Oh no, I became a stand-in!

Facing Noah's questions.

Hina answered everything she knew.

She poured out all the information she had, like beans spilling from a bamboo tube.

It had to start a year and a half ago.

A year and a half ago, the G-7 Branch base in the New World was jointly overrun by Kaido and Big Mom.

Base commander Vice Admiral Milar was killed in battle, deputy commander Vice Admiral Cass was captured, and nearly ten thousand Marines throughout the branch suffered devastating casualties. Fewer than one in ten survivors remained.

Momousagi had also been severely wounded and knocked unconscious in that battle. If Akainu had not arrived with reinforcements in time, she likely would have died on the spot.

It was also after that battle that the G-7 Branch relocated to the first half of the Grand Line, and the Marines further contracted their strategic deployment in the New World.

Only the G-1 and G-5 Branches remained, positioned to support each other as they guarded the Red Line and held onto the Marines' last foothold in the New World.

After taking such a huge loss, the Marines naturally could not let the matter rest.

However, at the time, the relationship between the Big Mom Pirates and the Beasts Pirates was still in the honeymoon phase of their alliance;

while the Marines were severely short on manpower due to the quadrennial Reverie, which required them to escort the royal families of various nations to the Holy Land. They could only swallow their anger for the time being.

By the latter half of last year, the Reverie had ended.

And the fragile alliance between the Beasts Pirates and the Big Mom Pirates had completely collapsed, with friction and conflict once again erupting between them.

Marine Headquarters finally began meticulously planning a massive operation