Ochoku wore a radiant smile, as if he did not care about the pirates who had died at all.
Quite a few of them had been his companions for ten or twenty years, yet Tsugikuni Yoriichi could not see even the slightest trace of sorrow on Ochoku's face.
He was an exceptionally cold-blooded man.
Tsugikuni Yoriichi did not attack immediately. He scrutinized Ochoku before him. Within the range of his Observation Haki, no other pirates were rushing over. He did not know whether the pirates on the island had been slow to react and had not noticed his presence, or whether Ochoku had somehow ordered the other pirates on the island to stay away.
Either possibility was plausible. Since the pirates before him did not seem to intend to gang up on him, Tsugikuni Yoriichi was in no hurry to attack Ochoku.
To be honest, he was quite interested in the Rocks Pirates of old.
Rocks had led his men in an attack on God Valley, which was under the Celestial Dragons' control, and had forced Garp and the pirate Roger to join forces. The threat Rocks had posed to the World Government back then was probably no less than what Tsugikuni Yoriichi posed now.
Besides—
Although no one knew what secret on God Valley had drawn the Rocks Pirates there, Rocks had accidentally done a good deed by attacking the Celestial Dragons, had he not?
The slaves struggling desperately beneath the Celestial Dragons' butcher's blades, as well as the native inhabitants of God Valley, should have been grateful to the Rocks Pirates.
Hachinosu Island had once been the Rocks Pirates' headquarters. Could secrets concerning the Rocks Pirates still be hidden somewhere on this island?
Ochoku had been an officer of the Rocks Pirates. Unlike Big Mom, Whitebeard, Kaido, and