Just as Sakazuki thought Tsuru and Garp's words had already shocked him enough, Zephyr stepped forward the next second.
At that moment, Sakazuki felt that the aura and look in Zefa's eyes were incomparably bleak.
Zephyr spoke to Sakazuki with unwillingness and anger. "Sakazuki, do you remember that my wife and child were killed by pirates?"
As for this subject, Sakazuki knew that in Zefa's eyes, it was practically taboo. Yet this time, Zefa had actually brought it up himself.
Sakazuki abruptly raised his head, his eyes full of disbelief.
Everyone knew that Zefa's wife and child had been recorded as victims of pirate retaliation. Did Teacher Zefa not know that?
Though Sakazuki was deeply confused, he still asked. He could not understand what else there was that he did not know.
At that moment, Zefa's voice trembled slightly, yet every word was clear. "It was the World Government. It was the Five Elders. They did it so they could control me better!"
"You should know that eighty percent of the current Marine Vice Admirals are my disciples. Even you Admirals are my disciples!"
At those words, Sakazuki finally lost his composure. This completely overturned everything he believed in!
To control someone better, they would actually kill that person's wife and child? Such a thing truly was something the World Government and the Five Elders could do!
And Sakazuki was no fool. He knew what Teacher Zefa had been like in the past—the man known as the Admiral Who Would Not Kill.
Zefa had once been so kind that he had never killed even a single pirate.
Not only that, Zefa had mocked and insulted the Celestial Dragons more than once.
If all of this was true, then everything could be explained.
How could pirates possibly have infiltrated heavily guarded