"What!?"
"What!!??"
At that moment, Aramaki and Salih had their mouths open so wide that an egg could have fit inside.
Seeing this, Kuzan repeated himself. "You heard me correctly. The Marines will now break away from the World Government and become the people's Marines, as well as Peach Spring's Marines."
Hearing those words again, Aramaki and Salih exchanged a glance and realized they had not been hearing things.
Aramaki looked the most shocked. Still finding it hard to believe, he asked again, "Fleet Admiral, I can understand the Marines breaking away from the World Government, but why must we become Peach Spring's Marines?"
His parents and relatives had all been killed by pirates, so he harbored a deep hatred for pirates and believed every pirate in the world deserved to die.
Ever since then, he had dreamed of becoming a Marine.
Admiral Akainu's willingness to use any means necessary to kill pirates had captivated him deeply.
He had made that spirit of crushing pirates at any cost his creed.
Every time he saw news about Admiral Akainu defeating or killing pirates, excitement surged through him.
Over time, Akainu had become his idol.
His dream was to become an Admiral and go on missions with Red Fist to kill enemies.
But back then, he had still been an ordinary person who had not eaten the Woods-Woods Fruit.
He had not even grasped the basics of Armament Haki or Observation Haki.
He probably could not even match a major at Marine Headquarters, and becoming an Admiral had been nothing more than a pipe dream.
But to join the Marines and become an Admiral, he had not only trained extremely hard.
Thanks to his outstanding talent, even though he was already in his twenties, he had achieved remarkable results in training his