With Saint Garling, the Knights of God's leader, pinned down and their next two most prominent members, Saint Shamrock and Saint Killingham, sealed away, the situation became much clearer.
The ten Reanimated Bodies completely held off the Knights of God's attacks. The advantage had swung back to the Uchiha Clan.
"Hee hee hee hee! Sengoku, do the Marines still want to fight us?"
Moria had thrown his lot in with Uchiha Yoru. He grinned smugly at Sengoku's grim expression.
It felt incredible to have the Marines under his heel. They had pushed him around for years, and today he had finally paid them back.
He felt like the bold young man he had once been.
Sengoku, meanwhile, felt awful.
What remained of the Marines could still take on Uchiha Yoru's group. Aokiji and the Shichibukai were still there, along with some Marine Vice Admirals. Their strength was not far below the Uchiha Family's.
The problem was that Sengoku had no confidence he could defeat them quickly. He did not dare make a rash move.
He only had to look at the enormous sphere overhead. Admiral Kizaru and thirty or forty thousand Marine soldiers were still trapped inside it as hostages.
If he failed to take down the enemy at once, they might lash out and kill those Marines along with themselves. Sengoku could not bear to see that happen.
Brrring—brrring—
A Den Den Mushi rang.
Frowning, Sengoku took the highest-grade encrypted Den Den Mushi from his coat and answered it.
"Sengoku."
The Den Den Mushi reproduced the deep, authoritative voice of Jaygarcia Saturn Saint, one of the Five Elders and the Warrior God of Science and Defense. Without a word of greeting, he went straight to the point. "Stop fighting the Uchiha Clan immediately. Let them leave Marineford."
Sengoku's pupils