The East Blue was destined for an extraordinarily lively day. With the war between the New World emperors over, the Straw Hat Crew's new wanted posters quickly spread across the world.
At this level, people viewed the Straw Hat Crew's bounties completely differently than before. The original purpose of placing bounties on pirates was to encourage those below to take action against criminals—whether bounty hunters or ordinary civilians, or even pirates fighting one another for fame.
But once a bounty reached a certain amount, no one would go after those pirates for money. After all, anyone strong enough to kill a pirate with a 3-billion-berry bounty had plenty of lower-risk ways to earn 3 billion berries. And most people like that weren't very interested in money anyway.
When it came to the handful of pirates with such enormous bounties, people tended to take a different attitude.
As Lina put it, these people were the so-called...
—spectators.
"—Hey! What are you all doing? Stop it, you idiots!"
In the backyard of Isshin Dojo in Shimotsuki Village, several trees stood beside the wall, and birds hopped among the green leaves. In the open training yard, children in neat rows of uniforms practiced with all their might.
Just then, an exasperated shout drowned out their cries as they trained.
Seeing the students in front of him imitating Three Sword Style with wooden swords clenched in their mouths, Koushirou's forehead creased with anger.
"But, teacher, the swordsman Roronoa uses Three Sword Style."
A sweat-soaked student said as he swung his swords.
The student beside him was sweating just as hard and chimed in:
"Exactly! Just you wait, teacher. I'll become a pirate as powerful as him soon!"
"You... you...!"
Koushirou clenched his fists, unable to hold back.
Right in front of the students, a