For a legendary figure like Whitebeard, there were limits to what he would endure.
He could accept death, but not humiliation. His pride mattered too much.
"Mama mama!"
"That damned Whitebeard!"
"He's just like he was back then!"
Big Mom laughed it off.
"Hmph."
"If I didn't want to kill you myself..."
"I wouldn't bother with you!"
Kaido sounded just as displeased.
Neither Big Mom nor Kaido had any other goal. They wanted to kill Whitebeard with their own hands and cement their standing and influence across the world.
After all, Whitebeard's influence rivaled even that of Pirate King Roger in his day.
"Damn it!"
"Big Mom and Kaido, those two bastards!"
Fleet Admiral Sengoku frowned, weighed down by worry. He seemed to have made up his mind.
He would cut off the broadcast from Marineford to the rest of the world!
The battle at Marineford no longer favored the Marines in any way.
Sengoku and the others had only intended to face one of the Four Emperors: Whitebeard.
But now two more Emperors, Big Mom and Kaido, had joined the fray, and Marineford had been wrecked beyond recognition.
Worse still,
the Marines had no advantage against three Emperors at once. The battle was bound to drag on, and even Sengoku himself could no longer guarantee a decisive victory.
If they kept broadcasting, the Marines would lose face before the entire world!
"Someone!"
"Cut the broadcast!"
Sengoku gave the order.
But then,
a Marine soldier hurried over.
"Fleet Admiral Sengoku, sir!"
"Our Live Broadcast Den Den Mushi has been hijacked!"
The soldier delivered his report.
"What?!"
"Hijacked?"
"By Whitebeard's men? Big Mom's? Kaido's?"
Startled, Sengoku's first thought was to ask whose men were responsible.
Aside from Roya, the pirates at Marineford belonged to those three factions. If the broadcast had