Chapter 266

The pirates admired and worshipped him to the ground.

Buggy laughed loudly, his figure becoming even taller and more majestic.

Inside, however, he was laughing cunningly.

He had indeed fought Blackbeard for three days and three nights, but they were just eight or nine-year-old brats at the time.

And,

Buggy had teamed up with Shanks to deal with Blackbeard.

As for Whitebeard begging Buggy to let Blackbeard go, that was even more of Buggy's casual nonsense.

How terrifying was Whitebeard back then; he could fight evenly with Captain Roger.

How could he possibly beg him, Buggy?

But the people present had not experienced that event.

Coupled with the majestic halo Buggy possessed, everyone believed Buggy's ghost stories without reservation.

Only Mr. 3 saw that Buggy was lying.

Mr. 3's heart trembled, and he turned around, his face covered in tears.

"This bastard Buggy, the more he talks, the more outrageous he gets; he really intends to be this Warlord of the Sea and dominate the first half of the Grand Line!"

"It's over, it's over; now I can't even run away if I want to!"

The Buggy Pirates were in their prime, and their momentum was becoming more and more vast.

They were ranked alongside the Blackbeard Pirates as the newly risen twin heroes of the Grand Line.

Galdino, Mr. 3, as the second-in-command of the Buggy Pirates,

now had a reputation on the sea several times greater than his former boss, Crocodile, who had almost killed him!

And Mr. 3, who would become a future right-hand man,

was someone that even if Crocodile were resurrected and saw him, he would have to respectfully call him Brother 3!

……

……

While Buggy was accepting the title of Warlord of the Sea and was smug,

Fujitora, who had returned from the North Blue in vain,

reported the matter of Aokiji to Akainu over the phone.

As expected, Akainu was furious.

"That guy Admiral Admiral Kuzan, actually getting involved with the Beasts Pirates, he has truly fallen!"

"If I had known this, I should have killed him that day!"

After breaking one of Aokiji's legs,

facing a comrade of many years who no longer had the strength to resist, even the ruthless Akainu had felt a touch of compassion.

Before leaving, he told Aokiji not to fall,

otherwise, the next time they met,

he would never show mercy again.

But Aokiji didn't listen to the advice and actually walked to the opposite side of justice, getting mixed up with pirates—and the most abominable Beasts Pirates at that.

"Ma, Sakazuki, you don't have to blame yourself too much."

In the newly built Fleet Admiral's office, which was much larger than the original one of Sengoku,

the veteran Admiral Kizaru Borsalino was crossing his legs and trimming his nails.

He said slowly:

"Admiral Admiral Kuzan was never a firm executor of justice... It's not too surprising that he would choose the Beasts Pirates."

Akainu heard this.

He glanced at Kizaru silently.

Admiral Admiral Kuzan is not a firm executor of justice—why does this sound so awkward coming from you?

Are you yourself a firm executor of justice, damn it?!

Don't think I've forgotten,

during the Summit War, you were just like Admiral Admiral Kuzan, slacking off, leaving me alone to fight the Whitebeard Pirates to the death!

But the hot-tempered Akainu didn't actually say these reprimanding words.

After all, Kizaru's seniority was about the same as his; both were disciples of Zephyr and both had been Admirals, so he had to save face.

Coupled with Kizaru's slippery personality, Akainu was actually just as helpless as Sengoku.

Even when assigning tasks, he had to discuss them with Kizaru.

Akainu took a deep breath and suppressed the emotions in his heart.

Then he said to Fujitora on the other side of the Den Den Mushi:

"Fujitora, I know about the matter with Aokiji."

"But how do you explain kneeling to the commoners and apologizing?"

"By doing this, where do you put the face of our Navy!"

Although Fujitora hadn't reported it,

Akainu had already learned about Fujitora's kneeling from other Marines.

He was very angry.

As a Navy Admiral, how could he do such a servile thing?

Even if Fujitora didn't care, he, Akainu, still wanted his face!

Fujitora replied: 3.7

"The disaster suffered by that country was partly the responsibility of our Navy. I was not wrong to apologize."

Akainu could no longer suppress his anger and roared:

"Fujitora, as a Navy Admiral, you did such a thing without reporting to headquarters first; you have caused the Navy's reputation to be greatly damaged and lost all face!"

Fujitora was also truly angry and retorted unceremoniously:

"If you care so much about face, then just hide it in your arms and don't take it out!"

"Reputation that is lost by admitting a mistake is no different from not existing in the first place!"

"Not only that country, but the policy of hiring pirates as Warlords of the Sea and allowing them to wreak havoc on the citizens was formulated by our superiors, the World Government; this is an evil policy that harms the world!"

"The moment I joined the Navy and accepted the Admiral position, my goal was to uphold the justice of the people and abolish the Warlord of the Sea system!"

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Fujitora rebuked Akainu.

Akainu was furious.

But he couldn't find a reason to refute.

Because the facts Fujitora stated were irrefutable truths.

In the end.

Akainu could only reprimand Fujitora and then hung up the phone in a rage.

Although Fujitora was a new recruit who had just joined the Navy, he held the high position of Admiral.

He had great autonomy.

Even if Akainu was the Fleet Admiral, he didn't have the power to punish Fujitora too severely.

In addition.

The current situation did not allow Akainu to really do anything to Fujitora.

Otherwise,

if Fujitora were forced to leave the Navy like Aokiji, or even join the Beasts Pirates,

that would be a bolt from the blue for the Navy.

Therefore.

Akainu could only verbally reprimand Fujitora and could not make any substantive punishment.

There,

Akainu in the Fleet Admiral's office put down the Den Den Mushi heavily.

Admiral Kizaru, who had been trimming his nails, stood up at this time, yawned, and said:

"It's time to get off work, Sakazuki; I'm going home to sleep."