At this moment, even the usually laid-back Lucky Roux had tensed all his muscles.
This discovery made Akainu's magma-like pupils slightly contract; he realized that the Red Hair Pirates seemed calm, but in reality, they were prepared to fight to the death, and such opponents were often the most dangerous.
"These guys..." Akainu frowned, "Every single one of them is very troublesome..."
Meanwhile,
In the depths of the clouds a thousand meters high, Kaido's massive Azure Dragon body appeared faintly.
Yamato stood on the dragon's back, stomping her foot anxiously, her kanabo striking heavily against Kaido's dragon horn: "Stinky old man! What are you waiting for?! Uta is about to be surrounded by the Marine!"
"Wororororo!" Kaido's dragon whiskers danced wildly in the wind, his laughter shaking the clouds, "Stupid son, look closely down there!"
He flicked his enormous dragon tail, parting a cloud of mist, "This is called surrounding? Those Marine guys didn't even intend to fight!"
Yamato was stunned by the words and quickly lay on the dragon's back to peer down.
The standoff on the sea surface indeed looked strange; although Akainu stood at the very front with an imposing aura, his magma fists constantly surging, the Marine fleet behind him appeared exceptionally "quiet."
"See?" Kaido's dragon claw pointed at Kizaru below, "That guy has been playing with his fingernails since just now."
Indeed, Kizaru was casually leaning against the mast, tossing photons like toys from his fingertips, and even grinned at a certain live broadcast camera.
His expression clearly said: I'm innocent, I can't do something like besieging a little girl, I'm being forced.
Kaido then tapped Kuzan with his dragon whiskers: "Look at Kuzan again, that kid is almost asleep!"
Indeed, Kuzan had somehow set up a lounge chair on the ice, napping with an eye mask on, and a glass of iced fruit juice on his chest—this wasn't coming to arrest someone, it was clearly a vacation!
"This... what's going on?" Yamato's eyes widened, her kanabo almost slipping from her grasp.
"Wororororo!" Kaido proudly swung his dragon tail, "The Gorosei's orders came, but as for carrying them out..." A cunning light flashed in his dragon eyes, "That idiot Akainu is truly obedient, everyone else is just here to go through the motions!"
Yamato looked closely and found that a strange atmosphere indeed permeated the Marine fleet:
"So..." Yamato suddenly realized, "They were forced to come?"
Kaido exhaled a puff of dragon breath, causing the clouds to churn: "Now you know, right? The Marine isn't a solid block either!" His gaze suddenly turned to the distance, "However... the real show is just about to begin."
Following Kaido's gaze, a dark mass of ship silhouettes suddenly appeared on the New World's horizon.
From the leading giant three-masted ship, Blackbeard's characteristic laughter carried on the sea breeze: "Zehahahahaha! How can such a lively party be without me, Teach?"
Yamato narrowed her eyes and found that the Blackbeard Pirates' scale was even larger than rumored.
Besides the main ship, there were more than twenty other pirate ships, flying various skull flags, following closely behind.
These ships varied in age, clearly forces recently absorbed by Blackbeard.
"That bastard..." Yamato unconsciously tightened her grip on her kanabo, "What is he here for?"
A hint of playfulness flashed in Kaido's dragon eyes high in the sky: "That kid is cunning!"
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