When Zoro stepped off the ship, quite a few people could not help but retreat two steps.
In the past, Zoro had been a source of courage for them. When they saw him fighting the Marines so fiercely on the battlefield, he had given them endless courage to charge into the royal palace of the Kingdom of Goa.
But now that he had become their enemy, no one wanted to fight someone capable of standing against an admiral head-on.
Their shrinking posture left Zoro puzzled. He asked the commander of the warship, "Is there some trouble?"
The commander was Whitey Bay, the "Ice Witch" from the Whitebeard Pirates.
Ever since the Whitebeard Pirates had been fully incorporated, she had been one of the few who remained in the combat ranks.
Many pirates, disheartened and discouraged, had chosen to lay down their arms and retire. Others had joined the Revolutionary Army, only to be distributed among its vast array of departments.
To be honest, with the pirates' rough method of classification, they only needed to be divided by ship, just as the Whitebeard Pirates had done: first ship, second ship, third ship...
But after joining the government, they found that it had an enormous number of functional departments.
For instance, the Medical Department that Marco had joined was divided into several branches. The poison manufacturing division and serum manufacturing division where Doc Q worked were already two separate departments, along with the surgical department led by Trafalgar Law, the internal medicine department led by Ivankov, and the research department where they both held positions.
The new department Marco led after joining was the genetics department, publicly claiming to research Devil Fruits, especially Zoan Devil Fruits.
In reality, that was not wrong either.
Aside from Marco, everyone else had their own departments