The Holy Land Mary Geoise, Room of Authority.
At that moment, the only sound was furious shouting.
"What the hell happened? How did you let a mere pirate invade the Holy Land Mary Geoise? What were the Marines and Cipher Pol doing?"
"Why did no one report that the Power Rock had gone missing? Spandine, you fool, give me an answer!"
"To subject the World Government to such humiliation! Unforgivable, utterly unforgivable..."
The speaker was one of the Five Elders, a bald man in a black suit with a birthmark on his head and a thin mustache. He was spraying spit at the three men before him as he raged.
At their head stood Sengoku, the Fleet Admiral. The other two were the commander of CP0, which protected the Celestial Dragons, and Spandine, the commander of CP9.
After Fire Dragon Ye Mu invaded the Holy Land Mary Geoise and declared war, the three had been summoned to the Room of Authority at once.
Sengoku alone managed to remain somewhat composed. The other two were trembling, especially Spandine. CP9 had been responsible for the Warship Island incident, so he hurried to explain.
"My apologies, Elders. It wasn't that I failed to report it. The surviving Cipher Pol agents assigned to Warship Island told me all the Power Rock had been used up."
"Used up? Then where did Fire Dragon Ye Mu get his Power Rock...?"
Even now, all Spandine cared about was shifting the blame.
He knew the truth about the Power Rock. The failure at Warship Island had already left CP9 in a difficult position. If the missing Power Rock had come to light on top of that, so soon after the incident involving Roger's posthumous child, his time as CP9's commander would likely have been over. So he had