Chapter 357 Interests 1
Arthur lay on the bow of the Cooper as the gentle sea breeze blew.
His face was pressed against the bow and his right hand was stroking the template, up and down.
He kept smiling, his black hair fluttering in the wind, immersed in his own memories of Cooper.
"Dear, there are navy and pirates fighting ahead!" On the observation deck, Hancock looked at the sea ahead through a telescope.
In the mild weather, gunfire, smoke, and the smell of blood gradually spread into the air.
"That flag seems to be the new Four Emperors Blackbeard..." Hancock's words suddenly stopped.
Arthur's perception was extremely alert. He turned around suddenly and looked directly at the sky.
Hancock was also sweating profusely as he stared at the sky, where a sun was burning fiercely.
It seemed to be passing through the atmosphere and approaching this sea area at a very fast speed.
“Two suns…?” Hancock stared at the giant monster that was getting closer and closer in disbelief.
"Meteorite?" Arthur's happy mood was instantly wiped out by the scene before him.
He had only seen a few meteorites falling from outer space into this planet in the past few decades.
It happened to crash in the area where the navy and the new Four Emperors Blackbeard were fighting.
Then, it must be man-made.
The superhuman gravity fruit will be reborn somewhere in the world within a year.
And was found!
Arthur quickly analyzed that the ones who could find this fruit must be the Blackbeard Pirates or the Navy.
"We have to leave quickly, dear! Otherwise we will be affected!"
Hancock was a little panicked that such a huge meteorite fell into the sea.
Undoubtedly, many creatures would die, including her, who would not be spared from injury.
"Thief hahaha! Chatun, you are very strong, but how are you going to deal with my new ability?"
In the distance, Blackbeard's familiar voice came from the pirate fleet and entered Arthur's ears.
"Did he find it?" Arthur's face darkened. He got the result while he was still analyzing.
It seems that the double devil fruit ability will befall Blackbeard no matter what.
Even though the Tremor-Tremor Fruit was seized by him two years ago and became part of the ability of his beloved sword.
"General Chaton! There is no land for you to use on the sea... Please order an evacuation immediately!
Your safety must come first!"
"My safety is not important!" Facing his subordinates' concern, Kaji extended two giant clay arms from his hands.
Grab two nearby warships that were abandoned due to the battle.
The warship was quickly assimilated by his awakened power, transforming into an enormous brown bow and arrows.
"If I withdraw, who will protect the navy today?! Who will maintain the law and order of the new world!?
oh--!"
Kake roared to the sky, and the huge amount of domineering aura in his body covered the bow and arrows created by his ability.
It formed a black and dazzling bow and arrow.
He controlled his ability and domineering power and pulled the string hard, and all the armament color domineering power gathered at the tip of the arrow.
"You want the exploding meteorite I summon? Asshole... stop kidding." Blackbeard watched from afar, looking at the giant bow, cold sweat running down his forehead and cheeks.
The ship he was on was rocking under the salvos of naval guns.
If at this time, Kake turned his target to the ship he was on.
That huge and domineering arrow would definitely inflict heavy damage on his pirate group with one shot.
However, as a general, he cherished his subordinates and could not sacrifice the naval fleet and the new generation of major generals that had been rebuilt with great difficulty.
If he hadn't smashed the meteorite, he could have saved himself, but this huge escort fleet would have been destroyed.
Blackbeard easily weakened the navy.
call out--!
The domineering arrow flew out from the string and instantly collided with a meteorite from outer space.
The domineering arrow pierced through the meteorite and rushed straight into the interior of the meteorite, causing a huge impact explosion.
The aftermath of the explosion shocked everything around, and Kaji kept his eyes fixed on the shattered meteorite fragments.
"As long as I am here, the navy will never be destroyed...!"
With a loud bang, the explosion shook the sky and the earth, and spread to the surrounding sea.
The meteorite was like fireworks, shattered into pieces before Arthur's eyes and fell into the sea like raindrops.
"You've become more capable, Kaji. You've diversified your abilities and your Haki power has also increased significantly."
Arthur grinned at the result.
I guess Kaji has undergone a lot of inhuman training and fought countless life-and-death battles in the past two years?
"Are we going to assist the Four Emperors in defeating their arch-enemy, the navy?" Hancock looked up at the sky with a look of surprise.
“No, today’s navy is not the same thing as the one ruled by the Warring States.
Besides, it seems like they have some purpose in starting a war, and the navy will not take the initiative to attack the Four Emperors.
Then, it must be Blackbeard who is leading the group..."
Bang! A silent bullet was fired from the Blackbeard Pirate Fleet.
When Arthur was analyzing and explaining to Hancock, it went straight to his forehead.
Arthur sensed it in advance, tilted his head, reached out and accurately caught the bullet between his thumb and index finger.
The impact of the bullet also dissipated in an instant.
"Blackbeard must have led his pirate group to attack Kake. So, Kake must have something they want."
Arthur caught the bullet, continued speaking calmly, and then threw the bullet into the sea.
The playful gaze was like a sharp sword, sweeping across the Blackbeard Pirates' main ship in the distance.
Van Oka stood stunned on his pirate ship.
White smoke was still coming out of the muzzle of the sniper rifle in his hand.
"What kind of rumor is that? A useless person can't catch my bullet."
The familiar scene reminded him of the time in Demon Valley Town two years ago.
Arthur caught his bullet in the same way.
"Hey, what are you doing hitting the left, Oka!?" Blackbeard looked at Van Oka behind him in confusion.
Van Oka responded with a cold sweat on his face:
"Captain, that guy is here too."
"Ah? Who? Navy reinforcements?" Blackbeard followed his gaze and looked into the distance at sea.
A pirate ship with an eagle as its bow is slowly approaching.
"Arthur...! What is he doing!?" Blackbeard was not too shocked when he saw Arthur for the first time.
But when I thought about the fact that Van Oka had just shot Arthur.
Suddenly, I felt that things had become bigger and more difficult.
"No, you just shot him, right? You idiot! Don't you have any IQ?"
Facing Blackbeard's accusations and insults, Van Oka replied:
“For the past two years, word has been spreading around that guy couldn’t even beat an ordinary person, and sometimes he didn’t even fight back when he was beaten.
I have become a useless person who can be bullied by everyone. Am I not just trying it out of curiosity?
If I was shot dead, my reputation might be ruined...hahaha."
"Damn it! You ruined my plan, Oka, you bastard!"
Blackbeard became even more angry after hearing Van Oka's explanation.
How many times have such unreliable rumors happened in the past twenty years?
Arthur is ruined?
The icy swordsman disappeared into the sea?
The Lone Dragon was secretly executed by the government?
There are all kinds of rumors, but none of them are true.
It's just a means to attract attention and make money for reporters by using false information.
Blackbeard would rather believe that the world would be destroyed than believe such outrageous rumors that Arthur would be destroyed.
"Hurry up and use the teleportation fruit to retreat! Oka, my other fruit is not fully developed yet, and I don't want to be his enemy!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Van Oka realized that his plan had failed due to his impulsiveness.
He quickly dodged and jumped on various pirate ships, using the teleportation fruit to transfer all the pirate ships participating in the battle.
Kake looked sternly at the pirate ships that were instantly evaporating in the sea before him.
"Report! Admiral, we spotted a ship of the Condor Pirates at six o'clock... Should we retreat quickly?"
"Retreat? Why should we retreat? We weren't the ones who provoked him!"
Kake flatly rejected the proposal to retreat and ordered the surrounding warships to rest.
However, he himself watched with his own eyes as Arthur's ship approached his warship little by little.
On the bow of the Cooper, Arthur teased Kaji in a devilish and arrogant manner:
"Hey, General!"
"Are you going to join in the fun, too? Arthur!" Kake stared at Arthur below him with disdain on the huge warship:
"If your goal is to get Dorag, I will never let you succeed even if I die."
Kaji didn't waste any time and directly explained his position to Arthur.
"I want him dead, too. Why would I attack you when our interests are aligned?
If we kill you, there will be no one to maintain law and order in the civilized world, where can we go to live happily? "
Arthur responded with a slap.
This answer surprised Kaji, as if it was another person talking to him.
The violent bastard he knew was not the man before him at all.
"That is to say, you won't interfere with the execution, right?" Kaji asked again.
"That's right, Kaji. The grudge against the group that shot bullets at me just now is settled. I will go to meet the Blackbeard Pirates in person. Goodbye."
The Cooper reeled in the anchor and quickly sailed towards the Aurora Islands ahead.
Kaji watched Arthur leave, and suddenly asked him curiously:
"Are you a human or a ghost now, Arthur?!
Don't you fucking tell me!
Gion paid and sacrificed for your ambition, and now this is all you can do?!"
"I am who I am, Kaji. Whatever I am in your mind is what I am in your eyes. It depends on you, not me."
Arthur responded to him, his voice becoming smaller and smaller, and the ship went farther and farther away and soon disappeared from the navy's sight.
Coming back to his senses, Kake looked at the escort fleet around him.
The soldiers were all terrified and stood there, holding their guns tightly and shaking.
Facing the attack of the Blackbeard Pirates, he was exhausted.
If the captain who now represents the Condor Pirates, the legendary pirate who is said to be able to rival the Four Emperors and the Pirate King alone, takes action again.
They will literally collapse.
"The reinforcements will rest here for an hour! Then continue sailing to the destination!"
Kaji gave the order, and a man once again walked towards the deck where Dragon was imprisoned.
He came out of the cage and spoke to Dorag:
"Arthur just came, Dorag, and he said he wanted to see you die."
"Ahem...!" Such words were like a sword piercing the heart for Dragon.
He had a good hand, but he ruined it. He hated himself for being so timid.