The Pirate Princess Becomes Queen

Vivi closed her eyes and carefully sensed Whitebeard's Conqueror's Haki, Devil Fruit, and swordsmanship. Now she had no weaknesses. If she had to say she had one, it would be that her use of Haki was not as skillful as those great pirates and lacked variety.

She really wanted to learn how to use Conqueror's Haki to entangle, but unfortunately she had no clue how.

Yamato can use Conqueror's Haki to entwine, but she can't explain how to do it. She only says that it's completely different from Armament Haki. She learned it unconsciously when she was being beaten up by her father.

Vivi doesn't have a father who can use Conqueror's Haki, so she certainly can't miss this opportunity to observe advanced Conqueror's Haki.

Whitebeard moved even faster than expected, and the old man was really holding back.

Although he didn't bring his greatsword Murakumogiri to Fishman Island this time, he wasn't afraid at all. "Why would I need a weapon to deal with a bunch of small fry?"

Whitebeard wasn't known for his speed, but thanks to his powerful physique, he still achieved an astonishingly high speed in Vivi's eyes. He left a trail of afterimages and grabbed Hody Jones's head with incredible speed.

The three-meter-tall fish-man leader was like a child in front of the six-meter-tall Whitebeard. Whitebeard exerted force with his arms, bent his knees and lowered his waist, pressing Hody Jones's head to the ground, and then suddenly shook it!

Chapter 184 One Punch

Several officers who weren't stunned by Conqueror's Haki rushed over shouting. Among them were a bonnet shark man, a Japanese whisker shark man, and a cigar daruma shark man. Including Hody Jones, the Great White shark man, it could be said that these fish-men who adhered to radical national policies all had some connection with sharks, and each of them was extremely warlike.

Whitebeard's act of taking down Hody Jones in one move did not frighten them at all. Instead, it aroused the anger of several shark fishmen, who brandished their weapons, wishing they could kill this great pirate who had protected Fishman Island for many years.

Because of the Heavenly Gold, Whitebeard was poor from a young age and never went to school. He didn't like reading books or newspapers, and his daily life was basically spent drinking, sleeping, fighting, and saving money. The old man was completely illiterate and couldn't distinguish the specific classifications of these messy shark fishmen at all.

Ignoring the specific type of shark, he released Hody Jones, reached out, grabbed the hammer-wielding shark's wrist, and crushed its steel-like bones. Then, he swung his arm, using the hammer-wielding shark like a bowling ball, and hurled it at the Japanese whisker shark with its many black and white stripes. The two racist shark-man executives collided like tumbleweeds, and before they even hit the ground, the white-bearded man kicked the Japanese whisker shark in the stomach, sending them flying sideways and knocking down two more shark-man executives.

If I had to describe it in one word, it would be "utterly devastating".

If Kizaru fighting a group of supernovas in the Sabaody Archipelago was like an adult beating children, then Whitebeard at this moment was like an adult beating an infant.

With just a few punches and kicks, several cadres were severely injured, spitting blood from their mouths, and unable to get up again.

Whitebeard suddenly exclaimed "Huh?" and turned around to see Hody Jones, who had been struck hard by him, standing up again with his face covered in blood.

This guy's got some skills! Whitebeard became interested; these days, there aren't many people who can stand up after taking a hit from him.

"Hey!" Vivi, who was watching from a distance, laughed. Hody Jones's face was a bloody mess, but if you looked closely, you could see some traces of powder residue between his shark teeth.

It wasn't that he was physically strong; it was that he took drugs at a crucial moment.

This guy has the style of a protagonist from an early online game novel in my past life, fighting the boss while holding a health potion! As soon as he saw his health dropping a bit too fast, he took a potion without saying a word.

She could tell, and Whitebeard could tell too: this fishman clearly didn't possess any domineering aura. He was indeed physically strong, but he was far from being able to stand up after taking a punch from her.

"Don't even think about underestimating us fish-men! Fish-men are the most superior race in the world!" Hody Jones swayed as if he might collapse at any moment.

His eyes flashed with a fierce light, and with lightning speed, he pulled out a handful of pills from his pocket, swallowed them without even looking at them.

"That is... That's a deadly drug! You were the one who stole it from the palace back then!" King Neptune was shocked. He finally understood the other party's series of schemes. First, he joined the Neptune Army as a soldier, learned various kinds of knowledge, and investigated the armed forces controlled by the royal family. Finally, when he retired, he stole the deadly drug from the treasury that could instantly give a person the strength of a thousand people.

The claim that one pill can grant the power of a thousand people is a bit of an exaggeration, but it certainly multiplies the power. Hody Jones truly felt the terror of Whitebeard, and with a determined heart, he swallowed all the deadly pills in his hand.

"Such a large dose! You'll die, are you crazy!" King Neptune and Vivi's adoptive father share the same problem: excessive benevolence. He was heartbroken by the battle unfolding before him, but he didn't know what to do. He could only hope that the other party would feel his sincerity. At this moment, he was still trying to pull the other party back to the negotiation.

Hody Jones's body swelled up dramatically, his skin color changed, his muscles bulged, his eyes turned bloodshot, and his aura became incredibly fierce, as if he had become a completely different person.

"Hahahaha—I've become stronger! I'm invincible!" His crimson eyes looked at King Neptune with utter contempt.

"You coward, a guy like you is a high knight of the merfolk? How laughable! Let me tell you the truth! I killed your queen! I've disliked that woman for a long time. Collecting signatures and being friendly with humans? It disgusts me!"

Hody Jones didn't think much about why he had blurted out his true feelings. He just felt full of power and his mind was filled with thoughts of killing.

So what if I said it? What can they do to me?

"You! How dare you!—!" King Neptune began to weep again, but this time it was out of anger. He gripped his trident tightly, reason restraining him, reminding him that he was a king and should be tolerant, but as a husband and a father, he was also urging him to rush forward, kill the enemy, and tear them to pieces.

Just as his expression grew increasingly fierce, Whitebeard stopped him.

"Leave it to me, old friend."

Seeing that this matter involved his old friend's wife, the white-bearded man's playful expression vanished, and his original joking attitude was completely abandoned. Without any fancy moves, seemingly slow but actually fast, he threw a straight punch at Hody Jones's face.

Even underwater, in an environment that greatly diminishes human combat power, Whitebeard's punch still created a sonic boom. The speed and power were too great; the fist landed on Hody Jones's face first, and the sound only came out two seconds later.

“Dad is really angry…” Mars shook his head and sighed.

Hody Jones took a direct punch; an ordinary person would have had their head blown off long ago. But the drug extracted all of his potential and vitality, providing him with incredible recovery power in a short period of time.

His nose, teeth, and most of his cheeks were smashed into a bloody mess, but he was still conscious.

He raised his right hand, and a water ball the size of a normal person's head condensed between the webs of his fingers.

He was about to launch the water ball using Fishman Karate techniques, believing that with his current strength, even Whitebeard couldn't withstand his attack! But before the power reached his arm, he felt as if his heart had been squeezed tightly by something. The immense force shattered his heart, and the shockwaves crashed back and forth between his internal organs, ravaging them. After his heart, his liver, kidneys, and other organs were also shattered one by one.

The deadly medicine could not repair his shattered internal organs. In his final moments of lucidity, he struggled to open his eyes and saw only a receding figure. Whitebeard threw a punch in his fighting stance, then turned and left without giving him another glance.

After his internal organs were shattered, his spine was also shattered, followed by the muscles that had become somewhat exaggerated.

Blood mixed with fragments of internal organs flowed from the corner of his mouth, and Hody Jones's muscles contorted as he collapsed humbly into the dust.

Chapter 185 Hody Jones is Dead

This shouldn't be happening. Something must have gone wrong. He wanted to rebel, but he didn't expect to rebel today. Why did it turn out like this?

In his final moments, Hody Jones remembered the prophecy of the seer in Fishman Island, who warned him to beware of the straw-hatted human who would destroy Fishman Island. This was one of the reasons he hated humans. Now? He would never see that straw-hatted human again.

Hody Jones is dead. Whitebeard gets serious. Even with his superpowers and drugs, he can't withstand a single punch.

All 100,000 fishmen at the scene were unconscious, and several fishman officers were also seriously injured. Only Hody Jones was actually killed, for a simple reason: he killed Neptune's wife.

"Is this the power of the Four Emperors?!" Vivi was a little surprised.

Hody Jones's strength was nothing to her; she could easily deal with him on land. He was far inferior to Jinbe. Even in the sea, she could defeat him without any suspense. But Vivi couldn't be that casual.

In a daze, she seemed to see Kaido fighting Luffy. It must be like this, right? One Thunder Bagua attack to defeat the enemy...

"Hahaha, Dad is invincible!" Ace said proudly, and Marco beside him had the same expression of self-righteousness.

Whitebeard's swagger, his two sons' empathy, and the astonishment of a bystander did not affect the mermaids' sorrow as Shirahoshi ran away from the Dragon Palace.

The naive and innocent girl wept bitterly, while also recounting how her shark had witnessed Hody Jones assassinating her mother, thus providing corroborating evidence for the story.

For so many years, she had refrained from telling her father and brothers the truth, because she didn't want to ruin her mother's dream of uniting merfolk and fish-people.

"You silly child, I'm so sorry you had to go through all this." Neptune patted his daughter's shoulder, his eyes also red-rimmed.

The three mermaid princes kept comforting their sister, while the Left Minister and Right Minister led soldiers to capture all the fishmen who had been bewitched by Hody Jones.

Whitebeard's Conqueror's Haki is so strong that all the fishmen are now unconscious, and none of them have woken up.

Arresting people is easy, but what happens after that? Nobody knows.

Jinbe, the Knight of the Sea, was heartbroken. As the current captain of the Sun Pirates, famous for liberating fish-men slaves, he exiled himself from Fish-Man Island in the hope that the fish-men could forget their history of being enslaved by humans, abandon their hatred, and emerge from the shadows.

But he never expected that his concessions would give rise to such a freak as Hody Jones, who murdered the princess and caused the country to split. He felt guilty about all of this.

He longed to visit the East Sea. His former exiled partner, Ah Long, had not been rumored to have committed any evil deeds. He had initially thought Ah Long had reformed his ways, but now, seeing Hody Jones's behavior, he had a very bad feeling.

More things are yet to come...

Jinbe knelt before Whitebeard and earnestly pleaded, "Father, Hody Jones is one of the few Fishmen. Please give us another chance!"

Marco and Ace remained silent, while Whitebeard pondered in silence.

He's a little hesitant now. He's been protecting them for so long, and this is how the merfolk treat him? If I keep protecting them, am I crazy?

Whitebeard was a man who valued friendship and family above all else. His connection to Fishman Island lay with King Neptune. Without this mermaid king, he wouldn't have cared about the fate of Fishman Island. He was a pirate who pursued freedom, and whether you lived or died, or whether you were free or not, had nothing to do with him.

"Father! Please!" Jinbe kowtowed heavily to the ground, offering no explanation, only pleading incessantly.

Whitebeard was also decisive. After only a few seconds of thought, he made a decision: "The bad ones among the fish-men are ultimately a minority. I still have the ability to distinguish right from wrong. Jinbe, get up and tell your fellow fish-men that the Whitebeard Pirates will continue to protect Fish-Man Island."

"I am deeply grateful!" Jinbe kowtowed heavily, then got up to find his fellow fish-men. Since time and his self-exile had not eliminated his hatred, he would have to use some tougher methods.

Vivi directed the ducks to wander around the battlefield twice.

Conqueror's Haki cannot be quantified, so this skill is unavailable. We didn't even get to pick up Whitebeard's skill; the old man was just relying on his superior physical abilities to use basic attacks, without actually employing any special techniques.

The 100,000 merfolk were stunned too quickly, and the drops were limited. Most of them were swimming skills, which were completely useless to Vivi. A small number of them had karate skills.

Vivi glanced at it. Swordsmanship, Haki, and medicine had already taken up too much of her time, and she hadn't delved deeply into these martial arts techniques. If the Revolutionary Army's second sister-in-law could learn Fish-Man Karate, she could naturally learn it too. However, Fish-Man Karate relied heavily on water; using it in a waterless environment was like using Water Release in a forest.

She wasn't very interested in it.

There were hardly any other skills worth watching, so she glanced at them and then went to comfort Bai Xing.

Karu the duck took out a cat toy to tease Shirahoshi, and the naive girl's attention was naturally diverted when she saw the cartoon mouse on the toy...

Three days after the Fishman Rebellion, Whitebeard and his crew sailed away from Fishman Island.

"If you encounter any trouble when you go to see Yamato, remember to contact me immediately. Kaido may not be as powerful as Father, but don't underestimate him." Ace reminded her to be careful before boarding the ship.

Vivi nodded in agreement. What kind of brain of mine would I have to underestimate Kaido?

The best way to rescue them would actually be for Whitebeard to lead his pirate crew to attack Wano Country, and she could rescue them in the chaos. But both she and Ace knew that this was impossible and there was no need to even mention it.

Vivi's plan to fight pirates with Zephyr is no longer a secret to some extent. Her current allegiance is completely different from that of the Whitebeard Pirates. Whitebeard doesn't care about anything outside of his family and would never seek justice for pirates he doesn't know, but the two sides can't be friends either.

It's already quite good that both sides have maintained a superficial politeness by using Ace as a bridge.

Most of the time, Whitebeard simply ignored Vivi, and she never warned him to be careful of Blackbeard. Their relationship was as bland as water.

Whitebeard left, but Jinbe didn't go with him. This Shichibukai didn't rest, eat, or sleep for a whole week. He talked earnestly with all the fish-man leaders, whether he knew them or not. He talked to them one by one, and if he could reach an agreement, he would talk; if he couldn't, he would fight.

To force a consensus, one must abandon thoughts of hatred towards humanity.

This idea wasn't something Vivi hinted at; most of the fishmen harbored some degree of hostility in their minds.

Will it be effective? We don't know! Only time will tell.

Afterwards, Jinbe bid farewell to King Neptune, as he was going to the East Blue to see if Arlong would turn over a new leaf. If so, that would be good; if not, he wouldn't mind sinking Arlong's body into the sea.

Chapter 186 The Forest of the Sea

It's time for Vivi to leave too.

After calming Bai Xing down, they squeezed in two more days of playing cards.

Once "Summon Sea Kings" reaches level 4, any skill points you pick up after that will no longer provide any improvement.

She believed it had reached its limit, and by limit she meant Shirahoshi.

Shirahoshi's current normal level is probably this. She needs at least four more years of growth to control Sea Kings, and she can only do so when she is extremely emotional.