Looking at the Empress once again cupping her face, immersed in beautiful fantasies.
Her two sisters and Granny Zaz couldn't help but exchange glances.
"Granny Zaz, what do you think of this...?"
"Just do as the Snake Princess said."
Granny Zaz said worriedly:
"This mysterious manner seems thoroughly beyond help. Undoing the knot requires the person who tied it, perhaps there's really only this way to have that person personally come and help solve this..."
But if that's the case, the stance of the Nine Serpents will undergo a complete transformation.
For a man, we stand in opposition to the World Government.
Hancock, is this really... worth it?
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Isle of Dawn, beside a remote, deserted beach bay.
Boom!
Two figures collided at the water's edge, the blasting qi waves exploding in the air, shattering layer after layer of sonic boom clouds.
"Ice Block·Two-pronged Spear!"
Crack!
With a low shout from Aokiji, more than twenty thick, sharp ice spears suddenly coalesced in the air, bringing a bone-chilling coldness, directly thrusting towards the black-haired youth opposite!
"Hey hey hey, so many ice spears at once? You're serious huh? Then I'll also ramp up... Fist Bone·Galaxy Impact!!!"
Amidst loud laughter.
A dazzling black-red lightning suddenly flared up, illuminating the entire world. In the next moment, the rampant shockwave instantly shattered all the incoming ice spears!
Boom!
The sky filled with scattered ice crystals, refracting splendid colors under the sunlight, quite beautiful.
The owner of these ice spears let out a muffled grunt, falling like a cannonball into the mountains, raising countless dust clouds.
After a long while,
"Ah, it turned out to be Galaxy Impact..."
Aokiji emerged from the dust clouds, looking agonized.
At that moment, he was bruised and swollen, sunglasses nowhere to be found, hair messy and covered in dust, his right nostril even trickling nosebleed.
"It's such a familiar feeling, this move. But Captain, you haven't even exerted your full strength yet, but even at this level, it rivals the feeling of Old Man Garp's fist at its peak."
Aokiji scratched his head.
"It's only been a few days since you joined, and you're already so adept at flattery huh? But you're already the highest-ranking officer, going further only leads to usurpation."
Shano said cheerfully.
"What flattery, just speaking the truth... huh?"
Looking at Shano, who landed unscathed, Aokiji's eye twitched involuntarily.
Not even a scratch left?
Even though it was just sparring, and he too hadn't gone all out, but even so, the physical strength Shano demonstrated was genuinely terrifying.
Undoubtedly the number one among the Four Emperors, far ahead!
He could finally personally experience why Sakazuki and the others suffered such heavy losses at his hands, each becoming disabled.
He was just lucky, didn't catch any of the major battles, otherwise...
Aokiji looked down at his leg, inexplicably feeling a bit cold.
"Finally finished sparring?"
Just then, Kuina's voice suddenly drifted:
"Then I'll report directly, alright? Sir, Hancock from Nine Serpents called today, contacting the Stationed Corps headquarters."
"She claimed over the phone that the Navy Headquarters is quietly assembling the Seven Warlords of the Sea, preparing to launch a full-scale war on the New World, targeting us Endgame, asking us to stay vigilant."
"Hancock?"
Shano wiped the sweat off his forehead, surprised by the news, "That woman has such good intentions...?"
He didn't have any fondness for her, and after being beaten up by him, she should reasonably hold a grudge against him, right?
So this is a vengeful trap with fake intel?
Or is it...
"Eh, wait a minute."
Suddenly realizing something, Shano remarked strangely, "Where's Glutinous Rice Cake? Has she gone off to slack again, leaving you to run errands with the news?"