The Five Elders certainly looked imposing, but their faces were full of displeasure, every inch of them screaming unhappiness.
Clearly, the five of them had never intended to appear at this point. They had been waiting for the Revolutionary Army's final trump card, yet a mere group of fish-men had forced them out. It was utterly humiliating.
But who could have expected the Revolutionary Army's foundation to be even stronger than the Navy's? They had no choice but to come out and support the Navy. Just as Sengoku had said, could they really sit back and watch the Navy die?
The appearance of the Five Elders nearly intimidated both sides into stopping, gradually separating the Revolutionary Army from the Navy.
In truth, it was not the Five Elders' strength that had deterred the Revolutionary Army, but the overwhelming fleet of airships behind them.
Propellers spun on both sides of these airships, their hulls filled with lighter-than-air gas. Each was more than 150 meters long, with no telling how many soldiers could be stationed inside. They slowly descended from the mountains of Mary Geoise behind Marineford, like divine soldiers descending from the heavens, and the soldiers of Marine Headquarters erupted into loud cheers.
Yet the faces of everyone above rear admiral rank were extremely ugly. Only at this point had the World Government deployed its air force. Clearly, it had never cared about the Navy's lives before.
The frontline Navy soldiers who had been blasted flat by a single Revolutionary Army shell had died far too unjustly. If the air force had deployed openly from the start and both sides had suffered casualties, the Navy would not have had a single complaint.
But now, the air force had clearly treated the Navy as expendable scouts, only slowly appearing after it had