The Era of Supernovas Begins Above Jupiter

Time flew by.

Another five months passed.

The sea had been lively over the past five months.

For example, Marine Admiral Akainu had personally pursued the Straw Hat Pirates, but they had escaped.

Sakazuki was absolutely furious.

The reason her attempts to capture the Straw Hat Pirates had failed several times was that the Revolutionary Army kept interfering. Dragon himself had even stepped in twice to stop her.

Otherwise, how could the Straw Hat Pirates have escaped her grasp?

Now Sakazuki felt humiliated, especially after the newspapers reported that a dignified Marine Admiral couldn't even catch a pirate with a bounty of 300 million berries.

She felt utterly disgraced.

She wouldn't give up until she dealt with the Straw Hat Pirates.

As for the fact that they had defeated Shichibukai Gecko Moria, the Marines kept it secret.

At the same time, they were secretly searching for a new Shichibukai candidate. After all, a defeated Shichibukai had lost his power to intimidate, which didn't serve the Marines' interests.

Poor Moria.

He'd run into Monkey D. Luffy at his strongest. After all, the first time Luffy used Gear Fourth had been against the spirited young man, Doflamingo. Who would've thought Moria would be the first to experience it!

But Moria wasn't an ordinary man either. Times had changed, after all.

If he wanted to hold on to his position as a Shichibukai, then with the kind of strength he'd had in the original story, he'd probably have been buried long ago.

This battle made it clear: even after Luffy entered Gear Fourth, he still had trouble defeating Moria. At best, they were evenly matched. In the end, it took Zoro, Sanji, Robin, Brook, and the others helping out to beat Moria.

That showed just how different Moria was after being tempered by