"Rayleigh..."
Spoon Aunt took a long drag on her cigarette. She could not hold back any longer, but just as she was about to act, Rayleigh stopped her. "Wait a little longer!"
"Wait? Until someone kills Ye Chen?" Spoon Aunt shot him an unhappy look.
Rayleigh said nothing. He only gave her a reassuring glance.
At times like this, a man like him was the most dependable. He did not need to say or do a thing; one look from him was enough to put her at ease.
It was not that Rayleigh did not want to act. The time simply was not right yet.
"Look..."
Spoon Aunt suddenly pointed into the distance, her eyes widening in surprise. "The Marines have more reinforcements! They're West Owl's people!"
To the sound of firm, ringing footsteps, West Owl War Wolf arrived with the elite members of the Azure Dragon Squad.
"Captain."
War Wolf had just taken out a cigar when Kameyama Fujima hurried to light it for him.
He was not currying favor with his superior. It was respect from the heart. War Wolf had always shared their hardships, without a trace of a Celestial Dragon's airs.
"Thanks."
War Wolf smiled and nodded at Fujima.
"No need to thank me, Captain. Are we going in now?" Fujima asked.
Undying Toad Reggie grinned eagerly. "Isn't it obvious? Captain, look—that's Ye Chen. He's killed plenty of our people over the past two years. More than a dozen from the Azure Dragon Squad alone have died by his hand."
As he spoke, Reggie angrily shifted into his toad form. Having eaten the Toad-Toad Fruit, he was a toad-man, and everyone usually called him Immortal Toad.
Fujima, meanwhile, had the powers of a green-haired turtle and was formidable in his own right. Every member of the