Pirates: Invincible from the Start

What else could they use to keep the Sea in balance?

The Five Elders looked at Kuta's photo in the newspaper before them, their heads throbbing.

"Enough. Let's leave it at that! Have the Marines settle on bounties for the Silver Hair Crew and issue them as soon as possible!"

The Five Elders had no choice but to raise the Silver Hair Crew's bounties. Perhaps some reckless Bounty Hunter would get lucky and take Silver Hair's head!

It was the same with the Four Emperors in the New World. There was nothing they could do about them either.

To keep the Sea in balance, neither the World Government nor the Marines could devote all their strength to one person or one group. That would only drive the Pirates to join forces.

If that happened, victory or defeat would no longer be theirs to control.

Reputation

Sengoku stood at the foot of the Castle steps. He could not help glancing back, a trace of self-mockery in his eyes.

The World Government's evil had left a Pirate to carry out justice.

For him and the Marines, that was—

What a bitter irony!

Was Silver Hair's refusal to kill a single Marine another way of mocking them?

Sengoku shook his head. He had no answer, so he turned and walked toward the distant lift.

Better to focus on the Silver Hair Crew's bounties.

Since Big News Morgans had called Silver Hair the Sea's fifth emperor, they might as well make him the Fifth Emperor and let him fight the monsters of the New World!

Sometimes a reputation was a burden too.

Just like the Four Emperors, who had countless Pirates after their heads every year, hoping to claim their places.

Pirates tearing at other Pirates like dogs—that was another effect of the fame