Everyone cried out in shock.
"Isn't that Marine Admiral Akainu?!" Ace exclaimed.
To be honest, most of Sky Island's four representatives had merely followed the crowd in shouting. The others were genuinely stunned.
That weathered face, those cold, angular features, those sharp eyes—no matter how they looked at it, it was Marine Admiral Akainu.
Add a hat, and he would be Akainu through and through.
Even someone utterly cut off from the world would naturally have heard of the highest military power of the world government on these seas.
The Navy's Three Admirals—Kizaru, Aokiji, and Akainu—were all aliases, all codenames. Clearly, much like anti-drug police officers rarely appeared on camera, they needed to protect their privacy, their families, and the people from their hometowns.
But even if they were aliases and false names, their reputations and strength were anything but fake.
Kizaru was likely the fastest man in the world, Aokiji was the quickest and most ruthless at catching people, while Akainu was the most vicious killer.
And it was not just pirates. Akainu, who loathed evil, never spared the mafia or those who ruled the underworld either.
Because of his ruthlessness, his reputation was somewhat greater than those of the other two Admirals.
It could be said that with Sengoku serving as Commander-in-Chief, Akainu was the face of the entire Navy.
"Why Akainu?" Leo's face itched as the tool-woman Nico Robin got busy again. If the previous attempt had only been a trial run, she was now doing it with utmost seriousness.
Leo's build differed vastly from Akainu's, but by adding Nico Robin's muscle to his face, she could achieve Akainu's sharply defined features. Still, why had he chosen Akainu? That was what everyone found puzzling.
"Because Akainu is an extremely steadfast lawful neutral type. To him, order is