Chapter 143: Roy's Inner Decision
Nearshore - The Moby Dick
The massive warship rocked violently, waves roaring like beasts as they slammed into the hull. The deck was covered in cracks, splinters flying everywhere.
The Division Commanders were consumed by fury and bloodlust, ready to leap from the deck into the fray!
"Pops is being suppressed! Don't stop me!!!" Jozu roared, his body turning into diamond, cracking the deck beneath him!
"Let me at least get one cut on that kid!" Vista drew his twin swords, cold light flashing, killing intent surging!
"SHUT UP!!!"
Marco, stumbling to the bow, transformed into the blue-flamed phoenix. His wings were charred, blood dripping from his beak, but he stood like a pillar, blocking everyone's path!
His eyes were determined, his voice strained as he shouted through gritted teeth, "Going up there is suicide!!!"
"This isn't a battle we can intervene in anymore!"
"Don't cause trouble for Pops!!!"
Amidst the swirling blue flames, everyone froze, then lowered their heads, gritting their teeth, fists clenched until they cracked, faces full of unwillingness and rage!
In the shadows of the crowd, a 33-year-old Blackbeard Teach quietly retreated. His eyes were glued to the figure flipping through the lightning in the sky, the smile on his face frozen stiff.
Cold sweat beaded on his forehead, his back soaked in terror.
"Ze... zehahaha..."
His throat was dry, mumbling tremblingly, "You gotta be kidding me... one person... suppressing Pops and Kaido?!!"
"Those are... two Emperors of the Sea!!!"
In his eyes, shock was gradually swallowed by madness, replaced by greed, restlessness, and the flames of a budding ambition!
"This power... this power!!!"
"If I could get it... no one in this sea could stop me—!!!"
High in the distance, King, having recovered a bit of stamina, transformed into a Pteranodon and circled above the converging lightning.
Looking down at the battlefield, watching Kaido being repeatedly hit by heavy punches, his face was a mix of shock, anxiety, and pain.
"If this goes on... Big Bro Kaido really will be beaten to death!!!"
"We can't drag this out!! Retreat!! We must retreat immediately—!!"
"BAM!!!"
"BANG—!!!"
"WHAM—!!!"
Roy threw punch after punch, each one wrapped in Conqueror's Haki and extreme acceleration, bombarding Kaido like comets hitting the earth!
Every punch was like a landslide or a tsunami!
With each blow, Kaido's supposedly indestructible body cracked further. Scales shattered, flesh flew, bones cracked like thunder!
"GURK-AAAAHHH—!!!" Kaido roared back, swinging Hassaikai wrapped in wind and thunder!
But Roy seemed to predict the future. He flickered, teleporting to dodge, then reappeared from another angle to punch again—
"SMASH!!!"
Kaido's cheek exploded, dragon teeth flying. His head shook violently, and he stumbled to one knee, smashing the rock beneath him!
An Emperor of the New World, forced to his knees!
"DAMN BRAT!! DON'T IGNORE ME!!!"
Whitebeard roared, eyes bloodshot. The power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit poured into Murakumogiri as he swung with full force!
"Quake Slash: World Sever!!!"
A slash carrying the power of spatial collapse tore through the world, hurtling toward Roy!
—However!
"Swish."
Roy flicked his left hand lightly, space trembling.
"—Hm?!"
The next moment, the quake slash vanished into thin air!
"Wha—?!"
"SPLAT—!!!"
The slash Whitebeard had thrown appeared directly behind Kaido, tearing his dragon back open!
Shockwaves surged into his body, spine cracking, blood gushing like a fountain!
Kaido roared at the sky, face twisted. "WHITEBEARD... YOU...!!!"
Whitebeard froze, horror on his face. "It wasn't me... I aimed at... that brat...!!!"
Whitebeard suddenly realized—
In that instant, Roy had forcibly redirected the trajectory of the tremor attack!!
Roy's fists rained down on Kaido like a storm, each blow carrying ultimate Conqueror's Haki and the destructive power to tear mountains and rivers apart!
"BAM—!!!"
"BANG—!!!"
"WHAM—!!!"
Fists fell, scales broke, flesh flew!
Kaido's iron-wall body was now a bloody mess. The sound of breaking bones echoed across the battlefield. Sternum collapsed, muscles torn, yet he refused to fall!
Those scarlet dragon eyes stared death at Roy—rage, humiliation, madness, but not a shred of submission!
"Damn it... this guy's durability... is unreasonable!"
Roy's face remained cold, his fists like wind and thunder, but deep inside, anxiety was burning.
—Teleporting Law from Paradise all the way deep into the New World had consumed nearly half his stamina!
Suppressing Kaido now relied entirely on willpower and tactical layout.
He deliberately expended energy to suppress Kaido and even waste stamina to effortlessly redirect Whitebeard's slash, just to mislead Whitebeard—to make this "monster of the old era" think he was still full of energy, so he wouldn't dare act rashly.
And Whitebeard, indeed, held back.
"But the problem is..."
Roy's gaze sharpened, glancing at the panting but still standing Kaido. "This mad dragon... is seriously too tanky!!!"
"This battle has gone on for two days. If I drag it out any longer, a certain busybody might show up..."
Whitebeard stood nearby, gripping Murakumogiri. Quake power gathered quietly in his arm, black-red lightning dancing around him, yet he didn't swing.
He gritted his teeth, eyes fierce. "That last attack... he redirected it."
"If I attack rashly again... the one who kills Kaido might end up being me."
Whitebeard's pride wouldn't allow him to casually take the blame for killing an old rival!
"Marine brat... what exactly do you want?!" he roared, air waves rolling!
Roy didn't answer. He just sneered and dove down.
The next instant, he appeared in front of Kaido, fist charging again, ultimate Haki exploding like a solar flare!
"BOOM—!!!"
This punch hit Kaido square in the chest!
The massive shockwave swept the entire island. The ground collapsed, rock layers shattered!
Kaido was blasted back hundreds of meters like he'd been hit by a ten-thousand-ton thunder hammer, smashing heavily into the ground and kicking up a dust cloud!
"RUMBLE—!!!"
The entire deserted island shook violently. The crust at the edges began to crack, fissures spreading madly from Kaido's impact point in all directions!
Whitebeard's pupils shrank, shock in his heart!
"Bad... he's..."
He suddenly realized Roy's true intention!
"He wants to destroy the entire island!!!"
"STOP—!!!"
Whitebeard roared and charged at Roy, quake Haki exploding, Murakumogiri carrying the power of spatial collapse, slashing wildly at Roy!
However—
"Swish!"
Roy vanished instantly, reappearing at the peak of the sky!
He looked down coldly at the spreading cracks below, lightning rolling around him, his fist raised slowly.
The sky dimmed in that moment. Black-red Conqueror's Haki gathered on his right fist like a vortex, as if condensing the rage of an entire galaxy!
"—Too late!"
"Flash: Galaxy Impact!!!"
That punch felt like it was dragging the entire sky into the abyss!
Before the fist even landed, the air shattered. The center of the island roared ceaselessly, the sky dyed pitch black and red!
Whitebeard roared, leaping into the air to intercept, but in that instant!
CRACK!!
An invisible killing intent suddenly descended from the far horizon!
Like the eye of a god opening, a red light exploded deep in Roy's mind!
His pupils contracted sharply, Observation Haki screaming a warning!
"This is—?!"
The air beside him was torn by a ripple invisible to the naked eye, like a "Divine Slash" thrown from ten thousand miles away!
"SWISH!!!"
A thin but terrifying red line cut through the air, heading straight for the core of the Galaxy Impact!
Roy stopped his punch abruptly, flashing away. Amidst the surging lightning, the star-shattering power on his fist disintegrated!
"BANG—!!!"
Thunder exploded in mid-air, the punch of destruction halting in the void!
On the distant horizon, a massive ship flying a red pirate flag slowly sailed into the battlefield.
On the bow, a one-armed, red-haired figure stood quietly in the wind, his eyes filled with solemn killing intent and warning.
"Red-Haired Shanks..."
Roy's pupils contracted, and the corners of his mouth slowly lifted.
"You really... know how to pick a time."
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