"I'll fight you to the death! You damned Blue Sea trash!"
Enel's face, a mix of green and white from Rorschach's words, flared with lightning on his fists, erupting in urgent energy fluctuations as he unleashed a punch towards Rorschach's face.
"Sixty Million Volts! Thunder Dragon!"
"Roar!"
Fluctuating, shimmering electricity shot from Enel's fist, transforming into a colossal electric dragon roaring with an open mouth, charging menacingly towards Rorschach.
Then...
Zzzzzzt.
The chaotic electricity surged into Rorschach's body, causing electric arcs to dance on his hair strands.
A sensation of refreshing comfort, as if he had just drunk a cold soda, made Rorschach involuntarily yawn.
Seeing his lazy expression, Enel, who was punching in front of him, gradually felt his composure shatter.
"Impossible! Impossible!"
Violent lightning burst forth from his hands again, striking towards Rorschach's head.
"Eighty Million Volts! God's Judgment!"
A lightning-composed spear shot out with an unstoppable momentum, piercing Rorschach's heart.
"One Hundred Million Volts! Thunder Blast!"
Boom!
A lightning pillar as thick as a bucket struck down, shattering half of the temple's gatehouse and leaving the ground in ruins.
Amidst the chaotic lightning, Rorschach, completely unharmed and even more invigorated, squinted at the disheveled Enel in the electric light. He sympathetically reached out and patted his shoulder.
"I understand how you feel right now. It's okay, cry if you need to. A man's tears don't fall easily, only when he's truly heartbroken."
"Get lost! Who wants to cry?! You Blue Sea trash..."
Enel's forehead throbbed with bulging veins, and his temples twitched.
"Stop calling me 'Blue Sea trash' repeatedly; it makes you, a god, seem very uncultured. By the way, how did you get your hands on such a good thing as the Rumble-Rumble Fruit? Where are your wings? Did you pluck them out and replace them with those drums?" Rorschach extended his right hand, gripped Enel's shoulder, and dragged him into the ruined temple.
Enel was reluctantly dragged in by the shoulder, his face completely bewildered, as if he'd been broken.
"Where's your hidden gold?"
Although Rorschach was asking Enel, he had already pulled Enel into the back of the temple.
His vastly expanded Observation Haki range had already allowed him to pinpoint the gold's location.
After walking for a few minutes, following a path with rockeries, flowing water, and vine-covered flowerbeds, Rorschach saw an open, clearly man-made flat area.
In this vast open square, a half-assembled large ship, composed of gold and wood, sat on a wooden frame to the left.
To the right of the wooden ship, neatly stacked were sparkling golden bricks.
Perhaps they shouldn't be called bricks.
Because the size of these rectangular gold blocks was no longer that of bricks, but rather of flagstones.
Golden blocks, one meter long and twenty centimeters wide and thick, were stacked from the ground up to over ten meters high, forming a long line from left to right.
They resembled the scales of a colossal golden dragon, still reflecting a brilliant golden sheen under the moonlight that had already appeared.
Rorschach's lips twitched, and he looked at Enel as if he were an idiot.
"Holy crap, did you melt all those ancient golden artifacts from Shandora? Are you stupid? You turned those artistically designed golden creations into these gaudy, nouveau riche gold bricks? Do you know how much their value will drop by doing this? What a waste!"
"Hmph! All this gold is my private property; I can do whatever I want with it... Ah!"
Enel hadn't even finished speaking when a bolt of lightning, laced with deep blue Haki, struck him, causing his turban to explode, revealing a head of smoking, curly golden short hair, making him look utterly miserable.
Rorschach pointed to the mountain of gold bricks.
"Remember, they're mine now. Go, melt these bricks into a single mass for me."
Rorschach couldn't take these hundreds of thousands of tons of gold with him right now.
So, he could only melt them into one massive block and leave them there, as a simple deterrent against theft.
Enel gnashed his teeth, watching Rorschach turn and walk towards the unfinished Ark.
He couldn't understand. He was supposed to be the master of lightning.
His lightning ability had no effect on Rorschach.
But Rorschach's lightning could shock his muscles into pain.
Was it that deep blue energy mixed in with the lightning?
What in the world was that?
Unable to fight and unable to escape, Enel could only grudgingly walk to the stacked gold on the right, raise his hand, and unleash a large spread of lightning, beginning to melt the gold before him.
Meanwhile, Rorschach approached the Ark Maxim, which was under construction, surveying this large ship capable of flying in the air by utilizing electricity.
The weight of this ship was by no means light.
Although the hull appeared to be made of a large amount of wood.
However, the interior of the hull and the deck were constructed using a significant amount of gold.
Gold's electrical conductivity ranks third among all metals.
Moreover, its stability is extremely high, surpassing that of silver and copper.
So, theoretically, if a purely gold-built electric propulsion system could be used to propel the ship, it would indeed be perfect.
This Ark Maxim combined a large amount of gold with Enel as an extremely powerful power source.
It would be strange if it couldn't fly with that combination.
Not to mention, Rorschach also discovered a large number of Wind Dials at the bottom of the ship.
It must be said that Enel and his priestly team were indeed geniuses.
Although the Ark Maxim had blueprints, being able to understand these ancient blueprints was quite remarkable.
Rorschach picked up a golden slab lying in the ship's cabin, looking at the complex engine structure engraved on it, along with some incomprehensible textual descriptions.
This golden slab, which had some scratches, must be the blueprint for the Ark Maxim.
Rorschach held the golden slab and looked at it for a long time before coming to a conclusion.
He couldn't understand it!
This thing was like the Pluton blueprints Franky showed him; only professional personnel could understand them. An outsider, even if they got it, wouldn't be able to comprehend it at all.
However, although he couldn't understand it, Enel should be able to.
Iceberg and Franky would definitely also be able to understand it.
At that time, he could let Enel, Iceberg, and Franky, or directly go to Kizaru and have him take him to Vegapunk, to install an electric propulsion system on the Killion.
Thinking of this, Rorschach's mood became a little excited.
An electrically propelled Fenglei Kirin.
After adding Wind Dials, and with Enel, a several-hundred-million-volt power source, acting as the electricity supply, he truly wondered how powerful this ship would become.
The Killion had no shortage of electricity.
Rorschach, Enel, plus Hibari, who could simulate thunderclouds, could all inject powerful input power into the Killion at any time.
Now, Rorschach only worried about one thing.
That was whether the wood from the Adam Tree could withstand the Killion's soon-to-be soaring speed.
Holding the golden slab in his hand, Rorschach dispelled the idea of also taking the Ark Maxim with him. He turned around and was stunned.
"Oh... Enel actually has this kind of talent?"
On the open ground before him, the mountain of gold bricks had now been melted into one piece by Enel, forming a colossal golden dragon coiled on the ground.
The dragon's ferocious, open mouth and the golden whiskers floating around its muzzle looked incredibly lifelike and exquisite.
Sensing the strange gaze from behind him, Enel's movements stiffened, and a look of shame and annoyance appeared on his face.
He really didn't mean to melt the gold into that shape.
It was purely due to his complex and chaotic thoughts that he unconsciously manipulated lightning to perform the electrometallurgical operation.
"Excellent!"
Rorschach walked over and patted his shoulder.
"Come on, I'll introduce you to some colleagues. From now on, you'll be a glorious Private First Class Marine soldier, and a shipwright on the Fenglei Kirin. Keep up the good work, Lord God; I see Admiral potential in you."
"Go to hell with your 'keep up the good work'!"
Rage surged in Enel's eyes; he wished he could turn Rorschach, who was walking ahead, into charcoal with his lightning.
Unfortunately, the lightning he emitted had no effect on the other party.
A few minutes later, in a corner of Jaya Island, on the open ground in front of the massive golden pillar.
"Pri... Private First Class Enel?"
"Ship... shipwright?"
Wiper, Gan Fall, Hibari, and the others, who were sitting around a campfire, looked at Enel, who stood beside Rorschach with a sullen face, their expressions quite spectacular.
Rorschach took a chicken leg from the dazed Bepo's hand and stuffed it into Enel's hand. He then raised his chin to the dumbfounded crowd, "What are you staring at? Aren't you going to greet everyone? You're still a rookie; you need to be humble and absolutely not put on airs. These people are all your seniors."
Enel stared intensely at the half-eaten chicken leg in his hand, his entire body trembling slightly.
"Hmm?" Rorschach squinted at him.
Enel's body reflexively shuddered. He then forced a smile, and under the bewildered gaze of everyone, his face flushed red as he enunciated each word:
"He... hello everyone, I... I am, am new recruit Enel, please... please take care of me."
The entire scene fell silent, so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
Law's eye twitched uncontrollably.
This kid actually subdued the god of Skypiea.
And made him a shipwright.
This was a Rumble-Rumble Fruit user, for crying out loud.
What if he suddenly went berserk on the ship, and a hundred-million-volt electric shock came down? All the Marines on the Killion, except for Rorschach and Hibari, would turn into barbecued meat.
The Marines on Rorschach's side were better off.
Although shocked, they were still very excited.
After all, this was another Logia user.
Now, their team had two more Logia users.
The Killion's power had significantly increased.
But Wiper and Gan Fall were completely frozen.
No words could describe their feelings at this moment.
The god who had ruled Skypiea for three years, whom no one could resist, had been caught and made into a rookie.
This twist made Wiper and Gan Fall question reality.
However, no matter what they thought, the fact that Enel, an invincible enemy to them, would leave Skypiea with Rorschach was a tremendous blessing for everyone on Skypiea.
"Good, good, this is your voluntary joining; I didn't force you. Come, come, sit down, have something to eat."
Rorschach laughed heartily, pulling the dejected Enel to sit on the grass, and took the grilled meat offered by Hibari, starting to eat.
Beside Enel, Bepo looked at the half-eaten chicken leg in his hand and simply offered him a bottle of Skypiea fruit juice he was holding.
Enel sat like a wooden dummy, completely unresponsive.
Swish, swish, swish.
Arms extended from all directions, holding grilled meat, or bottles of sake, or fruits, offering them to Enel.
Enel was stunned, looking up blankly, and saw smiling Marine soldiers.
"Rookie, welcome to the Marines."
"Welcome to the Killion."
Late night.
"Brother Rorschach, the night sky above Skypiea is so clear; without cloud cover, you can see stars that aren't visible in the Grand Line."
At the top of the Killion's central mast, on the eaves of the crow's nest, a girl in a sky-blue princess dress dangled her fair feet, her slender neck craned upwards, looking at the high, lonely sky.
Her black hair swayed in the gentle breeze of Skypiea.
A faint, sweet scent of her hair drifted on the wind, stirring the thoughts of the young man sitting on the crossbar below the sail, unable to find peace.
Not hearing the young man's reply, the girl wasn't annoyed; she just secretly pursed her lips and looked down at him.
She saw the stunned young man seemingly gazing into the distant, boundless void in a daze.
However, the corner of his eye was clearly fixed on her swinging feet.
This discovery made the girl's face flush, and she quickly looked elsewhere.
Hibari felt her heart beating very fast.
In her hand, she held a very thick golden necklace.
A large ruby was set into this necklace, which weighed a full pound.
Although someone had crudely etched some seemingly intricate patterns onto it, it still exuded the vulgarity of a nouveau riche.
This was a gift from the blockhead sitting on the railing below.
The necklace looked tacky, but Hibari liked it very much.
"Brother Rorschach," she lowered her head again and called out.
The young man was still absorbed in admiring the night sky in the distance, until the shy girl raised her voice and called out again. He then shuddered, came back to his senses, coughed a few times, and looked up with a smile, "What is it?"
"That Enel..." Hibari forced herself to control her rapidly beating heart and asked the question on her mind, "He should be a bad guy, right? Why did you, why did you recruit him into the Marines?"
"A bad guy?" Rorschach's smile faded, and he nodded gently. "Indeed, to the Shandians and the Angel people, Enel certainly counts as a bad guy. He ruled Skypiea through fear, forcing both the Shandians and the Angel Race to submit to his rule, revering him as a god."
"But sometimes, you have to admit, it's precisely because of his deterrence that the Shandians and Angel Race, who had been fighting non-stop for 400 years over Jaya Island, did not engage in inter-racial warfare during Enel's three-year rule of Skypiea. Tell me, doesn't that count as saving Skypiea?"
Rorschach's words left Hibari stunned.
Before Enel arrived, the situation in Skypiea was far more chaotic than it was now.
The native Angel Race, who occupied Jaya Island and refused to return it, and the Shandians, who wanted to reclaim their homeland, had been fighting a war for nearly 400 years.
The great Shandian warrior Calgara, 400 years ago, died in the war against the Skypieans.
"You should have seen the reactions of the Shandians and Angel people after I defeated Enel, right, Hibari?"
Rorschach looked down at the forest of Jaya Island, his voice distant.
"Without Enel's deterrence, the Shandians and Angel people might start fighting again over the ownership of Jaya Island; the war might continue.
Gan Fall, the former god of Skypiea, seemed to rule more gently than Enel, but don't forget, his identity is actually the leader of the Angel Race.
Doesn't he know that Jaya Island is the homeland of the Shandians?
But during his tenure, he did not return the seized land of Jaya Island to the Shandians.
In the face of racial survival and interests, sometimes justice and kindness cannot be discussed."
In truth, Rorschach had hesitated when considering bringing Enel into the Marines.
Because to outsiders, Enel was indeed a bad person.
But on Skypiea, in Rorschach's view, apart from the unfortunate Shandians who came up due to the Knock Up Stream, Gan Fall and his Angel Race were not exactly good people either.
The Angel Race's occupation of Jaya Island was a fact.
A heartwarming scene like in the manga, where everyone shook hands and was happy after Enel's defeat, then lived peacefully together on Jaya Island, would forever be an unrealistic fantasy in this real world.
Think about how many unfortunate Shandians died over these 400 years in their struggle to reclaim their homeland.
Jaya Island was originally their home; why should they agree to share their homeland equally with the Angel Race?
Thinking this way, it was actually during Enel's time that the two races had to unite and fight against a common powerful enemy.
Of course, Rorschach was not trying to excuse Enel's crimes.
His interest in Enel's Rumble-Rumble Fruit ability was also a very important reason.
Killing Enel would have been too much of a waste.
If Enel could grow, the Marines would definitely gain another top-tier combatant comparable to the three Admirals.
His growth potential was even higher than Law's.
Furthermore, Rorschach always felt that Enel also had an unknown tragic past.
A Skypiean boy without wings, after destroying his hometown of Birka, decided to become a high and mighty god, and finally went to the moon alone.
Enel was the loneliest person in the world of One Piece.
He was more like a true god than Imu.
Looking at the silent young man, Hibari pursed her lips, then suddenly smiled brightly, lightly jumping down from the crow's nest. She floated in mid-air, extending her hand towards the young man.
"Brother Rorschach, it's late. Let's go to sleep!"
Rorschach: "..."
(End of Chapter)
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