Fleet Admiral Genji, It Would've Been Nice If You Came Along!

Sengoku also knew that if he truly made this choice...

Then was he making this choice for himself?!

Sengoku was never afraid of dying in battle.

Why?!

When all was said and done, the World Government was no longer worth fighting for.

He himself was not afraid of death, but the others could not be made to die alongside him.

The Marines were innocent. Sengoku knew that. So when it came to this matter, those Marines did not know.

Many Marines did not know what the Celestial Dragons were really like.

They had only once believed pirates to be vile, and so they fought pirates.

Wasn't the reason so many Marines joined the Navy because they had witnessed the brutality of pirates?!

But if these Marines were to witness the Celestial Dragons' brutality, how would they face themselves?!

What would become of them?!

Would they become lost in their sense of justice, or something else?!

So Sengoku was not entirely sure about that either.

In Sengoku's view, he naturally could not keep this group of people here forever.

It was time to give them a choice.

The right to choose the path they would take next.

Rather than placing this matter in his hands and having him lead them all onward.

They did not know what the Celestial Dragons were like.

But could he possibly not know?!

So he knew. He also knew who the true culprit was.

Could anyone really say that what Bai Ye did today was what Bai Ye wanted to do?!

What had been Bai Ye's purpose when he first set out to sea as a pirate?!

If it had been to burn, kill, and plunder, Bai Ye could not possibly have earned the reputation he had after all these years.

After all, Bai Ye had