The sun had just risen.
Dawn light spread across the sea, reflecting scales of golden shimmer.
A massive, sleek warship slowly sailed out of the Red Strait's exit and entered the first half of the Grand Line.
This warship was the Dawn, which had departed from the New World.
Tsugikuni Yoriichi had not refused the Gorosei's request. He knew very well why they wanted him to leave the New World.
On one hand, the Gorosei did not want Yoriichi's influence to keep growing in the New World. Only by sending him away would they have a chance to use certain methods to affect the leaderless Dawn Sword branches.
On the other hand, they wanted Yoriichi to lead the Marines against the Revolutionary Army led by Dragon, forcing these two powers beyond their control to collide and weaken each other.
The Revolutionary Army would be rather difficult for Yoriichi to deal with. Were these people utterly depraved criminals?
Obviously not. Most of them were likely ordinary civilians who had been driven into a corner.
But could one say the Revolutionary Army had done nothing but good? That was not necessarily true either.
Yoriichi was no naïve man. A bloodless revolution was simply impossible in the real world. Along the way, Dragon had already done his best to restrain certain destabilizing elements within his ranks.
But once the revolutionary masses grew large enough, it was inevitable that all sorts of people would become mixed in.
Though Yoriichi was in the New World, he knew that the Revolutionary Army had somewhat exceeded Dragon's control. In the regions they had revolutionized, not only had they indiscriminately executed every noble, but some moderately well-off families had also become targets of the Revolutionary Army.
Of course, the most crucial point was that, in Yoriichi's view, the