Chapter 255 Frozen Sea

“Maybe… maybe there was just an accident on the road.”

Perospero subconsciously spoke to comfort her.

In fact, up to now, he was becoming more and more uncertain.

Katakuri’s strength is indeed not weak in this ocean, but it is definitely not invincible.

Be it some old guys in the navy or the three most powerful admirals today, none of them can be contended by Katakuri.

As for the pirates, there are even more of them. The Four Emperors, Wang Zhi, and the knight Gawain who just showed a fighting power comparable to Big Mom’s. They are all powerful enough to dominate a region, and their fighting power is far above Katakuri.

What’s even more terrible is that Gawain has just made a feud with Wan Guo, and he is very likely to take the opportunity to attack Katakuri who is alone.

As he thought about this, Perospero became more and more uneasy.

He looked at the aunt in front of him who was gradually being calmed down, but ultimately did not express his worries.

After all, it was he who proposed the plan of making a feint to the east and attacking in the west. Now that things have developed to this point, he has an unshirkable responsibility.

Fortunately.

The aunt’s attention was soon diverted to other things.

She reached out and touched her belly, and saliva flowed from her mouth along her lips to the ground.

laugh!
The extremely high concentration of stomach acid directly corroded a large hole in the ground, causing bursts of white smoke to rise.

“I’m hungry.”

Perospero’s body froze, and he recalled the hellish scene a few days ago. He gritted his teeth and said:
“Wait a minute, Mom.”

He knew clearly what the old lady who had lost her mind due to hunger could do.

Not a trace of hesitation.

Perospero immediately activated his ability to create a large amount of candy out of thin air, and turned all the remaining vegetation on the island into syrup.

I let the old lady wolf down the food, and managed to temporarily relieve her food cravings.

But Perospero was not happy at all.

After all, his physical strength is limited, and it is impossible for him to produce syrup indefinitely.

The island is so large that after the explosion, there were still some plants left on the edges of the island, but now those places are bare.

After the aunt has eaten all she can, what will go into her stomach next? !

Whenever he thought of this, Perospero felt a chill down his spine. He now only hoped that Katakuri could return soon.

Only this younger brother has the ability to stop the aunt’s violence when she loses her mind due to bulimia.

The weak do not even have the qualifications to decide their own choices.

The comments Big Mom made about Gawain at the banquet a few days ago also apply to Perospero at this moment.

When he figured this out, the current dilemma was already before him.

However, the mother and son did not wait for the return of the fleet led by Katakuri. Instead, they received Flampe’s tearful letter for help.

“Brother Perospero, save Brother Katakuri… No, save me!”

“What did you say?!”

Perospero’s whole body was stiff, and his face turned extremely pale at this moment, a paleness that was no different from that of a corpse, so pale that it made people shudder.

“Woooooooo…”

“Stop crying and tell me the truth!”

After being yelled at, Flampe calmed down instantly and sobbed softly:
“We were attacked by the Golden Lion on our way back. In order to buy us time to retreat, Brother Katakuri fought against the Golden Lion alone and is now missing.”

“Iceberg, the mayor of Water Seven who knew Pluto’s design, also fell into the hands of the Golden Lion.”

“Now I am the only one who escaped from the whole ship.”

Between life and death.

What idol, what man you admire most, what brother you are most loved…

Franpe threw all of this behind her and just wanted to survive!
“I don’t want to die…save me…”

The other end of the phone suddenly fell silent at this moment. Just as Franpe was puzzled, the aunt’s suppressed and furious voice came from the receiver:
“What did you say?!”

“Mother?!”

Flampe was stunned, with unspeakable fear in his eyes:
“I…I…I…”

She stammered and couldn’t utter a complete sentence for a long time, and the Den Den Mushi in her hand was hung up the next moment.

This was her last hope, but now it has been cut off.

Above the vast sea.

Flampe was holding onto a piece of driftwood, and in the distance a bloodthirsty sea beast was swimming towards him following the scent.

“No! No!”

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The other end.

The aunt crushed the Den Den Mushi that she had just snatched from Screw Pero, and the brutal murderous look in her eyes could no longer be suppressed.

Originally, even after Gawain attacked the International Fleet, she was still able to calm down under Perospero’s persuasion.

After all, the overall situation is more important, and protecting the interests that have already been obtained is the top priority.

But now she has lost not only the fleet, but also the blueprints of Pluto that she was about to obtain, and even her best child.

In other words, this trip to Wan Guo has only resulted in losses and no gains so far.

It’s almost a loss to my grandma’s house.

With the aunt’s personality, how could she possibly endure suffering such huge losses one after another?
“Shiki!”

A roar erupted from the aunt’s mouth, and the spreading sound waves scared all the birds in the sky down.

There was also an invisible domineering color spreading, raging like a strong wind, so that on the sea surface in the distance, circles of waves appeared and spread outwards!
Perospero barely managed to block the howling wind.

By the time the noise around had subsided, Big Aunt had already summoned Zeus, the thundercloud, and was speeding away into the distance, close to the sea surface.

“mom!”

“where are you going?!”

Perospero quickly spoke out to dissuade him:
“Even if we want to take revenge on the Golden Lion, we must first find its location!”

But at this moment, how could the aunt, who had almost lost her mind due to rage, listen to Perospero’s words? !
Her figure disappeared at the end of the sky in the blink of an eye.

Only Perospero was left standing on the deserted island, feeling a little confused for a moment.

He looked around, and what came to his mind was still the huge fleet that had docked here a few days ago, enough to help the Ten Thousand Nations conquer any enemy, as well as his countless younger brothers and sisters.

But now he is still alone.

The sea breeze blew back, and the coolness blew into the bones and blood.

Perospero felt only unspeakable regret.

“If I hadn’t been so eager to show off and hadn’t thought about competing with Katakuri, would none of this have happened?!”

There was silence all around except for the whistling sound of the wind.

Perospero’s question was destined to remain unanswered, and he knew even more clearly that he had no time to hesitate.

“Oh, right, the life card!”

He reached into his pocket, took out a booklet, and opened it.

Life cards appeared in front of Perospero.

Every page here is a life card of a younger brother or sister.

At this moment, half of the life cards in this booklet have disappeared. Those people either died in the explosion caused by Gawain, or were eaten by the aunt.

Perospero flipped through the booklet quickly and soon found his target.

A life card that has been mostly burned, with the person the life card points to marked on top:
Katakuri.

“Are you still alive?!”

Perospero breathed a sigh of relief:
“Mom also has our life card in her hand. I think she should be able to find Katakuri by following the instructions on the life card.”

“With her strength, even if she is no match for the Golden Lion, she will have no problem escaping.” Thinking of this.

Perospero set his sights on Flampe’s life card.

The image of countless brothers and sisters struggling and shouting after the explosion, and myself who was only concerned with escaping for my life, emerged in my mind.

He was speechless for a moment, with only unspeakable hatred for himself.

“This time… at least I have to finish what I’m supposed to do.”

“I am the eldest son of all nations!”

A few whispers fell to the ground.

Perospero waved his scepter, the syrup surged, and instantly condensed into a huge manatee, floating on the sea.

He jumped onto the sugar manatee and rushed in the direction indicated by the life card.

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The other end.

Above the sea.

The huge fleet led by Akainu had already set out from the Navy Headquarters and headed for the Seven Water Capital more than ten days ago.

But this time, the order they received was not to save but to destroy.

The Seven Water City and its hundreds of thousands of civilians were completely wiped out.

Even those with hardened hearts, like some hawks in this fleet, find it difficult to accept such a mission.

“What on earth is the World Government thinking? Are we executioners or enforcers of justice?!”

“Such a task… Such a task… I absolutely will not accept it!”

“Those are real people, children, fathers, husbands, wives…”

“Uuuuuuu——!”

A naval officer burst into tears.

He had once been a hawk within the Navy and had once firmly believed in absolute justice, but at this moment his spirit was on the verge of collapse.

Just because he himself is an orphan from the Seven Water City.

He grew up under the care of his neighbors and eating at many people’s homes. His initial goal of becoming a navy was to protect that city.

But what he wants to protect now is what justice wants to destroy.

He was caught in a dilemma, his heart was almost torn apart and his spirit was on the verge of collapse.

“Lord Sakaski, this demon-killing order is absolutely wrong!”

But the officer’s wailing only earned Akainu’s indifferent look:

“Take it down.”

“Leave him alone to calm down.”

“Temporarily relieved of duties and cut off all means of communication.”

“Don’t let him have any chance to contact the outside world until this mission is over.”

The sound fell to the ground.

The two marines dragged the officer away regardless of his struggles. His wailing voice gradually disappeared on the deck.

No one pleaded for him from beginning to end.

This was because things like this had happened too many times in the past few days, so many times that everyone present had become numb to it.

Everyone looked at the tall and upright figure on the deck as if they were looking at some dead object.

Sakaski.

One of the three current admirals of the navy, and most likely the strongest one among them.

The man known as ‘Akainu’ because of the power of the magma fruit, his uncompromising character, and his style of tearing apart all evil like a vicious dog.

He can be a piece of ice, a piece of iron, or a bullet shot into the opponent’s chest, but he is not a living person.

Absolute justice will not allow any evil to exist. This is the concept of justice that Akainu believes in.

This kind of iron-blooded and almost paranoid justice naturally made him quite criticized within the navy and even isolated, but he also gained a large number of supporters.

But this time, even the marines who once followed him were confused.

After all, those are hundreds of thousands of lives!

Can face Akainu’s questioning.

If the Pluto blueprints fall into the hands of pirates because of this fearless mercy, how many people will die in the future?

Everyone also remained silent.

If the Warring States period faced the trolley problem, he would hesitate and choose to sacrifice the lives of a few people in exchange for the chance of more people surviving.

Then when Akainu faces this problem, he will not have the slightest hesitation at all, and if necessary, he can even do it himself.

The fleet moved forward steadily.

Like a silent steel beast, it has the power to tear apart everything in front of it.

This fleet, representing the navy, no, the Demon-Slaying Order, the world government’s highest deterrent force, has never encountered any possible threat since its departure.

There is never a shortage of reckless men on the sea, but they know how to distinguish when they are brave and when they are seeking death.

Even Jack was stunned when he saw the configuration of the ship.

But accidents always come in ways that no one expects.

On the road ahead of the fleet, there were first pieces of small floating ice, which gradually evolved into icebergs hundreds of meters high, until finally the entire sea was frozen.

“This is……”

“There shouldn’t be glaciers of this magnitude on the route to the Seven Water Cities. What happened?!”

The recruits on the deck looked at everything in front of them in a daze.

But the more experienced officers had already seen the problem.

“Hey, hey, hey, the only one who can do this is…”

The officer was halfway through his words when his colleague covered his mouth.

Only then did he realize that Akainu was also standing on the deck, frowning at everything in the distance.

Actually.

Akainu realized the problem much earlier than anyone else.

This power is enough to freeze the ocean, and even among the vast number of devil fruits, only one fruit can do it.

That is the natural type – Frozen Fruit.

His master couldn’t be more familiar to Akainu.

But this kind of familiarity cannot be said to be very beautiful. It is more often accompanied by conflicts and quarrels.

Despite this contradiction, after the O’Hara incident, Aokiji’s temperament changed drastically, and he gradually weakened.

But Akainu knew that it had never disappeared, it was just hidden by that man.

But the inconsistency in emotions and concepts will never disappear with time, but will only become heavier and deeper until the moment of complete explosion.

“Kuzan…”

Akainu murmured, his expression did not change at all, but the cloak on his shoulders was rustling in the sea breeze.

It was also at this time.

Akainu saw a figure in casual clothes and sunglasses on the ice in the distance.

“Sasi ignores Dana~”

“Sakaski-senpai~”

(End of this chapter)