No One Can Remain Invincible Forever on These Seas!

"Damn it! Shiki, you bastard!"

Kong watched Shiki deliver his final words to the live broadcast camera, cold sweat covering his forehead.

"Immediately! Right now! At once!"

"Cut off every Live Den Den Mushi!"

Kong ordered the surrounding Marines.

"It's already too late!"

"For this execution broadcast, we used Dr. Vegapunk's latest invention!"

"The footage from every nation across the world is being uploaded simultaneously. Even if we terminate the broadcast now, we can't stop the footage from spreading..."

The communications Marine could not help but answer.

"Damn it! Damn it..."

"It seems that the next time we execute these great pirates..."

"We really should stuff their fucking mouths shut!"

Kong held his forehead with one hand and spoke furiously.

"Ahahaha..."

"After Roger pulled one over on us last time, Golden Lion, that old bastard, has pulled one over on us again! It seems our Marines still aren't cautious enough!"

Garp sat upon the golden throne beneath him, symbolizing the highest combat power of Marine Headquarters. As he watched Golden Lion Shiki release his final regret before death, he could not help but clutch his stomach and laugh.

"Garp, at a time like this, you can still laugh?"

Sengoku glanced helplessly at Garp beside him.

"Laughing is good for your health."

Garp replied softly.

"The seas were already in chaos, and Golden Lion Shiki's shout has now thrown them into complete turmoil! Our execution of Shiki was meant to cool down these overheated seas and tell those hotheaded youngsters that even the legends of the seas were no match for the Marines and justice!"

"Now Golden Lion has ruined everything! After his declaration, those young people out at sea will only think that our executions of two great legends in such a short span are merely an attempt to conceal the truth. The Marines' actions have indirectly proven that One Piece, that elusive treasure, truly exists! Damn it all!"

As expected of the wise general, Sengoku had analyzed within mere minutes just how severe an impact Golden Lion Shiki's declaration would have on this already unstable world.

"It's fine! Leave the coming era to the young people."

"Sengoku, we should trust the young people. Trust that they will do better than us..."

Garp crossed his arms and looked at Sakazuki and Kuzan, who were still bickering in the distance, with a brilliant smile. Both Kuzan and Sakazuki were Marine prospects he thought highly of. This world would ultimately belong to young people like them...

"Haa..."

Sengoku sighed helplessly at those words.

But as Garp had said, the future belonged to the young.

Fortunately, the strength of these youngsters was truly astonishing!

Although Golden Lion Shiki's declaration had added fuel to seas that were already boiling and running wild, making the blazing flames burn even fiercer!

The images of Sakazuki, Borsalino, and Kuzan wiping out hundreds of pirate ships with a wave of their hands were also spread across the world through this broadcast...

At least this barely salvaged some dignity for justice and the Marines, making those young people who were about to set sail, or had already done so, dare not act too recklessly before the Marines.

"Sengoku, do you know? We're not the ones who should be panicking right now..."

"The ones who should be panicking are Whitebeard and the others!"

"The era will move forward. No one can remain invincible forever..."

Garp spoke with a smile, as though he had already seen the day when he and the others would grow old.

Fortunately, the Marines were flourishing...

Among the younger generation, there were already young fighters capable of taking over from them!

In Garp's view, these still relatively young powerhouses would one day completely surpass him, surpass Zephyr, surpass Sengoku, or even surpass Fleet Admiral Kong.

In the hands of these young people, the Marines would become stronger than ever before!

New World.

Within the territory of the legendary great pirate Whitebeard, aboard the Whitebeard Pirates' flagship, the Moby Dick, which resembled an enormous whale...

Whitebeard, with his magnificent golden hair, silently drank from his bowl of liquor amid the company of his sons while watching the Flying Pirates' final moments through the Live Den Den Mushi distributed by the World Government.

"Magma, ice, light—they're all top-tier Logia powers..."

"The Marines really got their hands on some incredible fruits!"

Marco crossed his arms and spoke with a slight headache.

"Haha, the Flying Pirates are completely finished this time!"

"Exactly! How could humans possibly fight natural disasters?"

"Yeah! Their pirate crew doesn't have a monster like Pops!"

"Hahaha, you dare call Pops a monster? Your skin's itching again, brat!"

"Even so, these guys are way too weak, aren't they?!"

"They were wiped out by the enemy before they could even enter the gates of Marine Headquarters..."

"That Hero of the Marines, Garp, and the admirals Sengoku and Zephyr haven't even made a move, right? And this is the pirate crew of Golden Lion Shiki, who was supposedly on par with Pops?"

"Haha, if we'd known they were this weak, we should've taken them out before they acted! That way, they wouldn't have gone to Marine Headquarters and disgraced us pirates..."

"Ahahahahaha..."

The Whitebeard Pirates' crew had not been frightened by the endless ice, magma that melted all things, or rain of lasers that pierced through everything in the broadcast...

They even had the leisure to mock the Flying Pirates for being too weak and utterly powerless before the Marines' strength. If it had been them, they would certainly have performed far better.

After all, ever since Pirate King Gol D. Roger's Roger Pirates had disbanded, the Whitebeard Pirates had been the strongest pirate crew on these seas...

Rumors even spread throughout the seas that, since Roger's death, the New World had completely entered Whitebeard's era! If Whitebeard wanted to seize One Piece, no one on these seas could possibly stop him. It could be said that Whitebeard was the uncrowned king of pirates!

"The Marines' younger generation has already been nurtured?"

"Roger, it seems we don't have much time left."

"This era will ultimately belong to the young!"

However, unlike the laughing Whitebeard Pirates members, when "Whitebeard" Edward Newgate watched Sakazuki, Kuzan, and Borsalino mercilessly slaughter pirates and effortlessly eliminate countless enemies at Marine Headquarters in the broadcast, his heart trembled slightly...