The Golden Lion's Swan Song!

"Gurgle, gurgle..."

After Sakazuki's magma bombs and Borsalino's laser rain fell, the entire sea had been thoroughly boiled, constantly bubbling. Countless cooked fish mixed with the corpses of pirates tumbled in this giant boiling pot of seawater...

With the combined efforts of Kuzan, Sakazuki, and Borsalino, the Flying Pirates' total of three hundred pirate ships and thirty-six thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight pirates had been completely annihilated!

No one had expected the Marines to be so ruthless, not even giving these pirates a chance to beg for mercy, killing them on the spot outside Marine Headquarters.

"Hey! Sakazuki, you were too heavy-handed! You boiled the entire sea! We agreed to just destroy the pirate ships and arrest the pirates!"

Kuzan looked at the sea, which resembled a pirate hot pot, with countless pirates cooked to death, and grumbled with dissatisfaction at Sakazuki beside him.

"Shut up, Kuzan..."

"Let me ask you, why should the prisons painstakingly built by the World Government and the Marines be free for these scumbags to live in?"

"Do you know how much grain produced by the government's grain production bases these scumbags consume in prison every year?"

"Do you know that if the grain eaten by these prisoners were sent to the Marine's kitchen, it could train at least two excellent Marine soldiers?"

"You don't know any of this, so shut your mouth right now!"

Sakazuki shouted at Kuzan, his arms crossed in front of him.

"You bastard..."

Kuzan's eyelids twitched slightly after hearing Sakazuki's words, and then he roared, "Isn't this disobeying a military order? As a Marine, didn't you just disobey Fleet Admiral Sengoku's orders?"

"Shut up, Kuzan..."

"This wasn't an order from Fleet Admiral Sengoku, but an order from higher up!"

Sakazuki said righteously after hearing Kuzan's words.

After all, the Celestial Dragons were standing behind Sakazuki!

"Huh? They're arguing again, how scary~"

Borsalino watched Kuzan and Sakazuki arguing over what he considered a trivial matter, shrugged helplessly, and then transformed into countless flashes of light, disappearing from his spot and instantly arriving at Golden Lion's execution platform.

"Is it over? Borsalino!"

After Borsalino arrived at the execution platform, Steel-Bone Kong, the current Marine Fleet Admiral, immediately asked Borsalino.

"It's over, Fleet Admiral Kong~"

Borsalino replied with a crooked smile.

"Open the gates of Marine Headquarters!"

At this, Steel-Bone Kong's lips curved slightly as he quietly spoke into the Den Den Mushi.

"Boom!"

As Kong's voice fell...

Accompanied by bursts of roaring sounds!

The massive gates, forged from steel, were immediately shaken and raised by the Marines, revealing the tragic scene outside Marine Headquarters.

There, in the sea that was still bubbling, clearly boiled by high temperatures, were countless cooked pirate corpses, along with the wreckage of countless pirate ships, and the Flying Pirates' flag, pierced into fragments by the laser rain.

As Borsalino had said, the pirates outside had been dealt with. The Flying Pirates, once on par with the Roger Pirates and Whitebeard Pirates, led by Golden Lion Shiki, had become history. Thousands of people in the entire fleet, except for Golden Lion, who was locked on the execution platform awaiting execution, none survived.

"Thud..."

The legendary sea hero, Golden Lion Shiki, looked at the countless wreckage not far away, and the pirate bodies, one after another, that couldn't even retain a complete corpse under the combined efforts of Akainu and Kizaru. This man, whose will was as firm as steel, finally shed tears.

Although it was only a single tear, he truly cried...

Of course, he wasn't crying for himself. He was crying for his companions who had been tragically killed by the Marines with lightning-fast means in front of Marine Headquarters while trying to save them.

"I'm sorry! It was my own recklessness that doomed you!"

Shiki looked at the familiar faces on the floating corpses on the sea, his voice trembling.

"Don't be sad, old lion!"

Kong looked at the crying Shiki, his brow furrowing slightly as he comforted him.

If they weren't standing and kneeling respectively...

One was the Marine Fleet Admiral, and the other was a rampant pirate.

One would think they were old friends comforting each other.

"I'll send you to reunite with your companions below."

"Time is up! The execution begins..."

"The current time is exactly 12:00 PM. Public execution of Shiki, former Rocks Pirates member and Admiral of the Flying Pirates..."

The next second, the atmosphere was instantly shattered!

Fleet Admiral Kong's voice was heard, announcing the execution order as if to himself.

"Hey! Kong, the live broadcast recorder is on right now, isn't it?!"

Shiki ignored Kong's words and asked as if to himself.

"You bastard, what are you planning?"

Upon hearing Shiki's words, Kong's heart suddenly jolted, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"Kekekekeke..."

"To all of you in the Four Seas, Paradise, and the New World, those who are preparing to set sail or have already set sail! Lend me your ears!"

"I am the admiral of the Flying Pirates, Golden Lion Shiki..."

Shiki grinned widely, shouting at the camera pointed directly at him from the World Economic Journal.

"Execution! Execution!"

Seeing this, Kong panicked and roared at the executioner.

"Oh! Oh!"

The executioner, hearing this, immediately raised the executioner's blade in his hand.

He swung it towards the legendary pirate before them...

Blood immediately splattered!

Unfortunately, they were still a step too late...

The executioner's blade was ultimately half a step slower than Shiki's mouth.

"The World Government once told you that bastard Roger's name was Gol D. Roger, right? That was a lie. Roger's real name is Gol D. Roger..."

"And everything Roger said before his execution is true! The legendary Great Treasure, the One Piece, is real! It's on Raftel!!"

"Go find it! Men of the sea, the future belongs to you..."

"Kekekekekeke..."

The words Roger never uttered were now spoken by Golden Lion Shiki.

Against the backdrop of the blood-stained execution platform, this legend of the sea, who once roamed the oceans, delivered his final declaration! Thus, a legend came to its end...

At the same time.

Mary Geoise.

In the garden of the Figarland family villa...

Shaya, with his short red hair, casually turned off the broadcast, pulled out a cigar, and began to puff away, creating a cloud of smoke...

Behind him, several famous swords were displayed: Ace, belonging to the Pirate King Gol D. Roger, and Sakura Ten and Kogarasu, belonging to Golden Lion Shiki!

No one could have imagined that the mastermind behind the execution of these two legends was a Celestial Dragon who had remained hidden in Mary Geoise the entire time, never appearing in any public forum.

"Once Whitebeard dies, the old era will truly be over!"