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"No! Your life force tells me you're nowhere near that old!"
The strength and finesse of Xunjing's Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki were simply outrageous.
They were nothing a teenage brat should have possessed.
Even Garp's pupils contracted sharply as he watched from a distance.
He muttered, "Looks like we've still been underestimating this kid!"
"We absolutely can't let someone with that kind of potential escape! Otherwise, the Navy will be in serious trouble down the line!"
Garp made it sound easy, but his feet never moved. He had no intention of joining Aokiji to corner Xunjing.
It wasn't because Hashirama and Koshiro had already charged up to him. Deep down, he entertained another thought-leave Xunjing alive and let the kid cause some trouble for the World Government in the future.
Ever since he had personally captured Gol D. Roger and sent him to the execution platform, the World Government had begun openly and covertly suppressing the Navy, preventing it from growing stronger.
Over the past few years, the Navy's strength hadn't increased. It had actually diminished.
The clearest sign was its control over the New World, which was slipping further and further beyond its reach.
If this generation hadn't produced three Logia geniuses in Aokiji, Akainu, and Kizaru, the Navy would have been in even worse shape.
With the World Government holding it down like this, the situation on the Great Sea had spiraled completely out of control.
The Three Emperors had risen one after another, and the Navy simply couldn't keep those three superpowers in the New World in check.
Yet at this critical moment, the World Government had rolled out the Shichibukai Plan.
They claimed it was about using pirates to fight pirates, but in reality, they were still strangling the Navy, terrified that it might