At that very moment, the eleven pirate Supernovas still lingering on the Sabaody Archipelago had almost all run into enemies of their own.
Some had been stopped by perfectly ordinary Marine soldiers, while others had been intercepted by swordsmen calling themselves bounty hunters.
One had even already escaped the Sabaody Archipelago's territory, only to plunge headfirst into the dense fog outside the harbor...
Tsk, tsk... too awful to look at.
And at that moment, an enormous cannonball was flying from Marineford toward Sabaody, trailing black smoke.
Standing atop the cannonball was a man in a yellow striped suit and tea-colored sunglasses.
Marine Admiral—Kizaru!
Because an attack on the Celestial Dragons counted as an extreme emergency, regulations required the Marines to deploy admiral-level combat power in response. And among the current three Marine Admirals, only Kizaru, Borsalino, who had eaten the Glint-Glint Fruit, could reach the scene at the fastest speed.
Of course, he had not come alone, and his purpose was not merely to protect the Celestial Dragons. As the commander of the Marine Science Unit, he also bore the task of testing the Marines' newest weapons.
It was just that transporting those things was too slow, so he had come ahead by himself first—at the very least to make sure the Celestial Dragons would not be beaten to death.
However, as a slacking monkey by nature, even though Borsalino had arrived on Sabaody one step ahead of the Science Unit, he did not choose to do anything proper. Instead, he leisurely strolled around the island.
At the same time, he made a show of fiddling with the Transponder Snail in his hand—the one meant for eavesdropping rather than calling—wondering why he could not contact his subordinate, Sentomaru.
Originally, he had been perfectly prepared to wait around at