Warship Island!
Near noon!
The harbor docks bustled with activity. Brand-new standard-issue warships were moored across the sea, waiting for the buyers who had placed orders to sail them away.
Back mountain! The mountaintop that Luo Han had once leveled with a telekinetic Slash Wave had, at some point, been rebuilt into a palace-like structure resembling Pangaea Castle.
That alone showed just how great the ambition of whoever had ordered its construction was. Pangaea Castle was the administrative center of the World Government.
Building something similar here made their intentions obvious.
At that moment, in a large room atop the round tower protruding from the left side of the building, a huge, rotund figure stood before a twelve-meter-tall floor-to-ceiling window, looking toward the harbor.
The harbor below was thriving, yet a single figure kept lingering in his mind, leaving him unable to feel happy no matter what.
"Hey! Silver Axe!"
"It's been four years. Do you think that bastard Blue Demon is still in the New World?" The figure did not shift his gaze from the harbor, and his voice was low, yet it carried clearly through the silent room to Silver Axe, who sat on a luxurious sofa.
"What are you afraid of, Ochoku?" Dressed extravagantly, Silver Axe spoke sideways toward him. He casually picked up a glass of red wine and swirled it before him, the gold-and-gem rings on all five fingers gleaming especially brightly.
Gulp, gulp. Silver Axe drained the glass in one go, then said indifferently, "That guy might have been secretly taken out by the World Government long ago. He doesn't have Captain Rocks's Armament Haki defense."
"Heh heh! True."
"He dared to do something as insane as attacking Mary Geoise. The World Government wouldn't just let him continue!"
Ochoku laughed **, dragging his round