"Boom...!" With a loud crash, Garp immediately became enraged, smashing the table in front of him into smithereens with a single punch.
Then, he couldn't help but curse loudly.
"Bastards! How could the Marine have such rotten apples? And for it to happen in the East Blue, of all places."
Clearly, Garp was exceptionally furious about scum like Captain Mouse—rotten apples who colluded with vile pirates—after hearing the whole story. Especially since this fellow appeared in Garp's hometown, the East Blue, which he had always believed was the most peaceful area under his influence.
"It's time for a major cleanup within the Marine."
Sengoku also spoke, looking extremely displeased and incandescent with rage.
He planned to immediately find someone to lead a team to handle this, starting with the four seas (East, West, South, and North).
The New World was unnecessary; there were only one or two Marine branches there. The New World was, after all, the territory of the Four Emperors, along with other complicated large pirates and forces, making the Marine's level of intervention too low.
Furthermore, Admirals sometimes personally went there to be stationed, so that area was fine.
There was no need to investigate the New World. The first half of the Grand Line, Paradise, was the same; although it was truly the area completely controlled by the Marine, they should still check it slightly just to be safe.
After all, there were still a few great pirates operating there.
"In short, this pair, who are closer than sisters, constitutes the third pair of people connected between the Pink Hat Pirates and the Straw Hat Pirates."
"I see. But Pirate Crews with related members like this are truly rare."
"Hmph, there's one more pair," Sengoku snorted coldly.
"Ah, there's another?" Garp turned his head and asked in surprise.
"Of course." Taking a deep breath, Sengoku immediately said in a deep voice.
"The cook in the Straw Hat Pirates, a kid named Sanji, and the little girl in the Pink Hat Pirates named Carmen, who possesses the Phoenix Fruit, seem to have some sort of competitive relationship. They are both reportedly excellent young talents in the East Blue culinary world. Sanji is slightly stronger than Carmen. It is said that she once participated in a large-scale East Blue cooking competition and lost."
Sengoku read from the intelligence report in his hand.
"Sigh, I originally thought there might be some useful intelligence."
Sengoku sighed and said.
"What do you mean by that?" Garp asked with a confused expression.
"It's not hard to see from this report that your grandson's Pirate Crew and Luna's Pirate Crew indeed have a good relationship."
"But the problem is that aside from these few key people, the other members of Luna's Pirate Crew, including Luna herself, do not have any direct relationship with the other members of the Straw Hat Pirates."
"Plus, considering your connection—he is your grandson, after all—and the fact that many people in your grandson's Pirate Crew seem to have unusual backgrounds, I originally intended to use the Straw Hat Pirates to deal with the Pink Hat Pirates. But now, given this intelligence report, that plan seems far too immature and rash, so we must abandon it."
Sengoku said this again, exasperated.
"Sengoku, you need to have confidence in our battle tomorrow." Garp, looking very awkward, quickly brought up the topic of tomorrow's battle.
After all, the lineup the Marine was sending out tomorrow could be said to be unprecedentedly powerful, because a lineup like this had never been deployed before: Garp, a top-tier Four Emperors fighter, plus, once Aokiji and Onigumo are rescued, there would be four Admirals, and five experienced Marine Headquarters Vice Admirals. Such a force could even take down a Four Emperor Crew.
Of course, dealing with the Four Emperors of the New World was still impossible. The New World was too complex. Once a lineup like theirs entered, it would definitely cause all the forces in the New World to collectively attack; the guys in the New World understood the principle of mutual dependence.
But he thought dealing with the Pink Hat Pirates should be fine.
"I hope so. I hope Kizaru's speed can neutralize Luna's Void Ability. If we can't take down Luna, it will be very difficult for the Marine to win this battle, and the other girls are no pushovers either."
Sengoku sighed, clearly not very optimistic about tomorrow's battle.
The Marine's lineup was strong, but the opposing side was not weak either, even setting aside Luna, a Four Emperors-level combatant.
Among those girls, as far as the Marine currently knew, there were at least three Admirals, and the other five were basically Reserve Admiral-level powerhouses with varying strengths.
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