Within the New World Government.
With Houka and the other rulers gone, Houka's woman, Boa Hancock, had become one of the World Government's highest-ranking leaders.
Amazon Lily, Elbaf, and Fish-Man Island, the nations Houka had invited to join, had become the Affiliated Nations that held power at the Reverie.
The Navy remained the World Government's military arm, suppressing unrest across this turbulent world.
The Soul Pirates under Charlotte Linlin's control, formerly the Big Mom Pirates...
Marco the Phoenix, entrusted with instructions by the elderly Whitebeard, was also helping the New World Government suppress the great pirates of the New World.
They actively crushed any pirates who sought to become Emperors.
Their captains, Big Mom and Whitebeard of the Four Emperors, had already fallen, but they would never stand by and watch other pirates claim those titles.
Anyone who wanted to become an Emperor had to get past Sweet Commander Katakuri and Marco the Phoenix first.
They also had to face punitive campaigns from the New World Government and the Navy.
The era had changed!
Houka had brought the Great Pirate Era to an end!
Had Tillyna not had some connection to Rocks, her pirate crew would have been crushed by their combined forces long ago.
It was precisely the Navy's and the Soul Pirates' wariness that allowed Tillyna's crew to expand wildly.
Countless defeated pirates fled to Tillyna for protection and joined her crew.
Only the pirates of the former Whitebeard Pirates were bent on revenge, utterly unafraid of Tillyna's powerful backing as "Rocks's daughter."
But these petty pirate affairs could no longer affect Houka, who had returned.
Houka led the others as they abruptly appeared atop the Red Line.
These "invaders," who had not fused with any locals, brazenly released their auras, drawing the Rain God Puppet's extreme storms.