Arceus in One Piece - Chapter 18

“Hey, hey, did you hear? The Marines base on Kakira Island was captured by pirates.”

“Oh, I heard. I’m going to go out to avoid the storm. It’s too close to Kakira Island. I’m worried about something happening.”

On the island near Kakira Island, the residents of the town were discussing this matter. In the Four Seas, this was already heavenly news. The naval base had actually been captured by pirates, something that no one had expected.

“Where do you want to go? The naval base has been captured, and now we are at least on land. If you run into those pirates on the sea, you have no place to run to.”

“But in case they come to loot this place. I want to go to the Kingdom of Fidelity. At least it’s a member of the World Government, so it should be safer.”

The calmness of the Shikoku Sea had been turned into a panic, and the naval branches in the other South Seas had chosen to shrink and defend themselves instead of supporting them.

Kakira Island’s naval branch in the South China Sea is the most vital branch, and Smog in the town of Logan is stationed in the same. The guard here is also the headquarters of the colonel, and under the Marines, the elite is also there, so the branch has been defeated, and the rest of the branch needs help.

Moreover, most of the base facilities on Kakira Island are intact, and it is not realistic to take advantage of the strength of the South China Sea Marines to complete the revenge, so the nearby branches can only choose to protect themselves, which has led to the recent South China Sea pirates are very rampant.

This is also the reason why that person wanted to hide in the Kingdom of Fidelity. As a member of the World Government, their country also stationed a large number of naval forces, and the strength of their own kingdom’s army was not weak. The domestic environment was alright.

“From here to the Kingdom of Fidelity to sail at least three days, and that kind of boat either ran away or dared not go to sea. Do you want to row your fishing boat? Do you want to row your fishing boat? Come with me and hide in the mountains.

Those pirates are only after money, and they won’t go to the mountains and forests.”

Shire Island, which is some distance away from Kakira Island, and on the surface of the sea, three ships were engaged in a gun battle, two belonging to the pirates and one belonging to the Marines.

The Marines’s ships had an advantage, both in terms of tonnage and firepower.

Although the recent order from the South Seas that the Marines around the island of Kakira should not attack at will and should stand down in defense and wait for reinforcements from the headquarters, not all of the Marines could tolerate this order.

There are fallen vampires in the Marines who are doing the same thing as pirates, but there are also those who are genuinely following the righteousness of their hearts and are fighting to keep the people safe.

Despite the order, some branches are still fighting against the pirates.

“Major! There needs to be more ammunition! The previous supplies were all stranded on Kakira Island, and we’re out of shells!”

“Pull over and prepare for a gangway battle! Where the hell did these pirates come from? We can’t retreat. If we do, what will happen to the inhabitants of the neighboring islands? Get ready, we’re going in!”

“Yes!”

In the end, one of the two ships escaped, one was captured, and all the remaining pirates on board were captured.

“Major, a call from the Colonel, telling us to return to the base immediately. Other pirate groups have appeared near the base as well, and the base is running out of human resources.”

Recently, the number of pirates in the South China Sea has entered a period of skyrocketing, and some of the people who were hesitant before have joined the pirates. When the desire of the heart is triggered, the fall of a person is only in a moment.

The increase in the number of pirates and the orders from the headquarters have led to a shortage of human resources in the Marines, and the branches of the Marines that are still on duty have been stretched to the limit.

They didn’t pursue the fleeing pirate ship because it was heading toward the island of Kakira. The major was upright but not stupid, and the number of pirates gathered there was more than a medium-sized warship like his, which had run out of shells, could handle.

The orders from the headquarters were to let the pirates go and wait for reinforcements from the headquarters to arrive to kill them.

While the pirates were running wild, the Marines laid down a vast net.

However, the pirates were unaware of the Marines’s actions, as the pirates living in the Four Seas had no idea how terrifying the monsters on the Great Voyage were, and their behavior had already touched theMarines’s bottom line, making even the World Government feel dishonored.

Therefore, the annihilation troops led by the Admiral are on their way here.

However, the Admiral is usually on a more important mission, so it will take a while for them to get here.

The pirates were still enjoying themselves, and more and more pirates began to gather on Kakira Island.

“Captain, are we really going to Kakira Island? We’ll just be cannon fodder there.”

On one of the pirate ships, the first mate’s voice was hesitant, as he and the captain’s rewards only amounted to 3 million beli, and he didn’t think he was qualified to take part in this kind of thing.

He didn’t think he was qualified to take part in this kind of thing. It wasn’t as if there weren’t a lot of sane people out there, but he couldn’t change the captain’s orders when some of them were overwhelmed by desire.

“Don’t be afraid. Those Marines men from Branch 277 have been defeated. That’s the legendary pirate from the Great Voyage, Captain John, who has a reward of 2.1 billion beli!
We can’t let this opportunity go by. If we get on his good side, we’ll be able to go on the Great Voyage too.”

The bounty given out by the Marines for hunting down pirates was instead used as a capital for the pirates to show off. This kind of thing was rare in the New World, where people understood that the bounty was a reference at most and that strength was the key.

However, in the Shikai and even Paradise, many pirates see the bounty as an alternative way to show off their strength.

However, the bounty is based on the combination of their strength and the degree of harm they have done, and some people’s bounty has nothing to do with their strength, except that their crimes are too severe or they know too much.

Saying this, he pulled the first mate to his side again and whispered, “Again, even if it’s cannon fodder, it’s the idiots who don’t even have bounties to offer that do it.”

“Minions! Speed up, and Captain John has said that he wants to split the world’s greatest treasure with us! It will be more than you can spend in a lifetime.”

Kaido wasn’t here and would have laughed his ass off if he’d heard that.

One of the biggest jokes on the Locus Pirates is that John was willing to share his treasure.

If it weren’t for the fact that the marks on the photo resembled those caused by John, Kaido would have concluded that this John was a fake just by sharing his treasure.

At this moment, in the room of the former base commander of the 277th branch of the Marines, a man wearing a red overcoat, with a western sword and a longsword hanging on his waist, was sitting on a chair with his legs folded.

In front of him was a telephone bug with the barrel still open, but the other side seemed to have hung up, and a strange smile was on the corner of his mouth.

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