Figures fell one after another, without end.
Centered on Uchiha Shin, no one was spared.
Not only the Marines—even the pirates who had yet to return to their ships were the same. As long as they stood within Marineford, they were affected by this power.
"What kind of power is this? Haki?" the pirates already aboard their ships wondered.
Marco and the other commanders shook their heads. "No, there's no feeling of Haki at all. Besides, no one's Haki can cover such a vast area."
"Wait, are we just leaving like this? Our companions are still on the island! We need to bring them aboard!" one pirate said urgently.
Many pirates quickly echoed him. Some of their crewmates had yet to board and were currently lying on the ice at Marineford.
"Idiot. If you want to go, then go. Going back to Marineford now is a dead end. If you'd retreated when Shin spoke earlier, everyone could have made it back to the ships by now. Do you really think he was joking?"
Marco berated them mercilessly. The subordinate pirate crews of the Whitebeard Pirates and the division commanders were not truly in a superior-subordinate relationship. What they had in common was their recognition of Whitebeard as their leader; it was more like a relationship between direct retainers and regional factions.
Therefore, Marco did not have particularly good relations with certain pirate crews.
More importantly, he remembered Shin's temperament from over twenty years ago. When they first met outside Water Seven, Jozu had nearly gotten himself and Pops killed because he had failed to watch his mouth and provoked Shin.
That experience had made one thing abundantly clear to him: Shin was not some mild-tempered, easygoing gentleman.
Clearly, some of the filthy remarks made by these pirates earlier had displeased