"What are you standing around for? Get in here and kill him!"
Seeing his companions still standing there, Iron Man was furious. Can't they see I'm getting beaten up? Why aren't they helping?
"Iron Man, I bet you never dreamed this day would come."
The other CP9 members charged at him, but Ye Chen remained calm. He even smiled as he mocked Iron Man.
"You were awfully arrogant back on Ohara. If I hadn't held Spandine at gunpoint, you'd probably have killed me. Justice? Today, in the name of the Death God, I'm settling things with you for good."
The five remaining CP9 members had barely rushed forward when two figures came racing in from afar like a gust of wind. They ran like leopards, their speed astonishing. The man and woman were Gin and Kuina.
"Captain, you sure kept us waiting! And here you are, fighting without us. How could you leave Demon Gin out of a party like this?"
Gin had already reached them, swinging his twin tonfas as he spoke in a faintly aggrieved tone.
"Count me in!"
With a sharp cry, Kuina drew Wado Ichimonji.
But as she charged into the fray, Kuina hesitated. "Captain, they're Marines. Why are we attacking them?"
"Because we're the ones on the side of justice. Can't you see what they've done to our friend?"
Ye Chen didn't know whether to laugh or sigh at Kuina's insistence on getting things straight. He pointed at Lucci, who was covered in blood, and gave her a lazy answer.
"Justice?"
Kuina paused. Then she thought it over. Nothing Ye Chen had done so far seemed wrong. If he said they were on the side of justice, he probably wasn't wrong this time either.
"What?"
Kaku and the others were stunned. Pirates represented justice? They