Not long ago, ten thousand meters above the ground.
Garen handled the battle alone, while Dragon, Zephyr, Sabo, and the others returned to the floating ships to rest their feet. The tense atmosphere of battle vanished completely.
Kaido had already suffered devastating damage before being knocked into the sea. The outcome had long been decided.
Relaxed smiles had already appeared on Dragon, Sabo, and the others' faces as they chatted and celebrated the coming victory.
Having watched one of the Four Emperors, Kaido, get effortlessly crushed, and witnessed all manner of "uprisings" involving thunder gods, storms, Gravity Arrays, and more, the CP0 agents could think of only five words: the Celestial Dragons are finished. Their enthusiasm for labor reform instantly surged a hundredfold.
However, a small group felt rather differently.
They were the odd bunch mixed in among the victorious forces:
Evil King, Catalina, Big Barrel, and several other Impel Down prisoners, who had been following Golden Lion closely in hopes of accomplishing something great.
Under Golden Lion's persuasion, these villains, rotten to the core and unable to restrain their ambitions, had intended from the very beginning to profit from this war and become the founders of a newly born Emperor-level pirate crew in one stroke.
But as the battle developed to this point, someone among them finally sensed that something was wrong.
"Lord Golden Lion?"
"Are we really just going to watch Kaido get killed?"
One Impel Down prisoner could not help questioning Golden Lion suspiciously.
"Isn't Garen's side a little too powerful?"
"Once Kaido dies, can we really defeat Garen?"
As he spoke, he cast somewhat timid glances at Dragon, Sabo, Zephyr, and the others.
Those high-ranking Revolutionary Army members and Garen's key subordinates were standing on other floating ships not far away. They could all see one