"Cover serial: Legends." "You've already taken leave twice this year, and you want more? Have you no shame, Garp?!"
"In the top-floor office at Marineford, Steel Bone Kong slammed his hand on the desk and roared in fury. Across from him, Garp, who was munching on a doughnut, merely scratched his head and laughed..."
The "Bubble Queen" Sophia, whose former bounty had approached four hundred million Beli and who was reputed to be the strongest Shichibukai, had actually died in the New World.
The vast force of over five thousand people under her command had been wiped out along with her.
And the man who killed her was an obscure nobody—
"Buggy the Clown."
Almost everyone who saw that name and the young face beaming on the front-page photograph was utterly baffled, wondering whether there had been some mistake.
But the very next day, the papers published detailed information about Buggy. Only then did people discover that his background was anything but ordinary: he had once been a member of Pirate King Gol D. Roger's crew!
All doubts vanished at once.
Captain Buggy's name instantly spread throughout the Four Blues, making him the hottest rising star of the day!
Shakky's Rip-off Bar, Sabaody Archipelago.
"Well, well..."
Shakky held a slender cigarette between the fingers of one hand and the latest newspaper in the other. Raising an eyebrow, she said, "Hey, Rayleigh, looks like one of your ship's apprentices has done something incredible again..."
"Hm?"
The drunken Rayleigh looked up in surprise. "Wasn't Shanks locked up? What, did he break out?"
"Not him."
Shakky sounded exasperated. "Here, see for yourself."
Rayleigh took the paper, glanced at it, and froze. Then he broke into an incredulous chuckle, tossed it aside, and poured himself another drink, curling his lip as he