Whitebeard's and Sengoku's voices rang out across Marineford almost simultaneously.
Everyone on the battlefield, pirates and Marines alike, heard the order to evacuate Marineford.
All the Marines felt the oppressive weight of that overwhelming presence.
Their instinctive sense of danger warned them to leave the island immediately, or their lives would be at risk.
Yet their first thought was not to board the ships and leave the dangerous island themselves.
Instead, it was to take their wounded comrades with them.
Watching this, Sengoku, Garp, and the other senior Marines felt both reassured and anxious.
These values were part of every Marine's education after enlistment, and something every good Marine should possess.
But taking all the wounded with them would inevitably take considerable time.
So they did not know how to tell them to stop.
They could only step onto the battlefield themselves, directing everyone in treating the wounded and boarding the warships in an orderly fashion.
The same scene played out among the pirates.
Marco raced back and forth across the battlefield, carrying the wounded pirates aboard one after another.
Ace used his Gold-Gold Fruit ability to lift the wounded pirates and deliver them onto the pirate ships.
Diamond George simply reached out and moved the wounded onto a flat patch of open ground.
Then he dug his hands in and heaved, tearing up that entire patch of ground and carrying it over to the pirate ships.
Compared with the well-trained Marines, however, the pirates moved considerably more slowly.
Fortunately, fewer pirates were wounded than Marines, so both sides evacuated their wounded at roughly the same rate.
As time passed, the pirates and Marines on the battlefield boarded their respective ships.
Only Whitebeard, Sengoku, Garp, and Staff Officer Tsuru remained on the battlefield!
Finally, Garp, Sengoku, and Staff Officer