Marineford War: I Will Stand in the Sky

Yann calmly replied, "Is that so?"

Immediately, Yann beckoned to Little Gold in the corner and said, "Then, I'll show you the changes at the bottom of Wano Country."

Immediately afterwards, Yann took out document after document from the castle inside Xiao Jin's body and handed them to Yamato.

"This is……"

Yamato took the document with a furrowed brow. When he saw the words on it, he trembled involuntarily. His eyes turned bloodshot as he looked at Arn and roared in disbelief.

"Why? Yann, why do you have Revolutionary Army documents in your possession, and... who is the Chief of the General Staff? Tell me, who is the Chief of the General Staff who is being referred to in the documents as a reporting chief of staff?"

Yaen lowered his eyelids slightly, picked up the bowl filled with crystal-clear sake, took a sip, and then spoke in an extremely calm tone.

"It is I. The Revolutionary Army is an organization founded by me, Tefimo Yann, and Monkey D. Dragon."

At that moment, Yamato froze completely, his head buzzing from those words.

Yann... is actually the Chief of Staff of the Revolutionary Army, a position equivalent to that of the Chief of Staff of the leader, Dragon.

"Damn it! You bastard... Why did you do this to Wano Country? Why did you drag Wano Country into the abyss of war?"

With a tone filled with anger, confusion, sadness, and pain, Yamato almost instinctively lunged at Aon, pinning him down on the tatami mat. He pressed his own weight against Aon's lower abdomen, one hand on Aon's shoulder, the other clenched into a fist... but trembling, he didn't bring it down.

Hidden beneath her disheveled, gradient-colored hair, Yamato's bloodshot eyes dripped one by one onto Arn's chest as she questioned him, her voice trembling with sobs.

"Why did you deceive me like this?! I clearly... considered you a partner..."

[Chapter 631. You lied to me again!]

Despite being pinned to the ground and seemingly completely immobilized, Yaon remained calm in the face of Yamato's cries.

"Deception, in essence, refers to using false words or actions to conceal the truth, but for you..."

At this point, a flicker of emotion appeared in Yann's eyes, and then he spoke.

“I did not deceive you. From the beginning, the wish you expressed to me was to ‘liberate Wano Country.’ When I traveled with you, I also clearly stated that I would repay your life-saving grace, which meant fulfilling your wish.”

After a pause, Yann looked at Yamato and said, "We have always walked together on the path of 'liberating Wano Country'."

"It's a lie, a lie, a lie!!!"

Large tears fell as Yamato spoke, his voice hoarse with exhaustion.

"How can you claim to have liberated Wano Country like this? The Flower Capital has been destroyed, countless civilians have been displaced, and the Wano Country regime has completely collapsed... How can you repay my life-saving grace like this?"

After a pause, Yamato's expression grew even more resentful as he said, "No, it was all planned from the very beginning when we met, wasn't it?"

“Fate arranged our meeting, but I have always been in control of fate,” Yann replied.

Hearing this, Yamato's expression became even more agitated, and his clenched fists trembled more noticeably, as if he might strike Yan at any moment.

With Yamato's physique inherited from Kaido the Beasts, a full-force attack could even shatter a mountain.

'Kill this bastard, kill this man who's been pulling the strings behind the scenes to create chaos in Wano Country, and maybe the chaos in Wano Country will finally come to an end.'

'The man before me is not an ally, but an enemy…'

Yamato was struggling internally, her tear-streaked face contorted in pain, but...

It's impossible, absolutely impossible!

At this moment, Yamato felt that his fists were much heavier than the handcuffs made of sea stone. Staring at Arn's face, a flood of memories kept flashing through his mind.

The time spent with Aon lasted only a few days, but it was the most glorious period of Yamato's life in the past twenty years.

This is a guy who loves to lecture himself, but is also incredibly warm-hearted!

However, recalling Yann's words, Yamato felt that all the warmth he had felt in the past had turned into a chill that swept over his entire body.

"It's fake, it's fake, it's all fake..."

Unbeknownst to Yamato, another Yaon stood beside him, his expression revealing a mixture of guilt and... surprise.

'Is it fake? Could it be that they've realized their five senses are being manipulated?'

Ya'en had the idea subconsciously, but immediately dismissed it.

Given Yamato's thick skin and Observation Haki, he shouldn't possess such an ability.

This idiot probably doesn't even realize when he was already under the illusion of "Soul-Slaying Blade: Mirror Flower Water Moon" in the past, right?

However, seeing Yamato's pained and struggling expression, even though she was usually decisive, Ain hesitated to throw a punch. Ain was also feeling quite bad inside.

Just as a person with a complex inner world is more likely to develop feelings for someone with a pure mind, Aon also had some feelings for Yamato, but the truth... is always cruel!

Whether you accept the truth or reveal it, you need to be quite aware of it.

Now, Yann has made up his mind to this.

A lie can only ever be verified as a lie, so Aon has decided to tell Yamato all the truth she should know.

Even if the final result is that Yamato goes to the extreme of opposing him, Yann will not regret it. Instead, he will choose to end Yamato's ideals here and sever all ties between them.

'This is probably all the tenderness and respect I, as an idealist, can offer to another idealist…'

'I'm just sorry, Yamato, for your safety, I can't be pinned down by you and listen to your pain and sorrow...'

As he silently pondered this, Yaon pulled out a specially made sea stone shackle from his pocket and began to put it around Yamato's neck.

Just as the sea stone shackles were about to reach Yamato, Yamato suddenly sensed the change caused by the sea stone and almost instinctively dodged to the side.

But alas... it was too late!

"Click!"

The sound of the sea stone shackles closing around Yamato's neck reached his ears, and a wave of weakness washed over him. In Yamato's amber eyes, he saw Arn, who shouldn't be standing beside him.

'Wha...what's going on? Wasn't Aon already pinned down on the tatami mat...?'

Yamato's eyes darted around blankly, only to discover that the "Ya'en" he had been suppressing was slowly transforming into wisps of cherry blossoms that drifted away in all directions.

"Yarn!!! You lied to me again!!!"

Yamato's face was filled with disbelief as he roared at the top of his lungs.

"I'm sorry, it definitely won't happen again..."

Aon said something to Yamato, then bent down and reached into the "Aon" figure that was gradually turning into cherry blossoms and falling away, picked up the Zanpakuto still in its sheath, and put it back in his arms.

Seeing this, Yamato, enraged, could no longer hold back and turned around to grab the spiked club that was lying to the side, and suddenly swung it at Yann's head.

"Binding Spell Sixty-One: The Six-Staff Light Prison"

The next instant, with a wave of Yaon's hand, six beams of light pierced Yamato's body, completely locking him in place.

Without the suppression of Yamato by Seastone, the Binding Spell of Number Sixty-One alone would absolutely not have been able to restrain such a physique monster.

However, no matter how hard Yamato struggles, he is completely unable to break free from the "Six Staffs of Light Prison," let alone attack Arn.

Immediately, Yamato stared intently at Arn and questioned him.

"Damn it, so you've been lying to me all along. It's all fake. The person I met, the person I walked with, even the person I was drinking with just now, it's all fake."

Upon hearing this, Yann immediately lifted the wine jar placed to his side, letting the clear wine flow like a stream into his open mouth.

"Gurgle, gurgle..."

Only when the entire wine jar was completely empty, and a hazy, drunken look appeared in Arn's eyes, did Arn speak to Yamato.

"real!"

After a pause, Yann smashed the wine jar onto the tatami mat and said.

"But you won't listen to my explanation unless I completely subdue you."

Yamato stared at Arn, his chest heaving rapidly, and asked in return.

"What else needs to be explained? I'm completely in your hands now. Do whatever you want."

[Chapter 632. The Investment of One Hundred Billion Berries]

Yaon reached out and brushed aside the slightly messy hair that was hanging over Yamato's face, gazing into her amber eyes, and spoke in an extremely serious tone.

"Yamato, I have countless reasons and methods to deceive someone, but this time I deliberately tell you the truth because I want to invite you to be my true partner. I want to continue walking with you."

Upon hearing this, Yamato's furious expression softened somewhat, but then he asked with a hint of mockery in his eyes.

"If I agree, would you really be willing to give up Wano Country?"

Yann sighed and said.

"Yamato, is your vision still limited to the area of ​​Wano Country? The ocean is much larger than you imagine."

Upon hearing this, Yamato looked directly at Arn and asked, "Then what exactly is your purpose?"

"To open up a brand new path for the land of peace, and for this sea."

As Yamato said this, what made Yamato somewhat incredulous was the light shining in Yan's eyes, a light so firm it could be described as devout.

Yamato gritted his teeth and questioned him.

"Is the so-called path destruction? Like manipulating Wano Country into a vortex of war, leaving countless civilians struggling on the edge of chaos and destruction."

"Yamato, did the arrival of the Revolutionary Army truly bring destruction to Wano Country?"

"Ya'en asked in return," Ya'en countered.

"Compared to the Beasts Pirates' burning, killing, and looting in Wano Country, building numerous weapons factories that pollute the environment, and capturing young men to serve as miners, what has the Revolutionary Army done? What has the Navy done?"

"What was destroyed in Wano Country was the daimyo and shogun system, the samurai class, and only the Flower Capital, which possessed more than 90 percent of the country's wealth, yet allowed the powerful to indulge in a life of debauchery while ignoring the lower classes."

Then, to Yamato's wide-eyed surprise, Aon picked up the documents Yamato had just dropped and handed them back to him, saying...

"Please take a good look at the contents of the document."

Yamato, who had been somewhat stunned, subconsciously shifted his gaze to the documents, skipping over the first part he had just finished reading and scanning the entire document. It was a document soliciting opinions on increasing infrastructure such as schools, hospitals, reservoirs, and dams in the Wano Country region.

At the end of the document, a dense array of names, including Dragon's, were signed, and a special seal bearing the words "Chief of the General Staff" was affixed. The approved budget amount left Yamato somewhat stunned as he counted it for a while.

'So many zeros... tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of millions...'

"One hundred billion Pelés???"

Yamato's pupils contracted, and he felt a dryness in his throat, and even a slight dizziness.

What an astronomical figure this is!

Keep in mind that Kaido's bounty is less than 5 billion Berries, so 100 billion Berries is enough to buy the heads of twenty Emperors of the Sea.