Uchiha's personal opinion

Surrounded by the fully-formed tailed beasts, Uchiha Tokumitsu appeared particularly inconspicuous, but neither the Marine Admirals nor the two Pirate Emperors dared to underestimate him in the slightest.

After all, it is an easy fact to deduce: 'Steelbow Sky', who defeated the combined forces of six powerful Marine pirates, was completely killed by the mysterious person in front of him. This not only means that the mysterious person is even stronger, but also that even if they joined forces, they would not be a match for this mysterious person.

So what should we do?

The navy pirates, who had been kneeling on the ground ready to surrender, looked at each other, somewhat at a loss.

"If we don't leave now, it might really be too late!"

Sakassky addressed the two general candidates.

While Uchiha Tokumitsu and Senju Hashirama were fighting, Sakazuki returned directly to the Navy's ships, attempting to persuade the vice admirals and officers to join him in re-establishing their flags and creating new glories in the New World.

"But……"

However, the vice admirals, including Vice Admiral Tsuru, were still hesitant. But before they could think it over for long, the formidable 'Steelbow Sky' was reduced to ashes and died beyond any doubt.

Now, looking at the arrogant "King of the Remnants" surrounded by eight "giants," they were even more at a loss.

To say that we should surrender to the 'remnants'... is almost impossible.

After all, before their rebellion, the Navy was the strongest armed force under the World Government. In the eight hundred years since the establishment of the World Government, their Navy predecessors had hunted down the remnants of the Great Kingdoms under the orders of the Celestial Dragons. Their generation even launched the Buster Call to destroy Ohara, the archaeological holy site in the West Blue. As a result, they probably couldn't even count how many deep-seated hatreds they had accumulated.

Furthermore, even if the 'remnants of the Great Kingdom' temporarily tolerated them in order to conquer the Holy Land Mary Geoise and take over the world government, what would happen afterward?

Apart from the idiots in the Giants Force, every single one of the naval officers who became admirals was bright-minded.

Therefore, they must consider the issue of settling scores later.

The problem is that Uchiha Tokumitsu doesn't give them much time to think.

After catching his breath, Uchiha Tokumitsu first had his Imperial Guard ninjas, who were disheveled from the shockwaves of the battle, tidy up their formation and appearance. Then, with a wave of his hand, he led the eight tailed beasts and hundreds of Imperial Guards and Uzumaki sealing ninjas forward, heading straight for the panicked and disorganized Marine-Pirate Alliance.

And the first to bear the brunt was Admiral Kizaru, who stood frozen in the middle.

"...If you haven't made up your minds yet, then let's say goodbye!"

Sakazuki was somewhat disappointed by this situation, and prepared to leave on his own with Aramu and the few remaining trusted subordinates.

To be honest, Sakazuki was very dissatisfied with the indecisiveness of his former naval colleagues at this time.

"Beihai, is that it..."

General candidate Gion suddenly said, "Let's go, there's no point in staying."

"Then I'm leaving too!"

Kake, a seasoned sycophant from Gion and also a candidate for general, then spoke up.

Lieutenant Generals Berman, Ghost Spider, and Flying Squirrel immediately nodded in agreement.

However, the other vice admirals did not express their opinions, while Vice Admiral Tsuru simply shrugged off his naval coat and strode forward, preparing to make a final effort with his own strength. Subsequently, a group of naval officers followed closely behind and took the initiative to fight.

"Really..."

Sakazuki was speechless for a moment, unsure how to evaluate this act that so blatantly demonstrated naval courage yet was destined to be a one-way trip.

But to put it more cynically, it was precisely Lieutenant General Tsuru's influence that gave Sakazuki and his "reconstructionists" the opportunity to escape.

"Let's go!"

With a wave of his hand, Sakazuki led more than a dozen followers into the air, boarded a small boat, and sailed away.

At that very moment, Kizaru, who had single-handedly blocked Uchiha Tokuko's attack, transformed his body into elemental form and launched a counterattack.

"Five-Colored Divine Light!"

Without hesitation, Uchiha Tokuko unleashed a burst of five-colored light, sweeping away nearly a third of the elementalized Kizaru's body!

"Ahhh!"

Feeling utterly powerless, Kizaru was forced to exit his elemental form.

Then they pounced on the tailed beasts like hungry ghosts fighting for food. The most agile of them all was the Seven-Tails, Chōmyō, who knocked Kizaru down from mid-air with a flap of his wings and made him fall into the mouth of the Three-Tails Jinchūriki, Yagura.

"The Eight-Foot Jade Curved Jewel!"

A dense barrage of light projectiles exploded in the mouth of the Three-Tails Jinchuriki, so much so that Yagura, who was controlling the Tailed Beast's body, could not contain them and spat them out.

However, using such explosive power within the closed mouth of a tailed beast also caused considerable damage to Kizaru himself.

After being spat out by Yagura Karatachi, his right leg and sternum were fractured by the shockwave, making it difficult for him to move around. As a result, he was blasted into the sea by Shukaku's "Air Bullet"!

Subsequently, the tailed beasts fled into the sea to pursue and kill him, and soon captured Kizaru before he had a chance to unleash his full power.

Just then, Vice Admiral Tsuru's naval commando suicide squad was about to join the battle.

Theoretically speaking, Vice Admiral Tsuru's Devil Fruit ability, the Paramecia-type Wash-Wash Fruit, can transform objects, including people or weapons, into something resembling freshly dried clothes. The life forms that are washed away will lose their original form, becoming powerless and unable to move freely.

However, when faced with an extremely large tailed beast, even though its ability could flatten part of the tailed beast's body, it could not completely subdue it. Instead, it was instantly killed by a small tailed beast ball fired by the aggressive Eight-Tails Gyūki!

As for the tailed beasts that were accidentally hit by Vice Admiral Tsuru's Devil Fruit ability, they simply discarded the flattened parts and used chakra to rebuild their bodies.

The ordinary naval officers and officers did not need the tailed beasts and Uchiha Tokumitsu to take action; the Imperial Guard ninjas who followed, with the assistance of the Uzumaki sealing ninjas, engaged in fierce battle with them.

Uchiha Tokumitsu did not interfere in the battle between his Uchiha ninjas; he simply kept an eye out and prepared to help his injured clansmen.

After all, towering trees cannot be grown in a greenhouse. As members of the Imperial Guard, the Uchiha ninjas enjoy the highest priority in training resources. If they still cannot defeat these naval officers of varying quality and size, then the Uchiha clan would be unworthy of being called royalty.

The course of the battle was not unexpected for Uchiha Tokumitsu.

Overall, the performance of the Imperial Guard ninjas was quite good.

They began by unleashing a massive tsunami of water-style ninjutsu, disrupting the naval officers' charging formation. Based on their evasive maneuvers and fear of the sea, they determined whether their core power system was Haki or a Devil Fruit. Then, divided into pre-assigned groups, they systematically defeated them, either killing or capturing them. Aside from a dozen wounded, none of the Imperial Guard ninjas were killed.

Even the wounded recovered quickly under the care of the medical ninjas and rejoined the battle.

"Thirteen minutes..."

On a naval vessel, Vice Admiral Huoshaoshan muttered to himself with a bitter expression.

From the moment Lieutenant General Tsuru led his troops into battle until their complete annihilation, the Imperial Guard ninjas only took thirteen minutes to wipe out the enemy...

To resolve a battle in such a short time would likely require at least two admirals working together in the Navy.

The problem is that among the three admirals of the Navy, Kuzan has been separated from Kizaru by death and Sakazuki has led his confidants to flee far away. Even Fleet Admiral Sengoku has been captured. Now, there is no strong person who can lead everyone to regroup and make a comeback.

Therefore, the navy's choice was to neither fight, surrender, nor flee, but to stand still and wait for the arrival of the 'Great Kingdom Army'.

The pirates, meanwhile, began to flee.

First, the remnants of the Whitebeard Pirates fled the battlefield, and then the Beast Pirates, whose leader had been captured, became restless and some of their men fled. The Red-Haired Pirates were already a small crew and could not be counted. So in the end, seeing this situation, Charlotte Linlin stopped organizing resistance and waited for the 'Great Kingdom Army' to arrive, just like the Navy.

"Where is this world headed...?"

Standing aboard Minato Namikaze's speedboat, watching the Navy-Pirate Alliance collapse without a fight, Shanks felt nothing but bitterness and utter amusement.

Pirates who roamed the world, including the so-called "Four Emperors," will henceforth become a page in history books; and the Navy, which once shook the world and upheld justice with force, had its backbone completely broken in the war; even if Sakazuki led a small number of his men to the North Blue in an attempt to rebuild, Shanks believed that there was almost no chance of success.

After all, even the combined might of the world's strongest forces was defeated in World War I.

But what's even more ridiculous is that the backbone of the navy was also broken by 'Steelbow Sky', who was the commander-in-chief of the World Government's armed forces.

This left him speechless.

However, it is foreseeable that as time goes by, especially with the complete annihilation of the Celestial Dragons and World Nobles of Mary Geoise, it is only a matter of time before the entire world returns to the rule of the 'Great Kingdom'.

But Shanks couldn't figure out what the rule of the 'Great Kingdom' really meant.

Although theoretically, the great kingdoms destroyed by the World Government's predecessor, the "Twenty Nations Alliance," must have had some flaws, such as insufficient military strength or unpopular rule, eight hundred years have passed after all. In addition, the World Government has tried its best to erase history, so people in the present era only know fragments of information from old papers and cannot form a complete cognitive system. It is precisely because of this lack of understanding that Shanks is now in a state of panic.

But as the wheels roll forward, they don't care what a praying mantis trying to block them is thinking.

Therefore, when the Imperial Guard ninjas took over the ships of the remnants of the Navy-Pirate Alliance one by one and registered them separately, they did not encounter even the slightest resistance.

Under the watchful eyes of the tailed beasts, powerful figures such as vice admirals of the navy and high-ranking officers of the pirates obediently followed the guidance of the Imperial Guard ninjas to a specially airborne ship, where the Imperial Guard ninjas even assigned them separate small rooms.

Subsequently, the pirates and marines with Devil Fruit abilities were selected separately and imprisoned in a separate compound, shackled with Seastone.

Finally, a group of strong individuals among the navy and pirates who used Haki in combat were identified by the Imperial Guard ninjas after a round of questioning, based on their testimonies. They were also taken to another ship separately.

The remaining members, who were not strong enough but were lucky enough to survive the G1 branch's Sea King incident, received lunch from the Imperial Guard ninjas.

Although they obediently ate the food that didn't suit their tastes, and the fully armed Imperial Guard ninjas didn't seem like easy to talk to, the pirates and marines secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

They felt that they were unlikely to be killed.

Indeed, Uchiha Tokumitsu had no intention of causing a large-scale massacre.

After all, we still need to attack the Holy Land of Mary Geoise, so it's always good to have more prisoners to serve as cannon fodder for the vanguard.

Thus, both the Navy-Pirate Alliance's attack on the World Government and the World Government's judgment action suffered heavy defeats in this war. The only winner was Uchiha Tokumitsu, who was 'the oriole behind'.

Two of the Four Emperors, who had troubled the World Government for years, were gone, and the other two were under the control of the Imperial Guard ninjas. Apart from two of the main figures who had fled, the remaining core forces of the Navy had all been captured. As for the Navy branches, member states, and countless pirate crews scattered throughout the New World, Uchiha Tokumitsu did not take them seriously.

If so, there are only two obstacles preventing the Uchiha Dynasty from unifying the pirate world.

First, there is the seemingly readily available Red Line continent, the sacred land of Mary Geoise; second, the total military strength of the ninja world is ultimately limited, making it difficult to take over all the former World Government's territory in a short period of time.

But this trouble was just a happy one. At this moment, all the Imperial Guard ninjas who went to war with the army were beaming with joy and felt honored.

"Congratulations to His Majesty!"

Hanzo of the Salamander was the first to kneel on one knee to pay homage to Uchiha Tokumitsu.

"Congratulations to His Majesty!"

The Imperial Guard ninjas immediately erupted in cheers!

Long live the Great Emperor Deguang!

……

Mary Geoise, among the flowers.

The Sage of Six Paths, disguised as 'Lord Im', stared at the scene of ninjas cheering wildly in the crystal ball before him and fell into a long silence.

What exactly did he do wrong?

The Sage of Six Paths couldn't understand it at all.

First, he would drive the Navy and the Four Emperors' alliance to a draw, then force the Navy to rebel, and have Hashirama Senju, resurrected in the Pure Land, clean up the mess under the name of "Steel Bone Sora." Then, he would gather this force to repel the reckless advance of those disobedient ninjas. Finally, he could support new forces through means such as rebuilding Mount Myōboku, and continue to look for opportunities within the Shinobi World Government to bring the Shinobi World back to the path he had set.

But how could all these plans fail before they even took shape, right in front of Uchiha Tokumitsu?

The Sage of Six Paths sat frozen for a long time, and also doubted himself for a long time.

Outside the gate of the Flower Pavilion, the Five Elders, who had come to seek advice, were also kneeling in worship, but the Sage of Six Paths had no intention of receiving them at this moment...