Watching Roger's Execution at the Start

Otherwise.

If he fought while chasing her all the way back to her stronghold in Totto Land, he would find himself surrounded.

Worse, it might trigger a chain reaction among the pirate crews of the New World. The Whitebeard Pirates, for one, would never stand for it, even though they frequently clashed with the Big Mom Pirates themselves.

Pirates might not be well educated, but they understood perfectly well that if one of them fell, the others would be next.

Once the balance between the Three Emperors was broken, the balance of power across the seas would collapse. Pirates would have nowhere left to stand in the New World!

Atlas watched Big Mom flee in disarray, then turned and flew toward Broccoli Island. With Big Mom driven off, his trip there was finally drawing to a close.

At the battered harbor, Smoker and Kyros stood aboard the recently returned warship with a group of Marines, busy assigning personnel.

"Atlas, how did it go?"

Smoker came forward as Atlas descended onto the warship.

He had not seen Big Mom, but the tremendous commotion from the distance had made it easy to guess who had been fighting Atlas.

"I'm fine, but Big Mom got away."

Atlas waved it off. "Somehow, Katakuri learned that Akainu was on his way here, so they withdrew early."

Since when had the Charlotte Family's intelligence network outside its territory become so capable?

By his reckoning, even if Smoker had called Sengoku for reinforcements as soon as his fight with Big Mom began, the call would have remained within the Marines. No outsider should have detected Akainu's movements for at least a week.

"Vice Admiral Akainu?"

Smoker froze. He had called Sengoku to explain the situation, but Sengoku had not told him which Vice Admiral was coming to