Perospero, with his long tongue: "Mama, this Rocket Team pirate now has over a thousand people. Among them are Fish-Man, Longarm Tribe, Longleg Tribe, and many other subordinates."
"He himself is a Mythical Zoan ability user, and there are also many ability users under him. If we can absorb them into our pirate crew, then even Whitebeard wouldn't be able to stop our power."
If Vane could bring those slaves into the New World, that would be a pirate crew of over a thousand people. In the New World, that's already a considerable force.
According to the Marines' report, there are many ability users in Vane's crew, all high-quality potential stocks… in reality, there are far more than what was reported.
Big Mom especially loves collecting races, and Vane robbed the Celestial Dragons' slaves, among whom were quite a large number of different races.
The more Big Mom thought about it, the more feasible it seemed. She was very satisfied with the personnel composition of the Rocket Team. If she could take them in, she could completely shake off the other pirate crews and wrestle with the Whitebeard Pirates.
"Mamamama~ That's right. If we swallow this pirate crew, we'll become the strongest pirate crew in the New World. Even Whitebeard won't be able to stop us."
The calm second son of the Charlotte Family, known as Katakuri, asked at this time: "So, how do we swallow them?"
Perospero thought for a moment: "Since they were able to attack Mary Geoise, their strength definitely isn't that of weak pirates. If we fight them head-on, even with over a thousand people, our losses won't be small."
At present, Totto Land was not yet the Totto Land that would later control over forty islands. Their manpower was far less than it would be more than ten years later. The future Sweet Commanders were still just rookies at this moment, and the strongest, Katakuri, currently only had a bounty of 800 million Belly.
And the greatest uncertain factor in Totto Land right now was Big Mom herself, who was currently pregnant.
Pregnant people are fragile. Whenever Big Mom was pregnant, they had to slow down their expansion. Some pirate provocations were simply endured.
"Then Perospero, you go and make contact with them. See which of my daughters is willing to marry that young man."
"You must pick a beautiful one."
Big Mom knew that many of her daughters had bizarre appearances. Ugly was ugly, beautiful was beautiful—she had no familial filter. Don't expect much familial affection from a monster who could extract her own children's lifespan at any time.
She didn't favor sons over daughters either. Only value could determine everything.
If her daughters could be used to win over forces, she would not hesitate to marry them off.
"Oh right, Smoothie cannot be among them."
Juice Minister Smoothie possessed extraordinary long legs and exotic beauty.
The future Juice Minister was already an absolute backbone now. Her strength ranked among the top of Big Mom's children. For children who had already proven their value through their own strength, Big Mom would not send them away.
Those with average strength were the sacrifices for political marriages.
"Understood, Mama. I'll make sure to pick carefully."
Smoothie's sisters also had some beauties, and among her other daughters as well—within a group of misfits, there would always be some relatively good-looking children.
...
Compared to the unrest among pirates, the Marines' side was also thrown into chaos.
"These people really are bold, hahahaha. The Celestial Dragons won't be able to act arrogantly in Sabaody for a while."
Garp heartlessly ate senbei while reading the news. With the Celestial Dragons being struck, he was definitely the happiest person in the Marines. If he could have any goodwill toward the Celestial Dragons, he would have already become an Admiral.
"This is bad, this is bad. I knew things weren't that simple."
Sengoku the Buddha hurried into the meeting room, holding an arrest warrant in his hand.
He slammed the arrest warrant onto the table: "Mary Geoise wants to take Strawberry away."
"Fleet Admiral Kong is currently holding back the World Government's people."
Garp and Zephyr stood up instantly, their expressions extremely grim.
Zephyr: "What exactly happened?"
"It's that Rocket Team pirate who bombed Mary Geoise. They left behind provocative words, mentioning that Strawberry told them there were a large number of slaves in Mary Geoise. Because of that sentence, the Celestial Dragons believe Strawberry is suspected of colluding with pirates to attack the Holy Land."
Strawberry had already offended the Celestial Dragons before. Now he had run straight into their gun barrel.
If they couldn't deal with the Rocket Team pirates, could they not deal with you, a Marine? Those families who suffered massive losses directly demanded his arrest.
Zephyr smashed the table in front of him: "Ridiculous! Who doesn't know there are a large number of slaves in Mary Geoise? Does that even need someone else to say it!"
"This is a conspiracy! Are the World Government people so stupid that they can't see such an obvious problem?!"
Of course they could see it. This was to give the Celestial Dragons an outlet for their emotions. Strawberry, who had already offended them, directly became the first sacrificial victim.
"We can't let them take him away. Garp, go release Strawberry!"
"I'll go instead. After this year, I won't continue being an Admiral… I'll focus on training students instead. Let the younger generation take the Admiral position."
Zephyr had lost much of his spirit. This incident once again shook his resolve to remain an Admiral.
That very day, Marine Rear Admiral Strawberry was accused of colluding with the Rocket Team pirates. Facing arrest by the World Government, he fled in fear of punishment and was placed on the World Government's wanted list.
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Deep sea, Fish-Man Island.
The light on Fish-Man Island was extremely abundant. Their light came from the Sun Tree Eve growing on Fish-Man Island, which could transmit sunlight down to the island.
At the same time, Fish-Man Island was wrapped in two layers of coating, creating a dry environment where even non-Fish-Man could survive.
Ships unfamiliar with Fish-Man Island could easily end up crashing when entering.
With over a hundred Fish-Man assisting them, the Rocket Team fleet didn't have to worry about that. Their five ships successfully docked at Fish-Man Island.
"This is great, we're finally home."
"Fish-Man Island, I missed you so much."
The Fish-Man reacted extremely intensely. They shouted wildly and kissed the land of Fish-Man Island.
"We're finally home."
Even Tiger, this bold man, had tears in his eyes. Nothing could comfort the heart more than stepping onto the land of one's homeland.
The docking of five ships caused such a huge commotion that it naturally attracted the attention of Fish-Man Island.
"The Fish-Man Island Kingdom Army has arrived."
From afar, Vane saw the blue fat man among the Kingdom Army—Knight of the Sea Jinbe.
Fish-Man Island truly was a unique nation. It was a World Government-affiliated country, yet discriminated against by the world. Though affiliated, its way of protecting itself was by flying the flag of a great pirate. At this stage, it flew Whitebeard's flag. After Whitebeard's death, it would fly Big Mom's flag.
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