World Conscription

"You're Lafitte, aren't you?" Marine Chief of Staff Tsuru glanced at Lafitte and spoke calmly. As the Marine Chief of Staff, she had access to nearly all intelligence. The incidents Lafitte had caused were nothing compared to those involving certain people in the New World, but Tsuru's near-photographic memory for intelligence still let her recognize him.

"You know this man, Chief of Staff Tsuru?"

Tsuru said blandly, "A well-known security officer from West Blue. A piece of trash who abused violence and was expelled from his country."

Lafitte did not seem angered in the slightest at Tsuru calling him trash. Instead, an even brighter smile appeared on his face. "Oh my, oh my! I never expected even an insignificant nobody like me to have his name remembered by Chief of Staff Tsuru. What an honor."

Sengoku looked at Lafitte. "Who is this pirate you speak of? If he isn't qualified, then you can stay here as well." A pirate had barged into the conference room at World Government headquarters. Sengoku could remain calm about it now, but this was not a place one could simply enter and leave at will—especially not when the intruder was a pirate.

"Teach. Marshall D. Teach. That is our captain's name."

Everyone frowned upon hearing that name. As advisers, they all knew the named pirates of the New World, yet none of them had heard of the captain of any powerful pirate crew bearing that name.

If Ye Han had been here, he would certainly have cried out in surprise, because this was something that should not have happened until nearly ten years later. Marshall D. Teach, one of the future Four Emperors, perhaps the Four Emperor with the greatest potential. After the Summit War, he would possess both Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit and his own