Awakening, Kuja Island

"Are you trying to rebel?! You want to burn Mary Geoise? Do you want to be stripped of your admiral rank and become a wanted criminal across the entire world?!"

Sengoku roared furiously, "Rochi isn't dead!"

"The waters run terrifyingly deep! Get your ass back and wait for orders! I'll personally demand an explanation from those old bastards!"

Seeing Sengoku's bloodshot eyes, Sakazuki might have been hot-tempered, but he knew this was not the best time to completely fall out with him.

"Fine! If the World Government can't give me a satisfactory explanation, then I can damn well stop wearing this admiral's coat!"

Red Dog viciously bit through the cigar in his mouth. With nowhere to vent the fury filling his chest, he flung his sleeve and strode away.

After confirming that Red Dog had left, Sengoku took a deep, ragged breath and, with an extremely trembling hand, dialed the pure golden Den Den Mushi on his desk that represented the highest authority in the world.

"Pururururu..."

"Click!"

The Den Den Mushi's eyes narrowed slightly, taking on the arrogant and imposing appearances of five elderly men.

"My lords!" Sengoku suppressed his anger as he questioned them in a deep voice. "You must already know about what happened at the G-8 Branch, correct? A dignified Navy Colonel was actually assassinated by the highest commander of government-affiliated CP0! Shouldn't you give the Navy an explanation?!"

At that moment, inside the Hall of Power.

The Five Elders looked even more disgusted than if they had swallowed flies.

The bald Five Elder holding a samurai sword slammed his palm against the armrest of his chair.

"That idiot Withered Bone, incapable of accomplishing anything yet capable of ruining everything! He deserved to die! For the sake of his own selfish desires, he has caused us