Watching Roger's Execution from the Start

When Hancock saw this, something seemed to occur to her. She snorted, walked around Issho and the others, and followed Mihawk's group.

"You two young Marines, are you all right?"

Once the group had gone, Issho bowed slightly and asked them.

"We're fine. This is Marineford. That woman wouldn't dare do anything to us!"

Smoker waved a hand dismissively.

If she dared attack him in public, she probably wouldn't make it out of Marine Headquarters today!

Meanwhile, beneath the towering Execution Platform at the rear of the plaza stood three chairs of different colors.

Red, blue, and white!!

Three tall, powerful figures sat in them with their legs crossed.

Akainu Sakazuki, Kuzan, and White Hou Atlas!!

They represented the Marines' greatest fighting strength against the Whitebeard Pirates!!

An invisible force radiated from them, bolstering the Marines, who had been growing uneasy.

Atlas in particular wielded Conqueror's Haki. The pressure of her will was even greater than that of the other two!

Meanwhile, reporters who had flocked in from around the world descended like sharks scenting blood. Their cameras were trained on the live feed from Sabaody Archipelago.

To bolster the Marines' prestige and deter potential troublemakers, Sengoku had arranged for Surveillance Den Den Mushi to broadcast events at Marineford live.

The families evacuated from Marineford's residential district had been placed aboard refuge ships near Sabaody Archipelago. Zephyr and the Recruit Camp under his command were protecting them.

Ain and Binz were there too.

After all, a war on this scale would be a slaughterhouse.

Sending new recruits into it would be no different from sending them to their deaths.

Time passed, but Whitebeard's Moby Dick still had not appeared in Marineford's harbor.

People around the world watching the war closely could not help but wonder.

Would Whitebeard... really come?

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