The Marines underwent a change of command, and Sengoku took office as the new Fleet Admiral.
As the Marine Admirals mobilized in unison to suppress the Four Blues, two years after Roger ushered in the Great Pirate Era, the world order finally underwent tremendous changes.
Those who felt it most deeply were the people of the Four Blues. After two months of Marine cleansing operations, the "social environment" of the Four Blues had been completely transformed. Even the West Blue, once the most chaotic of them all, had become considerably more peaceful. Many pirates abandoned their ships and went ashore, hiding among ordinary civilians.
And in the West Blue, a place that already possessed a strong Mafia character, underground forces expanded at an unprecedented rate.
The newly appointed Admiral Sakazuki, code-named Akainu, was in charge of the West Blue front. He was ruthless in his methods, but he also strictly followed his superiors' orders.
Sengoku had assigned him to eliminate pirates and patrol the West Blue, and Akainu had indeed carried out Sengoku's orders. His fleet had barely stopped sailing.
But this also meant that the pirates who had "gone ashore" and hidden among civilians received no proper "care." His operations instead indirectly worsened the already chaotic state of West Blue society.
But Akainu had no intention of dealing with such matters. Social contradictions were the kingdoms' problem to handle.
Naturally, pirates shifting from the sea to land was not something that happened only in the West Blue. Pirates like that existed in the other three seas as well, but overall, the West Blue had the most severe problem, because it had the most suitable soil for underground forces to grow.
The native Mafia of the West Blue suffered harassment from outside criminal forces disguised as "pirates," and the balance