"Me... I should be king?"
Clyde stared at Rorschach, wondering if he had heard him correctly. The huge mushroom cloud rising from the sea and the terrifying high temperature it gave off had evaporated a large amount of seawater, which turned into rolling steam that enveloped the port of Merluse Town.
A fierce shockwave turned into a storm and rushed into the town, blowing the guards lined up at the port backward.
Clyde, seeing this, had no time to think about what Rorschach meant. He got up quickly and rushed toward his men. When he reached out his big hand and, with a heavy heart, helped a soldier who had crashed into a house with his back, Clyde was stunned.
"General Clyde! Are you okay? That's great!"
The first person to speak was the soldier who had crashed into an entire building. Clyde carefully checked his back and found that the soldier's clothes were not even damaged in the slightest. But how was this possible? Clyde looked at the twenty-centimeter-thick brick wall behind the soldier, which had been knocked down.
Vaguely thinking of something, he ignored the happy soldier and ran to the next subordinate who had knocked over a lamppost. This soldier was hit by the shockwave. His body was like a cannonball, and he hit the waist of a gas lamppost that was as thick as his thigh, leaving a dent. His entire body was embedded in the twisted iron pipe. However, when Clyde pulled him out of the twisted iron pipe, this subordinate was also completely unharmed.
Clyde reached out and touched his subordinate's shoulder. He found that there was an invisible, transparent layer covering the surface of his body, like an invisible armor.
Clyde's heart trembled. He turned to look in Rorschach's direction, but the two people who were standing there moments ago were gone. Clyde rushed to where they had been and looked all over the sea, but still couldn't find Rorschach. He couldn't help but feel a sense of loss.
"Vice Admiral Rorschach..."
"General! General Clyde!"
The shouts of his subordinates interrupted the complex thoughts in Clyde's mind. He turned around and saw many panicked soldiers running from the direction of the royal city, shouting anxiously, "General Clyde! The royal family and nobles in the royal city have suffered heavy casualties, and the pirates and arms dealers who were staying in the capital are also dead."
Clyde's heart shook, and he said in a low voice, "How is that possible? The disaster of the Germa invasion of the kingdom has already been resolved by Vice Admiral Rorschach. How could the royal family in the royal city die? Is there an ambush? What's going on?"
"It was the ships, the pirate ships and merchant ships. After they were sent flying into the sky by the shockwave of the big explosion, they fell down and killed many of the royals, nobles, and pirates." The soldier's face was a little pale.
"What about the people in the town? How are they doing? Quickly get the doctors from the capital to come out and treat the injured!" Clyde asked loudly as he ran toward the city.
When he heard his question, the soldier's expression was strange, as if he couldn't understand. "No one else in the town died or was injured. The ships that fell from the sky only killed the royals, nobles, pirates, slave traders, and arms dealers."
"What?"
Clyde was stunned.
In the sky above Merluse Port, Rorschach, holding the unconscious Ichiji, landed with Hibari on the warship that had been floating there for a while.
Hibari looked down at the steaming sea and muttered, "I think that chestnut-headed uncle will be a good king."
"How do you know that?" Rorschach threw Ichiji onto the deck, walked to the front of the ship, and looked ahead with interest, his eyebrows twitching slightly. Without using his Observation Haki, he could already see a small black dot appearing in the sky in front of him. It was spewing a long trail of air behind it as it flew toward them, like a jet.
"Well... I don't know either. It's probably a gut feeling. His performance at the port showed that he's a very righteous person."
"Big Brother Rorschach, what are you looking at?"
Hibari pulled her gaze away from the sea below and walked to Rorschach's side with her hands behind her back. She curiously looked ahead in the direction he was looking. When she saw the quickly approaching white trail of air, she was a little surprised.
"What is that? Is it an enemy?"
"No."
As soon as Rorschach said no, the figure he was looking at was already close. Hibari took a closer look and said in surprise, "A squirrel? No, it's a Mink. Wait, Big Brother Rorschach, I've seen his file from Grandmother Tsuru. He's the Commander of the Revolutionary Army's South Army, Lindbergh, and his bounty is 316 million Beri."
Lindbergh, who was about to pass them, obviously heard Hibari's voice. His heart went cold, and he thought to himself, 'This is bad.' He didn't expect his whereabouts to be exposed as soon as he arrived in the North Blue. If this led to the main force of the Revolutionary Army being surrounded and suppressed by the World Government, he would be a sinner for all of the Revolutionary Army.
Lindbergh, who had not intended to pay attention to the strange warship floating in the sky, did not hesitate at all. Without thinking, he took a rocket launcher-shaped cannon barrel from the device on his back that was constantly spewing air. The device, which was spewing air, carried him forward for a few hundred meters, drew a long arc in the sky, and flew toward the back of the warship. When he got within a dozen meters of the warship, Lindbergh pulled the trigger on the cannon barrel in his hand without hesitation, aiming it at the warship.
Rorschach and Hibari, who were standing on the warship, saw a cloud of white smoke and extremely cold air spewing from the cannon barrel in Lindbergh's hand, aiming at their warship. Before the air column could get close, the moisture in the air had already condensed rapidly, turning into tiny ice fragments that fell with a patter.
"He's attacking us, Big Brother Rorschach. Didn't you say he wasn't an enemy?"
Hibari exclaimed and looked at Rorschach.
"Uh..."
Rorschach's face froze. He made a grabbing motion in the air in front of him. The air within a hundred meters was suddenly sucked away, as if it had been swallowed by some monster.
Lindbergh's face changed. He felt a sense of suffocation welling up in his heart. The oxygen around him had been sucked away by Rorschach. Not only did he feel suffocated, but the device on his back that was spewing air also suddenly stopped firing. At this, Lindbergh, who had been suspended in the sky, immediately began to fall.
But he was obviously not an ordinary person. He kicked his feet rapidly, and a series of air explosions burst out from under his feet, pushing him away from the warship's hundred-meter range. As soon as he left the vicinity of the warship, the flying device on his back immediately recovered and started spewing air downward again, making him fly upward again.
The extremely cold air column that had been fired at them was also blocked by an invisible wall of air. It froze a large amount of water vapor, which turned into a large amount of ice fragments and ice cubes that fell down with a clatter.
"He can use Moonwalk!" Hibari said, about to fly off the deck, but Rorschach held her shoulders.
"Their leader is Monkey D. Dragon. He used to be a Marine elite, not weaker than your father. It's not surprising that his Revolutionary Army warriors can learn the Rokushiki."
Rorschach's body moved. A strong wind swirled around his body, and in a flash, he was off the floating warship. He teleported a few times in the sky, disappearing from Lindbergh's sight. When he reappeared, he was very suddenly in front of Lindbergh, smiling at him.
"Hello. Could you please do me a favor and inform your leader that I want to see him?"
Lindbergh was shocked by Rorschach's sudden appearance. He turned the cannon barrel in his hand, aimed it at Rorschach, and pulled the trigger.
"Hey, don't fire indiscriminately. We're not enemies."
Rorschach's body swayed, and he dodged the incoming cold air column. Lindbergh sneered and raised his hand again to shoot at Rorschach.
"You're a Marine, and I'm a Revolutionary Army member. You're saying we're not enemies? Heh, do you take me for a fool? Stop the nonsense. If you want to fight, let's fight! You want me to sell out my leader? Dream on!"
"You were the one who started it first. Well, I guess I'll have to ask you to calm down first."
Rorschach shook his head. He took a step, and the atmosphere burst with a rumble. The entire sky trembled under his feet. This terrifying power made Lindbergh's heart tighten. A tall black figure flashed in his vision. The air in front of him exploded, and a large hand with a dark blue glow grabbed at his head.
Rorschach's five fingers were shaped like a claw. His index and middle fingers were together, and his ring and pinky fingers were together, just like a dragon's claw. He grabbed at the Mink's body in front of him.
Seeing this familiar move, Lindbergh's face changed. "Dragon Claw? How can you...?"
He had no time to dodge. He aimed the cannon barrel in his hand that was spewing cold air at Rorschach and pulled the trigger.
"Boom!"
Rorschach's big hand grabbed down and rudely dispersed the incoming cold air column. His five fingers squeezed the cannon barrel in Lindbergh's hand, and he applied a little force.
"Crack!"
With a dull crunch, the cannon barrel in Lindbergh's hand was crushed by Rorschach's large hand. A terrifying force passed from the cannon barrel and crashed into Lindbergh's arm, making him grunt. His wrist went numb, and his short body flew backward. The cannon barrel he was holding also flew out of his hand.
Rorschach picked up the cannon barrel that could spew cold air and looked at it before throwing it into the air. The metal cannon barrel just floated there and did not fall, which made Lindbergh even more stunned.
"I told you I don't have any ill intentions. I just want to have a talk with Dragon. I'm Marine Rorschach, and he saved me once before."
Rorschach spoke again.
"Marine Rorschach?" Hearing that name, Lindbergh finally remembered who Rorschach was. He looked at Rorschach with caution. The jet device on his back activated, carrying him a hundred meters away from Rorschach, where he floated in the air.
"So it's you, the third Admiral candidate, Vice Admiral Azure-scale. No wonder you're so difficult."
"Forget it. I'll deal with other matters first."
Seeing the cautious look on the other's face, Rorschach sighed, waved his hand, and with a flash, he was back on his warship. Tiny electric arcs leaped on the steel surface of the warship. An invisible magnetic force propelled the warship, constantly accelerating and carrying him and Hibari toward the Principality Kingdom.
Looking at the warship that was quickly flying away and soon turned into a small black dot that disappeared from his sight, Lindbergh frowned. He had thought it would be a tough battle, but he didn't expect the other person to just leave.
"Vice Admiral Azure-scale... He's a man I can't figure out."
He flew forward and grabbed the cannon barrel. He looked at the claw marks on it. His body sank, and he landed on the sea below. Looking at the large number of burning and roaring ship wreckage in front of Merluse Port, Lindbergh stood there in a daze for a long time before taking out a Den Den Mushi from his pocket.
"Leader, it's Lindbergh. I'm in the Rubuniru Kingdom. It seems that the crisis here has been resolved by that Vice Admiral Azure-scale. Yes, it's him. He said he wants to see you."
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