General Lanlin of One Piece

Looking at Rayleigh who died with a smile on his face, Garp moved his lips as if he wanted to say something, but in the end nothing came out.

He slowly pulled his fist out of Rayleigh's heart, and his body seemed to have lost all its strength and fell to the ground beside Rayleigh.

As Reilly pulled his fingers out of his throat, more blood began to pour out from Garp's throat, turning his neck, shoulders and back red.

"Lieutenant General Garp!"

Bogart's eyes were red, and he rushed over quickly. While taking out the phone from his body to make a call, he quickly took out a bandage and bandaged the bloody hole in Garp's throat, trying to help him stop the gushing blood.

Garp remained motionless, just lying next to Rayleigh, looking at the sky above with the same absentmindedness, clearly feeling his own vitality dissipating little by little as the blood flowed out.

Dying?

Maybe it would be nice to just die like this, right?

Karp thought so.

As a veteran, he has been fighting pirates for fifty or sixty years in this chaotic sea in order to uphold justice.

Fifty or sixty years, what a long time.

He devoted his whole life to the navy and justice without reservation.

From a passionate teenager, to a high-spirited young man, to a middle-aged man in his prime, to an old man with weak physical strength.

Along the way, he had seen too many joys and sorrows, felt countless joys and sorrows, fought against countless powerful enemies, and witnessed the rise and fall of countless strong men.

After experiencing so many things, Garp thought he had seen through everything.

But today, when he suddenly looked back, he realized that he had been trapped in the quagmire of life that he could never escape from.

At the beginning, he believed that pirates were the biggest evil in the world. If he wanted to make the world a better place, he had to eliminate pirates from the world. Therefore, he took the lead countless times and led the navy to the battlefields of the new world. Fighting against notorious pirates, and capturing countless pirates who wreaked havoc on the sea.

But slowly, he saw the cruelty of the Celestial Dragons, the cruelty of the world government towards non-member countries, and the tragedy of countless innocent people caused by the wanton plundering of the Golden Time in the sky.

Whitebeard, Bartholomew the Bear, Douglas Barrett, Kaido...

These powerful men who wreaked havoc on the sea had to become pirates because they were persecuted by the World Government.

And their navy is the sharp knife in the hands of the World Government, and is the accomplice that has led to countless brutal incidents.

It turns out that the world government is the biggest evil in the world, and their navy is a helper.

At that time, his dislike for the World Government and the Celestial Dragons had reached its limit.

Garp wants to leave the Navy. He doesn't want to be the executioner who brings harm to the world.

But later, he stayed, continued to be a navy, and continued to catch pirates on the sea for ten years.

Because he can't leave.

If he leaves, and Sengoku, Xiaohe, and Zefa all leave, the navy will only become worse.

This bad world cannot be changed by just relying on one's own courage.

Therefore, Garp decided to stay. He wanted to use his actual actions to influence the entire navy's view of justice and influence more outstanding sailors, so that the navy could move from being an accomplice to the World Government and gradually move towards the true guardian of the sea. .

However, the idea is beautiful, but it is extremely difficult to implement.

The resistance from all aspects, including pirates, the World Government, and even within the Navy, was like a tide, constantly coming in, constantly preventing him and Zefa from achieving that goal.

For this reason, he charged forward countless times and fought with Rocks, Roger, and Whitebeard.

He gave up his promotion to admiral several times, not wanting to further become a knife in the hands of the World Government.

However, people are helpless in the sea.

As long as you are in the navy, you have to obey the orders of the World Government and do things that go against your conscience.

The Valley of the Gods incident, the O'Hara Demon Slaying Order, and the Batelila Island incident in the South China Sea were all bad events that impacted the navy's spiritual defense line, and they happened again and again.

After experiencing all these, even if his will was as firm as his, it began to waver.

Can they really accomplish that goal?

Can the justice of the navy really become pure justice?

Karp lost confidence.

Absolutely not.

Because he saw that all senior navy officials, including himself, had changed after experiencing those things.

Warring States has become too rational. He can make the most correct, but not necessarily merciful, choice between the interests of the majority and the interests of the minority without hesitation.

Akainu became extreme, Kizaru became undisciplined, and Aokiji became lazy.

Even he himself has become lazy and no longer often catches pirates.

Zefa didn't change.

But perhaps because he remained unchanged, all the disasters befell him one by one.

And Dorag...

He was once proud and often showed off in front of the Warring States Period, saying that he would be able to defeat Akainu and Kizaru and become the strongest admiral in the navy, and even become the son of the marshal. However, after experiencing what he had already experienced, Even after being numbed by those things, he resolutely chose to defect from the navy and established a revolutionary army to fight against the world government.

But now, after experiencing this war, Garp can already make a rough guess about the future direction of the navy.

Although Sengoku recommended Aokiji to become the new naval marshal, the World Government and most of the naval generals supported Akainu.

Given the gap between the two that had already occurred during the O'Hara Demon Slaying Order incident, there would definitely not be a peaceful election for the position of marshal this time.

And once the fight begins, how can the confused Aokiji be a match for the decisive and decisive Akainu?

Once Akainu succeeds in becoming the marshal of the navy, the justice of the navy that he, Sengoku, Zefa, and Xiaozuru have spent decades trying to guide will probably be completely in vain, and the navy will once again become A lackey in the hands of the world government.

And it will become more thorough.

The only variable Garp could think of was Rorschach.

If Rorschach can stick to his ideals and is not affected by Akainu's extreme justice, then maybe in the near future, the Navy will have hope to get back on track and continue to uphold justice instead of becoming a thug, accomplice, and executioner. .

On the edge of the sunken sinkhole, a large number of Nine Snakes Pirates soldiers holding bows and arrows were tensely confronting the hundreds of sailors brought by Bogart.

At the bottom of the pit, Granny New and Marigrud looked at the dead Rayleigh with sad faces and were crying.

For Mary Grudd, Reilly has been a savior to her and the three Hancock sisters.

Back then, the three sisters escaped from Mariejoia due to the incident of Tiger forcing his way into the Holy Land to free slaves, and were chased and arrested by the navy. Thanks to the help of Rayleigh and Xia Qi, they were able to escape back to their daughter's country.