After that, the ranking video continued to play.
Under the relieved gazes of the entire Straw Hat Pirates, the images on the transparent light screen flickered again, and the ongoing reveal continued—
"What the hell...?"
"The ones who were exposed earlier as the idiots who took the lead in beating up a Celestial Dragon were clearly Straw Hat and his bunch!"
"So why is it that the rest of us Supernovas, one after another... ended up becoming the victims instead?"
At the top of the screen, a new complaining comment drifted by.
Only this time, it did not come from the Bleach world, but rather... from one of the people directly involved!
One of the ones who had been brutally beaten by Kizaru because of showing off and deliberately provoking him, Apoo himself, personally tore open his own wound and asked the question!
That's right.
In the real world, after Apoo saw his own future miserable state with his own eyes, he finally could not stay silent anymore!
After figuring out how to send comments through some trial and error, he immediately could not wait to send out his own rant!
Damn it...
Straw Hat was the one who blew the whole thing up!
But in the end, the ones who got viciously beaten were us instead!
That was just rotten luck to the extreme...
Very quickly, that comment had only just drifted past.
Then another person directly involved—Red Flag X Drake—also angrily expressed his dissatisfaction:
"That's right! Apoo's not wrong!"
"That Navy Admiral Kizaru... is he fucking blind?"
"If he can't even tell people apart, then he should just donate his eyes already! This is seriously ridiculous!!!"
Speechless.
Even though he was an undercover operative, Drake still found Kizaru's indiscriminate sweep incredibly headache-inducing!
At the same time, he secretly felt fortunate.
Luckily, because the timeline had changed, he himself could also avoid his original course of action and choose not to go to the Sabaody Archipelago.
Otherwise...
The moment he thought about the Pacifistas' pincer attack!
And Kizaru's utterly unreasonable, completely indiscriminate, violent light-speed kicks in the video!
Just thinking about it made Drake shudder in lingering fear.
Even though he had not actually been injured, he still felt as if old wounds were throbbing across his body—like he had truly been beaten half to death once already!!!
After that,
Sea Roar, Hawkins, and the others...
Anyone who had appeared in the clip, more or less, joined in with complaints and sent out their own comments.
And the collective activity of the Supernovas
even stirred up a whole new wave of excitement across the One Piece world.
It caused the attention of the world,
which had been focused on a major figure like an Admiral,
to briefly shift onto them instead.
At the very least,
the Supernovas did have strength!
It was just that before now, their presence had not been very high, so they had been overlooked for a long time.
After all,
for anyone,
for any pirate powerhouse,
no matter how powerful or dominant they might be in the first half of the Grand Line,
compared to the New World,
that place where powerful people gathered like forests, where true brutal competition filled every corner,
they would always come up a level short!
They would never be recognized by the true strong!
Nor would they truly become major figures!!!
Returning to the main subject.
The ranking video, and its exposed plot, continued once more:
After defeating the Supernovas
and informing his subordinates to get the battlefield under control,
Kizaru quickly lowered his head and glanced at his watch.
He was preparing to move again.
Whoosh—!!!
The power of the Glint-Glint Fruit activated.
Kizaru's figure turned into particles of light and disappeared from where he stood.
And when the camera switched,
in the very next second, Kizaru descended at last—this time accurately appearing on the very same island as Luffy and the others!
And at this moment,
through the combined efforts of the whole crew,
Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji had managed, with great difficulty, to bring down a Pacifista.
And because they did not know the truth,
they thought they had defeated the real enemy.
At the same time, they were even more confused as to why, compared to the last time on Thriller Bark,
Bartholomew Kuma's power
seemed to have become weaker instead this time.
However,
before the group could figure out the reason,
a light-speed kick blasted out!
Golden radiance lit up the entire screen!
The first to be attacked was Zoro.
His body had already been carrying injuries and had not fully recovered, so he was immediately unable to endure it and clearly struggled to hold on.
Then,
Sanji, Nami, Usopp, Brook, and the others...
their comrades were obviously terrified!
Because after seeing Zoro get injured, and after learning Kizaru's identity as a Navy Admiral, the Straw Hat crew was thrown into complete panic!
But,
at a time like this,
the group instead united as one and tried to meet Kizaru head-on!
But the final result needed no explanation.
Naturally, it was another one-sided crushing defeat!
The entire crew was effortlessly wiped out by Kizaru!!!
And through that entire process,
the future battle between Kizaru and the Straw Hat Pirates
was broadcast in full high-definition to the world through the ranking video.
Then the suspense appeared once more!
Could it be that... this time...
the title of Luffy, the King of Backgrounds,
was really about to be brought to an end by Kizaru, who was suspected of being his "uncle"?
In response,
the audience members were all extremely curious.
And they longed for the ranking video to hurry up and fast-forward,
so it could reveal the Straw Hat Pirates' final fate and outcome!!!
(End of Chapter)
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