"Where are they?!"

Having just revived only to be smashed to death again by a cat food can, forcing him to spend time reviving once more, the Five Elders member stared with bloodshot eyes, glaring fixedly at Sengoku and the others who were dragging their heavily injured bodies to help other Marines.

"...We failed to keep them here."

Sengoku fell silent for a moment before answering the Five Elder obvious question.

"You really are a bunch of useless trash!"

Ever since he had to head down to the "lower realm," Marcus Mars had been dissatisfied with this group of incompetent Marines.

However, considering that they still needed them to handle the miscellaneous chores of the "lower realm," he hadn’t shown it before—even when he saw Garp holding back and Ryokugyu being suppressed by a group of weaklings with flamethrowers.

But after being brutally beaten by a Felyne Mink that seemed to have undergone modification, Marcus Mars, driven to fury by his humiliation, no longer had the peace of mind to care about the Marine feelings.

The other members of the Five Elders felt the same way. This was the first time in hundreds of years that they had acted collectively they hadn’t even made such a grand fuss for Rocks or the Pirate King Roger back then.

Yet, this collective mobilization of the Five Elders had yielded absolutely no results. This filled them, who considered themselves gods, with incomparable shame and anger.

But "gods" could not be wrong, so the Five Elders naturally directed their anger toward the Marines who were there to "assist."

And they quickly reached a consensus via telepathy on the most suitable target to take their anger out on—

Monkey D. Garp, the biological father of Dragon, who had actively held back on the battlefield, carried the "D" in his name, and was starting to decline in strength due to old age, was clearly the perfect choice.

"You guys! Go and take the treacherous traitor Monkey D. Garp into custody!"

Jaygarcia Saturn casually pointed at two Marines, commanding coldly.

"What? Are you talking about... Vice Admiral Garp?"

Garp still held immense prestige within the Navy, so those two Marines thought they had misheard.

As a result of this slight hesitation, Saint Saturn activated his glare, instantly blowing off the heads of the two Headquarters Captain-level Marines.

"You, go and take Garp into custody! Do not make me say it a third time!"

Without the slightest change in expression after killing the two Headquarters Captains, Saint Saturn casually pointed at two other Marines and ordered.

"...Yes."

Looking at their comrades beside them who had been so easily killed over such a trivial matter, a chill ran through the hearts of these two Marines.

However, to avoid following in their footsteps, they still obediently accepted the order and went to handcuff Garp, who was now completely unconscious after dragging his heavily injured body to shield a portion of the Marines from the aftershocks of the cat canned food.

Sengoku opened and closed his mouth several times, but considering that the Five Elders were currently in a fit of rage, he ultimately remained silent, planning to wait a while before gathering Fleet Admiral Kuzan, Vice Admiral Tsuru, and other high-ranking Marines to intercede on Garp behalf.

Just as Sengoku turned around to resume directing the others to clean up the battlefield, the expressions of the Five Elders all changed in unison.

They had simultaneously received a furious telepathic message from Lord Imu—

"Uranus," which had been sent out to erase Faboket Island, had been attacked by the Felyne Investigation. Not only were its remaining energy reserves completely depleted, but the physical body of "Uranus" itself had sustained significant damage.

"Damn it! We’ve been tricked!"

If they hadn’t realized by now that Sherwin had already joined forces with Dragon, they would truly be too foolish.

Saint Jaygarcia Saturn, Saint Topman Warcury, Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro, and Saint Marcus Mars quickly canceled their summoning, teleporting back to Pangaea Castle, while Saint Shepherd Ju Peter immediately transformed into the monstrous bird known as Itsumade, flying toward Mary Geoise at his fastest speed.

Having just taken their anger out on the Marines, they now had to go back and let Lord Imu take anger out on them.

Sengoku opened his mouth once more, wanting to remind them that Kaido and BIG MOM would highly likely launch a second wave of attacks after finding out what happened on Egghead Island. However, before he could even speak, the Five Elders had already vanished without a trace...

With no other choice, he could only turn to contact Kuzan, who was stationed at Marineford, and the former Fleet Admiral and current Commander-in-Chief of the World Government, Kong.

...

"Phew... This time was truly thanks to you, Miss Arc."

Dragon, who had already fled far away with his subordinates, looked at the cat food can in the distance that had been intercepted mid-air yet still exploded with immense power, and couldn’t help but sigh with relief.

With this kind of power, the Five Elders probably wouldn’t be able to catch up.

However, after sighing with relief, Dragon quickly fell back into deep thought.

The strength of the Five Elders wasn’t strictly strong or weak, but their immortal and indestructible nature was still too troublesome.

Moreover, their Devil Fruit forms were basically all giant Mythical Zoans capable of causing large-scale damage, not to mention the presence of Imu, whose strength remained unknown.

"What a pity, we didn’t get to see Vegapunk."

Lindbergh said with great regret.

Ever since he read Vegapunk research data from the Felyne side, he admired this "world number one genius scientist" immensely, and desperately wanted to meet his new idol.

And Arc also sighed deeply: "Since we couldn’t capture that Vegapunk guy, we should have just taken him out directly... It a pity my ’Tengai Shinsei’ was intercepted. I should have summoned an even bigger cat food can."

(ο)

"So you were planning to kill Vegapunk along with them?!" Lindbergh exclaimed in shock: "That idea is way too dangerous! Even if we couldn’t get Vegapunk to join us, there no need to take him out!"

"Alright, alright, didn’t he survive anyway?"

(へ)

arc glanced at him sideways and curled her lips impatiently.

And Ivankov, after recovering from the shock, also gaped in amazement and said: "Y-you can summon an even bigger one?!"

"Yeah, though I haven’t actually tried it, I feel like if I go all out, I should be able to summon a cat food can as big as the moon... Come to think of it, the moon in ’Naruto Meow’ was also made using Chibaku Tensei... As expected, I really am an Otsutsuki! Meowhahahaha!!!"

(▽)

After arc muttered to herself for a couple of sentences, she put her hands on her hips and laughed triumphantly.

Dragon and the rest of the Revolutionary Army: "..."

Absolutely no one doubted what arc said, because the abilities she displayed were simply too incredible. Even Devil Fruits weren’t as unreasonable as her.

"Sh-Sherwin Boy little kittens are really getting scarier one after another... Aha, ahahaha..."

Ivankov let out a dry laugh, and terrified that arc might want to prove it to them on a whim, decisively changed the subject: "Speaking of which, I wonder how things are going on Sherwin Boy side. Dragon, why don’t you give him a call and ask? Hee-haw!"

Although it was just a change of subject, it truly struck a chord with Dragon. He was indeed very worried about the situation on the other side. After all, it was a legendary Ancient Weapon, and according to Sherwin, it was the strongest one among all the Ancient Weapons.

So, Dragon took out a white, encrypted Transponder Snail. After hesitating for a moment, he chose to dial Sabo number.

Sherwin and the others might still be dealing with "Uranus," so it was more appropriate to call Sabo.

As it turned out, after waiting for quite a while, the call was finally connected, and the voice coming from the other side was extremely noisy...

"Waaahhh! Wait a minute! My Transponder Snail was knocked away! Who saw my Transponder Snail?!"

"This one does not know! This one cannot see anything right now!"

"So the thing that tripped Kamijo just now was your Transponder Snail?! Keep your things in order! Such misfortune, meow—!"

Not good! Something happened!

Dragon was startled and hurriedly shouted, "Sabo! Sabo, can you hear me?! What happened over there?!"

"Cough, cough, don’t worry, don’t worry, nothing happened..."

First, a slight tapping sound came from the Transponder Snail, which meant it was likely finally picked up by someone, and then Sherwin voice followed, "They just accidentally... um... got hit by a flash bomb."