Roger Turned Himself In
In the Sabaody Archipelago, in Area 13 of the Grand Line, a tavern called "Shakky's Rip-off Bar" has a "Closed Today" sign hanging above it. No one would have guessed that the long-lost Pirate King Roger, is actually here.
Inside the tavern, Roger and Rayleigh sat together, with a woman smoking a cigarette standing nearby. Not wanting to interrupt their conversation, she tactfully left.
"Roger, have you made up your mind?" Rayleigh asked, leaning gently against the table, a wine glass in his hand.
"Yes, my life is almost over, and this is the last thing I want to do," Roger nodded and said.
Looking at Roger, Rayleigh felt a pang of sadness, but his trust in Roger remained unwavering.
"I'm a retired old man now, and I'll probably be staying here from now on." Rayleigh didn't want to say anything more, so he just smiled.
"Haha! This is a great place to retire, where you can keep seeing the scenery of the new era." Roger wasn't surprised that Rayleigh was staying in this place.
Rayleigh knew perfectly well that they were about to part ways, and that this parting would be their last.
"Let me see the future you speak of, the new era." Rayleigh stared at the wine glass in his hand, put it to his lips, and took a small sip.
Roger listened, a bright smile spreading across his face. He picked up his glass, gulped down the wine in one go, placed the Roger on the table, turned and walked towards the door. Suddenly, he stopped.
"Haha! Don't worry, my comrade, I won't die." These were Roger's last words to Rayleigh.
Marineford.
Located on the Grand Line, the Marine Headquarters has always been fighting against evil under the banner of justice, and is a symbol of world justice and peace.
Meanwhile, the Navy has produced a wealth of talent and gradually entered its golden age, with new strongmen constantly emerging, such Fleet Admiral Kong, strategist Sengoku, Garp the Hero, and Black Arm Zephyr... These are all among the strongest in the Grand Line.
Behind them are the new generation of Marine Supernovas, three Logia Devil Fruit User: Sakazuki, the Magma-Magma Devil Fruit User; Borsalino, the Glint-Glint Devil Fruit User; and Kuzan, the Ice-Ice Devil Fruit User. Once they have fully grown up, the Marines will truly enter their golden age.
However, after Roger led his pirate crew to complete the voyage of the Grand Line, he became the world's recognized Pirate King.
From that moment on, Roger's name became a mountain weighing down on the Navy, and the title of Pirate King became a nightmare for the entire Navy.
Apart from Garp, who is hailed as a naval hero and repeatedly cornered Roger, allowing the navy to retain some dignity, most of the navy who came before Roger were defeated and left empty-handed, no match for Roger at all.
After Roger became the Pirate King, pirates became increasingly rampant, and the pressure on the Navy increased significantly, whether in the New World, the first half of the Grand Line, or the four seas.
Throughout the year, they desperately searched for the Roger Pirates and Roger himself, but the Roger Pirates had vanished without a trace, leaving no trace whatsoever. The more this was the case, the more uneasy they became, especially with the pressure from the World Government. The Roger Pirates were already on the World Government's kill list because they had learned something they shouldn't have known, something the World Government was desperately trying to hide.
Today, an uninvited guest arrived here.
"Look, what's that?" On the lookout tower, a navy officer looked out at the distant sea, saw something, turned to his companion, and pointed in that direction.
One of them, holding binoculars, looked in the direction his companion was pointing. "It's a person, standing on a small boat, coming this way."
"They must have encountered a shipwreck and gotten lost," a navy officer guessed. This kind of thing happens frequently, and it wasn't the first time.
"Okay, then the two of us will go to the shore to provide backup." A navy officer patted his comrade on the shoulder.
The remaining navy officer observed the surroundings from the lookout tower.
The small boat drew closer. "Doesn't this person look somewhat familiar?" a sailor asked his companion.
"Yeah, I feel the same way. I think I've seen it before, but I just can't remember." The navy officer nodded.
Roger had disappeared from the seas for a year, and after becoming the Pirate King, there was no further news of him.
As the small boat approached the shore, the two sailors standing on the bank froze, their bodies trembling and speechless. Now, they could see it clearly and recognized it.
"The sea, the sea, the Pirate King, Roger!" A marine finally managed to utter the complete sentence, pulling a wanted poster from his pocket, trembling uncontrollably. It matched perfectly with the pirate in front of him.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" another navy officer shouted, taking a remote control out of his pocket and pressing the red alarm button on it.
Suddenly, Marineford's alarm sounded, alerting the entire Marine Headquarters.
"What's going on?" Marshal Kong looked up, Sengoku immediately stood up from his seat. "Has the navy been invaded?"
Garp, who was eating a donut, stopped what he was doing. "I think I sense a familiar presence."
"Report! Someone has breached Marine Headquarters!" A naval officer rushed in from outside the meeting room, panting.
"Who are they? How many are there?" Sengoku asked, staring at him.
"It's Pirate King Roger, but it seems he's all alone." The officer was also somewhat puzzled.
Upon hearing this name they had longed for but had lost touch with for so long, Kong asked with a serious expression, "What? A person? Did he say something?"
"I don't know, I rushed over as soon as I received the news." The officer shook his head.
All the senior officers who remained at headquarters were mobilized. Marshal Sora, Admiral Sengoku, Vice Admiral Garp, Vice Admiral Tsuru, and Marine Instructor Zephyr led the way, and Marine Headquarters was on high alert.
All the generals who had gathered around were whispering among themselves in the distance, their eyes filled with wariness as they looked at Roger, their hands gripping their weapons tightly.
Even though the Pirate King Roger hadn't made a move, these officers dared not relax their guard in the slightest when he was just standing there.
As they approached from a distance, the navy in front made way for them. Garp and the others immediately spotted the familiar figure standing quietly on the shore. They didn't get close, fearing something might happen.
Roger came here alone; he must have some premeditated plan.
"Roger, what are you trying to do?" Sengoku clenched his fists, his muscles tense, ready to strike at any moment.
Garp, standing to the side, clenched his teeth, unleashing a terrifying aura.
Kong was in the same boat, already adjusting his aura, because since becoming Marshal, he had not made a move since the battle with that monster two years ago.
At that moment, Roger had been standing silently on the opposite shore, suddenly took two steps forward, looked at them, and said, "Gentlemen, I've come to turn myself in!"
Upon hearing this, Kong, Sengoku, and Garp all wore identical expressions, their faces darkening and their eyes twitching violently. The aura they had gathered instantly froze.
Zephyr's fist froze in mid-air; he had already been about to make his move as Roger walked forward.
As for the Marine General who were on high alert, they were all dumbfounded, their jaws practically dropping to the ground.
None of them could believe it, but things really did turn out differently than they expected. Roger was handcuffed without any resistance, but they still couldn't believe it. With Garp and Sengoku, two of the strongest fighters, guarding Roger and protecting Roger, no pirate had ever received such the highest level of treatment.
Roger was imprisoned in a naval prison, Marine Headquarters immediately held a meeting regarding the matter.
"What are your thoughts?" Kong asked.
"It must have been premeditated. It's too simple. Why would Roger surrender?" Even Vice Admiral Tsuru, known for his intelligence, couldn't figure out Roger's intentions.
They discussed it for a long time, but couldn't reach a conclusion.
"Then let's inform the World Government first and see what they think." Sora's decision was the best course of action.
The World Government had received the news. In the highest governing building, "Roger has surrendered. What was the plan?" asked one of the Gorosei, a man with long, straight hair and a long beard.
"Don't worry about that. It's already in our hands, so we can do whatever we want with it," the Gorosei with short, golden beards laughed.
"Then let's execute him publicly, and also give these pirates on the high seas a good beating." The bald Gorosei, with a mustache shaped like the number eight, nodded.
"Where will the execution take place?"
"It was in Loguetown in the East Blue, Roger's hometown, that he was publicly executed in front of the world," said the Gorosei in kimonos, wielding a samurai sword.
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That's the decision.
That very day, the earth-shattering news spread throughout the world: the Pirate King Roger, with a bounty of 5.4648 billion Beli, had been captured by the Marine Garp the Hero.
He will be publicly executed three months later in Loguetown, Roger's hometown, in the East China Sea.
"What? Roger has been arrested?" Golden Lion Shiki was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat upon hearing the news.
"It's reliable information!" the pirate below said earnestly.
"Stop talking nonsense, how can anyone believe something like that?" Shiki retorted, his powerful aura making people afraid to approach. Shiki was currently enraged. "You should know how powerful that guy is."
The pirates below were silenced by his rebuttal. "Admiral, calm down. I have some news about Roger that I received before, but I didn't quite believe it, so I didn't tell you." Rhine, as the second-in-command, saw Shiki's impulsiveness and took out a Den Den Mushi, handing it to Shiki.
"Someone taught me this through some unknown method? They know information about Roger," Rhine said softly.
The surrounding pirates dared not speak. Chronos always put Shiki first, and only Rhine could stop Shiki.
"News about Roger." Shiki had always harbored a deep obsession with Roger. He had failed the previous search, but he hadn't given up on finding Roger. However, he never expected that after becoming the Pirate King, the entire Roger Pirates would disappear without a trace.
Turn on the Den Den Mushi, "Burp burp!" The Den Den Mushi has been connected.
"Hehehe, is that Shiki?" A man's voice came through the Den Den Mushi, laced with laughter, his eyes revealing a wicked confidence.
On the other end of the Den Den Mushi, Teach was alone in her room. Teach had been waiting there ever since news of Roger's execution spread across the ocean.
This Den Den Mushi was delivered by Shiki's subordinates. It was assumed that Shiki would get his hands on it, but it was intercepted by Rhine, the second-in- Flying Pirates. Although Rhine didn't believe him, he would definitely hand it over to Shiki under these circumstances.
"Who are you, kid?" Judging from the voice, the person was clearly young. Shiki didn't take him seriously at all. "Tell me quickly, what's Roger's news?" Shiki said in a deep voice into the Den Den Mushi.
He was losing control of himself; he couldn't believe Roger had been captured by the Navy. He felt a sense of urgency, and those who knew him knew that Shiki was on the verge of exploding.
"Hahaha, no need to rush, Shiki, Roger has turned himself in!" Teach said with a laugh, looking at Shiki's expression on the Den Den Mushi Shiki.
"What?!" Not only Shiki, but the other pirates present also found it hard to believe. "Damn it, what nonsense are you talking about! This is even more ridiculous than being caught by the Navy!" one of the pirates shouted loudly.
"Kid! You're playing me for a fool." Shiki didn't believe it, staring at the Den Den Mushi with some anger.
"How could that be?" Teach wasn't nervous at all, a smile spreading across his face. "Roger was diagnosed with a terminal illness several years ago, an incurable one. Even a man like him, when faced with a disease that no doctor in the world could cure, he only had two years to live after the last battle with you at Battle of Edd War. And now, he's almost dead. Whitebeard knows this. If you don't believe me, go ask him."
Shiki had calmed down, and upon hearing the news, he began to believe it.
"Why are you telling me this?" Shiki asked.
"Hahaha! I've already helped you twice. I don't want you to do anything irrational. Just maintaining the chaos in the New World is enough. We'll meet again after I arrive in the New World," Teach laughed loudly, then hung up the Den Den Mushi.
Facing the Den Den Mushi that had already hung up, Shiki wasn't angry; instead, a smile appeared on his face. He no longer had any intention of joining the Navy. "Hehehe! Just you wait, Whitebeard's ship!"
To become the overlord of the New World, Shiki is no slouch either. He immediately guessed Teach's identity from Teach words. Teach had helped him twice, except for this time, which was during the super storm two years ago. If Whitebeard hadn't intervened and made Rhine realize that the weather was off, Shiki's Flying Pirates would have suffered heavy losses.
Shiki's face still held a hint of anticipation. Teach was a member of the Whitebeard Pirates, but he already had the idea of going independent, which Shiki found very interesting.