Chapter 425: Howl
How to keep Arthur awake in this way? Given his current physical condition, it is impossible for him to wake up once he falls asleep.
Hancock stroked Arthur's face, which was frozen by extreme ice, feeling a little overwhelmed.
Even though the Arthur in front of him no longer had the handsome appearance of long flowing hair and holding a sharp black knife in his hand.
She still loved Arthur wholeheartedly and had no other thoughts. She would follow him even to death and would never live alone.
This is Hancock's innermost thought and decision.
Love is everything, love surpasses everything. If even the lover dies, what is the meaning of living?
Endless dark space——!
Arthur's consciousness stood tall, alone in this space.
The surrounding scenes changed rapidly, swaying in front of ye's eyes like a kaleidoscope.
"Death? It seems better than I imagined." Arthur looked around at the darkness, his lips curled up.
"Is this what it means to have no one around you? There is no such thing as the underworld, hell, heaven, paradise, etc..."
Arthur did not reject the moment of experiencing true death, but rather yearned for it.
Compared to the miserable half of his life, he wanted to stay here more now.
Death turns out to be nothing but endless nothingness.
"I've done a lot of stupid things... I often lose my mind... Hehe... It seems that my thinking is just like that of an ordinary person who has lived for half a century..."
Arthur smiled ashamedly, feeling relieved at his own stupidity.
The self-deprecating smile on his lips could never make him forget his neglect of the people around him.
He ignored Gion's reminders again and again.
"Don't get too deep into it... Think about the child... We have rich emotions, and she will be a daughter with even more emotional sensitivity in the future..."
Gion's voice rang in Arthur's ears, causing Arthur to maintain his shameful smile.
"You talk about how miserable you are all day long! Those who say that about you can just kill them with a sword and walk away. Why bother about the voices of those ants? Don't you care about our life or death? Even if you are perverted... ahem... I admit that I am also perverted, but I was led astray by you! Let's get back to the point, Arthur, if you continue like this, the Kingdom of Women will be destroyed by your persistence."
The voice of Swordleaf Flower Toritoma echoed in Arthur's ears again.
"A woman?" Arthur snorted and laughed. "My original intention of becoming a woman was just to lure the user of the Operation Fruit to perform the immortality surgery on me and to escape the pursuit of the World Government."
It was not his will to become like that, but the World Government controlled his life card and he was being hunted at all times.
"I just want to be in bed with you forever, Arthur."
Stussy's seductive whisper seemed to be right next to his ear, seducing him.
Memories make Arthur feel that he is truly alive, but reality is extremely cruel to him.
“I have the deepest and richest feelings, but I pretend to have no feelings,” Arthur said to himself.
He looked at the palm of his right hand, which was clenched like a vice. It was empty, but he never wanted to let go.
Just as his fingertips loosened, another strange cry appeared in his ears:
"Cooper!" (Don't let go!)
"Why can't I relax? I want to rest... I'm tired... my body is no longer able to move." Arthur didn't know if he was hallucinating in this state.
A burly Cooper appeared before him alive, staring at him with his sharp eyes.
He was no longer surprised by such hallucinations.
"Cooper!" (Arthur, you will never give in like this. If you do, you will no longer be the man I know!)
"Old friend, a feeling of emptiness has taken over my whole body. Your passing has made me blame myself and this world. I have no intention to continue..." Arthur said to it in an extremely pessimistic tone.
"Come and let me hug you...I haven't hugged you for a long time. I miss your feathers."
After saying that, Arthur stepped forward and pounced on Cooper's huge body.
However, it missed its target, and the arm and the whole person passed through its body directly like a spirit.
"Cooper...!" (I've been dead for a long time, Arthur. Wake up...!)
The oath he made with his best friend made Arthur, who was leaning against Cooper's tombstone in reality, suddenly open his eyes.
Arthur felt everything in his body burning, including his bones, skin and flesh.
This pain made him realize that he was back to that broken body.
Seeing Arthur wake up, Hancock burst into tears and cried loudly, choking with sobs,
"Arthur! Arthur! Don't abandon me!"
"Hancock, are you afraid of death?" Arthur looked into her eyes and asked in a deep voice,
"If you're scared, just get away from me."
After saying that, Arthur hit him on the heart with his left fist, and terrifying domineering aura and extreme icy power rushed out of his body like a flood.
Hearing this, Hancock wiped away her tears, rushed towards Arthur, hugged his waist and smiled charmingly.
"Don't be afraid, as long as you don't leave me."
The extreme icy power under her feet spread rapidly, freezing everything around her.
Cooper, Gion, Stussy's grave, Yana's body.
And Hancock gave up struggling and hugged Arthur tightly for love.
"Yeah...if I die...you won't be able to live well either."
With the last bit of strength, Arthur lowered his body, gripped the hilt of the knife tightly with both hands, and made a pre-swing sword move posture to launch a move.
His blood stopped flowing and instantly solidified into ice crystals, as sharp as a knife that pierced his skin.
He sacrificed himself in a final act of resistance.
"Never accept your fate! Never surrender! Never give in! Always stand on top of the world!"
Deep within the frozen wound, there was no end to the darkness, but instead an endless and cold blue light suddenly burst out, so pure it was heart-pounding.
The light expanded, devoured, and reorganized with an unstoppable force - frozen bones, crystallized muscles, and scales formed of ice were forcibly shaped into shape by an invisible force amid a roar that shook the heavens and the earth.
This huge shock frightened all the powerful people fighting for the interests. They all stopped fighting and looked towards the direction of G.12 cemetery.
"What's with all this domineering aura...? He shouldn't have any more energy left!"
"Arthur?"
"I told you he wouldn't die! How could that monster just die like that? He destroyed the world government!"
During the earthquake, the ground beneath everyone's feet was instantly torn apart and collapsed.
The land within a thousand miles in radius suddenly rose into the air, and everyone's body was suspended in the air without any warning.
"what!"
"The earth has evaporated...?!"
Upon seeing this, Kaido quickly transformed into a hundred-meter-tall blue dragon and soared into the air.
The moment he looked down at the earth below, his pupils trembled violently and he was so shocked that he could hardly calm down.
A ten thousand meter long ice crystal dragon head suddenly appeared before his eyes.
Rushed out quickly from the bottom of the continent.
"This move..." Kaido had no time to react and couldn't dodge it at all. He widened his eyes and shouted weakly.
"I still have the energy to use this move--! Dragon Breath!"
He exhaled a breath of dragon from his mouth and rushed straight towards the dragon head that was a hundred times bigger than him.
Before the dragon's breath touched the ice crystal dragon's head, it was frozen into an ice stick by the extreme ice power.
Kaido was like an earthworm, and was instantly knocked into the clouds by the ice dragon's head.
The ice crystal spikes cut his dragon scales like thousands of sharp blades.
Boom——!
A ten thousand meter long dragon breaks out!
The earth shattered and cracked like fragile glass.
"Well…!"
"I told you he would counterattack at the last minute...! This impact... is over!"
"..."
Countless buildings and humans were thrown into the sky like toys, and instantly froze into ice sculptures in the extreme cold, and then turned into powder.
The dragon raised its head, its huge body carrying the will and storm that froze everything, tearing through the clouds and piercing the sky!
"Ice dragon soars into the sky--!" Arthur's last voice spread across the sky and spread throughout the world.
When the ice dragon reached the top of the dome, its ten-thousand-meter-long body suddenly paused, and then an earth-shaking silent wail emanated from within it—it was not an explosion, but a silent, thorough, and heroic melting.
The huge dragon-shaped outline suddenly blurred and disintegrated into billions of dazzling ice crystals, scattering all over the sky.
This is also Arthur's final Ice Dragon Soaring!
Outside the atmosphere, Arthur, who had turned into an ice sculpture, slowly broke apart as he performed the move. He looked down and said,
"If I had to do it again, I would still be a pirate! A truly free pirate, one without any restrictions or limitations on thoughts!
Forget it... Forget it... It's all over..."
In terms of combat, his life was eventful.
But on the living level, he fell into intrigues and schemes all his life and struggled like a dog.
Looking at a world where half of the planet was covered in surging magma, he finally understood one thing.
Even if the world is merged into one continent, this world will eventually be truly destroyed.
The victor becomes the king and the loser becomes the bandit. All the strong ones are defeated and no one becomes the king.
The weak ones who survived became bandits under the molten lava, waiting to die.
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Ps: Okay, no more plot to abuse the protagonist!