The ideals of freedom and equality could not be suppressed by force.
Once Zephyr raised his banner, with Roy's help, it swiftly swept across vast stretches of the sea.
Bang!
"Damn Zephyr, what exactly is he trying to do?"
"Why has there been no movement from the Navy?"
"I said long ago that Zephyr's status was too special. The Navy should not have been allowed to act.
The Knights of God should have been sent to completely erase him the moment he betrayed the Government and the Navy."
Mary Geoise.
The bright, spacious Hall of Supreme Authority.
Veins bulged on the Five Elders' foreheads as they looked at the reports in their hands concerning Zephyr and his speeches.
The Haki slipping out of control from their fury caused faint black lightning to appear throughout the vast, illuminated hall.
The highest authorities' faces were dark with killing intent.
If it had been any other rhetoric, the world's highest authorities would not have lost their composure like this.
But the word freedom had clearly touched their reverse scale.
Their minds returned to the earthshaking war of centuries ago, and to the war the World Government had never truly ended.
The figure who had once shocked the twenty kings who first established the World Government began to emerge in their minds.
Fear—an emotion the highest authorities had not felt in many years.
Yet when they recalled the man who had once clashed head-on with Imu-sama,
A sense of foreboding began to rise in their hearts.
"Freedom and equality... Could Zephyr have discovered something?
Logically speaking, we cleansed that segment of the Void Century thoroughly enough.
Where did Zephyr obtain these ideas? Based on what we know about him, he could never have come up with such things himself."
Saint Saturn's deep voice rang