Playing With This Red Dog Properly (Part 1)

Indeed.

Sakazuki had specifically come after Roya.

The moment he finished speaking.

"Great Eruption!"

Sakazuki raised his fist, and the scorching magma instantly hurtled toward Roya.

To be honest.

Facing the incoming magma fist head-on, Roya was not flustered in the slightest.

Because before Sakazuki had even made his move, Roya had already foreseen Sakazuki's next action through Observation Haki.

So.

In that instant, Roya immediately unleashed his Armament Conqueror's Haki.

The incoming magma fist struck a powerful barrier and was instantly destroyed, vanishing without a trace.

That barrier had been formed from the Armament Conqueror's Haki released by Roya.

And because of that, Sakazuki's Logia Devil Fruit attack was naturally neutralized with ease by Roya.

At the same time.

After defusing that magma fist.

Roya chose to press his advantage. He unleashed another wave of Conqueror's Haki without mercy, sending Sakazuki flying from before him.

"Sakazuki! Do you even have a brain?"

"I never betrayed the Marines! If anyone betrayed anyone!"

"Then it was the Marines that betrayed me!"

Roya rebuked him righteously, his gaze immediately sharpening as he glared at Fleet Admiral Sengoku in the distance.

At the same time.

Roya shouted, "Well, Fleet Admiral Sengoku? Do you think I betrayed the Marines, or did the Marines betray me?"

That shout rang throughout all of Marineford.

Even though Marineford was currently filled with the roar of artillery fire, Sengoku in the distance still heard it perfectly clearly.

Looking at Roya's eyes and hearing his question.

Sengoku did not speak. His expression was extremely grim.

Perhaps Roya was right, or perhaps Sengoku's own thinking had been wrong from the start.

However.

No matter what.

As the Fleet Admiral of the Marines, Sengoku could not make any statement.

The moment he spoke, no matter what answer he gave, it would