However, these CP0 agents were all showing their faces and standing obediently at the back of the group. At a glance, they were clearly insignificant grunts.
At the front of the group stood a mysterious figure completely concealed beneath a white hooded cloak, with their cheeks hidden behind a white mask. All that could be seen was a slender, tall build.
Clearly, this mysterious person was the leader and the strongest among these agents.
The man who had just called out to Garen was a sleazy-looking middle-aged man wearing half a leather mask over his head, as though he had some unusual tastes.
Unlike the ordinary grunts, he stood beside the mysterious leader with a fawning expression, like an adjutant endlessly currying favor with his superior.
The longer Garen looked at him, the more familiar he seemed. In the end, he recognized him from that distinctive leather mask:
This man was Spandam, the former commander of CP9.
Garen had never met Spandam in person, but this thoroughly rotten bastard had left far too deep an impression on him.
Spandam had once framed the shipwright Tom, provoking Franky into attacking him in fury. Franky had smashed him in the face with a gunstock, leaving him with facial paralysis, so he had always used that ugly leather mask to prop up his half-crippled face. Otherwise, he might not even have been able to speak.
After the major incident of "Blackbeard Teach Rampages Through Water 7," the CP9 led by Spandam lost six full agents, including their ace Rob Lucci. They had been utterly crippled.
Logically speaking, the World Government had suffered such severe losses that Spandam, the department head who had made the wrong decisions, should not have escaped blame.
Even if Spandam defended himself by saying, "The enemy had Teach," the