"What Devil Fruit! You heard wrong! Pirate! Surrender!" Zephyr shouted loudly, clearly attempting to cover something up.
Charlotte Linlin looked at the current Zephyr speechlessly. This look... he's definitely a Monkey virus carrier! Right, Garp!
With a loud roar, Zephyr pointed at the group of escaping Slaves and said to the Marines behind him:
"You guys, go and catch those people back. Otherwise, once they escape, they will definitely become pirates! They'll bring chaos to others on the sea!"
Then, his wrists were covered in black Armament Haki as he looked at Charlotte Linlin and said:
"It seems I'll have to beat you into submission! Then we can talk properly!"
Tsuru's face twitched slightly. Knowing Zephyr, she was certain that this was the socially awkward Zephyr getting embarrassed and angry.
Watching the Marines move toward the group of escaping Slaves, Charlotte Linlin dropped her bystander act and transformed into a thousand-meter giant dragon under Zephyr's shocked gaze.
The giant dragon descended, its massive blue wings blotting out the sun, its enormous body completely blocking the Marines' path.
The White Giant Dragon spoke in a divine voice: "That won't do. I'm the one who let them out. At the very least, I have to ensure they stay here and don't fall back into slavery! You'd better stay right here!"
This was the reason Charlotte Linlin hadn't acted for so long: stalling for time! She wasn't someone who liked fighting; if she could talk, she would. She wasn't in a hurry anyway, unless a Marine Admiral showed up.
Zephyr roared angrily at the White Giant Dragon before him: "You! Don't you know what they'll do! They'll go to sea and become pirates!"
Zephyr, who had always considered Charlotte Linlin a future Marine partner, could not understand her actions at this moment. Marine intelligence clearly showed that Charlotte Linlin also hated pirates, had killed many evil ones, and saved many people. Why help these people who would clearly become pirates after killing?
The white dragon soared, her voice coming from high above:
"Then, purple-haired, tell me, why are you so sure they'll become pirates? Why do they have to go to sea? Why! Why can they only be pirates when they go to sea!"
"These people, besides being pirates! What... else... can... they... be?"
Zephyr froze, murmuring Charlotte Linlin's words. Three questions he had never considered surfaced in his mind.
"Why will they definitely become pirates? Why do they have to go to sea? Why! Why can they only be pirates when they go to sea!"
While the Marines were in a collective daze, a blast of flames from the white dragon's mouth drew an isolated wall of fire for these Marines cloaked in justice coats.
Today, she would confine this so-called justice within a circle to buy time for those entering the sea to become 'pirates'!
"I don't know what they will do later, I only know that today, they are pitiful people in my eyes who need help!"
There was one thing Charlotte Linlin didn't say: in the future, if she found anyone persecuting innocent people, whether saved by her or not, they would face her divine punishment.
Charlotte Linlin deactivated her dragon form. Her curvaceous divine body was wrapped in purple Thunder God divine equipment as she entered the circle of fire. After all, her next opponent wasn't Tsuru, whom she could easily play with.
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