Garp clenched his fist.
"He chose this path himself."
"I'll make him a navy officer."
He refused.
Sengoku stared at Garp for a long time.
He eventually looked away and picked up another report.
Ace's identity cannot be changed.
This is also an opportunity for the navy.
Publicly execute the bloodline of the Pirate King.
This leads to the introduction of the Whitebeard Pirates.
They dealt a heavy blow to the pirate forces in front of the entire world.
If arranged properly, this execution could be enough to change the course of the seas.
But at this crucial moment, Enies Lobby was gone again.
Uchiha Xin also killed Golden Lion.
When two things collide, neither should be taken lightly.
Sengoku picked up the Den Den Mushi from his desk.
"Notify Sakazuki, Kuzan, Borsalino."
"Inform Vice Admiral Tsuru again."
"Have them go to the conference room immediately."
"Convene a supreme operational meeting."
The Supreme Operations Council meeting had just begun when a naval officer pushed open the door and entered.
" Fleet Admiral Sengoku!"
"Urgent notification from the World Government!"
Sengoku took the document.
The document bears the seal of the Five Elders at the top.
Inside the meeting room, Garp, Vice Admiral Tsuru, and the three Admiral were all present.
Akainu crossed his arms over his chest.
Aokiji leaned back in his chair, looking down at the table.
Kizaru, holding a teacup, looked like he hadn't woken up yet.
The Sengoku opened the document.
After reading only a few lines, he began to grip the paper tightly.
Enies Lobby was destroyed.
CP9 was almost completely wiped out.
Golden Lion Shiki died in battle.
Either of these points would be enough to warrant an emergency meeting at the Marine Headquarters.
Now it all relates to one person.
Uchiha Xin.
Bang!
Sengoku slammed his fist on the conference table.
The hard tabletop cracked on the spot.
"It's Uchiha Xin again!"
"First he killed the Shichibukai, then the Admiral, and now even Shiki the Golden Lion has died at his hands!"
" Enies Lobby has been completely destroyed!"
The roar of the Sengoku echoed out of the conference room.
The navy personnel outside the door all stopped in their tracks.
No one dared to approach.
Kizaru blew on the tea.
"That's terrifying."
"This Uchiha Xin seems to cause a major incident every few days."
"However, Enies Lobby was destroyed by the Golden Lion's floating Sky Island."
"Strictly speaking, we can't blame it all on him, can we?"
Sengoku suddenly looked at Kizaru.
Borsalino!
Kizaru's hand, holding the teacup, froze in mid-air.
Sengoku pointed to the report in front of him.
" Enies Lobby is gone!"
One of the World Government agencies was crushed into the sea by dozens of islands!
"The fate of tens of thousands of naval and judicial personnel is unknown!"
"At this point, you're still arguing with me about who should be blamed?"
Kizaru put down his teacup.
"I was just saying."
Tell me?
The voice of the Sengoku rose even higher.
"Instead of wasting your time on this nonsense, you should be thinking about how to capture Uchiha Xin next time you encounter him!"
"As Marine Admiral, he always acts like he doesn't care about anything!"
"This is the highest operational command!"
"Sit still!"
Kizaru finally dropped his nonchalant expression.
He straightened up and placed his hands on the table.
"Understood, Fleet Admiral Sengoku."
Garp glanced at Kizaru, then looked at Sengoku, who was still fuming.
He didn't laugh out loud as usual.
After Ace was arrested, he remained silent.
This meeting appears to be discussing Uchiha Xin.
In reality, there is more than one issue that the Navy needs to address.
Sengoku threw the document onto the table.
"Circulate all copies."
Vice Admiral Tsuru He picked up the report first.
She finished reading the first page without changing her expression.
Turning to the back, the movements slowed down.
The report documents the battle between Uchiha Xin and Golden Lion.
The two sides fought from an altitude of 20,000 meters all the way to the top of Enies Lobby.
Golden Lion used swordsmanship, Haki, and the Float-Float Fruit.
It even caused dozens of floating Sky Island to fall simultaneously.
Uchiha Xin, however, directly crushed all the attacks.
Ultimately, the Golden Lion attempted to escape.
She still died at his hands.
After reading it, He pushed the document to Garp.
"Take a look."
Garp took the report.
His gaze swept over the lines of text.
Lion Thousand-Cut Valley.
Lion's Might - Earth Roll.
Dozens of islands fell.
The Golden Lion fled in defeat.
He ultimately died in battle.
Garp pressed his palm against the report.
"That bastard Shiki is really dead."
Akainu looked at him.
"You've fought him before."
How much strength does he have left?
Garp did not answer immediately.
Decades ago, the Golden Lion ventured alone into Marineford.
In order to capture that madman, he joined forces with Sengoku to fight a great battle.
That battle destroyed half of the Marine Headquarters.
Although Shiki was ultimately defeated, he still caused a large number of marines to die in the battle.
Later, Shiki even cut off both of his legs, becoming the first person to escape from Impel Down.
That's not some old pirate who's survived to this day by sheer luck.
It is not a monster, but a monster that truly stands at the top of the ocean.
" Shiki is old."
Garp put down the report.
"His legs are gone, but the ship's rudder from back then is still on his head."
"My physical strength is definitely not comparable to my peak."
"But his Haki, swordsmanship, and combat experience won't all disappear."
Garp looked up.
Even if his strength has declined, he is not someone that an ordinary Admiral can kill easily.
" Uchiha Xin was able to force Shiki to flee in a direct confrontation and even kill him completely."
"This kid's strength is truly terrifying."
Aokiji reached out and took the report.
His eyes, which had been half-closed, were now fully open.
"Even Mr. Garp said so."
"It seems the Five Elders were too optimistic in their initial assessment."
The Sengoku snorted coldly.
The Five Elders believed that Shiki was old and frail, and that Uchiha Xin had only benefited from the situation.
"They handed things over to the Navy, so of course they can say it's easy!"
Aokiji flipped through the information sent back by CP9.
" Uchiha Xin is not injured."
"At least from what the staff at Enies Lobby observed, his clothes didn't show much damage."
"After killing the Golden Lion, he still had the strength to instantly crush CP9."
"This doesn't look like a Pyrrhic victory."
The crane nodded.
"That's right."
"To judge a battle, you can't just look at who survived in the end."
" Shiki is indeed getting old, and his strength has inevitably declined."
"But after Uchiha Xin killed him, he was neither injured nor showed any obvious signs of depletion."
"This is enough to show that Uchiha Xin's strength is unfathomable."
The meeting room fell silent.
Previously, the Navy's assessment of Uchiha Xin had remained at the Admiral level.
He can kill a candidate Admiral.
He can defeat Blackbeard.
It can destroy a naval fleet.
However, these results still leave room for interpretation.
A candidate for Admiral is not the same as a true Admiral.
Blackbeard had only recently obtained the Dark-Dark Fruit.
Ordinary fleets are inherently less effective against top-tier powerhouses.
The death of the Golden Lion was different.
That man is a legend left over from the old era.
Even when you're old, not everyone can step on you.
Uchiha Xin's direct defeat of him proves that his strength far exceeds the Navy's previous estimates.