Jinbe Joins the Fray!
Leo could guarantee that when he said those words, he absolutely was not threatening them.
The Beasts Pirates consisted primarily of proper pirate members from the Beasts Pirates, samurai from Wano Country, the Patrol Group, and others.
Because the Donquixote Family had now been dismantled, Caesar was nowhere to be found, and the samurai of Wano Country had betrayed them and even fallen into internal conflict, Kaido's entire Beasts Pirates had been reduced to only seven or eight hundred men.
Of course, this was mainly because they had just fought a war against the Marines, then clashed with the samurai of Wano Country after returning. Those who had survived were all elite core members. Among pirates elsewhere, each would have been a great pirate with a bounty of fifty or sixty million Beli. But compared to the absurdly massive army of six or seven thousand Artificial Devil Fruit users in the original story four years later, there were simply far too few people here.
They could even all fit into Enel's Ark Maxim with only a little crowding.
From Leo's perspective, a large portion of them had been swayed. As long as he took that portion away, the Beasts Pirates would inevitably collapse. They would not even be able to withstand a surprise attack by the samurai of Wano Country.
But from the Beasts Pirates members' perspective, this was plainly a death threat. That monster uncle with the narrowed eyes had just wounded all Three Calamities with a single slash. He probably would not need a second slash to kill them.
Within the entire Beasts Pirates, only people at the Tobiroppo's level could probably block a second slash. What right did fodder like them have to act arrogant before someone like that? Did they have the