"Boom-!"
Under Garp's Iron Fist, the enormous flaming slash shattered in an instant. Garp, who had faced it head-on, also staggered back several steps before steadying himself.
"I have to admit, I really am getting old..."
Garp held his right shoulder and moved his arm a couple of times, showing off with an air of nonchalance. "Even stopping an attack of this level is getting difficult."
Then he continued his assessment. "Sure enough, that brat Xie Wen is still a little short of the Four Emperors' level. What a waste of little Klee's teamwork."
"Mamamama... I didn't expect you to come too, Garp! Has the Navy come to take my head this time?"
Naturally, Charlotte Linlin was no stranger to "Iron Fist" Garp. As someone who had also been there, she was not particularly wary of the Marine hero who had once chased Roger around and reportedly defeated Rocks at God Valley, but she would not underestimate him either.
"You're a pirate, and I'm a Marine. Do you even need to ask?"
Garp knocked his fists together and grinned.
As they spoke, another group of Marines appeared around the Big Mom Pirates. The lowest-ranking among them were commodores, and all had been transferred from headquarters and the G-series branches. Even Vergo, who had previously been sent flying by a single blow from Kaido's club, was among them.
Right behind them came Akainu, who had unleashed a Meteor Volcano earlier.
"You think you can take me on with this handful of people?!"
Facing this lineup, Charlotte Linlin showed no fear whatsoever. She was even so angry that she sneered.
Because she felt she was being underestimated.
To avoid alerting Big Mom, besides throwing out the "Shichibukai" smokescreen on Obstein Island, the Navy had also split off some of its personnel to