The main warship led by Zephyr spearheaded the advance, while Sengoku was still suppressing the many pirate crews that had flocked to the Sabaody Archipelago.
The warships sailed away from the Red Line.
Atop that towering height stood the Holy Land, Mary Geoise.
Five pairs of dark eyes watched in solemn readiness.
"Shane has set sail again. What Rocks said before he died was quite unexpected. It once made me suspect that he had left something to this Tyrant."
"From what we can see now, his destinations have included Flower Country, Ohara, the Sorbet Kingdom, Mock Town on Jaya Island, the Devil Fog, Alabasta, Fish-Man Island, Dressrosa, Hachinosu, Zunesha, and Wano Country."
Saint Saturn traced a long line across the map for the other four.
"Clearly, Flower Country possessed treasure hidden in a glacier. We all know what they once intended to do with it. Those were resources they meant to use against us."
"We originally intended to have Garp deal with it, but Shane unexpectedly acted first and happened to get it right. Yet we thought little of him at the time."
"Next was Ohara in the West Blue. They never gave up. That entire group from back then had long since been killed, but the scholars who came afterward continued searching everywhere for Poneglyphs, trying to decipher them. Shane briefly abducted Dr. Clover there."
At this point in the discussion.
The Five Elders' gazes darkened.
They could hardly avoid suspecting that those scholars had accomplished something, and that Shane had gained something from it as well.
Judging by what happened afterward, every undercover agent they sent was inadvertently discovered and eliminated by Shane.
"Dr. Clover and his party have been abducted by the Roger Pirates. We already noticed signs of it during the Pirate Expo!"
"Then, together with