Lilith's Egg, New World, Black Order's headquarters.
Makima stood on the edge of the cliff, looking at the surging sea below as she whispered, "Mr. Sengoku, are you here for something?"
Behind her, Sengoku slowly walked over.
Sengoku looked at Makima's face with a bit of fear in his heart.
He already knew what happened through Garp and Z, and he also knew in what kind of state Shiki was found.
But no matter how Shiki was killed, that just went to show Makima's strength.
Shiki was not stupid. Even if he was seriously injured, it was not impossible for him to escape if he wanted to.
It would at least prove difficult to chase after Shiki, who could use Float-Float Fruit's ability, not to mention he also got Jewel of Four Souls' Fragments that could enhance his strength.
However, he was dead in the end, and not long after he retreated, too!
"Five Elders has already received the news of Shiki's death." Sengoku came there from the headquarters to convey the Five Elders' words. After all, Makima didn't carry Den Den Mushi with her when she was outside.
Therefore, Sengoku waited for her in Black Order's headquarters, and came to see Makima once she got back.
"Now that Shiki is dead, our contract is established. Black Order will need the Marines' support." Makima said.
"You must be joking. With such a powerful partner like Thor, Black Order will do just fine as one of the World Government's organizations even without our help."
"In addition to asking what Black Order needs, I also came here to ask you some question on behalf of Five Elders..."
"Question?" Makima slowly turned around and looked at Sengoku. The two of them looked at each other.
"There should be four Jewel of Four Souls' Fragments on Kraken. Now those fragments...should be on you, right?" Sengoku asked hesitantly.
"..." Makima chuckled. She slowly walked toward Sengoku until eventually she went past him.
"Shiki is now inside the fish's belly. I can't even retrieve his body. How can I get the fragments?"
"I can't accept such an excuse." Sengoku frowned.
"So be it!" Makima said behind him.
"Excuse me?"
At this moment, the two of them had their backs facing each other. One of them looked towards the sea while the other looked towards the island. A strange atmosphere seemed to arise between the two of them.
In such a 'confrontation', Makima said, "It has only been a few days since the end of the negotiation, and the World Government seems to have forgotten that Black Order does not need to give the World Government an acceptable explanation."
She then kept walking towards the island.
"Moreover, there's no merit in lying to you. Jewel of Four Souls may be precious to you, but I have no need of such a thing."
As her voice was getting less and less audible, her figure also disappeared from sight. The last sentence that Sengoku heard was: "I don't mind handing one or two Jewel of Four Souls' Fragments to the World Government, but being too forceful will make people hate you, you know."
Sengoku didn't say another word. As an Admiral, he wouldn't involve himself with politics. He just ought to convey this conversation to Five Elders.
However, it didn't mean that he himself had no say in this matter. At least now Sengoku was still adamant on not cooperating with Makima!
Then again, she did do what the Marines asked, killing Shiki! And in the future, she might help the Marines with more things, but an organization with so much freedom under the banner of the World Government might become a more dangerous threat than the big pirates.
However, he was just a soldier. He'd rather leave the political affairs to the Five Elders and others. As far as he was concerned, he had no right to interfere in these things. Maybe when he became the Fleet Admiral one day, he would barely have the right to change the current situation.
Sengoku looked at Black Order's headquarters and slowly left.
He'd rather leave as fast as possible as this island was so depressing.
...
The world was at peace again for quite some time. Despite all sort of conflict that happened throughout the world, there was no particularly big news.
The first Nine-Tails' attack on Mary Geoise, Rocks' death, the emergence of Jewel of Four Souls, Black Order's establishment, and to top it off Kraken and Shiki's death. All of them happened in merely half a year.
It would be 1485 soon, and not much happened afterward.
However, the news of Jewel of Four Souls' Fragments that appeared from time to time still had a big influence on the big pirates, and it also made them know that the world had changed.
At the end of the year, Genichi, who managed to cause various big events all over the world, looked at his Emotion Points value.
He hadn't done anything recently. He decided not to go full throttle. Major events should be instigated one at a time.
"Positive Emotion Points: 1364142"
"Negative Emotion Points: 7452341"
After quite a while, his Positive Emotion Points had successfully reached one million, and Negative Emotion Points had already reached seven million.
By now, the growth of these two values had become very slow. It seemed that the people no longer cared about what he had done, so they no longer provided Emotion Points.
Then... let's prepare for the next step.
It was not that he was going to draw the character card again. After all, he already had more than seven million Negative Emotion Points, just a little bit short from being able to draw another ten million-level character card.
Although there was a chance that he would get an average character, he could get a character beyond the Four Emperor-level if he was lucky.
Therefore, he chose to draw the Item card instead. After all, he had never drawn a one million Positive Emotion Points card before!