"Huh? What are you talking about?" Sengoku was stunned when he suddenly heard the name of the great pirate Alucard, who had been missing for almost half a year, from Kuzan's mouth. He turned to look at him.
"Oh, Sengoku-san, take a look at this." Kuzan pulled Alucard's wanted poster from a stack of papers and handed it to Sengoku, pointing at the picture of Alucard's head. "Doesn't he... look a lot like her?"
Sengoku carefully compared Alucard with the girl in the white coat on Secon Island, especially their extremely rare blood-red eyes. After a long while, he nodded. "They do look alike."
"So... I'm wondering if that girl is Alucard's daughter or something..." Kuzan said, rubbing his chin in speculation.
"Stop spouting nonsense," Sengoku frowned. "According to the intel from the CP organization, that guy is only around twenty-five years old. If he had a child, then wouldn't that mean..."
Sengoku's guess was not without reason. A twenty-five-year-old with a thirteen or fourteen-year-old daughter? Adding the ten months of pregnancy, wouldn't that mean he got a woman pregnant when he was ten?
"Ah... now that I think about it, that's really impressive," Kuzan said in a lazy tone. "When I was ten, I didn't even know what a road sign was..."
"Shut up!" Sengoku scolded, stopping Kuzan from continuing the topic. He turned to another Captain next to him. "Get me a connection to the Government. I need to report on this incident."
"Yes!"
A few minutes later, the Den Den Mushi closed its eyes and was constantly ringing, which meant it was waiting to be connected. However, after a long time, no one from the Government picked up the phone. Sengoku tried several times, but no one answered.
"Did they go to lunch?" Kuzan scratched his head and complained from the side.
"Shut up!" Sengoku snapped, then changed the number and called Fleet Admiral Kong.
Pere pere pere, pere pere pere...
However, after a series of ringing, the Den Den Mushi was too tired to ring anymore, and the call was still not connected.
"What's going on..." Sengoku frowned. If one party didn't answer, he could comfort himself by saying it was a coincidence, but with both sides not answering, it was too abnormal. Something like this had never happened before.
Unlike Sengoku's warship, which would take several days to return to Marineford from Secon Island, the iron ship controlled by Alucard, with its rapid acceleration, arrived at Mariejois in less than half a day.
"What's going on? That commotion..." When Alucard drove his ship to the edge of the Red Line, he could already feel the commotion in Mariejois through his Thermal Vision. It was late at night, but there were faint stars twinkling in the sky. However, the night sky in other areas was pitch black with no stars at all.
"Could it be..." Alucard suddenly thought of a possibility, then shook his head. "No... he should have waited three more years to make his move."
But no matter what, he had to go up and see for himself. He put his ship into his Hidden Shadow and transformed into an endless swarm of bats, flying towards the top of the Red Line.
His Bat Transformation used to have limitations, but now that it had evolved to its peak, flying over Mariejois and traveling between the first half of the Grand Line and the New World at any time was no longer a problem, just like the future Doflamingo.
At the top of the Red Line, in the place closest to the clouds, was the Holy Land Mariejois.
At this moment, it had been burned into a sea of fire. Under the demands of the Government officials and the Celestial Dragons, the Marine Headquarters, led by Kong, had no choice but to give up on chasing the slaves and those pirate bastards who had infiltrated Mariejois and focus on rescuing the people.
"Sengoku and Kuzan were only sent out two days ago, and something like this happens... Damn it, is this really just a coincidence?" Kong gritted his teeth and resented as he constantly plunged into the palace, which had been turned into a fiery purgatory, to rescue the World Nobles he hated the most.
If Kuzan with his Ice-Ice Fruit was here, he could have controlled the fire to a minimum in the shortest amount of time. But he and Sengoku were on a mission to the New World. Something like this happening just a few days after he sent them out made Kong begin to doubt whether it was a coincidence.
"Fleet Admiral Kong! The pirates who set the fire are starting to escape, and so are the slaves! Are we really not going to do anything about it?" A Marine Vice Admiral ran to Kong and asked anxiously.
"Screw that! First, get the people out! If anyone inside dies, who knows what the Celestial Dragons and the Gorosei will do!" In his rage, Kong cursed. How could he have time to chase pirates right now? He had to save people first!
About two miles in front of the palace of Mariejois, which was a sea of fire, a swarm of bats descended from the sky and quickly condensed into a human form. Alucard appeared in his original form and saw countless people running towards him from the palace.
"That's..." Alucard suddenly saw a man with green hair and a middle part running towards him. He was the one who had seriously injured Hancock in the arena some time ago. He remembered... he was a slave of Saint Hadilly, right? But it seemed he wasn't... He was an unknown person, and he couldn't remember him clearly.
The man also saw Alucard, but he couldn't see his face clearly in this situation, and after being a slave for so many years, he was completely ignorant of the outside world.
"What happened?" Before the green-haired man could react, Alucard suddenly blocked his path.
"Damn it, leave me alone!" The green-haired man shouted in anger. After years of slavery, he could finally see a glimmer of hope. He had no time to answer this weirdo's questions.
Bang!
Suddenly, a gunshot rang out. A few seconds later, the green-haired man felt a sharp pain in his shoulder. He looked down and saw a huge bloody hole.
"Aah!" The green-haired man clutched his shoulder, screaming in pain, which attracted the attention of countless other slaves. But they only stopped and looked at him for a second before leaving in terror again.
That's right, who had time to watch the commotion now? They had to run for their lives! The days of slavery were finally over, and they couldn't fall at the last hurdle!
"Master!" Just then, a familiar voice came. Alucard looked up and saw three girls, all under fifteen years old, running towards him.
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