Evacuation Successful, King of Ideas

Above the battlefield, a rather large bird beat its wings.

A young man carrying bags and bundles on his back rode atop it.

"Senior! What is that up ahead?!"

The young man pointed at the enormous cage below, made of lightning and covering nearly half the mangrove area.

"S-So terrifying!"

"Tsk, looks like we really came too late. We probably missed the best part."

The bird spoke in a regretful tone.

Its gaze swept over the scene below before shifting toward several large ships gathering and raising their sails along the distant shoreline.

"But—it wasn't a wasted trip."

"Land first. Find somewhere hidden where we can still see the whole situation clearly."

The bird dived, avoiding several burning canopies before landing at the edge of Grove 59.

The instant it landed, its body transformed amid a cloud of smoke into a middle-aged man with a small mustache.

The young man looked at the Lightning Cage nearby and the bizarre creatures fighting within it.

"S-Senior! Is that—Lin Nuo? He's fighting the Five Elders and the Marine Fleet Admiral all by himself?!"

"And those ships—those are the Kuja Pirates, right? Is this something we can interfere in..."

"Don't panic. We didn't come here to participate or stop anything."

The middle-aged man pointed at the ships sailing away.

"The actual work has already been completed by our partners planted among these pirates."

"When I received the president's emergency call, I was still investigating a scandal. If this incident hadn't been so huge, I wouldn't have rushed here so desperately."

"P-Pirates have our people among them too?" The young man's eyes widened in shock.

The middle-aged man shot him a glance. "I only got the president's message yesterday."

"Otherwise, where did you think all those firsthand close-up photos came from?"

"The president's methods and