If this shocking conversation were to spread, the entire world would likely be thrown into turmoil. Yet the two people involved remained perfectly calm, neither finding anything improper in the other's words.
"Ha! You think too highly of yourself!" Akainu sneered coldly. "Although your personal involvement was certainly one of the reasons they made that decision, the bigger reason was that they didn't want to see an overly powerful Marine Headquarters appear in this world."
Longinus nodded with a smile, making no attempt to refute him.
"I originally thought your explanation at the time was too absurd, but now it seems that it was actually a perfectly reasonable one! Only pirates would not want to see the Marines become too powerful!" Akainu said grimly, his killing intent surging. "Having the descendants of pirates steal the highest authority in the world is simply a disgrace to this world!"
"It's still uncertain. That was merely a fragment of a future I happened to see." Longinus lightly tapped his index finger against the armrest, the crisp sound echoing through the room.
Only by linking the Space Pirates with those Celestial Dragons could he win Akainu's support. As for whether they were truly connected, that was irrelevant. Wasn't the reason he had kept those Space Pirates around precisely so he could smear them?
According to his description, the Space Pirates were beings ten thousand times more vicious than the Five Emperors among the pirates. Ordinary pirates merely destroyed countries, while those Space Pirates wanted to enslave the entire world.
If Longinus had not proposed the "Outsiders First, Insiders Second" policy, Akainu would never have let the remnants of the Whitebeard Pirates off so easily.
"At least everything you've seen so far has become reality!" Faced with a choice between the Five Elders and Longinus,