boyutpedia Chapter 524 Even if it means breaking his arms and legs, I will take him back.
Chapter 524 Even if it means breaking his arms and legs, I will take him back.
After taking a swig of sake, Whitebeard looked in one direction and said meaningfully, "The Navy must be very nervous."
Marco smiled and said, "They must be quite nervous, after all, they even sent Garp."
Whitebeard chuckled and said, "You don't need to be so afraid of Garp. He's just an old soldier from the old era. The new era still depends on you."
Whitebeard's gaze sharpened slightly. "This time, even if it means breaking that guy's arms and legs, I will bring him back."
Hearing Whitebeard's words, Marco's heart tightened, and he looked at Whitebeard with some confusion, asking, "Father, didn't you say that if he didn't want to, then..."
Before Marco could finish speaking, Whitebeard said coldly, "Now I've changed my mind. I can let him slowly change his mind, but he has to do so under my watchful eye."
"I am also confident that I can change his mind."
Marco sensed that Whitebeard was serious this time.
However, Whitebeard's attitude towards them was completely different from usual; he was truly determined to have Yoru.
Marco looked at Whitebeard, somewhat puzzled, but then he noticed the medicine bottles hanging on Whitebeard's body and began to understand.
"Does Father really want to train someone who can hold his own for the Whitebeard Pirates, or are we just too weak for Father to make this decision?"
Whitebeard's physical condition is already very bad, and he is only able to survive by relying on medicine.
In this world, apart from some special abilities, such as the Op-Op Fruit, even the most powerful people will experience birth, aging, sickness, and death.
No matter how strong you are when you're young, your strength will decline when you get old, your body will get sick, and you may even have an incurable terminal illness. For example, the Pirate King Roger surrendered because he knew he didn't have much time left due to a terminal illness, and used his life to start the Great Pirate Era.
Of course, it was precisely because of his actions that many rising stars emerged.
Many powerful individuals like Luffy emerged, possessing the strength of a Yonko (Emperor of the Sea) before the age of 20.
It's important to know that in the world of One Piece, to reach the level of the Four Emperors, one generally needs to be over 40 years old.
Roger's Great Pirate Era did indeed produce many powerful figures. After all, with more pirates, the probability of strong individuals emerging was much higher than in Roger's time.
In less than 20 years, powerful figures like Shanks and Hawkeye, who are at the level of the Four Emperors, have already emerged.
Kaido, who in the past could even leave a permanent scar on Oden, has now become one of the Four Emperors, possessing the strength of one of the Four Emperors.
Whitebeard's strength won't last much longer; he might not even live for many more years. If he doesn't find a successor soon, the Whitebeard Pirates are destined to fall apart.
Right now, the Whitebeard Pirates have no one who can support a Yonko's crew.
After Whitebeard dies, the Whitebeard Pirates and their territory will definitely be swallowed up by the other four emperors.
However, if Yoru really takes over the Whitebeard Pirates, Whitebeard believes that with Yoru's talent, he will definitely be able to withstand the other four emperors' attempts to annex him.
What Yoru can do, Marco and the others cannot.
Marco is quite strong, possessing the strength of a Yonko's first mate, but he is only at the level of a Yonko's first mate.
He wasn't the kind of first mate whose strength could rival that of the captain.
Although Marco's strength is actually quite good, and he can even hold his own against Big Mom in a brief battle, it is still not enough to support the Whitebeard Pirates.
That's why Whitebeard was so eager to find Yoru.
However, this was the first time Whitebeard had ever said something like that, that he would take Yoru away even if it meant breaking his arms and legs.
This also shows that he was really anxious.
The captains of the other divisions on the ship also understood Whitebeard's thoughts and all fell silent.
They were still too weak; none of them possessed the strength of a Yonko (Emperor of the Sea), and they simply couldn't support the Whitebeard Pirates.
The Whitebeard Pirates are the most powerful pirate crew among the Four Emperors, precisely because of Whitebeard's existence.
Even though Whitebeard's health is very poor now, he still has the strength to suppress the other four emperors.
This can actually be seen from the Four Emperors' evaluation of Whitebeard.
Both Big Mom and Kaido still held Whitebeard in high esteem at this time.
They were once teammates on the same pirate ship and knew each other's strength best. Long before Kaido and Big Mom reached the level of the Four Emperors, Whitebeard's strength was already very close to that of the Four Emperors.
Even Shanks still held Whitebeard in high regard.
As for Ye Yu, although Ye Yu is very young, in their eyes he is very young, but Ye Yu's achievements are something they absolutely cannot achieve.
Putting everything else aside, just consider the two things: instantly defeating Crocodile and knocking Jack the Drought down with a single punch, almost killing him. No one on the ship could do that, not even Whitebeard.
Whitebeard may be stronger than Yoru, but he still couldn't have instantly defeated Crocodile and Jack.
This is their idea.
Even so, they did not believe that Yoru was stronger than Whitebeard. In the eyes of the division commanders of the Whitebeard Pirates, Whitebeard was still the strongest person in the world.
After all, the title of the world's strongest man is well-deserved.
Even if Yoru's strength is not as good as Whitebeard's, he is definitely at the level of a Yonko.
None of them would deny that.
Therefore, as long as Yoru becomes the captain of the Whitebeard Pirates in the future, none of them will be dissatisfied.
Of course, this is on the premise that Ye Yu agrees, but will Ye Yu refuse?
They didn't think Yoru would refuse, after all, Whitebeard didn't have many years left to live, and after Whitebeard died, Yoru would inherit the Whitebeard Pirates and all their assets and territory.
There's no way Ye Yu could refuse such a good thing.
Whitebeard withdrew his gaze from Garp's warship in the distance, turned to look at the Devil's Triangle, and asked, "According to the timing and intelligence, Yoru and the others should be going there, right?"
Marco took out a nautical chart, thought for a moment, and said, "Based on the timeline, they should be approaching the Devil's Triangle soon, or they may have already entered it."
Whitebeard nodded. "That's good. Let's go over there too. I've been wanting to meet that guy for a long time. The kid with a bounty of 51 billion Berries, I want to see if he's really worth that much money."
Whitebeard was still resentful that Yoru's bounty exceeded his own.
It's almost as if the World Government did it on purpose; Yoru's bounty is tens of millions higher than Whitebeard's. Even if it were hundreds of millions more, Whitebeard wouldn't care so much.
This is similar to the feeling of having a multi-million dollar item auctioned off, only to have someone else bid a dollar more – it would definitely be very uncomfortable.