Although Enel's words were somewhat impolite, and the Five Elders held high positions with an imposing presence, they were rather awkward at this moment.
The key to this situation was strength. With Enel's strength, even if he could not defeat Kizaru, escaping would not be a problem at all.
And when facing a friendly powerhouse, if they offended him over his attitude and truly turned him into a pirate, they would inevitably lose their territory in the West Blue.
Then, those who had lost their leaders would certainly stir up bloody chaos in the West Blue, and the West Blue would return to its former state, where the mafia ran rampant. Everything would go back to how it had been.
In that case, everyone in the West Blue would have gone through a bloody struggle for leadership for nothing, and the unstable West Blue would definitely produce even more pirates.
That was something the Five Elders absolutely did not want to see.
The Five Elders had originally thought this conversation would begin with an extremely unfriendly exchange. Then they would extend an invitation to become a Shichibukai, and if negotiations failed, they would prepare follow-up plans.
But they had not expected him to ignore the script and instead put on an aggrieved, complaining expression.
It was also because Enel and his men had been so frightening before. In a short time, they had directly taken control of the West Blue's underworld.
Then, they secretly spread the name of the Thunder God Pirates. The West Blue Marines passed it along, and combined with the reputation of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, that was why Kizaru had been urgently dispatched to see whether this ambitious fellow could be eliminated.
But they had not expected him to think this way??
"We'll send someone to deliver