Lulusia Kingdom, Port Town.
In the central square, which had been reduced to ruins, Kozuki Hiyori stood wreathed in crackling arcs of electricity. She gripped Enma tightly with both hands, staring solemnly at Aokiji before her.
"Actually, we never really wanted to be enemies with the Marines.
Could you let us off this time?
Although we've often been pursued by the Marines, we've always deliberately held back. We shouldn't have killed a single Marine..."
"If you didn't want to be enemies with the Marines, then why did you go to sea as pirates?" Aokiji asked, somewhat puzzled.
"Well! We weren't pirates to begin with. At most, we were an adventure group traveling around the seas...
It was just that our captain offended the Marines while doing what he believed was right, and got slandered as a pirate!
Later, the Marines even put bounties on us.
So, we had no choice but to give up on ourselves and form a pirate crew."
"Is that so?
Then you really were quite helpless...
However, I'm a Marine, and you're pirates.
In this situation, I ultimately can't keep standing by any longer..."
As he spoke, Aokiji assumed a fighting stance. Ice-crystal gauntlets formed around both of his hands, while bone-chilling white frost continuously radiated from his body, making people instinctively fearful.
Sigh! It feels like we've gotten ourselves into serious trouble this time. I hope Master won't be angry because of it!
Kozuki Hiyori sighed with a troubled expression. Vast amounts of pitch-black Armament Haki swiftly wrapped around Enma, while the lightning coiling over her body grew ever more dazzling.
The girl flashed forward, appearing before Aokiji with lightning speed. She swung Enma at him.
The next moment.
The sharp black blade collided with the ice-crystal gauntlet through the air, as their powerful Armament