A True Friend, Shanks! Return!

"Are you kidding me?"

Shanks was utterly stunned when he heard that Mislanda wanted his help.

He hadn't expected his good brother's appetite to be so enormous!

The battle between the Marines and pirates had been going on for ages. From beginning to end, the Marines had almost always been stronger than the pirates!

That was why the Marines hunted pirates, while pirates usually chose to flee whenever they saw Marines. Very few took the initiative to attack.

Mislanda's move was practically a life-or-death battle against the Marines!

Aside from the Rocks Pirates back then, Shanks had never heard of anything similar.

"What? Do you also think I'm bound to lose?"

Rayleigh didn't believe Mislanda, and Shanks now had much the same opinion as Rayleigh.

Although he didn't answer directly, Shanks's expression had already said everything. He wasn't very optimistic.

"Putting aside who will win, what do you think the consequences of this war will be?"

Marines were roughly equivalent to justice, while pirates were roughly equivalent to evil!

Even if the Red Hair Pirates and the Dark Night Pirates never robbed or pillaged anyone, the moment they carried the title of pirate, they were automatically branded as villains!

And that was indeed the reality. Even if there were scoundrels among the Marines, ninety-nine point ninety-nine percent of Marines were still good people. By contrast, ninety-nine percent of pirates were murderers, arsonists, and bandits.

"That's right. Although I'm not particularly optimistic about the Marines, I have to admit that they are indeed just—at least more so than you and me!"

"But the problem is that the Marines don't have absolute authority!"

"The World Government above the Marines is the real key to the problem. If the Marines were merely Marines, I wouldn't want to fight them either. But if they're