Wear underwear that fits your ass.
Although the situation at Marineford currently favored the pirates, Roy knew that the Navy's true fighting power had only been held back by the surprise attack.
Once the weaker Marines withdrew and the Navy's top combat forces could cut loose, the entire pirate force would definitely be no match for those freaks at Marine Headquarters.
The world of the Pirate King was not one where numbers could secure victory. Here, high-level fighters could slaughter lower-tier battlefields like natural disasters.
Moreover, World Government reinforcements were already on their way. So if the situation turned unfavorable, Roy planned to immediately detonate Caesar Clown's prized creation, Death Dioxide.
He would then use it to threaten the entire Navy and the incoming World Government reinforcements, allowing them to withdraw from Marineford.
As for whether the poisonous gas would harm their own side while spreading, that was not within Roy's consideration.
Since they had chosen to sail as pirates, they had to be prepared to die.
Therefore, Roy would not care too much about the lives of his subordinates.
Everyone had their own schemes, and everyone had their own methods.
Sure enough, just as Roy expected, when Kaido, Queen, and the other battle-hungry, cruel fellows heard that Roy intended to use Death Dioxide, their eyes gleamed.
Whitebeard was here to rescue Ace.
Since Roy understood Kaido's personality, he had kept the matter of Death Dioxide from Whitebeard and informed the Beasts Pirates instead.
Roy and Kaido both wanted to weaken the World Government's strength for the sake of their future plans. The latter also wanted to learn from Whitebeard's war and weaken the World Government, making it easier for him to one day launch a great war that would sweep across the entire world.
Roy was not Whitebeard, capable