265- Enemy or ally?

"Emma, ​​let's stop." Ethan looked at her seriously while he holding her feet.

"You became much stronger, is it thanks to the faith energy?" Emma withdrew her feet and looked at Ethan with a smile.

Ethan sighed and then disappeared from his place and appeared behind her and wrapped his arms around her, "Yes and no, I was training too."

"Well, that doesn't matter now." Ethan left her and looked around, "We've made a bit of a mess here."

The collision between them a while ago completely destroyed the surrounding area and they must have frightened the citizens on the island.

"But this was a good display to show our great strength to the Marines." She whispered in a low voice while looking at the Vice Admiral who was looking at them with fear.

"Well let me see what brought him here." Ethan walked up to the Vice Admiral causing the Vice Admiral to back off with each step Ethan took.

"Don't worry, I won't do anything to you." Ethan smiled, "Can you tell us why you came here?"

The Vice Admiral controlled his fear as he thought, 'They're not going to attack me, I'm a Marine. They definitely don't want to be the enemy of the Marines.'

The Vice Admiral stood up straight and took a deep breath and spoke "It's the orders of the Fleet Admiral."

"So what do you want?" Ethan looked at him sharply and wanted him to get straight to the point.

"During the past month your guild has captured many pirates and this shows your strength, So the Fleet Admiral wants to know how you can locate the pirates very accurately." The Marines had great strength but it was still difficult to hunt down pirates or determine their exact path and movement, but the Mercenary's guild had the ability to find pirates and track their movements very easily. "Mercenary's guild is an organization that does anything for money isn't it, so the Marines will pay you what you want if you tell us how you find pirates like this."

Yes, apparently Mercenary's guild aims to earn money from hunting pirates and receiving requests, so everyone knows that they care about money more than anything, but no one realizes the real goal of this organization except the members who joined it.

Ethan smiled and patted the Vice Admiral's shoulder, "Tell the Fleet Admiral to fuck himself."

"Do you want to make the Marines your enemy?" The Vice Admiral was furious and looked at Ethan with blazing eyes as if he had forgotten the feelings of fear he had when he saw the collision between Ethan and Emma.

"Hahahaha!" Ethan laughed out loud upon hearing this as if he had heard the funniest joke of his life.

Suddenly Ethan stopped laughing and grabbed the Vice Admiral's throat and pulled him close to him and looked into his eyes coldly, "That's what I have to say, do the Marines really want to make Mercenary's guild their enemy?"

The Vice Admiral's anger disappeared when he remembered the strength Ethan had previously shown and also became frightened by the aura emanating from Ethan that he felt was going to be crushed to death..

"The Marines should be grateful to us for catching the pirates, but the Marines show their gratitude in a very strange way." Ethan let go of the Vice Admiral's throat.

"Tell the Fleet Admiral not to fucking ask about such a ridiculous thing again." After Ethan said this, he raised his leg and kicked the Vice Admiral's chin.

The Vice Admiral didn't have enough speed to dodge and didn't expect Ethan to attack him so it was a direct hit on his chin and the force of the kick was enough to make him fly through the sky for a long distance until he crashed into a Marine ship that was docked in the harbor hundreds of meters away.

"Carry the rest of the marines to their ship." Ethan looked at the Marines who were unconscious and gave orders to Zenny who was trying to stand up while holding his back because he was being damaged by Emma and Ethan's fight.

"Ethan, are you mad? Our guild is still two months old and you've already made the Marines our enemy." Although Zenny hates this Vice Admiral, hitting him will make their relationship with the Marines very bad and a bounty may be put on their heads and perhaps the Mercenary's guild will be declared a criminal organization.

"Don't worry, they don't want to be our enemies." There was indifference in Ethan's voice, "And even if they want to be our enemy, they're the ones who will regret it, not us."

"But for now, don't let anyone know what happened here today."

.....

After a few days.

In Marineford.

Vice Admiral Dazuo was currently standing in front of the Fleet Admiral and telling him about everything that happened when he went to the Mercenary's guild.

"I'm glad you're back alive and he didn't kill you." Fleet Admiral spoke in a deep voice.

"So what are we going to do about the Mercenary's guild?" The Vice Admiral gritted his teeth and was really angry because Ethan kicked him.

"We won't do anything." Fleet Admiral answered simply.

"What?! But he insulted you and the Marines."

"That's no reason to make him our enemy, and also everything that happened that day was not published and no one knows about it and this is made by Mercenary's guild. It seems that they silenced all the witnesses, which means they did it in order not to ruin our reputation, and they are telling us that they have no bad intentions." Pausing for a second, Fleet Admiral clicked his finger on the table and bemoaned, "They also do a good job of arresting the pirates for us, and I understand his anger because we tried to get the thing they were making money from."

Mercenary's guild is an organization that makes money mainly from capturing pirates and if they tell the Marine about how the pirates were tracked and how to find them, it means that they will lose their main income.

"At the moment we have to have a good relationship with them and take advantage of what they can do."

.....

Two months later.

The Mercenary's guild continued its work of capturing pirates and the Marine did not interfere with what they were doing.

The union began to expand and included many people and began to establish other branches for them in many islands to expand their field of work.

The work of the guild is not only to arrest pirates, but they are also protecting cruise ships and merchant ships, and this is certainly because they made an agreement with some companies and they receive money from that.

Because of this, the journeys between one island and another became safer and the risks from the appearance of pirates decreased. In fact, the pirates were afraid of targeting merchant ships or cruise ships because most of those who did so were arrested.

Because of this, trade began to flourish between the islands, and many people who did not leave their islands because of fear of the dangers of the sea began to go on tourist trips to different islands.

But there are still some dangers in the sea other than pirates, and these dangers are the constantly changing weather at sea, but in general, because of the disappearance of the danger of pirates, people begin to have the courage to leave the islands they inhabit to see other islands.

Because of that, many transport companies were established for trade or tourism.

...

After another month.

The pirates discovered that merchant ships and cruise ships that were protected by the Mercenary's guild had the guild emblem, so they began to avoid only those ships and attack ships that did not carry the guild emblem.

This was Ethan's plan to force all companies to rely on Mercenary's guild, and as planned many companies began turning to the guild for protection.

Other than this, Mercenary's guild has built its own ships in order to transport passengers and goods. In other words, the guild got into the business of trade and tourism, but they did not monopolize all the work and their main business was still the capture of pirates.