The messenger shut the doors again. Sengoku frowned. "What exactly is going on? What is Poseidon trying to do?"
She had emptied dozens of villages across the north and south in a short time. There was no longer any doubt: Poseidon was behind this!
But what was her goal? How should they prepare? Sengoku needed Loa's advice. Loa did not answer, though. He asked everyone to wait and see what the next report revealed.
"He isn't planning to use those ordinary people to fight, is he?" Kizaru took out a nail clipper and slowly trimmed his nails. "Our soldiers could finish them off without us lifting a finger."
That was true. Even if ordinary people were revived as Undead Soldiers, they would have no fighting strength!
The other Kizaru pulled an identical nail clipper from his pocket and began trimming his nails too.
"Could she be afraid? Is that why she's secretly moving people and building an army of the dead?"
Honestly, if there had not been a faint difference between their auras, nobody else present could have told which of the two was which!
"You call this secret? She hasn't tried to hide her tracks at all! Otherwise, how could we suspect Poseidon just because a village's population vanished?"
After that retort, Simon asked, "Loa, is there anything I should prepare?"
"Oh, right..." Loa opened his eyes after a moment of thought. "Before the next report arrives, find a world map and mark those villages on it."
"A world map? Understood. Fleet Admiral Sengoku..."
Simon nodded and looked toward him.
The islands of One Piece World had little contact with one another. World maps—especially ones detailed enough to mark specific locations—circulated only among a few major powers.
As the sea's peacekeepers, the Marines were naturally among them.
Soon, a