After Roger was publicly executed, the Great Pirate Era began.
After that, the Navy began settling old scores, using iron-fisted methods to punish everyone connected to Roger.
Not a single person who had anything to do with Roger was spared.
If Garp had not intervened back then, Ace would never have survived to this day.
The large-scale arrests naturally targeted the remnants of the Roger Pirates as well.
As a result, the remnants of the Roger Pirates fled or went into hiding.
To the Navy, that arrest operation should have been a fight to the death.
However, what the Navy never expected was that the treasure Roger dangled before his death would directly inspire heroes from every corner of the world. One fierce character after another took the stage on this grand platform known as the sea.
Faced with the sudden surge in the number of pirates, the Navy was overwhelmed for a time.
The strain on its forces affected its efforts to hunt down the remnants of the Roger Pirates.
Thus, the intensity of the operation gradually decreased until, in the end, it was called off completely.
It was hard to say whether Roger had anticipated this outcome.
But one thing was certain: the words Roger spoke before his death had not only ushered in the Great Pirate Era, but had also, in some mysterious way, helped his crew.
After that, the members of the Roger Pirates scattered throughout the world.
As time passed, many of them lost contact with one another.
Gaban was one of Roger's closest aides, and one of the few people Saul had remained in contact with.
Now that Mad Hatter Town had fallen, Saul had no intention of staying in the West Blue.
The place he could think of going in the short term