Navy G-1 Base.
Without a doubt, this base was the Navy's most important base besides Navy Headquarters Marineford.
To some extent, it served as a second Navy Headquarters. Like Marineford, it was a gateway guarding Mary Geoise.
The scale of its buildings was not even inferior to Marineford's.
And on this morning, the Marines stationed at the base had already gathered in the square, where a steel platform had been erected at the far end.
It was an execution platform.
"Whoa! We're doomed!"
Someone beneath the platform cried out in despair.
Scal stared at the platform ahead. Though he was tightly bound in shackles, his body could not help trembling.
"Why would little-time pirates like us receive this much attention from the Navy?"
Deuce was equally bewildered.
Everyone knew that when the Navy caught pirates, they usually threw them into Impel Down, didn't they?
At worst, they would simply execute them in secret. Public executions were something that might not happen once in ten years.
What had they done to deserve treatment like this from the World Government? It was impossible to understand what was going on.
Ace's expression was grim. He felt that he had dragged his companions down with him.
Just as Deuce had said, ordinary pirates would never be publicly executed. Pirates like them, who had committed no atrocities, would at most be thrown into Impel Down.
The reason things had turned out this way was entirely because of him.
Because of his special identity, and because he had gotten involved with Bright.
It was not that he regretted knowing Bright. He simply could not accept dragging his companions down because of himself.
"Oh, it's about time, isn't it?"
Beneath the execution platform, a man sat calmly in a chair. He leisurely trimmed his nails with a