Preparations / Spade

Especially with a Devil Fruit power, even jumping into the sea to escape was out of the question.

"But that still doesn't add up!"

Garp thought for a moment, then looked puzzled again. He turned to Sengoku and asked, "With Carteles's strength, even if he couldn't escape, no matter how powerful that Silver Hair brat was, he couldn't have ended the fight so quickly, let alone killed him!"

"As long as there was time, the Marines and the World Government would surely have sent reinforcements!"

Looking at Garp's bewildered face, Sengoku frowned slightly and said gravely, "It wasn't that we didn't want to send reinforcements. We didn't have time."

"No time?"

"That's right!"

Sengoku nodded. "I only learned the details of the fight from Kuzan. In any

case, Silver Hair used some kind of attack he knew absolutely nothing about and killed Carteles instantly. That's why we didn't send reinforcements."

"Killed him instantly?"

Garp shot to his feet and stared at Sengoku in disbelief. "Stop joking, Sengoku. You know how strong Carteles was!"

"Who in this world could kill him instantly?"

An instant kill wasn't defeating someone and then killing them.

It could only happen when there was an overwhelming gap in strength between two people.

If that Silver Hair brat could kill Carteles instantly, then perhaps he could do the same to Garp, Sengoku, and the current Three Admirals.

Who in this world could stand against him, then?

With strength like that, it was no wonder Garp was shocked.

As for Kuina eating the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and fighting Kuzan to a draw, that was hardly a big deal compared with Kuta killing Carteles.

Looking at Garp, Sengoku felt as though he were seeing his own reaction when he first received the news.

Just as Garp had said, he knew