Smoker's Feigned Allegiance
"Aokiji was the one who came." Leo was both surprised and delighted. He glanced at Robin and teased, "Maybe that lolicon heard you'd gone missing and came all this way because he was worried about you."
Robin rolled her eyes at the teasing, but she was no longer all that afraid. In the past, merely hearing Aokiji's name had made her heart tremble, terrified that he would come looking for her. But after Leo's analysis, she could see that Aokiji was not a bad person.
After teasing Robin, Leo lowered his head to look at Smoker and Hina, who had returned to their positions by the mast. "I'm afraid the two of you are Aokiji's real objective."
"Tsk, tsk. One Logia, one Paramecia, one colonel, and one rear admiral. That's indeed worth a Marine Admiral making the trip." He smiled faintly.
"What do you two think?" After so many days under Leo's influence, Smoker and Hina no longer saw him as merely a little pirate—or even just a great pirate.
This man was undoubtedly a grave threat to the World Government, a strategic talent with towering ambition. Among the Marines, only the older generation—Garp, Tsuru, and Sengoku—could compare with him.
Who knew how his mind worked? Just as the two were considering what he meant, he suddenly sighed in disappointment. "If Garp weren't here, we could capture Aokiji and have him keep you company. I've always wanted to have a chat with him."
Both of them broke out in goosebumps. Thinking it over carefully, they realized that Leo's group truly had the ability to do it.
With Ace, Enel, and Dragon—three Logia Devil Fruit users—attacking together, Aokiji would probably be defeated before he could even fight back. These were not useless Logias like the Smoke-Smoke Fruit or