"Isn't it only natural for the Marines to arrest pirates? Ever since Bullet left the Roger Pirates and began acting alone, he had caused plenty of trouble across the seas.
After Roger was executed, Bullet had gone completely mad, rampaging across the seas without restraint.
How much trouble had he caused in the months since the execution?
A pirate like him, with no goal beyond pure destruction, was supposed to be a priority target for elimination, wasn't he?"
Zephyr's words were sound and well-founded. There were countless pirates on the seas, and under a system where the upper ranks were rotten and the lower ranks were chaotic, the number of pirates had remained on a steady upward trend.
For most pirates, the World Government's attitude was simply to let things take their course. If no pirates caused trouble at sea, how could the importance of the World Government be better demonstrated?
Only when pirates inflicted large-scale damage on ships at sea and non-member nations could the member nations appreciate the importance of their status and desperately scrape together the Celestial Gold.
The World Government would not make too much of a fuss over pirates who acted for profit. Setting aside the special case of Roger, the last person to receive the World Government's attention had been Byrnndi World.
In terms of strength, World had been far inferior to Whitebeard and Golden Lion, but his actions had been far too erratic. By the end, World, known as the Destroyer of the World, had been acting purely for destruction's sake.
That was why the World Government had deployed a large force, even going so far as to use undercover agents to send World to prison. Bullet's current actions were no different from what World had done back then.
"That may be true,