One Piece: My Infinity Gauntlet!
Chapter 349 - 350 - Become Enemy Or Companion!?

At night, in the sea where the Golden Island is located.

A few large ships float quietly on the surface, retaining only sporadic fires, not as illumination, but as some kind of signal?

After an indefinite period of time, a few shadows faintly appeared on the sea ahead.

And when it's close enough to the Island, it was actually a Naval Warship!

But strangely enough, however, the ships facing it neither escaped nor gave way, just waiting for the warship to approach as if they had come for this very moment.

Soon, the warship stopped in front of the ships, the plank bridge was quickly set up, and a man wrapped in a cloak approached the ship alone.

The mysterious cloaked man aboard the large ship also had a shrouded man standing there waiting for him, and they were the only two people on the large ship facing each other.

"I didn't think you really dared to come, aren't you afraid that I'll bring someone to let you stay here, a Fleet Admiral of the navy, on this sea forever?"

The person who spoke slowly came out of the shadows, and the moonlight shone on his face, it was none other than one of the Four Emperors "Faceless" Will, who killed Big Mom not long ago, and who had a reputation for being able to stop children from crying just after his name is mentioned.

The other person he was talking about was the cloaked man who only dared to show his face secretly, the current Navy Fleet Admiral, Aokiji!

Why would Aokiji, as a Fleet Admiral, take the risk of meeting the supposed enemy, the Fourth Emperor, alone?

Will is not Shanks, nor does he have the 'fruit of face', and the opportunity for the two to meet today stems from that call after the Navy's fiasco on Golden Island!

According to common sense, Aokiji should have regarded Will, who killed a large number of naval forces, as his greatest enemy, but in fact, Will was the 'victim' in that battle.

There was no personal grudge between the two sides, but the difference in position, coupled with the World Government's overbearing attitude, eventually led to that tragedy.

In the end, Will's treatment of the naval prisoners also indirectly indicated his attitude, which was the benchmark for both sides to reach a consensus on the matter.

Aokiji, who hid his whole body in his cloak, ignored Will's words of ridicule or threat, and said frankly: "Have you brought everyone?".

Will yawned: "They are all in the Ship, take them away, these four-legged guys can eat more than one, it's annoying."

Aokiji nodded, his observation haki did perceive many familiar aura, then he pulled out a wooden box from under his cloak, "This is what you want."

Will took it and opened it and took a look at it, nodding his head in satisfaction, then said, "I like doing business with honest people, and although it's a bit of a loss, I'll take this 'great gift' without any hesitation, and the next time you start a war, I don't promise that I'll still give you the chance to ransom your captives! "

"The one who wants to get rid of you the most has always been the world government, if I were to plan it, I would choose to silently build up my strength until I found your real weakness, and then concentrate my power to kill you in one blow, never giving you a chance to escape, rather than like last time, when I thought I could pile up an emperor just by sheer superiority of troops and warships."

"To put it bluntly, if Whitebeard had been thirty years younger at the time of the War of the Tops, I would have done everything in my power to dissuade the others and stop them from carrying out the public execution of Ace!"

"Real monsters are not something that can be fathomed with common sense, and the ones that can kill monsters must be more powerful monsters, and definitely not feeble 'humans'!"

Aokiji said this unceremoniously, directly exposing the fairy tale. At the same time, Aokiji is not afraid to let Will know how he will deal with him, because this is a plot unless Will really leads people to ambush here and prepares to let him stay here forever. 

But if he dared to come alone, would he really leave no one behind?

Will looked at him in surprise, then smiled and said, "Monster? It's not very nice, but it's a compliment, right?"

"Maybe, and you can take it as a recognition of, well, strength."

"Thanks, but I didn't call you here specifically to meet this side to hear this."

Aokiji looked like he couldn't be denied, indeed, he had said goodbye to the front line since he became a Fleet Admiral, and there were only two possibilities for Will to insist on his personal appearance.

The first was that he had been ambushed and wanted to be killed as a Fleet Admiral.

The second is that there is something too important to talk about and they must meet to talk about it!

He personally preferred the second possibility, especially after Will asked him not to show up in a big way, but to come in secret, and preferably not to let anyone else know that he had been here, let alone who he had seen, he was more certain.

"Just say what you have to say, and the next time we see each other again, it may be on the battlefield."

"You're right, but not accurate enough, meeting on the battlefield may not be an enemy, but it may also be a companion, don't you think?"

Aokiji pupils shrank momentarily, and a look of surprise flashed across his face, the first time since his arrival that he had allowed his paralyzed face to change!

After a brief silence, Aokiji said in a deep voice, "You are a pirate and I am a navy, and I think we will only be enemies on the battlefield when we meet again."

Will did not dwell on this issue, but casually asked again: "Then do you think the word 'Dragon Extermination' contains any deeper issues?"

At this moment, Aokiji really feels that the man in front of him is a madman, a pirate actually arrogant to mention the word 'destroy the dragon' in front of the Fleet Admiral of the navy, if he is not crazy then what?

"I'll give you one last warning, never, never get any ideas about the Dragons!"

Looking at Aokiji's face, Will laughed again.

"In order to truly carry out justice, the navy must be independent of the jurisdiction of the world government. You will not fail to understand this truth, I also believe that you must be secretly planning this matter, am I right?"

In response to Will's question, Aokiji chose to respond with silence.

It was a good thing that Will did not expect to hear any answer from him because if Aokiji dared to announce such a big thing to the public, it would only mean that he had already done it and the naval independence was a foregone conclusion.

Will then said, as if talking to himself, "If the Navy wants to become independent, it would only happen if the World Government and the Celestial Dragons are removed because they will never allow the power in their hands to be out of their control!"

"Then there is only one final outcome, the world government will definitely choose to kill all the Admirals who support naval independence, and then replace them with a group of more obedient 'dogs' who will keep the naval power in their hands and continue to work for the Dragons."

"In other words, the fact that you and I are potential enemies of the Celestial Dragon, so in that future war, shall we still be enemies?

Fleet Admiral Aokiji?"