As Ochoku finished speaking.
Regardless of leaders like Selra Vayne and Charlotte Gore, or King Kong, or the thousands of pirates on Hachinosu, they all looked up at Rosen standing above the Hachinosu, each revealing a ferocious glint in their eyes.
This moment.
A terrifying killing intent, gathering into an invisible, bloody wind, surged up to the clouds and swept towards Rosen.
Do you want my hands, feet, and head?
Faced with the overwhelming murderous aura, Rosen seemed completely oblivious, his face showing no emotion whatsoever.
"If you don't mind, I'll take them all."
A sinister smile appeared on Ochoku's face.
These are the four emperors who reigned supreme over the world.
At the peak of his career, he immediately reserved Rosen's head and limbs with a single word.
"What a coincidence!"
Upon hearing this, Rosen was not angry; instead, he chuckled.
"What's so clever about it?"
Ochoku looked at Rosen with great interest, his gaze as if he were looking at a caged bird or a fish in a net.
Because his Observation Haki allowed him to perceive everything clearly.
The pirates from Hachinosu are rushing in from all directions, like a large net gradually surrounding Rosen, and like a birdcage, locking up and imprisoning the man in front of him.
That's why he wasn't in a hurry to take action.
"I came all the way to Hachinosu specifically to borrow something from you."
When Rosen looked at Ochoku, a hint of coldness flashed in his eyes.
Obviously.
He had already figured out exactly what the other party wanted to do – trap them like turtles in a jar.
"Borrow what?"
"If it's a coffin, then you don't need to borrow it."
"Considering you've traveled all this way to Hachinosu to die, I can give you a free pair."
Ochoku had absolutely no interest in why Rosen had come.
All he knew was that since Rosen dared to swagger into Hachinosu, he dared to bury the body of the strongest Marine in a thousand years on Hachinosu.
Otherwise, if the other four emperors or other forces in the New World find out that the Marine can freely enter and leave their territories, their prestige as emperors will be greatly damaged.
"I'll borrow the head of one of your Yonko."
Rosen said indifferently.
"What?"
Ochoku was stunned upon hearing this.
He had seen plenty of pirates or marines who wanted his head.
But this was the first time he had ever seen someone like Rosen, who had single-handedly stormed into Hachinosu and was already surrounded by tens of thousands of pirates, yet still dared to say such things.
Do you know what you're saying?
"Rosen."
As Ochoku's deputy, Selra Vayne had already reached for the hilt of his sword at his waist.
It wasn't just him.
The other leaders, as well as the six cadres known as "King Kong," all had murderous intent on their faces.
The Ochoku Pirates adhere to the principle of respecting the strong and have little to no bond with each other. However, the executives present still reached a consensus on the belief that the Yonko should not be insulted.
If Ochoku, one of the Yonko, is humiliated, then his officials will also be humiliated.
"I know very well."
"To be honest, today is my teacher's birthday, and he really needs a pirate head of considerable weight as a gift."
"After much thought, I think the heads of the Yonko are the most suitable to be used to celebrate his birthday."
Rosen nodded slightly.
"Your teacher?"
"Zephyr, is it!"
"Although I don't think you have the ability, I still want to ask, why did you choose me?"
A chilling killing intent flashed in Ochoku's eyes, but then he seemed to realize something and his brows furrowed slightly.
Everyone else was looking at Rosen.
They didn't believe that the Marine in front of them could walk out of Hachinosu upright today, so they were all quite interested and wanted to know why Rosen chose Ochoku among the Yonko.
"Someone told me."
"When he grows up, he wants to become a Marine Admiral like his father, and then capture all pirates like you."
Rosen reached out and gripped the hilt, slowly drawing his Zanpakutō.
"Zephyr's brat!"
"No, it's impossible."
"The only people present at the time were me and Zephyr's wife and children. How could you possibly know that?"
Upon hearing this, Ochoku immediately recalled the young figure who had threatened to capture him twenty years ago, and his expression changed slightly.
"It's almost time."
"The people you're waiting for and the people I'm waiting for have mostly arrived."
"Then it's time for the Ochoku Pirates to be completely removed from the ranks of the Yonko."
Ignoring Ochoku's words, Rosen glanced at the numerous pirates who had rushed to Hachinosu upon hearing the news, and then raised his Zanpakutō.
Bang
Suddenly.
Selra Vayne, who had been standing beside Ochoku, suddenly reached out and grabbed a 30-meter-tall building behind him, then exerted force with his palm.
Click
After a loud bang, he uprooted the entire building and held it above his head with one hand.
"Don't be so arrogant, kid."
"This is Hachinosu, not your Marine Headquarters."
"The Yonko are not beings you can speak of lightly."
Selra Vayne lifted a building weighing over a thousand tons with one hand as easily as grabbing a water glass.
He gripped the thousand-ton building in one hand, unleashed a violent gust of wind, and slammed it down on Rosen.
boom
Seeing this, Rosen's Armament Haki surged out like a volcanic eruption, instantly transforming into a 260-meter-tall Full Manifestation. Then, with his five fingers spread wide, like a palm mountain, he crushed the building that Selra Vayne had thrown with one arm.
"What's this?"
"Armament Haki?"
"How could it possibly possess such immense Conqueror's power?"
...
The pirates of Ochoku's crew were all dumbfounded as they watched Susanoo rise from the ground like a majestic mountain range.
"It really is just like the rumors."
"Release Armament Haki to form a massive, mountain-like martial god form."
"Where does he get such an immense Haki?"
Raizen Kael, one of the three leaders of Ochoku's pirate crew, stared wide-eyed, a look of horror on his face.
He had seen videos of Rosen using Susanoo, but witnessing it in person and watching a video are two completely different things.
The oppressive feeling of being above others is so overwhelming that just one glance can lead to despair and collapse.
"I don't care how you know about this, or what your purpose is in coming here."
"But from the moment you stepped onto Hachinosu alone, everything became meaningless."
"The fate of that brat from the Zephyr family who only knew how to boast in front of me back then is the fate of you, Rosen."
at this time.
Ochoku's face had turned ferocious and cold again, and he announced Rosen's fate in an unquestionable tone.
For him, killing the entire Zephyr family was just a trivial matter from twenty years ago.
His initial loss of composure was merely due to his astonishment at Rosen's apparent presence, as if he had witnessed the entire process of Rosen slaughtering the Zephyr family.
"Almost."
Rosen ignored Ochoku's words and instead stood between Susanoo's eyebrows, looking down at Hachinosu.
He saw that the pirates on the island had basically all gathered nearby, completely surrounding him from all sides.
Being surrounded by a Yonko pirate crew and trapped in an ambush would have left any normal person in despair.
As more and more pirates gathered around, Rosen smiled and pointed his Zanpakutō at the Ochoku Pirates at his feet.
"Bankai!"
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