Countless ugly scars covered his arms and chest, extending all the way up one side of his face and making his once honest-looking features especially fearsome! "Anok, long time no see."
Everyone aboard the approaching Cold Crow · Numancia Flamingo had mixed feelings at the sight of this "old acquaintance" on the deck.
Back then, this man had nearly driven the family into a corner! Though they were no longer as helpless against him as they had been, Doffy still frowned.
He sensed powerful Armament Haki from the man, actually no weaker than that of the Silver-Eyed Lion King Ricardo, whom he had once fought! "Looks like your journey through the New World was quite eventful too."
Rossi's gaze, meanwhile, fell on the scars covering most of the man's body and extending up to his face.
They were unmistakably burn scars, and considering "Baldy" Anok's fondness for betting on roasting his arms over a fire whenever he had nothing to do, anyone who could injure him like this... "Don't tell me you ran into... Sakazuki?"
Sakazuki! At the mention of that name, the many pirates kneeling on one knee on the deck shuddered. Many even broke into cold sweats, their pupils contracting sharply and their breathing growing rapid and erratic.
With how terrified they looked, had they really run into Akainu? Rossi gave them a sympathetic glance. Sakazuki was only a Marine Rear Admiral at present, but his strength was already hailed as monstrous! Calls for him to become a Vice Admiral, or even take over as an Admiral, had never ceased.
Alongside Kuzan and Borsalino, he was one of the outstanding figures of the Marines' new generation. "Looks like your captain..."
Rossi's Observation Haki had already swept through the fleet, but he had not sensed that cold, proud presence