The Foundation for Survival!

Sengoku would never believe that Tsugikuni Yoriichi and Zephyr had taken such a huge risk to come to Marine Headquarters merely to relocate Zephyr's wife and child's graves.

Hearing that Tsugikuni Yoriichi wanted to talk with him, Sengoku finally revealed an expression of just as I thought, and relaxed considerably.

What someone like him feared most was the unexpected.

If Tsugikuni Yoriichi and Zephyr had really come to Headquarters solely to relocate graves, then he would truly have to carefully reassess the relationship between the New Marines and Marine Headquarters.

If Tsugikuni Yoriichi had no other intentions in this regard, the relationship between Marine Headquarters and the New Marines might genuinely develop into outright hostility.

That was something Sengoku absolutely did not wish to see. Such a relationship would be a massive blow to both the New Marines and Marine Headquarters, and that kind of attrition did not align with Sengoku's expectations.

"What do you want to talk to me about?"

"Is there really anything left for you and me to discuss?"

Although he had anticipated this long ago, when the words reached his lips, Sengoku did not display any urgency before Admirals Magellan and Sakazuki.

With an unhurried expression, Sengoku seemed in no rush to sit at the negotiating table. On one hand, he was putting up a front for himself; on the other, he was using this attitude to increase his leverage at the table.

It was precisely because Sengoku had no bargaining chips left that he needed to bluff this way and find a way to make Tsugikuni Yoriichi the proactive party.

Tsugikuni Yoriichi understood Sengoku's thoughts perfectly well, but he had no desire to get tangled up with Sengoku over such trivialities.

For him, it would be best if Marine Headquarters cooperated. If they did not,