The newspaper had crammed together several explosive reports that could each be called major events.
The third report in the most prominent section, however, concerned the Shichibukai.
After the Summit War, only two Shichibukai remained.
They were Empress Hancock and Hawk Eyes Mihawk.
Such a severe shortage had reduced the Shichibukai system to something that existed in name only.
But to some senior officers in Marine Headquarters who had opposed the Shichibukai system from the beginning, this was a rare opportunity to take advantage of the situation and abolish it.
Many senior officers immediately submitted a joint proposal to cancel the Shichibukai system.
The newly appointed Marine Admiral Fujitora was among them...
However, the World Government paid no heed to the voices from the upper ranks of Marine Headquarters, most of which were led by the Admirals.
To maintain the balance of power, the World Government instead ordered the Marines to find suitable successors to the Shichibukai as quickly as possible.
Faced with the higher-ups' forceful demand, Marine Headquarters could only comply. They sifted through the massive amount of data in their intelligence archives, then found candidates who met the requirements to succeed the Shichibukai.
In less than five days, three great pirates had agreed to the Marines' invitation and taken the vacant Shichibukai positions.
These three great pirates were the recently active Whitebeard Jr. Edward Weevil, Chinjao, the twelfth-generation leader of the long-famous Happo Navy, and the rising star of a pirate, White Horse Cavendish.
"They filled all three vacancies at once?"
Maud looked at the report about the Shichibukai. His gaze swept past Cavendish's photograph, and he muttered in confusion, "I never expected Little Cavendish to accept the World Government's invitation. Could it be that he did it just to make the headlines...?"
In a café on a