"Oh, oh, Fleet Admiral Sengoku, you're right. I'm so scared."
Faced with Sengoku's furious roar, Roy merely replied at his own leisurely pace.
"Heh heh heh, then come crush me if you can."
"At worst, I'll hide and take revenge on your Marines from the shadows."
Sengoku: ???
Was he being mocked and provoked?
What was more, Roy had hit the crux of the matter with a single sentence.
With their current fighting strength, the Marines really could not crush Roy.
Sakazuki was hunting pirates in the New World and refusing to obey orders.
Kizaru was stationed at the Sabaody Archipelago and genuinely could not be reassigned.
Several powerful pirate crews had reportedly already appeared in the Sabaody Archipelago.
One of them was a crew under Roy, founded by Yake, Sanjuan Wolf, and a swordsman named Loya.
Loya had originally been a bounty hunter imprisoned on Level 6 of Impel Down. After offending a Four Emperors crew, he had been injured and subdued.
He had ultimately been imprisoned, then escaped with Roy.
His bounty now exceeded five hundred million.
Apart from Roy, Bullet, and Red, he was one of the three powerful members of the Escapee Team with the highest bounties.
He even possessed the fighting strength of an elite vice admiral.
After joining Roy, he was stirring up a storm in the Sabaody Archipelago.
Another pirate crew was waiting for Bullet.
Once they joined forces, they would clash head-on with Red-Haired Shanks.
As such, Admiral Kizaru was effectively on a full-time vacation in the Sabaody Archipelago.
It was just a vacation that carried a certain degree of danger.
At that thought, Sengoku trembled all over. Suppressing his anger, he said in a low voice.
"Roy, just what do you want!"
"I only want to know why Captain T-Bone's Den