"Extra! Extra!"
"The Roger Pirates and the Flying Pirates clashed in the Edowar Sea, where they were caught in severe weather!"
"The Navy's Buddha Sengoku and Hero Garp joined the battle!"
"The world's richest man, the Golden Emperor, made an appearance!"
The next day, a newspaper spread across the seas, and the incident in the Edowar Sea had indeed made the news.
It caused a worldwide uproar.
After all, both the Flying Pirates and the Roger Pirates were famous throughout the world.
No one had expected the two sides to clash in the Edowar Sea, but the report didn't reveal the outcome.
It only said that they had encountered severe weather and that both sides were missing!
High above the New World, at an altitude of a thousand meters, nearly fifty pirate ships and several islands hung suspended in the air.
On the central island stood a vast cluster of palace buildings. At that moment, the atmosphere in the main hall was oppressive and heavy.
Golden Lion sat on his throne, a cigar in his mouth and an unhappy look on his face.
Unlike in the original story, Golden Lion didn't have a ship's wheel embedded in his head this time. His forces had only suffered half their strength in losses, rather than being completely wiped out.
He had Chaos to thank for that final warning. It had given Golden Lion a few seconds to react, allowing him to use the Float-Float Fruit to send a large portion of his fleet into the sky.
He had managed to escape unscathed as well.
Just a few seconds had been enough to change a great many things.
The battle had already veered far from its expected course.
Somewhere across an ocean stretching for thousands of miles, beneath a cloudless sky!
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