Chapter 286: Having Drinks with Whitebeard

Chapter 286: Having Drinks with Whitebeard



The sea floor seemed to shift and writhe beneath the surface of the water. The beast's deep blue coloring made it impossible to determine what was part of the beast and what was

merely open water.

The beast moved towards the Whitebeard fleet, the water rising up into a wave in its wake.

It moved with such speed that perhaps even the mermaids, known to be the fastest swimmers in the world, might not be a match for it.

That speed combined with its immense size and strength to create a genuine threat, even to the Whitebeard Pirates.

That wasn't to say that the division commanders were weaker than it, let alone Whitebeard himself. However, their ships were a completely different story; if they weren't fast enough, it might sink some of them!

The regular crewmen turned around to look at their glorious leaders in anticipation. How would these powerhouses go about intercepting the monster before it could damage their fleet?

"You brought out some really good stuff, old man." Cherry said, sipping from a sake bowl. "Of course, there's no better reason to drink it than to celebrate the safe return of one of my sons." Whitebeard said, gulping from a bowl many times the size of Cherry's bowl.

"You don't want more than that? Are you a lightweight, perhaps?" Whitey Bay teased.

"Please, I could drink you all under the table," Cherry claimed. "In succession~"

"Bahaha! Then why don't you? We aren't stingy with our booze, you know? There's no need to hold back!" Marco asked.

"Robin will nag me if I come back to her drunk. It's for the best though; I tend to get into trouble when I'm drunk~" Cherry explained.

"You can't be more troublesome than Ace," Whitey Bay shook her head. "Before he joined up with us, he and his crew apparently wound up on Wano with no memory of how they got there. Ha!"

"Hey, I told you that in confidence!" Ace complained.

"And I tell everyone who'll listen. In confidence~" Whitey Bay snickered.

On Whitebeard's side, the Neo Marines were directly responsible for the deaths of some of his adoptees, his family. Unlike the marines who faced him head on, they were also incredibly sneaky in how they went about it.

Even without that reason, though, Whitebeard would still dislike Zed. In his view, Zed had abandoned his family in favor of his duty as a marine which resulted in their deaths at the hands of a pirate. To a family man like Edward Newgate, that was an intolerable sin. Ironically, Zed might just agree with him on that point.

"You should have died at Marineford, Newgate, and this damnable era should have died with you." Zed spoke, not cowed by Whitebeard's oppressive aura in the slightest.

"If that had happened, a new era would have risen to take its place. Youngsters are rowdy like that." Whitebeard said curtly.

Whitebeard would have attacked him immediately without bothering with words, but the fact that Zed came alone was bothering him. Even just one on one Zed wouldn't stand a chance in hell against Whitebeard, let alone with a handful of his best men by his side. His battle instinct and over half a century of experience told him that the container in Zed's robotic hand

wasn't something simple.

*pat pat*

""???"" Both Whitebeard and Zed were confused at the sight of Cherry tapping Whitebeard's

leg to get his attention.

Cherry motioned for him to lean over and he didn't see a reason not to, so he complied. She whispered something into his ear that no one else could hear, then Whitebeard nodded his head in understanding.

"I see. It was pleasant to see you again, but if you have business elsewhere, go on then." Whitebeard said.

Zed furrowed his brow. "No one is leaving here. The time for talk is over, now is time for

action!"

Zed couldn't allow that woman to leave, especially not after what Akainu said about her before falling unconscious tacked on to what he already knew about her. He had to take this chance when all his enemies were in one place to destroy them all in one fell swoop.

*Crack!*

Zed squeezed the glass container holding the dyna stone with his robotic hand, crushing the glass and hurling it with all his might at the Moby Dick!