New World, Marine G5 Branch!
A large number of new-style Marine battleships traversed the Calm Belt, gathering here directly.
From the bow of a ship adorned with intertwined blades, an elderly man with purple hair, draped in a Justice coat and with one arm modified into a huge mechanical arm, catapulted himself off the battleship.
Inside the dock of the G5 branch, another elderly man with white hair, also wearing a Justice coat, was holding a donut and stuffing it into his mouth. However, he stood upright and slept, his snot bubble continuously rising and falling.
Boom!
The tremor and shockwave from the purple-haired elder crashing into the dock spread, causing the soundly sleeping man to suddenly open his eyes. Then he saw that massive mechanical arm reaching towards him.
"Heh heh, rehabilitation exercise?"
The old man's mouth curled into a demonic smile.
Then, his unparalleled Armament Haki wrapped around his fist, which he swung viciously towards the massive mechanical arm.
Just a second before the two howling fists were about to collide, a large amount of foam abruptly surged up from the ground, forcefully washing the two apart.
"You two! Are you trying to destroy the G5 base?"
A woman full of intellectual aura walked forward and scolded the two old men.
"Tsuru-chan, it's all Zephyr's fault! He started it!"
The donut old man bit the food in one bite, chewed it a few times, and swallowed, familiarly beginning to shirk responsibility.
"Garp, you're still the same bastard as always!"
Zephyr pushed down his sunglasses slightly with his natural arm, revealing a teasing expression.
Then, the two extended their fists and bumped them together, bursting into loud laughter.
"Men!" Tsuru rubbed her temples with great headache. "You two should have already received the orders, right?"
Mentioning the orders, Garp directly rolled his eyes.
His entire being exuded an aura of refusal, as if overnight he had returned fifty years to when he was a Marine troublemaker in the recruit training camp.
"What orders? I didn't receive any!" Garp stiffened his neck. "I am not a subordinate of those maggots. Why should I work for them?"
Garp had always treated World Government's orders as water off a duck's back, let alone this time the order was to go and exterminate a girl only seven years old.
—Is this something a damn human could do?
"But this time, the higher-ups have given a strict order. Sengoku and Kong-san are in a very difficult position!"
Zephyr knew that persuading his old comrade, with his stubborn mule temperament, wouldn't be easy, so he could only approach indirectly to find a reason.
"Just because of her birth she has to be eliminated? That reason is too strange, isn't it?"
Garp slammed the table, shattering it to pieces. "Such behavior cannot be called justice!!!"
Tsuru sighed, stepped forward, and patted Garp.
Her Devil Fruit ability activated, withstanding the pressure of his Haki to wash away the anger in his heart.
"It's wrong to kill someone because of their birth, but pursuing pirates is no problem, right?" Tsuru deliberately lowered her voice, coordinating with her ability. "You just need to deal with the pirates as before. Leave the rest to us!"
"This..." Garp was momentarily speechless.
"Recently, the central authorities have been very dissatisfied with the Marines." Seeing Garp still unmoved, Tsuru revealed a helpless look.
"Do you want to give them a handle at this critical moment, let them find an opportunity to cut military spending? Do you want the soldiers in the Four Blues to loan money to carry out justice next year?"
Refuted to the point of being speechless, Garp's face darkened. He gritted his teeth and turned his head away.
"Garp!" Zephyr also spoke up. "No matter what, we're going to the territory of the Higanbana. Without you following us, it would be hard for us to stand up to her."
"Don't forget you're a Marine. Dealing with pirates is your main job!" Tsuru timely added another sentence.
She and Zephyr, one playing the bad cop and the other the good cop, finally managed to con Garp onto the battleship.
Then, over a dozen new-style Seastone battleships departed from the G5 branch, heading straight for the territory of that Emperor of the Sea, over a hundred nautical miles away.
On the other side, above Marian, Sakura had just finished her consultation for Bonney.
"How is it?"
Kuma, lying in the hospital bed, swallowed his saliva and tightly gripped Ginny's hand.
KaTsuru sighed lightly, her gentle voice carrying a hint of tremor. "Ten years old. If left untreated, at ten years old she will... Wuwu"
Before she could finish, her mouth was pinched shut.
Tightly shut!
"That's enough, that's enough. Don't say any more."
Sakura pointed towards Bonney nearby, signaling KaTsuru to be restrained in front of the child.
"What about ten years old? What will happen?"
Bonney bounced on KaTsuru's body, innocently asking her.
KaTsuru, looked at like this, didn't know what to do. She could only blink and cast a pleading look at Sakura.
"Ten years old? At ten years old, you'll be cured by me." Sakura walked over and picked up Bonney. "Then you can go on a sea journey with your parents!"
"Really!" Bonney hugged Sakura delightedly, her eyes curving into crescents as she smiled.
"Sakura, our family really..." Kuma raised two fingers to his eyes and wiped away the tears at the corners.
"No need for thanks. Didn't we agree before that you'd host me in the Sorbet Kingdom?"
Sakura placed Bonney back on the hospital bed. "Next time I bring my companions over, I'll definitely make you pay!"
"Leave it to me!" Ginny took her hand and shook it solemnly.
As they spoke, the lights in the ward flickered. A sizzling sound came from the sockets beside the bed. Azure blue lightning emerged from within, condensing in mid-air into an arrogant figure.
"Captain, a large number of warships have appeared in the southwestern Calm Belt sea area!" Enel's voice drew out with a lingering tone, his gaze meaningfully sweeping over the Kuma family.
"Sorry, it's our fault for involving you." Kuma lowered his head. "I'll take Ginny and Bonney and leave right now!"
Saying this, the paw pads on Kuma's palms opened. He struggled to sit up, preparing to use his ability to take them far away.
"No need! Your family just rest and recover!" Sakura pressed Kuma back onto the hospital bed.
Turning around as she passed Enel, she directly slammed an iron fist into his head. "The World Government's lackeys still don't have the right to boss around my friends in my territory!"
"Hiss! Was that really necessary to hit so hard?" Enel cried out in pain. "I was just trying to test if they were reliable~"
Sakura rolled her eyes. "Test my ass. Stop playing the fool and take me to where you observed the Marines gathering!"
Seeing Sakura raise her fist to administer a big memory recovery technique, Enel quickly opened the ward window and flew into the sky with Sakura.
The speed of the two flying ability users was extremely fast. Within seconds, they had arrived at the southwestern side of the island.
The Marine fleet had just traversed the Calm Belt and arrived at Medical Island Marian. The old man standing at the front of the dog-headed battleship, seeing the girl floating in the air, fixed his gaze!
"This pirate bastard... can she predict the future?"
Sakura's Observation Haki swept over the dozens of Marine ships. She tilted her head and laughed. "Hey, hey, isn't this Vice Admiral Garp? Why are you working for the Celestial Dragons? Short on money?"
"Hmph, you brat!" Garp was directly provoked into a loss of composure by this one sentence.
Crimson lightning crackled all over his body. Conqueror's Haki wrapped around his arm like a net. Scorching Armament Haki mingled within.
He forcefully stomped on the battleship deck, using the recoil force to launch himself into the air, flying rapidly towards Sakura like a meteor rising against the current.
"Today, let me teach you about this old man's main job!"