Zephyr smiled at the photograph of the little girl in his hand.
"She's beautiful."
He handed the photograph back to Hilber. Coming back to his senses, Hilber carefully took it and tucked it away, sounding rather proud.
"Isn't she?"
By then, the fleet had received its orders and begun turning around.
Watching the fleet change course and advance at full speed, Zephyr asked,
"Have we found pirates?"
Hilber's expression grew a little more serious.
"Yes."
"One of our fleets was just destroyed west of Wano Country."
"According to the last report headquarters received, it was a pirate fleet led by Jack the Drought, remnants of the Beasts Pirates. They have dozens of ships, and their suspected target is the final End Point Island."
"They should be the Beasts Pirates' last major force."
Pirates were unlike the navy. Each ship might carry fewer men than a warship, but they had numbers on their side...
Still, the navy was no pushover. They would catch up and open with a long-range bombardment. That should destroy quite a few of those ramshackle pirate ships.
After that, it would come down to the strength of their strongest fighters. At worst, they could take the enemy down with them.
Zephyr nodded slightly, his expression grave.
"End Point..."
"Then we really do need to catch up quickly."
"If they set it off, every sacrifice we've made so far will have been for nothing."
Hilber suddenly laughed.
"It's fine. There's no need to worry."
"Hahahahaha!"
Something seemed to occur to him, and his expression became quite animated.
"Those stupid pirates won't succeed."
"Commander-in-Chief Morris just told me that Fleet Admiral Sakazuki drained the magma beneath End Point long ago."
"The destruction of the second End Point Island was an act, too."
"We just need to catch up with