Soulmate Communicator

Marineford Arc

Chapter 5 : Regret and Guilt

Marineford, Grand Line

  Jiro is currently on edge right now. Why you ask? First, she's in a fucking war, second, it's her older brother's execution Portgas D. Ace, how do you think she felt when she has to watch her own brother's execution? It's a relief for her that the Whitebeard Pirates have decided to start a war with the Marines, so Ace's execution is still being postponed. But with the Whitebeards here to retrieve Ace back, it means that she has no choice but to fight them, she didn't like the idea of fighting Ace's crewmates and father captain. Sure she doesn't have to fight them now, but who knows what kind of plan Edward 'Whitebeard' Newgate has in mind. Jiro is currently sitting on a chair that's placed in front of the Execution Tower, while occasionally turned head to look at Ace, she's sitting on the left with Admiral Aokiji next to her. For now, the Pirates are still on the Ice Plateau that Aokiji had made after Whitebeard used his Devil Fruit power to create a tsunami from each side of Marineford.

  But not even one minute later, a Navy ship is falling down from the sky. Now, Jiro knew that this war is anything but safe and normal, but this?! And what's worse is when she noticed that there are some people that she knew falling from the sky with the ship, for example her brother, Monkey D. Luffy. 'What is Luffy doing here?!' Jiro thought to herself. Her brother might be a fool, but he's not an idiot. So she knew that Luffy must've gotten information from someone considering he rarely read any newspaper now. Anyways back to Luffy... Jiro still didn't believe at what she is witnessing, I mean who wouldn't? She just saw her brother obliterate the Marines, and by obliterate she meant Luffy is punching, kicking, use his Devil Fruit powers, and he even stole a sword from who knows where and started using it like a master! Even Smokey couldn't attack that fast, when and how did Luffy knew how to use a sword she will never know. 

  As Jiro watched Luffy completely leading the Pirates, she noticed that her Grandpa and Ace are also looking at Luffy with surprised looks on their faces. Jiro just facepalmed at them and continued to observe her brother, that's currently destroying half of the Marines, carefully. "EXECUTE HIM NOW!!" Fleet Admiral Sengoku said, that sentence made both Luffy and Jiro whipped their heads at the Execution Tower and tensed up. 'No, no! Why did Fleet Admiral Sengoku changed the plan?!' Jiro screamed in her mind. Aokiji could feel her anxiety coming out of Jiro, but the other two? They didn't even care about anything and just focused on the war happening down there. Jiro almost jumped down from her seat to help Ace, when she remembered that the other Admirals are near her, so she sat still on her chair while gritting her teeth.

  Aokiji read Jiro's expression and proceeded to froze both of her hands on the chair, Jiro is caught off guard by this but she knew this had to be done. As the executioneers are going to cut Ace's head off, Luffy screamed "STOP!!!" And a strong cold wind passes the entire Marineford, making most of the combatants passed out. Both the Pirates and Marines are surprised by this sudden wind, but most of them instantly knew that the strong wind is Conqueror's Haki. Ace, Garp, and Jiro are in shock because of this, they all knew that Luffy is not just a mere child trying to achieve his dream, but god damn Conqueror? And strong one at that. When Luffy opened his eyes back, he noticed that there are a lot of people on the ground, but he paid no mind to them, Ace is his top priority right now.

Three Hours Later

Luffy's PoV

  Haha! Ace is finally free from that stupid tower, now all we need to do is to run away from here and escape. All of the other Pirates immediately retreated back to the shore while some of the Whitebeard Pirates tried to convince Giant Old Man to go back to the Giant Whale ship, I think the ship's name is Moby Dick. Suddenly, Ace jumped on my back and attacked the Marines that are shooting us. "WHOA! You can't attack Luffy, he's my brother and I'll do anything to protect him." Ace said to the Marines. I smiled at Ace's revelation to those Marines, we've promised that we will protect each other's backs. I frowned at that thought, I turned my head towards Jiro and frowned. Both me and Ace became Pirates to be free of any rules, while Jiro became a Marine. This made our relationship becomes even more complicated.