Chapter 157: Signs before O'Hara's Destruction

The meeting of the navy's top brass ended, and Kuzan walked out with a look of dissatisfaction on his face.

He doesn't really care about being demoted.

The corridor outside the Admiral's office.

Sauro followed Kuzan seriously and was also very dissatisfied with the result of this meeting.

"Are government officials angels protected by God? They can kill any life they want. What's the difference between them and pirates?"

He said to Kuzan in front of him.

"If a pirate kills someone, he is guilty. But if a government official kills someone, he is the messenger of justice? What is justice?" Kuzan responded to him with the same feeling.

Zhan Guo, who was covered in wounds, quickly rushed to his side and called him:

"Kuzan, what did I tell you? Don't be so angry. If you offend people in the government, it will not be good for you in the future."

"I just don't want... my own justice to be so pure, Mr. Sengoku." Kuzan found it difficult to say words that insulted the justice he firmly believed in.

"Don't be confused, Kuzan. Everyone makes mistakes, but we always stand on the side of justice to look at things. Don't let a small thing affect the things you trust."

Zhan Guo patted his shoulder, trying his best to calm his dissatisfaction with government officials.

"A small matter... This is not a small matter, Mr. Sengoku! The justice here will drive people crazy. I am not that guy Sakaski!" Kuzan thought about these words in his heart and did not say them directly to Sengoku.

He suddenly realized that justice in the navy seemed different from what he thought.

It is more like a bodyguard, a group of people with different personalities and ideas, who come together to fight against pirates.

Most of them have to obey all the instructions of the world government and cannot disobey them at all.

"I understand, Mr. Sengoku, I will reflect on it carefully." Kuzan responded to Sengoku.

Thinking of his miserable childhood and his current achievements, he does not want to give up his current status.

At the same time, we also need to hone our own strength so that we can have the confidence to speak in politics.

Perhaps the problem of indiscriminate killing can be gradually solved from within.

After calming Kuzan down, Zhan Guo looked at Sauro who was also dissatisfied:

"Sauro, you guys should take a break in Marinford for now. There are no missions for you recently. Take a good rest and don't get confused about justice."

"I...I...I don't understand what kind of history is hidden, but...I will do my best, General Sengoku." Sauro responded to Sengoku.

And Sengoku stared at him, knowing that Sauro's name contained the name of the "D Clan" that the government feared.

According to legend, D is the natural enemy of God!

Nowadays, the only ones who claim to be gods are the Celestial Dragons.

"The future is in your own hands. Don't do anything stupid, Sauro, Kuzan." Sengoku warned them, his expression became serious: "There is always some darkness in the navy that needs people to do it in order to maintain peace..."

As he spoke, Zhan Guo rushed to other meeting rooms and defined a new bounty for the Demon Killing Order incident on Kraye Island.

"Without a clear purpose or prior preparation, Arthur appeared out of nowhere at the launch site of the Demon Slayer Order, on Kraye Island, and engaged in an unprecedented battle with Marshal Kong, General Sengoku, and Vice Admiral Garp."

When Zhan Guo walked to the door of the conference hall, he heard the voices of people discussing Arthur coming from inside.

He slowly approached the open door, leaned against it, and listened to the teenage Branno telling the officers and soldiers.

His straight back bent inadvertently, and he hunched over, feeling the pain from the cuts on his body.

The powerful defensive power of the Human-Human Fruit, the Mythical Beast, and the Great Buddha form, coupled with the domineering aura, could not defend against the sharpness of the black knife in Arthur's hand.

"We originally thought that he went there to save Barrett out of the bond between Roger's pirate group, but later we found out that he only came for revenge..."

Sengoku was listening to the meeting in the room, and when he turned around, he saw Garp approaching with steady steps, and without even looking at him, he spoke:

"If he was allowed to leave and did not go to Jarzburg, Arthur would have called you senior and me master, but what did you do?"

After saying that, Garp turned around and looked at Sengoku, his best friend who had accompanied him through several eras.

Even though there was disappointment in his eyes, he would fight alongside Sengoku.

Zhan Guo was completely speechless with such words, he lowered his head with a very heavy mood.

"Garp, I don't regret anything I've done. The only thing I regret is that I didn't solve the problem." Sengoku responded to Garp and walked into the conference room.

"You will regret this, Zhan Guo. I won't be able to help you then."

Both of them entered the meeting room where Arthur was discussed, and sat down quietly to listen to Branno speak on the stage.

In the past, the Warring States believed that Arthur was a descendant of a special extinct race.

Know about history and understand the dark side of the government.

Now it seems that not only does he know, but he is not spouting it out as he did back then on Judicial Island.

He just remained mysterious and low-key, and quietly began to appear in front of them as a strong man.

The meeting continued.

The arrest of Barrett was an event that was felt as an honor and victory by the world's navies and civilians.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to report that Arthur intervened and seriously injured Zhan Guo.

Concealing events and ignoring facts is a common tactic used by the navy.

In the end, Arthur's bounty was raised to 15 billion berries, based on pure combat power.

There are no mixed purposes, threats, crimes, and other events. It is defined only by Arthur's combat ability.

After discussing Arthur's matter, Branno took out a new document from the podium.

"Well... the next event..." Branno looked at the document in his hand seriously.

Outside the conference room, Admiral Steel Bone Sora walked in and sat on the stool in the middle of the long table in the conference room.

"Marshal Kong!" Everyone stood up solemnly and saluted him.

"Have we finished discussing Arthur's matter?" Sora inquired about the progress of the meeting and waved his hand for everyone to sit down.

"Marshal, the bounty on Arthur, the master of the icy sword, is 15 billion berries, dead or alive! Are you satisfied with this result?" Brannu reported to him.

Sora sighed, "15 billion? Hehe, this is truly a heart-wrenching event in the history of the Navy. Let's continue with the next meeting!"

"I understand. Next is the incident of the Lone Red, Red Earl Redfield, searching for the historical text." Branno continued the meeting.

"Red Earl?!" Kong Yi was serious and took this man's affairs very seriously. He asked, "What is he looking for the historical text for?"

"It should be to pursue the heights that Gol D. Roger stood at." Branno continued.

"He also wants to look for that great secret treasure? What a joke!" Kong was furious when he heard this: "After Roger discovered that thing, he made the world crazy and uncontrollable with just one sentence. No matter who it is, don't think of making the world go even more crazy."

"..." Everyone looked at the angry Kong with some surprise on their faces.

No one thought that he, who was easy-going and resolute in character, could one day become so angry...

"But our headquarters' manpower is insufficient right now. What should we do..." Before Branno finished his words, he saw Kong suddenly stand up from his chair.

"Leave Redfield to me." Faced with the situation of insufficient combat power, Sora, as the marshal, personally took charge of the great pirates who were able to rival Roger, Whitebeard, and Golden Lion.

"If I don't have too much to do, I would like to go back to the East China Sea." Karp said, standing up and walking out of the meeting room.

"Wait, Garp!" Kong called him, "Follow me on this mission!"

"..." Garp's mouth twitched and he had to obey the order reluctantly.

Sora was also on the safe side; anyone who was defined as a legendary figure had the strength to rival a marine admiral.

If you want to stop this kind of person, you have to send out two general-level fighters to suppress him, otherwise it will be easy to fail.

Naval port in the bay of Marinford Square——

Sauro and Kuzan, who received the leave notice, came here together.

"Where are you going, Sauro?" Kuzan followed him and looked at the huge back of Sauro who looked worried.

Landing on the deck of his warship, Sauro, wearing a navy duckbill hat and a giant coat of justice, said in a deep voice:

"Kuzan, come with me, I want to learn more facts."

"Just now in the Marshal's office, didn't you realize the seriousness of this matter?" Kuzan stared at Sauro in shock:

"If we continue to explore, we may become sinners and be killed mercilessly!"

"I don't care!" Sauro responded angrily: "Justice is just to protect those scumbags from doing evil. Our concept has become distorted."

"I'm not going." Kuzan turned and left.

He made a choice between his future and his friendship.

He felt that Sauro and he alone had no room to interfere in such matters.

Even if justice is destroyed in my heart...

"I want to live in the present and no longer want to challenge the so-called authority. I am different from your impulsive approach." Kuzan walked away and said to Sauro.

He wants to change the current situation of the navy in his own way.

Rather than...being reckless.

"Goodbye, my friend." Sauro ordered his warship to sail towards Impelton Prison.

A few hours later—

Sauro came to Impel Down Prison alone.

Rampant sharp laughter and cheers came from the deep-sea prison in front of him.

The news that Douglas Barrett, a former member of the Roger Pirates, had been captured made everyone in the prison excited.

Even a strong person of this level cannot resist the fate and ending of being locked in a dark room in the deep sea.

"Lieutenant General! Where are you going?" The chief guard Magellan greeted Sauro respectfully. Seeing him walking straight into the prison, he followed closely behind.

Sauro asked him, "Where is Nicole Olbia imprisoned?"

"First, he is an important target for public trial by the World Government, so he cannot be tortured too much." Magellan explained to him.

A vice admiral of the navy has absolute power to visit prisoners.

Currently, even the warden of Impel Down does not have as much power as the vice admiral of the Marine Headquarters.

"Take me to see her," Sauro said to Magellan.

Soon, he was brought by Magellan into the city of Impel Down and outside the iron bars of a cell.

He saw a man named Olbia, wearing a light windbreaker, with white hair and with wounds all over his body treated, kneeling in the cell with his hands tied with chains.

Seeing someone coming to visit, Nicole Olbia looked up at Sauro outside the cell.

The moment he saw him, Olbia was terrified and helpless.

"Why...why did you kill the innocent people on the ship...?" Olbia asked Sauro weakly.

At this moment, they have not established a friendship.

"You are criminals that the government has sent to hunt down for years without catching. I had no choice but to order the bombardment..." Sauro said, feeling somewhat reluctant.

It was Sauro who ordered the bombardment of the Olbia expedition and the killing of the entire ship's crew.

Sauro, who learned the truth and actions of the government, was devastated by this incident.