"Jihahahaha! And now even the Revolutionary Army has shown up?!"
"Are they here to grab a slice too? To use this chance to smash Navy Headquarters apart?"
Even Golden Lion was visibly stunned when he saw the Revolutionary Army appear.
As one of the most influential figures of this era, he naturally knew exactly what the Revolutionary Army ant to the World Governnt—and what their existence represented.
For them to choose this exact mont to appear…
their purpose hardly needed explaining.
And though Golden Lion's words sounded like a joke, to the Marines, they were an enormous blow.
At that mont, the Marine soldiers across the plaza stared at the Revolutionary Army fleet anchored beyond the frozen sea with naked fear on their faces.
Nor were they the only ones.
The expressions of the Marine high command had turned equally ugly.
"Garp! This is your wonderful eldest son!"
Sengoku's body trembled slightly as he glared at the man standing at the bow of the Revolutionary Army flagship and ground out the words through clenched teeth.
Others might not know—
but Sengoku knew very well.
Garp's son was the very man standing there now:
the world's most wanted criminal, the leader of the Revolutionary Army.
At Sengoku's words, Garp lowered his head and said nothing.
But the spiderweb cracks splitting open beneath his feet, carved there by sheer force, showed that his mood was worse than anyone else's.
Dragon's arrival had multiplied the pressure on him yet again.
Ace and Luffy alone had already been enough to make his head split.
Now even Dragon had appeared.
Forget attacking them—
at this point, Garp didn't even want to raise his head and look at them.
"Sengoku."
Kong placed a hand on Garp's shoulder and called out toward Sengoku with a sigh, signaling him not to continue.
He knew better than anyone that the person suffering most right now was Garp.
Complaining like this would do nothing for the battle in front of them.
It would only make things even more painful.
"…Tch."
Hearing Kong's warning, Sengoku glanced at Garp, let out a heavy breath, and said no more.
On the other side, the Five Elders' expressions darkened even further as they looked at the newly arrived force.
"Hmph. So CP0's intelligence wasn't wrong after all. Those Revolutionary Army rats really dared co."
"Dreaming of overthrowing the World Governnt? These lowly insects think they're worthy?"
The kimono-clad elder's sharp gaze locked onto the Revolutionary Army, his expression colder than before.
Pirates wreaked havoc across the seas, pillaging islands and slaughtering civilians.
But to the World Governnt, that was never truly worth caring about.
Because in their eyes, such pirates were nothing more than ard hooligans.
And the lower-class people they killed…
were lower-class people all the sa.
More importantly, the existence of pirates also served a purpose.
Their presence frightened nations into obediently paying Heavenly Tribute year after year.
To the World Governnt, that still counted as a kind of value.
But the Revolutionary Army was different.
Their creed was to overthrow the World Governnt itself—to awaken the thoughts of the lower classes.
And that was what truly terrified them.
"Good. Let them all co."
"We've searched in the shadows for so long and still never found the Revolutionary Army's main base."
"And now they've delivered themselves right to our doorstep. Saves us the trouble."
The blond elder folded his arms, his face sinking into shadow.
"When the ti cos, we kill the Revolutionaries first. Then we turn our blades on the pirates," the kimono-clad elder said as he drew the First Kitetsu an inch from its sheath.
In an instant, cold light flashed.
A murderous aura spilled out like a tide.
Just from that slight draw, the blade already exuded a terrifying pressure.
One could only imagine how many powerful n had died beneath that sword.
And the act itself also made one thing clear—
the kimono-clad elder had nearly recovered completely.
At this mont, he was once again at his peak.
"Yes. The Revolutionaries must die first."
The white-curled elder muttered coldly.
Then, after a pause, his brow tightened as a thought suddenly struck him.
"…Wait."
"The Revolutionary Army… they aren't Rōmu's people too, are they…?"
The mont those words fell, the other four elders' faces changed at once.
They looked up toward Rōmu standing high above, then toward Dragon on the flagship.
A terrible premonition rose from the depths of their hearts.
On the fortress wall, Blackbeard Teach wore a strange smile as he stared at the newly arrived Revolutionary Army.
And then he burst out laughing.
"Zehahahaha!"
"Three generations of grandfather, father, and son all gathered here—"
"and each one stands on a completely different side!"
"What a perfect, happy family!"
As he said that, his gaze swept toward Luffy unconscious behind Whitebeard—and then toward Garp on the execution platform.
The instant Blackbeard's words entered everyone's ears—
the entire plaza froze.
Grandfather, father, and son?
What did that an?
Not only the people on the battlefield were confused.
Even the viewers around the world were equally blank-faced.
Among everyone present, only a tiny handful actually understood what Blackbeard ant.
And now, without exception, all eyes turned toward him, waiting for him to explain.
Savoring their reactions, Blackbeard's eyes rolled mischievously before he threw his head back and laughed again.
"Zehahahaha!"
"That newly risen Supernova pirate, Luffy—he's Garp's grandson!"
"And Dragon, the leader of the Revolutionary Army—he's Garp's son!"
Boom.
The mont the words landed, the entire square dropped into stunned silence.
Every person there had their eyes widened and mouths hanging open, utterly dumbstruck.
The shock was no less than when Ace's identity had first been revealed.
And after that brief stillness—
the revelation exploded across the battlefield.
"How is that possible?! Dragon is Marine Hero Garp's son? And that pirate Luffy is Garp's grandson?!"
"My God… what kind of family is this?! How can sothing this absurd even exist in one bloodline?!"
"He himself is a Marine hero, his son is the world's most wanted criminal, and his grandson is a pirate with a bounty over a hundred million?! Even saying it out loud feels ridiculous!"
"Another huge headline! Hurry and notify headquarters—we need an extra edition right now!"
It was a truly explosive piece of news.
So outrageous that it bordered on the unbelievable.
A family structure like that—
no one would believe it if they heard it from soone else.
But when everyone looked at Vice Admiral Garp and saw that he offered no denial whatsoever—
that alone proved Blackbeard's words were true.
A Marine vice admiral.
A man respected throughout the Navy as a hero.
Yet his grandson was a pirate—
and his son was actually the leader of the Revolutionary Army, the most wanted criminal in the world.
People began talking all at once about the three generations of Garp's family.
The reporters and dia people who had been waiting for a world-shaking incident reacted even faster, scrambling to contact headquarters and draft new reports.
No one wanted to miss a revelation of this scale.
And so—
the whole world was once again plunged into the shock of another bombshell.
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