In the New World, at Morgans News Agency, Morgans was studying his printing press when a white News Bird suddenly flew over and cawed twice. Smiling, Morgans said, "Did Lord Flame Emperor send me another letter?"
The News Bird shook its head and cawed twice more. Morgans excitedly said, "Could it be that Lord Flame Emperor sent me more funding? Isn't that too soon? He only gave me a few million Berries last time, and I haven't even spent it all."
The News Bird directly carried the photographs and tape from its basket over to Morgans in its beak. Smiling, Morgans said, "It must be the latest news from the Flame Dragon Kingdom, asking me to report on it. Let me see what kind of news it is first."
At this time, Morgans was only twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old. He had yet to become the king of public opinion who would dominate the New World twenty years later. Several news agencies still competed with Morgans, and his news reports were not yet as vicious as they were in the original story.
Morgans took the tape and photographs. One showed Julian sitting atop a huge pile of Berries and Gold Coins. The Gold Coins and Berries had been piled into a small mountain, and after editing, the mountain looked enormous—worth several tens of billions at least. Morgans then continued watching the tape.
An old man held up a Devil Fruit and shouted, "Lord Flame Emperor, I want to sell it to you! I want five hundred million!" Julian's face looked incomparably domineering as he waved a hand and bought it for six hundred million. The old man then lay atop the Berries and shouted, "Six hundred million is more than I can spend in a lifetime! I'm rich! I don't