Jinbe Joins!

Long ago, after they had formed a grudge...

Maud had simply declared war on the Big Mom Pirates and the Beasts Pirates.

And today marked the first step toward officially starting that war.

Maud was not actually worried about Big Mom and Kaido forming an alliance.

After all, he had no fixed base, so he did not need to worry about Big Mom and Kaido joining forces to attack him.

Instead, Big Mom and Kaido were the ones who had to worry about his attacks, which could come at any time.

That was an inevitable risk of establishing a base.

Many people believed that as long as two Marine Admirals joined forces, they could steamroll an entire Yonko crew.

They had no idea how laughable that view was.

The Four Emperors' pirate crews were not like the Straw Hat Pirates, who had no fixed home. Each of them had territory and bases in the New World.

In other words, if the Marines wanted to, they could mobilize troops at any time to launch an attack on a Yonko's base.

So—

If the Marines truly had that capability, they would have distributed their Admiral-level combat power appropriately long ago, operated on two fronts, and wiped out the Four Emperors in the New World one by one.

They would not even need to commit too many troops to the operations, thereby avoiding unnecessary casualties.

If it were really that simple, why would the Marines place their focus on Paradise, the first half of the Grand Line?

The Four Emperors' territories were fixed. They could not run away.

And Maud possessed the strategically significant ability of the Float-Float Fruit.

As long as he used it properly, he could wear the Four Emperors down to death—not to mention that he could disgust them to