"First, get Vic to bed and settle him in. Then, head the ship towards the Calm Belt; your Float-Float Fruit will be very useful there."
As long as our ship is in the sky, no one can chase us. Ordinary people dare not enter the Calm Belt. When your strength can no longer sustain you, we can also land the ship on the surface of the Calm Belt.
With Vic's continuous Conqueror's Haki, even the Sea Kings wouldn't dare attack us. As long as we wait there for Vic to wake up, everything will be alright!
Barnett thought for a moment and said, and the others all agreed that it made a lot of sense. So the pirate ship, which had been converted from a warship, immediately changed course.
Kuma acted quickly, waking up all the civilians, explaining the current situation, and introducing the solution Vic had mentioned.
The civilians had already witnessed the agents' monstrous acts, and after realizing the seriousness of the situation, they all agreed to go with Kuma and his men.
Many who lost loved ones wanted revenge, so the Revolutionary Army was a perfect fit for them. Even those who were lucky enough not to have lost family members needed a place to shelter them. So, everyone was mobilized, and everything that could be taken from the island was transported to the warships.
While the civilians were moving their belongings, Kuma had already sent all the unconscious agents on a trip, except for more than twenty marines in naval uniforms.
Kuma only glanced at the marines a couple of times before leading the others onto the ship and leaving. The marines all saw Kuma's tall figure and were afraid that the little giant might just swat them away if he didn't like them.
They knew who this person was. He was on Vic's wanted poster before. They had all seen the wanted poster and witnessed his terrifying ability to make people disappear with a single slap!
So when Kuma approached and patted those agents, they huddled together, trembling. Fortunately, Kuma didn't touch them. After everyone left, only about twenty of them and some corpses remained on the island, including that Celestial Dragons.
On this day, a huge commotion erupted from the top floor of the iconic building at Marine Headquarters. Those inside finally understood why Garp had been acting so strangely today—his heart was broken!
Sengoku's first phone call was to the Five Elders, where he relayed the reports from the Marines. His second call was to the nearest Marine Base in Dabo Haisita, requesting that they send warships to pick up the people and collect the bodies.
As for what to do with Vic, they could no longer make that decision; that was something only the Five Elders could decide. They were just a little heartbroken that such a promising talent had been forced away, and their worries had come true!
Time and again, they've targeted us. A capable and principled person won't tolerate this forever. That's human nature. The Five Elders have been inhuman for too long. They've lost their basic understanding of humanity and are left with only endless arrogance and contempt for the world. This is a lesson for them!
The Five Elders were naturally furious. So many people had escaped from the island, and even a Celestial Dragons from the Holy Knights had died. Furthermore, a Marine with the strength of an Admiral had betrayed them. This loss was quite significant!
However, they didn't regret it. The Navy was the Celestial Dragons ' henchmen, and testing was necessary. This time, they had tested one out. Otherwise, the problem would have been even more serious if he had become the Navy Commander in the future. It's just that they underestimated the person being tested this time, and the Celestial Dragons they sent was killed!
The five then discussed how to punish Vic. A bounty was a given, and a manhunt was inevitable. However, Vic's combat strength was not something that ordinary people could catch up with; there were very few in the Navy who could do it.
There aren't many Holy Knights, so it's impossible to have them personally take action. Also, the bounty can't be too low; killing a Celestial Dragons requires a hefty reward.
After much discussion, they decided to set a bounty of 1 billion Beli for Vic. Everyone felt it was too low, but this was the first time Vic had a bounty on his head, and such a high bounty on his first try was unprecedented. So they had to keep it under wraps for now.
As for the bounties for Rebecca and the others, the Navy set them themselves. Then came the task force: they planned to send three members of the Holy Knights, while the Navy would send Kizaru to lead the pursuit. The two sides would operate separately.
However, before they could relay their decision to the navy and the newspapers, the Donquixote Family approached them. How could they not be furious that such an outstanding descendant of their family had been murdered by a commoner? So they privately added 500 million to the bounty.
Are the Five Elders really that desperate for the 500 million bounty? The bounty they set before was already outrageous. However, they couldn't refuse the Don Donquixote Family. They were the ones who sent them, but they died outside. They were already being lenient by not blaming them, so they couldn't refuse again.
While Vic was still unconscious, news of their defection from the Navy had already spread around the world through newspapers, along with the latest bounty posters.
The headline in the newspaper detailed the crimes of Vic and his gang, totaling three major crimes. The first was the murder of over five thousand World Government soldiers!
The second charge is the murder of over 30,000 civilians on Dabo Haisita Island!
The third one is that he murdered Celestial Dragons commander who was working with him and then defected from the Navy!
The newspaper also featured photos of Vic and his companions, taken during their previous battles with enemies. Previously, their expressions in the photos were deemed too fierce to be published, but this time those photos were used, and combined with the charges described in the newspaper, they looked just like the most vicious pirates.
Each of these three charges would be enough to incur the wrath of the Navy and the World Government. Law only became Shichibukai by taking the hearts of three thousand civilians, and even the lightest charge against Vic was killing more than thirty thousand civilians.
Yes, in the eyes of the world and the World Government, killing more than 30,000 civilians is the lightest crime. The lives of government soldiers as law enforcement officers are not comparable to those of ordinary people, and the lives of Celestial Dragons are even more precious. This is a major event that has not occurred in hundreds of years!
These are all earth-shattering events. Who wouldn't be stunned after reading the newspaper? This kind of news probably only appeared in the newspapers when they were accusing the Pirate King Roger of various crimes.
The entire ocean trembled. This was something a former Marine Headquarters Vice Admiral had done! The level of shock was a whole new level. He was a righteous partner protecting civilians one moment, and the next he was a murderous maniac the next. The contrast was too great, leaving those who witnessed it speechless for a long time, their mouths agape!