The Pirate Garen

Since the defeat in the First Battle of the Advance City, the Marshals of the Warring States Period, who are already seventy-six, have been preparing for retirement.

However, within the navy, there are huge differences in the selection of the next admiral:

Aokiji is deeply loved by his subordinates and is very popular in the navy, and he has been jointly recommended by the Sengoku Marshal, the hero Karp and other naval leaders;

Akainu upholds absolute justice, is harsh to his subordinates, ruthless to pirates, and loyal to the world government. Although he is not very popular in the navy, he has won the favor of the top leaders of the world government.

On the one hand, it was recommended by colleagues in the navy, and on the other hand, it was appointed by the superiors.

The two generals with completely different philosophies have their own strengths, and they are arguing endlessly over the position of marshal, and it has been a long time since they can't tell who is superior.

In the end, the long-standing conflict between the two broke out completely.

Since no one would give in, Aokiji and Akainu decided to compete with each other with their fists, using a life-and-death duel to compete for the throne of Admiral of the Navy.

So, the two of them came to Punk Hazard.

After solving the corrupt navy and driving out irrelevant personnel, the duel between the two finally got on the right track.

A duel between men, especially a duel of different beliefs, usually consists of three processes: concave modeling, swearing, and fighting.

It wasn't long before Galen was driven away, so Aokiji and Akainu have just reached the second process, and haven't gotten to the point yet.

The two generals were filled with cold air and flowing lava, and before the official start of the attack, they destroyed the land with a radius of hundreds of meters to the point that not a single blade of grass could grow.

The white water mist was transpiring, and the black smoke filled the air, making the figures of the two generals even more blurred.

Amidst the billowing smoke, the auras of Aokiji and Akainu climbed to their peaks, like a volcano colliding with a glacier.

"Kuzan!"

Akainu's eyes were ruthless, and his resolute face was flushed red by the hot magma:

"After so many years, haven't you seen it clearly?"

"It is because there are too many generals like you in the navy who don't distinguish between right and wrong, the pirates' arrogance will become more and more arrogant!"

"Right from wrong? Sakarsky!"

Aokiji's eyes are solemn, and when he speaks, all he spits out is freezing vapor whose cooling effect is comparable to that of liquid nitrogen:

"The so-called absolute justice you insist on is the real distinction between right and wrong!"

"Like back in O'Hara."

Aokiji didn't finish that sentence, but Akainu understood it immediately.

The O'Hara incident nearly twenty years ago was the trigger for the complete break between Aokiji and Akainu:

In that incident, in order to prevent O'Hara's archaeologists from escaping from among the civilians, Akainu directly ordered the bombing and sinking of the refugee ship full of hundreds of civilians.

This kind of unscrupulous and completely devoid of humanity for the sake of the task made the young Aokiji have great doubts about the word "justice" on his body.

"Your justice is wrong!"

Aokiji's face is completely gone from the usual laziness, and his eyes are burning with the flame of faith:

"In order to complete the task, you wantonly slaughtered people who were supposed to be protected by us"

"What kind of justice is the justice you bear!"

"Is it just to maintain the rule of the world government?"

"What do you know!"

Hearing Aokiji's words with extremely low political consciousness, Akaken's face was full of anger:

"Protecting a few people is only a small righteousness, maintaining the stability of the entire sea is a great righteousness!"

"I defend the World Government because it is the only organization that can stabilize the world!"

"Suffering comes from turmoil, the rule of the world government is unstable, and the suffering that the people will endure will never end!"

Of course, Akainu also knows the virtues of the nobles of the world, and deeply hates their ugly faces, but he still loyally maintains the rule of the world government.

Because, he always believes that stability can bring peace.

In Akainu's view, even if a group of pigs rule the world, it is better than the chaos of the sea, each occupying their own land and ruling the world.

"Kuzan!"

Akainu gave up the last persuasion to Aokiji, and the lava overflowing from his body became hotter:

"If you can say such naive words, it means that you are not qualified to be the admiral of the navy at all!"

"Needless to say, let me wake you up with my fist!"

"Innocent?"

Aokiji clenched his fists tightly, and a vortex of cold air suddenly set off around his body:

"Sakaski!"

"Don't underestimate my beliefs!"

Meanwhile, Punk Hazard's underground experiment base.

Galen sneaked here with Caesar.

Because Akainu and Aokiji's sense of dominance is terrifyingly strong, and their senses are as sensitive as monsters, Galen didn't dare to run back to the island blatantly and do small tricks.

If they found out about his strange behavior of planting the flag, Galen didn't know what reason he should make up to explain it.

Therefore, Galen simply returned to the island with Caesar, who was familiar with the terrain, and sneaked into the underground experimental base through the secret entrance.

Anyway, the German military flag has a range of three kilometers, and it can affect the ground even if it is inserted underground.

And the size of this island is not too big. Galen only needs to plant a few flags in suitable places to make the halo effect of the German flag cover the whole island.

Under Caesar's guidance, Galen walked and planted flags all the way, and finally came to an empty room full of various metal devices with unknown functions, which looked full of technology.

"Master Galen!"

Caesar carefully smiled:

"This is the control room of the artificial devil fruit raw material base."

"In terms of location, as long as you place another flag here, your 'power of justice' will be able to cover the entire island."

In order to save his precarious life, Caesar followed Galen's nonsensical rhetoric without any psychological barriers, and called the buff effect of the banner "the power of justice".

"good."

Galen nodded, and casually summoned a German military flag.

Then, his attention was immediately placed on the most eye-catching place in the room——

A devil fruit.

It lies quietly in the transparent glass cover in the center of the room, shining faintly under the warm light.

Obviously, this fruit is very special.

Caesar noticed Galen's gaze, and immediately showed a flattering smile:

"Master Galen!"

"This fruit is the most special among the man-made devil fruits I have researched:"

"It is the dragon fruit of the animal-type phantom beast!"

Caesar deliberately used an exaggerated tone, trying his best to show off his scientific research strength in front of Galen.

"Flood dragon fruit?"

Galen's face immediately collapsed:

The Flood Dragon Fruit can transform the user into the legendary oriental Flood Dragon. It sounds like it has infinite power.

But in reality, it was just a failure.

In the original book, Momanosuke ate this fruit by mistake, but it is difficult to control the effect of transformation, and only when he is emotional can he transform into a dragon.

Besides being able to barely fly, the dragon that that guy turned into didn't show any strength worthy of the name of a dragon. It was simply an eel in dragon skin.

Galen lost interest in this devil fruit, and looked at Caesar with disdain:

"The results of your research?"

"Isn't this dragon fruit the work left behind by Dr. Vegapunk?"

"And, as far as I know."

"This artificial devil fruit technology seems to be the invention of Vegapunk, right?"

"nonsense!"

Hearing the name of the deadly enemy, Caesar immediately lost control of his emotions:

"How could it be possible for Vegapunk, a man who is trying to catch his name?"

"kindness?"

Galen snorted softly.

Caesar's agitated mood immediately calmed down.

"He invented it"

Caesar blushed and admitted, but refused to admit defeat and argued:

"However, this technology became mature after I developed and perfected it later."

"The dragon fruit that guy researched is a failure at all."

"Compared to Vegapunk's failed product, the artificial devil fruit I developed is of high quality, large yield, and strong effect. Kaido, the Four Emperors, said it was good after using it."

"OK OK."

Galen waved his hand angrily:

"Don't talk nonsense, I'm not interested in this man-made devil fruit at all."

Galen knew exactly what the man-made devil fruits created by Caesar were:

Ordinary animal-type ability users can freely control the transformation ability, and they look like ordinary people when they don't use the ability.

However, those capable users who ate Caesar's counterfeit goods had no way to freely control the fruit ability at all, causing their bodies to show signs of irreversible animalization, and thus turned into half-human, half-animal monsters.

It’s okay to be ugly after eating, the key is that the fruit ability obtained from it is still flawed, and the combat power it can provide is very worrying.

Galen didn't want to spend money to make such defective products.

"Let's go!"

"Wait until the two generals move their hands, the movement will be big."

Galen also stopped chatting with Caesar about those useless things, and turned around to leave.

But before leaving, Galen couldn't help but take a look at the dragon fruit:

"It's all here."

"Take it back and forget it."

The live footage cuts back to the ground.

"Sakaski!"

"Don't underestimate my beliefs!"

Kuzan shouted loudly, his voice was like thunder.

Although the air around him was as cold as hell, his mood at the moment was surging like fire.

Kuzan, who is usually lazy and unmotivated, finally took a 100% serious attitude towards his beliefs at this moment.

Facing the Akainu who was roaring with a huge wave of lava, Kuzan suddenly shot back, punching like the wind.

"Um?"

Kuzan frowned slightly:

He could clearly feel that his fist was getting faster.

how so?

Kuzan was a little puzzled.

With his level of strength, he has almost climbed to the top of this world, and it is as difficult as climbing to the sky to go further.

But in this life-and-death duel, he had an obvious breakthrough.

Could it be

Is this the power of faith?

Kuzan felt the surging blood in his body due to his firm belief, and felt that his whole body was full of strength.