Just as the warship carrying Gern and Mihawk slowly departed the harbor of G-10 Base, heading toward Paradise on the other side of the Red Line.
At the pinnacle of world power, Mary Geoise, inside the Jaygarcia Family's palace.
In a room decorated with extravagant luxury yet steeped in a chilling atmosphere, one of the Five Elders, the Warrior God of Science and Defense,
Jaygarcia Saturn Saint, sat behind a desk fashioned from the polished bones of an enormous beast.
He was not dealing with the mountain of documents on world affairs and research data. Instead, he was absorbed in a stack of confidential reports about the Revolutionary Army.
His wrinkled face betrayed no expression. Only his deep-set eyes occasionally flickered with a cold, calculating light.
It was as though he were not reading reports on a threat that could shake the foundations of the world, but examining some inconsequential experimental data.
Before long, his fingers slowly traced a document concerning the movements of the Revolutionary Army's North Army.
When he reached the attached blurry photographs and personnel list, his hand paused slightly.
In one photograph, an exceptionally tall, burly figure wearing a green cloak caught his attention.
The accompanying annotation read: mixed-blood member of the Buccaneer Tribe, Revolutionary Army officer, Bartholomew Kuma.
"The Buccaneer Tribe..." Saint Saturn murmured in his low, raspy voice.
At the same time, his eyes instinctively narrowed, a complicated, unreadable look flashing through them.
His memory returned to God Valley, to the little slave who had shouted at him...
Then his gaze moved down to another name closely associated with Kuma: Ginny.
The report stated that she was the commander of the Revolutionary Army's East Army and shared a close relationship with Kuma.
At this, an exceedingly faint yet chilling smile slowly appeared on Saint