"What? The Whitebeard Pirates' Flame Emperor Ace has met with the Smiling Pirates' Tyrant Fist Xiatian?!"
"Yes, it's true, absolutely no doubt. Look, here is the photograph published in the newspaper," a Marine said with an extremely grim expression. The meeting of two Emperors was a source of immense tension for the Marines, whose duty was to uphold justice and stability.
After all, every single Emperor-level pirate crew possessed the power to destroy the world. Just look at the Summit War involving the Whitebeard Pirates: even with Whitebeard Newgate—the strongest man in the world at the time—and the concentration of elite Marine forces, a large portion of Marineford was destroyed, requiring complete reconstruction afterward.
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