Ochoku's Confession!

Bai Ye's words were utterly merciless.

Ochoku was indeed standing in Bai Ye's way now. Bai Ye wasn't entirely sure what this guy planned to do next, but he roughly knew what his ambitions were.

If one had to say how great Ochoku's ambitions were, they did not actually seem all that great.

In the end, Ochoku was not really an ambitious man. All he had ever wanted was to become a leader himself.

Other than that, he wanted nothing else.

He would not submit to anyone, and he was somewhat arrogant.

In the end, he had always considered himself the patriarch of pirates.

Besides, he himself wanted to become the king of a pirate nation.

He did not want anything else. Of course, if an opportunity arose, Ochoku would not mind giving it a try.

After all, if he could have it, that would be best. If not, Ochoku would not force the issue too much.

What Ochoku had not expected was that Bai Ye would speak of this so bluntly and without reservation.

He also knew that Bai Ye was not wrong.

In the end, with him remaining here in the New World, no matter what choice he made, he would be blocking Bai Ye's path.

Why!?

Wasn't it because Bai Ye had never intended to recruit him from the very beginning?

That made his existence rather awkward.

For Ochoku, this was unbearably awkward as well.

In the end, he had initially wanted to cooperate with the World Government, but the World Government had no intention of working with him at all.

From the looks of things, they clearly wanted him to go undercover on Bai Ye's side.

Otherwise, they would not agree to let him join them either.

He was somewhat unwilling to accept it. After all,