Watching the pirates suddenly erupt into internal strife, engaging in a scene of infighting as if no one else was around.
Whether it was Ochoku, one of the Yonko, or the three leaders and six Vajra, all the cadres of the Yonko's group were stunned.
This sudden change caused their brains to freeze, and they almost completely crashed.
"W-what happened?"
Selra Vayne looked around and saw whether it was the pirates who arrived early and were the first to attack Rosen, or the pirates who arrived later and participated in the war.
Once they stepped onto the battlefield, they all seemed like completely different people.
They either shot their comrades or slashed them with knives.
It was as if there was an irreconcilable deep-seated hatred between them.
We must use swords to solve this.
"Stop right there!"
"Stop it all!"
"I'm telling you to surround and kill Rosen, not to kill your own people."
Upon seeing this, Charlotte Gore immediately activated the Island-Island Fruit, transforming one of the buildings into her own face. Then, her booming voice transformed into a surging wave that swept across the entire battlefield.
"Kill!"
"Go to hell, you trash!"
"You're the one who deserves to die."
"It's either me or you."
...
All the pirates turned a deaf ear to Charlotte Gore's roaring voice.
They all seemed to have gone mad, displaying an intent to kill all their companions.
"Damn it!"
"I told you to stop!"
"I told you to stop! Are you deaf?"
Seeing that his subordinates dared to disobey him, Charlotte Gore, now merged with Hachinosu, immediately manipulated the ground to form a hand a hundred meters in size, which he then slammed down on the pirates who were fighting amongst themselves.
Bang
With a single palm strike, the earth cracked and collapsed.
A large group of pirates were directly smashed into mangled corpses.
However,
What happened next was something Charlotte Gore couldn't believe.
As the member of Ochoku's pirate crew, whose prestige was second only to Ochoku, Selra Vayne, and Raizen Kael, he was ignored by all the other pirates.
All the pirates only had eyes for their own comrades, and then they swung their swords and fired their guns, constantly killing the pirates around them.
"Selra Vayne, something's not right."
Raizen Kael turned his head to look at Selra Vayne.
"They've all lost their minds."
Selra Vayne looked around and saw that all the pirates of Ochoku's crew were bloodthirsty and no matter how Charlotte Gore tried to dissuade them or even kill people to establish his authority, it was all to no avail.
This is clearly illogical.
"Rosen."
"It's you."
"The power of your knife is to make my men kill each other!"
Ochoku's eyes flickered uncertainly, then he turned his head to look at the space between Susanoo's eyebrows, at the figure covered by a golden flower bud.
His eyes, gleaming with a ferocious, scarlet light, seemed to pierce through the gaps in the flower buds, meeting Rosen's gaze across the distance.
"You're only realizing it now?"
"Your reaction is really slow."
"I clearly told you in advance that the Ochoku Pirates were going to be completely removed from the ranks of the Yonko."
Rosen's voice came from within the golden flower bud:
Do you think I'm joking with you?
"No."
"The reason I chose to come to this Hachinosu alone is because I am certain that I can wipe out your Ochoku Pirates on my own."
Rosen's voice wasn't loud, but it carried throughout the entire Hachinosu.
His tone wasn't harsh, but it gave off an air of authoritarian pressure.
"Wipe out my entire pirate crew."
"snort!"
"How dare you say such a boastful thing!"
Upon hearing this, Ochoku's face instantly turned extremely gloomy.
Before the war began, he had considered that Rosen would use various means to deal with them, but he never expected that Rosen would do nothing but release a Zanpakutō, causing his tens of thousands of subordinates to begin a brutal infighting.
If this continues, even without Rosen's intervention, the Ochoku Pirates will be completely wiped out, and he will be completely removed from the ranks of the Yonko.
"captain."
"We can't let them keep killing."
"Even ten thousand pirates couldn't withstand this kind of torment."
As more and more members of Ochoku's crew got involved in the infighting, beads of cold sweat began to appear on Selra Vayne's forehead.
As Ochoku's right-hand man, he only had eyes for his subordinates, not his comrades.
In the past, quite a few members of Ochoku's gang had died at his hands, but the problem was that only one, two, or three had died.
What about now?
Thousands upon thousands of Ochoku's pirate crews are engaged in a life-or-death struggle.
If one person kills ten thousand, it will take a very long time to wipe them all out.
But if ten thousand people kill each other, the entire army can be wiped out in an instant.
Even if this is a Yonko pirate crew.
"His knife had a wide-ranging impact."
"No wonder Rosen went to Hachinosu alone."
"That's because if he takes other Marines with him, they might even start fighting each other because of his Zanpakutō's ability."
Charlotte Gore ate the Island-Island Fruit, so she had a clear understanding of the situation inside and outside Hachinosu.
He saw not only the pirates in front of him, but also pirates in different parts of Hachinosu beyond his sight, all of them wielding their swords to kill their own comrades.
From the moment Rosen unleashed his Zanpakutō, all the pirates in Ochoku's crew went from being allies to mortal enemies.
"Captain, if you and Selra Vayne release Conqueror's Haki together, it should cover this area and knock most of them unconscious."
After a moment's thought, Raizen Kael made a suggestion to Ochoku.
"Then what?"
"After you faint, are you just waiting to be killed by Rosen?"
Charlotte Gore pursed her lips.
In his view, Raizen Kael's proposal was simply a case of drinking poison to quench thirst.
Regardless of whether Ochoku's pirate crew fought amongst themselves or the pirates who used Conqueror's Haki to stun Ochoku's crew, the outcome was the same.
"It's better than them all dying."
"At worst, we'll make them leave the battlefield first, and then the ten of us will gang up on Rosen and kill him together."
"If all our subordinates die here, will the Ochoku Pirates still be considered a Yonko pirate crew?"
Faced with Charlotte Gore's mockery, before Raizen Kael could react, Selra Vayne had already preemptively agreed to Raizen Kael's proposal.
The Yonko.
It requires not only a supreme ruler standing at the top of the sea, but also a vice-president of the Emperor, a sufficient number of Shichibukai-level combatants, a massive army, and a vast territory.
The combination of these four elements constitutes the Yonko.
Overlord, Deputy Emperor, military strength and territory.
If even one person is missing, no one is qualified to be king.
"There is another way: have the captain use his Devil Fruit powers to move Rosen away from the Hachinosu."
Charlotte Gore had a sudden inspiration.
"I can't do that."
"He must have been on guard against my Warp-Warp Fruit from the very beginning."
"That's why it released a massive amount of Armament Haki to create Susanoo."
Ochoku glanced at Susanoo, which stood as majestic as a mountain, with a gloomy expression.
With such a massive and Haki protective aura surrounding Rosen, his Warp-Warp Fruit was simply unable to move Rosen out of the Susanoo's interior.
"Captain, then you have no choice but to listen to me."
"Don't hesitate any longer."
"Otherwise, more and more people will die."
Selra Vayne advised Ochoku.
"Sasaki".
"You six, keep a close watch on Rosen."
"If he dares to do anything reckless, go up and hold him back."
Upon hearing this, Ochoku also felt that Selra Vayne's words made sense.
Since Rosen cannot be moved, let's first make his subordinates who are killing each other lose consciousness.
He might be at Rosen's mercy if he fainted, but he is not a mere figurehead as one of the Yonko, nor are his other subordinates. They cannot allow Rosen to wield his sword against his unconscious subordinates.
However, if he allows his subordinates to continue fighting amongst themselves, then Rosen could remove the Ochoku Pirates from the ranks of the Yonko without losing a single soldier.
"Stop me?"
Are you sure they'll really listen to you?
"Ochoku".
After hearing Ochoku's words, Rosen's voice came out again from the golden flower bud.
"What?"
Ochoku was preparing to join forces with Selra Vayne to use Conqueror's Haki to knock out his subordinates who were fighting amongst themselves, but his expression changed drastically upon hearing Rosen's words.
Clang
Bang
Almost at the same time that Rosen's voice rang out.
Long knives, spiked clubs, bullets, etc.
Six weapons imbued with Armament Haki simultaneously shot from Ochoku's side, heading straight for six different parts of his body.
The ones who took action were none other than six of his subordinates.
In Ochoku's pirate crew, he is second only to the third leader, the Six Vajra.
now.
The six Vajra warriors actually pointed all six filial son swords at their king.
"hateful!"
"Even you guys got infected?"
"Won't I let you use Haki to resist Rosen's Devil Fruit ability?"
Although Ochoku is unable to use Observation Haki due to Rosen's Observation Kill, he is currently at his peak, unlike Whitebeard during the Marineford War.
Even when facing six filial son swords from his subordinates, he was able to react in time.
Especially since he ate the Paramecia-type Warp-Warp Fruit, he doesn't need to use his brain to command his body and control his movement.
With just a thought, one can instantly teleport.
"Get out of my way!"
Even knowing that the Six Vajras were influenced and manipulated by Rosen's Sakanade, which reversed the perception of "enemy" and "ally," Ochoku was still enraged when faced with the Six Filial Sons Swords.
call out
In the blink of an eye, facing the sneak attack from the six filial sons' swords, he vanished from the spot, avoiding the sneak attack from the six Vajras.
Almost at the same time.
Ochoku instantly appeared behind one of the Six Vajras, Sasaki.
hiss
He used both hands, his right hand gripping a long sword, black and red lightning bolts erupting from his palm and coiling around the blade. Then he slammed the back of the blade into Sasaki's neck, knocking one of the cadres unconscious.
With his left fist clenched and imbued with Conqueror's Haki, he delivered a thunderous punch to the lower back of another officer.
In an instant.
Two cadres collapsed at his feet, unconscious.
These are the Yonko who reign supreme in the new world like emperors.
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