One Piece: Groudon the Beasts

Chapter 269 I'm demolishing illegal buildings

People around the world eagerly awaited the arrival of the Hoenn flag on countless screens until it appeared on the sea.

"Out!"

"It's the Hoenn Grand Fleet!"

Wow—there are so many!

At a glance, there were no fewer than a hundred warships of various sizes.

It's quite large in scale!

Where is the navy?

The audience waited anxiously, but fortunately the director didn't make them wait too long, shifting the camera to another location where the naval fleet could be vaguely seen.

The scale is equally astonishing!

Hoenn Navy Fleet.

Goode held up his binoculars and looked out at the naval fleet. He could see many familiar figures, especially Araki.

"Two great generals have arrived."

Goode put down his binoculars.

As expected, the navy did not deploy its full force; the deployment of two admirals was already considered a top-level operation.

There's no other way; the navy's most important duty is to protect the holy sites.

"Just a warning!"

The two warships broke away from the formation and sailed to the left and right respectively, dropping a beacon at regular intervals.

One of the ships sailed toward the naval fleet, passing almost face-to-face with it, and the officer in charge picked up a megaphone.

"Listen up, Navy personnel! The area within the beacon is the planned exercise zone for our Hoenn Navy. The World Government has already been notified of this!"

"If your warships enter our exercise area, it will be considered as obstructing our exercise, and we have the right to retaliate!"

Please maintain a safe distance!

"Over!"

After saying that, the officer urged his men to run away as fast as they could, because his small warship wouldn't be able to withstand an attack from the navy.

The navy fell into a brief silence.

It exploded very quickly.

"These bastards don't take us seriously at all!"

"Too crazy!"

"Knock them down!"

Most marines didn't want war, but being mocked so closely was infuriating, and the officers were even more frustrated.

But no one can act without the general's permission.

"Haha, this is such a hassle!"

Araki was in great pain.

Having fought Goode once, he really didn't want to fight him a second time; the opponent's force of squeezing the earth was impossible for him to defend against.

If possible, he doesn't want to clash with the Hoenn Navy this time.

Araki looked at the warship beside him.

"Brother Yixiao, what do you think?"

"I really want to know, what kind of justice is there in this war?"

Fujitora rolled his eyes.

The information he had about the Hoenn government was almost entirely negative, especially regarding its leader, Goode the Disaster.

A heinous villain.

But he wasn't the kind of man who would unconditionally believe hearsay. After all, newspapers were the eyes and ears of the world government, and it was common for them to distort content and smear the enemy.

He wouldn't easily trust the other party either.

The truth about right and wrong, good and evil, can only be accurately judged after experiencing it firsthand.

"Just wait."

Fujitora shook his head.

"We were indeed a step too slow this time."

The Hoenn government had given advance notice, giving them a head start. It would be unreasonable for them to trespass into the other side's exercise area without authorization.

After waiting for more than half an hour, the operation to encircle the sea in Hoenn finally came to an end.

Araki's face immediately fell.

"Hey, hey, that's not a good idea."

"what happened?"

"The Hoenn Navy has included the waters near the entrance to Mount Tendo in the exercise area; we still have people there!"

"."

Fujitora looked slightly taken aback.

In that case, they can't just stand by and do nothing!
After thinking for a moment, Fujitora raised his sword.

"Brother Araki, let's go check out the situation together."

"Huh? Just the two of us?"

“That’s right. I don’t want a large-scale conflict with the Hoenn Navy. There’s no need to increase casualties on both sides.”

Before Araki could respond, Fujitora lightly swung his blade, splitting open a section of the deck beneath his feet, and carried him toward the entrance to the Upside-Down Mountain.

"Seriously, wait for me!"

Seeing this, Araki sprouted small propeller-like flowers from his back and followed reluctantly, not forgetting to order his subordinates, "You all stay here and wait. Do not act rashly without our orders!"

"Yes, Admiral Green Bull!"

The entrance to Upside-Down Mountain, the coastline.

Several small and medium-sized warships were docked at the shore.

As the Groudon approached, the officers became tense.

The antelope is holding a megaphone.

"Navy, this is our Hoenn Navy's exercise area. Please leave immediately, or you will face the consequences!"

"What a joke!"

Brigadier General Tina snapped her cigarette in half and argued, "This tollbooth is a World Government facility. You're the ones who should leave! Tina is furious!"

"This is the final warning!"

The Groudon turned its guns around and aimed them at Tina's warship.

The warships are of completely unequal class. Even if the navy has more warships, it is easy to suffer losses in a mutual shelling.

"what?!"

Tina sensed something and immediately turned to look at the tollbooth. A woman dressed in high-tech equipment appeared above the tollbooth and placed a sign with a skull on it.

The next moment, the other party disappeared.

The antelope roared again.

"You have ten minutes to evacuate. In ten minutes, our fleet will conduct an artillery bombardment exercise on the marked location!"

"hateful!"

Tina was furious.

The other side had no intention of communicating with her at all, and several warships were approaching. If they were to launch an artillery barrage, her warships could be destroyed instantly.

"Notify staff to evacuate immediately!"

"understand!"

The immediate priority is to lead the tollbooth personnel away and rendezvous with the main fleet. After that, we will follow the instructions of the two admirals.

In just three minutes, the panicked staff all boarded the warship and left.

Only the reporters who had rushed to the scene and had been waiting for a long time remained on the shore. As soon as Goode got off the boat, he immediately picked up a Den Den Mushi (snail phone) to take pictures.

Goode stood on the shore waiting, his gaze fixed on the two people flying in from afar.

Soon, the two landed.

"Haha, good brothers!"

Araki approached Goode and complained with great dissatisfaction, "What you're doing is making things very difficult for us!"

"What's so difficult about it?"

Good said calmly, "Our Hoenn government will compensate for the losses caused by destroying this tollbooth. We will not let the World Government suffer a loss."

"That's not true at all!"

Araki's forehead veins bulged: "This is a World Government facility. Are you trying to start a war with us by destroying it?"

"The World Government?"

Goode chuckled.

"Reverse Mountain has been a public area since the creation of the World Government and does not belong to any country."

"I'd like to ask you, what right does the World Government have to set up a tollbooth here, and what right do they have to collect transit tariffs?!"

"This"

Araki was speechless.

That makes some sense.

Goode continued to ask.

"If a tollbooth is built here, this place belongs to the World Government. So if I plant the Hoenn flag on the Red Line, does that mean the Red Line belongs to our Hoenn government?"

"Of course not!"

Araki blurted it out.

Acquiring territory isn't that easy.

The laws in this area are lacking, but according to common sense, the World Government can claim any territory that is not owned by someone else.

"That's right, you can't."

Goode nodded.

"Currently, there are no laws that define the ownership of public areas, including but not limited to uninhabited islands, the high seas, and this place."

"There are more than 300 countries in the world. The World Government is only an alliance of half of them and cannot represent the whole world. There are also more than half of the non-member countries!"

"Therefore, the world government has no right to build a tollbooth here, let alone collect tariffs from passing ships!"

Goode sneered and pointed to the tollbooth.

"In other words, this tollbooth is undoubtedly an illegal structure!"

"I'd like to ask you two a question!"

What are the problems with demolishing illegal structures?

"."

The two generals fell into deep thought.

It seems there's no way to refute it!

(End of this chapter)