The Navy's Miserable State-Gaia Was Still the One to Blame

A day after the Whitebeard Pirates clashed with the Blackbeard Pirates.

The New World.

A fortress that had once belonged to the Navy.

It was now the site of New Marineford.

The Navy had already decided that Sakazuki would be its new Fleet Admiral.

Her first move was to relocate the Navy's future headquarters to the New World. Such a decisive act made Sakazuki's domineering, uncompromising nature crystal clear.

It was a message to the entire world: the Navy would no longer be as mild as it had been.

There was no room for even a grain of sand in the name of justice.

Sakazuki would rebuild the Navy. This era would be hers.

New Marineford was still under construction, but the Headquarters Building had already risen from the ground.

The top floor.

The conference room could seat ten thousand people, but now it wasn't even a tenth full.

That was with the Five Elders assigning army officers and personnel from other agencies to the Navy. Otherwise, there probably wouldn't have been even thirty people in the whole room. After all, like the Whitebeard Pirates, the Navy had only a handful of people left.

Its mid-level forces had been almost completely wiped out, leaving it with no one to carry on the torch.

At the head of the table sat someone other than Sengoku now: Sakazuki, brimming with confidence and fighting spirit.

"It's been confirmed. The Whitebeard Pirates are fighting the Blackbeard Pirates, and remnants of the Big Mom Pirates are suspected of having allied with the Whitebeard Pirates."

Tsuru sat in her seat and briefed them on the situation in the New World.

This wasn't the first meeting.

They'd already held one when the Beasts Pirates clashed with the Blackbeard Pirates.

"Hmph!"

"Once the Navy has been rebuilt, those