"What?!"
In the midst of fighting pirates, a Marine was suddenly persuaded by another pirate to leave the Marines.
It was the first time Aokiji had encountered such a thing. He widened his eyes and looked at Roy strangely.
If he had not personally witnessed Roy's battle with Hawk Eyes earlier, Aokiji would have thought he was some clown the pirates had specifically sent to disgust him.
"Gurarara! Brat, persuading the Marines' top combat power to defect in the middle of a battlefield? You've got some nerve. Not a bad idea—I like it."
Whitebeard, standing beside Roy, froze for a moment before throwing back his head and laughing.
Aokiji's left hand began to undergo Elementalization. Armament Haki, condensed nearly to its peak, coated his frozen elemental fist.
"Sound Barrier!"
Just as Roy had said, the World Government was, in a sense, the Marines' master.
The two leaped aside in unison, evading Aokiji's Devil Fruit ability.
Facing these two scoundrels who had brought disaster upon the world, Aokiji held nothing back this time. He threw a punch at them, like a galaxy exploding.
"I like the word 'justice.' It's as if any cruel act can become righteous and aboveboard once it wears the skin of justice."
Roy did not think he possessed Naruto Uzumaki's silver tongue. His purpose in talking trash to Aokiji was merely to disrupt his state of mind.
That was why Aokiji understood why Garp had been unwilling to climb higher—because the higher one went, the crueler reality became.
Fists and blades collided once more in the Marine bay plaza.
In the distance, Sengoku, who was fighting Ace, suddenly fired a palm-shaped shockwave at Roy.
As for the justice Aokiji spoke of, Roy had always considered it cheaper than toilet paper.
"You parasites have no right to judge