Nami's Shock

While taking over Cocoyasi Village, Kizaru also began setting up the Assassin Brotherhood.

Kizaru found Minato, who was still traveling, and appointed him the Assassin Brotherhood's acting leader.

There were two reasons Kizaru put Minato in charge of the Assassin Brotherhood. First, Minato's Flying Thunder God Technique was perfectly suited to carrying out assassinations.

The second was Minato's character. He was kindhearted, but not weak, and showed no mercy to his enemies.

Kizaru's plan for the Assassin Brotherhood required them to do just one thing: keep assassinating those who oppressed civilians. It didn't matter whether they belonged to the authorities or were pirates—as long as they did evil, they could be targeted.

That was the authority Kizaru had given Minato. If he had the ability, even assassinating all the Five Elders wouldn't earn him Kizaru's blame.

Minato was very interested in his new appointment. He had spent less than a week in the New World, but had already gotten a first glimpse of its corruption and darkness.

Minato liked this kind of mission to punish the wicked and uphold justice.

After Minato accepted the task, Kizaru assigned him 300 people from the first batch of the Expeditionary Force and gave him full authority over them.

In Cocoyasi Village, the local constable Genzo held a large bag of supplies he had just received. It contained not only grain and cooking oil but also chunks of Sea King Beast meat hunted by the ninja.

As he walked out of the supply distribution center, Genzo stared blankly at the villagers still waiting in line. The whole thing felt like a dream.

Could there really be such good people in the world? They had not only wiped out the Fish-Men and returned everything the Fish-Men had stolen from them, but were now handing out