Kevin emerged from the smoke and dust.
Appearing before everyone's eyes.
Ah!
Gasps escaped from too many mouths.
"It's Kevin, it's really him!"
"Kevin is still alive, he's still alive... Why is Kevin still alive?"
"Is he human or ghost?"
"Does Kevin possess the ability to resurrect?"
"Impossible, I've never heard of anyone possessing the ability to resurrect."
"Then the Marines lied, they never killed Kevin."
"That's not right either. For such a prominent figure, if he wasn't killed, the Marines definitely wouldn't dare to lie. They would just become a laughingstock if exposed."
They couldn't figure it out.
No matter how everyone thought about it, they couldn't understand why Kevin was alive.
They saw it with their own eyes.
It couldn't be fake.
"There is a Devil Fruit ability for resurrection," Whitebeard mused, stating with certainty.
Having seen so much, he had seen too many Devil Fruit diagrams. Even if he hadn't seen the actual Devil Fruit entities, he still understood quite a few Devil Fruits.
"But Pops, isn't it rumored in the sea that Kevin is the owner of a short-term invincible defense ability? How did it become a resurrection ability? Did he develop two different abilities? What kind of fruit is this?"
"Defense and resurrection, are they one Devil Fruit?"
His sons, full of curiosity, looked eagerly at Whitebeard.
With this unprecedented change, their minds couldn't process it.
"No, Kevin is not an ability user. Have you forgotten, he just rushed out of the sea."
Whitebeard was bewildered.
"I've lived for so long and never seen such a strange thing. What exactly is going on?"
His sons, seeing Whitebeard like this, were even more puzzled as they looked at Kevin on the screen.
"Then could it be that the Marines simply made a mistake and never killed Kevin?"
"Would the Marines be that foolish?"
Whitebeard shook his head.
For hundreds of years, the Marines had never done such a foolish thing.
It was possible for weak pirates that the Marines might be mistaken about whether they were dead or not, but for a figure of Kevin's caliber, they wouldn't dare to reveal anything unless they were one hundred percent certain.
No mistakes could be made.
Such conversations.
Appeared in many places.
Red-Haired Shanks looked pleadingly at his first mate, Benn Beckman, again.
Explain, explain.
What the hell is going on?
Feeling the gazes of Shanks and the others, Benn Beckman's face turned green: "You treat me like a god, but I don't know either. Didn't you see me? I was also utterly bewildered just now."
Everyone withdrew their gazes in disappointment.
"Kevin is too mysterious. I feel like he has many secrets. He's simply a living miracle. I can't figure it out, I just can't," Red-Haired Shanks said, shaking his head.
He was even more miraculous than Captain Roger.
"Boss, whether Mr. Kevin is miraculous or not is beside the point, but you're in trouble, Boss," Yasopp and the others suddenly looked at Red-Haired Shanks with sympathy.
Red-Haired Shanks: "????"
He looked at his crew with a head full of question marks.
Why am I in trouble?
"Boss, have you forgotten? What you said to the sea before," Lucky Roux reminded him, gloating.
Red-Haired Shanks's face suddenly changed dramatically.
He looked as if he was suffering from constipation.
"Quick, quick, quick... Quickly take back what I said."
Everyone looked at Red-Haired Shanks indifferently.
It had been almost a hundred days.
Take back what? Nothing.
It's possible that three months ago, Kevin, who was feigning death and hiding, was already thinking about how to deal with you, Boss.
"This..." Red-Haired Shanks was stunned.
Then he looked at his crew ingratiatingly: "When the time comes, you guys have to help me. You can't just watch me get beaten. For the sake of face, don't worry about pirate ethics. Let's all go together."
"Heh heh..."
"Shanks, even if we wanted to help you, I don't think we could," Benn Beckman said seriously.
Pointing at the screen, he added, "Though it was brief, the Sun and Moon Pirates have grown to an unimaginable extent."
Red-Haired Shanks' mind reeled from the scene he had just witnessed.
His mouth slowly opened.
He was utterly stunned.
The news of Kevin being alive instantly spread across the sea.
Everyone was shocked.
The entire Grand Line fell silent.
A deathly quiet.
The quietest was undoubtedly the New World, where Sakazuki and Borsalino were.
They were enjoying a lovely party, drinking wine.
Suddenly, everything changed.
Both of them froze, their bodies rigid as they stared at the screen.
"No, this is impossible!" Sakazuki suddenly stood up, knocking over the table in front of him, unable to accept it. "I did it with my own hands. I watched Kevin die right in front of me, melted by lava. Borsalino, you were there too, you saw it, didn't you? Didn't you...?"
Sakazuki looked at Borsalino for help.
Tell me quickly.
This is all fake.
Everything in the video is fake.
Borsalino wanted to comfort Sakazuki, but the truth was right before his eyes. Borsalino's old face wrinkled, a look of utter disbelief he couldn't hide. He said with a bitter smile:
"Yes, I can testify that Kevin died right before our eyes, but... Sakazuki, he's back now, alive and well. Is this a haunting?"
"Yes, a haunting, it's definitely a haunting."
Sakazuki clutched his head.
A haunting!
The person he killed with his own hands was alive again. The shock this brought to Sakazuki was the most direct, shaking decades of his understanding.
He had never encountered such a bizarre thing in his life.
"If Kevin is alive, then everything we did before..." Borsalino shivered.
He had a bad feeling.
His old face grew even more bitter.
"It's over," Borsalino said, slumping powerlessly into his chair.
He had lost all his vitality.
Kevin being alive proved that the four people involved in the encirclement could not escape responsibility. Failure would at most lead to a scolding, but now it was equivalent to falsely reporting military intelligence.
Borsalino no longer dared to return to Marine Headquarters.
He couldn't imagine how furious the Gorosei would be.
Borsalino's concern reminded Sakazuki. Sakazuki sat weakly on the deck: "Borsalino, is saying all this useful now? We should be worried about Mr. Sengoku's safety. No, we must go back immediately to provide support."
He suddenly stood up.
He roared, "Full speed ahead to Sabaody Archipelago! If we can kill him once, we can kill him a second time! I refuse to believe he can stay immortal forever. If he's truly immortal, then we might as well just hand this world over to Kevin."
"Is there enough time? We're in the New World. Even at top speed, it'll take two days to get back."
Borsalino still lay powerlessly in his chair.
Forget it.
Let it be, it doesn't matter anymore.
Faced with such an opponent, he accepted his fate.
Borsalino didn't want to go.
He also advised Sakazuki not to waste his efforts, kindly persuading him: "Sakazuki, I think you should stay far away from Kevin from now on. When you hear his voice, retreat a thousand li."
Sakazuki's eyes narrowed.
He looked at Borsalino with dissatisfaction. Are you scared already?
Just because of a strange resurrection, you're scared and you truly see him as a god?
I, Sakazuki, will not...
"Sakazuki, think about it carefully. Have you ever had a good outcome when encountering Kevin? The first time, you were full of confidence, but you encountered a mysterious invincible defense and watched Kevin leave, even taking the Mythical Zoan-Phoenix Form with him."
"The second time, our four Admirals teamed up. Forget Kevin, we could have even killed Roger if he was reborn. But... Kevin is now standing perfectly fine on what we thought was his grave."
"Next time, who knows what even stranger things will appear."
Sakazuki opened his mouth, wanting to refute Borsalino's demoralizing words.
He opened and closed his mouth.
He found himself unable to refute.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Kevin in the image. A strange, unfamiliar sense of fear suddenly arose, sending a chill down his spine. Seven.
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