The bloody hand Mary of the pirate

"call……"

"bite."

The layout of Akainu's room is quite simple and stylish. There is a small tea seat in the room, and tatami mats on both sides provide a place for guests to sit.

Mari and Akainu were sitting on opposite sides of the small table, and Akainu was making tea.

The two of them were silent until Akainu finally poured the tea and took a slow sip.

"Do you mind if you drink tea in the middle of the night? I don't have any other drinks here."

Akainu said in a deep voice.

"In our line of work, you've already become accustomed to sleepless nights, right?"

Mary smiled and picked up the tea cup.

"It's a very beautiful brown color. Senior Sakaski is quite accomplished in tea ceremony."

"There's nothing much to do usually."

Akainu shook his head.

Mary smiled and asked while sipping tea:

"Then Mr. Sakaski, you came to me a few days ago and asked me to talk to you about something. What is it?"

"Shall we go straight to the point? Very good, in line with your and my habits."

Akainu nodded and looked at Mary seriously:

"Mary, your military rank is definitely more than lieutenant general. Have you ever thought about going to a higher level?"

"I can see that you are a person with ambitions and ideas. Only when you gain higher status and power can you have the capital to use your own methods, right?"

"The Navy's leadership is going to undergo a major overhaul." Mary nodded gently, "Why did Mr. Sakaski suddenly mention this to me?"

"I have met Elio Hiiragizawa. He chatted with me on some topics, which also made me interested in you as a person who can become friends with him."

Akainu explained.

"I see, Elio Hiiragisawa has gone to find you. But we can't be considered friends, at best we can be considered comrades with the same stance." Mary understood, "Indeed, I want to increase my influence."

"My influence in this world has reached a bottleneck and I need a breakthrough."

"In that case, are you interested in supporting me?"

Akainu narrowed his eyes, "You are very smart. You should be able to tell that Marshal Sengoku is about to retire. Soon, the Navy will start a new competition for the position of Marshal."

"I hope to become a marshal and hope to gain your support."

"My support?" Mary raised her eyebrows, "I'm just a new recruit."

"Don't belittle yourself, Mary."

Akainu put down the tea cup and crossed his arms: "You should be very aware of your current influence."

"...I want to hear your reasons for letting me support you."

Mary also put down the tea cup, put her hands together, put her elbows on the table, rested her face on her hands, and looked at Akainu with a smile.

"It's very simple. I am a meritocratic person. If you are capable enough, if I become the marshal, I will definitely give you the position of general and give you enough space to perform."

Akainu said seriously: "The change in the Navy starts with you and me. I will try my best to create an environment for you to display your talents. Whatever you want to do, as long as you don't go too far, I will give you 100% support."

"Even if I go overboard, I..."

"I will also remain silent."

"Stay silent?" Mary sneered, "It means you won't care about me even if I am killed, right?"

"..."

Akainu acquiesced to Mary's statement.

"Mr. Sakaski, if you have talked with Elio Hiiragisawa, you should have learned from him what kind of person I am."

"Taking a step back, you should be able to see my position from many things I do."

"I believe that if you are sitting here talking to me now, you can tell the possibility of [even if it is exceeded]. I am afraid you also understand that this [event] is something that will definitely happen, right?"

"That is to say, you understand that there will definitely be conflicts between you and me."

Mary's eyes became sharp.

"You and I can stand on a united front when dealing with pirates, and our methods will be equally brutal, because we both absolutely hate pirates."

"But that doesn't mean you and I are the same kind of people, Mr. Sakaski. There is an absolutely irreconcilable point of conflict between you and me."

"You...should also understand what I mean."

"I won't say it directly." Mary chuckled.

"It doesn't matter. As long as it doesn't involve principles, I don't mind the attitude of my comrades."

Akainu shook his head.

"I understand what you mean. You don't like my attitude towards the Celestial Dragons either, do you?"

"...I didn't expect you to admit it very neatly."

Speaking of this criticized matter so calmly and generously made Mary take another high look at Akainu:

"Yes, I approve of your tough tactics, but I cannot approve of your attitude of resolutely executing the orders of the Celestial Dragons, regardless of whether they are correct or not."

"I know this is the bounden duty of soldiers, but we are not pure soldiers, Mr. Sakaski. Our navy carries the word justice."

After Mary finished speaking, she took another sip of tea.

"I'm very pleased."

"Cough cough cough..."

Mary, who was originally waiting for Akainu to retort or say some words of approval, almost burst into tears when she heard this sentence.

It is indeed a bit unexpected to suddenly come up with such an irrelevant statement.

Akainu looked at Mary and nodded.

"Even when you were against the Celestial Dragons, you were still so conscientious in the navy and showed no mercy to the pirates."

"I'm really relieved."

"...It's hard work for you too."

Mary didn't know how to answer this.

If you think about it carefully, Akainu does have enough reasons to say this. After all, if the core is the same as Mary, most people will be soft on some pirates like Aoki and Garp. No matter how tough they are verbally

, the falling fist is never that powerful.

There are really only a few people like Mary who are almost as iron-blooded. Even Mary cooperated with Straw Hat and Fire Fist to let Luo go.

But compared to others, he is already quite conscientious.

"No matter what, we at least have something in common. The methods are different, and we are also moving towards the goal of justice. And your style is very similar to mine, so I favor you."

Akainu whispered:

"My codename is [Akainu], dog. When I was given this nickname, it meant that I was a minion of the Celestial Dragons. However, in fact, I would rather be called Hoshi."

"Huh?" Mary thought for a moment, "Exorcism and avoid evil?"

"That's right." Akainu nodded, "I am not a vicious dog driven by the Celestial Dragons, but a sailor who maintains order."

"But..." Mary was about to say something, but was suddenly interrupted by Akainu raising his hand.

"Mary..."

Akainu's eyes became a little dark.

"Would you like to hear me tell you a story?"

"..."

Mary shrugged and went about refilling her tea.

"Speaking."

"A long time ago, there was a little boy who lived on a small island in the North Sea."

"That small island belonged to a country that has now been destroyed. In the past, that country was a member of the World Government. The sky-high gold that needed to be paid was so high that it weighed on everyone's heads and made them breathless."

"The little boy's parents had to work from six in the morning to eight in the evening just to make ends meet. Even the little boy started working at the dock early."

"What the local navy does, apart from patrolling the streets, is to go to the pier and fire a few shots when a pirate ship occasionally appears. That's all. Such a navy has gained the power to arrest ordinary people at will.

.”

"——I think you should know whether this is a rare situation or the norm in this world."

"Yeah." Mary nodded matter-of-factly.

Akainu stood up and walked towards the potted plant behind him.

Start pruning carefully.

"Everyone feels that life like this is miserable."

"Until one day, a team called the Revolutionary Army came to the island."

"They drove away the navy and the king's army that ruled the island, and sent supplies to the island. Without the oppression of the world government and countries, the island quickly became rich, and the pressure of life instantly became less."

"And the revolutionary army left after doing all this without taking anything on the island. They still have to fight the world government and the country on the front line."

"The island became self-governing, and the little boy was able to go to school. Without the constraints of the navy and the king's army, many jobs became easier, and supplies were no longer scarce."

"Very good, right?"

Having said this, Akainu's originally relaxed tone suddenly changed.

"But it didn't take long for violent elements to appear on the islands without strong authority."

"Groups after groups of violent elements banded together and began to loot the islands without restraint."

"Under this pressure, the people on the island elected a leader and established an autonomous government. And that leader established a new army and suppressed the previously unscrupulous violence."

"Life on the island returned to peace, but the good times did not last long. It didn't take long before the troops led by the leader began to use their own force to isolate the leader and threaten ordinary residents. Because they had official names, although they were not

No matter how vicious they are, the pressure they bring far exceeds those of violent elements."

"In the end, the residents of the island couldn't bear it anymore and organized new troops to fight against the military government. The boy's father died in this war."

"A small island can't cause much trouble. The war lasted for a few months and then completely subsided. The military government was overthrown, and everyone was still frightened and unwilling to form a new government."

"——You must have expected what happened next."

Mary lowered her brows as she looked at the magnificent and thick tattoos on Akainu's back.

"Anarchy, violent elements rise, form a government, military government, anarchy."

"The cycle goes on and on."

"That's right."

Akainu nodded and said:

"Everyone talks nice, but not everyone has a pure heart. No matter how tragic the previous lessons were, when everything returns to peace, there will always be people who can't restrain their desires and want to be above others.

"

"Such a script was repeated countless times, turning the entire island into a mess. Later, war became the norm. No one surrendered to anyone, no one could suppress anyone, and wars occurred almost every day."

"Until the end of it all—"

"Crack!"

The branches of a potted plant were suddenly cut short by Akainu.

"The pirates are coming."

"The island that had been in a mess had no power to resist the pirates. The island without any strong support became a place for pirates to loot. After they landed on the island, they started burning, killing and looting. The boy's mother died tragically due to pirates.

At that time, the boy was still fighting with armed men from another force on the other side of the island."

"At the critical moment, when blood flowed on the island, a naval ship docked at the port."

"The pirates were eliminated, all armed personnel were forcibly suppressed by the navy, and the World Government defeated the local revolutionary army and re-administered the island."

"However, the island at this time was already depopulated, most of the young adults only knew how to fight, and production was almost completely abandoned."

"So in the end, the island became an uninhabited island, and the local residents finally left that sad place through various methods."

"This is the story I want to tell."

Akainu turned back to look at Mary.

"I know that many people are dissatisfied with the world government and feel contempt and disgust for Heavenly Gold. But in the final analysis, this is order, and in the final analysis, we want to maintain stability."

"No matter how disgusting the Celestial Dragons are, the real managers of the world government still have to find ways to balance the issues between ordinary people and nobles."

"Many people can see the liberation of the revolutionary army, the coolness of the pirates, and the oppression of the world government."

"But we can't see the chaos of the revolutionary army's governance, the cruelty of pirates' plunder, or the management and maintenance of the world government."

"Is this really reasonable?"

Akainu said, walked up to Mari, and slowly sat down cross-legged.

Mary was sitting, looking at Akainu obediently, waiting for his next words.

"The world government has done a lot of dirty things, and I am their white glove. I have participated in many demon-slaying orders, and I have protected the Celestial Dragons many times. But this is not because I want to be in the same position as the Celestial Dragons. I

Just want to maintain order and law."

"If even I, a general, despise order and law, in this era of chaos and unrest, who will respect this order that is despised but is actually hard-won for most people?

"

"The longer a person lives, the more shameful things happen. Only by being able to bear these can one truly stand on his own."

"If I didn't have this belief, I wouldn't be where I am now."

"I know that I have done some things that many people think are like being a lackey of the Celestial Dragons. But I know better that the people I protect are definitely many more than the people I hurt."

An invisible aura spreads out from Akainu's body, which is not the color of a king, but the color of a king.

Every strong person has his own will.

"Some people often say, 'World Government is the cancer of this world,' but the absolute power and absolute order represented by the despised World Government are what I have longed for since I was a child."

"No matter how loud the slogans of the revolutionary army and pirates are, and how noble their goals are, it is a fact that they desecrate and trample order, and they have never established a new order."

"That's why I want to be the one who upholds order."

"Standing before the World Government, as its loyal dog, as the most ridiculous person in the eyes of the world..."

"Fool."