"That brat…"
Whitebeard, Edward Newgate, saw Jovian cutting off their retreat out of the corner of his eye, and his brows furrowed slightly. If this had been his younger self, he would have already charged over to aid his son. But…
Edward Newgate shifted his gaze and looked at Ace, who was about to be executed. With his current aged body, how much longer could he truly use Haki without restraint?
If he wasted all his strength on some nameless "small fry," how would he snatch Ace back from the true final boss, Sengoku?
Edward Newgate could not help sinking into deep thought.
"Are you hesitating, Newgate…?"
Sengoku's gaze had been fixed on Whitebeard, Edward Newgate, from beginning to end. On this entire battlefield, aside from his old rival Whitebeard, there was no one else worthy of too much of his attention.
And precisely because Sengoku had been watching Whitebeard the entire time, he was able to understand that Whitebeard had been distracted by Jovian's move.
"That boy…"
"I originally thought he was just a brat trying to make a name for himself through the Summit War…"
"I didn't expect him to be this useful. Once the war is over, we can ask that brat whether he intends to join the Marines…"
Sengoku looked at Jovian in the distance and pondered. Yes, he had also noticed Jovian.
To be precise, aside from a few foolish small fry who only knew how to charge, every expert with powerful Observation Haki capable of covering several kilometers had noticed Jovian.
"Fuffuffuffu…"
"As expected, he's a monster…"
Doflamingo chuckled. Although his Observation Haki was far from the level of top-tier experts like Rayleigh, who could scan an island in an instant, it still covered several kilometers. Even with only a rough sense of the battlefield, he could still notice the strong fighters present, so naturally, he had also noticed Jovian's feat with ease. After all, at the moment, Jovian was the man who had scored the first kill in the Summit War.
"Am I being too flashy?"
"Looks like I'd better keep a lower profile…"
"I don't want to steal Akainu's thunder…"
While searching for his next victim, Jovian decided to restrain himself a little. A person should not be too showy.
"Turn the video Transponder Snail toward him…"
However, although Jovian himself did not want to be too flashy, some people insisted on preventing him from getting his wish. Sengoku gave an order to the soldier beside him.
In an instant, the video Transponder Snail captured Jovian's figure, and beneath his feet was the recently deceased "Bohemian Knight" Doma.
"Bohemian Knight Doma is dead!"
"The pirates are completely vulnerable!"
Using Jovian's image, Sengoku loudly announced it to the entire world.
"Oh!"
Countless citizens watching the broadcast cried out in shock at the scene before them, their emotions incomparably stirred. Just as the righteous Fleet Admiral Sengoku had said, the pirates were completely vulnerable.
At that moment, Jovian, who still had no idea Sengoku had sold him out, was wildly reaping his harvest.
"Delacuaji?"
Jovian quickly locked onto his second target.
"Hm?"
Delacuaji, who looked like a big-headed doll and held a longsword in his hand, subconsciously turned his head after hearing Jovian's shout.
"Boom!"
A huge fist instantly appeared in Delacuaji's pupils.
"What?!"
Delacuaji shouted in agitation and subconsciously raised the sword in his hand to block in front of his face.
"Snap!"
With a crisp sound, the longsword in Delacuaji's hand shattered instantly. Then the fist, tearing through the air and carrying scorching heat, immediately landed on Delacuaji's cheek.
"Pfft!"
With a dull sound, a large hole instantly appeared in Delacuaji's head.
"Second one…"
Jovian gently shook the ketchup from his fingers and announced the second pirate captain under Whitebeard he had slain.
"Write that down!"
Jovian melted the ice on the ground into seawater, washed the sticky red ketchup from his hand, and shouted loudly at the Marine beside him.
"O-okay!"
When the Marine soldier heard that, he immediately nodded and recorded Jovian's feat. Yes, this soldier had already thrown away the katana and gun in his hands, leaving only a pen and notebook as he constantly wrote things down. To him, his job was simply to record how much salary Jovian needed to be paid in the end.
"That monster…"
As the second captain under Whitebeard was taken down, Jovian's figure finally drew the pirates' attention.
"I'll go kill him…"
Among the captains under Whitebeard, a man with a long tongue, damp, messy hair, and an appearance that made him look as if he were having a seizure, carried a huge blade on his back and walked toward Jovian.
"It's Maelstrom Spider Squard!"
"Great, Squard is making a move!"
"It really puts you at ease to have someone this vicious as an ally! Hahahaha…"
Countless pirates burst into laughter when they saw Squard preparing to act.
"This is bad! Maelstrom Spider is making a move. That man's methods are extremely cruel. He is a great pirate who already made his name during the era of the Pirate King, Roger!"
The Marine following beside Jovian, who was responsible for recording Jovian's atrocities, cough, who was responsible for recording Jovian's punishment of evil, shouted nervously after seeing Squard preparing to strike.
"Hah?"
When Jovian heard that, he looked over in displeasure, then saw Maelstrom Spider.
"I was wondering who looked so much like a monster. Isn't this Whitebeard's most filial son? Have you used that filial blade on your White Daddy yet?"
Jovian tilted his body slightly and looked at Squard as he asked.
"Bastard! What the hell are you talking about?"
Squard frowned. He sensed a deep malice from Jovian.
"Are you angry? How scary. If you're not going to use that sword, give it to me."
Jovian ignored Squard's question. He walked straight up to Squard, then snatched the filial blade from his hand.
"What?!"
Squard had never allowed anyone to take the treasured blade in his hand, but unfortunately, Jovian's strength was simply too great.
"Go screw yourself…"
Before Squard could react, Jovian directly drove Squard's filial blade into Squard's chest, just as Squard had stabbed Whitebeard in the original story.
"Pfft…"
Large mouthfuls of blood poured from Squard's mouth. He had been filialed by his own filial blade. It was truly hilarious enough to make someone filial themselves laughing.
"Have you been filial enough, old bastard?"
Jovian stepped on Squard's head. With his immense strength, he caused the filial blade in Squard's chest to drill deeper and deeper into him. At the same time, Jovian asked with incomparably arrogant confidence.
"Pfft…"
Great mouthfuls of blood poured from Squard's mouth, and his body trembled nonstop.
"All right. Although I don't know whether you've been filial enough, I've laughed enough. You can get lost now. Remember to look in the mirror before going out in the future. If you're this ugly, don't come out and embarrass yourself. Looking at you makes people have nightmares when they sleep, you ugly bastard…"
As Jovian spoke, he kicked Squard in the side, sending him flying like a piece of trash.
"Next…"
Jovian curled his lips, hands in his pockets, and spoke arrogantly.
Jovian kept saying how scary everything was, while kicking down one Whitebeard-allied pirate captain after another.
"Did you write that down?"
Jovian turned his head and asked the Marine behind him.
"Yes! I wrote it down!"
Countless beads of sweat instantly seeped from the Marine's forehead. He finally understood now. The man standing before him at this moment was a monster who was in no way inferior to the Marine admirals, the World Government's greatest military power.
"Bounty, two hundred ten million berries. 'Maelstrom Spider' Squard has been defeated!"
The Marine recorded Jovian's proud battle achievement.
"What?!"
"A pirate who's been roaming the sea since the era of the Pirate King, Roger, and his head is only worth two hundred million? He's not even fucking worth as much as Kid?!"
Jovian's eyes widened. He looked at the half-dead Squard and felt somewhat speechless. He truly had no idea how the other party had lived. He was not saying Squard's worth had to be comparable to the top officers of an Emperor's crew, but at the very least, it should have been on the level of Luffy or Kid, right?
Only two hundred million in bounty. Ace had sailed for three years and reached a bounty of five hundred fifty million. That meant Ace had surpassed two lifetimes of Maelstrom Spider's life in just three years. To say nothing of the future Fifth Emperor, King Luffy, and Law and Kid, who rode Luffy's momentum and made the Five Elders, the World Government's highest authorities, raise their bounties all the way to three billion together.
"Ptooey."
Thinking this, Jovian spat on the face of Maelstrom Spider, the great pirate who had once had all his comrades killed by Pirate King Roger and who had committed every evil imaginable, though he still had a little warmth left in him.
"His bounty is this low? Killing him feels fucking unlucky…"
Jovian looked displeased. He had been planning to use the Summit War to become a ten-billionaire in one go.
"We've already lost three captains…"
"Where the hell are the officers?! Where are the commanders under Pops?!"
Some pirates looked at Jovian in despair. They knew that if the division commanders under Whitebeard did not take action now, there was absolutely no way they could defeat a monster like Jovian by themselves.
"Looks like I have to make a move!"
Marco, who only fought high-end matches, looked at Jovian. His body instantly ignited with azure-blue flames as he flew toward Jovian.
"Hm?"
Jovian's sharp senses instantly noticed Marco flying toward him.
"Bounty, one billion three hundred seventy-four million berries, Marco the Phoenix!"
Jovian looked at Marco flying toward him and was eager to try.
"Bzzzt…"
His eyes directly fired orange-red heat vision toward Marco.
"Boom!"
With a muffled sound, Marco's body was directly pierced by Jovian's heat vision.
"Did it work?"
Jovian frowned. To be honest, he felt it was not that simple.
"Boom!"
Sure enough, just as Jovian thought, Marco's body instantly recovered and returned to normal.
"I missed? No, I definitely pierced Marco. Is this regeneration? No, to be precise, it's regeneration comparable to resurrection. Marco the Phoenix is the hardest person to kill on this entire battlefield."
Jovian looked at the "resurrected" Marco and curled his lips. The main issue was that this body's strength was not powerful enough. In order not to shoot through all those dear good girls, this incarnation's power was just right. In other words, he could basically run wild in this world, but he had not exceeded the level of this world's rules. After all, this was merely a vacation world the main body did not care about, so the main body had not really paid much attention to it either.
"Sigh. I'm really hurt…"
Jovian felt somewhat helpless. When the main body did not care, the one who got hurt was him.
"Pirate hunter, I can't let you keep killing!"
Marco broke through the sound barrier and approached Jovian at high speed.
"Bzzzt! Boom!"
Just as Marco was flying, a golden beam of light pierced through his body.
"Pfft…"
Marco instantly fell to the ground. He raised his head and looked to the side.
"Where are you going, Marco?"
Kizaru, Borsalino, the man who could still keep his yellow suit completely free of dust even amid ten thousand soldiers, looked at Marco with a smiling expression.
"Kizaru…"
Marco gritted his teeth as he looked at the newcomer.
"Damn it…"
Diamond Jozu looked at Marco, who had been stopped. He knew that at this point, they could only rely on him. He transformed into a giant diamond ball and charged in Jovian's direction.
"Ara ara…"
"Where are you going?"
"The execution platform is in the opposite direction."
As Diamond Jozu continued advancing, a lazy voice entered his ears.
"Crap!"
Before Diamond Jozu could think any further, half of his body had already been frozen into ice.
"Damn it…"
Jozu's expression showed a hint of panic. Standing beside him was none other than Marine Admiral Aokiji, Kuzan.
"It's the admirals! Thanks!"
Elsewhere, Jovian used the opening created by the admirals drawing attention to kill two more captains under Whitebeard.
"Thud."
Jovian loosened his hand and casually threw aside the octopus-headed man whose neck he had directly grabbed and choked until he fainted, along with the green fat man holding a shovel.
"Captain Karma! Captain Epoida!"
The pirates cried out in shock as they looked at the captains Jovian had choked unconscious.
"Bzzzt…"
However, it was not over yet. Jovian directly fired orange-red heat vision at the unconscious captains.
Along with the delicious aroma of scorched pork belly, Whitebeard once again lost two dear sons.
Yes, Jovian knew to finish off his enemies. The reason he had not killed those two captains by hand was because he was afraid of getting too much ketchup on his hands. Honestly, he was now a little allergic to ketchup, because it was truly disgusting.
"Mm…"
After finishing off these two captains, Jovian looked at the little Marine follower behind him.
"Captain Karma and Captain Epoida have been taken down!"
The little Marine follower found Karma and Epoida's names in the small booklet printed with the forty-three captains, gently crossed them out, and recorded the total bounty Jovian had accumulated.
"Who's next?"
"Let me say this first, I plan to earn ten billion here!"
Jovian lazily looked around. He did not care at all about the great treasure that connected the world together, the One Piece. He only cared about whether the money he earned here was enough to let him fool around for a long time.
"Fooling around costs money. Building the Amazon Lily Kingdom costs money. Going to Fish-Man Island costs money. Honestly, everything in this world needs money!"
Jovian crossed his arms in front of his chest and spoke with great helplessness. He only wanted to make money. Was that wrong?
"That's true."
Borsalino nodded and gave Jovian a thumbs-up.
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