"It's fine. I'll act personally when the time comes and use teleportation to send a group outside the blast radius, or teleport them into the battlefield after the explosion ends."
"Zero can also protect some of them."
"The World Pirates and the Flying Pirates are bound to fail. The weapons in their hands will go to waste."
Saint Saturn spoke confidently.
"These pirates are far too arrogant. We must strike back in this battle."
"All of us will take part, including CP0, the Three Army Generals, and the entire God's Knights."
"As for the Holy Land, since they don't want to act, we'll leave them to guard it."
Sengoku said nothing. The World Government's internal affairs were not something he should question.
Sengoku could also guess roughly who Saint Saturn meant by "they."
Over the years, Sengoku had actually gained a fairly good understanding of the divisions within the mysterious World Government.
Still, hearing the forces Saint Saturn said the World Government would deploy left him utterly stunned.
He had never expected the Five Elders to commit so much.
Sengoku had assumed the World Government would only send the Three Army Generals and CP0's powerful combatants.
Then, depending on the situation, they would decide whether the Five Elders and the God's Knights should act, and how many combatants to send.
This approach was completely different from their usual style.
It was also because the World Government had suffered too many setbacks in the past few wars.
More precisely, the Five Elders had set aside their pride.
As Saint Saturn had said, who knew what other trump cards lay in the shadows beyond the World Pirates and the Flying Pirates? What powerful fighters were still hiding?
They had learned enough painful lessons.
In this war, they intended to use overwhelming strength