"Make them understand just how much they'll regret provoking Whitebeard!"
Chapter 278: What He Feared Most
Marine Headquarters.
The Fleet Admiral's Office.
Time passed. Twenty-three days remained until Fire Fist Ace's execution.
"Garp has been informed. He's already left Impel Down."
"He's resting in the residential district here at headquarters. His mood is fairly stable."
Sengoku sat in his chair, his hands clasped on the desk, and spoke in a low voice.
"The old man must be heartbroken over this."
Xia Le smiled faintly.
He was leafing through the intelligence the Marines had compiled, inwardly shocked.
It concerned the Whitebeard Pirates and was extraordinarily detailed. How detailed? It covered every battle Whitebeard had fought, large or small, even those from over twenty years ago, before Roger became the Pirate King.
It even recorded whom he had met after those battles and how he had recruited his crew.
Clearly, to prepare for this war, the Marine Archives Department had dug up intelligence on the Whitebeard Pirates from twenty years ago, then worked through the night to organize and summarize it.
The result was this dossier on the Whitebeard Pirates.
In overall fighting strength, they were indisputably the strongest in the world. Even compared with the Beasts Pirates two years from now, after they began using Artificial Devil Fruits, they far surpassed them in the number of Devil Fruit Users alone.
The two were simply not on the same level.
This thick dossier also brought Xia Le fully to his senses, making him realize that the Whitebeard Pirates' fighting strength could not be underestimated.
How could the might and reputation of one of the Four Emperors' crews rest solely on one man's valor?
"There's something I don't understand, Xia Le."
Sengoku suddenly spoke, turning to look at his profile.
"You were the