One Piece: From Picking Up Red Hair's Broken Arm

Chapter 230 Warring States Period! You dare to stop me?

Galapagos Island.

Whitebeard had just mentioned this name to himself yesterday.

Located near the entrance to the New World, it was once one of the islands under the protection of the Whitebeard Pirates.

Later, the Marine Headquarters took notice of the island, seized it, and established the G-14 branch there, using it as a base to continuously and slowly increase control over the New World.

The base commander is none other than Lieutenant General Dol, who once fought against the Fallen Ones.

Upon realizing this, Xia Nuo frowned slightly.

Why would Blackbeard, a pirate who just defected from one of the Four Emperors' crews, go to a Marine base?
Was it just a coincidence that I happened to be passing by?
Or... is there another motive?
Xia Nuo pondered for a moment, then quickly shrugged dismissively, turned off the Marauder's Map, and twisted the throttle on his motorcycle.

It doesn't matter which possibility it is.

No one can stop him from killing the people he wants!

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next morning.

Galapagos Island.

The morning mist had not yet dissipated, and the base fortress of the G-14 branch was faintly visible in the thin fog.

The pure white stone wall, eroded by the sea breeze, has a mottled appearance and exudes a cold and austere feeling.

At this moment, on the top floor of the fortress, in the base commander's office.

"Hahaha, Lieutenant General Dol, I gave you all night to report, analyze, and so on... You should have made up your minds by now, right?"

Blackbeard sat sprawled on the sofa with his legs crossed, a wide grin spreading across his toothless mouth.

He was opposite him, behind the desk.

Vice Admiral Doll, draped in a naval justice cloak, had a cigarette dangling from his lips, his brow furrowed, and his fingertips lightly tapping the table.

The pile of documents spread out in front of her was covered with dense black and white text, recording various intelligence information provided by the other party.

"To be honest, the deal you proposed is very tempting."

Dor slowly opened his mouth:
"The personnel configuration of each division within the Whitebeard Pirates, the distribution of troops in core territories... this information is invaluable to the Navy."

"but……"

She raised her head, scrutinizing the pirate who was supposedly a veteran of the Whitebeard Pirates but remained completely unknown, and sighed.
"I can't trust you."

"Ok?"

Blackbeard's smile faltered, a shadow of gloom flashing in his eyes, but he quickly regained his nonchalant demeanor.

"Hahaha, so that's what you're worried about. But for a transaction of this level, can a lieutenant general like you make the decision? It should be handled by your headquarters..."

"The Warring States Marshal personally listened to my report last night."

Dol interrupted Blackbeard, exhaled a smoke ring, and said calmly, "His opinion is the same as mine."

"Marshall Teach, a 'son' who has followed Whitebeard for over twenty years, suddenly and inexplicably betrayed him? And even willingly handed over crucial intelligence to the Navy?"

"This is too bizarre to not suspect that you are a double agent. In comparison, it would not be so surprising if Mr. Borsalino suddenly became Whitebeard's son."

"Hey, you really think highly of my character!"

Blackbeard spread his arms wide and laughed wildly, "I'm actually quite pleased to hear you say that, but to be honest, with this attitude, you want me to offer a pledge of allegiance, right?"

"Yes, that's right."

Just then, a steady voice came from outside the door.

Immediately afterwards, the door creaked open.

"Marshal of the Warring States Period?!"

Lieutenant General Dor stared wide-eyed at the newcomer in disbelief. "You...you were at headquarters yesterday, how come you're here?"

"We rushed over overnight."

Zhan Guo looked tired, with dark circles under his eyes, as if he had been staying up for several nights in a row.
"The G-1 branch's surveillance ship gave an urgent report yesterday that Whitebeard and Shano met. I was worried that something might have happened, so I came to the New World to oversee things for a few days."

The rest of the sentence was left unsaid.

But Dol still reacted immediately.

Logically, such a matter would usually be handled by a general, but instead, it was the marshal himself who came.

It seems that the three generals are currently on field missions and are not at headquarters...

"Please sit, Marshal."

She quickly stood up, offered the sofa chair to Sengoku, and stood behind him.

"Marshall Teach".

Sengoku didn't stand on ceremony. After sitting down, he took off his seagull hat and rubbed his temples. "Judging from what Dol is saying, what you want is the position of Shichibukai, right?"

"Hahaha, exactly!"

Blackbeard grinned. "Didn't your Navy lose another Shichibukai at the end of last year? There's a vacancy, right? Speaking of which, ever since that kid went to sea, your Navy seems to have been constantly trying to recruit Shichibukai."

Zhan Guo's rubbing of his temples suddenly froze.

"You don't need to worry about this kind of thing."

After a moment of silence, Sengoku raised his head and said coldly:

"In short, let me be frank with you. You are nothing more than a nobody. Whether you have truly betrayed Whitebeard is another matter, but whether you have the strength to serve as a Shichibukai is also questionable."

"Therefore, to secure a vacancy as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, a pledge of allegiance is essential. At the very least, you must hand over a well-known core member of Whitebeard's crew to the Navy, preferably a captain-level officer, regardless of their life or death. In addition..."

Speaking of it.

Sengoku stared intently at Blackbeard's face, and the more he looked, the more uneasy he felt. His eyes narrowed slightly.

"You look familiar. Have we met before?"

Blackbeard's pupils suddenly contracted, and his body tensed up instinctively.

"maybe."

He immediately adopted a nonchalant attitude, crossing his arms over his chest:

"Back then, Whitebeard fought so many battles with your navy, and I participated in quite a few of them! It's normal that we've met before. But for a dignified Fleet Admiral of the Navy Headquarters to still remember a nobody like me, I should feel truly honored!"

"No, it has nothing to do with the Whitebeard Pirates; it's something from much earlier times..."

Zhan Guo paused, then realized that it was ultimately just an uncertain conjecture of his own, and there seemed to be no need to explain it to this guy face to face.

He shook his head, about to steer the conversation back to the pledge of loyalty, when suddenly his expression changed, he abruptly stood up, and turned to look out the window.

"What's wrong, Marshal?"

Lieutenant General Dor asked, puzzled.

"An extremely powerful aura is rapidly approaching the base."

Sengoku's expression was solemn, a bead of cold sweat seeping from his forehead. "No attempt to conceal it, arrogant, yet so unfamiliar, I've never encountered one like them before..." He had met all four emperors of the new world.

Therefore, only... meets this requirement.

"Xia Nuo!!!"

At almost the same time—

boom! ! !
The entire ceiling was suddenly torn open, and the upper part of the surrounding walls also collapsed with a crash!

Amidst rising smoke and dust, a handsome young man with black hair and black eyes descended from the sky, stepping into the top floor of the fortress.

"It seems I came at the wrong time."

His indifferent gaze swept around the room before finally settling on Blackbeard. He smiled slightly, revealing his gleaming white teeth. "I'm truly sorry to have interrupted your transaction."

"Xia Nuo?!"

When Blackbeard was looked at like that, he felt a chill run down his spine and straight to the top of his head.

He sprang up from the sofa, clenched his fists, and his face was extremely ugly: "You brat, how did you know I was here!"

Yesterday morning, after his injuries had slightly healed.

He used the fruit's ability to fly at low altitudes to fly continuously over the sea for an entire day, suddenly widening the distance by thousands of nautical miles!

How can this guy pinpoint my exact location?!
How exactly did they manage to catch up so quickly?

Xia Nuo didn't answer, nor did she even glance at him. Instead, she turned her gaze to Sengoku and spoke slowly:
"Although this is our first meeting, Fleet Admiral Sengoku, you should already know my temper very well. Considering that we have temporarily ceased hostilities with your navy, you should step aside. I have some personal grudges to settle with this toothless greenbottle fly."

"Personal matters?"

Sengoku had already blocked Dor's path, letting out a furious roar, and a faint golden Buddhist light flickered on his body:
"Personal feuds between pirates have never been settled at a naval base! Besides, Marshall Teach is currently a potential partner that the Navy is considering. You think you can just kill him like that? With me here, how could I allow you to be so insolent!"

"I have no interest in rambling on."

Facing the faint Buddhist light that illuminated the entire room, Xia Nuo remained oblivious, speaking calmly to herself:
"For Garp's sake, I'll say it one last time: get out of the way. This has nothing to do with you, and you can't stop me. Sengoku, if you keep blocking my way, I'll have no choice but to beat you up too."

"How arrogant! How presumptuous!"

Enraged, Zhan Guo laughed, "Is it because I've been away from the battlefield for so long that a junior like you looks down on me so much? Has this vast ocean forgotten the fame I earned with every punch I threw back then?!"

"Then go ahead and give it a try."

Xia Nuo sneered, a cold glint flashing in his eyes, and his figure vanished from the spot in an instant.

What a great speed!

Sengoku was startled. A flash of crimson light appeared in the pupils behind his round-framed glasses, and then his palms, radiating golden light, suddenly slammed out to the side!
boom! ! !
The two figures collided violently in the center of the office, and the shockwave instantly shattered all four walls.

Sengoku felt a sharp pain in his palm. The fist, wrapped in black and red lightning, had actually pierced through his shockwave and slammed heavily into his chest.

"cough!"

Sengoku spat out a mouthful of blood, his body flying backward and crashing into the ruins.

"It seems his strength has declined even more drastically than Garp's! At his age, he doesn't even use his Devil Fruit abilities, yet he dares to take my Binding Technique head-on?"

With a deep voice, Xia Nuo took a step forward, about to give chase, but suddenly seemed to sense something and paused slightly.

boom!
A powerful and domineering punch came from the right, accompanied by a faint smell of smoke and Dor's furious roar:

"Sound Soul Explosion!"

Without turning his head, Xia Nuo casually raised his right hand and precisely blocked the fist that Dol was throwing.

This senior lieutenant general had already given it his all, but he couldn't even leave a white mark, let alone shake Xia Nuo's right palm in the slightest.

"I remember you. You still dare to attack me even now. You have some courage."

Xia Nuo then glanced at her through the gap in his arm:
"However, it is not commendable. If I were you, I would immediately evacuate the lower-ranking naval personnel to avoid further casualties, instead of recklessly throwing my life away here."

"you--!"

Dor clenched her teeth, her face full of resentment, but as soon as she opened her mouth, a tearing pain shot through her abdomen.

Xia Nuo's right foot had somehow landed a heavy kick on her lower abdomen.

boom!
The terrifying impact caused her eyes to bulge out, and she was sent flying like a cannonball, crashing through the fortress building and landing in the center of the base plaza.

"Lieutenant General Dor!"

The sailors in the square gasped and gathered around, about to help him up, but saw that Dol had already struggled to prop himself up.

She looked around, recalling what she had just heard. After hesitating for a few seconds, she finally wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and shouted hoarsely:

"Everyone! Retreat to the edge and seal off the outer perimeter of the island. This is not a battle you are qualified to participate in!"

Meanwhile, on the top floor of the fortress.

After being ravaged by the shockwave, this place has been completely reduced to ruins.

As Zhan Guo rose from the rubble, golden Buddhist light suddenly surged, and his body expanded to more than ten meters tall in the blink of an eye, almost comparable to a giant.

Renren Fruit·Phantom Beast Species·Buddha Form!
"Xia Nuo!"

Sengoku's roar, as powerful as a bell, resounded, "Stop right there! This is a naval base! You can't run wild here!"

"This is right!"

Xia Nuo suddenly appeared above Zhan Guo, grinning as he brought his right leg down like a battle axe. "Only by showing this kind of form do you have the right to fight me. But I'll still say the same thing to you..."

"Stop getting in the way!"

boom! ! !
The kick, crackling with black and red lightning, collided with the Buddha's palm again. But unlike the last time, the golden Buddha's palm was also pulsating with an astonishing amount of Conqueror's Haki.

He is none other than Fleet Admiral Sengoku!
The belief we uphold is the justice that reigns supreme!
He naturally also mastered the technique of Conqueror's Haki entangling!
Boom!
The two overwhelming forces collided violently, accompanied by booming and flashing thunder, causing the entire G-14 branch fortress, from top to bottom, including its foundation, to tremble violently.

A violent shockwave, several times more terrifying than before, began to sweep in all directions. The upper structure of the fortress collapsed layer by layer like paper. Countless documents and building material fragments spiraled into the air in the gale and then crashed down together.

So they've finally gone all out...?

Hahaha, what a great opportunity!

Blackbeard, who had been slowly retreating to the side, was overjoyed at the sight and activated his ability without hesitation!
Buzz!

In the blink of an eye, his body shrank dramatically to about half a meter, transforming into a large, green-headed fly with a greasy sheen, flapping its wings and flying into the distance.

however.

Just a hundred meters away, the surrounding air suddenly stagnated like a swamp, and a strong sense of crisis surged in my heart.

This is……

Blackbeard instinctively turned his head and just then saw a crimson blade of light illuminate his entire field of vision, like a cascading silver river, enveloping him within it.

At the same time, Xia Nuo's indifferent voice rang out:
"Where are you going? Did I give you permission to leave?"

　Speechless. The reviewers must be really hungry; even this Warring States period image is taking me forever to process...

　　Also, I'll be updating more tomorrow, finishing the Blackbeard incident in one go.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)