Jinbe fixed his gaze tightly on Ben Beckman. He had heard quite a bit about the Red-Haired Pirates before.
Ever since this pirate crew had left the East Blue, they had made a huge name for themselves throughout the first half of the Grand Line.
Their title as Shichibukai had long since spread across the entire world.
Although Fish-Man Island lay deep beneath the sea, its people were not completely cut off from the outside world. Moreover, Jinbe was a member of the New Marines, so he knew something of the major events occurring at sea.
And precisely because he understood, when his subordinates spotted the Red-Haired Pirates while patrolling the sea, Jinbe, as the base commander, had personally led a team out to capture them.
But even he had not expected that, in such deep waters, the Red-Haired Pirates would still manage to escape their grasp and forcibly make landfall on Fish-Man Island.
Jinbe was a man who had seen the world. If the Red-Haired Pirates in the sea had been nothing but easy prey to them, then the Red-Haired Pirates who had successfully landed were true man-eating beasts.
During his brief exchange with Ben Beckman, Jinbe had already sensed the opponent's formidable strength.
The calmness and ease Beckman displayed when facing Jinbe's attacks could not be faked. The greatest reason for such composure was that Beckman possessed an absolute advantage in strength over Jinbe.
Shanks had yet to receive the title of "Emperor of the Sea," but his crew members had already begun to distinguish themselves one by one. Even Jinbe found their immense strength extremely troublesome.
It was not that he could not fight them, but his subordinates had all fallen unconscious. If he forcibly engaged the enemy, the ones caught in the crossfire would only be