Instead, he took a deep breath, forcefully suppressing the fury in his heart while still glaring at the Marines in front of him. "Ignore those people for now. Continue hunting the Straw Hat Pirates. Also... Soothe the Celestial Dragons' emotions and send people to protect them."
As he spoke, Sakazuki did not hesitate any further. With a gloomy face, he directly turned his head and shouted to Garp beside him: "Hey, Vice-Admiral Garp, stop standing there like an idiot and get to work!"
However, in response to his words, Garp did not react at all, still standing there blankly staring ahead. This only made Sakazuki's anger grow even stronger.
The enemies were bad enough, and his own partner was unreliable, too.
Exhausting!
After shouting a few more times and still getting no response, Sakazuki snorted coldly and stopped calling him. He turned around and charged off in the direction indicated by the Marines.
Not long after he left, Garp finally came back to his senses. "Ah, ah, ah! I'm here! Where's everyone?"
But after glancing around, he did not see Sakazuki, who had just been shouting at him.
"You really have no patience with old people at all!"
Garp sighed helplessly. He did not dwell on it; instead, he rubbed his head with a headache. "That idiot Luffy, and that guy, Ian, as well…"
Now he somewhat understood why Ian had asked him that question back then.
The corner of Garp's mouth twitched into a bitter smile. "This is going to be bad!"
...
On the other side, the Straw Hat Pirates were also left dumbfounded by their captain's actions.
Especially Teach... He truly had not expected that Straw Hat kid would actually dare to lay hands on a Celestial Dragon.
He had clearly already warned this group that they absolutely must not touch a Celestial Dragon. Once they did, things would become irreversibly disastrous.
Yet that idiot captain... what exactly was he doing?
But very quickly, Teach recovered. He knew very well the status of the Celestial Dragons on the seas.
Once a Celestial Dragon was harmed, even if it was just a twisted ankle, it would trigger a terrifying catastrophe!
After cursing that idiot captain in his heart, Teach did not hesitate at all and shouted loudly to everyone: "Run!"
After that, he ignored the others and ran straight toward the outside.
All he wanted now was to leave this awful place, leave the Straw Hat Pirates. He had already seen clearly... this bunch was nothing but a group of troublemaking lunatics!
At this moment, he even wanted to slap himself twice. How had he ended up mixing with these people?
Back when he escaped Enies Lobby, he should have left immediately and stayed far, far away from these troublemakers.
As for the Dark-Dark Fruit?
He was worried that if this continued, before he even found the Dark-Dark Fruit, he would be played to death by these people first.
Thus, he directly turned around and did not run in the same direction as the Straw Hat Pirates. But just as he was about to rush out the door, suddenly, as if sensing something, Teach hurriedly rolled to the side to dodge.
And at the moment he rolled aside…
"Boom!"
A scorching flame burst out from the doorway and instantly burned the entire door.
No, not just that.
The flames were like a volcanic eruption, surrounding the area in an instant.
Teach seemed to have guessed something. His expression changed, and when he saw the figure emerging from the blazing flames, his face turned ashen.
An Admiral?!
Another marine Admiral!
No! No!
He would die!
This time, he would really die!
No, there was still a chance!
Just as Teach was roaring in his heart, as if he had thought of something, the panic in his eyes turned firm again. [No, someone just said that the Umbrella Corporation is here as well. If I can obtain the Umbrella Corporation's protection...]
That's right, he still had a chance!
Thinking of this, Teach did not hesitate at all. He clenched his fists, swept his gaze across the battlefield, and tried to find a direction to escape.
However, after a single glance, he discovered... that the surroundings were completely enveloped in flames.
And moreover...
"Tap!" "Tap!" "Tap!"
That heavy sound of footsteps was drawing closer and closer.
Teach could feel that sound as if it were a volcano about to erupt.
Terrifying!
Scorching!
Oppressive!
It made Teach's expression inevitably turn ugly.
Sure enough, immediately afterward, a deep and suppressed voice sounded.
"Not bad. Truly not bad!"
At the moment the voice fell, the figure that walked out from the flames also became clear. At this moment, the Straw Hat Pirates also sensed that something was wrong.
Without any hesitation, everyone drew their weapons one after another while staring vigilantly and solemnly at the figure within the flames.
At this moment, scenes from Enies Lobby could not help but resurface in their minds.
The person before them... was just as terrifying as the glowing marine Admiral they had encountered back then.
No, the pressure was even stronger than that Admiral they had faced before!
Although they were also cursing their reckless captain in their hearts, facing such a terrifying enemy, they had no time to scold their idiot captain now.
Under everyone's gaze, as the final footstep fell, the figure finally walked out of the flames.
A cigar was clenched at the corner of his mouth. His face was somewhat ashen, and within his eyes seemed to lurk a volcano on the verge of eruption.
Standing before the raging flames, he coldly swept his gaze across the people in front of him. "I swallowed my pride and went to negotiate with that bastard, finally got that bastard to leave, but I never expected that I would miss you a few rats, and moreover..."
He took a deep breath. "You few rats actually caused such a huge amount of trouble for the Marines. Good, good, truly very good!"
His eyes widened, and he directly removed the cigar from the corner of his mouth.
The magma in his hand instantly burned the remaining half of the cigar into ash as he spoke in a suppressed tone.
"I'm in a very bad mood right now!"
As soon as he said this, the scorching flames behind him exploded in that very instant. The flames, like a volcanic eruption, were just like Sakazuki's anger at this moment.