Revolution, Marines!

Chapter 046: The Tide of Ideals!

The entire scene was silent, everyone's breathing growing heavy.

It felt as if their breaths had sucked all the air from the surroundings, leaving Iska breathless.

"Those who are willing to come with me."

"Take one step forward."

Leo looked calmly at the pirates, asking in a low voice.

Upon hearing Leo's words, a molten surge rose within everyone's hearts. Without any hesitation or doubt, they erupted like a volcano all at once.

"Boom!" The entire deck shook violently as if an earthquake had struck.

Ninety-eight pirates stepped forward in unison, as uniform as a single person.

This time, everyone's movements were perfectly synchronized, no longer messy or out of place.

Everyone's gaze was firm and resolute as they looked at Leo. No one answered his words, but this silent power made all the Marines tremble.

Within this silent power lay the soul that the current Marines lacked.

They believed their cause was justice; they firmly believed their goal was the future of all humanity.

With this philosophy as their support, they had spirit and soul, and facing the Marines, they would have no psychological disadvantage. Instead, they would possess a strong psychological advantage.

Even more terrifyingly...

The Marines actually felt that his words made a lot of sense?!!

It's important to remember that not everyone possesses an extremely strong sense of justice and an unwavering path of justice like Akainu.

Most Marines joined the Navy simply to make a living. Many truly ambitious individuals actually chose to become pirates?!

If one were to carefully count the young powerhouses among the pirates of the Supernova era and then count the young powerhouses in the Marines, they would discover that the only strong individuals on the Marine side were Momotaro, Smoker, Hina, Koby, Helmeppo, and Tashigi!

Even if Momousagi and Chaton were included, the rising generation of geniuses would be overwhelmingly outnumbered when compared to the pirates.

The Marine Admirals would eventually grow old. Even Whitebeard couldn't resist the ravages of time, let alone the Marine Admirals.

The lack of successors in the Marines was a very serious problem. Not to mention young Marines like Smoker, who sympathized with or even understood Luffy and the others, Koby was practically a fan of Luffy.

This led to the situation where, after Aokiji clashed with Akainu and left the Marines, there was only one of the Three Admirals left. The entire Marine force was in a predicament with no Admiral stationed except for Kizaru.

Although Kizaru was a Logia-type Devil Fruit user who could transform into light, he had to be stationed at Headquarters and Sabaody Archipelago. His task of covering two locations alone was already extremely burdensome, not to mention that he was inherently lazy, even more so than Aokiji. Getting him to do anything was as difficult as climbing to heaven.

Akainu, who was originally a diligent justice-enforcer, ended up spending his days in an office in Holy Land Mary Geoise after becoming Fleet Admiral. The Marine's strength in the Grand Line outside was suddenly weakened to an unbelievable degree.

This led to the World Conscription, and this is why Fujitora and Ryokugyu, from mere civilians, soared to become Admirals. Momousagi and Chaton, the two Admiral candidates, were considered less skilled than them, and despite being direct descendants of the Marines, they became candidates.

This is the era...

The Marines, bound by too many restrictions, a Navy lacking freedom, a Navy that were lapdogs of the Celestial Dragons, a Navy that was a subordinate organization of the World Government, a Navy ordered around by nobles from various countries...

It had no popular support.

What they possessed was the name of [Righteousness].

But if they truly had popular support...

Admiral Zephyr wouldn't have left the Marines to found NEO, Aokiji wouldn't have left the Marines to seek his own justice, Hero of the Marines Garp wouldn't have refused promotion to Admiral for decades, and the Logia-type user Smoker wouldn't have been demoted to the East Blue to cool off out of temper...

If even the higher echelons of the Marines themselves didn't believe in it, how could you expect the backbone officers and ordinary soldiers below to believe in it?

This was the most contradictory aspect of the Marines.

"Please take me with you!" The severely wounded soldiers who had been placed nearby at the bow of the ship had, at some unknown time, managed to get up.

They were all wounded soldiers whom Leo had cut open and then sewn back up. The six of them, who had been lying on the ground listening to Leo's entire speech, were now struggling to prop themselves up on the railing, shouting loudly.

Their voices were so loud, and their injuries so severe, that they coughed up blood. But their will, like that of all the pirates present, would not change.

Tears streaming down their faces, they roared while coughing up blood, "Please take us with you! Our families also died because of these nobles, yet we joined the Marines and became the lapdogs of nobles, living in a daze for so many years. We don't deserve to be called human! Please take us with you!"

The pirates didn't even turn their heads to look at them, merely glancing at the severely wounded Marines out of the corner of their eyes.

Clang...

Among the prisoners to the right of the mast, some Marines also struggled to stand up.

Their hands were bound, making their standing posture akin to kneeling on the ground.

But they still painstakingly used their foreheads, noses, and chins to slowly push themselves up from the ground.

Among these seventy to eighty Marines, quite a few managed to stand up.

About forty to fifty of them.

They looked at Leo and shouted, "Us too! Please let us join!"

The entire ship seemed to be filled with an air, no, an atmosphere, that Iska couldn't understand.

On this ship, she felt as if she were in a furnace, her whole body burning, about to melt and become one with this group.

She also wanted to become one of them, she also wanted to possess this firm will, she also wanted to become a soul of such glory, she also wanted to receive this honor...

As the only remaining Marine officer, her emotions made her want to join them. Her rationality told her: No, this is wrong! This is a betrayal of the Marines! Hold on, Iska!

"Anyone who wants to join, fall in line!" Leo shouted.

Those who had been disemboweled, gripping the handrails, blood spilling from their mouths and noses, but with extreme determination, slowly made their way down the stairs, falling in behind one of the pirates.

The five of them formed a line.

But... it wasn't enough.

A line had eight people in total!

Their line seemed incomplete.

The Marines, with their hands bound, slowly walked over to their sides one by one, imitating the pirates and trying to straighten their bodies, forming the first line of Marines.

The second line...

The third line...

The fourth line...

Even though they wore Marine or pirate clothes, whether they were severely injured, lightly injured, or bound.

At this moment, they had become a single entity, indistinguishable from each other!

PS: My typing speed is a bit slow today, but I'm very satisfied with the quality.

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