After shooing away the pirate navigator.
Pate rummages through the newspapers, filtering what was deemed to be useful to him as he searches about the news of the Spiral Island disappearance.
After some time of looking he didn't find what he needed, these publications were focused on Roger who became a Pirate King a year ago - The only one who reaches the final island of the New World, Laugh Tale Island.
'We spent almost nine to ten years in the bubble area. If they put me in the wanted poster back then there is a high chance that they'll know about my interference.'
"But if they don't -" Pate's eyes gleamed as he tried to remember the series of events that will unfold in the future 'I've accumulated four weak wills and three strong wills, I'll experiment with the four weak first then after we dock in the island.'
Three days passed by, an island that was full of pirates, bandits, bounty hunters, and underworld organizations was rather weird as every part of the place was questionably quiet.
In one part of a big park with a lot of space, all of them gathered as they watched the transmitted images of a Visual Den Den Mushi in the front.
"T-that is Gold Roger, the pirate king!" a pirate excitedly exclaimed when a series of marine executioners were escorting Roger who was restricted with old wooden handcuffs that had a thick chain.
As the videos were transmitting, Roger step by step calmly reached the top of the execution platform with an air around him as a proud king.
"So that is the pirate king!" PB murmured while he clung to the shoulder of Pate who donned a grey cloak as he watched intently and beside him, the three pirates he left alive didn't dare to escape
'A flame that will fade, in a little blow of wind.' Pate look at Roger, who still kept the proud smile, a smile in front of death that leave numerous fans of One Piece a great impression.
As the audience started to make noises as they commented "Hey, King of the pirates!" a shout in the broadcasted videos resounded that silenced the crowd.
"Where did you hide all the treasure you found?"
"The legendary treasure - One piece!"
Pate heard everything according to the events of the anime that even he was suffocated by the arousing will of the people around him 'T-this is?'
And a signature laugh of Roger reverted throughout the plaza "My treasure? if you want it, you can have it!"
"Find it!"
"I left everything this world has to offer there!"
The sound of the stab that penetrated Roger to his death wasn't even clearly heard by Pate as the whole plaza was thrown into chaos and Pate just looked at the smile of Roger while Pate was drowned in the massive waves of will that left him breathless.
'Is this the will of D?' Pate watched the scene that unraveled in front of him as all of them were cheering for the death of the pIrate King or the proven legitimacy of the One Piece.
Pate didn't know but one thing's for sure this transition of birthing the Great Era of Pirates gives a massive reward to his Rules of Will, perceiving the will of fire that blazes in this island.
"Let's go guys, we will sail right away! The One Piece is ours!"
"Faster, let's go! before anyone could go there!"
'If you Roger has the will of D that gives birth to this era then I'll have my own too, I'll clean up your mess.' remembering every torment that the villagers went through, his thoughts reverted throughout the island as Pate unleashed his Divine Will and said "No one will leave this place alive, FOREST OF DEATH!"
All of the excitement of every person on the island stops their movement and watches the ground break as red sprouts grow rapidly into a towering red tree and massacre every person in the vicinity.
"W-what is this?"
"H-help me!"
Some of them escapes and run to their ship, some died as they were impaled by tree branches and some of them fought back with their swords and guns.
Scream of terror, clashing of swords, and gunshot reverted to the island when earlier they were rejoicing the death of the Pirate King and the whereabouts of One Piece.
"Let's sail faster!" a captain shouted in panic as he saw the massacre that happened in every part of the island as smoke and flame colored the skies with terror.
Every crew started to rush to steer the ship far away from this place but all of a sudden they staggered when the ship rose in the air.
The captain leans at the side of the rail and looks down to see that the ship was lifted by a massive red tree and before the scene could register to his mind, the red tree moved and swung their ship in the docks where a mass of pirates and bandits wanted to escape.
"NNNOOOOO!" the captain shouted but all of it was for naught as the ship shattered and exploded.
The ships to the other side suffer the same fate and a captain with a 50 million berries bounty named Raffa looks at the chaos happening all around "Is this the doing of an Admiral level of marines!? but their admirals doesn't have this kind of abilities."
"What are we going to do, captain? our ship was destroyed!" a crew pirate of Raffa slashed away a red tree branch that attacked their back.
Raffa scans the area with a frown, the place was devastated as flame blazes in every part of the dock where the scattered fragments of every ship of the pirates.
And red trees that sprouted all around the island make the place a red forest, they gather the corpses around and a few branches will pierce their body and suck their blood and meat leaving a pile of bones.
The scenes were horrifying to witness as the smell of blood fermented the air.
"We need to confront the man behind this if we want to leave this place alive." Raffa said even though he doesn't want to fight a monster caliber at this level.
"B-but captain? That's suicide!"
"It's okay, it's not that we are the only ones who will think like this. There are four pirates that have the same bounty level as mine, just hoping that they are still alive then we have a high chance to kill this kind of monster." Raffa said while he slashed a red branch that attacked him in two.