Chapter 116: Marine Independent Commission Against Corruption

The next day, Marineford Plaza.

The execution platform had been built, reporters swarmed in, and onlookers followed one after another.

"Look, someone's coming! Oh my god! It's the Marine Hero Garp!"

"No, not just him, Fleet Admiral Sengoku, Admiral Akainu, Admiral Kizaru, and the Vice Admirals are all here!"

"It seems the Navy really attaches great importance to this public trial!"

Today, Karl had put in a lot of effort, wearing his most handsome white suit and combing his hair into an adult style. Even the raven had taken a bath and was squatting quietly on his shoulder.

Fleet Admiral Sengoku glanced at Karl, thinking this kid was really flashy!

"Fleet Admiral Sengoku, the video Den Den Mushi is ready, we can start at any time."

Sengoku nodded and patted Karl on the shoulder: "It's starting... get ready."

Karl didn't speak, just nodded calmly.

Sengoku walked to the front of the stage, looked down at the crowd of onlookers below, and his expression became serious.

"Everyone, the issue of corrupt Marines has been making a lot of noise recently. As Fleet Admiral, I..."

Sengoku began his speech, and the video Den Den Mushi immediately began to operate, broadcasting the image to the World Government member nations in the Four Seas and the Grand Line.

East Blue, Loguetown.

"It's starting, it's starting! Is that the Fleet Admiral Buddha Sengoku? His hairstyle is really interesting!"

"Shh, don't talk, listen to what he's saying?"

Grand Line, Sabaody Archipelago.

Everyone gathered in front of the big screen set up by the Navy, expressing their opinions.

"These corrupt Marines thought the Headquarters couldn't reach them, and relied on the power in their hands to deceive people, but they didn't expect that their ugly mentality of corruption and seeking personal gain had long been exposed."

"We in the Navy absolutely adopt a zero-tolerance attitude toward such behavior! We will not miss any clumsy corrupt tricks!"

Finally, Sengoku put down the microphone and turned to look at Karl: "Next, I invite Marine Headquarters Rear Admiral Karl to the stage!"

Karl took a deep breath to calm himself down, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, and he walked to the front of the stage.

The moment he walked in front of the camera, the onlookers below let out bursts of exclamation.

"Look! That's the world's most handsome man, Karl. What a face that makes people jealous!"

"Ahhh! Rear Admiral Karl, so handsome ahhh!"

Seeing the reaction below, Karl suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. Sure enough, good looks are justice! Hancock didn't lie to me!

"The net of justice is wide, but it lets nothing through!"

"We caught all the corrupt Marines at the first opportunity, and what awaits them will be the trial of justice!"

"Corrupt Marine Rat, former Colonel of the East Blue 16th Branch, accepted bribes from the 【Arlong Pirates】 totaling 54 million Berries, condoned their burning, killing, and looting, causing chaos in the East Blue, resulting in countless civilians being killed by the Arlong gang."

At this time, Rat, covered in shackles, was brought up with a face as gray as death, his whole body trembling slightly.

"Rat, do you know your crime?"

Rat knelt on the ground with a *thud*. He cried and shouted: "I was wrong, I tarnished justice, I shouldn't have accepted bribes from the Arlong gang, I really know I was wrong, please let me go!"

"You know you were wrong now? What were you doing earlier?"

At this time, the crowd watching below also shouted loudly: "Kill him! Kill him!"

Karl coughed, and the scene gradually quieted down, then he continued.

"In view of the huge amount of bribes, the particularly serious nature of the crime, the particularly bad social impact, and the particularly major losses caused to the interests of the Navy and the people;

Rat committed multiple crimes, his subjective malice is very deep, the social impact is extremely bad, and the crimes are extremely serious. According to the law, he should be severely punished.

For multiple crimes, he is sentenced to death, to be executed immediately!"

Rat's face suddenly turned pale. After a tremor, the ground was wet. Karl stepped back calmly.

The executioners standing on both sides of Karl held giant axes, shouted, and with the fall of the axes, heads fell to the ground.

"Corrupt Marine Tuttle Duke, former Brigadier General of the West Blue 56th Branch, embezzled a total of 274 million Berries of public funds, most of which were used for enjoyment and purchasing private property. In view of his..."

The first to be tried were some big fish, that is, representative corrupt Marines. In short, they were all death row prisoners.

After the main corrupt Marines were tried, a team of Marine soldiers brought over a crowd of hundreds of prisoners.

"These people are?"

"They should also be corrupt Marines, right? Didn't the newspaper say there were over two hundred?"

Karl licked his dry lips and continued: "This group of corrupt Marines are all accomplices in corruption, acting as tigers for the evildoers, helping the tyrant, and should be executed!"

"In view of their relatively minor crimes, the death penalty can be avoided, but they cannot escape punishment."

"Everyone will be sent to Impel Down to spend the rest of their lives repenting!"

"The following is the list of corrupt Marines to be imprisoned in Impel Down."

"Atwood, accepted bribes, oppressed the people... sentenced to serve time on Level 4 of Impel Down!"

"Drayne..."

Finally, Karl's throat was almost smoking from talking. He finally completed his task and retreated behind the scenes.

"Rear Admiral Karl, have a glass of water."

"Thank you!"

Sengoku stood in front of the stage again and said in a deep voice: "As Fleet Admiral, seeing that there are so many corrupt Marines within the Navy, I am really heartbroken."

"As the saying goes, we must punish the past to warn the future."

"Fundamentally, the Navy's mechanisms for internal supervision, power restraint, and corruption prevention are not perfect enough, and the execution of relevant systems is not in place, leaving opportunities for corrupt Marines to exploit."

"Therefore, in my capacity as Fleet Admiral, I announce that the Marine Independent Commission Against Corruption is officially established!!!"

The crowd below was in an uproar. The Marine Independent Commission Against Corruption—although they roughly guessed what it was for, they still wanted to hear what Sengoku had to say.

"The Marine Independent Commission Against Corruption is an independent law enforcement agency within the Navy specifically for combating corruption, with the goal of eliminating corruption and advocating integrity, adopting methods of prevention, education, and investigation to resolutely put an end to any corrupt phenomena!"

"The Independent Commission Against Corruption is divided into the Operations Department, the Corruption Prevention Department, and the Marine Relations Department, using a 'three-pronged approach' of law enforcement, corruption prevention, and education to combat corruption!"

After Sengoku introduced the basic situation of the Marine Independent Commission Against Corruption, he immediately announced that former Marine Major Smoker would become the first Commissioner of the Marine Independent Commission Against Corruption, and his rank would be changed to Brigadier General.

Smoker, who was watching from the side, was beaming with joy. The pie he had been drawing for months was finally in his mouth. Now it was finally his turn to show his skills!

But all of this was thanks to the man standing beside Fleet Admiral Sengoku. If it weren't for him...

Smoker took a deep breath and said silently in his heart: "Thank you, good brother!"