Disgusting! Absolutely Disgusting!

Zephyr's situation, above all, had made the Marines realize that if their families were not under protection—

Then those pirates would really target the Marines' relatives!

After all, everyone had family. If the pirates did not know about them, that was one thing.

But if the pirates knew, then the pirates you had once arrested might directly go after your loved ones.

If they could not beat you, could they not beat your family?!

Looking at it that way—

No one could withstand this kind of retaliation.

After all, anyone with a brain could figure out exactly what was going on.

Once they made their move, the likely result would be that everyone's families would be under threat from then on.

And once others saw this, they would feel that they could do the same, leading to more attacks targeting the Marines.

So after that, a lot of people would likely be in danger.

That was why the Marines gradually began bringing the families of Marine Headquarters soldiers over.

After all, if something like this happened again, who would dare become a Marine?!

Were Marine soldiers supposed to let their families be hated by pirates just for doing their jobs?!

Yet they could not retaliate in kind. Fundamentally speaking, pirates could target them.

There was absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Even they had considered this before.

After all, pirates did not need to abide by any code of honor.

But were the Marines supposed to kill pirates' families just because pirates went out to sea?!

Would that not make even more people set sail, bringing their entire families with them?

So when it came to this matter, thinking it through made the situation quite clear.

Under the same circumstances, what the Marines and pirates could do was completely different.

That