189 Justice of Darkness (2/3)

"Hehe."

"What are you laughing at, asshole?" Gar growled low in displeasure.

"I'm laughing at how naive you are King Gar." Longinus laughed, his face suddenly serious, "I hope you understand one thing, King Gar."

"The Marine Corps is maintaining a position of absolute neutrality in the government affiliation, which means that we would not have been obligated to necessarily get involved in this matter."

Longinus shoved his hands in his trouser pockets and bowed his head down, "It is a favor to help you, and it is my duty not to help you, and I am under no obligation to make any promises to you, do you understand now?"

"You you you ... how dare you speak to a king like that?" King Gar was so angry that he couldn't even speak.

The royal family member who was following behind King Gar went pale as if he had discovered something and pulled the king's horn obscurely, "Your Majesty, that's Commodore Longinus who beheaded ...!"

"Don't pull me, I know who he is, it's just luck that he killed a pirate called what's called a dig ... gouge ear?" King Gar didn't know Longinus, but it seemed to him that the Marine wouldn't even touch the Evil King at will, so why would he dare to touch him? "But that's no reason why he could be so disrespectful to a king!"

"No ... is not! Your Majesty!" The man behind him was so anxious that he was about to cry, so he stopped avoiding it, "I mean, that's Commodore Longinus who has beheaded a king of the North Blue and is known as the Justice Adjudicator!"

"Cough ... cough!" King Gar, who was snubbing his spit, almost choked on his saliva, and couldn't care less about his temperament or anything else, and took his subordinate by the shoulders, "Isn't that pervert the Captain?"

"Promoted ... it." The man responded in a compliant manner.

"Killing the king not only went unpunished, but he was even promoted? It's so godless!" King Gar was in a trance, looking at Longinus like a demon, while at the same time, a terrifying thought rose uncontrollably within him, "It's not ... he's planning to kill me as well, so he can get promoted again, right?"

At the "fierce" gaze of Longinus, the seemingly wild king of Gar quickly chose to follow his heart's choice.

"Commodore Longinus taught the lesson, this king ... cough no, I have deeply understood where I went wrong." King Gar nodded his head incessantly like a chicken pecking his head, "A few days is a few days if the Commodore says so, no no no, what the Commodore says is fine."

The other kings were also horrified; they could be fearless of the opposing Marine's Commodore status. But the status of a Justice Adjudicator who had decapitated a nation's king was something they feared to the bone.

"Actually, I know that people should be worried ..." Longinus looked around the room, no king dared to look him in the eye under his authority, and all guiltily bowed their heads, "The army of Sentasia may be It won't be three days before the call comes, and by then it will be too late even if we come up with a solution."

"It is ... so." Several kings responded in small, cowardly voices.

"War is not going to break out," Longinus said quietly, "If they do fight, I will personally stop it."

...

After the meeting was over, Cobra said, slightly worried, "Commodore Longinus, those two marines, will they really be able to bring back reliable news in three days?"

"It's hard to say, but ..." chimed in Longinus, "I wasn't expecting much."

"That would put you ..."

"The King of Sentasia is nothing more than using rules and order to escape sanctions, and since he likes to play this game of power so much, I'll have no choice but to play along with him by dishonorable means!"

"Dishonorable ... means?" The only people around were Cobra and Drake, who were also surprised and wondered why Longinus, who represented light and justice in their hearts, would say that.

"I ask you, is a lie, justice?"

Without thinking, Cobra and Drake said, "Of course not."

"But what if this lie could bring about the punishment of sin and the salvation of the innocent?" As if the devil's whisper, Longinus's words were striking at the hearts of both men.

"Justice of process and justice of result?" The two whispered, confused, "Can't both be achieved at the same time?"

"Of course we can, but ..." Longinus' voice trailed off, "the cost of that is sometimes more than we can bear."

"Just as the current situation on Sandy Island is," Longinus exclaimed in a tone of compassion, "it is not impossible to sanction the Evil King in the usual way, but can this crying island really wait that much longer?"

"In this world, with light, there must be darkness, it is an irreconcilable contradiction." Longinus brainwashed in a compulsive voice, "If justice cannot be upheld by means of light, then it must be allowed to be thoroughly carried out, even if it means falling into the abyss!"

"Carry dark justice?" They murmured to themselves as if a new world had opened up.

"In fact, people are sometimes like trees, the more they aspire to the higher sunlight, the more their roots reach down into the dark underground!"

Naturally, Longinus didn't say such things purely to brainwash the two; he just intended to instill such awareness in them.

Everything he, Longinus, did was for the sake of justice, and even if there would be some dishonorable tactics along the way, it was a necessary sacrifice for the sake of justice.

Only by continually instilling this philosophy will those around him not betray him when his ambitions fully reveal.

It's as if his ambition to rule the world revealed. Those who follow him automatically brainstorm that the only way to save this chaotic world is for a mighty iron fist like him to achieve dictatorship.

"Even if you fall into darkness, you must be determined to carry out justice, and Sensei's faith really is stronger than anyone else's!" Drake was precisely the kind of petty teenager who could easily be influenced by Longinus and not have his blood boiling with enthusiasm.

"Sensei, if there really are those who must fall into darkness to achieve justice, leave it to me, you're a marine hero, there should be no stain on you!"

As for the die-hard fans like Cobra, he even completed a large part of his brain in a short time, "Commodore Longinus was even willing to go this far for Sentinel Island, is this the so-called faith of a hero?"

"It's just so great!"

"What I am about to do is not as serious as you think," Longinus smiled, "I'm just going to plant a charge on that evil ruler that will never be forgiven by the World Government."

"What charge?"

"Coveting Poneglyph and attempting to revive ancient weapons!"