"Everyone, get yourselves sorted out first. We'll regroup for a few days."
Shanks swept his gaze over the crowd and made his decision. "We'll make a brief stop at Sabaody, then set out together to rescue Jace."
At that decision, Lucky Roux's brow abruptly furrowed. Breaking from his usual behavior, he stepped forward with an objection. "Captain, are we really going to save him?" His tone was grave. "If we go, then whether we manage to save him or not, we're definitely going to lose more people, aren't we?"
And that was indeed the case, without exception.
Every time they went through one of these critical moments, they always ended up paying the price in casualties. They could only watch their comrades fall, unable to do anything but leave behind grief and fury.
As he spoke, his gaze slowly passed over everyone present, as though calculating who would die next.
Luffy was where Nika's hope lay, and he was also the protagonist of this grand play personally chosen by Ross. There was no way he could die here.
As Luffy's guide, Shanks had practically been openly told by Ross that he would betray Luffy in the future. So he absolutely could not die now either.
Robin was the pet Ross had personally acknowledged. She was even less likely to die.
As for Sanji, Usopp, and the others, nearly all of them had countless ties to the World Government. They would not easily come to harm either.
After calculating it all, weren't the only ones left to be lost ordinary members like those of the Red Hair Pirates?
To save an outsider they had never met and who had nothing to do with them, they would have to gamble the lives of their own brothers. No matter how he looked at