"Marines think they're so great?" Hikaru's relaxed expression vanished, and his face turned cold. Sitting upright on the tree stump, he looked at her with blatant mockery. "If the Marines are so arrogant, why don't they go capture the Four Emperors instead of putting on airs for ordinary civilians like me every day?"
The surrounding fish-men stopped working and looked over with mocking contempt. Hikaru was now Fish-Man Island's hero. Since this Marine girl had such a terrible attitude, they naturally stood united against her.
Hina's face darkened. Who in the world did not know the status of the Four Emperors in the New World? The Marines had the ability to topple one of the Four Emperors, but they could not fight on all fronts and challenge all four at once. Even if Hina wanted to do so, she did not have that kind of strength.
Fleet Admiral Sakazuki had moved Marine Headquarters to the New World precisely because he had resolved to wipe out the pirates. But pirates had run rampant across the world for years; they could not be eliminated overnight.
Hikaru's two remarks were a brutal slap in the face, making Hina feel deeply mocked.
Besides, according to the intelligence, this guy had slapped Cracker, one of the Four Emperors' Sweet Commanders, so hard that he was still vomiting blood in bed. With strength that absurdly powerful, how could he have the nerve to call himself an ordinary civilian? She herself did not even possess the strength to easily defeat a Sweet Commander—that required the power of an Admiral or a Four Emperor!
950 "!!!" As she thought that, Hina was suddenly startled. She realized something she had overlooked all along.
Could it be that Uchiha Hikaru's strength had already reached the level where he could challenge