The war at Marineford had drawn to a close, but its impact on the world had only just begun to ferment.
For the past dozen years or so, a saying had circulated across the seas: the cooperation and conflict between the three great powers—the Four Emperors, the Marines, and the Seven Warlords of the Sea—together maintained order over the entire ocean.
Whether that saying was right or not aside, it had indeed taken deep root in people's hearts.
And in this battle, one corner of the Four Emperors had been broken off—and it was the most important corner, the one considered the strongest.
The Seven Warlords of the Sea had lost two in one breath.
Knight of the Sea Jinbe had willingly been imprisoned because he refused to attack Whitebeard, then broken out of jail and come to aid the Whitebeard Pirates. No matter how one looked at it, he definitely could not remain a Warlord.
As for Blackbeard Teach, who had only just become one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, he was even more outrageous. He had taken the initiative to attack the great prison Impel Down, then brought his newly acquired crew members to Marineford to face off against Admiral Akainu, and finally taken advantage of the chaos to obtain Whitebeard's power, the Paramecia Devil Fruit said to be the strongest.
Besides that, was the news announced by the Seven Warlords of the Sea's Moria—that Kaido of the Beasts, one of the Four Emperors, was dead—true? What had come of Charlotte Linlin chasing him all the way? How would the struggle between Blackbeard and the remnants of the Whitebeard Pirates develop?
And so on and so forth—a whole series of questions came one after another.
Any single one of these matters, taken on its own, was