General Lanlin of One Piece

Chapter 825 Swallowing Nika
"Brother Rorschach, why do you have to be so entangled in whether or not to get rid of Straw Hat Luffy? Is it because he may become the savior you mentioned in the future?"

Under the cover of night, at the port of G5 Shipyard, Yun Que sat on the side of an unfinished warship, swinging her smooth feet, and looking puzzledly at the young boy beside her who was staring at the sea in a daze.

"Yeah, I've been thinking about whether or not to kill him. Although I don't have much friendship with Straw Hat Luffy, and we've only met a few times, and even now we have a life-and-death feud, after all, I killed his brother, Fire Fist Ace, with my own hands, but I still can't make up my mind, whether to kill him or not."

"Although he is a pirate, he has not done anything bad since he went to sea, except for breaking into the Judicial Island and injuring some navy officers. On the contrary, he has saved many villages, islands, and kingdoms, making many people grateful to the Straw Hat Pirates."

"And he is also Mr. Garp's grandson, his biological grandson. Mr. Garp is very good to me. It can be said that most of my current taijutsu, boxing, and Haki are thanks to his teaching. Although his teaching method is indeed problematic, I have to say that it suits me very well."

"With this favor, if I killed his grandson, or two of them, I really don't know how to face him. After killing Fire Fist Ace, our relationship has never been as harmonious as before."

Rorschach spoke to himself, and finally a wry smile appeared on his face. There was fatigue in his voice, and he seemed a little tired.

"Since he is a good pirate, then... can we not kill him?" Yun Que asked in a low voice.

Rorschach was silent for a long time, exhaled a breath, and slowly shook his head.

Yun Que was puzzled, "Why? Why must he be killed? Brother Rorschach, didn't you say that he is not a bad guy? On the contrary, he is a good pirate, and in the future, he may become the savior of the world, that is, the sun god Nika."

"Since he is destined to fight against the World Government and be the enemy of the Celestial Dragons, why can't he be our ally? Brother Rorschach, isn't your dream also to change the world?"

"Because he is a pirate." Rorschach said bitterly.

"Pirate?"

"Pirates cannot be saviors."

"why?"

Under the moonlight, on the side of the ship, Yun Que's eyes met Rorschach's and he pursed his lips.

After a while, Rorschach looked away and lowered his head to ask, "So, Yun Que, do you think a pirate can be the savior?"

"Why not?" Yun Que rarely agreed with Rorschach's opinion. She turned her head to look at the dark sea outside the ship's side and said in a low voice: "This world is full of oppression and slavery. The Celestial Dragons, the nobles, the corrupt navy, the slave traders, the warmongers, the pirates, it has long been riddled with holes. If one day there is really someone who can stand up and save the world, what does it matter whether he is a pirate or not?"

"As long as he can save this chaotic world where only the lower class people suffer and are oppressed, overthrow the rule of the world government, abolish the heavenly gold, liberate the slaves, and make all races equal, then he is the savior and a great hero."

Rorschach said in a deep voice: "If a pirate is allowed to become a hero who saves the world, then even if he really succeeds and brings peace and equality to the world, it will only be an extremely short-lived carnival. After the carnival, what will come is an even more desperate and dark future."

"Before Roger, there were already pirates in this world. His words ushered in a great pirate era where everyone went out to sea."

"Of those who go out to sea as pirates, how many of them go out to sea to be adventurers and not to cause destruction? It can be said that only one in ten thousand goes out to sea to be an adventurer and not to cause destruction!"

"How many of them are people who have been oppressed by the nobles and the heavenly gold and can't survive? These people may have lived in poverty before becoming pirates, but after robbing others and getting something for nothing, how many of them can keep their original intentions and not become more and more aggressive?"

"There are four Yonkoku and seven Shichibukai. Among these world-famous pirates, how many are good?"

"Even Whitebeard, who is known as the most benevolent, has slave traders under his command."

"Why do our navy fight so hard to eliminate pirates? Isn't it to tell people that being a pirate is wrong, and that it is not okay to build your own happiness on the suffering of others!"

"It took us decades of hard work and countless marines' sacrifices to get to where we are today. If one day a pirate suddenly jumps out as the savior, then all the correct values ​​and morals that we have worked so hard to establish for people will be overturned!"

"People will regard the pirates who saved the world as idols, pirates as heroes, and pirates as their dream career."

"Those children who haven't grown up yet, who haven't established correct values, don't know what a real pirate looks like. They only see the glamorous, praised and sung example, and dream of going out to sea and becoming a pirate when they grow up."

"But when they go out to sea, they will find that the world of pirates is far more cruel than they imagined. If you don't rob, you can't survive. If you don't kill, you will be killed by others. If you don't go along with the corrupt, you will be ostracized by your companions and used as cannon fodder by the captain."

"In the end, those children will lose their innocence and become real pirates. They will turn their guns around and slaughter their former selves!"

"I won't allow that to happen. One Great Pirate Era is enough, and one Pirate King is enough! There must not be another Pirate King, and we must not let the next Pirate King create a new, even more massive and chaotic pirate era!"

Rorschach spoke with some excitement, and at the end he could not help but clench his fists, causing his knuckles to crack.

Yun Que looked at him with a worried look on his face. He stretched out his hands, held his fists, and gently snuggled in Rorschach's arms.

She said softly, "But Brother Rorschach, without the help of other forces, it would be difficult for our navy to turn against the World Government that has ruled this world for eight hundred years. If you kill Straw Hat Luffy, you will lose Vice Admiral Garp, the Red Hair Pirates, the Revolutionary Army, and the help of many people who are eager for the Sun God to save them."

"It doesn't matter, I will become stronger. I will surpass Kaido, Red Hair, Dragon, Im, and everyone else to become the strongest! Even if I am alone, I will fulfill my original oath, bury the Great Pirate Era, overthrow the rule of the World Government, and change this world!" Rorschach said with finality, his eyes becoming sharper than ever before.

"Why is Brother Luo Xia so persistent? It's too difficult to achieve your dream. You can definitely..."

Yun Que's lips were blocked by Rorschach's hand. Her pupils slightly opened and she looked up at Rorschach's face.

"Because I don't want those people at the bottom to live in poverty all their lives, to be exploited by the gold from heaven, to be taxed by the nobles, to be robbed and killed by pirates over and over again. I don't want you to live in this muddy world, and I don't want our children to live in such a world without hope and future."

"Our child? Brother Rorschach is talking about... Qilin?" In the darkness, Yun Que's face blushed slightly.

Luo Xia shook his head, "No, not just Qilin, we will have other children in the future."

"Don't...other children?" Yun Que's body was limp and his voice was weak.

Rorschach smiled, gently stroked her hair, and whispered: "After we defeat Kaido this time, let's have a child. We don't want that old man Vegapunk to make trouble. If we want a child, we can have it ourselves."

"Hmm..." Yun Que's body had already slumped in Luo Xia's arms, too embarrassed to look up.

Song world.

Looking at Rorschach's ferocious hand slowly pulling out from Luffy's chest, Shanks and Ichimura's minds went blank.

At this moment, Luffy finally stopped his weird Nika laugh. He stared blankly at his broken chest and his disappearing heart. The corners of his grinning mouth slowly calmed down. There was no expression of pain on his face. Instead, he looked very calm.

He looked at Rorschach, the archenemy who killed Ace, and his heart was particularly calm.

"Is this what death feels like? It doesn't seem to be that painful."

Luffy raised his hand and pressed it on his empty chest. He seemed to be able to still feel the sound of his heart beating just a moment ago.

His gaze moved away from Rorschach's face, and he turned his head mechanically and stiffly to look at the vast land below. He saw Shanks collapsing in pain, saw Uta crying, and saw a smile of self-blame.

No, he saw more people. He saw Garp, who looked old and struggling with guilt in his eyes, Ace, who was smiling, Rayleigh, who was showing approval, and Jesus Bu, Lakilu and others who were telling him stories in the bar in Windmill Village.

I saw Sanji, Nami, Robin, Usopp, Chopper, Sabo...

"It turns out that everyone has been here all along. Thank you for accompanying me, a willful person, for so long."

Luffy muttered softly, the corners of his mouth slowly curved downwards, his hair turned from white to black, the flame ribbon behind his head disappeared, his eyes returned to their original appearance, and two lines of hot tears flowed from the corners of his eyes and dripped into the void.

"Rorschach, thank you too, thank you... for letting me regain my sadness and my tears."

Rorschach remained silent, his face hidden in the darkness, making it impossible to see his expression.

He said calmly: "I will devour the Nika Will in you and make it completely disappear from this world, so that there won't be another Pirate King who will create an era of pirates in the future. The Great Pirate Era ends here, completely."

Luffy could no longer hear his words.

His eyes slowly closed, and his body fell backwards, falling from the air.

A huge hand stretched out, caught his broken body, and held it in its palm.

"Rorschach, are you...Joey Boy?"

"I'm not, Straw Hat Boy is."

"No...you already are."

For some reason, Rorschach suddenly recalled the conversation Kaido had with him before his death.

His huge arms trembled slightly, and his resolute face emerged from the shadows. Two shocking lines of blood slid down his cheeks, and it was unclear whether it was blood or tears.

"I'm not Joy-Boy! I'm Rorschach!"

"Navy Rorschach!"

"Blue Scale General Rorschach!"

Rorschach roared to the sky, brilliant lightning poured into Luffy's broken body, and a huge suction force against consciousness erupted, covering Luffy's body. The next moment, a shadow dancing with flames flying, beating drums, and laughing like Nika appeared in the broken lightning.

The phantom danced happily, laughed heartily, and beat the drum in its chest to resist the devouring from Rorschach.

Under the sound of Nika's laughter and the drum of liberation, Rorschach's devouring power that was enough to easily swallow Totumjika did not work, and he was in a stalemate with Nika, the rubber elf sun god, who had not yet dissipated in Luffy's body.

He just stood a thousand meters in the air, with endless electric light pouring out of his body, wrapping and entangled himself and Luffy in his hands. With the two of them as the center, the space of thousands of meters and tens of thousands of meters was distorted. The huge suction force was even more terrifying than the suction of Barrett's Dark-Dark Fruit.

Under the illumination of this dazzling lightning like the sun, the sad and painful song of a young girl suddenly rang out above the dark earth.

"Where on earth does this breeze come from?
Even though I asked this, the sky did not respond.

Where will this song go in the end?
I want to find an answer that belongs only to me.

Let's take a step forward towards the other side of the unknown sea.

That is my only dream, and I will never give up.

Raise the sails in your heart and move forward according to your wishes.

I just hope that I can convey this song to you at any time.

Set sail on the sea and become a gust of fresh wind.

Each of them moves towards their own happiness.

Even though he was covered in wounds, he still stretched out his arms.

If sadness can turn into strength,
I believe even the strongest winds and rainstorms can be overcome.

I firmly believe that at the end of that journey, you and I will meet again.

It is impossible to wake up from the dream you are in when you are awake.

On the other side of the horizon, I waved goodbye to the shadow.

I just hope that I can convey this song to you at any time.

Blowing the open sails turns into a breeze.

That is my only dream, and I will never give up.

Even though I will fade away, the songs will continue to ring.

I just hope that I can convey this song to you at any time.

Set sail on the sea and become a breeze..."

Amid the high-pitched and sad melody, the figure of Shanks, who was struggling to rush up to the sky to find Looper, suddenly dimmed, faded away little by little, and disappeared from this world of songs.

Shanks' heart trembled, and he turned around suddenly to look at where Uta was.

"Uta!"

"I'm sorry, Shanks, I'm sorry. It's all my fault for being too willful. I caused all this. I killed everyone. Luffy died, Beckman died, and everyone died." Uta knelt on the ground, clasped his hands to his chest, and sang with tears streaming down his face.

"I will send you away, and then close this place, and this world forever. I will be buried with the devil and the demon king, and forgotten by the whole world. This will be my final atonement."

"Goodbye, Shanks. Goodbye, my...father."

(End of this chapter)