"Extra! Extra!"
"Golden Emperor Gaia Chaos brazenly robs Heavenly Gold bound for the World Government!"
"Golden Emperor appears on the Grand Line and steals Heavenly Gold."
"Whoever gets the Golden Emperor gets everything."
"Golden Emperor's latest bounty has risen from 783 million to 1.098 billion."
"It's said the Golden Emperor controls more than 50 billion berries' worth of gold."
"Breaking news: Marine Admiral Sengoku will personally capture the Golden Emperor."
"Golden Emperor's subordinate, the Desert King Crocodile, has a bounty of 560 million. He's also a Logia-type Sand-Sand Fruit user."
"According to reports, the Golden Emperor and the Desert King have already plundered thirty merchant ships carrying Heavenly Gold."
For two or three days straight, every newspaper's headlines were about Golden Emperor Gaia Chaos. Crocodile had become famous right alongside him.
His bounty had rocketed to 560 million berries.
He was only eighteen or nineteen, yet had a bounty no one his age should have had to bear.
In the New World, a whale-shaped pirate ship sailed through the waves.
"Gurarara! Seems like all the recent news is about this pirate."
On the vast deck, a man with a crescent-shaped white mustache curled upward and long, wavy golden hair sat drinking from a huge jug of wine, a newspaper in one hand. He stood more than six meters tall, like a giant.
This man would one day be called the strongest in the world. He was Whitebeard Edward Newgate.
"Pops, everyone's saying that whoever gets the Golden Emperor will get the world."
Below Whitebeard sat a tall, thin man with a hairstyle like a pineapple topped with leaves and drooping eyelids.
He was the Whitebeard Pirates' first division commander, Marco the Phoenix.
His Devil Fruit was a Mythical Zoan, rarer even than a Logia.
"The Gold-Gold Fruit... He can control