One Piece: In the Name of the Father

Chapter 232
Stewart's face was heavy. He hated Gerald and himself.

He knew that he had made a mistake, and that he had fallen into this situation today because he was not as fearless of death as he used to be when he became a lord.

If he had known about today's situation, he should have fought to the death with his [-] army and the Xiaohe army led by Gerald.

Maybe we should do it thoroughly in the morning, shameless, break it up into pieces, turn thousands of attendants into our own appearance, and disperse and flee. Even if everyone cut off an arm at that time, it would be better than this one now. The situation is good!
Stewart was thinking wildly here, but his remaining dozens of attendants did not hesitate, and rushed towards Gerald who threatened Stewart's life.

At the beginning, Stewart was full of about a thousand attendants. These people had a lot of background. They were family soldiers adopted by the Meghan family since Songbai Island had no kingdom.

Passed down from generation to generation, even with Megan leading the heir, there are only so many people on the scale.

Not only are they all experienced in many battles and have outstanding martial arts skills, but the most important thing is that they are loyal to the Megan family, and to Stewart, the patriarch of the Megan family.

So along the way, no matter how unbearable Shi Duhua was and how much they didn't cherish their lives, they were willing to protect Shi Duhua and die willingly.

Because their ancestors have been soldiers of the Megan family for generations, they have been taught how to be loyal to the Megan family from the moment they were born.

But there were only a few dozen of them, and it was impossible for them to be Gerald's opponents, nor could they save Stewart's fate.

Facing their charge, Gerald just stomped his feet lightly, and continued to read.

"Sword wolves, attack!"

The ground under his feet began to tremble, and more than a dozen mud wolves rushed out of the ground, rushing towards the invading enemy.

This is a trick Gerald imitated Golden Lion's own fruit ability.

It's just that the power is much smaller, and the golden lion is a monster that looks like a lion, while Gerald has turned into a wolf.

To be precise, these wolves are the one-horned sword wolves unique to Xiaohe collar. There are more than a dozen muddy one-horned sword wolves, each with a body length of one meter.

Just like a real one-horned sword wolf, it uses its one-horned head, claws, and teeth to entangle with the enemy.

In the end, the dozens of muddy one-horned sword wolves died together with the dozens of Stewart's attendants.

The mud unicorn sword wolf died together, and their bodies turned into mud again, covering the corpses of Stewart's loyal servants, like piles of graves.

At this time, it was one-on-one, and Shi Duhua finally became more sober. He was originally a one-armed man, and his strength was not as good as before.

Over the years, he has been busy with government affairs and all kinds of intrigues, and the armed color domineering is always ineffective.

How could it be possible to defeat Gerald, who had the ability to eat the fluttering fruit of the golden lion's legacy.

With his only remaining hand, he raised the knife and faced Gerald, but in his mind, at this moment, he was not building his heart for a desperate fight.

Instead, he was entangled in whether to surrender or not. He had long since lost the courage and determination of his youth.

"Xiaojie, I belong to the same family as your father and mother, and we have a good friendship. Can you really let me live today?"

"Stewart, what do you think we are doing? Are we playing tricks? This is a war, a ruthless war. It is easy to let you live. How many lives will we have to save by then!"

Gerald could see very clearly that by capturing Stewart here, there would be no threat to the next Megan collar. By then, the unification of Coniferous Island would lose many lives of his own people.

Therefore, Gerald would never do such a loss-making business.

"I really don't want to!"

"Stewart, I heard that many years ago, you were also one of the best warriors on Pine Island. Come on, I don't need the fruit ability, and we will fight for life and death with swords, how about it!"

Gerald was still as domineering as ever, perhaps because of his past friendship with his parents, he gave Stewart a fairer duel.

Facing Gerald's resoluteness, Stewart acted even more resigned to his life.

With a bang, Stewart let go of the knife in his hand.

He knelt down at Gerald's feet again with a plop, begged for mercy, and surrendered!
"My lord, spare me!"

Gerald couldn't tell what he felt at this time. He, Stewart, was also a big shot on Pine Island, but he was so resigned to his life, so timid, and so shameless!
But it's fine if he surrenders, anyway, just don't let him run back to Stewart City.

Facing Stewart who was the same as his parents, Gerald didn't let him kneel on the ground all the time.

"Okay, get up, it's easy to spare your life, what to do with you, when you see my father, let him deal with it!"

Gerald came forward to help Stewart up, and led him to where his army was.

At this moment, a sudden change happened. Facing Gerald who walked into him, Stewart grabbed the knife that fell beside him with his only hand, and pointed at the seemingly defenseless Gerald. Erd stabbed.

How could Shi Duhua be willing to give up all the power he has now, and how could he beg for mercy from his former fellow disciples.

Although he had lost his courage and spared his life, his desire for power has not stopped at all.

All of this was a conspiracy. He knew that he couldn't beat Gerald, so he did this on purpose and wanted to sneak in.

But the result was not as he wished. The moment he made a move, he felt something was wrong.

He raised his head to sneak attack, but Gerald in front of him didn't look panicked, instead he sneered, as if mocking him for being overwhelmed!
Gerald didn't move, and Stewart's sword didn't hurt him.

Because what Stewart didn't know at this time was that Gerald had long been on guard against him.

It was also to blame for Stewart's carelessness, not noticing that Gerald's personal weapon was no longer there.

In the end, Stewart was killed by the nine-ringed broadsword that fell from the sky, piercing his chest from his head, splitting his upper body, and smashing his head to the ground.

Gerald didn't take another look at Stewart's broken body, and went back to the place where his army was. He still wanted to attack Stewart City, so he couldn't delay here any longer, or he would be robbed by Allen First of all, where should I put my face as the big brother!
A month has passed.

Only [-] troops from Sanchuan City and [-] troops from Shipwreck City remained in Xiaohe territory. The remaining [-] Xiaohe troops, Matsurize and his son gathered outside Shidu City.

(End of this chapter)