White Soil Island, Baltigo.
"This guy is seriously amazing! This is the third Great Pirate to fall at his hands, right?" exclaimed the blond little boy with a scar over his left eye, waving the newspaper in his hand.
"Show some respect, you idiot Sabo!" The cute little girl beside him tugged at Sabo's cheeks with a roughness completely at odds with her appearance. "What do you mean, 'this guy' and 'that guy'? Address him as Admiral Shirozou Longinus!"
"No way! We're the Revolutionary Army!" Sabo protested through his pinched cheeks.
"What does that have to do with what I said?" Koala released him and planted her hands on her hips in displeasure.
"We're going to overthrow the World Government! The stronger the Marines are, the greater the obstacles we'll face!" Sabo said, rubbing his cheeks.
"Even if they stand on a different side, many people are still worthy of our respect!" Koala said. "Take Lord Longinus, for example. Can you really say he's the same as those people from the World Government?"
"That's because the pirates have been holding the Marines back for us, so we haven't had to face the Marines' threat directly." Sabo's expression turned serious. "Now that Douglas Bullet has also been sent to Impel Down, what we're likely to face next is a joint assault by the World Government and Marine Headquarters."
"At a time like this, the stronger the enemy is, the more losses our warriors will suffer! I know that Longinus is a good man, but it's precisely because his reputation is so good that our operations have encountered even more resistance."
"You should know this too, right? When many ordinary civilians hear that we're going to oppose the Marines, they instinctively assume that we're the bad guys. With Longinus standing there as