"How did you get on the wrong side of a troublesome guy like Sakazuki?"
Once Akainu had left, Kizaru immediately asked with a wry smile, "He had quite a high opinion of you before this, you know. He kept talking about getting you to join the Marines."
But Xie Wen was innocent, too. He had done nothing, yet the man had come over and started bossing him around for no apparent reason.
In fact, setting their respective positions aside, Xie Wen had a fairly good opinion of Akainu as well. Even after the man had just lectured him like an overbearing father, Xie Wen still thought so.
Because out of all the Marines, Akainu probably best fit the definition of a "soldier." Unfortunately, the World Government that controlled the Marines was no good, so the more competent a Marine Akainu was, the more he helped a tyrant do evil.
On top of that, he was an absolute hardliner with ruthless methods. So even though his attitude toward pirates was also to eradicate evil completely, Xie Wen still could not bring himself to like him.
Naturally, now that he had sufficient strength and status, he was not going to indulge that nasty habit of Akainu's.
After Xie Wen briefly explained what had just happened, Kizaru did not know what to say either.
Unlike Akainu, a man of black-and-white extremes who believed in Absolute Justice, Kizaru believed in unclear justice. In other words, he was the Admiral who best understood the arts of compromise and slacking off. Naturally, he did not see anything wrong with Xie Wen's actions the way Akainu did...
If even the World Government had no objections, why should they, as Marines, get so hung up on it with Xie Wen?
So Kizaru could not help inwardly grumbling that