Oak: I Happened to Want to Get Rid of You Too

Shakuyaku had also heard Benn Beckman and Shanks discussing it. She stood silently to one side without saying a word. Given the current situation, getting rid of Oak truly was the best outcome. Otherwise, no one would be able to sleep peacefully after offending such a powerful man!

But was Oak really that easy to kill?

Shakuyaku covertly glanced at Oak. She remembered that Oak was the unprecedented Triple Ability User. Setting aside his other two abilities, the Paw-Paw Fruit he had obtained at God Valley alone gave Oak speed no less than Kizaru's. With that speed and Oak's strength, if he sensed anything and fled directly, even joining forces with the Marines would not make it easy to keep him here.

And once Oak escaped, it would become a fight to the death from then on. If Oak returned to the New World and joined forces with monsters like Newgate, Kaido, and Linlin, it would be nothing short of a disaster for Rayleigh, Shanks, and the others.

Shakuyaku felt a faint sense of worry.

At that moment, both sides of the standoff harbored their own thoughts and wanted to eliminate the other. They were all waiting for the Marine reinforcements to arrive.

Yet before those Marine reinforcements reached the scene from above, another figure arrived first.

"Uncle Oak!"

A tall figure dashed over from afar in several flashes. Far behind him trailed a large group, radiating a ferocious aura utterly unlike anything found in the first half of the Grand Line.

Shanks, Kizaru, and the others all turned toward the voice.

"It's Katakuri of the Big Mom Pirates!"

Benn Beckman's voice carried a hint of surprise, as though he had not expected this man to appear here. But then his Observation Haki spread out to scan the surroundings, only