After receiving Fleet Admiral Sengoku's orders, Kuzan and Borsalino quickly boarded warships bound for the Sabaody Archipelago, though they had their doubts.
To reach Fish-Man Island, the currents around the Sabaody Archipelago were the only route through the first half of the Grand Line.
After receiving the order, the Marines stationed here had already prepared three coated warships.
"Splash..."
On the outskirts of Grove 63 of the Sabaody Archipelago.
Pulled along by the currents, the three warships rapidly descended with two Admirals and nearly ten thousand Marines aboard, heading for Fish-Man Island ten thousand meters beneath the sea.
On the deck of the lead warship, Kuzan and Borsalino, both Admirals, stood at the bow and gazed down into the pitch-black depths.
Borsalino still wore his usual flippant expression, while Kuzan's brow was tightly furrowed.
Though both were Admirals and graduates of Zephyr's Marine training camp, by this level, their differing beliefs and the interest groups they represented meant their relationship was far from harmonious. They barely even spoke to each other.
Still, compared to the extreme Akainu, Kuzan and Borsalino got along relatively well.
Borsalino spoke tentatively.
"This is strange! Why would Admiral Sengoku send us to a completely deserted Fish-Man Island?"
Kuzan returned to his lazy demeanor and said,
"Who knows? But since it's Fleet Admiral Sengoku's order, all we can do is follow it!"
"That's true enough!"
That was about all they could say to each other.
At that moment, a young man with a watermelon-shaped haircut approached. He wore a red bib and carried a massive axe over his back, his face stern.
"Admiral Kuzan, old man, the intelligence has arrived. In the month since all the Fish-Men left Fish-Man Island, the entire island has fallen completely into ruin because it lost the light of the Eve