Ace and the others had been here for a full week. There was much to do—not merely treating the wounded, taking in prisoners, or pursuing the enemy.
The Three Sweet Commanders had fled, taking a whole host of brothers and sisters with them. The core members of the Big Mom Pirates had escaped.
But they had only fled after seeing Big Mom die, after witnessing Kyros personally cut off Big Mom's head.
That could not be considered fleeing.
At most, it was a strategic retreat and redeployment.
They had to return, leave this place, regroup, and prevent themselves from being wiped out in one fell swoop.
However, some people had failed to leave in time because of the battle and were captured by the Revolutionary Army and the Whitebeard Pirates.
Originally, the Whitebeard Pirates had intended to kill those prisoners to avenge their fallen brothers and sisters.
But the Revolutionary Army stopped them. The Revolutionary Army was known for treating prisoners well. Even the Marines who had been defeated by them a few days ago, after killing quite a few of their people, had not suffered any slaughter or discriminatory treatment after surrendering.
Naturally, the same applied to these pirates.
Though they were Big Mom's children, Big Mom's bloodline, pirates who would never surrender even in death, the Revolutionary Army still took them in and gave them brand-new cells.
Because of this, the Revolutionary Army and the Whitebeard Pirates nearly came to blows, but the higher-ups on both sides sternly stopped them.
For the time being, the Whitebeard Pirates still retained a certain degree of autonomy and had not merged into the Revolutionary Army. But after this incident, quite a few people developed considerable resentment toward the idea of joining the Revolutionary Army.
They had not expected the Revolutionary Army's