Who made him the Pirate King?

The Rocks Pirates dominated the sea about 30 or 40 years ago.

At that time, the young Kizaru had not yet joined the navy, but he had heard a lot of rumors about the Rocks Pirates.

Because of the "God Valley Incident", the navy and the pirates rarely joined forces to fight the enemy, and the Rocks Pirates fell apart and became history.

Later, the World Government ordered to completely erase the relevant news of this once dominant pirate group.

To this day, many "newcomers" don't even know the existence of the Rocks Pirates.

But Kizaru still remembers the existence of the Rocks Pirates.

Especially as time goes by, one after another big pirates rise in the New World.

The gold content of the Rocks Pirates is still rising!

Whitebeard Pirates, BIG MOM Pirates, Beasts Pirates, Wang Zhi Pirates...

Three of the four pirate emperors in the New World came from the Rocks Pirates back then!

The remaining Wang Zhi Pirates now occupy Beehive Island, which was the headquarters of the Rocks Pirates back then.

In addition, these are only the big pirates who have survived to this day and are still powerful.

There are many other big pirates in history, which were also "split" from the Rocks Pirates.

Golden Lion Shiki, Captain John, Silver Axe, Nine Snake Empress...

One name after another flashed through Kizaru's mind.

Even as the admiral of the Navy Headquarters, he was unwilling to see the reappearance of such a super pirate group.

Kizaru turned into a flash and flashed to another navy warship on the side. His eyes under the sunglasses have become completely serious.

"You and Whitebeard II are pirates on the same ship."

Kizaru looked at Golden Lion II who was floating freely in the air.

"So you are-Golden Lion II?"

"I prefer others to call me 'Ryan'."

Golden Lion II waved his double swords, like waving two huge batons.

The navy warship that had just been completely torn apart by "Lion Chikiri Valley" moved quickly under his command. Pieces of warship fragments were completely broken and directly reassembled, and finally formed one huge spike after another.

"Lion powder body!"

In the whistling wind, one after another of the extremely thick spikes shot towards the position where Kizaru was, and the power of each one was enough to easily tear the human body, or even penetrate steel.

"Ryan..."

Facing such an attack, Kizaru didn't even think of dodging.

How could a "flash man" like him be afraid of this purely physical attack without any domineering power?

One after another, huge wooden spikes flew through the air, and the tip of each wooden spike showed a strange lime color.

Kizaru ignored them and was about to say something to Golden Lion II Ryan on the other side.

However——

Bang!

A huge wooden spike hit Kizaru's lower back firmly, making a dull collision sound.

"This..."

Kizaru staggered, and almost couldn't catch his breath.

But what made him feel even worse was that he couldn't activate his ability now!

A feeling of extreme weakness surged into Kizaru's heart, and his [Shining Fruit] ability was temporarily "sealed" at this moment, and he could no longer feel its existence.

"Seastone!"

Kizaru looked at the huge wooden spikes that had arrived in front of him, and shouted out this existence that was a natural enemy for any ability user with difficulty.

That's right!

The strange stone-gray color of the tips of these huge wooden spikes was actually the color of seastone!

The "raw materials" that Golden Lion II used to make these huge wooden spikes were the several naval warships anchored in the waters near the Impel Down City.

These naval warships could cross the doldrums and arrive at the Impel Down City smoothly, which meant that their bottoms were all inlaid with seastone!

Of course, Golden Lion II knew that Kizaru was a [Shining Fruit] ability user and could ignore ordinary physical attacks.

But he was fighting this kind of enemy!

Most natural ability users have a super-confident mentality of "I am immune to physical attacks, so I don't need to pay attention to physical attacks."

Under this self-confidence, natural ability users are easily affected by some inconspicuous tricks.

Just like seastone!

In the attack just now, Golden Lion II quietly transferred the seastone embedded in the bottom of the navy warship to the tip of the wooden thorns.

He originally thought that Kizaru would take the initiative to dodge this attack, but he didn't expect that the other party really stepped into the trap!

Kizaru can't "predict the future"?

A thought flashed through Golden Lion II's mind.

But this thought was quickly thrown behind him.

Kizaru was hit by seastone and was unable to use the ability of [Flash Fruit] for a while, and the whole person fell into a depressed state.

At this time, of course, he had to take advantage of his illness and kill him, and beat the drowning dog-the drowning monkey!

After the attack of the first wooden thorn was effective, the remaining wooden thorns immediately accelerated and flew over.

The arrangement between the wooden thorns was too compact.

After Yellow Monkey was attacked by the first wooden thorn, he was a little dazed.

During the short period of time when he was dazed, the remaining wooden thorns stabbed at him one by one.

Bang, bang, bang——

With a series of extremely dull sounds.

Kizaru was stabbed by one "sea stone wood thorn" after another.

The continuous impact made Kizaru's mouth ooze a trace of blood involuntarily.

How many years has it been since he last felt this kind of pain after obtaining the [Shining Fruit]?

Kizaru couldn't think of an answer for a while.

But he knew very well that there was no way to use the [Shining Fruit] when the body was firmly supported by the sea stone!

'Teacher Zephyr...'

For some reason, Kizaru's mind suddenly flashed Zephyr's figure, but it was only a flash.

One by one, huge wooden thorns supported Kizaru's body from all directions.

From a distance, it looked like a huge wooden sea urchin floating in the sky.

The next moment.

Golden Lion II controlled this "wooden sea urchin" and at the same time controlled the vast sea water below.

The sea urchin fell down.

The sea water rushed up to the sky.

The distance between the two kept getting closer.

As long as the seawater touches Kizaru, he will be like Magellan before, and will lose his fighting power completely in less than a moment!

However, Kizaru is the admiral of the Navy Headquarters.

Even if he temporarily loses the power of the [Pink-Pink Fruit], his physical skills are still not weak!

His physical fitness is "weak" and his physical skills are "weak", only for the strong people of the same level.

Being blocked by seastone thorns, and about to be thrown into the sea.

At this critical moment of life and death, Kizaru burst out all his strength.

His body, which was blocked by seastone thorns, suddenly underwent a strange change, as if the whole person swelled several points.

Kizaru controlled his body and swelled like an inflated balloon.

This is the skill from [Life Return]!

The next moment.

Kizaru's body shrank back to its original shape.

This expansion and contraction.

Kizaru forcibly pushed the surrounding wooden thorns inlaid with seastone away from a certain distance, avoiding direct contact with the seastone.

At this time, the sea water from below had already submerged most of his leather shoes!

[Shiny Fruit]!

At this critical moment, Kizaru activated his devil fruit ability in time, turning into wandering photons, and shuttled out from the gaps between the sea tower stone and wooden thorns.

Boom!

The sea water from below hit the "wooden sea urchin" that had lost its "bile yellow", and the strong impact instantly dispersed the wooden thorns.

But at this time, Kizaru had already appeared on the mast of another floating battleship.

In the past, when fighting with the enemy, relying on the extreme speed of the [Shiny Fruit] that was the best in the sea, Kizaru could escape even if he couldn't win.

After a big battle, Kizaru's clothes were slightly dirty.

This is a common thing.

But some time ago, Kizaru fought with Whitebeard II.

The speed of [Thunder Fruit] is not inferior to [Shiny Fruit].

Kizaru was caught by Whitebeard II and hit several times, and his ribs were seriously injured.

Now he was fighting with Golden Lion II.

Kizaru suffered from the [Shining Fruit] again. Under his self-confidence, he was forced to hold his body against the sea stone thorns and was almost sent into the sea.

Even though he struggled to escape, he became in a mess, and his decent suit was torn to pieces.

Kizaru took a breath of cold air.

His ribs, which had not been completely healed, were aching again.

"Two monsters!"

Kizaru became completely serious. He put his hands together and pulled them out. A golden "Sky Cloud Cloud Sword" appeared in his palm.

His figure disappeared instantly, and like a photon jumping, he flashed and appeared in front of Golden Lion II.

The "Sky Cloud Cloud Sword" was raised high above his head and chopped down, as if to cut Golden Lion II in two!

But Golden Lion II's [Observation Haki] had already noticed Kizaru's movements. He raised [Sakura Ten] and [Boku] in his hands and blocked them in front of him.

Clang——

"The Sky Murasaki Sword" and [Sakura Ten] and [Boku] collided fiercely, and the clear collision sound resounded through the sky.

"Golden Lion II!"

Kizaru stared at Golden Lion II who was close at hand and was about to ask a question.

"What's your next sentence——"

Just then, Golden Lion II spoke leisurely.

"Who is your and Whitebeard II's captain?"

"You and Whitebeard II's captain——Nani!?"

Kizaru said the second half of his sentence, but was stunned for a moment.

His thoughts were guessed by the enemy!

"Even the 'future' can't be seen, is this the admiral of the Navy Headquarters?"

Golden Lion II's eyes radiated a burning red light, and the eight-star [Observation Haki] constantly sensed and read Kizaru's inner thoughts.

"You rely too much on the devil fruit, Kizaru!"