Chapter 249: Bankai: Red Sun

The glaring sunlight made Kevin open his eyes.

But when his vision returned, he found himself above the clouds, with warm sunlight radiating from the side... the sun?
My body suddenly fell down, and after passing through the clouds, a large island came into view.

Falling from a high altitude to see the whole picture, the island below is much larger even compared to Alabasta. It can no longer be called an island. It would be more appropriate to say that it is a continent.

Kevin flew through the air, not very fast, but he could clearly see the scenery of the cities below.

The towering buildings, the floating trains, the crowds of people laughing and talking happily...

This is not the hometown in my memory, because the level of technology is even far higher than the world in my memory.

"Where is this place?"

Kevin's figure flew through the air again until he had seen the entire world.

However, the next moment, the world shattered and then reassembled.

Kevin didn't panic at all.

Although there is no explanation for the thing that is materialized with a value of one million this time, it will definitely not destroy the world directly.

……

The world is reorganized, Kevin appears in a town, and then appears next to each character.

A little boy of four or five years old was trying to steal an apple secretly. After being caught, he was kicked into the mud by the boss, making his body even dirtier.

The cursing boss rolled up his sleeves and prepared to go forward, but he found two children packing apples in the store.

"Shh!"

A fruit knife was thrown over and pierced one of the children's cheek directly.

Cries and yelling began to sound, but Kevin could do nothing.

It was just a few apples, he thought he could pay the boss and then use the healing dandelions to heal the child's injuries.

Soon the scene changed and one of the children ran away.

The boss grabbed the stabbed child by the throat and slammed him against the wall while cursing...everything was red and white.

The furious boss turned around and looked at the mud puddle, but the child had already stood up and ran away.

After cursing, he threw the child's body into a trash can on the street.

Kevin was a little angry, but in this scene, he seemed to be just a bystander.

The scene changes again.

This time it was in a room, and the shop owner was lying on the ground crying.

Lying on the bed was a boy in his teens, with a pale face and thin body, looking very ill, so sick that Kevin even ignored his wrist at first.

Yes, the blood on the wrist flowed on the ground, and because the blood had dried up, the cut on the wrist was bright red but already dry.

The boss wailed and cried bitterly, without any of the hideous look that had just appeared after killing another child.

Kevin frowned as he looked at everything in front of him.

The child’s treatment requires money, and even going to sea requires a lot of money.

But he still couldn't agree with killing a child for an apple.

As if Kevin's thoughts were heard, the whole scene broke apart and reassembled again.

This time it was another shop, a rice shop.

The boss was an old man who was cruel to adults. He always carried a flintlock rifle and even killed two young men who wanted to steal food.

But he would give the children some food and not treat them harshly.

The scene then accelerated, with more and more children coming to beg for food, and even robbery occurring due to the chaos.

The child was held hostage by a group of young men. Because of his kindness, he became the target of public criticism, and a flintlock rifle could no longer serve as a deterrent.

"Oh!"

After sparks flew, the blood and fallen people did not stop the chaos. Instead, because the lead bullets had no deterrent effect, the chaos in the crowd began to intensify.

The last scene was the old man lying in a pool of blood, with all his belongings looted.

Several children to whom he had given food before ignored it and continued to rummage through the counter that had been pushed aside.

This scene once again caused Kevin to feel conflicted.

Who is right? And who is wrong?

As the old man's pupils dilated, the scene shattered.

After it took shape again, it was the child who was looking for food before, but it was obviously smaller, so the timeline moved forward a little?
The family of three lived on the little land they cultivated, but people came to collect money one after another.

The royal family of the country collected taxes, the nobles of the town collected taxes, the nearby naval branches collected taxes, and finally the pirates came and took lives.

A family of three, the parents died at the hands of pirates, and the child was hidden and escaped.

The last words his parents left him were: You must live.

Kevin was conflicted once again.

Yes...you must survive.

The child obeyed his parents' words and survived even though he lived like a stray dog, begging for food on the streets.

So is the child wrong? Is the old man wrong again? Is the middle-aged man at the beginning wrong again?
The scene changes and the timeline moves forward again.

It’s still a family of three, no, it’s a family of five.

When they were completely emptied after being plundered several times, they could not pay the taxes for five people based on their number of people.

They wanted to hide the elderly and children, but their neighbors reported them.

In the end, the two elderly people ended their own lives. Like the four elderly people in the neighborhood, they chose to use this method to achieve their final purpose.

Is the neighbor wrong?
Kevin looked solemnly at the four old men who were carried out and then buried.

……

The scenes changed again and again, but what was presented to Kevin was the life and death of ordinary people.

It's not as heart-wrenching as the girl who had her eyes gouged out by the Celestial Dragons in the Sabaody Archipelago, but it seems to be something that happens every day in this world.

In the past, Kevin knew the darkness of this world, and he had heard people say that this was a world where life was worse than death.

During those years in the Sabaody Archipelago, I witnessed tragedy after tragedy.

It was precisely because of what he saw that, from one day on, his original purpose of revenge turned into truly changing the world.

But in the past twenty years or so, he seemed to have seen and understood, but also seemed not to have seen or understood.

……

The sun shines down from high in the sky.

There was not even the sound of wind whistling in the silent sky, but Kevin, like Roger, could listen to the sounds of all things and felt the sound of the sun above his head.

Close your eyes and listen carefully...

After a long time, Kevin looked at the warm sunshine in the distance.

The Sabaody Archipelago could be said to be a gathering place of evil before Kevin cleaned it up, but so many slaves and so many tragic fates are not the norm in this world.

In such a vast waters as the Four Seas and the Great Route, countries and islands like the ones he just saw are the norm.

Only by being cruel can one survive, only by being indifferent can one survive...

Whether it was the child who stole things at the beginning, the middle-aged man who killed the child, or the old man who fell in a pool of blood later... they were all right.

Even those navies that violated the name of justice and those plundering pirates suffered the same tragic fate after seeing their past.

"This world is... so sick."

Being in a high position because of his power, even though he proposed that there is no distinction between high and low in life, he still could not truly forge the scale in his heart before seeing the scenes just now.

His body suddenly lost weight and fell, but Kevin did not struggle at all, allowing his body to fall from the sky.

The sea was torn apart, and as Kevin fell into the abyss, a black flame burst out from the ground and covered Kevin's entire body.

For the first time, Kevin felt the pain that past inmates in the prison had endured.

The whole body...or rather the soul consciousness began to tremble, and the pain that penetrated into the bones made him collapse to the ground.

"what!!!"

The roar echoed throughout the dark and silent space.

A voice also sounded in my heart at this moment: "Those who light a lamp in the darkness will inevitably suffer the erosion of darkness."

The next moment, a long knife fell.

As the slash passed by, Kevin rolled over to avoid it.

"Ryujin... Wakabi?"

Kevin's voice was trembling. At this moment, his body was covered in black flames and the pain penetrated deep into his soul.

"My name...was decided by you, wasn't it?"

"I appeared because of you, I became real because of your will, and I gained authority because of the future you hoped for... I am you."

"But the title of sir... are you and I really worthy of it?"

The long knife swept past, and Kevin could only endure the pain and dodge.

Each blow seemed to be about to hit, but was avoided by a hair's breadth.

As soon as this thought came to mind, a slash swept across his arm.

"what!!!"

The scream almost caused Kevin's soul consciousness to collapse, but his arm was not cut off.

The soul consciousness...faded!

"tumultuous!"

Black flames filled the surroundings, and Kevin suddenly retreated to avoid the long sword.

Is this the trial of Bankai?
Even the Kurosaki Ichigo in our memory should have a knife in his hand, right?
"What you really need...is not a weapon."

The voice sounded again: "You must be very proud to be called sir by everyone, right? Even Dragon is only a nominal leader. The only person in the entire revolutionary army who truly worships and respects you is you, sir."

"I don't want to become a god. I want to crush you, the god, with my own hands in the future. But... can you really withstand the temptation of power?"

"Money, power, beauty, when everything in this world is at your fingertips, can you still maintain your inner self?"

"You are a shameless plagiarist who has only half the knowledge and no experience!"

"Om..."

Once again, Kevin's entire body was chopped off by the long knife, and the feeling of pain was infinitely magnified in his consciousness.

"Huhuhu..."

There was no time to collapse and wail. Kevin gasped as if he were a physical entity as he retreated, but there was nothing substantial in his inhalation and exhalation.

"Think about it...are you really worthy of the title of Mr."

"what have you done?"

"You bring out those things in your memory that you only half-understand from the past, and use some brainwashing words. Do you really deserve that title?"

"Or do you really think that what you see is all the darkness in this world?"

"A dragon slayer eventually becomes a dragon. When you are faced with a real choice, when you are faced with the stairs leading to the throne, will you walk up slowly like Yim... and turn around and sit down?"

For a moment, Kevin's mind flashed through the previous scenes.

Humans are emotional creatures, with their own joys, sorrows, anger and happiness. What he saw and heard in the past changed his goal from revenge to revolution, and what he saw and heard in the future, what choice will he make?
So many excuses...

No one can lead the direction of the world with the knowledge in your memory except yourself.

How about that excuse?

No one will object. He has even been deified and will be supported by everyone, and his words will be followed by everyone.

At that time, what choice would he make?

Kevin froze in place, and the long sword fell with him.

The pain...is much lighter...

I am just an ordinary person, and the core ideas of the revolutionary army did not come from me. They were just fragments of words from truly great people that I claimed as my own in this world.

It's different if you can be an emperor and if you actually face that empty throne.

Tinder...

Can I really become a spark, someone who brings light and hope to this world?
At this moment, Kevin's thoughts began to blur and fade, and even his entire soul consciousness was almost non-existent.

My thoughts started jumping...

If you win the lottery, and really win the lottery...

If you have 10 million or 100 million, and if you truly own 10 million or 100 million...

Wait…why am I thinking this?
Is this Bailey? Or is it Yuan?

It was also at this time that a warm current flowed upwards from the hands, and consciousness gradually became clear again.

In my mind, I began to recall the original continent full of joy and technology.

In the cities I flew over, I could hear the laughter of children and the adults who were busy but smiled every day...

There are no children who died because of an apple, no middle-aged people who cannot survive because they are not fierce, and no old people who are killed because of kindness...

There are also no... elderly people who have to commit suicide because of endless exploitation.

Isn't this... the future I want?

Kevin recalled a vague legal provision in his memory.

The details are no longer clear.

But you can’t convict someone for suspecting something that didn’t happen, isn’t that the most basic thing?

When I really face the throne at the top of the world in the future, what will I choose? No matter how much I say now or how determined I am, it will all be fake...

Only then will the right and wrong be revealed.

Being able to change the world, to make it no longer a world where living is worse than death, is exactly what I want at this moment!

……

"Buzz!"

A flickering light emerged from Kevin's hands, and at the same time, a new voice resounded in his heart.

"Chiyang."

Golden...sun!
In the dark world, a bright light flickered, and the black flames around Kevin dissipated.

And the voice that questioned him before also disappeared, as if it had never appeared.

……

At Sky Island Headquarters, Kevin opened his eyes and sat up from the bed.

He stretched out his right hand, and a golden circle like the sun appeared in his palm.

The card that previously represented the value of one million also disappeared without a trace at this moment.

Chiyang...

Kevin placed his hand on the hilt of the knife, feeling the trembling and joy of the blade, as well as the burning warm current.

……

New world, Whitebeard Pirates.

As the years went by, Newgate had more and more sons.

More than a dozen pirate groups, large and small, have formed the current scale of the Whitebeard Fleet.

"Dad, although your health has improved a lot, it has declined again in the past few years. Drink less, your health is important!"

Marco had just finished examining Whitebeard's body and gave him some helpless advice.

But it was obvious that Newgate, who loved freedom all his life and loved to have a godson, didn't care about it. Instead, he laughed out loud.

"Marco, you're becoming more and more preachy! Are you considered a pirate if you don't drink?"

Joz on the side raised his big wine glass: "Dad is right! Cheers to freedom!"

These words almost made Marco kick him.

"Come here, freshly baked bone-in meat!"

Thatch came out of the cabin and served the delicious food, and for a moment the Moby Dick became more lively.

"Captain, as long as Dad is happy, that's all. Isn't there the guy from the Revolutionary Army here? Can't we just ask him for help when the time comes?"

Tiqi said as he gulped down the wine in his hand, holding a piece of bone in one hand, looking very casual.

Marco glared at him, "That's a favor, Tiqi. Favors are the hardest to repay."

Putting a hand on Marco's shoulder, Thatch joked, "Our captain of the first squadron is becoming more and more like a vice-captain."

Bista raised his glass: "I agree!"

"Snapped!"

"What do you agree to?"

Marco slapped him on the back, "I'm the ship's doctor! You know what a ship's doctor is? I'm responsible for Dad's health!"

“La la la…I know, I know!”

Vista waved his hands and said perfunctorily: "We already owed that gentleman a favor, didn't we? Although we didn't intervene in the affairs of Fishman Island, with the appearance of that healing ability, it's impossible to even things out, Marco."

Knowing that what he said was true, Marco sighed and sat on the other side with Thatch.

The two ate meat and drank wine.

"Recently, the Revolutionary Army's New Era Newspaper has directly detonated this sea. The world that has sunk to the bottom of the sea, whether it is a person with special abilities, a master of physical skills, a swordsman, or an ordinary person, cannot ignore it..."

Thatch said, looking at Marco: "I remember you can fly! Remember to catch me when the time comes."

Marco glanced at him and said, "Even if I can fly, I can't carry a boat! With Little Oz's size, I can't even carry him by himself!"

Hearing this, Thatch was stunned: "Can he be drowned?"

As the descendant of the demon Oz, little Oz is even bigger than the giants. If someone of his height is submerged, wouldn’t the world be destroyed?
Marco: "Marijoa is on the Red Earth Continent, which is 10,000 meters high. They think it's the safest place. Do you think Oz is as high as the Red Earth Continent?"

The two boasted, and although they were a little worried, they still ate wine and meat, showing the carefree pirates.

Teach, who was sitting on the deck not far away, was also bragging and chatting, drinking happily, but in his heart he was thinking about things that only he knew.

Ever since he saw the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia many years ago, he has been in a state of light sleep.

Even within the Whitebeard Pirates, there were rumors that he never slept.

【Note: This is from Bucky’s statement.】

Sleeping would relax him, and once his mind was relaxed, he was afraid that he would speak out his innermost thoughts.

The fruit has not appeared yet, and the pirate group that is most likely to obtain the fruit has still not appeared.

And there has been no news of the appearance of a user with the ability of the Dark Dark Fruit on the sea, ever.

The power of the Revolutionary Army has grown. Even from his father's few words, he knew that the Revolutionary Army has a large number of members all over the world.

In this case, the organization with the greatest possibility of obtaining the fruit is not the Whitebeard Pirates, but the Revolutionary Army is in secret again.

Even though he traveled across the ocean, he had never heard of anyone other than that gentleman who was a true revolutionary.

And it is obviously not an easy thing to join the Revolutionary Army and become a member of the Whitebeard Pirates.

That gentleman hasn't been here for a long time.

"Yo? Is it lively?"

A familiar voice appeared behind him, and Teach almost jumped up on the spot.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

After a series of coughs, a hand patted his back: "How could a member of the Whitebeard Pirates be scared by a voice?"

Kevin's eyes met Teach's.

The moment they looked at each other, Teach seemed to see amusement in his eyes.

Illusion? It must be an illusion!

"Sir? Why are you here?"

Kevin smiled and said, "Can't you come? Isn't it normal to bring some wine and have a look?"

At this time, Newgate also looked over and said, "The ability to teleport is really convenient, kid. Bring me some wine from Rogue Town when you have time. No one has sent me any wine since Roger left."

"Rogue Town?"

Kevin asked again: "Which one?"

Newgate didn't take it seriously and said casually, "I remember it should be a company called..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Kevin disappeared onto the deck.

This situation made Newgate's eyes twitch, and he had a bad feeling in his heart.

Are you going to buy yourself some wine?
When did this kid become so easy to talk to?
Would the cloaked man, who is regarded as an extremely evil person by the World Government and a senior member of the core of the Revolutionary Army, go to Rogue Town in the East China Sea to buy wine for himself?

While thinking, Newgate looked at Marco who was also stunned.

Is it true that debts of favor are bad, so just for a drink, I owed another favor?

Thatch touched Marco's arm and whispered, "Are you here to collect the debt?"

Marco sighed, "As expected, that's the case. But what I'm most worried about now is that the gentleman needs our help... Isn't he going to go to war with the World Government?"

Qiao Zi on the side bumped his fists together and said, "Hit me if you want!"

"Go and go!"

Vista glared at him and said, "Do you think you are teaching a newbie a lesson?"

Several people looked at Qiao Zi and sighed.

……

Just three minutes later, Kevin appeared on the deck again, holding a bottle of wine from Rogue Town and smiling.

"How are you feeling? Do you want to recover first?"

……

[Note: A value of one million cannot directly lead to Bankai. This mainly hides the subsequent authority, and is also an ending I guess.]

[The sun in the palm of the hand represents the time limit of Bankai. The difference between 6,000 degrees and 15 million degrees means that both physical strength and life span can only be maintained for a very short time. One second? Two seconds?]

[The authority said it was an anti-aging surgery, but I can’t reveal the details any more, thank you so much.]

(End of this chapter)