“I sent you!” Edward Newgate, in the virtual projection, stood on the deck, his voice calm. “My foolish son, the responsibility lies with me.”
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"...Ace, captured? How could this be?" Whitebeard, sitting in his seat, had his pupils contract and was shaken.
On the other side, Madara Uchiha and Huang Rong were also unable to remain calm.
"This big guy even said that he could conceal or mislead others to keep their true identity a secret? Isn't that obvious?"
Madara stared expressionlessly at the white-bearded figure standing on the deck, then compared his height to the white-bearded figure sitting in the chair.
Meanwhile, countless naval soldiers exclaimed in surprise, "The strongest man in the world, one of the Four Emperors of the New World..." This made Madara understand a lot of things.
Even if Madara weren't from the One Piece world, he could easily sense the fear that 100,000 Marines held towards Whitebeard from that title. It also revealed Whitebeard's immense status in that world.
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Chapter 7 Whitebeard's Gift, the Tremor-Tremor Fruit
As the plot unfolds, the scene of Whitebeard being stabbed by his own son, yet still shouting "You are my son!" without any regard for the consequences, reveals his undeniable charisma.
He then charged across the entire arena, recklessly displaying the terrifying power of his Tremor-Tremor Fruit, a power capable of destroying the world.
In the battle against Akainu, his subordinates vied for position. Luffy's arrival saved Ace, and then Ace died saving Luffy from Akainu's magma fist...
And it was here that the projection abruptly stopped.
The misty space was completely silent.
Madara didn't comment further, silently watching Whitebeard.
The white-bearded man was tall and imposing, seemingly calm, but in reality, cracks appeared in the void around his body.
"I'm going to die, I'm going to die." Huang Rong felt a chill run down her spine.
However, Su Han tapped the back of the chair lightly with his finger, and all the cracks were instantly erased. He said calmly, "Sometimes I really think... should I just issue a ban to prevent you from using your power in this world?"
"Truly powerful and bizarre... How could he even do something like this?" Madara's eyes narrowed, his Rinnegan peering at Su Han, yet he still couldn't see through him.
The more carefully he observed, the more he could sense that elusive quality, as if it did not exist in the world, devoid of any living beings, mysterious and unusual.
Su Han frowned; after all, he also possessed the Rinnegan. He naturally sensed the other party's spying.
After a moment's thought, he had a thought, and the mist around his body gained an extra layer of eerie concept. This was the strange aura that Su Han had previously perceived in the unfinished building using his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan.
Of course, at this moment, Su Han casually amplified this elusive and eerie feeling through his divine power in the misty space... to the maximum extent.
"What?" Madara's pupils suddenly dilated, the mist dissipated in his eyes, but what he sensed was not the aura of a living being.
Cold, ruthless, twisted, unbearable to look at, incomprehensible...
His body suddenly tensed, his Rinnegan rapidly degenerated, then the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, and then the three-tomoe Sharingan...
The vision seen through the three-tomoe Sharingan returned to normal, and Madara gasped for breath, his forehead covered in cold sweat.
"This is!" Even though Whitebeard was deeply moved by witnessing the Battle of Marineford, he was still shocked by what he saw.
What exactly did Madara Uchiha, who feared nothing and no one, glimpse that made even the Rinnegan unable... or rather, unwilling to maintain?
Huang Rong even held her breath.
Su Han fell silent. Although he had known for a long time that the strange aura he had encountered before was not so simple... but the fact that it had turned Uchiha Madara into this state still made him feel a little uneasy.
"Could it really be Cthulhu in reality?" Su Han was also a little panicked.
Of course, he also knew that... if it were the evil creature he had seen in the unfinished building before, it shouldn't have forced Uchiha Madara to this point.
The reason for this was largely due to his use of the amplification effect of the mist space. If... before, Su Han had only encountered evil beings, then now, amplified by Su Han's aura, it was almost equivalent to the true form of an indescribable evil god.
After a long silence, Whitebeard finally let out a breath. He cleverly ignored Madara Uchiha's condition and got straight to the point.
"I'm sorry, I was just too emotional."
He opened his hand, and a card gradually materialized. The image of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit was clearly engraved on it.
Whitebeard flicked his arm, and the Tremor-Tremor Fruit suddenly appeared in front of Su Han.
"I'm sure you won't care about expressing your gratitude in words, so I'll use my Tremor-Tremor Fruit as a way of thanking you."
Su Han stared at the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, a subtle feeling that Whitebeard seemed to have misunderstood something, and immediately asked, "Are you thinking that the Navy deliberately captured Ace because they were targeting the Whitebeard Pirates?"
Because the concept of an evil god had been added to him, Su Han didn't feel anything, but the people present felt that Su Han's words contained power and were extremely mysterious.
"...Isn't that right?" After a brief silence, the white-bearded man stared intently at Su Han.
“That’s not the case,” Su Han accepted the Tremor-Tremor Fruit ability card. Since Whitebeard was so generous, he couldn’t deliberately trick him. “The real reason Ace ended up in the hands of the Marines was because of a traitor from the Whitebeard Pirates.”
"This former member of the Whitebeard Pirates killed Thatch, the fourth division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates, in order to become the Pirate King. He stole the Dark-Dark Fruit that Thatch had treasured, and then started a great war between the Whitebeard Pirates and the Marine Headquarters... In the end, he stole Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit and ascended to the position of one of the Four Emperors of the Sea."
Huang Rong looked at the white-bearded man with a strange expression, then turned to look at Uchiha Madara.
She originally thought Madara Uchiha was miserable enough... but she didn't expect that Whitebeard's misery was no less than Madara Uchiha's.
He was betrayed by his own son during the Marineford War, which was bad enough. But before that, he was betrayed once more... and in the process, a captain was killed?
"Who is that person?" the white-bearded man asked softly. He didn't believe him immediately; he had absolute trust in his son.
Even if Su Han revealed the person's name now, he would only use his Observation Haki to keep a close eye on them. Unless the person had actually attacked a fellow crew member, he, as their father, would be willing to give them a chance.