On the outer seas of Marineford, the crewmates of the Bonney Pirates asked with concern,
"Captain Bonney, what's wrong with you?"
Ever since a certain person appeared, their captain's eyes hadn't left him, and now it had even developed to the point of crying loudly.
"Uu… shut up, don't bother me!"
On the battlefield behind, Jotaro stood in front of Akainu. The latter's forehead had been pierced by Star Finger, but such an injury only barely made him collapse.
Half of Akainu was no longer human, but a cold machine. Even if his brain was damaged, for him right now, it was no fatal wound.
Jotaro from the beginning hadn't delivered a killing blow.
He wasn't about to let the other off so easily.
Simply killing him, how could that possibly calm his rage.
"It's really great that you're still alive."
Jotaro's hands were in his pockets, and every step he took brought with it a heavy pressure.
Akainu's eyes nearly split apart, his eyeballs had even turned scarlet, for the first time he felt a deep sense of powerlessness.
'Why!'
Why was the strength he had gained by becoming this neither-man-nor-ghost thing still not enough to defeat this man?
"You are someone who stands on the side of the World Government, so even if you kill people recklessly, the laws of this world can do nothing to you.
"False justice will wash away your sins."
Jotaro's fingers brushed across the brim of his hat, flames of anger seeming to burn in his eyes.
"However! From here on, it will be me who judges you!"
"Star Platinum!"
"The one to carry out judgment on you is my Stand!!!"
"ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA!"
Star Platinum swung both fists, raining down blows rapidly onto Akainu's body.
The air rippled wave after wave.
"Whether it's the World Government, or the false justice you carry, both will be judged by me!"
"ORA ORA ORA ORA!"
"What! Judge the World Government! Does this guy even know what he's saying!"
The moment these words came out, the whole place was in an uproar.
The marines all revealed shocked expressions.
'What kind of treasonous thought was this!'
Doflamingo, however, froze for a moment and then couldn't help bursting out laughing.
"Fufufufufu…"
"To say such words in Marineford itself, how amusing!"
"Jotaro! So this is your ambition!"
Even the Four Emperors didn't dare say such things in public, rebelling in the shadows and rebelling openly were two completely different concepts.
Even if they did some small schemes in secret, at least on the surface they still maintained a harmonious relationship with the World Government.
After all, the total military might of the World Government was just too strong, stronger than any one faction.
They were the emperors ruling the world.
And the Four Emperors were only equivalent to feudal lords with their own territories, able to run wild within their lands, but as long as they didn't excessively infringe on the World Government's interests, the Government wouldn't mobilize too much power to annihilate them.
Jotaro was different from Kaido and Big Mom. With his personality, he would never secretly rebel.
If he was going to rebel, then he would rebel openly.
Unless he completely beat the World Government into submission, his anger would never be quenched.
Besides, he himself never considered it rebellion, because from the beginning he had never acknowledged the World Government's legitimacy.
If Jotaro kept pummeling Akainu, without doubt it would end with his death.
But Bartholomew Kuma couldn't allow such a thing to happen. The system had set a sequence to protect allies, forcing him to act.
"Ursus Shock!"
A bubble compressed to the extreme blasted toward Jotaro's position, followed by a tremendously destructive explosion.
At the instant before the blast, Kuma teleported beside Akainu and moved him outside the explosion's range.
"The enemy has not yet been eliminated!"
As the water fell, Jotaro's figure appeared in Kuma's vision.
"What the hell are you doing!" Jotaro frowned, the Kuma before him giving him a strange feeling.
Kuma didn't reply, spreading his palm, attacking once more.
"Pressure Cannon!"
Jotaro sidestepped away.
"Yare! What the hell does this guy mean!"
Thinking of how Kuma had helped him before, Jotaro didn't strike directly, only kept dodging.
"Laser Beam!"
Kuma opened his mouth, releasing an attack similar to Kizaru's move.
"Ora!"
Star Platinum's haki-covered fist collided with the light-speed beam.
BOOM!
Using the blast to cover Kuma's sight with flames and smoke, Jotaro strode forward, no longer planning to hold back, instead choosing to take the initiative.
"The World!"
"Time, stop flowing!"
Kuma seemed to know all of Jotaro's information, always staying outside of Jotaro's attack range.
Whenever Jotaro tried to close in, Kuma would use teleportation to pull the distance open.
But this was the sea.
His intel was still wrong.
Jotaro's attack range was farther than he thought.
Ripple could let haki conduct rapidly through the water, with a maximum range reaching a kilometer.
However, Kuma's teleport ability was still too nimble.
Ripple-conducted haki attacks were not the same as Star Platinum's punching speed.
Without stopping time, Jotaro wasn't confident of landing an easy hit.
"Ora!"
Star Platinum punched the water, Conqueror's Haki compressed into a mass, rapidly transmitted through the water with Ripple.
"Time stops flowing!"
"Hmm?" Kuma's system gave a warning, his Observation Haki also sensed something.
Spatial transfer.
BOOM!
Suddenly, the underwater Conqueror's Haki pierced through the ice layer, then pierced through Kuma's thigh.
Losing balance, Kuma's massive body stumbled and toppled.
Jotaro seized the instant of Kuma's imbalance, using a movement technique combining Moonwalk and Shave, rapidly moving through the air, in a flash arriving at Kuma's side.
"What kind of body technique is that, it looks like our Navy's Rokushiki!"
"Damn it! Could it be we have a spy in the Navy, leaking our combat techniques?"
The marines, seeing this scene, all started doubting.
But the footwork Jotaro used still had some differences from their Rokushiki, so for the moment they weren't sure.
After fighting the navy many times, Jotaro had long since broken down Rokushiki, and especially improved the movement techniques.
Star Platinum's copying and Jotaro's learning were both max-level skills from the very start.
Mastering such simple combat techniques was far too easy.
Moreover, Jotaro knew where he was weaker, and he himself was very interested in these combat styles.
As the saying goes, interest is the best teacher.
So in just a few breaths of time Jotaro had completely grasped Rokushiki, running it through in his mind a few times until he fully comprehended it.
Then, by thinking about it a little while eating or sleeping, he finished improving the techniques.
This brand-new body technique not only combined the advantages of Moonwalk and Shave, allowing fast movement and mid-air hovering,
But also made up for their flaws.
Shave required many steps on the ground to generate the explosive reaction force to move.
The improved version only needed one step.
Moonwalk could hover, but the hovering time was too short.
The improved version could hover forever.
As long as Jotaro didn't want to come down, he could just stay up in the sky.
Next time he went to Egypt, he wouldn't even need to trade punches with Dio. Jotaro could fly by his own power alone.
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