I Will Become Hokage in One Piece - Chapter 210
Chapter 210: Run Away!
“Gulalala! What a long journey it has been!” He swayed but managed to stand firm on the ground. With dim eyes, he saw the man who had approached him and spoke softly, “Rodney, my boy, what are you fighting for?”
“For myself.”
“I see.”
“You’re about to die,” Rodney said calmly.
“I know, no one lives forever,” he replied frankly. “Would you like to be my son?”
“I already have a father; I won’t have a second one.”
“Gulalala! You’re quite heartless, but that’s just who you are,” Whitebeard said with a smile. “Just like Ace, a stubborn little devil.”
“Do you believe in the great treasure at the end of the Grand Line?”
“I’m not interested in that.”
“Somebody will be interested,” he said with his last ounce of strength, transmitting his words throughout Marineford via Den Den Mushi, making the world tremble.
“ONE PIECE—It truly exists!”
The world’s strongest man, after saying these words, stood and ended his magnificent life.
“Damn you, Whitebeard!!!” Sakazuki’s eyes were bloodshot. How many naive souls would dive into the sea because of this sentence? How many pirates would chase after the great treasure? This one sentence turned their battle into futility. Even if they annihilated Whitebeard’s pirate crew, one of the Four Emperors’ crews, and left Whitebeard forever in this place, this sentence undeniably fueled the Great Pirate Era that Roger had set in motion, and it wielded tremendous power.
It was an invisible force that drove these scoundrels into the sea, and ultimately, it was the common people who would suffer!
What was the point of severely damaging Whitebeard’s pirate crew?
It would have been better to deal with Kaido and the others!
Roger’s words before his death had initiated the Great Pirate Era, but over the years, nobody had found concrete evidence of the great treasure’s existence. Many began to doubt if Roger had played a century-long joke on them. However, Whitebeard’s statement confirmed the real existence of the great treasure. As long as they found it, wealth, power, beauty, and status would all be at their fingertips, if they found those treasures that drove people insane, at the end of the Grand Line! Everything would be theirs!
The world was in turmoil!
Sakazuki was furious!
One could already imagine how many people would rush into the sea in the coming years. This world was becoming increasingly chaotic!
Whitebeard’s lifeless body remained standing. Although Whitebeard’s pirate crew had been severely damaged, who was the real winner of this battle in the grand scheme of things?
On the surface, it seemed like the Marines, but in the broader context, the victors were the pirates!
The future was about to go wild!
Sakazuki and the others had grim faces. Sakazuki immediately ordered, “We must pursue Whitebeard’s pirate crew immediately. We can’t let them return to the New World! Annihilate Whitebeard’s pirate crew entirely!”
They couldn’t afford to let Whitebeard’s pirate crew escape, especially Ace and Luffy. Both of them had already displayed the qualities of kings. If they were allowed to grow stronger, they would undoubtedly bring great trouble to the world. They needed to pursue them before they got too far away, and with the speed of Marine ships, catching up with those pirates was not a difficult task.
“Ahahaha! The old man is finally dead!” Blackbeard, seeing that Whitebeard had lost his life, laughed wildly. He felt that all his injuries were now meaningless. As long as he obtained Whitebeard’s corpse, he would possess the power to destroy the world.
“What are you up to?” Rodney approached Whitebeard’s body and took out a scroll. Blackbeard sensed trouble and immediately opened a passage to his darkness dimension, intending to drag Rodney and Whitebeard inside.
However, Rodney was faster. He spread out a spatial scroll, directly transferring Whitebeard’s body into it and sealing it inside. With a smile, he shook the spatial scroll in his hand. “Hehehe, you want to use Whitebeard’s corpse, don’t you? I’m sorry, he should find a good resting place.”
“You bastard! Give me his body!”
Blackbeard looked anxious and ferocious, and if people didn’t know better, they might think he was a devoted son. In reality, he was an ungrateful backstabber, eager to drain every last bit of use from Whitebeard’s body.
“No, no, no. How can I give it to you? Let the Gura Gura no Mi reincarnate somewhere in this world. Hehehe, it will be quite interesting, won’t it?” Rodney’s face was filled with glee, making Blackbeard even more exposed.
“You fiend! I will kill you for sure!”
“Then come at me!” Rodney revealed a slightly sinister smile. “If you have the guts!”
Susano’o rose from the ground and its energy-charged foot stomped toward Blackbeard.
Boom!
Blackbeard rolled out of the way, narrowly avoiding the strike.
“Tch, you little pest is fast!” Susano’o chased after him. In the corner of his eye, Rodney spotted a glimmer of gold.
Boom!
Sakazuki’s shockwave struck Susano’o directly, along with Blackbeard and the others in the vicinity.
Susano’o’s enormous body toppled, sending a shower of rubble into the air. Its surface was riddled with cracks, and it looked as though it might shatter at any moment.
“Rodney! For justice, I won’t let you escape!” Sakazuki once again transformed into a gigantic Buddha.
Raising his palm, energy gathered on it. Rodney roared, and he fully transformed into the Three-Tails Isobu!
“Roar!!!”
Sakazuki’s eyes widened as he recognized the three tails of the colossal turtle. He realized that the one who had destroyed Enies Lobby was none other than Rodney!
“So, it was you! You destroyed Enies Lobby! Then I absolutely won’t let you get away!” Sakazuki’s anger flared, and he prepared to face the devastating attack that could annihilate an island, but he had to stop Rodney. It couldn’t happen again.
“Ha! Who made them capture my people? They asked for it. You destroyed Ohara with the Buster Call, and now I won’t allow you to escape!” Rodney’s voice, sounding like Rodney’s, came from Isobu. “Whoever dares to harm my people, I’ll fight to the death with them!”
“You madman!”
“Hehe, there’s no point in talking! Fleet Admiral, let me show you my ultimate technique, the one I created in response to the Buster Call!” Isobu’s enormous body rolled into a ball, encasing himself in a massive, thick shell resembling a wagon wheel. With remarkable speed, he rolled toward the only exit.
The ice wall created by Sakazuki, Kizaru’s Light Bullets, and Aokiji’s Ice Bullets shattered the moment Isobu came into contact with it. He was sent flying,
and he burst through the ice wall, laughing, “Did you expect this, Marines? This is my escape route! Nig?lùdá Yo! (Escape quickly)!”
Some things were ingrained in his DNA. He didn’t need to think much; he just followed the escape route he had already planned. In front of everyone’s eyes, he leaped into the water.
Splash!
A massive splash rose as he hit the water. Zero points!
Sakazuki: “…”
Sakaski: “…”
Kuzan: “…”
Borsalino: “He escaped.”
“Hahaha, he got away! That brat said he had some ultimate move! Hahaha!” Cap, seeing this scene, burst into laughter. His two grandsons had escaped; he couldn’t be happier. He couldn’t help but laugh heartily. Even if he had punched Sakazuki later for hitting Saka, who knows how Sakazuki would have handled the situation. But who cared?
He had been in the Marines for long enough; it was time to take a break.
“Damn it! Issue a bounty for that kid!” Sakazuki’s forehead veins were popping as he shouted. Then, suddenly remembering something, he said, “Borsalino! Kuzan! Both of you, go to Sabody Archipelago immediately. Nico Robin is still on that island. Rodney will definitely not give up on her. Capture him for me!”
“Alala, overtime again?” Kuzan lazily asked.
“Is there overtime pay?” Borsalino inquired.
“Just go!” Sakazuki roared. Then, he and Cap shifted their attention to Blackbeard’s pirate crew.
Blackbeard’s pirate crew: “…”
(End of this chapter)
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