"Do you know what you've done?"
"Sakazuki!"
"Why did you do it?"
Half of Kuzan's body was encased in ice, radiating waves of cold, but even that frozen body could not conceal the fury in his heart.
As he faced Sakazuki, Kuzan knew he had never approved of the way Sakazuki did things.
Still, he had no right to condemn him. Plenty of other marines took a similar approach.
But an entire ship of civilians had died before his eyes, when none of them had needed to die.
He simply could not accept that outcome.
Tension spread through the air, and a battle seemed ready to erupt at any moment.
Three Vice Admirals watched from a distance, not daring to intervene.
This was a situation they had hoped to avoid.
It also touched on the clash of ideals within the Navy.
"What is a Buster Call?"
Facing Kuzan's accusations, Sakazuki gave him a long look, then turned slightly and answered with a question.
He had no desire to waste time here. The mission was complete, and he needed to return to the North Blue.
The other Vice Admirals would handle reporting back, while the recorder aboard the warship would send an account of the mission to headquarters.
"Don't do anything unnecessary."
The calm words reached Kuzan's ears as Sakazuki boarded his Navy Warship and gradually sailed away.
Whether judged by his own motives or by the letter of the law, he had done nothing wrong.
A Buster Call was a force that destroyed everything!
An evacuation ship should never have existed in the first place. Every resident of Ohara, even its cats and dogs, was a target for annihilation.
Some people had merely taken it upon themselves to dispatch an evacuation ship.
Trying to condemn him on moral grounds was