Heart and Slash!

Tsugikuni Yoriichi understood the Gorosei's thinking perfectly. Their previous reluctance to fight had merely been because they believed the butcher's blade would never fall upon them.

The Gorosei possessed a time-space teleportation ability. So long as they were given even the slightest opening, they could easily leave Fish-Man Island. To buy time to establish a teleportation array, it was not difficult to understand why the selfish Gorosei would use their companions as bait.

The Gorosei also understood the value of their own identities very clearly. In Imu's eyes, they were not so irreplaceable after all.

With Saint Saturn dead and Saint Marcus Mars beheaded by Tsugikuni Yoriichi, completely losing his ability to fight, Yoriichi's next target would naturally be the others.

Only now could Saint Garling and the others truly feel just how close danger was. Choosing to join forces against Tsugikuni Yoriichi was a desperate measure. They hoped to use this method to delay Yoriichi's assault long enough for the teleportation array beneath their feet to be completed.

As long as the teleportation array was complete, they could immediately leave Fish-Man Island and return to the Holy Land. Under Imu's protection, even Tsugikuni Yoriichi might not be able to deal with them so easily.

At this point, the Gorosei had also vaguely guessed that the culprit behind the attack on the Holy Land that had caused the deaths of countless Celestial Dragons was the Tsugikuni Yoriichi before them.

And precisely because they had guessed the truth behind the attack on the Holy Land, they were full of confidence that Imu could preserve their lives.

If Tsugikuni Yoriichi truly possessed the strength to completely overturn the Holy Land and kill everyone, including Imu, then after attacking the Holy Land, he would not have chosen to leave. He would have struck