"What are you looking at? Is my face dirty?" Kai's dead fish eyes turned, and he touched his face a few times.
"No... no..." Hiyori quickly recovered and said, "I just want to know, where are you going next?"
"Are you taking me to see Skull Demon and Escanor?"
For Hiyori's insistence, Kai also felt a bit impressed.
Carrying a face like a stunning vase, wandering alone on the sea.
If it weren't for encountering him, who knows how many times they would have died.
"I want to know, what confidence do you have, to think that Skull Demon and Escanor will help you restore your country?" Kai said listlessly.
"I don't want to make a pointless trip!"
When they first met, Kai found that besides being empty-handed and wanting to see Skull Demon and Escanor, Hiyori had no other chips.
Hiyori, upon hearing this, was stunned for a moment, then gritted her teeth and said, "I... I can offer myself, do anything for him!"
"As for how to repay you... I... I can't think of it right now."
Looking at Hiyori, who instinctively straightened her chest and abdomen, intending to show her greatest capital, Kai just wanted to say one thing: Tsk, women!
Thinking about it, her thoughts are indeed as simple as always.
But if she knew that the big bald head in front of her and Skull Demon are the same person, she might not even have the courage to say such things.
Watching the stubborn face of Hiyori, Kai yawned and said, "Let's go. Once it's time for a nap, I can't handle it."
After saying this, before Hiyori could react, Kai used one hand to hold her slender waist.
With a leap, like an arrow, he sped off into the distance.
Lafitte and others hiding in the ruins, watched Kai's back disappear completely from sight, then pushed aside the abandoned building pressing on them and walked out.
In their battered state, their bodies covered with numerous wounds still bleeding.
"Doc Q, hurry up and give us the hemostatic medicine. If this continues, we'll bleed too much and go into shock," Burgess was the first to speak urgently.
But before they could properly check their wounds, the urgent voice of Doc Q sounded from afar.
"Lafitte, come help quickly. Commander Teach still has a faint breath..."
Breath?
Burgess and others' expressions froze, looking a bit surprised.
They were recruited by Blackbeard.
But unlike Luffy and the others in the original story, Burgess and the other Blackbeard members are all vicious and cruel.
Even the seemingly most upright West Sea Marine officer Lafitte is a butcher who has slaughtered many civilians.
Moreover, they've only been under Blackbeard's command for a short time.
If Doc Q now told them that Blackbeard Teach, after being punched by Kai, was dead, they probably wouldn't be sad at all.
On the contrary, they would happily return to their hidden pirate ship, divide the treasure, and continue to get along.
If they couldn't, then they'd just part ways.
That's very pirate-like behavior.
But since Doc Q told them that Blackbeard still has a breath, they temporarily put aside other thoughts and hurried to the ruins Blackbeard created.
Watching Lafitte and others leave the shattered pier, the navy soldiers hiding farther away, without hesitation, quickly took out their Den Den Mushi and dialed the navy headquarters' call.
Meanwhile!
At Marineford, Marine Headquarters.
A corridor leading to the conference hall echoed with hurried footsteps.
Looking at the gathering of navy generals from all directions, the navy soldiers at the gate were already used to it.
Since the appearance of Skull Demon, with one big event after another, such gatherings of all navy generals at Marineford were no longer rare.
Seeing Akainu, leading the team with a grim expression, the two navy soldiers didn't dare slack off and hurriedly pushed open the gate.
Recently, as a vice admiral, Akainu had repeatedly encountered bad luck.
Now, his grim face was marked with the four bold characters "Do Not Approach."
As soon as he stepped into the hall, Sengoku's voice was the first to ring out.
"Akainu, sit down first when you arrive!"
Looking at Sengoku sitting at the top, Akainu sneered impatiently and said, "Fleet Admiral Sengoku, just say what you need to. I don't have much time."
"Don't forget, I still need to train Drake and the others. If you want to waste my time with this pointless meeting, and let Laxus win, don't blame me for walking out."
Looking at Akainu, whose temper was as explosive as gunpowder from the moment he opened his mouth, Sengoku raised an eyebrow and said coldly, "Akainu, if you change this temper of yours, you might still have a chance to sit in the Marshal position someday. But right now, who would want to work with someone whose temper explodes like gunpowder?"
"You!"
Akainu's expression froze, and he was even more furious.
He never expected Sengoku to be so straightforward, immediately linking the Marshal position to him.
But before he could speak, another calm footsteps approached first.
"Haha, Sengoku, I told you long ago—don't listen to that old steel-bone's nonsense. The Marshal position isn't easy to sit in."
"Look at me—I'm a vice admiral, free to go wherever I like, and I don't have to be controlled by anyone!"
Seeing Garp suddenly appear out of nowhere, the tense atmosphere in the room was instantly broken.
"Garp, shut up," Sengoku's face twitched, and he snapped, "If I weren't considering your title as Marine Hero, I would have already demoted you for your lawless behavior."
"Your presence alone is ruining the navy's reputation!"
"Haha, Sengoku, don't say that," Garp laughed loudly, plopping into his seat and casually taking out a piece of Senbei to munch.
"I've wanted to retire for a long time. It's you who's reluctant to let me go and let me enjoy my retirement."
"If you're so eager to talk nonsense here, then first tell us the purpose of this gathering today. They're not like me—they can't just be idle!"
Seeing Garp's relaxed expression, many navy generals and even the vice admirals' facial muscles twitched slightly.
It can be said that among the entire Marine Headquarters, only Garp could live so freely.
Feeling the eager gazes from many in the room, Sengoku's dissatisfaction slightly eased, and after glancing around, he said, "A third mysterious monster has appeared on the sea."
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