Chapter 210: [210] : One Piece is REAL! Plundering Whitebeard!

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Blood streamed endlessly from the corner of Whitebeard’s mouth.

As for the wound inflicted by Akainu, under the terrifying heat of the Magma-Magma Fruit, even the blood itself had been completely vaporized.

“POPS!” Ace screamed in despair.

“Hmph! So eager to die, are we, Whitebeard? To end your life this way—it’s a fitting end for a loser from a bygone era,” Akainu sneered.

“WHAT DID YOU SAY??” Ace’s eyes turned completely red.

“Is there a problem with what I said? Your father, Gold Roger, conquered the Grand Line and used his life to start a new era called the Great Age of Pirates. Though it’s unbecoming for a Marine like me to say so, he truly deserved the title of Pirate King. Compared to him… WHAT IS WHITEBEARD?” Akainu’s smile was cruel.

His fist was currently trapped within Whitebeard’s body—the old man was using his very life to hold him in place.

It would take time to free himself.

To prevent Fire Fist Ace from using this opening to escape with Straw Hat, Akainu once again deployed his favored weapon: Trash talk.

Though his trash talk had backfired spectacularly against Sky Sovereign Rowen during the Enies Lobby battle, even Akainu had to admit, there was only one Sky Sovereign Rowen in this world.

A mere Fire Fist Ace, a brat who lived his whole life in Roger’s shadow, too scared to even admit his own identity… was completely beneath his notice.

On these seas, anyone who couldn’t fully accept themselves was just fodder. Fire Fist Ace was in that category!

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“Did Whitebeard even have the courage to fight a decisive battle with Roger in the old era? Or was he content to hide in a safe place, playing king of the mountain with a large group of followers? Though there are many fools in the world who use Whitebeard’s name to protect the peace of some islands, in my eyes, he’s just taking out some insignificant pirate trash to play hero. What a joke,”

Akainu sneered at Ace, whose body was now wreathed in the flames of his Flare-Flare Fruit.

As expected, Fodder who can’t take a few words…

Seeing Ace ready to abandon the escape opportunity his comrades, and even Whitebeard, had bought for him with their lives—Akainu continued his ruthless Trash talk while trying to free his magma fist.

“He bowed before Roger when he was alive, and after Roger’s death, he still couldn’t become the true King. In other words, Whitebeard will never surpass Roger! HE’S AN ETERNAL LOSER! That’s Whitebeard! Look, He can’t even refute what I’m saying now!”

Akainu looked at the bowed head of Whitebeard, who had made no sound, his mockery at its peak.

“Come to think of it, he’s a pathetic man, isn’t he? Admired by a bunch of fodder, calling him ’Pops’. Playing this little family drama on a pirate ship,” Akainu laughed.

“SHUT UP,” Ace whispered, his head bowed, his body trembling. He stood up and walked towards Akainu.

“ACE! DON’T FALL FOR HIS TRICK! RETREAT WITH STRAW HAT!” Marco, hating Akainu’s words, screamed desperately.

Ace’s steps faltered.

But—

“Reigning over the seas for decades, yet never becoming king, achieving nothing. In the end, dying to protect a foolish son… what an empty life,” Akainu sneered at the approaching Ace, his smile utterly contemptuous.

“WHITEBEARD IS A GREAT PIRATE WHO CREATED THIS ERA! DON’T YOU DARE SPEAK OF MY SAVIOR LIKE THAT!” Ace roared, looking up, the power of his Flare-Flare Fruit exploding outwards!

WHOOSH!

A pair of massive hands blocked Ace’s path.

“Huh??” Akainu’s forehead broke out in cold sweat.

“Gurarara… You’ve got quite a mouth on you, magma brat,” Whitebeard’s bowed head lifted. He looked at Akainu.

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!

The power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit suddenly surged. A single punch sent Akainu flying!

SPURT!

Blood flowed as Akainu tumbled across the ground several times.

“POPS!” Ace, Marco, and the others cried out in joyous surprise.

“His heart was half-melted… how can he still attack… This undying monster!” Akainu, caught completely off guard by Whitebeard’s attack, thought in horror.

Though Whitebeard was at death’s door, Akainu himself was also injured.

Taking this blow, he gasped for breath, veins bulging on his forehead. He needed a moment to recover from his injuries…

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“Hey, Ace,” Whitebeard’s hand struggled to grasp Murakumogiri, his colossal body slowly rising to its feet.

“N-No way,” the Marines stared as Whitebeard stood tall once more, their foreheads drenched in cold sweat.

“HOW CAN HE STILL STAND?? ADMIRAL AKAINU’S ATTACK PIERCED HIS ABDOMEN, HIS HEART! IS HE IMMORTAL??” Many Marines, their defenses completely shattered, screamed in terror.

“Pops…” Ace looked at Whitebeard standing before him, his own body having reached its limit, and fell to his knees, pressing his forehead heavily to the ground.

“Why did you save me??” Ace’s self-reproach was about to completely consume him.

“No more words. I have only one question for you,” Whitebeard’s peripheral vision glanced at Ace.

“Pops,” Ace’s bowed head, his teeth bit his lip so hard it drew blood. He wondered what question Pops would ask him at a time like this.

“Was I… a good father to you?” Whitebeard’s crescent mustache curved upwards. The ruler of the previous era, a man whose name alone could make children in countless seas cry—now wore a gentle, warm smile.

“!!!” Ace’s tears could no longer be controlled; he completely broke down.

“OF COURSE YOU WERE!!!” Ace slammed his head on the ground, roaring.

“GURARARARA!”

“GURARARARA!!!”

Whitebeard threw his head back and laughed.

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“You can do it, can’t you? Sky Sovereign… the world’s most miraculous man.” Whitebeard’s whisper reached Rowen’s ears.

Is it time to go? Whitebeard.

Rowen looked at the fall of this King and felt a moment of silence.

Then, he activated the Strongest Trait System…

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Click!

Sabaody Archipelago.

The previously dark giant screen suddenly lit up again.

“The screen is back on!” The citizens and reporters, anxiously awaiting the war’s outcome, exclaimed in surprise upon seeing the suddenly reappearing image.

“It’s Whitebeard!”

Seeing the man appearing on the giant screen, before the entire world, everyone broke out in a cold sweat.

“Such horrifying injuries! Is Whitebeard going to die?”

“Fire Fist Ace! He’s still alive!”

“What happened while the signal was out?”

Looking at the horrific injuries on Whitebeard’s body, the citizens and reporters had too many questions.

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“Fleet Admiral! Sabaody Archipelago’s Broadcast Is Back On! It’s A Live Feed Of Whitebeard!” A horrified shout came from the staff officers’ department.

“What??” Sengoku broke out in a cold sweat, whipping his head towards that man.

“DID YOU DO THIS?? SKY SOVEREIGN ROWEN!” Veins throbbed on Sengoku’s forehead.

All the Image Transponder Snails had been shut down.

Under these circumstances, only this man—who had orchestrated the Mariejois incident, who could forcibly call Mariejois, even use Transponder Snails to release Conqueror’s Haki from afar, could do it.

“Hmph. Now it’s your turn not to move, Sengoku,” Rowen replied, smiling.

When Akainu launched his fatal attack on Ace and Luffy, Rowen, of course, had a backup plan. Though his Door-Door Fruit ability was shattered by Sengoku’s Conqueror’s Haki, Rowen still had the Paw-Paw Fruit’s ability.

Using its repelling power, Rowen could have reached Luffy in time. But the current battle situation was still unclear; the Paw-Paw Fruit’s ability was best kept hidden.

The World Government still had many forces; the God’s Knights, the Five Elders, even Imu—though for some reason not intervening in this Summit War, Rowen was still reserving stamina and Haki for that possibility.

The World Government hadn’t yet figured out how Rowen could equip others’ Devil Fruit abilities. Using this, Rowen kept the Paw-Paw Fruit as a trump card. But compared to Luffy’s safety, exposing this trump card was irrelevant.

After all, it was just in case. With the Paw-Paw Fruit’s ability, unless facing someone like Rowen who could control space, no other ability could counter its repelling power.

Exposed or not, Rowen was confident he could get everyone out safely, it would just require reserving more stamina and Haki. Just as Rowen was about to activate the Paw-Paw Fruit’s ability, Whitebeard chose to block the blow for Ace.

Rowen respected Whitebeard’s choice, not just because he needed Whitebeard’s Emperor ’Fortune’. But because this man was already dead.

Whitebeard’s bodily functions had already reached their absolute limit; he was running purely on willpower.

Even if he hadn’t blocked that blow, the moment the war ended would have been the moment of Whitebeard’s death. And the current broadcast was using a Trait stolen from an Image Transponder Snail for synchronous transmission.

“BASTARD!” Sengoku stared at Rowen, veins bulging on his forehead.

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“GURARARA! The one Roger is waiting for—has already appeared, Sengoku,” Whitebeard, now at the center of the world’s attention, looked at Sengoku.

His gaze, however, was on the exhausted Luffy.

Straw Hat… not only did he receive Roger’s straw hat from Shanks, but he also gained the acknowledgment of Dark King Rayleigh.

As Rayleigh’s old rival and friend, Whitebeard knew this man very well. For Rayleigh to intervene so desperately in this war—wasn’t just because Ace was Roger’s bloodline.

Rayleigh had already seen the one who inherited Roger’s will appear. Under this dual influence, Rayleigh, retired for many years, joined the battle.

Most importantly, Sky Sovereign Rowen, this miraculous man, also acknowledged Straw Hat.

Whitebeard had roamed the seas his entire life, lived through the era of Rocks, the era of Roger—and in that era, he was one of the two strongest. He had no interest in the legendary Great Treasure.

Compared to the Great Treasure, he valued family more.

Otherwise, Whitebeard wouldn’t have lent Oden, who could read the Poneglyphs, to Roger. Without Oden’s power, Roger and his crew could never have reached the final island.

After all he had been through, not even Rocks had earned Whitebeard’s submission. He was never a member of the Rocks Pirates; at God Valley, he was only there for his own purposes, not as Rocks’s subordinate…

But towards Sky Sovereign Rowen, even Whitebeard marveled at the man’s miraculous nature.

The World’s Strongest Devil Fruit User—was also the world’s most mysterious, and miraculous man.

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“Sengoku… you and your World Government—have always feared the day that would eventually come! The great war that would engulf the entire world! Though I have no interest in it, when that treasure is one day found by someone, the world will be turned upside down!”

“Ngh!!” Whitebeard’s words made Sengoku realize what was coming, veins bulging on his forehead.

“Someone will find it! That day will surely come.”

Whitebeard looked at Sengoku, a powerful smile on his face.

“ONE PIECE—IS REAL!!!” Whitebeard roared towards the sky with the last breath of his life.

In his mind, Roger’s image appeared.

“YOU BASTARD!” Sengoku’s facial expression contorted.

“POPS!” Seeing Whitebeard’s head droop after his final roar, the Whitebeard Pirates and all their allied crews began to wail.

“Sons… This is as far as I go,” Whitebeard’s ears could still hear his sons’ voices.

(When a person dies, the last sense to go is hearing.)

In his mind, a revolving lantern began to turn.

His life was magnificent.

Rocks, Golden Lion, Roger, Garp, Sengoku… His rivals and friends were all renowned figures. And he had fought until the very last moment of his life.

But at this final moment, none of these past glories appeared.

In the revolving lantern of his mind, all he saw were his sons, the days he met and lived with his family.

Ordinary moments—yet the most precious part of his entire life.

“What a magnificent… journey,” Whitebeard, his eyes closed, smiled.

“The rest… is up to you, Sky Sovereign. My power—take it!”

“Plunder!”

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