Far away, thousands of miles from the battlefield,
in the East Blue, Goa Kingdom,
within Foosha Village, the villagers and Mountain Bandits watched the worldwide live broadcast of the Summit War together.
"...Ace... Ace!!!"
Amid the crowd, a middle-aged woman whose face bore the marks of time covered her mouth and wept uncontrollably.
Beside her, Dadan and Makino frantically held her back from doing anything foolish while offering disjointed words of comfort.
"Don't do anything rash, Madam Rouge!!!"
"Nothing will happen to him! Garp and Mr. Austin are both there!!!"
"Even if you set sail now, you'd never make it in time!!!"
After finally calming the Rouge on the verge of collapse, the Mountain Bandits and villagers all wore gloomy expressions.
Because the situation before them simply did not look promising.
Mr. Austin and Vice Admiral Garp were actually sitting on the Marines' side!!!
Unable to break free, Rouge could only fall to her knees, snot and tears streaming uncontrollably down her face.
She stared desperately at Austin's composed figure on the screen, smoking with an unreadable expression.
"Please, Austin-san, if only for Roger's sake, save Ace..."
Marine Headquarters, Marineford.
A solemn atmosphere permeated the air. Sengoku, dressed in a Fleet Admiral's uniform, stood atop the execution platform with a grave expression.
"You are Roger's son. Whitebeard took you aboard because he wanted to train you into the next Roger."
"No! I wanted my old man to become the Pirate King!!!"
"That's only what you think!!!"
Sengoku roared.
At this point, there was no longer any meaning in investigating who had rescued Ace and his mother.
Now, whether it was to eradicate the Pirate King's bloodline or to achieve the strategic goal of displaying military might to intimidate the entire world,
"to prevent you from realizing the potential that