Chapter 127: Backhand! New dispatch mission!
"Roger's crew's life card?!"
"You kid actually made this kind of thing?"
"From the very beginning, did you think these two brats would get away? Do you have so little confidence in our navy?"
Garp was surprised to see that Tsugakuin Yoshiichi had actually given Sengoku a Life Card. He hadn't expected Tsugakuin Yoshiichi to be so thoughtful. The boy in front of him seemed to have anticipated what might happen today and had actually made preparations long beforehand.
Zhan Guo placed the life card in his palm. Seeing the life card slowly moving on his palm, Zhan Guo also showed an expression of surprise.
He is known as the wise general, Zhan Guo. In addition to his own strength being strong enough to reach the rank of general, Zhan Guo also has a very good brain. Unlike Garp, who only uses his fists to solve problems, Zhan Guo tries his best to use his brain when encountering problems.
He originally thought that under Garp's teaching, Tsugakuni Yoriichi would become a "reckless man" like Garp, but now it seems that Tsugakuni Yoriichi has also learned Zephyr's meticulous mind.
Upon hearing Garp's words that contained a hidden trap, Ji Guoyuan immediately shook his head and explained, "I don't lose confidence in our navy."
"It's just a precaution. After all, our opponent is the Roger Pirates, so we should be on guard."
"Isn't this, the defense I took is working?"
After hearing this, Zhan Guo took his eyes off the life card in his hand, put it in his arms, patted Tsugikuni Yuichi's shoulder, and praised happily:
"The life cards of the Roger Pirates' crew! Well done, Yoriichi!"
"The defenses you've taken have been very useful to our navy!"
"But now is not the time for our navy to launch a large-scale attack. The Roger Pirates and the Whitebeard Pirates should still be together."
"With our current combat power, we cannot face two legendary pirate groups at the same time."
"We have to wait until they separate. I will arrange a surveillance ship to look for their movements."
"Until then, all naval forces will remain on standby at Shuixian Star Island."
As Zhan Guo spoke, he turned around and looked at the port which was now in a mess, and couldn't help but sigh softly.
"Our navy has done a lot of infrastructure on this island, even though it experienced two tsunamis and most of the facilities were destroyed."
"But zero and one are different after all."
"I plan to continue utilizing some of the useful facilities and establish a naval branch on Shuixianxing Island."
"Karp, what do you think of this idea?!"
After the pirates retreated, the navy began to clean up the battlefield. The two tsunamis caused by Whitebeard completely destroyed most of the facilities on the Water Star Island, and there was not a single usable residential building on the island.
Only the dock guarded by Zhan Guo was in a slightly better situation.
Since this was the battlefield between the navy and the Roger Pirates, the dock is now full of ruins.
The navy also suffered heavy losses in this battle.
Although Zhan Guo had devoted a large part of his attention to helping his subordinates plunder the enemy camp, the tsunami caused by Whitebeard was not something Zhan Guo could "plunder" away.
The warships whose masts had been cut by Roger at sea also disappeared in the two consecutive tsunamis.
The Navy has not yet begun to count the losses, but it is foreseeable that in this war with the Roger Pirates, the Navy was disrupted by the Whitebeard Pirates, and not only did it fail to achieve the so-called "victory", but it suffered heavy losses.
Sengoku didn't talk much with Garp and Tsugakuin Yoshikazu. There were many things that needed his attention after the war, and he didn't have time to stay here.
After Sengoku left, Garp sat down on the stone pier at the horse's head, looked at the sea that was gradually returning to calm, sighed softly, and said to Tsugikuni Yoriichi: "Yoriichi, your precautions will probably cause more trouble!"
When Ji Guoyuan heard what Garp said, he turned his head to look at Garp.
"Roger Pirates..."
"Yuichirō, why do you think the Navy is going to war with the Roger Pirates this time?!"
Garp sat on the stone pier, looking at the sea in the distance, and asked in a deep voice.
"Is there any reason why the navy and the pirates are fighting?" Ji Guoyuan understood the implication of Garp's words, but did not point it out. His expression changed slightly and he answered casually.
"Haha, navy and pirates?"
"Concentrating the vast majority of the navy's combat power and temporarily giving up control of the four seas, just to destroy a pirate group that has never attacked ordinary people?!"
"During the time we were fighting the Roger Pirates, without the navy's suppression, the Four Seas had probably become a pirate paradise."
"I don't know how many people will die at the hands of pirates, many of whom should not have to suffer such hardships."
"Yuichi, do you think this decision will be better for the people?"
"Do you really think so?"
"Those pirates seemed to be the first group of people you captured alive. It's not that you don't have the ability, it's that you didn't do it."
"Yuichi, why?"
Garp saw that what Tsugakuni Yoshiichi said now was not what he really meant. At the same time, he also saw that Tsugakuni Yoshiichi had deliberately held back when fighting Shanks, Buggy, and Marco, so he directly exposed it.
"Shanks and Buggy are just kids. They haven't done anything harmful so far."
"This is all based on our own Navy intelligence investigation. Aside from being members of the Roger Pirates, these two are no different from ordinary people."
"Killing them goes against the justice I pursue."
"In the battle with Kozuki Oden, I did not hold back, because I am a swordsman, and so is he. There is no need to hold back in a battle between swordsmen, and this is consistent with my justice."
"I let Marco go simply because I didn't want the navy to go to war with both the Roger Pirates and the Whitebeard Pirates at the same time."
"Once the war extends, our casualties will be unpredictable."
"Vice Admiral Garp, you've already said that the navy on Shuixian Star Island are all elites drawn from the four seas. The losses are too heavy, and it will directly affect our control over the four seas."
"Letting Marco go, even though it goes against my justice, is the inevitable outcome after weighing the pros and cons!"
"I won't regret it either."
Seeing that Garp had already spoken out, Tsugikuni Yoriichi no longer concealed anything and directly admitted the fact that he had let the opponent win.
Upon hearing this, Garp looked deeply at Ji Guoyuan, a brilliant smile appeared on his face, and then he turned his head, looked at the sea and murmured:
“Really?”
"Yuichi, just stay the way you are now and carry out your own justice. I believe that if the navy is led by you in the future, it will definitely be different from the present one."
"However, Yoriichi disobeyed orders from above and exercised his own form of justice."
"To accomplish something like this, one needs immense strength. Not only strength, but also influence!"
"You are still very young now."
Having said that, Cap paused and continued.
"You will not be involved in the hunt for Roger Heizer's group from now on."
"Now that you are a brigadier general, it's time to take on more responsibilities."
"Zhan Guo plans to establish a new branch on Shuixianxing Island. I will recommend Kuzan to be the leader of the branch, and you will join him."
"Grow strong and prosperous in the deepest part of this new world. Yoriichi, you can't accomplish anything alone. You must remember this!"
Upon hearing this, Ji Guoyuan nodded slightly and had no objection.
Cap looked at the sea in silence, his mind racing, no one knew what he was thinking.
Just as Yoriichi Tsugakuni and Garp were having a heart-to-heart talk, the Roger Pirates and the Whitebeard Haize Pirates, who had escaped from the Suishin Star Island one after another, also met on an island in the New World.
(End of this chapter)
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