"Beep!"
"Beep!" "Beep!"
"Beep!"
On the Golden Mother, formerly known as the Great DeSoro, now called the Brat Ship, red warning lights flashed throughout the streets, docks, corridors, and interior passageways. Short, unnerving alarms rang out again and again.
At the sound of the alarms, countless workers and soldiers immediately took up their positions, ready for action. Everyone else in Golden City hurried home as fast as they could, shut every door and window, and locked them. In an instant, the enormous city was deserted.
Although it was daytime, the sky was still covered in dark, heavy clouds. It was an oppressive scene, as if a storm were about to break.
However...
The citizens aboard the Golden Mother had hurried home this time not because a storm was coming, but because the owner of the ship—the Brat Pirates—was about to fight a decisive battle against two of the Four Emperors of the New World: the Beasts Pirates and the Big Mom Pirates!
At that moment, anyone standing at the highest point of the Golden Mother—the rooftop palace gardens atop the Golden King Hotel—and looking west through a telescope would easily spot a vast spread of sails in the distance!
They were the main fleets of the Beasts Pirates and the Big Mom Pirates!
They had now left the waters around Whole Cake Island of their own accord and appeared on the horizon, at the far edge of the sea. That was why the short, irritating "beep, beep" alarms had never stopped ringing throughout the enormous, resplendent Golden Mother and the equally resplendent Golden City.
Since the decisive battle was about to begin, all the ships docked inside the Brat Ship had also gone out. They included the fleet of Donquixote Doflamingo's Family, Gild Tesoro's flashy but useless Golden Armada, and