Super Card System

The appearance of Golden Lion Shiki was truly beyond Red Hair's expectations.

Strictly speaking, Golden Lion Shiki was a senior to Red Hair. In Roger's era, Whitebeard, Golden Lion, and Roger were the three most famous pirates in the world. Although the three competed with each other, they were friends who admired one another. Even though the Golden Lion Pirates and Roger Pirates fought many times, their friendship remained unchanged.

Shanks was very familiar with him. Golden Lion Shiki's personality was even more wild and unrestrained. After Roger surrendered and was executed by the World Government, even Whitebeard didn't take any action. Instead, it was Golden Lion Shiki who attacked Marineford to avenge Roger. As a result, he failed and was captured, then imprisoned in Impel Down. However, he subsequently became the first man in history to escape from Impel Down. Even though he had to cut off his own legs, he still managed to escape from that heavily guarded prison.

Shanks's last impression of Golden Lion was that after he escaped, he went to see Whitebeard once, and then disappeared from the world, nowhere to be found. No one knew where he went.

Now, more than twenty years had passed, and Shanks thought the old man had probably died long ago. Occasionally recalling him, he would feel some regret.

But unexpectedly, the legendary pirate whom he thought was already dead suddenly appeared before him at this moment.

In addition to his shock, Shanks realized that this incident might have been premeditated. So, as he charged toward Golden Lion Shiki, he shouted loudly, "Ben!!"

Ben Beckman's voice came from a distance, "Already in action!"

Shanks's personality sometimes could be careless, but his first mate Ben Beckman was always calm and wise. Before Shanks and Golden Lion got into a fight, Ben Beckman had already led people toward the spot where Doflamingo had kicked the Devil Fruit box.

Ben Beckman held a cutlass in one hand and a pistol in the other. The cutlass blocked Doflamingo's pointed shoe, and he raised his hand to shoot at Doflamingo. Doflamingo clawed back, and the threads attached to his fingers directly sliced the bullet in half.

In just a few seconds, the two exchanged several moves, appearing evenly matched.

Realizing that Doflamingo intended to stall him, Ben Beckman immediately guessed that there might be others on the island supporting Doflamingo. Otherwise, Doflamingo wouldn't have thrown the box away and not picked it up.

However, Ben Beckman didn't say anything and engaged Doflamingo in battle, because out of the corner of his eye, he had already seen Yasopp climb to the top of the tallest building nearby, taking up a vantage point and preparing to snipe. Lucky Roux was also heading toward where the box had landed. The Red Hair Pirates' battle coordination, developed over many years, didn't require much communication; they knew how to act.

Now that Doflamingo wanted to stall him, Ben Beckman was also willing to stall Doflamingo.

Standing at a high point, Yasopp held a long rifle. Through his scope, he saw three figures appear where the Devil Fruit box had landed. Without thinking, he fired three shots in succession!

As the sniper of the Red Hair Pirates, Yasopp's sniping skills were quite advanced. Under his Observation Haki's lock-on, he even predicted the paths the three figures would use to dodge. So even though they tried to evade, they were still hit by his three shots!

Three spurts of blood splashed, and Lucky Roux and the rest of the Red Hair Pirates arrived, charging toward the three with their cutlasses.

However, before they could reach the three figures, a series of explosions suddenly occurred on the ground, and several small blasts erupted in succession. The explosive power wasn't great, but a cloud of green smoke spread out in all directions.

Lucky Roux was at the front and inhaled a mouthful of the green smoke, immediately feeling dizzy. He quickly braked to a stop and shouted, "Be careful, the smoke is poisonous!"

The members of the Red Hair Pirates hurriedly covered their noses and retreated quickly, withdrawing from the smoke. But within the green smoke, the leader of the three figures took the opportunity to step forward and pick up the Devil Fruit box on the ground.

Bang! Bang! Two more gunshots rang out, and the figure picking up the box had two more spurts of blood erupt from his body, causing his figure to tremble.

"It hurts! It hurts so much!" The man shouted, "Damn it! Bullets imbued with Haki… If only Van Augur were still alive, we'd have him deal with the Red Hair Pirates' sniper!"

Needless to say, these three figures were the only remaining members of the Blackbeard Pirates: Teach, Lafitte, and Doc Q. The one who had tanked Yasopp's bullets and picked up the Devil Fruit box was none other than Teach!

Seeing through his scope that the Devil Fruit box had been picked up, Yasopp became anxious and fired another shot. Teach was hit once again. Although he tried his best to avoid vital points, he couldn't help but let out a wail. Behind him, Lafitte shouted, "Captain! Hurry up! The poison gas from Doc Q is about to disperse!"

As he spoke, several axes were thrown over, spinning through the poison gas area. Although they couldn't get close due to the poison gas, Lucky Roux and the others threw their weapons directly.

Teach had just opened the box and taken out the fruit. Seeing that he couldn't dodge, he turned his back, using it to take the incoming axes, and at the same time, enduring the severe pain, he bit into the Soul-Soul Fruit!

Although Teach managed to eat the Devil Fruit, he paid a price. Some of the axes thrown by Lucky Roux and the others struck his back, and one even hit his buttocks. Teach's Dark-Dark Fruit couldn't be transformed into an element, so even though the weapons weren't imbued with Haki, they still hit his physical body.

These thrown axes couldn't kill Teach, but they infuriated him. Boundless darkness suddenly appeared at his feet, spreading toward the members of the Red Hair Pirates!

Realizing the danger, Lucky Roux and the others quickly withdrew from the battlefield. The surrounding streets suffered instead. A large number of buildings were pulled into the darkness by Teach's Dark-Dark Fruit powers, and the scene was quickly cleared into a huge open space.

With no buildings obstructing the view, Shanks, who was fighting fiercely with Golden Lion, naturally saw Teach's figure.

"Teach!!? It's you!?" Seeing Blackbeard, Shanks's rage flared up, and with immense power, he swung his sword at Golden Lion Shiki.

Even Golden Lion Shiki didn't dare to take this slash head-on and had to sidestep to dodge. The powerful sword energy destroyed a large area of the street behind Golden Lion.

Taking this opportunity, Shanks left Golden Lion and charged toward Teach with all his might!

"Red Hair!!" Teach looked at Shanks, also showing a ferocious expression. The two could be considered old enemies, the kind who would see red upon meeting. So, facing the charging Shanks, Teach spread his right hand and suddenly released all the buildings he had previously absorbed into darkness, crushing them and releasing them all toward Shanks!

Countless huge rubble pieces appeared from the black hole with great force, but they couldn't stop Shanks's advance. He swung his sword single-handedly against the wind, and the rubble was shattered and deflected. Although Shanks's eye corner was scratched by flying debris, he successfully reached Teach and slashed down!

Clang!! A loud crash sounded. Teach crossed his arms, with black Armament Haki covering them, blocking Shanks's slash. A strong shockwave spread out, blowing away the surrounding smoke.

At the same time, a cracking sound came, and the ground where Teach stood was crushed, with half of his body being pressed into the ground!

Shanks withdrew his sword and thrust forward, aiming straight at the gap between Teach's crossed arms, targeting his exposed chest. Teach, with half his body underground, couldn't dodge, but two figures suddenly appeared beside him. Lafitte, holding his western rapier, stabbed toward Shanks, and Doflamingo, who had somehow disengaged from his battle with Ben Beckman, came to Teach's aid, kicking toward Shanks's sword, deflecting his attack!

The tip of Lafitte's rapier poked Shanks but was blocked by Haki and couldn't penetrate. However, Shanks also didn't stab Teach.

"Get lost!" Shanks's power erupted as he swung his sword, shaking off Doflamingo, and at the same time, his foot clad in flip-flops kicked into Lafitte's abdomen!

Boom! Lafitte was sent flying like a cannonball, spitting blood even while still in mid-air. Although Doflamingo had used Haki to block Shanks's slash, his right hand was numb from the impact.

However, during the brief moment when the two blocked him, Teach had already freed himself and jumped out of the ground.

"Captain! Bad news!" Before Shanks could continue attacking Teach, Ben Beckman's shout came from the side. Shanks turned to look and saw Ben Beckman and the other members of the Red Hair Pirates all looking up at the sky with shocked expressions!

Shanks looked up and found that above Castorm, a floating island had appeared in the sky at some point!

The island wasn't large, less than one-tenth the size of Castorm, but it left Shanks stunned! Because he saw that the small island was being controlled and floated in the air by Golden Lion Shiki!

Ben Beckman had noticed the shadow above just now, which allowed Doflamingo to seize the opportunity to disengage from the battle.

"Jihahahahaha!" Golden Lion Shiki floated in mid-air, laughing loudly at Shanks and his Red Hair Pirates' members, "Red-haired brat, I heard this country is under your protection. So, what do you think will happen to this country if I drop this island!?"

"Don't do anything reckless!" Shanks shouted at Golden Lion.

"Hmph! I won't listen to you!" Golden Lion Shiki suddenly swung his hand downward, controlling the small island to crash down toward Castorm!

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