He recalled how Lucci and the others had killed all the shipwrights in Iceburg's company as soon as they appeared, trying to take Iceburg away in the process.
They simply hadn't expected someone to discover the employees' bodies and notify the Marines.
And when the Marines arrived, they happened to see him.
"So that's what happened. Looks like this misunderstanding runs pretty deep."
Roy also realized that the Marines had misunderstood him.
But he couldn't be bothered to explain, and he disdained doing so.
He put Lucci and the others away, then looked at the fewer than a thousand Marine soldiers outside the company and strolled toward them.
"Though I don't care about my reputation, framing me will get you killed!"
Captain T-Bone stood at the very front, his face full of righteous resolve.
"Roy, you're surrounded! I advise you to stop resisting!"
"I've notified Marine Headquarters. Once reinforcements arrive, we will execute you for your heinous crimes!"
But no matter how Captain T-Bone roared to rally them, he couldn't suppress the fear of the thousand-plus Marine soldiers behind him.
"Hey, hey, hey, has Captain T-Bone had too much to drink? Or has he really gotten that full of himself? That's Calamity Roy! Once he fights his way into the New World, he'll be an Emperor-level figure. Can we really stop him?"
"Well, we have no choice. Look at what it's like outside Mayor Iceburg's company! Hundreds of shipwrights, all dead! If someone hadn't reported it, who knows how long it would have taken us to find out."
"But even so, can we really stop him? Roy defeated Vice Admiral Garp head-on!"
They might have been righteous Marines, but they weren't fools.
Even the Admirals at Headquarters couldn't stop a calamity like Roy. How could they?
But as Marines who