Lin, Where Is He?

Watching the Marines below being beaten back step by step.

And the Whitebeard Pirates standing united as one.

Standing atop the execution platform.

Sengoku's face revealed neither joy nor anger.

The Whitebeard Pirates were formidable fighters to begin with.

And most of the Marines here were recruits.

In their first clash.

For them to have fought to this point.

Had long been within Sengoku's expectations.

His gaze.

Merely turned calmly toward Whitebeard.

First Division Commander Marco, Third Division Commander Jozu... Sixteenth Division Commander Izo were all present.

As Sengoku counted their numbers.

His brow suddenly furrowed slightly.

There was one more...

One Division Commander was still absent!

"Where is Lin?"

At that moment, Sengoku made this alarming discovery.

Lin, commander of the Whitebeard Pirates' Seventeenth Division...

Was not aboard the Moby Dick.

In fact.

He was not even in Marineford!

What was Whitebeard planning?

Sengoku had heard a little.

About Lin's strength.

The fact that he had swept through the Whitebeard Pirates' many Division Commanders alone.

Was enough to demonstrate just how extraordinary his power was.

A man of such overwhelming strength.

If he was not brought onto the main stage.

Wouldn't that be a waste of such talent?

Sengoku immediately clenched the Den Den Mushi in his hand.

His gaze constantly swept across Marineford.

Searching for any trace of Lin.

After confirming that Lin was neither aboard the Moby Dick nor on any other Whitebeard Pirates ship.

Sengoku immediately gave the order. "Sentinel squads, search for the Seventeenth Division!"

To Sengoku.

He did not know what Whitebeard intended to do with Lin of the Seventeenth Division.

But battlefields changed in an instant.

He would never allow anything unforeseen.

To happen under his watch.

Numerous sentries had long been stationed on both sides of Marineford.

Upon hearing Sengoku's command.

They