"Hey, hey! Don't just stay silent, all right?" Blackbeard said to Kuzan with a savage grin. "With Combat Power as formidable as yours, as long as you're willing to join me, I'm willing to make you my right-hand man—second only to me, above tens of thousands. Compared to all the damn rules in the Navy, us pirates who worship freedom are far more unrestrained!"
Kuzan glanced at Blackbeard and the band of vicious pirate fanatics behind him, then said blandly, "Freedom? Isn't what you have called lawlessness?"
"Ha ha ha!" Blackbeard burst into laughter. "Don't put it that way! You're not even in the Navy anymore, so why talk about laws? If we followed the law, would we still have the nerve to call ourselves pirates?"
"A world without rules to restrain it will only descend into chaos and darkness." Kuzan looked at Blackbeard. "If the direction of the new era is controlled by people like you, it will only mark the beginning of even greater chaos and darkness in the New World."
Blackbeard looked at Kuzan slyly, spinning the gun in his hand as he smiled. "You don't have to look at us so pessimistically. We're really just a group of people pursuing freedom."
"Your freedom is built upon depriving others of the legitimate rights they deserve." Kuzan narrowed his eyes slightly. "No matter how you try to dress it up, you can't conceal your true evil deeds."
Blackbeard's smile became increasingly ferocious. "Hey, hey! Kuzan, you didn't come all this way just to condemn us, did you?"
Kuzan shook his head. "I suddenly changed my mind."
Blackbeard's expression darkened, and his smile stiffened slightly. "You're leaving? Even after I offered you the position of Blackbeard Pirates' right-hand man, such generous treatment, you still want to leave?"
Kuzan scoffed.