Marineford, Navy Headquarters.
Sengoku Office.
A purple light emanated.
Sengoku, along with Tsuru and Vice Admiral Garp, sat anxiously in the office, awaiting news. Admiral Kizaru appeared alone in the office.
"So, what's the situation?" Sengoku asked directly. "Have those pirates who attacked the World Nobles been captured?"
"Not at all, Fleet Admiral!" Kizaru replied as he sat down, pouring himself a cup of tea and sipping it leisurely.
"What?!" Sengoku exclaimed in disbelief.
"We were almost there, but Marco and Pryce took turns holding me back!" Kizaru explained seriously. "And it seems there's a traitor within our ranks!"
"A traitor? Who is it?" Sengoku asked directly.
"The Warlord, Tyrant Bartholomew Kuma!" Kizaru said with a sharp gaze.
"He directly swatted away the Straw Hat crew one by one! The guy even had the audacity to talk to Rayleigh right in front of me!" Kizaru added, clearly annoyed.
"This guy has been hiding so deep!" Sengoku muttered.
"Wait, who did you say? Rayleigh? The Dark King Rayleigh?" Sengoku, Garp, and Tsuru all asked in unison.
The appearance of the Dark King Rayleigh and the revelation that Tyrant Kuma was a traitor truly shocked them!
"We must deal with Kuma seriously!" Sengoku said firmly. "We need to find out who he's really working for!"
Tsuru nodded in agreement.
"Now, let's talk about Pryce" Sengoku continued.
"You mentioned that you were held back by both Pryce and Marco, right?" he asked, resting his chin on his hand.
"Not exactly!" Kizaru quickly corrected. "Each of them alone was enough to hold me back! Even though I couldn't use my full strength, both of them were quite troublesome!"
"Marco holding you back in your normal state is one thing, but that scientist Pryce could too?" Garp asked, finding it hard to believe.
"Yes, and what's even more astonishing is that Pryce can simultaneously use the powers of two Devil Fruits!" Kizaru explained, still visibly shocked.
"One of them is the Magma-Magma Fruit ability that Sakazuki possesses, and the other is my own Glint-Glint Fruit ability!"
"How is that possible?" Tsuru exclaimed. "Using two Devil Fruits at the same time already defies the world's rules, and now he has both of your abilities?"
"I might have mistaken the Magma-Magma Fruit ability, but there's no way I could be wrong about my own Glint-Glint Fruit!" Kizaru insisted.
"And on top of that, Pryce possesses Conqueror's Haki! And it seems he's already mastered it to the point of being able to control it at will!"
The more Kizaru reported, the more alarmed the three became.
Not only did Pryce possess two Devil Fruit abilities that belonged to others, but he had also developed Conqueror's Haki, which only one in a million people could awaken, and had mastered it to such a degree?
This is just terrifying!
"So, why didn't we wait for Kuzan and Sakazuki to provide backup?" Sengoku asked the question that concerned him the most.
At this, Kizaru seemed to have found a bottomless pit to pour out his grievances, as he began to furiously rant about the absurd actions of that Celestial Dragon!
"I told you those Celestial Dragons would mess things up!"
"They should taste my love-filled iron fist!" Vice Admiral Garp was the first to lose his temper, clenching his fists and shouting loudly.
"Enough, let's just leave this matter in the past!"
"You should focus on adjusting yourself. The public execution of Fire Fist Ace is coming up soon!" Sengoku, resting his chin on his hand, spoke to Kizaru.
Kizaru nodded and left Sengoku's office.
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The New World, Moby Dick.
After Marco and Pryce returned to the deck.
"Why didn't you help me earlier? You just let Kizaru chase me around!" Pryce complained with some dissatisfaction.
"I just wanted to see how strong you really are!" Marco scratched his head, somewhat embarrassed.
"Fine, I've gained a lot of combat experience anyway!"
"I'll go rest and check on how the explosive tag assembly line factory is coming along!" With that, Pryce headed straight back to his room.
Marco, on the other hand, went straight into Whitebeard cabin.
"Back? How was it?" Whitebeard asked Marco with a smile.
"The first couple of days were fine, but we just ran into Kizaru!" Marco replied directly.
"What?!"
"Admiral Kizaru?"
"Tell me everything that happened!" Whitebeard said seriously.
Soon, Marco recounted everything that had happened to him and Pryce in detail.
"Who would've thought that kid was actually hiding such strength!" Whitebeard stroked his beard, smiling. He was, of course, referring to Pryce!
"Right, not only does he wield the abilities of two top-tier Devil Fruits, but he also has Conqueror's Haki!" Marco said with a hint of envy.
After all, out of the entire Whitebeard Pirates crew of over a thousand members, only Whitebeard possessed Conqueror's Haki. Even the division commanders didn't have it!
But now, Pryce had Conqueror's Haki! And according to Marco's description, during Pryce's fight with Kizaru, Pryce was able to hold his own against Kizaru!
"That kid sure has a lot of secrets, but i already know he possess Conqueror's Haki!" Whitebeard chuckled.
"By the way, gather all the division commanders!"
"I have something to announce!" Whitebeard said to Marco.
Marco nodded and left.
Soon, the division commanders who had been training in the Time Chamber all arrived. Except for Pryce, who was catching up on sleep and wasn't disturbed, all the other division commanders had gathered.
"Pops, everyone's here except for Pryce!" Marco said directly.
"I want to discuss something with all of you!"
"I want to promote Pryce once again!"
"To make him the vice-captain of our Whitebeard Pirates!" Whitebeard said seriously.
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone erupted in an uproar!
After all, since the establishment of the Whitebeard Pirates, there had never been a position of vice-captain!
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