Chapter 123: Enel's New Toy (44)
Chapter 122: Enel's New Toy
"Who exactly are you?"
The tavern was filled with noisy voices. Tashigi, the little rookie, was probably visiting a place like this for the first time, and she was visibly uneasy.
Showing unease in a place like this was practically like exposing your belly to a pack of wolves. It would inevitably draw their covetous gazes.
However, Leo and Robin were dressed like seasoned veterans, making it impossible to gauge their depths, so no one dared act rashly.
"Who am I?" Leo paused, seeming to consider how to introduce himself.
"I'm a Partner of Justice."
"Don't joke around!" Tashigi slammed both hands onto the table. "Please don't make fun of me."
"The partners of justice in this world are the Marines, aren't they?"
A smile appeared at the corner of Leo's mouth. He liked country bumpkins like this who had never seen the world. "Oh, actually, the government's CP spy organizations also carry out 'justice.' You probably didn't know that, did you?"
Tashigi was left speechless.
She looked down on spy organizations immensely, but before him, she neither dared nor felt comfortable saying something like, What kind of justice do spies count as?
Even someone as innocent as her understood that where there was light, there was darkness. With Marines protecting ordinary people in the open, there would naturally be spy organizations protecting them in the shadows.
She was still too naive. She truly believed that most Marines protected ordinary people, but in reality, the Marines protected the member nations that had joined the World Government. The nobles of those nations held a certain degree of authority over the Marines.
As for ordinary people, it depended entirely on the Marines' moods. If they were in a good mood, they