"Sengoku, are you sure you want to resign?"
Commander-in-Chief Kong, looked at the resignation letter in his hand, and after a few seconds of silence, he looked up at Sengoku in front of him.
Kong said, "The current sea situation is very chaotic, and it needs a person with absolute wrist to calm everything down. And you are the best candidate in my heart, are you sure you don't want to persist?"
Sengoku shook his head and replied, "The strategic failure of the Summit War is a responsibility I cannot shirk, and I will not shirk. As Whitebeard said, we are all remnants of the old era, it's time to give way to the young people of the new era."
"But I won't leave the Marine, I will choose to retire to the second echelon, train those young Marines in the Marine, and let them have the ability to fight against the desperate pirates."
After saying that, Sengoku took out another letter and put it on Kong's desk, "Kong, I recommend Kuzan to you, I think he will take the Marine to a new height."
Obviously, this is a recommendation letter.
It can be clearly seen that Sengoku's face is a bit tired.
He thinks he is indeed getting old and is no longer suitable for frontline duties.
The main thing is not to be stimulated by the "Whitebeard's resurection" anymore.
Otherwise, Sengoku feels that he will sooner or later be stimulated to have a heart attack.
Seeing Sengoku's constant refusal, and even recommending someone... Kong also didn't know what else to say.
He knows that Sengoku has had a hard time these years.
Not only has to face the increasingly chaotic situation on the sea, but also has to face the constant pressure from the Five Elder, and has to deal with the increasingly serious corruption problem within the Marine. After a hard-fought strategic Summit War, it still failed.
Sengoku's burden is too heavy.
"Well... I will forward this recommendation letter to the Five Elder, the decision of the Fleet Admiral position is ultimately decided by them. But I will mediate in the middle to give Kuzan a chance."
Kong made this promise.
He also thinks that if Kuzan is allowed to replace Sengoku's position, it would be a good choice.
After all, Kuzan is quite reliable.
"Thank you, Kong" Sengoku sighed in relief, his whole person relaxed a lot, as if the heavy burden on his body had finally been unloaded.
But just then, there was a very urgent knock on the door outside the office.
Kong frowned and shouted to the outside, "Come in!"
The person who ran in was a staff member of the World Government, holding a thick newspaper in his hand.
"Something big has happened!" The staff member was so anxious that he ignored Sengoku, the Marine Fleet Admiral, and hurriedly handed the newspaper to Kong.
Garp took the newspaper and glanced at it, "It's Morgans' newspaper again? Last time it was him who reported Whitebeard's resurrection, right?"
But the next second, Kong's expression froze.
Because he saw the headline on the front page of the news.
Kong stood up abruptly, his face full of disbelief.
Even the office desk was smashed by his slap. You can see how upset he was.
"What's wrong?" Sengoku was a bit surprised, in his impression this Commander-in-Chief was usually quite calm, what big thing happened to make him so shocked?
Kong took a deep breath, barely steadying his emotions, and then handed the newspaper to Sengoku.
Sengoku curiously took a look, and also instantly stood still on the spot.
His boy was motionless as if struck by lightning.
After a good few seconds, Sengoku finally exclaimed in disbelief, "How is it possible? The son of Pirate King Roger, Fire Fist Ace, is alive?"
The photo published in the newspaper clearly captured Ace's face.
Sengoku's forehead was covered in cold sweat, he was a bit overwhelmed.
"First a Whitebeard came back to life, and then a Fire Fist Ace came back to life, what the hell is going on with the Whitebeard Pirates? Does the poeple on Whitebeard Pirates can't die?
Sengoku was dumbfounded!
...
East Blue, Foosha Village.
"Garp! What have you done! You watched Ace grow up! Do you deserve to be called a Marine hero like this?"
Dadan's eyes were filled with tears of grief as she punched Garp, and this punch actually knocked Garp to the ground.
And it caused the wound on Garp's forehead from the war at the top to burst open.
Bright red blood flowed down half of his face.
As for who could hurt Garp... it must be him who brought his filial grandson Luffy, and gave him a hard punch.
"Damn Garp! Damn! Damn! You damn!!!"
Dadan rode on Garp, punching him in the face over and over again, and tears couldn't stop falling from her eyes.
Dadan watched Ace grow up, and she was the one who raised Ace.
To her, Ace, Luffy, and Sabo, these three rebellious brats, are just like her sons.
Knowing that Ace died in the Summit War, the grief in Dadan's heart is indescribable.
Taking punch after punch, Garp lying on the ground didn't fight back, he didn't say a word either.
"Boss Dadan, calm... calm down..." A bandit next to him tried to pull Dadan away.
"How do you want me to calm down? That's Ace! It's Ace! I don't care if his father is some damn Pirate King, in my eyes, he's always been that bratty kid who deserves a beating!"
Dadan yelled and screamed, giving Garp several more punches.
Even for someone with Garp's physique, after taking so many punches, the corners of his eyes were all bruised.
After all, he didn't use any means to defend.
The villagers around didn't dare to intervene, after all, one was a Marine hero, and the other was a bandit from the mountains.
None of these ordinary people dared to offend either of them.
"Miss Dadan, please don't do this... Mr. Garp, he must be very upset too..." Finally, it was Makino who spoke, she wanted to persuade Dadan.
But just then, a news bird suddenly flew over in the sky.
Seeing people below, the news bird immediately swooped down.
Coincidentally, the news bird landed right on Dadan's head.
"Quack quack quack!" However, before the news bird could squawk a few times, Dadan's big hand choked its neck.
"Stinky bird! Don't bother me!" Dadan gritted her teeth and shook the unlucky news bird, shaking it so that it was all over the place.
After a bit of shaking, the newspapers carried by the news bird all fell to the ground, one of which landed on Garp's old face.
Garp sighed heavily, reaching out to move the newspaper off his face.
But at that moment, he caught a glimpse of a very familiar face on the newspaper out of the corner of his eye.
Garp's movements paused for a moment, and the idea of throwing the newspaper away was instantly thrown out of his mind.
He incredulously shifted his gaze, focusing all his attention on the newspaper.
Garp was stunned.
Truly stunned!
His eyes were as wide as copper bells, and his mouth was wide open, his chin almost dropping to his chest.
He was so shocked that his nose was running.
"Damn Garp! You watched Ace die right in front of you, and you still have the mood to read the newspaper?!" Dadan was even more furious when she saw this, and she snatched the newspaper away with a backhand.
In the past, she wouldn't dare to do such a thing to Garp, but Dadan, who was in a state of grief and anger, didn't care about that much.
Just as she was about to stuff the reliable newspaper into Garp's mouth, Dadan also suddenly noticed that there was a picture of Ace on the newspaper.
Dadan's expression instantly became the same as Garp's.
"Ace?!!"
"Eh???"
...
New World.
A Marine warship was chasing after the huge raft of the Blackbeard Pirates, making Blackbeard grit his teeth in anger.
"Captain Teach, should we just stop and fight that Marine? Then we can just take their ship, right? There's only one of them on the warship who can fight, if all of us go up, can't we beat one admiral?!"
Hearing the instigation of his subordinates, Teach drew a pistol from his waist and shot the man in the chest.
Watching the small pirate fall to the ground without any reaction, Teach said with a voice filled with anger, "Are you trying to oppose the retreat order I issued? The Blackbeard Pirates are not up to you to decide! Bastard!"
Then, Teach turned his head to look at the warship that was relentlessly pursuing them from behind.
He gritted his teeth, "That damn Marine is really persistent, I even threw that pink-haired supernova there as bait to hold him back, but he still doesn't want to let us go."
In fact, Teach was a bit scared to face Akainu's pursuit.
Because during the summit war, he hid in the dark and watched the whole battle between Akainu and Whitebeard.
That magma bastard is not so easy to deal with.
And the Blackbeard Pirates are still in the early stages of development.
He didn't want to have a big battle with that magma Marine, causing most of his pirates to die.
In the end... wouldn't he have run to Impel Down for nothing?
Especially in this vast sea, if the ship under his feet is burned by the other's magma...
Blackbeard didn't know how he was going to survive.
He was a Devil Fruit user after all!
Behind them.
On the warship, Akainu stood with his arms crossed, expressionlessly staring at the sea in front of him, standing on the bow like a tower.
It was because Akainu was stationed here that the Marines only sent one warship to chase after the Blackbeard Pirates.
"Gagaga! Gagaga!"
A news bird landed in front of Akainu, standing on the railing of the warship.
Akainu glanced at the news bird with his eyes downcast.
He took out a belly from his pocket.
The news bird shook its head.
"The price has gone up again? Hmph! That black-hearted Morgans, one day I'll catch him and throw him into Impel Down!"
Akainu, with a black face, took out another belly.
Only then did the news bird peck out a newspaper and hand it to him.
Akainu stared at the pirate ship in the distance in front of him, then spread out the newspaper in his hand and took a look.
Ten seconds later...
His palm turned into an incredibly hot magma, burning the newspaper in his hand to ashes.
A resolute face, changing unpredictably, "The scum of the sea, they're really hard to kill!"
He stepped on the ashes of the newspaper, his heart filled with anger.
One Whitebeard came back to life, and one Fire Fist Ace came back to life...
Who's next?
It can't be the Pirate King Roger who died twenty years ago, can it?
These pirates...
Can't they just die once and for all?
...
The whole world was shaken by the news that Ace suddenly "came back to life", because he is the descendant of the Pirate King Roger!
And the Whitebeard Pirates, who are in the eye of the storm, have already left the territory of all nations.
Because the Whitebeard Pirates need to return to their territory in the New World.
To deter those who want to come over and take advantage of the situation.
Coincidentally.
A group of pirates meet Whitebeard Pirates on the way.
"Captain, shouldn't we leave quickly? If Whitebeard comes back and sees us occupying one of his islands, and even looting on the island, he will definitely be very angry."
"What's there to be afraid of? He is just a sick old man! Even if he defeated Big Mom, so what? Even if he comes back to life, so what? Even if Fire Fist Ace is alive, so what?"
The one-eyed man wearing a pirate captain's hat named Duy snorted, "You think I would be afraid of Whitebeard? Hmph! Even if I stand here waiting for him to come, would he dare to come?"
"But I am in a good mood today, so I'll let Whitebeard off! Boys! Load all the treasure onto the ship! Prepare to leave!"
The New World pirate captain named "Nidaz" talked tough.
And his actual actions proved that he was actually afraid of Whitebeard.
If he wasn't afraid of Whitebeard, he would have run to challenge Whitebeard when Whitebeard was still alive.
Instead of waiting until Whitebeard was "dead" before daring to pick peaches.
Hundreds of pirates hurriedly moved the treasure onto the pirate ship.
And this island has long been shrouded in smoke, the entire island's tens of thousands of residents have been plundered by pirates. Without the protection of the Whitebeard Pirates, they simply can't withstand the New World pirates.
"Let go of me! Wuu wuu wuu! Let go of me..."
An eight or nine-year-old blonde little girl kept struggling, but was slapped in the face by a pirate.
"Shut up! Stinky brat! A brat of your looks can at least sell for a million Berries, let you go? What kind of joke is that, damn it!"
Many good-looking women on the island were also caught by the pirates, and even good-looking men did not escape the clutches of the pirates.
After all, the slave business is also very profitable.
Those nobles are very willing to buy such slaves.
"Wuu wuu wuu..." The little girl who was slapped had a cut on her lips and cried even louder.
"Shut up! Are you deaf!" The pirate was annoyed and wanted to give her another slap.
But the next moment.
He saw a few red rose petals falling from above his head, which made him stunned for a moment, "Flowers? Which idle guy is throwing flowers on top of my head?"
However...
When the petals touched his body, an endless tearing sensation spread throughout his body!
His body instantly split into countless small wounds.
Blood spurted out like it was free.
The raised arm was even cut off on the spot by an unknown blade!
Before he could scream out...
His head was thrown high into the air!
"We just came back and saw such an unlucky thing." On the mast of this pirate ship, stood a tall man with his sword unsheathed!
"You guys are really looking for death!"
"Bastards!"
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