Garp sat with his eyes closed.
"Roger entrusted him to me."
Sakazuki sat some distance away, leaning back in his chair with his arms folded, saying nothing.
Fleet Admiral Kong sighed inwardly.
"Why did you shelter Roger's unborn child?"
Garp opened his eyes and spoke slowly.
"The child is innocent."
Seeing that Garp showed no remorse, Sakazuki snorted coldly.
"His evil bloodline is his original sin."
Garp turned to stare at Sakazuki.
"But he hasn't even been born yet."
"His life hasn't begun. He hasn't committed any crime."
"Yet he's been sentenced to death solely because of a bloodline he never chose."
"That kind of absolute justice..."
"I will never accept it."
Sakazuki took several deep breaths.
"I can't believe those words came from a Marine Vice Admiral."
"Whose side are you on, to say something like that so brazenly?"
"The Marines'? The people's? Or the pirates'?"
"No crime?"
"If Bullet hadn't stopped Rayleigh back then, how many people would have died because of that unborn child? Do you know?"
Garp clenched his fists.
"If you hadn't put him under surveillance..."
"Roger would never have called Rayleigh over."
Sakazuki laughed in sheer anger.
"So you're saying I was wrong?"
Boom!
The table in front of Sakazuki shattered beneath his fist.
Fleet Admiral Kong shouted angrily.
"Both of you, calm down!"
Sengoku, Zephyr, and the others around them rose, ready to intervene.
Sakazuki drew a deep breath.
"I'm fine."
He turned and headed toward the back.
"Carol!"
Carol stood up in the back row.
"Here."
As Sakazuki walked toward the back, he spoke.
"Have you located Dragon?"
Carol nodded.
"Yes."
No one in the meeting room knew what Sakazuki intended to do.
Sakazuki raised a hand and said,
"Fleet Admiral Kong, I'm going to arrest a Marine traitor."
"I'll deliver his