The Red-Haired Pirates disbanded, and "Four Emperor" Shanks turned himself in!
While Aokiji was still busy creating ice to force out the Sea King, the sea, which had only just begun to recover from the smoke of war, was immediately rocked by this earth-shattering news.
Countless pirates screamed in disbelief and took to the streets to vent their fury, denouncing Shanks as unworthy of being a pirate. Yet they could not change the fact that the "Four Emperors" had become a thing of the past.
On a deserted island, Kaido, who lived a life of raw meat and blood, stared at the newspaper in shock. He then crumpled it into a ball and threw it into the campfire.
"Tch. That brat sure got a bargain!"
If he had not disbanded his pirate crew, Shanks's action would have represented only his personal surrender.
But precisely because he had disbanded his pirate crew beforehand, Shanks turning himself in afterward represented the New World, previously dominated by pirates, completely submitting to the authority of the Holy Land.
To borrow a common saying about the sea, the first half of the Grand Line was called "Paradise," while the latter half was the "New World."
Even if the Great Pirates who emerged from the first half could make it through the latter half, it was hard to say whether anyone would remember their names.
The vast difference in pirate strength and quality had forged the New World's lofty status in the hearts of pirates.
That had never changed for hundreds of years!
But now, it was gone.
Simply put...
The backbone of the pirates had been broken!
And it had been broken by their own people!
No one knew what the future would bring, but in the present era, the pirates no longer had any