A year later, in the East Blue,
Foosha Village,
"Damn it, Grandpa!"
"I don't believe you!"
"You're definitely lying to me so I won't go out to sea!"
Monkey D. Luffy wore a straw hat, his mouth comically puffed out as he shouted at the burly old man in front of him.
"How can there be no pirates in the world?"
"And no One Piece, either?!"
Garp seemed hardly changed from a year ago. He still had plenty of energy,
and the severe injuries he'd suffered when Imu struck him had long since healed completely.
"Bam!"
Garp gave Luffy a love-filled punch on the head. Luffy immediately clutched it and scampered away.
"Shut up!"
"I said there are no more pirates!"
"Why do you have to ask so many questions?!"
Garp complained inwardly as well.
The situation at sea is perfectly clear now.
Yet that fellow Dragon is still wandering around everywhere with a position in the Inspectorate...
He can't even be bothered to keep an eye on his own son...
The thought left Garp feeling conflicted.
No one had expected the chaotic Great Pirate Era to end completely in just one year. Even the World Government, which had ruled the world for eight hundred years, had been utterly wiped out,
and even the Marines no longer existed.
Under the Divine Court's rule, there were no more pirates, no more exploitation by the Celestial Dragons, and even the systems of kings and nobles had been mostly abolished.
All kinds of policies and technologies that benefited the people were constantly being developed and put to use. With the problems of sea travel completely solved, the seas had entered an unprecedented age of prosperity.
As for Garp's former Marine colleagues, they had all joined the Divine Court's administration and were putting their