"Report! In the battle in Area 38, Admiral Kizaru and Mr. Garp have been tied down! The Shadow General has severely wounded Admiral Kizaru again..."
"Report! The Beasts Pirates and the Revolutionary Army have launched a surprise attack! Our initial advantage has taken a turn!"
"..."
"Report! Roy has attacked the coastline of Area 43! Thousands of Marine soldiers died in a single attack, and Admiral Sakazuki was severely wounded by Roy!"
"Report! On the coastline of Area 43, Roy issued a declaration, specifically demanding that Fleet Admiral Sengoku and Red-Haired Shanks head to Area 55 to fight!"
As these battle reports reached the meeting hall one after another, even Sengoku and Saint Saturn could not help panicking.
"Impossible! There was nothing wrong with our arrangements! We should have won easily as long as we followed the plan, so why did this happen?!"
But no matter how they speculated, they never imagined
that Marine Vice Admiral Onigumo had leaked these plans to Roy when they were first drawn up.
Roy had been recovering from his injuries at the time, and Onigumo's initiative in approaching him had greatly surprised even him.
After all, to the Marines, his reputation was one of cruelty, of being a demon.
But Onigumo had not been afraid. He had even handed Roy all the intelligence on Sengoku and the others.
"Roy, plenty of people in this world call you an evil man, a demon, but only those of us in the Hawk Faction understand that force is the only way to solve problems."
"All that talk of valuing peace and smoothing things over is fucking bullshit."
"It's just a shame we're enemies. Otherwise, if someone like you joined the Marines, you'd slaughter pirates until they trembled at your name!"
"I, Onigumo, have followed Admiral Sakazuki since