"How far does your Observation Haki reach? It can't be that far, can it?" Alucard asked. Their location was more than ten nautical miles away from where Hancock and the others were fighting, so far that he could only see them as specks. He figured that unless Whitebeard had Roger's level of Observation Haki, he shouldn't have been able to sense the specific situation of Marco and the others.
Whitebeard narrowed his eyes. Whether it was because he was in a good mood or for some other reason, he answered Alucard's question with an action.
He pulled a few pieces of paper from his coat. The pure white papers were sparking and slowly burning.
Alucard's lips curled into a slight smile. "I see. They're Vivre Cards, then?"
Whitebeard wasn't sensing the state of Marco and the others directly; he just needed to use his Observation Haki to sense the condition of their Vivre Cards to know the general situation of his crew.
"One of them is burning quite fiercely," Alucard noted, gesturing toward the paper on the far right in Whitebeard's hand, which was almost completely burned away.
Whitebeard's expression grew even more grim. These were the Vivre Cards of his division commanders. The one on the far right belonged to the third division commander, Diamond Jozu. A commander whose strength was among the best was defeated before the others?
"It's a shame. You're not Shiki, so you can't fly over to save them," Alucard said, looking toward the island where Hancock and her crew were fighting.
He didn't have Vivre Cards, but he had a connection with Hancock and could sense her status. "Is that so?"
Whitebeard put the Vivre Cards back in his pocket and suddenly plunged his naginata into the mud beside him.
'This guy... what is he trying to do?' Alucard wondered. There was no doubt this action meant Whitebeard intended to use the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
But that didn't make sense. Using both hands to unleash an overwhelming amount of destructive power would cause untold damage to his body. They had been fighting for so long, and Whitebeard had only used this ability fewer than three times. So why suddenly now...?
In the next moment, Alucard noticed that Whitebeard's hand gesture was different from before. When he'd used the ability previously, his hands moved in opposite directions. This time, they were moving in the same direction: toward where Hancock and the others were fighting!
"Immortal brat, let me show you... what the power of family is!" "GRAAAAGH!"
Whitebeard let out a gigantic roar. With his hands pointed to the left, he swung them violently to the right. In that instant, the sea roared, and the clouds trembled in awe.
Everyone—whether on Hancock and Vista's island or on the sea with Stragus, Squard, and Wolf—felt an unforgettable, powerful pull. Their bodies, no, the entire area they were in, was being dragged toward the other island.
"This guy..."
Alucard looked to his right. The sea and the islands were being completely pulled toward them.
It was an indescribable sight. A large portion of the sea from more than ten nautical miles away was being pulled toward another. It wasn't like making a sandwich; you couldn't just pull it together.
Across the entire sea, only Whitebeard could do such a thing.
Just as the tidal wave created by this was about to crash down, Alucard formed a long, rectangular shape with his index finger, middle finger, and thumb.
"Releasing Restriction System to Level 2, 3, and 4." WUMMM!!!
In an instant, Alucard's shadow spread across the entire island. In less than a blink, a pool of blood rose from the shadow. Countless hands reached out from it, violently holding back the massive waves and even the islands. The collision of red and blue energies shook the area for a hundred miles.
The heavens and earth roared. It was a dirge from hell that made even demons tremble!
"What kind of battle is this?!"
Even Momousagi, an elite Vice Admiral of the Marines, couldn't help but shout in the face of such a tremor.
Monster! Monster! Monster!
Both of them were absolute monsters!
The helmsman of their ship quickly adjusted its course to avoid being overturned by the waves.
"No time for complaints," Tsuru said, her eyes fixed on the surroundings. Everyone looked up and saw giant waves on all sides, blocking out the sky. If they didn't deal with them, their warship would surely be flipped!
"Damn it! I knew they were monsters!"
Momousagi and Shirokitsune both drew their katanas and rushed into the sea with all their might, slashing the giant waves to keep them from swallowing the warship.
"I'll help too."
On another warship, the elite Vice Admiral Chaton also joined the fray. At the same time, he mumbled to himself, "After this mission, I'll confess to Momousagi... No, she's definitely going to accept, right?"
Tsuru directed her warship's course during this difficult moment, thinking to herself, 'Roger was saved by a sudden storm during the Battle of Edd War ten years ago, which prevented him from being wiped out by Shiki. I wonder how similar that was to what I'm seeing now."
With his vampire powers, Alucard stopped the objects Whitebeard had pulled toward them. Several pirate ships were caught in the powerful pull and slammed into the island. The two islands collided, creating an unimaginable landscape.
From above, it looked like a large and small island had fused, forming a gourd-shaped double island.
"Terrifying... That is the power of the strongest pirate..." Wolf lay on the beach about two miles away from Alucard and Whitebeard, gasping for breath. He didn't want to admit it, but he had to. The gap between him and those two was immense!
"A monster, Whitebeard!" Alucard laughed, looking up. "Gurararara! The feeling is mutual, immortal brat!"
Alucard was the only young pirate Whitebeard would ever say "the feeling is mutual" to.
Whitebeard had initially planned to stop the islands with his Tremor-Tremor Fruit ability in the final stage, but he didn't expect Alucard to do it first.
"There's no need for mutual compliments..."
Stragus covered his bleeding head, but his eyes were filled with fanatical excitement as he watched the two men face off. "They're both monsters capable of destroying the world. There's no doubt about it!"