Chapter 170: Top-Tier Battle (1/3)
Chapter 169: Top-Tier Battle
The villagers of Cocoyasi Village had long completed full-time military training. Their confidence came from the 800 million Beli in assets at Arlong Park.
But no matter how much full-time training they had undergone, they were still merely cannon fodder in the Grand Line—no, in the Four Seas. Being able to properly operate Orange Town was already a huge help.
As for Ace's vessel, there were fewer people aboard, so a single call was enough to gather everyone.
As for which Marine officers had come besides Marine Vice Admiral Garp, Leo could not be bothered to guess.
Once they arrived, they would naturally find out who had come.
Marine Vice Admiral Garp was certainly troublesome. He was not a Devil Fruit User, yet in terms of combat strength, he should have stood at the very pinnacle of the Marines. Even though his son had rebelled, his grandson was a pirate, and the entire D. family constantly provoked the World Government's sensitive nerves, Garp remained firmly seated as a Vice Admiral. Before Sengoku retired, Garp himself had wanted to retire, only to be desperately persuaded to stay by Sengoku. In the end, he became a recruit instructor while still serving as a Vice Admiral.
The reason he could remain unshakable within the Marines, aside from bringing Pirate King Roger to justice, was probably his terrifying strength.
That was already a certainty. Leo even suspected that Garp was the Marines' strongest combatant—not the World Government's.
If the Three Admirals needed one and a half men to hold back a single Four Emperor, then it made no logical sense for the Four Emperors not to simply wipe out the Marines. But Leo also had to consider the order of the first half of the