"Holy shit!"
Sensing Garp and Sengoku's presence and hearing their shouts, Xie Wen jumped in fright and hurriedly took a defensive stance.
Then...
A shock wave that was not particularly powerful pushed him back, making him sway.
But immediately afterward, a very familiar, tremendous force struck Xie Wen's sword, sending him sliding backward more than ten meters. Even with Xie Wen's Armament Haki protecting her, Baby 5, who had transformed into the Maid Long Sword, let out a muffled grunt. Clearly, that blow had not been pleasant.
That familiar punch had naturally come from Garp. But unlike the sorry state he had been in when a single punch sent him flying back then, Xie Wen had blocked this one without a scratch. Even Baby 5 had not actually suffered any injuries; at most, it had hurt a little.
"Wahahahaha! You've gotten a lot stronger, kid... no wonder you dared to do something like this!"
Garp, who already found fault with everything about the Celestial Dragons, withdrew his fist and laughed with a hint of schadenfreude.
Sengoku, who had already transformed into the Golden Great Buddha, could not be as carefree as him. Although he had just held back against Xie Wen, his attitude was much more serious.
"...Was it necessary to go this far, Xie Wen?" Sengoku glanced at Saint Mary Geoise, where fires were burning everywhere, then at Akainu, who had lost a leg, and sighed helplessly. "The World Government will never let you go."
Besides those two, quite a few Marines wearing high-ranking insignia had also arrived at Saint Mary Geoise, surrounding Xie Wen and the cats and Fish-Men who had followed him over.
Against this lineup, plus Akainu watching menacingly from the side and an exhausted-looking Kizaru, Xie Wen and his companions probably could not win...
But