The waters of the North Blue,
"Crimson Flame: Double Spin!"
A scorching torrent swept across the sea, easily burning a wooden pirate ship in the distance down to its bare frame,
The pirates' howls aboard it gradually faded into silence along with the ship.
Next came the sharp crackle of gunfire,
The Artificial Human Soldiers took aim at the few survivors who were good swimmers, firing across the wide-open surface of the sea,
"By the way, when are we going to be done with this kind of mission?"
Ichiji complained to Reiju beside him,
"It's just too boring."
"Cleaning up pirates in the North Blue and all that."
Ichiji had already been quite powerful, and he wasn't the weak type even in the New World. With the power Nara Dan had bestowed upon him, he was now on the level of a great pirate in the New World,
So, in Ichiji's eyes, cleaning up these cannon fodder pirates in the North Blue was like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut—utterly boring.
More importantly,
"A large-scale war would be much more exciting!"
Ichiji grinned excitedly. Having taken part in the war that had swept across the Non-Member States of the entire North Blue, he now didn't take the pirates' petty skirmishes seriously at all,
With the pride of an Android, he would have loved nothing more than to attack Marine Headquarters right then and there.
Reiju, however, was more rational and composed,
"What you're doing now is preparing for the war to come."
"Master Dan said that our war isn't war for war's sake."
"That's what pirates do."
"We're doing this to establish better rule."
There was no doubt that pirates, who scorned the law and damaged local economies, populations, and environments, were of no use at all to the