If Tsugikuni Yoriichi had only been facing the samurai of Wano Country, he could still have shown mercy and spared them. After all, there was no irreconcilable hatred between him and the samurai. The only person who truly had a grudge against him was Kozuki Oden.
Although the samurai had attacked him under Kozuki Oden's orders, they were, at most, merely "blades."
But when facing these remnants of the Whitebeard Pirates, Tsugikuni Yoriichi had no intention of holding back.
Pirates were pirates, after all. The emotional bond connecting the Whitebeard Pirates had always been Whitebeard himself. When Whitebeard took in sons, he had never bothered to distinguish whether they were good or evil.
Everything began with Whitebeard's personal will. Those he liked were accepted; those he disliked were turned away.
And precisely because of that, the Whitebeard Pirates had become a mixed bag.
How else could such a massive pirate crew, one that produced nothing, have survived for so long if not by clinging to ordinary people and sucking them dry?
As for pirates preying on pirates?
In the New World, what pirate crew would dare provoke the Whitebeard Pirates? If ordinary pirates could avoid contact with the Whitebeard Pirates, they would do everything they could to stay away from them.
After sending Flower Sword and Jozu flying one after another, Tsugikuni Yoriichi raised his head slightly, his gaze swiftly sweeping over the pirates closing in to kill him.
Rather than standing still and waiting for death, he flicked the broken blade in his hand through a flourish and charged straight at the pirates.
Tsugikuni Yoriichi plunged directly into the crowd. His broken blade swept out casually, and the moment he entered the fray, seven or eight pirates rushing at him with raised weapons were cut down.
The pirates continued