One of the Four Emperors, Red-Haired Shanks!
Although he stood among the Four Emperors, an emperor of pirates, Shanks's origins and background made his loyalties incredibly complicated!
First, he was a pirate, a man who stood near the very pinnacle of the pirate world!
But he was also a Celestial Dragon, a member of the Figarland Family!
Normally, no matter what happened, he would choose to help his own family!
But that was precisely where things became complicated.
Although the blood of the Celestial Dragons flowed through Shanks's veins, he had never lived as one for a single day, nor had he ever enjoyed their privileges.
Instead, the Roger Pirates had found Shanks just after his birth and raised him to adulthood!
Shanks had even learned many of his skills from Roger.
He had learned techniques like Divine Departure from Roger himself.
By all rights, Roger, Rayleigh, Gaban, and the others were more like family to Shanks.
Yet the blood of the Figarland Family flowed through his veins. The Figarland Family were his true "relatives"!
As a result, Shanks's loyalties were shrouded in uncertainty!
His arrival made both the World Government and the pirates believe that their reinforcements had come!
After all, the battlefield had already reached a state of perfect balance.
With the battlefield balanced like this, the sudden arrival of any emperor-admiral level fighter would instantly tip the scales!
And Shanks was no ordinary emperor-admiral level fighter. He was among the very strongest at that level!
On top of that, he had the Red-Haired Pirates behind him, and his second-in-command, Benn Beckman, was also an emperor-admiral level fighter!
It was no exaggeration to say that the addition of two emperor-admiral level fighters could decide the outcome of this war!
That was why, the moment the Red-Haired Pirates appeared,