With the Seven Warlords of the Sea system about to be abolished, the current members of the Seven Warlords naturally had to find another way to survive.
Hawkeye remained a lone wolf as ever. After cutting down the Marines who came to capture him, he vanished without a trace. Moria set sail again and began matching wits with the Marines in the New World. Bartholomew Kuma, meanwhile, had already been completely modified by the government, becoming a robot with no consciousness of his own.
None of them were particularly afraid of being hunted by the Marines.
But there were two exceptions: Boa Hancock and Doflamingo.
One was the empress of Amazon Lily, and the other was the king of Dressrosa. Both had hard-earned foundations under them that they could not easily abandon.
If they stayed where they were, they were bound to be unable to stand against the Marines; but if they abandoned everything and left, they could not bear to do it either.
So there was only one path left—find someone to rely on.
Looking across the entire sea, the only ones capable of serving as their backers were the two remaining emperor-class pirate crews: the Big Mom Pirates and the Red Hair Pirates.
And because of differences in ideals, Doflamingo did not go to Red-Haired Shanks. Instead, he ran to Whole Cake Island and asked Big Mom for help.
Although he understood that he would most likely have to pay the price of marrying one of her daughters, as long as he could preserve his foundation, it would all be worth it.
But what he did not know was that not long after he left Dressrosa, two pirate crews quietly approached the place.
The Straw Hat Pirates. The Heart Pirates.
One came for revenge; as for the other,