Meanwhile, in a secluded place far from the heart of the turmoil stood the Revolutionary Army Headquarters, Baltigo.
Inside a conference room built from cold white stone, Monkey D. Dragon sat alone at the head of the long table.
He leaned back in his chair, his eyes closed, but his tightly knitted brows and faintly trembling fingers betrayed the turmoil within him.
The news that had arrived when Ginny was abducted...
Bartholomew Kuma's silence, which seemed to carry an entire world's worth of grief and pleading...
Ivankov's impassioned voice...
Those images and voices haunted his mind like nightmares, circling and echoing day and night, tormenting his nerves.
It wasn't that he didn't want to save her! Ginny was an important commander of the Revolutionary Army's East Army, and the family Kuma treasured above all else!
Whether out of duty or personal feeling, he wanted nothing more than to mobilize the entire army, storm Mary Geoise, and bring her back!
Quite a few of the more radical officers at Headquarters had already petitioned him, privately or openly, to deploy their forces.
Even if it meant a direct confrontation with the World Government, they wanted to attempt to rescue Ginny.
But...
Dragon clenched his fists in anguish.
But... this was the World Government! A vast machine that had stood at the pinnacle of the world for eight hundred years! And the Holy Knights were involved!
Could this all be an elaborate trap?
A deadly plot that used Ginny as bait to wipe out the main forces of the Revolutionary Army just as they were beginning to make their mark?
As the Revolutionary Army's founder and supreme commander, he carried more than his own life on his shoulders.
He carried the future of the entire organization, the hopes of countless comrades who believed