Those watching the situation here all sucked in a sharp breath.
Because Namur, that Ultimate scheming bastard, had stabbed Whitebeard in the back while Whitebeard was blocking Sengoku's attack for him—and he had stabbed him in the kidney!
Pulling the blade from Whitebeard's body, Namur prepared to stab Whitebeard again!
Whitebeard had been stabbed by his own son!
"Namur, what are you doing?!" Marco roared at Namur while fending off Kizaru's attacks!
"Brother!" Wang'er also noticed what was happening. He collapsed helplessly to the ground, never having imagined that his own brother would actually attack Pops.
And the blade Namur had used to stab Whitebeard was the very one Wang'er had personally handed to Namur moments ago. Wang'er was an accomplice; in a sense, he too bore responsibility for Whitebeard's injury!
"Why?!"
After knocking Sengoku back with a punch, Whitebeard stared at Namur with bloodshot eyes. His own son had actually tried to kill him!
"I..."
Namur could not think of an answer, so he stabbed toward Whitebeard's other kidney instead.
There was no helping it. His height was limited; to stab Whitebeard in the heart, he would have to jump, and if he jumped, Whitebeard could easily dodge.
Watching this familiar scene, Ryan could not help looking at Zephyr and asking, "The Marines' handiwork?"
"Huh?" Zephyr looked utterly bewildered, as though saying, "What are you talking about? Why don't I understand a word?"
"Hmph!"
Ryan neither confirmed nor denied Zephyr's terrible acting.
He simply could not figure out what the Marines had used to persuade Namur to betray Whitebeard. After all, in the original history, it had been Maelstrom Spider Squard who attacked Whitebeard.
Maelstrom Spider Squard's reason for acting was simple: the Marines had deceived him. Sengoku had told him Ace's identity, and Squard held a deep-seated hatred