After the turmoil in West Blue caused by Dawn and the others' assassinations,
the alliance between the gangs had long since fallen apart. As gangs large and small began slaughtering each other and fighting over territory, Dawn and the others, who had ignited the war, boarded the ship Colonel Lagu had prepared and returned to the Marine Branch.
The small fry within the gangs also began revealing their ambitions.
Capone Bege, a young man around twenty, had lost his chance to kill his own boss because of Dawn's arrival. Yet through his methods, he had instead risen to power even more easily.
After becoming the boss, Bege deliberately placed himself in a weak position and secretly acknowledged other leaders as his bosses. He then provoked conflicts between both sides. When the time came, Bege, acting as a spy, would kill the other side. Then, while his own boss was celebrating, he would kill him as well and swallow up his forces.
In this life, because Dawn had assassinated Bege's boss in advance, Bege had begun his path of violently annexing power even earlier.
Thanks to this matter, as well as their earlier achievement of helping the branch repel the attacking pirates, Dawn was successfully promoted to Captain. Hina and the others were promoted to Second Lieutenant.
They had benefited from the crisis at the West Blue Marine Branch. If Dawn and the others had not directly eliminated the opposing leaders and thrown them into chaos, the Marine Branch would likely have faced a second wave of attacks immediately.
Even if they had notified Marine Headquarters and requested reinforcements at once, there would still have been a brief gap. The gangs would have used that time to secretly expand their influence. Even after the Marine higher-ups sent more personnel, it would