"This is bad. This is bad."
"We need to get out of here too!"
In a corner of Marineford Plaza, a group of escaped prisoners wearing black-and-white striped uniforms huddled together, trembling as they watched Whitebeard, who had returned from the dead and was now displaying immense power in the battlefield.
A Mohawk-haired man held up a Video Transponder Snail and pointed it reverently at the red-nosed man before him.
"Come on, Captain Buggy! Please offer your grand closing remarks for this war!"
"Ah-ha. Um, well~~"
Buggy waved his hands helplessly, forcing an awkward grin at the Video Transponder Snail while crying bitter tears in his heart.
Waaaah, why?!
How did things end up like this—waaaah!
I never wanted to become famous, damn it!
It was all an accident! Why doesn't anyone believe me?! How could the Gates of Justice possibly have been opened because I cursed at them?!
At the same time, at the Sabaody Archipelago.
In the bustling plaza, the crowds gathered there stared intently at the screen overhead, their faces full of anger and impatience.
"Damn Buggy! Point the camera at Whitebeard!"
"Where's Ace? Where is Ace?!"
"Black Snake Reiner got slapped to death by Sengoku?!"
"Who wants to look at your huge red nose, you bastard?!"
Everyone who had come to watch the battle cursed at Buggy on the screen.
Just as the Whitebeard Pirates were about to storm the plaza, the live broadcast signal from the Sabaody Archipelago had abruptly cut out.
It had not returned for a long time, and everyone had thought they would never get to see the outcome. Then, just moments ago, the broadcast had suddenly resumed.
But!
Ace was gone from the execution platform?!
Black Snake Reiner, a recent figure of public attention and member of the Straw Hat Crew,