Marineford, Marine Headquarters building.
Inside the Fleet Admiral's office, the sounds of things being thrown and smashed rang out one after another.
Bang! Bang! Bang! ...
After Sengoku grabbed the desk lamp from atop his desk and hurled it to the floor, smashing it to pieces, he finally roared with a frantic expression, "Damn it! How did things end up like this?!"
Beside him, Rosinante—Sengoku's confidant and adopted son—silently spread a soundproof barrier with his Silence-Silence Fruit ability, preventing the sounds inside the room from reaching outside.
After quite some time, Rosinante saw that Sengoku had finally calmed down and slumped gracelessly into the sofa chair. Only then did he ask, "Mr. Sengoku, what should we do now? According to the news that just came in, it has been confirmed that Kaido, Big Mom, and Whitebeard—the three Four Emperors—have joined forces and are preparing to attack Marine Headquarters on the day Ace is executed..."
Hearing this, Sengoku could not help rubbing his forehead as he sighed. "The only thing worth being thankful for now is that Red-Haired Shanks does not seem to intend to take part in this war. Three Four Emperors joining forces... If the Marines want to win this war, we can only request support from the World Government and gather every elite force the Marines can currently muster for a fight to the death!"
Sengoku had never imagined that he had merely wanted to use Ace to set a trap and wipe out Whitebeard, yet Kaido and Big Mom, those two troublemakers who feared the world was not chaotic enough, had also gotten involved, pushing the situation completely out of control.
"Mr. Sengoku, how about... we execute Ace ahead of time? We can say he attempted to escape from prison and was killed by the Marines during