Chapter 90

Redline, Mary Geoise

Akainu, after his short trip to the gate of justice had received the instructions to rush after Aokiji to Mary Geoise and with a disbelieving mind he did just that.

Soon they had arrived at the redline after some time of travelling and entered the elevator with readied weapons, even though they knew it would take some time until they would reach the holy city. Still, the tenseness of the crew was so palpable that it was nearly possible to grip it with b.a.r.e hands.

Akainu meanwhile had had a conversation with Sengoku and was told what the guardians on Mary Geoise had reported to him while he waited to arrive at Mary Geoise.

It seemed as if Aokiji was in battle with Azul, leader of the escapes from Impel Down, and was trying to delay him. Not more could be expected as Aokiji had been bested by Azul once before already making Akainu gnash his teeth at the besmirching of the marines honor when he thought about Kuzans failure.

Though soon even those thoughts came to a stop as the elevator finally arrived in Mary Geoise and what greeted them shocked the troops to the core. Destroyed buildings and infrastructure as far as the eyes could see, burning or frozen while corpses of dead Tenryuubito littered the ground. Obviously the ones that had decided to not listen to their leaders. Stupid morons that they had been...

Walking forwards Akainu stretched out his haki and soon found the two fighters making his eyes widen at the strength of Aokiji's opponents aura.

'So Azuls fame isn't baseless it seems. I'll still incinerate him!' Akainu thought before he dashed forwards, only one goal in mind. Azul, dead at his feet!

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"Sir! We couldn't find any more slaves. All the remaining buildings that haven't yet been burned or frozen are empty!" One of the members of the Kamabakka kingdom reported to Ivankov who nodded and swiftly gave the order to bring the elevator down to the new world where a group of revolutionaries would pick them up not much later after Ivankov had contacted the army.

Robin meanwhile had turned around towards the still fighting Azul and Aokiji, not able to step near the fight as the pressure alone was enough to send her to her knees. Though she couldn't just stand there and do nothing! After all they were about to leave Mary Geoise and Azul needed to know about that. She knew he could walk on air but that didn't mean he had to be left behind on his own.

After speaking with Ivankov they decided to send a few men to tell Azul about their soon to be journey. The few men rushed out, though Robin couldn't help the worry that lurked at the back of her mind after watching them disappear in the ruins of Mary Geoise...

While Azul was fighting with Aokiji his haki picked up on a strong aura that had just appeared in Mary Geoise, stronger even then Aokiji himself.

'So another admiral has arrived. I think it is time that I end this and get the hell out of here...' Azul thought to himself, keeping track of the swiftly advancing admiral that was rushing in their direction.

Aokiji meanwhile was bleeding and panting under the strain of keeping up with his foe that had battered him continuously with blows reinforced with haki, physically as well as mentally with his conqueror's haki, until Kuzan was on the verge of mental collapse himself. Thus was the strength of someone possessing the spirit of a conqueror!

With one last attempt to get away from his foe, Aokiji created a wall with icy spikes between them while he rushed to meet with his collegue, masking his haki as good as possible in the process.

Azul though managed to keep track of the admiral and rushed forwards, melting the icy wall of death with his roaring flames, chasing after the fleeing man. In the end he didn't manage to catch up to said man in time as a boiling fist of burning magma smashed into the ground between the chaser and the admiral, stopping Azul in his tracks with sharp eyes on the attack.

'Magma? Holy hell, that is one deadly power right there! I would love to test how my flames can content against molten earth but I have been fighting nonstop for I don't know how long now with only short breaks in between. Time to bounce!' Azul thought to himself, turning around and soon came upon a small group of dead men that had been covered in a ball of magma by the looks of it, possibly sent to inform him of something.

Speeding away from the scene while his body returned to his human form Azul was dodging fist made of magma that began to rain down from the sky like the picture of the armageddon that the scene painted.

Soon he arrived at the elevator which was about to descend and only a hundred meters seperated him from it. Looking over his eyes met Robins and he had to watch in shock as she jumped out of the elevator, rushing to meet him.

"What the hell are you doing? Get back in the elevator!" Azul yelled over to her but she seemed to ignore his words as she rushed towards him until she smashed into him like a canonball. The elevator meanwhile had descended far enough that it disappeared behind a sheen of clouds already on its way down.

"I-I just couldn't leave you behind... You are my only connection I have that keeps me from becoming nothing more then a shell. Please Azul... don't leave me behind!" Robin answered while tears acc.u.mulated in the corner of her eyes, through which Azul could see the despair Robin had felt at being alone once more, calming him down swiftly.

Ducking under another fist of magma that sailed over his head, Azul turned around and spotted Akainu that was rushing towards him.

Picking up Robin, Azul turned towards the admiral and couldn't contain the small mocking grin that grew on his face while speaking in a mocking voice that only fueled the admirals rage.

"You know, for someone that claims to be the ultimate instance of the marines you are one slow dipshit but don't worry, we'll meet again one day. I can promise you that!" Afterwards Azul rushed forwards and with a grin on his face jumped off of the edge of the redline, barrelling headfirst towards the new world while Robins shrieking and Azuls roaring laughter filled the air on their descent. And who could blame them. They had just done the impossible and it would not be long until the rest of the world would hear of the man that burned down the holy city, Mary Geoise...