Allies

"What's going on? Is the Franky Family making a lot of noise?" Luffy listened curiously to the Franky Family's shouting.

"It seems the newspapers didn't report that the Franky Family attacked Enies Lobby." Li Ziming took a sip of coffee. Although he had some experience mixing drinks, he was utterly hopeless at grinding coffee beans and brewing coffee. On the other hand, he did like coffee quite a lot. "Sanji, could I have another cup?"

"Could it be that your grandfather... falsified the report and treated them as ordinary civilians caught up in the incident?" Sanji poured Li Ziming another cup from the coffee pot.

"No way, no way." Luffy waved his hands. "He doesn't care about things like that..."

"Yeah, that's impossible." The others waved their hands as well. Their first impression of Garp was that he was an unreliable old man.

"It must have been Aokiji... That unfathomable man..." Robin immediately thought of him.

"Come on, Aokiji's a decent guy. Among the three Admirals, Akainu is an utterly cold-blooded man. For the sake of the justice in his heart, he has no bottom line at all—he belongs to the hawkish faction. Aokiji is relatively better and is more of a moderate figure, while Kizaru remains neutral. Looking back, encountering Aokiji was the best possible outcome. Even neutral Kizaru wouldn't hold back when facing pirates." Li Ziming explained.

"Aokiji..." Robin recalled Aokiji destroying Enies Lobby, then thought of Saul's death. "Perhaps the loss of his friend dealt him a heavy blow."

"Hey! Franky's building us a ship!" Luffy shouted in delight. "That's great! He's a really good guy!"

"And it seems that fellow has already finished modifying the Going Merry as well. We won't have to part with the Going Merry, and Usopp is over there helping out." Nami