On an unremarkable island along the Grand Line, a small town lay in ruins.
Smoke filled the air. Buildings had collapsed.
In the middle of the street, a hulking giant with two long blond braids raised his Naginata and slammed its blunt edge down on a pirate lying on the ground. He looked ridiculous, yet his presence was crushing.
"Ahahaha! Who else? Anyone else got a problem with me?"
The giant laughed foolishly, but each blow from his Naginata landed harder than the last.
The man on the ground was a bloody mess. Still, he glared at the giant and cursed, "Pah! You monster! You dare pretend you're Pops's son? I'd rather die than acknowledge you!"
He was one of the forty-three captains who had sailed under the Whitebeard Pirates.
A·0!
He was the sixteenth former Whitebeard captain Edward Weevil had defeated.
After Whitebeard's death, Edward Weevil had appeared on the Grand Line, calling himself Whitebeard II and claiming to be Whitebeard's biological son.
He was tremendously strong, but not particularly bright.
After becoming one of the Shichibukai through a strange twist of fate, Edward Weevil had begun hunting down the former captains of the Whitebeard Pirates.
He intended to seize everything Whitebeard had left behind and prove he was Whitebeard's biological son.
"A·0! You ungrateful fool!"
A shrill woman's voice rang out behind Weevil.
A short old woman with a wrinkled face and garish lipstick hopped forward, leaning on a cane.
She was Buckingham Stussy, a former member of the Rocks Pirates, and she claimed to be Weevil's mother.
Standing beside Weevil's leg with her hands on her hips, she screeched at the surviving members of the A·0 Pirates, "Listen up! My son Weevil is Edward Newgate's biological son! His own flesh and blood!"
She paused and swept a