Clack!
The wineglass fell.
Clear liquor spilled all over the floor.
Unlike the joyous banquet outside.
The Whitebeard Pirates' upper ranks inside the room all stood there with their mouths agape, their eyes filled with shock.
"Old Man, are all the things you said true?" Everyone present looked at their Old Man in utter disbelief.
Although doubting Old Man was a major taboo within the Whitebeard Pirates, what Whitebeard had said was simply too shocking.
Even though everyone present had seen their share of the world, hearing those words from Whitebeard's own mouth still felt utterly fantastical, as if they were dreaming.
It turned out that, beginning several years ago, whether it was the Summit War, the great Impel Down breakout, the attack on Mary Geoise, or the rise of the North Blue Freedom Revolutionary Alliance—
The reason these major events had happened one after another was because a mastermind behind the scenes had been driving them forward.
And that mastermind was none other than Roy, the lord of the East Blue Freedom Revolutionary Alliance who had caused such an uproar lately.
When everyone learned this, they all felt an incomparably absurd sense of disbelief.
But upon thinking it over carefully, it made sense.
After all, how could the man who had led the East Blue, one of the Four Seas, out from under the World Government's rule be ordinary?
Perhaps only a man like the one Whitebeard had described could accomplish something so earth-shaking.
That alone had already been shocking enough, but then they heard that their own Old Man had actually joined Roy's ranks.
Their shock turned into terror.
"Old Man, you joined that Roy's faction too? Then what will happen to the Whitebeard Pirates?"
Their king had suddenly announced that he was joining another force, and it