Chapter 155 The Meaning of Survival

"Give Ace!! Return it to me!" Facing the three naval generals, Luffy knew that he could only avoid it, and he tried his best to smash the mast towards Akainu, who was in charge. The green chick next to him looked cold. The mast slightly reached out and froze into an icicle. He threw away the mast in his hand. Luffy activated his second-level state and quickly rushed over the bodies of the three generals toward the execution platform behind. At this time, Oz, who had already fallen, actually stood up half kneeling again. Seeing this scene, several navy soldiers who were intending to pursue Luffy took a step back in surprise: "What? Isn't dead yet? Oz!"

Looking at Oz who was covered in blood but still looking at him, Ace's eyes were filled with regret, and Luffy's figure who was knocked down by several lieutenant generals again made Ace feel heartbroken. Standing behind him, I took a moment of pleasure. Although only my shadow was here, the anxious pain and contradiction in Ace's heart were indeed transmitted to me through the cluster of nothingness. Compared with this contradiction, the anger and violent pirates of the other pirates were simply not worth mentioning.

"I can feel the painful entanglement in your heart... Fire Fist Ace..." My phantom squinted his bright red pupils strangely, looking at Ace who was kneeling on the execution platform and was forced to watch his father and brother bleeding for him, "I said a long time ago... Maybe you should consider exchanging something with me earlier..."

I could clearly feel a strange look in my words, and the Warring States Period looked at me alertly: "What are you going to do? Haven't you said you won't interfere with this war?"

"Ah... Of course I said..." I smiled leisurely. Although the black phantom could not show my facial expression at all, the low laughter came completely: "I don't mean to interfere, but there is something I really want to get from Fire Fist Ace, so I came here with great pains... Safe, I think this deal will not affect the final outcome of this war..."

In the main square, Luffy's sprint with all his strength was blocked again. His body was still facing Luffy from a distance. Jolar smiled dangerously, as if he was talking to himself, "It's so sad... If you don't have strength, not only will you be able to hurt others, but you will also pull yourself in...the straw hat..."

"Cruff!" A harsh sound suddenly sounded. Luffy, who was struggling to avoid the attacks of the squirrel and several other lieutenant generals, suddenly strangled his neck by a hand in front of him that seemed to be stretching out from the void. The owner of this hand was Jolar.

Slowly, the whole body also appeared from the alien space of the necropolis world. A faint white light appeared in the gap in the eyes of Jolar's helmet, as if it was a fierce night owl: "And... Straw Hat, I think the fire fist you all want to save is really guilty... Do you know?" "Woo~~ Cough cough!!" He kept struggling to escape from Jolar's control, but Jolar's body had turned into a gray spirit except for that arm, and Luffy's attack was useless at all.

"Hehehehe... It seems you don't know..." Looking at Luffy's unyielding look at him comfortably, Jolar seemed to enjoy the feeling of the other party struggling in his hands: "The so-called guilt is not imposed by outsiders, but people think they should bear it... Fire Fist Ace is your brother... Oh, it should not be related by blood. Do you know what the other party is thinking so hard? You may not be able to do anything when you run around like this..."

"Hey!!" Jolar suddenly threw Luffy in his hand into the distance, then shot him backhand, just holding up the raid from mid-air by Margao, and glanced at the other party jokingly: "Is the Immortal Bird? It will definitely be fun to dedicate your soul to His Majesty!"

Margao sneered, and the blue flame on his body burned even more violently: "If you can do it, just try it!"

At this time, the last ship of the Whitebeard Pirates, the paddlefisher, rushed into the Navy Plaza under the last desperate effort of Oz. The pirates inside the bay, which had been completely trapped in the dead end, finally arrived in the main square with this last move. The Navy and the Pirates finally started a new round of fierce fighting again.

"Oh... it turns out there is another ship..." Standing on the execution platform, I held my forehead bored and looked at the Warring States Period next to me: "But judging from the current situation, it seems that the Whitebeard Pirates' survival probability is not high..."

Looking at me, the Warring States Period did not express any unnecessary feelings, but just glanced at the scene in the square in a few hours: "We only need to hand over the word 'victory' to the world in a few hours..."

"Hahaha...yes..." I nodded in agreement: "No matter what the price is, as long as the word 'victory' is the word to cover up everything... Your tone is very good..."

Hearing my words with Warring States Period, Ace, who was kneeling, had bitten the corner of his mouth blood. I looked at the other party indifferently and calmed down again: "Ace of Fire Fist... You have done a lot of things in the name of a person... Whether it was to set up your own pirate group to challenge Whitebeard a few years ago, or later galloping in this world with the captain of the Whitebeard's second series, so that after the first time he went to hunt down Tic who killed his companion against Whitebeard's wishes... until now, they were shrouded in the shadow of death because of your reasons... don't you want to say anything?"

"Um..." Ace trembled all over his body as he gritted his teeth. I smiled strangely: "You are really similar... You insist on everything you should do, but... you just know what you should do and do not do what you want to do... Is there such a deep denial of yourself?"

The Warring States Period next to him frowned, but did not say anything, but turned its attention to the battlefield again. Cap looked at Ace in front of him, sighed, and finally sat down cross-legged next to him with some depressing regret, and the age of time was fully reflected.

Ace's lips squirmed twice, but in the end he was unable to speak the complete words: "...I..."

"Execution!" It seemed that he was no longer willing to continue to entangle. The Warring States period issued a decisive order, and the two navy responsible for execution each raised the long blades in their hands and crossed them in front of Ace. My phantom standing behind Os shrugged: "What a pity... Is it a pity... I die without even knowing the meaning of my existence? Hahaha... I'll be kind at least..."

The two navy soldiers who could not see my phantom raised the long blades in their hands, and I was just watching strangely what happened next. Two sand blades passed through the air like lightning and knocked down the two navy soldiers. Looking at the figure who took action at the bottom of the execution platform, the Warring States Period gritted their teeth: "Krokadar! I thought you would not shelter the white-bearded crew, but I didn't expect..."

"Hmph!" I was seriously injured in the previous battle with Diamond Jos, and Crockard's expression was even more gloomy: "It doesn't matter what this is! But! Before this, I didn't want to see your happy faces no matter what!!"

Looking at Croquedar, who was entangled by Doflamingo who was following me, I shook my head bored: "What a lucky thing... Fire Fist Ace, but will anyone come to save you next time... I'm very interested in this question... or... "

Gripping his teeth, Ace looked at the battle that had fallen into a white-hot battle, his lips trembled slightly, as if he heard the laughter of those people in his ears when he was a child, "Hehe... Is Roger's son? Look at how many people in this world hate Roger, and then how many needles are used to stab him?" "It's better to write his suicide note like this, 'Oh, I'm so sorry to come to this world, I'm just a real trash', Yahahaha..."

"I..." He lowered his head weakly, Ace didn't even dare to look at the pirates who were still fighting for him, as if the problem that had accompanied him so far suddenly became clear again: "Is it really good to come to this world?"

My eyes strangely raised a curve, and I spoke with a hint of instigation: "I think... this question is not something that I think about this question, I can get the answer... The ones who can really give you the answer should be those who try their best to not want you to die... But you don't know how to repay the precious thoughts they have added to you... Then, what about my opinion?"

Looking back at my phantom, Ace gritted his teeth: "...What do you... want from me? What can I exchange for with such things?"

Sitting in front of the cluster of nothingness, I smiled slightly, took a glass of red wine next to me casually and drank it all. I tilted my head slightly: "Actually it's very simple... As long as you agree to deliver your soul to me after you die... I can promise you to resurrect someone for you at any time... How about it? Fire Fist Ace..."

Ace frowned incredibly, and Ace was stunned for a moment, as if she didn't expect that my condition would be this, and my phantom continued to convey my voice: "You seem to be a little unbelievable when you stand up, okay, I'll tell you how useful this thing is to me, so that you won't feel uneasy..."

The Warring States Period next to him frowned and looked at my phantom without a trace. I just smiled slightly, not caring about the attention of the Warring States Period. "As you know... I am the demon who ended an era in the legend four hundred years ago. Although this legend has many different versions now, forget it, because these are all things that have passed, and I hate memories because they are useless to me." I smiled strangely: "I discovered the secret of the demonic system in the Demon Fruit System at that time, and I completely mastered this secret and gained extremely strong power. One of the sources of this power is the heart... a creature that speaks and is a creature that is different from the mind. But it is undeniable that the driving force of the mind is the fundamental driving force for people to live happily and fulfill their lives..."

A strange arc appeared on the corner of my mouth, and I continued: "This motivation may be a wish, an ambition, an agreement, a belief... or even a simple **... In any case, this is the motivation for the goal of living... But, the heart is fickle... Time will waste this motivation. A person's voice is so short, but this motivation will be exhausted earlier than life... And I gave myself eternal and infinite life in the form of taking the lives of others. If there is no such motivation... I can only be regarded as a piece of meat that is still moving... What a tragic thing... I think you can also experience the emptiness of living without doing anything..."

After looking at Ace, my phantom opened my hand a little fanatically: "So! I must also get this motivation from others besides life! Only in this way can I live truly purely! And the wishes of those who were killed by me will become my real motivation to survive and will make me continue to be interested in living in this world! Fire Fist Ace... How similar are you to me in the past... I wandered around in doubts about my existence... Unfortunately, I can't hold on for too long... Hehehehe... Now I think what I said is clear enough... Are you ready to trade?"

A trace of cold sweat was flowing from the forehead of the Warring States Kingdom next to him, and he couldn't help but mutter: "Did he survive in this way?"

"That's certainly... I don't have any extra wishes..." I sat in front of the Void Cluster and crossed my hands and smiled: "People... can only kill one person in their life...that is themselves. If they kill others and use this death, they will not die as a real person again...Some people rely on their own strength to add various titles to themselves, such as gods, emperors, nobles, marshals, generals...etc. Some people do not have these prominent powers, so they can only be considered as killing their own kind of animals. And there is also a number of people...Their original intention of killing people was to realize the ultimate wish of those whom they love... These people are called demons...very suitable title, right..."
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