Ryokugyu...
What is Ryokugyu exactly!
To Sengoku, who wants to break free from the shackles of the World Government, whether Ryokugyu is a lackey of the World Government or a spy of the Konoha Pirates, the truth no longer matters...
These two identities...
Neither should exist in today's Navy!
"We'll head back immediately."
Akihara Kagura hung up the Radio Snail in his hand and looked towards Karin: "Karin, go to Water Seven immediately and help me get a ship from there. There's a Ship Spirit on that ship, and it'll be my warship in the future. You should be able to see it..."
"Understood."
Karin quickly nodded.
"Then let's take the old man's battleship!"
Garp suddenly stepped out, clenching his fist and casually saying, "I happen to be going to Water Seven too..."
"Then we'll head back to Marineford first."
Aokiji glanced at Akihara Kagura.
The Enies Lobby incident came to an end.
The Navy on the entire island dispersed, large numbers of them returning to their respective areas to garrison, or to chase down some of the Great Pirates who escaped into the sea.
From a strategic perspective...
The World Government's plan for the Enies Lobby operation was undoubtedly a failure. Not only did it fail to achieve the established strategic goals, but it also allowed the impregnable Impel Down to be breached by the Revolutionary Army, and Admiral Sengoku the Buddha was trapped by pirates at Marine Headquarters Marineford, unable to move.
This war doesn't seem to deserve the name Enies Lobby War.
Because this war seems to deserve the name Gate of Justice War, for within the streams inside the Gate of Justice, whether it be Impel Down, Enies Lobby, or Marine Headquarters Marineford, these three significant islands were all affected, all became battlefields or standoffs.
Of course.
No one would pay attention to the results of the Enies Lobby incident anymore.
After all, the world's focus has shifted to another matter, starting an unprecedented big guess—who is the man standing behind the Konoha Pirates!
"Who could it be?"
"A man who could have released the Goddess of Rabbit from the Final Island over twenty years ago, proving he should be an elder..."
"He should have been an active figure over twenty years ago..."
"Could it be Golden Lion Shiki! That man might be very likely! He once nearly defeated Gol D. Roger and ruled the world!"
These common folks around the world have no concept of this and can only rely on their imagination out of thin air. They might have never even come into contact with the Konoha Pirates, simply guessing within their scope of understanding.
In comparison...
Anyone who has come into contact with the Konoha Pirates has no clue.
Marineford.
Inside the Navy meeting room.
Sengoku, Aokiji, Kizaru, Akihara Kagura, Vice Admiral Tsuru.
Apart from Admiral Akainu, Vice Admiral Fujitora, and Garp, the strongest forces and highest intelligence inside the Navy were gathered here, all having had dealings with the Konoha Pirates.
Because Sengoku believed that Vice Admiral Fujitora might also be a spy for the Konoha Pirates, without being able to determine his stance, the first meeting did not invite Fujitora to attend, planning to question him later for some truth.
"Let me speak first..."
Sengoku's hands were propped on the table, covering half of his face, making him seem not particularly serious: "You all should have heard the news, Kuzan and Kagura were at the scene of Enies Lobby. We have always believed that our partner, the Konoha Pirates, harbors a different purpose, backed by a more terrifying and troublesome mastermind..."
"We might have seen this person before."
Vice Admiral Tsuru also propped her hands on the table, frowning in thought: "Over twenty years ago, even before Gol D. Roger reached the Final Island Laugh Tale, he had already arrived at Laugh Tale first, releasing the Goddess of Rabbit hidden there..."
"That's someone from the previous era..."
Sengoku looked at Vice Admiral Tsuru, as if asking her or questioning himself: "A monster of that caliber shouldn't be nameless, right... Who could it be? Our old rivals? It seems they don't quite fit..."
To be honest...
It's not that Sengoku looks down on them...
The monstrous pirates active in the previous era mostly had ambitions to rule the world expressed openly, even acting on it, though they all ended up as failures...
Those failures...
Don't seem to fit the image of the person behind the Konoha Pirates...
In Sengoku the Buddha's imagination, the mastermind behind the Konoha Pirates should be someone overlooking the human world like a god, making decisions about the world's fate casually, and not like those pirates who noisily try to rule the world...
"I don't know who stands behind the Konoha Pirates..."
Kizaru leisurely held a teacup, suddenly speaking up with an important piece of information: "However, I do know one thing, there's a woman with long white hair on the Konoha Pirate's ship, and her strength seems a bit beyond..."
"In my opinion..."
Kizaru recalled his encounter with Otsutsuki Kaguya, chuckling lightly as he spoke: "Probably, that woman is stronger than both the captains of the Konoha Pirates!"
"No..."
After Kizaru finished speaking, he broke off his words on his own, and with a completely relaxed demeanor, expressed his sentiment: "That woman's power, let's say, is definitely stronger than theirs, she's more terrifying than anyone I've ever met..."