The Sun (Finale)

East Blue.

Inside a prison at a Marine Base.

"Damn it! Let me out of here!"

In a cell deep within the prison, a man bound by layers of chains is shouting loudly.

"How dare you arrest the great Lord Buggy?! You bastard marines have a death wish?!"

The man had smooth blue hair, but it was a bit messy because he had been locked up for a while.

His most striking feature was his large, round Red Nose.

He looked like a clown who had just escaped from a circus.

His nickname is indeed the Joker.

"Asshole!"

Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Buggy the Clown had no choice but to stop shouting and cursing, but he was still muttering to himself.

"Damn Ian! Don't think you're so great just because you did something even Captain Roger couldn't! You'll never earn Buggy's approval!"

"And that Shanks! He actually went and became Ian's dog! I really misjudged you!"

Just then, footsteps suddenly echoed in the dimly lit prison corridor.

"Haha, I think I hear someone cursing at me."

Laughter followed.

Buggy's body shuddered as if electrocuted, and he instantly raised his head and turned to look in a certain direction beyond the iron bars.

"That voice is!!"

"Honestly, I rushed over as soon as I heard you were arrested, and to hear this as soon as I arrived is so disappointing."

A man dressed in a simple white shirt and brown wide-leg trousers, draped in a black cloak, and wearing a straw Straw Hat appeared in the dim light and walked out of the prison with feigned sighs.

"Shanks!!"

Bound tightly, Buggy immediately began to swarm and scurry about like a maggot.

His face turned almost as red as his nose in an instant. "You dare show your face in front of me?!"

"Oh, really, I thought I'd at least get some kind of welcome."

Red-Haired grinned and pressed his hand against the iron railing. "It's been so many years. I was just saying we should have a good catch-up."

"I don't see anything to reminisce about with Ian's dog!"

Buggy, who hadn't really made a name for himself in the East Blue, was surprisingly tough in front of his childhood friend. He looked at Red-Haired with a cold smile as if he were looking at a pile of stray dog poop.

"Why are you coming to me instead of licking Ian's ass?!"

"If the Navy or the Beasts Pirates hear you say that, you're dead meat, Buggy."

Red-Haired simply sat cross-legged outside the prison, took off his Straw Hat and placed it on his knees.

"Then go tell them!"

Buggy scoffed, "I'm not like you. My knees aren't that weak!"

"Call--"

Red-Haired didn't argue, he just let out a slow sigh of relief.

"Shanks! How dare you!"

But Buggy still didn't let him off the hook and continued to attack with all his might.

"Captain Roger clearly wanted you to become the new Pirate King, to be the one who changes the world, so why? Why did you kneel before that guy Ian!"

Why?

Red-Haired rested his left arm on his knee and propped his chin on his hand. "Haha, spare me! Saving the world is too much for me. All I want is to sail the seas, adventure, and have parties with my friends."

"Besides, you wouldn't understand unless you've seen Ian with your own eyes, Buggy,"

The man said, "That guy, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say he was born to change the world."

"He easily dealt with Im ruled the world for eight hundred years. How could I possibly compete with him?"

"Snort."

Buggy just snorted.

"From now on, there will be no more pirates in this world. According to Ian, the reason why pirates are rampant in this world is largely due to the lack of order, and he will not allow such a situation to continue."

Red-Haired said.

"What are you trying to say, kid?"

Buggy scoffed, "Are you trying to tell me to stop being a pirate? No way! I've been a pirate since the day Captain Roger picked me up! So, even until the day I die, I'll still be a pirate!"

"No, no, no, it's not that I'm telling you to stop being a pirate,"

Red-Haired waved his hand with a grin, then said, "I was wondering if you wanted to join me in becoming pirates somewhere else?"

"Let's go somewhere else?"

Buggy was genuinely taken aback, and said with some surprise, "Where else could it be?"

Didn't they say that Ian would no longer allow pirates in this world?

"Since this world can no longer have pirates, let's find another world!"

That's what Red-Haired said.

"A different world?"

Buggy's eyes widened, his pupils filled with disbelief. "What do you mean by 'different world'? Are there other worlds besides this one?"

"Besides the Blue Star beneath our feet, there are many other habitable planets in the vast universe."

The Red-Haired said, "Ian found a star map left behind by the Bikans in the Sky King, which recorded several habitable planets."

"He felt that we restless fellows were getting too much of an eyesore staying on the Blue Sea, so he simply sent us out into space."

"Universe..."

Buggy's face froze; he could hardly believe what he was hearing.

"Ian will provide us with a ship, supposedly a simplified version based on the blueprints of the Sky King,"

The Red-Haired continued, "Enough for us to travel through the stars."

"Our Red-Haired Pirates have decided to explore the stars, as have the Charlotte Family and Redfield."

"Even Ian's restless subordinates will venture into outer space to explore even wider territories."

"So,"

Red-Haired smiled and said, "Buggy, are you coming with me this time?"

Buggy remained silent, staring intently at the man's face.

Back in Loguetown, this guy had extended the same invitation with a grin, which he then declined.

But this time...

"Captain Roger never ventured into the stars, so Buggy!"

The Red-Haired loudly, "Let's go! This time, it's the stars and the sea!"

Buggy's face remained stiff, but soon that stiffness changed.

His lips began to tremble, and his eyes trembled as well.

"Shanks..."

Tears streamed uncontrollably from his eyes.

"You bastard, couldn't you have come sooner?! I was scared to death!"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

On this vast Blue Sea, the era of pirates pursuing their dreams has indeed come to an end.

With the Beasts Pirates ' aerial power and the Sea King ' underwater support, no pirate crew in the world can now run rampant on this sea.

A year after the great Emperor Ian announced the establishment of the Beasts Empire, news of pirates on the high seas almost disappeared.

In the third year of the Emperor's coronation, the Empire announced the commencement of its exploration of the stars.

Former great pirate Charlotte Linlin, Red-Haired Shanks, Redfield, and others became the first space explorers.

Like them, some of the high-ranking officials of the Beasts Empire will surely go down in history.

The imperial high command, led by Kaido, Bullet, Hawk Eyes, Enel, and others, were not to be outdone. They also piloted the imperial fleet into the stars and began their journey to expand the empire's territory.

Six months after their initial voyage, the forward communication fleet had arrived at a planet inhabited by intelligent life.

In the universe, the distances between planets are much closer than we imagine.

Then came the war.

The intelligent life on that planet possesses considerable technology, and has even achieved interstellar travel.

However, the Imperial fleet's ships were all super warships modeled after Sky King and Pluton, and their firepower far surpassed that of the intelligent beings on that planet.

Not to mention that those fleets were led by experts whose abilities surpassed the limits of the aliens' imagination; each of them was capable of single-handedly destroying a nation.

Six months after arriving on that planet, the entire planet had already been conquered by the Imperial fleet.

Meanwhile, the great pirates who entered the starry sky gradually began to make their names in that vast expanse of stars.

Time passed slowly like this.

Five years later.

With sufficient talent reserves, the empire concluded that the world no longer needed so many King.

So all the kings were deposed, and the title of King officially became history.

The aristocratic class, which boasted of its inherited bloodline, vanished completely from that day on.

No one thought there was anything wrong with this, after all, even the great emperor said he would not have any children.

Since Emperor power is not passed down to one's children, why should others be allowed to?

At this time, the people on the sea did not know that because the great Emperor had an infinite lifespan, he did not feel that he needed any successor.

The Star River Fleet continues to expand the Empire's territory, while the Blue Star base continues to develop slowly.

With the Emperor's strong support, a power called technology began to spread rapidly across the planet.

Just as he had dreamed, the Holy Mother's Flame created by Vegapunk began to become a vital driving force propelling the world forward.

Based on this terrifying energy source, all sorts of civilian technologies have emerged explosively from all over the world, pushing the world's productivity to unimaginable levels in just a few years.

People living in this world lament almost every month that the world has become unrecognizable.

Vegapunk threw himself into the development of new technologies with boundless enthusiasm.

The world is truly gradually becoming the way he dreamed of.

At the same time, the great Emperor also authorized Vegapunk to establish the world's first university.

Unlike previous World Government, the Great Emperor believed that more advanced technology would only bring greater power.

Many years have passed in this way.

Until one day...

In a sky city floating somewhere in the sky.

The great Emperor sat high on his throne and sighed.

"I am bored."

I did feel at ease.

There was nothing in this world that posed a threat to him, or even anything that could bother him.

But this also means that there's nothing in the world that can pique his interest.

Although a great emperor possesses supreme power, he is actually not very interested in power.

He preferred to conquer by force rather than by using power to control.

So.

"Let's go to space."

Go see the scenery of the stars and the sea.

The era in which Emperor directly ruled the world had not even lasted twenty years before the great Emperor, along with his concubines and his subordinates, entered the galaxy to pursue even more expansive landscapes.

Time flies, and several hundred years have passed.

Somewhere in this vast galaxy.

This is a small galaxy.

At the center of the galaxy is a massive star, with a diameter estimated to be several million kilometers.

Around this star are countless other stars.

However, if you get closer, you'll discover something terrifying.

None of the planets orbiting this star are natural creations; they are all made of cold, mechanical objects.

These are man-made planets.

However, land, oceans, and atmospheres still exist on the surfaces of these planets.

A large number of people still live on it.

No, not just humans.

While humans still constitute the majority of each planet, they are interspersed with a large number of bizarre and intelligent alien beings.

And on the planet closest to the star, on one side of the island, there is a vast palace stretching for hundreds of kilometers.

A stunningly beautiful woman with long, flowing black hair strolled into the palace.

"News has come from the front!"

Even after hundreds of years, Hancock showed no signs of aging and remained as stunning as ever, calmly said, "The remaining fools have gathered together and are preparing for a final counterattack against us."

"Oh?"

Inside the palace, the white-haired woman, who had been wolfing down her food, suddenly Yamato up. She immediately wiped her mouth.

"Great! If we win this war, this entire galaxy will be ours!"

"I'll wake Ian right away! We need to hurry, we can't let Dad and the others have this battle all to themselves!"

She immediately pulled out a communicator

"Ian! Get up! Seriously! You've been sleeping for over a month, haven't you had enough sleep yet?!"

Although her voice was high-pitched due to her excitement, it wasn't actually very loud.

Even if it's relayed through a communicator, it's unlikely to cause much of a stir.

but.

Boom!!

The planet suddenly began to shake.

No.

Not just this planet, but all the metallic planets in this galaxy began to tremble.

Or rather, the entire galaxy began to tremble.

And all of this is because--

At the center of that galaxy, that enormous star has now spread its wings!

"Mmm... that was a really comfortable sleep."

The murmurs he uttered upon waking now transformed into a whirlwind, sweeping across the entire galaxy in an instant.

All the planets activated their defenses, erecting special shields that finally managed to barely block the raging winds.

They weren't planets, but giant warships.

The dragon, as vast, as radiant, and as sacred as the sun, stretched its body.

"Then let's go have some fun."

The pursuit of peace of mind has long since come to an end.

Now,

As long as you're happy.

(End of article)