The unrestrained laughter of Shiki lood over the heads of the crowd.
Everyone gazed at the three legendary Marine figures standing beside Ace on the execution platform.
The three of them wore different expressions, but their faces showed no change in response to Shiki's taunts.
"Shiki! You old bastard!"
"Did you co here to stir up trouble because the world was too quiet? Do you want us to capture you again?" Sengoku's eyes were glaring at him, his voice steady yet icy as he spoke.
Ever since Shiki had escaped from Impel Down, the Marine's intelligence departnts had been searching for traces of this great pirate, but they had obtained no valuable information.
If it weren't for the occasional sightings of black animals in the East Blue, they wouldn't even have known what Shiki had been up to all these years.
"Hmph!"
"If it weren't for you and Garp ganging up on back then, would I have been captured by you?" Shiki glanced at Sengoku with disdain, his tone full of contempt.
By the execution platform, Garp expression turned complex when he heard Shiki ntion him.
After a pause, he spoke.
"Although I don't know how you escaped, last ti we captured you in this very place!"
"This ti... there will be no exception!"
Hearing this, Shiki seed to have heard the biggest joke of all.
He clutched his stomach, his whole body shaking with laughter.
It took him a while to finally calm down.
"Last ti I was alone, but this ti, look behind !" Shiki's face was full of amusent as he pointed with his right hand to the nurous pirates behind him.
"Worororo you're right, Shiki!"
"These Marines are all talk! They're nothing but trash!" Kaido, who had transford into human form, stood beside Whitebeard.
His hearty laughter rang out, deafening to the ears.
"Hmph!"
"Petty pirates, last ti we defeated you!"
"In this battle of Marineford, you will all be buried here!" Kong's goat-like beard trembled incessantly as he crossed his arms over his chest.
A terrifying aura emanated from him, spreading a sense of overwhelming pressure.
Although the pirates had displayed formidable strength earlier, their side still had the Pacifistas, the CP0 and the three of them who had yet to make a move.
And behind them, the Five Elders were the final trump card.
Ace, standing beside them, felt the aura of the Marine legends. His heart was filled with regret and guilt for the Whitebeard Pirates' rescue mission.
"If our words don't scare you,"
"What would happen if Bob were standing here right now?"
Kaido expression suddenly turned solemn as he spoke slowly.
Hearing this, Kong's face changed drastically, as if he had heard sothing earth-shattering.
At the sa ti, he kept murmuring those two words.
Bob... Bob!!
Beside him, Sengoku and Garp also wore grim expressions, as if those two words had touched a forbidden chord.
The Marines below, as well as so of the pirates, had been closely watching the movents of these powerful figures.
Upon hearing Kaido words and noticing the drastic changes in the expressions of the three Marine legends at the ntion of Bob, they couldn't help but feel a surge of doubt in their hearts.
"Bob... Bob?"
"Who is this person? Is he really that powerful? Why do even the Forr Fleet Admiral like Kong seem a bit afraid of him?"
"Earlier, during such a huge battle, they didn't show any change in expression. Why is it that just ntioning this person..."
"..."
For a mont, murmurs of discussion erupted both in the square and within Marineford Bay.
The sudden ntion of this na felt completely unfamiliar, yet it carried an air of mystery.
The reactions of the three Marine legends were far too abnormal.
At the sa ti, inside the Marineford fortress, the Five Elders, who had been closely monitoring the battlefield, also stiffened.
"Bob... standing here..."
"What does this an? Could it be that Bob will co to Marineford?" Saturn furrowed his brows and spoke slowly to the other four elders.
"Unlikely, but it's possible the pirates are deliberately using this na to intimidate the Marine!"
"Using his na to crush the Marine's morale! To make them feel fear!" Ju Peter pondered for a mont before voicing his speculation.
"Those damn pirates!"
"If that's really their goal, then the events of God Valley... might not stay hidden for long!" Marcus Mars eyes flickered with anger as he spoke.
"It'll depend on how Sengoku handles it. If the God Valley incident is ntioned differently, it could an sothing entirely new!"
"After all, with Bob's disappearance, the narrative is in our hands! As a Fleet Admiral, he surely knows this!"
"By then, those foolish insects will not only believe it unconditionally but also boost the World Governnt's authority once more!" Topman snorted disdainfully.
History, after all, is always controlled by those with the highest power.
The so-called pitiful secrets that the lowly masses love to gossip about are nothing more than intentionally leaked information.
"Let's hope so." Nusjuro touched the hilt of his Shodai Kitetsu and gazed out the window at Shiki and Sengoku, murmuring to himself.
For so reason, he felt an uneasy premonition in his heart.
***
"Bob?"
"Why should we fear soone who doesn't even exist?" Sengoku steadied his emotions and spoke with disdain.
"Jihahahaha!"
"After forty years, you Marines haven't changed—still stubborn, still betraying the world's trust!"
"So even your 'justice' has its day of silence!" Shiki threw his arms wide with a wild laugh, his voice laced with venomous mockery.
The mont the words left his lips, the already tense scene erupted into chaos.
"Who exactly is Bob? Why does it seem like every legendary figure knows him?"
"This person seems crucial to both sides!"
"Deceiving our trust? Could the World Governnt really be hiding sothing monuntal?"
"..."
The young Marine's officers in the square were filled with confusion. They knew nothing about this person, but from the conversations, they could sense his significance.
***
At the sa ti, in a modest room, a bald man held a teacup in his hands watching the live broadcast of Shiki in Marineford on the screen.
A faint smile hung at the corner of his lips.
"You sohow look exceptionally handso today, Shiki!"
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