One Piece : From Slave to Fleet Admiral

On the other side, the Marine warship had already arrived at the edge of the island.

T-Bone took the lead, holding his long sword, he was the first to jump off the warship, acting as the vanguard for all the soldiers.

For him, if he as a commander couldn't rush in front of the soldiers to resolve potential threats for them, then the identity of commander would have no meaning.

"Follow me and charge" and "Charge for me" are different.

Following closely behind and jumping off the ship were Jake and Monet.

Having trained with Lieutenant Commander T-Bone for so long, they had naturally been infected by his sense of justice that was pure to the point of being extreme.

Plus, as the two strongest individuals here, it was fitting for them to come down.

After jumping onto the island, cold air scattered around Monet's body.

She turned back towards the connection between the warship and the island and blew out an extremely cold wind.

Accompanied by a "crack crack" sound, a layer of ice several meters thick instantly appeared between the warship and the beach.

The reason was simple - to give the pirates time to retreat, there was no dedicated dock where the Marine warships landed.

In fact, there were quite a few reefs in the area.

If it weren't for Monet's ability to create footholds, the only way for the Marine soldiers to reach the island would probably have been swimming.

On Katakuri's ship, Galette looked at the ice layer that suddenly appeared not far away and a terrified expression immediately appeared on her delicate face.

She hurriedly shouted to Katakuri beside her.

"Brother! That's ice! And it's ice that formed instantly! The only person in the Marine who can do this is Aokiji, who's about to be promoted to Admiral! Could it be that guy who came? Should we consider retreating first? No matter what, facing an Admiral candidate is still too much for us!"

Hearing Galette's words, Katakuri didn't say anything, but just activated his Observation Haki to the extreme.

At the limit of that Observation Haki, he finally saw clearly who had created the ice layer.

A woman with long emerald green hair and beside her were those two guys who had resisted him with Observation Haki earlier.

However, when he saw that the person who created the ice layer was not Aokiji, the gravity in Katakuri's heart not only didn't dissipate, but became even heavier.

A Logia-type Devil Fruit user!

That woman looked like a new recruit.

To confidently let a new Logia-type ability user enter such a dangerous island, Katakuri would never believe there weren't powerful figures on that warship.

Logia-types were treated like precious treasures by all factions wherever they went.

Among pirates, the lower limit for Logia-types was a bounty of over 100 million.

In the Marine, the lower limit for Logia-types was Vice Admiral.

Even in his own Crew where Devil Fruit users were as common as cows, Logia-type users would be in the first tier below the Three Sweet Commanders as long as they had a little talent.

No one would be stupid enough to send such a precious asset to their death!

So, Marine! What exactly are you plotting?!

Looking at the floating ice blocks, Katakuri's expression became even more grim.

He said to Galette beside him.

"Galette, don't panic. Move the ship 200 meters away from the island in the direction away from it, and maintain a safe enough distance from the Marine. This way, even if a fight breaks out, I can buy you valuable time to escape."

Hearing Katakuri's words, a faint mist rose in Galette's beautiful eyes and her voice trembled slightly.

"Brother Katakuri! That's too unfair to you..."

"Do as I command! Don't worry, I won't lose!"

With that, Katakuri ignored his sister's crying beside him and stood alone at the bow of the ship with his trident, looking at Jake and the others from afar.

That unabashed gaze naturally caught the attention of Jake and the others.

Looking at the tall figure on the pirate ship, Jake felt waves of pressure coming towards him.

However, seeing their actions of evacuating the pirates from the town and retreating the ship 200 meters away from the Marine and the island, Jake also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

As he had expected, Katakuri was an extremely cautious and careful person and he was very smart.

He must be able to see the signal that the Marine didn't want to conflict with them.

But this temporary concession was not enough.

Once the Gourmet Town couldn't produce the black truffle cake three days later, they would still conflict with Katakuri at that time.

Fortunately, by then Vice Admiral Borsalino would probably be able to arrive.

Jake had just received his call and Borsalino was panting on the other end of the phone, saying he was running.

Although it sounded a bit strange, there were no other sounds coming through, so Jake got the news that Kizaru would arrive the next afternoon.

What they needed to do now was to protect these villagers until the next afternoon.

But what Jake wanted to do was not just this.

The Conqueror's Haki on Katakuri, including Morgans' newspaper report, were all things Jake wanted to obtain.

****

On the first day, the Marine landed on Gourmet Town Pucci, surrounded the outskirts of the island for a day, giving the BIGMOM Pirates time to withdraw from the town.

In the afternoon of the same day, the BIGMOM Pirates' ships retreated 200 meters from the outskirts of the island.

On the second day, the Marine entered Gourmet Town Pucci, negotiated with the village chief and calmed the emotions of the residents in the town, promising to drive away the pirates and provide them with enough food for relief afterwards.

In the afternoon of that day, Vice Admiral Borsalino arrived at Gourmet Town, greatly boosting the morale of the Marine.

Katakuri continued to command the pirate fleet to retreat another 300 meters.

That night, Katakuri received an envelope from the Marine.

Despite his sister's dissuasion, Katakuri opened the envelope, which read.

"The fire was not caused by the Marine, but the Marine has the real information of the culprit of the fire in hand, and also saved two boxes of black truffle raw materials on the day of the fire. If You want to obtain the black truffle cake tomorrow, you must bring the pirates to Gourmet Town to negotiate with the Marine."

"At the same time, You must use Conqueror's Haki on the spot to knock out all the members of your crew. As long as the conditions are met, the cake can make it to the Tea Party in Totto Land."

The envelope didn't say what would happen if Katakuri didn't go, but he knew it definitely wouldn't be anything good.

So, on the third day, Katakuri, the sweet commander of the BIGMOM Pirates' and all members of the Marine branch, met in the center of the town!