One Piece : Admiral Falcon is Pissed off again today!

Chapter 572 - 572

Blackbeard looked at Michael.

He had never imagined that he would eventually stand before Michael in such a role.

He had dealt with Michael many times, always standing completely opposite him.

He had once thought that becoming the strongest person in the world would inevitably lead to a final battle with Michael.

But when Blackbeard truly stood before Michael...only to find that, under the other party's coercion and inducement, I had already become his person.

To be precise...

it was after he reached the expected height...

that he realized there were no more enemies left.

Just as Michael said...

There must always be a great evil dragon.

Blackbeard was a clever man, one of the rare few in the entire world of the Pirate King.

As a being of the same kind as Joy Boy, he possessed an ugly, monstrous, and deformed body.

If not for Michael, he would undoubtedly have overturned the existing order step by step from the bottom, even taking down the lofty Celestial Dragons.

And then ushering in his own great age of navigation.

But now...

At least Michael could say something like "There must always be a great evil dragon"...

That meant as long as he didn't cross Michael's bottom line, he would forever be the great villain that the new regime worried about but couldn't eliminate.

This feeling wasn't actually too bad...

At least he didn't have to worry about being truly taken out.

"Then... my mother and two younger sisters..."

"Aside from me, no one will ever know who they are." Michael showed an expression that said 'the student has learned well.'

"They will forever remain an ordinary family in Shadowport."

"I hope you keep your word."

"In this world, you can doubt many things... but the only two things you don't need to doubt are my strength and my character."

"Your strength is indeed beyond doubt." Blackbeard curled his lip. "But as for character... well, that's a matter of opinion."

"You've suddenly grown quite bold with your words."

"After all, someone just hinted at holding my weaknesses over me..."

...

Michael stayed in the Flower room for a very, very long time.

So long that the three daughters waiting outside, after learning that the Celestial Dragons' immortality had been lifted, had no choice but to return to the battlefield for the final battle.

It was precisely during this opportunity that Michael and Blackbeard staged an unprecedented grand spectacle.

The two of them burst through the dome of the flower room and leaped out.

Angel versus darkness and demon.

It looked incredibly intense.

But in the end, after becoming the focus of the entire battlefield, Michael deliberately left an opening, allowing the incarnation of darkness and demon to reveal his true face.

Marshall D. Teach.

AKA Blackbeard!

"Blackbeard! You despicable scoundrel! You took advantage of the moment when Lily and I were both weakened to forcibly steal Lily's power with the Dark-Dark Fruit! Though her crimes are unforgivable... as her father, I will make you pay sooner or later!"

"Zehahahaha! Michael! Archangel of the End! I never thought you'd have a day where you'd slip up! Even if you've overthrown the World Government, so what... Tremble! You will still have to face the great Blackbeard!"

"Don't you dare run!"

"We will meet again! Members of the Angel Alliance! I will be waiting on the high seas... for your challenges! Zehahahaha!"

Blackbeard left behind exaggerated yet somehow fittingly arrogant words, then spread his demonic wings entwined with darkness and departed Mary Geoise.

And this final battle, after Blackbeard "ambushed" and stole Lily's power, leaving behind a declaration that threatened the entire world, completely came to an end.

The immortality state that the Celestial Dragons had been synchronized into by Lily through the Human-Human Fruit Demon Form, was now stolen by Blackbeard...

Thus, it was completely nullified.

The Angel Alliance, which had originally only managed to maintain a stalemate even with the advantage, now completely defeated the Celestial Dragon army from all directions.

The Celestial Dragons began to fall one after another amidst cannon fire and blades.

The Five Elders fared even worse, rapidly succumbing to unavoidable aging.

After all, like Lily, they were already hundreds of years old.

The disappearance of immortality meant merely losing their ultimate life-saving trump card on the battlefield for the other Celestial Dragons...

But for the Five Elders, it meant losing everything.

Now, even if they didn't fight their powerful opponents to the death, they would completely age and die within minutes.

After all, they had only synchronized with Lily's ageless and deathless state...

Now, the time limit of their life-saving talisman had expired.

"How... truly... frustrating."

Saturn slumped to the ground.

His rapidly aging body could no longer even support him standing up.

The fact that he could still speak a few more words and cling to life for a moment longer was only due to the immense vitality granted by his Zoan-type Awakening, which sustained his final breath.

"Frustrated? You've ruled the entire world with unparalleled brutality for over eight hundred years!" Garp stood before Saturn, drenched in blood, with several deep, bone-exposing wounds on his fists.

Then, ignoring the pain from his injuries, he pulled out a cigarette, slowly lit it, and placed it in his mouth.

"Unlike the Celestial Dragons who reproduced generation after generation, the Five Elders were contemporaries of Lily in their youth... You've enjoyed a full eight hundred years... That's more than enough." Sengoku swallowed the blood in his mouth and reverted from his massive golden Buddha form back to his human form.

"Next, it's time for the Angel Alliance to restore order... The Celestial Dragons should also become history."

"The Celestial Dragons? Become history? Hahahaha!" Saturn burst into laughter. Only at this moment did he truly accept the reality of defeat.

"No, you are the victors of this war, and you will also be the victors of history. However, in the end... new Celestial Dragons will be born again within the heart of the Angel Alliance!"

"Perhaps that will happen. After all, I cannot guarantee that every generation of the Angel Alliance from now on will be entirely good people..." Sengoku turned away, no longer looking at Saturn.

"But this is no longer something the Celestial Dragons need to worry about..."

"Enough, Sengoku. Saturn is already dead." Garp took a deep drag of his cigarette, exhaled slowly, and walked over to Sengoku's side.

"He stopped breathing just as you began speaking."

"Is that so..." Sengoku fell silent.

Then he turned and walked away.

"Hey! Where are you going?"

"Our battle is over, but the other battlefields are not... It's not yet time for us old folks to rest!"

"Is that so?"

Garp was taken aback for a moment, then quickly caught up.

Sengoku nodded.

"Because the sun is about to set now..."

"Tomorrow, a new dawn will rise."