Little Hachi jogged all the way to Tiger.
"What's wrong, Hachi?"
Tiger looked at Hachi in confusion.
"Something happened! Something happened!" Little Hachi said in a panic, handing the newspaper to Tiger.
Tiger took the newspaper and read its contents.
After reading it, Tiger's expression changed drastically!
"What happened?"
Jinbe and Arlong came over, but when they saw that the Navy planned to execute ten thousand of their fellow fish-men, they were stunned as well.
"Those damn Marines." Arlong was furious and wished he could go cut them down right now.
Shino came over too. After reading the contents, he fell silent for a moment before saying, "They're forcing you to show yourselves. In the past, they used the same method against the Revolutionary Army."
They were using the elderly, women, and children as bait to lure the big fish out.
Victor hadn't invented this tactic.
Sengoku himself had done it plenty of times.
It was just that Sengoku and the World Government did everything in the name of "justice."
As for whether the process itself was just, that wasn't important.
As long as the result was "just," that was enough.
"Big Brother Tiger, what should we do now?" Jinbe asked Tiger.
Tiger drew a deep breath.
"What else can we do? Of course we should capture ten thousand humans and exchange them with the Navy for the hostages!" Arlong said through clenched teeth.
Arlong's idea wasn't entirely wrong.
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
Since the World Government had taken the fish-men's elderly, women, and children hostage, they would capture humans and exchange them with the World Government.
In the original story, after Tiger's death, Arlong fell out with Jinbe and went their separate ways.
Arlong began enslaving humans in the East Blue, using against