After some discussion, Rayleigh and Gaban both decided to go to the New World.
After practicing for more than a year, Luffy, who had just initially mastered Conqueror's Haki, was left by Rayleigh on Rusukaina Island to practice on his own, allowing him to explore the move he called the fourth gear.
In fact, Rayleigh was worried about Luffy doing something reckless, so he didn't tell him about Laugh Tale's eternal pose.
After Rayleigh and Gaban left Rusukaina, Luffy could only keep training alone, with just the company of the island's animals. He wanted to become stronger, then reunite with his friends, and then explore the New World.
He wondered how his friends are doing now? But he hasn't become strong enough yet.
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On a certain volcanic island in the New World.
"Laugh Tale's eternal pose? Damn pirates, do they still want to become the pirate king?"
"I won't let you get what you want, you'll all go to hell!"
As Black Arm Zephyr looked at the newspaper, his face became colder and colder, his hatred for the pirates had completely exceeded all his desire for justice.
His wife and son were killed by pirates, and his students were also killed. Only two students, Ain and Binz, survived.
Disgusting Shichibukai system, decadent World Government, weak Marines.
Nothing good!
Thinking that the Marines, whom he had dedicated his life to, would finally do this to an old man like him.
Endless regret and murderous intent surged out, and Zephyr's eyes became increasingly red. Even his two students were a little afraid, but they felt more distressed.
Once upon a time, their teacher was also a warm and righteous Marine. But this hateful era of great pirates has taken away too many families.
In their eyes, Roger the Pirate King is an unforgivable devil.
"Take all the dyna stones and let's go!"
"Ain, fill all the PX-Z with dyna stones, and I want them on my prosthetic arm too!"
Black Arm Zephyr ordered his student. This time he had decided to drag all the pirates he can to die together.
"Teacher, are you sure about..."
"Yes! I can't wait!"
Under Zephyr's stern gaze, Ain could only follow his order to transform these pacifistas again, and reluctantly installed the explosive dyna stones into her teacher's prosthetic arm as well.
After the destruction of the Beasts Pirates, Drake, who originally wanted to join Black Arm Zephyr, was not accepted by Zephyr at all because he had already figured out Drake's undercover identity.
If it weren't for Tsuru's sake, and that he knew that Drake wasn't a real pirate, Zephyr would have definitely killed this Beasts Pirates Tobiroppo!
Drake, who was exposed again, could only return to Naval Headquarters to recover, but with his heart in the hands of pirates, he became a target of suspicion just like Momousagi.
After all, they cannot guarantee whether Drake can remain loyal to the Marines under the threat of life.
What if he betrays them and does something dirty in order to survive?
So he must be closely monitored.
This made Drake's heart explode with anger, although he didn't have a heart now.
Seeing her student and adopted son Drake and sister Gion being treated like this by the Marines, Vice Admiral Tsuru became more and more disappointed with the Marines, already even more disappointed than Garp.
She even submitted her resignation, but was directly rejected by the World Government, and she was even given a serious warning.
The Five Elders are also worried that she will betray the Marines with Momousagi and Drake. After all, these three are all very powerful Marines.
Under this suspicion, the pacifist faction of the Marines suffered a major blow. The World Government and Akainu also wanted to cancel the Sword team and let these Marine elites return to the regular Marine system.
If Sengoku hadn't used his immediate retirement as an excuse to force the Five Elders to compromise, the Sword team that was not under Marine's control would have been gone just like that.
However, Drake was under suspicion, and the morale of the other members was greatly reduced, so they had no intention of catching pirates.
Seeing the heartbroken Marines, Fujitora felt helpless, now there was even internal strife.
If two new Marine Admirals appear in this world conscription, won't more factions form in the Marines?
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On the other side, the island where the Pirate Festival will be held has also been decided, which is the former site of Maggo Kingdom in the middle front part of the New World.
It was here that Bullet was besieged by the powerful Marines, and bombarded by a Buster Call for three days, and was eventually stripped and arrested.
His eardrums were shattered in that battle, causing him to often wear headphones now.
Of course, the Big Daddy Pirates cannot be absent from this Pirate Festival. In order to lure out more big pirates, Basire also took out three Devil Fruits as rewards.
In the end, Basire felt that it was still not attractive enough, so he also took out the Phoenix Fruit as a prize.
Let's see which big pirates aren't tempted this time.
This is a rarer species of devil fruit than Logias.
However, Basire will not take out the real Devil Fruit like Doflamingo, a specialist in fruit delivery.
A gimmick is a gimmick, no one can take it away!
If he throws away the Phoenix Fruit just like Doflamingo lost the Gold Fruit and Flare Fruit, he would feel like a complete idiot.
As the news of Laugh Tale's eternal pose and the Phoenix Fruit spread, the New World's great pirates, underworld emperors, Paradise pirates, and even bounty hunters everywhere went crazy.
Even the World Government and Marines were a little excited.
They also want to destroy this eternal pose even if they don't know whether it is real or fake, and they are also very eager for the mythical Phoenix Fruit.
A large number of powerful people are flocking to Maggo Island, wanting to see this pirate festival.
Unexpectedly, Big News Morgans spread another news, that is, the singers Uta and Carina will hold a small concert on Maggo Island before the Pirate Festival, adding to the fun.
This news made the Pirates fans in the territory very happy. They didn't expect to have fun before the big battle.
In this case, more people will show up.
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Holy Land, Mary Geoise.
A man in black robes, after many inspections, finally met the legendary Five Elders.
"I didn't expect you would actually dare to come up. Aren't you afraid of death?"
Saint Topman Warcury looked at the visitor expressionlessly.
In fact, they wanted to recall this powerful man more than once, but were rejected time and time again by Shanks.
They have now given up on Figarland Shanks, even though the Figarland family has great power in Mary Geoise.
"I'm here for the stability of the New World. You don't want to see anyone reach Laugh Tale either, right?"
Shanks said to the Five Elders solemnly, the auras of these five old guys are really powerful, no wonder they dared to directly summon a Yonkō like him, and even had the guards stay outside.
If they don't have some strength, if Shanks wanted to carry out a beheading operation, the Five Elders would be directly killed, which would definitely cause great turmoil in the World government.
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