"Hahahaha…"

A chilling laughter reverberated throughout the forest.

The navy soldiers who heard that stopped in their tracks and turned around to face the black forest with confused looks.

The bruised and battered criminals caught their breath while barely able to stand on their feet.

"Huff! Huff!"

Rochan panted heavily with blood trickling down his body, and he sensed something that made his lips curl.

"Oh boys, how lucky are we!"

Through the forest, ugly and menacing-looking pirates made their way, their eyes filled with malice.

There were many famous pirates in the midst that had high bounties on their heads.

Grins appeared on the faces of the criminals, and they laughed in relief.

While some of them weren't actually pirates, they were now on the same side as the pirates, as they were all fighting the navy.

The navy was their common enemy.

…

Somewhere in the forest, Big Maestro narrowed his gaze and then felt the presence of a powerful adversary.

"Stop hiding!"

Big Maestro shouted.

With a smiling mask on his face, a creepily tall man with long, lanky limbs that looked like spaghetti stumbled out of the forest.

He was wearing tight jeans with a yellow and red striped shirt.

"King of the Gluttony, Big Maestro. You know that gluttony is a sin? Maybe you belong under a pirate flag."

Emperor Happy Man said with a cold-sounding voice.

"Pirate Emperor? I sensed four other powerful presences… How come every Pirate Emperor happens to be here?"

Big Maestro asked, feeling a sense of unease creeping over him.

This felt strange, as if the pirates already knew that today something was going to happen, and they seemed to be prepared for it.

For every Pirate Emperor to arrive here at the same time, they must've already gathered beforehand, and they never were together in one place.

They were usually in their own territories in the World Seas.

"We received a word that there will be quite interesting things happening over in the Downed Prison. There is no way we pirates would miss this."

Emperor Happy Man said coldly and pulled out his hands from inside his pockets.

"DEVOUR!"

Big Maestro lunged at him with his mouth pulled open, and Emperor Happy Man punched him in the face.

The ground under them cracked and caved in.

…

King Rederic sat on a rock, a spear resting on top of his thigh, and he watched as a person walked from the forest.

He had long black hair, looking like seaweed, with an eyepatch over his right eye, and hands replaced by long, sharp blades.

"It's been a long time since we last met. It was when I was just a Vice Admiral, and you were an up-and-coming pirate captain, was it not?"

King Rederic said.

"And now we are here…"

Art the Ripper, a Pirate Emperor, said with a spiteful tone.

"Indeed we are…"

King Rederic stood up with the help of the spear, kicked it up with his right leg, and caught it in his left hand.

Art the Ripper crossed the blades in front of his chest, pressed forward, and swung his sword towards King Rederic.

King Rederic thrust his spear forward, stabbed between the connection point of the two blades, and stopped Art the Ripper's attack in his tracks.

…

"…"

Karl-Michael stood at the deck of the ship, the wind breezing past his navy cloak and making it flutter about like that of a cape.

He looked very heroic.

In that moment, he turned around and saw two people standing at the roof of the navy battleship.

"Yohohoho… What a sweet man I have discovered!"

Queen Lala, a Pirate Empress, said with a not-so-pleasant-sounding giggle, and she waved her hand fan in the air.

She was a big woman, with an even bigger personality.

"…"

Jack Butcher, a Pirate Emperor, stood silently.

He was just a black-haired man in a leather jacket and looked like he could just be any motorbike gang member.

However, he was one of the most dangerous men on the seas.

"I hope I am not crashing the party!"

In that moment, Jeremiah Arcanielago entered the ship with the navy jacket cloak fluttering behind him.

"This day sure has gone to shit. It was supposed to be a rather simple task—to stop the prisoners from escaping—but it has turned into an all-out war between the navy and pirates."

Karl-Michael said with a cold gaze.

"Why don't you pirate trash tell us who told you to come here?"

Jeremiah said.

"It was one of your navy soldiers!"

Queen Lala said with a smile.

"Maybe."

Jack said.

"Yes… maybe."

Queen Lala giggled.

'…This couldn't have gone worse. Now with these Pirate Emperors here, who in the world could stop the Immortal Killer of the Red Sun from escaping?'

Karl-Michael gazed over at the skies, where Renette was hovering, and with her wings, she could fly away at any time.

However, for some reason, she hadn't done that.

It would now be perfect moment to do that when the navy was occupied by the pirates, but she wasn't for some reason.

…

From a sea path between two mountain-sized waves, a new reinforcement ship of the navy sailed through with their flags proudly waving in the wind.

Jeremiah was perfectly controlling the sea to give free passage to the navy ships.

At the deck of the main navy battleship, Bella stood in her navy uniform, which made her look dazzling and like a career woman.

If her big sister, Nevaeh, were seeing her, she would be drooling in excitement at the sight of her.

Bella was already extremely popular among the ordinary navy soldiers, and anyone who laid eyes on her couldn't look away.

"…Vice Admiral Bella!"

In that moment, a navy officer came to her and saluted.

"What is it?"

Bella asked.

"We just received a report of pirate sightings in the battlefield. It looks like the pirates somehow found out about the prison break and came here to assist them!"

The navy officer said with a grim expression.

"Pirates…"

Zeus's and Messiah's expressions tightened.

"…Then the navy will be in need of our assistance. At full speed, we must get there immediately."

Bella said.

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