The clouds dispersed, and the sky became clear and bright.
Rocks tore the sky apart with his Conqueror's Haki alone. Sunlight projected down like sharp swords as a terrifying pressure crushed down toward the entire Marine fleet!
"Rocks! Don't underestimate us Marines!!"
Two roars erupted from the two main ships in the center of the fleet.
Immediately after, two powerful bursts of Conqueror's Haki soared into the sky, intertwining like an indestructible dam to forcefully block the sweeping impact of Rocks' Haki!
The collision of three top-tier Conqueror's Haki caused lightning and thunder to fill the sky, throwing the weather into chaos.
Two figures shot out from the battleship decks like cannonballs, stepping on Moonwalk as they headed straight for Rocks at the bow of the gibeck!
They were the current pillars of Marineford—Navy Vice Admiral Monkey D. Garp and Admiral Candidate Sengoku!
Ignoring Charlotte Linlin nearby, they flew straight toward Rocks.
Their objective for this operation was to deal with Rocks, not the Rocks Pirates.
"Ah? Am I... being ignored?"
Charlotte Linlin watched as Garp and Sengoku streaked past her like meteors. They didn't even glance at her out of the corner of their eyes as they lunged straight for Rocks, giving her a feeling that was somewhere between laughter and tears.
She was such a large target, even using her flashy dragon wing effects, yet she was actually ignored just like that?
In the brief moment she was dazed, a figure appeared silently behind her to the side. A palm, wrapped in a strange purifying light that seemed capable of cleansing everything, struck gently yet swiftly toward the center of her back.
"Not quite, Charlotte Linlin," a calm and intellectual female voice sounded. "It's just that your opponent is me."
Charlotte Linlin's Dragon Wings flapped violently, and her body instantly shifted several meters, narrowly avoiding that seemingly peaceful but actually dangerous palm strike.
She looked back to see a mature woman with a Horsetail hairstyle, wearing a Navy Vice Admiral's justice coat, floating in mid-air and looking at her calmly—it was the Marineford Vice Admiral, the 'Great Staff Officer' Tsuru!
"They actually sent you to face me?" Charlotte Linlin raised an eyebrow, her tone playful.
"I thought it would be that old rival Zephyr. Aren't they afraid you'll die by my hand?"
As she spoke, she swung the nodachi in her hand casually, and a massive pink sword beam whistled toward Tsuru.
Vice Admiral Tsuru used Moonwalk, her body moving like willow catkins in the wind. With a few nimble turns in the air, she avoided the sword beam—which was enough to cut a battleship in half—by a hair's breadth.
A faint, almost imperceptible smile of amusement even appeared on her face. "You won't. Isn't that right?"
Her tone lacked any tension of a life-and-death struggle; instead, it sounded like she was chatting with an old friend.
Since their encounter six years ago, Tsuru had paid no small amount of attention to this woman now hailed as the 'World's Strongest Woman'.
She had studied Charlotte Linlin's style of conduct in depth: although she held the title of a pirate, her behavioral patterns were incompatible with the other vicious thugs of the Rocks Pirates. In some aspects, she was even more 'orderly' than the Marines.
Recently, she had even established a nation called 'Inazuma'. The promotion of Order there had greatly surprised even Tsuru. It didn't look like something a pirate could come up with at all; rather, it looked like a system summarized after seeing the different systems of many kingdoms and the suffering of many commoners.
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