"Shanks, what are you doing here? Are you trying to help Whitebeard?"
Sakazuki watched Shanks with an unfriendly expression.
They were in the middle of a promotion match, and now the other side wanted to bring in reinforcements. How could he possibly be happy about that?
Shanks didn't answer right away. Instead, he surveyed the battlefield.
He saw that Fire Fist Ace was still alive, and Whitebeard was alive too!
He was a little surprised. Had the Whitebeard Pirates really grown strong enough to take on Marine Headquarters?
"I'm here to put an end to this war."
Only then did Shanks speak, his tone calm.
But his words astonished both sides. Did he really think he could end the war with just one sentence? That was far too childish.
Uchiha Tamaharu silently watched Shanks show off. The longer he could keep things delayed, the better.
"What kind of joke is that?"
"This war will end only when the Whitebeard Pirates have been wiped out!"
Sakazuki's expression was cold as he spoke.
Pirates were all cut from the same cloth, and he had no fondness for a pirate like Shanks, who seemed to lean toward neutrality.
Shanks might have a fearsome reputation, but that wasn't going to stop Sakazuki from attacking.
However, in the distance, Marine Headquarters' leader, Fleet Admiral Sengoku, didn't answer right away. The one who could truly stop this war was Sengoku. Only if he gave the order would the Marines obey.
Shanks was troublesome, but Sengoku thought defeating Whitebeard here was more important. He couldn't just let Whitebeard go because of Shanks.
By now, the fighting had mostly stopped, seemingly out of respect for Shanks, the mediator who had suddenly appeared.
But the situation was entirely in the Marines' favor, so they were willing to wait a