The Royal Army had already been retreating again and again, and some of these people were even their elders!
What was more, Kuma had already broken their will.
The branch Marines who came as reinforcements had been brimming with confidence.
They had never expected to face even more terrifying enemies in the blink of an eye.
Shane and Kaido stood side by side.
Every crew member behind them looked like a devil descended upon the world.
"The Sorbet Kingdom?"
Shane glanced over the land.
"Let my pirate flag fly here!"
"From now on, this will be our first territory on the Blue Sea!"
At Shane's words.
Sanjuan Wolf immediately hung the pirate flag bearing dragon scales on the church in the lawless zone.
As the wind stirred the pirate flag.
Kuma once again recalled the scene of his first meeting with Shane.
It had been at God Valley, where he had watched Shane kill the supposedly untouchable Celestial Dragons right before his eyes.
After that.
Shane had become the first rookie pirate whose initial bounty exceeded a hundred million.
Yet the Marines had erased all the reasons for his bounty.
Why could they not be mentioned?
Simply because revealing what Shane had done would disgrace the Celestial Dragons.
What they wanted was to erase Shane and bury forever the fact that he had slaughtered dozens of Celestial Dragons at God Valley.
Even so.
Even as so many great pirates returned to the Grand Line and pushed into the New World.
Dividing up the seas after the death of Rocks, the King of the World.
Despite being in utter chaos, the Marines had still sent two Admiral-level fighters after the Shane Pirates.
Had Shane not possessed the Paw-Paw Fruit's power, had he not "kidnapped" Dr. Clover.
This criminal, every bit as