The battle at Marineford comes to a conclusion. All things come to an end. Summary: Having announced his presence to the battle, Shanks tricks Buggy into delivering Luffy's straw hat to Law's submarine. Shanks however declines to see Luffy because he thinks it'll break the promise between the two of them. Aokiji and Kizaru make one final attempt to destroy the submarine, but afterwards the Marines decide not to give chase. Now that Luffy has gotten away, some of the shichibukai decide to ditch the battle. With Shanks' crew around, Blackbeard and his crew take the hint and retreat as well. With Blackbeard's crew gone, Shanks asks the Marines to not exploit Whitebeard and Ace's deaths for their own gains (I think that was what he meant. Not too sure because of the translation), and Sengoku agrees to the request. With that, the battle at Marineford officially comes to an end. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Well, that ended pretty quickly. When the last chapter said that the battle was coming to end, it really meant that. I was looking forward to some more action after Shanks' surprise appearance, but I suppose this arc has gone for long enough and it's time to move on. Akainu had the bloodlust going on, but once he was stopped everyone else wasn't too opposed to the idea of stopping the battle. Out of the three admirals, Akainu is definitely the one Luffy and his friends have to watch out for the most from now on. So the battle ends with big losses for both sides and Luffy barely escaping. The Whitebeard Pirates failed in their mission to save Ace and lost their leader, but the Marines took a lot of damage as well. I expect the next chapter to be some sort of summary to talk about the aftermath of the battle, but after that I don't know. It might be time for that rumored time skip, or perhaps the story will focus on how the Straw Hat Pirates reunite.
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