Seeing the square-faced Five Elder blocked by his former subordinates, unable to break through the two of them despite it being two against one, the Five Elders could barely keep their faces.
"Uh..." Big Mom's children, watching the live broadcast, looked at one another.
If they had known the Marines were this weak, they would have risked letting the other Four Emperors benefit and wiped out the Marines in one sweeping assault.
At this level, they seemed to be no stronger than the Three Sweet Commanders, did they?
Marine Admirals and Fleet Admirals were somewhat troublesome, but if they could destroy the Marines before the Five Elders reacted, the Marines were only about as strong as a Four Emperors-level force. Yet the prestige gained from taking Marine Headquarters would likely draw all those great pirates rushing beneath Big Mom's banner.
Though Big Mom's rule was built upon her children, she actually had quite a few powerful subordinates from other pirate crews and independent factions.
For instance, Baron Tamago, Bobbin, Capone Bege—one of the Eleven Supernovas—and Borsalino of the Mink Tribe.
All of them had become highly effective fighting forces within the Big Mom Pirates, with combat strength that even surpassed most of Big Mom's children.
This was a force that absolutely could not be underestimated. It could even be said that half of the Big Mom Pirates belonged to Big Mom's children, while the other half consisted of these retainers and guest officers she had brought under her command.
Only when those two forces were combined did they form the complete Big Mom Pirates, and such a Big Mom Pirates possessed both the confidence and the ability to topple the Marines directly.
Why had Kaido been so eager to claim the heads of the "remnants and defeated soldiers" after the