled with magnetic forces and lightning, and the Den Den Mushi had no signal at all.
Rorschach didn't expect that for such a huge sum of money, Judge wouldn't even send one of his sons to escort it.
Should I say he's overconfident, or stubborn?
In any case, Rorschach felt that today was a good day. He seemed to have good luck. He found money as soon as he went out, and it was a huge sum of money.
As he was thinking this, the deck was crowded with clone soldiers who had already raised their swords and guns. They were either charging forward or shooting, aiming at Rorschach and Hibari, and launching their attack.
Faced with firearms that might contain Sea Prism Stone nets or Sea Prism Stone bullets, Rorschach didn't want to make a rookie mistake.
He immediately extended his large hand, and the power of lightning exploded from his palm, turning into a silvery-white plasma torrent that rushed out with a bang. Hundreds of lightning bolts were created on the deck in front of him, instantly piercing through the bodies of the hundred or so burly clone soldiers, making them smoke and twitch on the ground.
With just one strike, all the armed forces on this ship were neutralized.
"Hey, hello, can you open the door? I'm a delivery person."
Rorschach leisurely walked to the castle's main door and very politely reached out and knocked on the door.
The people inside immediately fell into a panic.
A slightly older white-coat forced himself to stay calm and spoke in a deep voice, "Who are you, sir? Why are you opposing our Germa Kingdom?"
Rorschach scratched his head and said in confusion, "When did I oppose Germa? Didn't you see that I just saved you?"
Hearing Rorschach's words, the people in the castle were almost enraged.
A young white-coat couldn't hold back his anger and said furiously, "You've knocked down all our Germa army's soldiers, and you're still saying that you saved us? I admit you are very strong, but you're going too far!"
"Oh, so eloquent. As expected of a Germa Kingdom scientist." Rorschach chuckled and reached out to grab the door handle. "They attacked me first. I saved you, and instead of showing gratitude, you attacked me first. Do you expect me to just stand here and die? Is Judge aware of how arrogant Germa is?"
As he was speaking, he twisted the door handle.
Just then, he heard the three white-coats inside the door let out a gleeful and hearty laugh.
"Go to hell! Only a few of us have the authority to open this door freely. If it is forced open by an outsider, a current of fifty million volts will be generated on the door, and it will turn you into a pile of charcoal..."
"Click."
The door opened, revealing Rorschach's sunny and cheerful smile.
The three men's passionate speech came to an abrupt halt. It was as if someone had grabbed their throats, and their faces turned beet red.
"Sorry to disappoint you."
Rorschach smiled and held out his hand, which was wrapped in electric light.
"No one knows lightning better than I do."
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