"What do you think?"
Xie Wen looked at Whitebeard and Dragon.
Their original plan had been to follow the original story and slip underwater past the Marines' defensive perimeter to enter Marineford directly. For that purpose, Xie Wen had even specifically asked Meowrah to upgrade the Moby Dick.
But now, whether they submerged or not no longer seemed to make much difference.
"Gurararara! Since they've gone out of their way to invite us, of course we'll gladly accept!"
Whitebeard's thinking was entirely in keeping with his personality. As the "World's Strongest Man," he had no fear of schemes or tricks whatsoever. Whatever the World Government had prepared, he would simply bulldoze through it.
Dragon shared his view.
"Let's head straight in. We can adapt as things develop."
With their group's strength, even if there were traps along the way, they would not pose much of a problem. Besides, they had the spatial teleportation device as a fallback.
With both leaders having spoken, naturally, no one else objected. And so the Moby Dick sailed brazenly into Marineford's crescent-shaped opening from directly ahead.
The Marine warships guarding either side made no move, allowing the Moby Dick to approach Marineford.
On the Execution Platform, Garp was already kneeling in prison clothes, flanked by Sengoku and Zephyr, his two friends and comrades.
In front of the Execution Platform stood a whole group of Xie Wen's old acquaintances-Boa Hancock, Dracule Mihawk, Gecko Moria, and Cavendish.
Aside from Jinbe, all the other members of the Shichibukai had come.
Their arrival was something Xie Wen had known about well in advance. After all, Jinbe, Hancock, and Hawk-Eye were all on quite good terms with him and had given him an early heads-up.
Besides those four veteran Shichibukai, however, there were two new faces beside them. Xie Wen