Happo Navy

On Assyria Island.

The First Treasure Navy, Second Treasure Navy, and Happo Navy of Kano Country—three official pirate naval forces—had arrived on Assyria Island under the king's orders to seize the Griffin Fruit.

With a force of over three thousand men, they were enough to intimidate most pirate crews and underworld factions in the West Blue.

Sang Kingdom, one of the two strongest legally recognized pirate-affiliated nations in the West Blue, had likewise dispatched numerous samurai pirate families, all targeting this Mythical Zoan Fruit.

The Bay Gang, second only to the Mafia in strength within the West Blue underworld, had gathered a large force and was among the first factions to reach Assyria Island.

Yet Gu Akade, the leader of a small gang, had actually refused to hand over the Griffin Fruit and gone into hiding.

This enraged the Bay Gang's leader so much that he wished he could skin Gu Akade alive and grind his bones to dust.

Originally, he could have safely left with the Griffin Fruit before powerful West Blue nations like Sang Kingdom and Kano Country, as well as the World Government and the Rocks Pirates, arrived.

But now, they had become targets of these major powers as well.

They suffered terrifying attacks.

Chinjao of the Drill, the deputy leader of the Happo Navy alone, had already beaten the Bay Gang into a scattered mess.

Chinjao of the Drill had a fearsome reputation throughout the West Blue!

Not only did he possess all three types of Haki, but his Hasshoken was absurdly powerful. His bounty stood at a staggering 342 million Beli.

Even in the New World, that bounty would have been impressive, let alone in the West Blue.

In truth, if the Rocks Pirates had not suddenly emerged and pushed bounty amounts to unimaginable heights—