Sabaody Archipelago, District 13.
Shakky is in a good mood today.
As the previous emperor of the Amazon Lily Kingdom, although she has not been involved in the affairs of the kingdom for many years, she has been secretly paying attention to Amazon Lily. As early as Marine Headquarters had an iron-blooded Marshal, she was worried that the current Empress Hancock of the Amazon Lily Kingdom would be liquidated.
After all, Hancock is one of Shichibukai. Judging from the temperament of this young and hard-blooded Marshal, it is obvious that Shichibukai, who is between the pirates and the navy, will not be allowed to continue to exist.
However, her worries were obviously unnecessary. The young Navy King did not catch all Shichibukai in one fell swoop. He only made the other six people surrender by killing the chickens to scare the monkeys.
She doesn't care what other Shichibukai is thinking in her heart. She only knows that Amazon Lily's Empress Hancock has obviously made the wisest choice. With the protection of Navy King who dares to let Holy Land sign Mary Geoise Treaty, the Amazon Lily kingdom will sit back and relax for many years to come.
The most important thing is that just now she received the latest information, Marine Headquarters, the young Marshal, suddenly came to East Blue, and brought with him all the Shichibukai who bowed their heads.
She still doesn't care what Navy Marshal does when East Blue comes, and she doesn't care if other Shichibukai follow her. Akira can bring Hancock with it, which means that Hancock's performance in Marine Headquarters is pretty good.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, Shakky turned his head and looked towards the corner of the bar.
Seeing Rayleigh sitting there alone, looking at the burned-out picture of Vivre Card in front of him, Shakky was stunned for a moment, then left the bar and walked over.
"You didn't go for coating today?"
Shakky, who came to Rayleigh, glanced at Vivre Card that had burned to ashes, and asked curiously, "Is it because of this Vivre Card?"
"Hachi is dead!"
Rayleigh nodded seriously, with a touch of sadness in his words. He shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Although I have expected it, I still feel sad. It seems that I am really old!"
Hearing this, Shakky fell silent.
As early as when the news of Arlong Pirates's attack on the warships reached Marine Headquarters, she and Rayleigh had a premonition that Akira, the new Navy Marshal, would definitely do something. Action, regardless of Akira's personal temperament, any pirate force that dares to attack the navy at this time will be unacceptable to Akira who has just become the headquarters of Marshal, because it is equivalent to declaring war on him.
The most important thing is that Akira has just publicly executed Whitebeard Jr. and asked Shichibukai to surrender. It can be said that it has made a big splash in front of all the forces in the world. Under such circumstances, not to mention just a Arlong Pirates, even the sea emperors like New World must avoid their sharpness.
No, Beasts Pirates, who had previously taken action because Jaz, one of Shichibukai, was killed by Akira, suddenly became very quiet these days.
Even Beasts Pirates led by one of Yonko, Kaido, chose to swallow their anger at this time. Arlong Pirates was undoubtedly digging his own grave when he came out to cause trouble.
However, although they knew that Akira would definitely suppress it with thunder, they did not expect that Akira would come to East Blue when New World Yonko Kaido's movements were unknown.
After a short silence, Shakky tentatively said, "Do you need to go to East Blue? After all, Hachi is your benefactor..."
Before Shakky could finish what he said, Rayleigh immediately shook his head and said, "Since he chose to go to sea to become a pirate, I believe he has long been prepared to die. If Navy Marshal can come here in person, he will be considered a worthy death."
East Blue, Cocoyasi Village.
In front of the gate of Arlong Park, Nojiko with short purple hair stood side by side with a little girl with short orange hair and wearing a dress. The girl looked to be about twelve or thirteen years old. She blinked her brown eyes and looked at the park with tears in her eyes as they counted the treasures Beli that Arlong's group had collected over the years.
Nami was rescued from the battlefield when he was still an infant by Bellemere, a navy soldier at that time. Later, he and Nojiko followed Bellemere to settle in Cocoyasi Village.
"Nojiko, Arlong and the others... were they really killed?"
After staring at the busy navy in front for a moment, Nami turned his head and looked at Nojiko with a pear-shaped face, and choked up. "These navy... won't be the same as the previous navy."
"No."
Nojiko shook his head and pointed at the young figure sitting on the throne that formerly belonged to Arlong, "Did you see that Navy Lord? He is Lord Marshal of Marine Headquarters! I heard Gen say that Lord Marshal just issued a pirate hunt order, and East Blue and all Marine Branch will immediately hunt down all pirates!"
At this point, Nojiko's voice suddenly became choked up, "It would be great if this adult became Marshal earlier, so that Bellemere wouldn't..."
Before Nojiko could finish speaking, Tashigi suddenly ran quickly in front of them.
"Nojiko, Nami--"
"Follow me, Lord Marshal wants to see you!"
Tashigi, who came in front of the two of them, didn't talk nonsense. He left these words and led the two of them back the way they came.
At the same time.
Ain, who was standing next to Akira, took out a piece of information and said with a serious expression, "Lord Marshal, Cocoyasi Village's treasures looted by Arlong's gang over the years have all been recorded. In addition, news has just come from the 16th Branch archives, 16th Branch did have a naval soldier named Bellemere who participated in the mission of exterminating pirates in a territory named Oykot Kingdom within the jurisdiction of 16th Branch. During this battle, Bellemere found two children on the way. Later, because one of the children had a high fever, she chose to leave the navy and take the children around to seek medical treatment."
"According to Bellemere's superior, although Bellemere is a female soldier, she is very brave."
"Bellemere had no contact with 16th Branch after leaving the navy. It wasn't until Arlong's group appeared and ruled with high pressure over a dozen nearby villages that she sent a letter to 16th Branch asked for help, but he did not expect that Captain Rat, then 16th Branch, had colluded with Arlong, and eventually died under the gun of Arlong."
"According to the villagers and Gen, the rules set by the Arlong group are that the civilians under their rule must pay money to buy their lives every month, your Excellency, one hundred thousand Beli, the child was 50,000 Beli. At that time, Bellemere scraped together 100,000 Beli. She could have lived, but she gave the chance of life to her two adopted daughters."
Having said this, Ain paused for a moment, then looked up at Akira with red eyes, "Lord Marshal, Bellemere has not disgraced himself. Because of her status as a navy, she bravely chose to fight Arlong at first, but her strength was limited. But even so, she did not kneel down and beg for mercy, but faced Arlong's gun and died calmly!"
"According to some villagers, when Bellemere was fighting Arlong, she proudly said that she used to be a soldier!"
"Therefore, my subordinates believe that Bellemere should be posthumously named a naval hero!"
As soon as Ain finished speaking, Gen, who had been standing quietly beside him, once again failed to control his emotions, his shoulders shook violently, and tears burst into his face silently.
It was an unexpected surprise for Gen, Cocoyasi Village and all the villages occupied by Arlong Pirates that the navy could appear at this time and kill all Arlong's group.
But Gen never thought that all this was just the beginning. Bellemere, who had left the navy for many years in order to raise two war orphans, Nojiko and Nami, would once again gain the attention of the top brass of the navy. At this moment, he was even proposed to be posthumously named a naval hero.
"Nojiko, Nami--"
"Why don't you thank the navy sir!"
Gen, who couldn't control his emotions, saw Nami and Nojiko being brought over by Tashigi. He quickly walked over and pulled them to kneel down facing Akira. He shouted with a trembling voice, "Lord Marshal, I'll take Bellemere's place... Thank you!"
At this moment, more thanks suddenly sounded.
Looking around, I saw that all the villagers were so moved that they knelt in front of Akira outside the gate of Arlong Park after receiving part of the money they had paid to Arlong's gang over the years from the navy soldiers.
"Thank you, Lord Navy!"
"Long live Lord Marshal!"
"Lord Marshal, you are our reborn parents!"
The sudden scene caught all the navy soldiers by surprise. They all stood there and didn't know what to do. They all looked up and looked at Akira.
Akira obviously did not expect that the villagers outside the park would kneel down together with Gen. After a brief moment of confusion, Akira frowned slightly, then stood up and said in a deep voice, "What are you doing?"
As Akira finished speaking, the villagers suddenly became quiet.
However, no one stood up, including Gen. Instead, as if they had done something wrong, they were filled with fear and fear under the powerful aura of Akira.
Seeing that no one responded, Akira stepped in front of Gen, raised his hand and patted Gen on the shoulder, and then swept the entire audience with his sharp eyes.
"From now on, any evil force, a certain noble, the king of a country, or the superior Celestial Dragons, if their civilization makes you bow your knees, let you worship!"
"What you have to do is not to kneel down and humble yourself to survive, but to dare to face the dripping blood like Bellemere did back then, and let them know the barbaric pride!"
"In the past, I was humble and could not influence the world situation, but from now on, I am with you!"
"Please remember what I am saying now!"
After a slight pause, Akira's voice suddenly rose, and each word was sonorous:
"Stand up!"
"Give it all to me, stand up!"
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