After speaking with the marines, Vic took off the Justice Cloak from his back and handed it to a marine directly opposite him.
"Take this back for me, and also tell them that I left the Navy voluntarily, not that I was forced out. This is very important!"
" Vice Admiral Dark Dragon! We..."
"You don't need to say anything more. The more you say, the worse your situation will be when you return to the Navy. Just keep quiet, pack your things, and go to the island!"
Many marines wanted to express something, but Vic interrupted them. What they said now could be brought back to light later, and if they said anything extreme, they wouldn't have a good time when they got back.
So Vic shut them up, which was his last act of kindness. After saying that, Vic sat down at the bow of the warship and closed his eyes. The marines didn't say anything more and went back to their cabins to pack their things.
" Vic! These are the people they came here to arrest. They only started killing after capturing them. Do you want to ask why?"
Just as the marines finished packing their things, they docked the warship. After they all left the warship, Rebecca and her group also dealt with their opponents and found the few people who had been captured and brought aboard the huge warship. They were eager to know the cause of the incident, so they brought the people back. The one in charge was the masked woman.
In fact, Vic had already heard some things from Renka and knew the general outline. It was nothing more than that, like Ohara, these people were also historians who studied the Poneglyph.
Somehow, the World Government discovered their hiding place and then planned this operation. As a result, the leader died, Vic and the others couldn't return to the Navy. The trigger was these people in front of us.
"Tell me! Where did you historians come from, making it impossible for us to go back to the navy!"
"Historians are amazing! They managed to bring down two Vice Admiral admirals from the Marine Headquarters. Do historians have such great power?"
Vic sighed with emotion, recalling that the last person to betray the Navy for a historian was Vice Admiral Saul of the Giant Race, who had also served under the old man.
Now he has defected from the Navy for the sake of a historian, and he was also one of the old man's men. Then there's Aokiji who left the Navy, and he was also one of the old man's men!
The first to leave was Dragon, the old man's own son. It's unclear whether he stayed by the old man's side. Are people close to the old man so easily forced to leave the Navy? Is it a curse? Will Bogard or Koby next? Vic smiled bitterly to himself!
"Are you referring to Saul as the Marine Vice Admiral? Unfortunately, I'm the one who made Saul betray the Navy!"
The masked woman was visibly taken aback by Vic's words. However, when Rebecca and the others brought her out earlier, they had witnessed the devastation on the island and knew that something terrible must have happened, and that the World Government had encountered a powerful enemy.
Now, after hearing Vic's explanation, she realized that it was these few marines who did it. Moreover, she didn't expect that this handsome young marine in front of her would know about her and Saul. Knowing that the people in front of her were all righteous, she didn't hide anything and told them her story directly.
"You're Nico Olvia! Nico Robin's mother? You didn't die in the Buster Call in Ohara?"
Vic was shocked by the masked woman's words. In terms of their relationship, Saul and Robin had a deeper bond, but it was her mother, Nico Olvia, who truly changed Saul's stance.
Vic carefully observed the woman in front of him. Her figure and hairstyle were similar to Olvia's, except that her hair was black. However, upon closer inspection, Vic noticed that the roots of the veiled woman's hair were white.
That means the woman's hair was originally white, but she dyed it black to cover it up. Now, a small section of white hair has grown out, which is hard to notice without careful observation.
The woman's face was covered, so Vic couldn't be completely sure. How could a character who died in the original story come back to life? It was unbelievable! But who else but Olvia knew about Saul? After all, Saul also died in Ohara!
"You know me? Did Aokiji tell you? Or Robin?"
The masked woman was somewhat surprised. She hadn't expected that Vic not only knew about Saul, but also about her existence. It could only be that Aokiji and Robin, the two insiders, had told her.
If it was Aokiji who said it was nothing serious, then she had a bad feeling. But if it was Robin who said it, then she had a bad feeling. The person in front of her used to be a Marine. If he got her information from Robin, then Robin had most likely been captured by the Marines!
Her voice trembled as she spoke of Robin, and she prayed in her heart that the person who told Vic wasn't Robin. Her eyes were fixed on Vic, filled with hope.
"Yes! Aokiji told me. He said that he and Saul used to be very good friends, but because of your influence, their ideas clashed, which made him start to feel confused!"
"If you really are Nicole Olvia, you've not only brought down two of us Vice Admiral, but you've also profoundly influenced a future Marine Admiral! Can you remove your mask so I can see your face?"
Vic saw the woman's eyes. Neither of the two people the woman mentioned had told him anything. He had seen them in his past life. In order not to worry the woman, he could only let Kuzan take the blame. Although he was basically certain that this woman was Robin's mother, he still wanted to see that mature woman's face that looked exactly like Robin's!
"Good!"
Without hesitation, the woman removed the face mask, but her face startled Rebecca and Wendy, and even Vic found it hard to look at.
The woman's face was covered with horrific burn scars on one side. The scars seemed to have never fully healed, and pustules had repeatedly formed in the middle. When Vic looked at her, pus was still flowing and rolling down the scars. She had made a very excited expression earlier, and the large movement of her face caused the bulging pustules to burst!
"These are burns! Such a beautiful face has been ruined like this!"
After her initial shock, Rebecca looked at Olvia with regret. She took out a handkerchief and gently wiped away the pus still dripping from Olvia's face. She could see the former glory of Olvia's face on the other side—a mature, aloof, and beautiful face, now disfigured.
"I'm lucky; at least my face is ruined. The others didn't even lose their lives!"
Olvia didn't care at all about how others treated the scars on her face; she wouldn't even wear a face mask if it weren't to help her companions focus on studying the Poneglyph.
But there was a hint of guilt and regret in her eyes. Six years had passed since the Ohara Incident, and she would occasionally see news about Robin in the newspaper. She longed to find her daughter, but she was afraid that Robin would see that terrifying face, so she could only pray from afar that her daughter would live a good life!
"Did you escape the Buster Call in Ohara? Or did someone save you?"
Vic knew about the Ohara Incident, and from Olvia's words, he knew she had survived the Buster Call. But how could she have survived such intense bombardment and fire?
Unless someone intervenes at a crucial moment, her burns won't just be limited to her face. Vic is eager to know who that person is.
"No one saved me. There's a small lake next to the Tree of Knowledge in Ohara. We threw Tree of Knowledge into that lake."
Finally, there was a small, water-covered depression left, and the doctor and his team had me lie down in that pit. The water in the pit was just enough to cover my body, which is how I escaped the scorching flames.
He only got burned on the face by a flame blown by while he was out of the water to breathe!