The Maiden's Journey to the End

"Us? What could possibly be scary about us? You're the truly scary one, Admiral Kizaru. Pay's good, so you trash the Four Emperors. Compared to you, we're still far behind." Ada suddenly laughed as she looked at Admiral Kizaru floating in the sky ahead.

Ada and the others had known about Kizaru's presence from the start. In fact, Whitebeard's side knew as well. Kizaru had not gone out of his way to conceal his whereabouts, and with the Observation Haki of Ada, Esdeath, Whitebeard, and the others, it was hardly surprising that they had noticed him.

"Uh." Kizaru, who had been carefully sizing up Esdeath, froze at Ada's words. Then, with a helpless expression, he said, "You really shouldn't say things like that carelessly."

"Pay's good, so you trash the Four Emperors." Red Hair and Whitebeard might not care about that line, but Kaido and Charlotte Linlin probably would not pretend they had not heard it. As a Marine admiral, Kizaru was not afraid of the Four Emperors, of course, but with his personality, he certainly did not want to invite that kind of trouble for no reason.

If an ordinary person had said it, no one would care. But coming from a group that had openly challenged the Whitebeard Pirates, it meant something entirely different.

Just as the Four Emperors would not care if an ordinary pirate claimed he would overthrow them and seize their positions, but if someone with strength comparable to theirs said the same thing, there was no way they would ignore it.

"That wasn't said carelessly. In fact..." Ada smiled mysteriously and did not continue. There was another line after that: With full benefits and a housing fund, overthrow the Five Elders.

But since it was not yet time to openly fall out with the