Orochimaru, flying back to Whitebeard's shoulder, finally let out a sigh of relief.
He suddenly remembered that he seemed to have kicked Akainu in an indescribable spot, and Orochimaru fell silent.
"It won't be unusable, will it?"
"But it shouldn't matter, he still has Jonathan."
Orochimaru felt that the flower tattooed on Akainu suddenly suited him very well.
If Akainu really wanted it... he could ask Garp to let him replace it, but the Marine has many talents, so maybe someone could cure him.
Orochimaru thought about it, and the almost non-existent guilt in his heart instantly vanished.
Whitebeard turned his head slightly, his gaze falling on Orochimaru, who looked somewhat guilty, revealing everything.
Whitebeard's face, however, was full of doting affection, his expression like an old father watching his mischievous child run to him for protection after causing trouble.
If Orochimaru knew Whitebeard's thoughts at this moment, he would probably yell at Whitebeard without hesitation: "If you're sick, go get treated!"
On the other side, Roger and Rayleigh were watching Ace being played around until he was dizzy, and the two covered their faces helplessly, a look of both laughter and tears.
But when they realized that they, too, had been played for fools, they immediately quieted down, their expressions incredibly amusing.
These two were very fond of Luffy.
When Roger learned from Rayleigh that Orochimaru intended for Rayleigh to be Luffy's teacher, a thought instantly flashed through Roger's mind.
What could be more authoritative than the former Pirate King personally teaching him hand-in-hand?
..."And this Luffy, in a sense, can be considered my son, right?"
As soon as Roger had this thought, he was startled by himself.
Bah! He didn't want to be Garp's son.
"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey, can't think like that, it's all that damn Garp's fault, it's a mentorship, just a mentorship!"
Akainu, who had stood up again, his face extremely contorted with anger, stared directly at Orochimaru on Whitebeard's shoulder with venomous eyes.
In his opinion, all the humiliation he was suffering now was due to Orochimaru.
Akainu's entire body was churning with magma, hot magma constantly flowing, emitting a chilling high temperature.
He suddenly threw a punch, a punch carrying a world-destroying momentum, roaring towards Whitebeard, but his true target was Orochimaru on Whitebeard's shoulder.
Whitebeard, after all, was a legendary figure famous throughout the seas.
Facing Akainu's fierce attack, he remained calm, simply throwing a punch.
This punch seemed light, yet it contained immense power, directly causing Akainu to spit blood and fly backward like a kite with a broken string.
However, after throwing the punch, Whitebeard seemed to suddenly realize something, feigning a stumble and taking a step back, as if he too had suffered a considerable impact.
Seeing this, Orochimaru quickly checked Whitebeard's physical condition.
After an examination, he understood in his heart that Whitebeard was perfectly fine.
It just looked like he was seriously injured on the surface; as expected of the oldest and strongest person on the sea, his acting skills were superb, almost convincing Orochimaru.
Just then, a Marine Colonel seemed to suddenly discover something, pointing to the already shattered Execution Platform and shouting with a shocked expression:
"Look! There's someone on the Execution Platform! Who is that person standing there?"
"Hmm hmm hmm... you finally noticed..."
Everyone who heard the voice looked towards the Execution Platform, only to see Blackbeard and his crew standing on it, followed by some unevenly matched prisoners, looking somewhat sparse.
This was unavoidable; all the top prisoners on Impel Down's sixth level had been taken by Orochimaru, and among the remaining prisoners, almost all those with a bit of capability had been coaxed and tricked away by Buggy.
Blackbeard had no choice but to pick a few capable individuals with decent strength from the remaining prisoners in Impel Down to barely make up the numbers.
Whitebeard stared at Teach's position, "You finally came out, huh?"
Blackbeard laughed wildly in Whitebeard's direction.
"Zehahahaha... it's great to see you one last time before you die, Old Man."
Sengoku looked at Blackbeard with disbelief.
"How did you get in?"
Laffitte, one of Blackbeard's subordinates, stepped forward.
"Before our Blackbeard Pirate Crew set sail for Impel Down, I hypnotized the Marine Soldier in the engine room.
They were to allow any warship that appeared at the Gate of Justice to pass, so, it seems I accidentally helped some people."
Then Blackbeard stepped forward, looking at Sengoku with an angry expression.
"As a pirate, it's impossible to easily enter the Gate of Justice, so I became a Shichibukai precisely to openly enter Impel Down and find suitable subordinates, but I never expected!
All the prisoners on the entire sixth level were transferred by you! How cunning! I can only pick up some defective products! Damn it!! This is outrageous!!"
Sengoku blinked, not understanding, but he couldn't refute, as losing prisoners was a big deal, but where did the people go?
Whitebeard looked at Teach with a grim expression, and said coldly: "That kind of thing, it doesn't matter anymore."
With that, Whitebeard unleashed the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, and a powerful shockwave instantly swept towards Blackbeard and his crew, directly blasting them off the Execution Platform.
"Teach!!! Only you are unworthy of being my son!"
Blackbeard and the others were smashed below the Execution Platform, and Blackbeard struggled to crawl out of the rubble.
Luffy and the others had already gathered on the Outer Ring Whale ship.
Luffy, standing at the very front of the bow, stared unblinkingly at Blackbeard, then suddenly, his eyes widened, he pointed at Blackbeard, and shouted at the top of his lungs:
"Ah!!! I remember now! You're that strange old man on Jaya Island who said he wanted Orochimaru to be your woman!!!"
"Huh???????" Everyone present was stunned by Luffy's sudden words, their mouths twitching.
"Can't you say something serious?"
However, an even more astonishing scene followed.
At some unknown moment, Whitebeard, Garp, and Roger had instantly appeared behind Blackbeard.
In the middle was Sabo, who had appeared out of nowhere.
Garp's sandbag-sized fist landed heavily on Blackbeard's head, directly smashing him into the ground.
Whitebeard kicked Blackbeard up, then raised his great sword and left a bone-deep gash on Blackbeard's chest.
Roger also mercilessly punched Blackbeard's back, causing Blackbeard to scream and bend over.
Finally, Sabo even swung a pipe fiercely at Blackbeard's face.
"What shameless words did you say to my Grandson (son) (brother)!"
The four's angry roars erupted simultaneously, exploding in the space, making everyone present's eardrums ache, and each person was dumbfounded by this sudden scene of violence.
Under this barrage of attacks, Blackbeard, who already had several missing teeth, was now almost toothless, giving birth to Toothless Blackbeard.
Ace was also somewhat dazed (ﾟ⊿ﾟ)ﾂ
"No? You weren't this united when you saved me, were you?"
"Old Man, weren't you supposed to be dying???"
"Grandpa, weren't you supposed to uphold justice???"
"Roger, although I don't acknowledge you, you are my father, right?"
"Especially Sabo!!! I didn't even see you worried about me!!!!! You were even slacking off the whole time!!"
Orochimaru watched this scene, his mouth twitching, and a vein throbbing on his forehead.
"Garp and Sabo are fine!
Whitebeard! Roger! Who are your sons!!!!
Have some sense of propriety!!!"
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