One Piece : Admiral Falcon is Pissed off again today!

Chapter 574 - 574

"Warcury, it seems... the World Government and the Celestial Dragons... are finished."

Even in his fully transformed Boar form, Warcury could only lie on the ground at this moment, panting incessantly.

He no longer had the strength for a final strike.

After losing Lily's power...

He was too old.

And the three men before him were still in their prime.

Though each bore wounds...

Their momentum had instead reached its peak.

"Hiss... Hah." Akainu Sakazuki once again placed a cigar between his lips, took a deep drag, and slowly exhaled.

He hadn't smoked a cigar since Michael disappeared seven years ago.

Today... was the long-awaited first one.

It couldn't be more fitting to celebrate victory.

He looked at the mountainously huge Warcury before him, a cold sneer curling at the corner of his mouth.

"Sakazuki... I never thought I would die by your hand."

"If it were the old me, I would never have imagined I'd slay one of the Five Elders on the battlefield," Sakazuki took a few steps forward, raised his head, and met Warcury's eyes.

"But that's how things are... I was once the blade in your hands, but now I am the rebel severing your lifelines."

"Rebel? Wow, Sakazuki, I must remind you..." Borsalino said with a laugh, casually wiping the blood flowing from his head.

"We are the ones representing justice... Even in the past, we weren't entirely the blades of the Celestial Dragons."

"But for quite a long time, we were," Kuzan unhesitatingly countered. "Though we might have feigned compliance while resisting in secret... we cannot deny that we were accomplices... and among the most powerful of those accomplices."

"You... sigh."

Borsalino covered his face with his hand, utterly despairing of Kuzan and Sakazuki's political intelligence...

But fortunately, this was the greatest advantage of the battlefield.

Political intelligence, emotional intelligence, considerations of the bigger picture...

Killing the enemy and winning the war were all that mattered.

"Hahaha, kill me then, Sakazuki... I will watch you from the heavens, watch how you repeat the mistakes of the World Government!"

"Warcury... still trying to sow discord at the end? You truly are dedicated to your duty."

As he spoke, Sakazuki transformed into magma, surging toward Warcury's forehead.

Warcury, at the end of his strength, could no longer maintain his formidable defenses.

The scorching magma quickly pierced his skin, burning his flesh.

But he...

Kept laughing.

As if casting the most malicious curse upon the Angel Alliance.

...

"Was I a bit too brutal?"

Charlotte Linlin said this while single-handedly wielding her Emperor's Sword, completely severing Itsumade's head.

Saint Marcus Mars, one of the Five Elders, thus died without leaving a single last word, becoming a corpse outright.

"No, I think you gave him a clean death," Kaido curled his lip. "After Lily's Devil Fruit Power failed, the Five Elders rapidly fell into an unstoppable aging... By killing him directly, you actually sent him off... It seems spending so much time with that guy Michael has even softened your heart."

"Indeed." A cruel smile spread across Charlotte Linlin's stunning face.

"But... meeting that guy was truly my greatest fortune."

"Fortune for you, but for me, it's the most damn annoying thing." Kaido shook the blood off his spiked club, his tone tinged with annoyance.

"I always considered him my greatest enemy... yet here I am, fighting my hardest on the battlefield for his goals... how ridiculous."

"Are you sure it's for Michael?" Charlotte Linlin looked at Kaido, whom she had always regarded as a younger brother, and finally sighed deeply.

"You never said it... but every move you made was out of concern for Yamato."

"Hah? Concern for that traitor daughter of mine?" Kaido turned his head away, refusing to look at Charlotte Linlin.

"Her father now is Michael, not me."

"Cut it out, Kaido... I'm a mother, and a mother of eighty-five children." Charlotte Linlin looked down at him and patted his head.

"I can tell you're still worried sick."

"Shut up! Since when did you become an emotional counselor!?" Kaido irritably swatted away Charlotte Linlin's hand.

"Don't touch my head! You old hag!"

"...Don't make me discipline you right here!"

A vein throbbed on Charlotte Linlin's forehead as she prepared to punish her disobedient brother, but out of the corner of her eye, she spotted a figure.

She then smiled, picked up the corpse of Saint Mars, and left the area.

"It seems you have something to say." Charlotte Linlin chuckled softly as she passed by the newcomer, whispering low.

Without waiting for a reply, she vanished from the battlefield.

Now, the roar of cannons had completely ceased.

The battlefield, once filled with clashing blades, had come to an end as the Angel Alliance launched a massive counterattack, securing an overwhelming advantage.

It was now time to clean up the battlefield and search for survivors.

And Kaido still hadn't turned around.

It seemed... he knew exactly who was standing behind him.

"You still haven't turned around to look at me properly." A woman's voice slowly rang out. "As a father... you really are the worst."

"Yamato." Kaido shook his head, calling out his daughter's name. "There's no need to emphasize that again... I admit, everything in the past was driven by my ambition, and it was far from what a good father should do... but if I had to do it all over again, I'd still make the same choices... So, I've never regretted anything, not a single thing I've done."

"You... are truly hopeless, Kaido." Yamato looked at Kaido, who remained with his back to her, and this time, she didn't even call him father.

"But you've become more... human than I ever imagined."

"You mean because I joined this war?" Kaido chuckled. "I just... hate the World Government and the Celestial Dragons more than the Angel Alliance, that's all."

"Is that so?" Yamato nodded. "By the way, I think... we'll probably never see each other again."

"Why would you want to see me?" Kaido curled his lip. "You little traitor, get as far away from me as you can."

As Kaido said this, Yamato turned and left without hesitation.

And he, listening to Yamato's fading footsteps.

Shed the final tear.