The biggest event, of course, was the Divine Tree that had fallen from the sky, piercing straight through all of Mary Geoise.
The entire world had been shaken by this, and the World Government headquarters had been forced to relocate beneath the Red Line.
Fortunately, the Divine Tree had shown no major activity beyond that. Although two people had emerged from it and stirred up quite a commotion across the world, it was still within tolerable limits.
Hmm, he had heard that one of them was called Orochimaru. He was currently engaged in certain secret dealings with the World Government and had already become its highest-ranking scientist.
The other was called Uchiha Izuna... Over the past few years, he had been madly challenging all sorts of masters across the seas.
Apparently, he had yet to suffer a defeat.
Speaking of which, ever since hearing the Uchiha surname, Kizaru had been in a terrible state. He could not help but think of someone who had left a deep shadow in his heart.
Kizaru had never met either of those two people.
Since becoming Fleet Admiral of the New Navy, he had taken his lazy nature to the extreme. He had no desire whatsoever to chase pirates, not to mention that the New Navy lacked the strength to do so anyway.
As for the pirates, Warring States Period and Garp had their "Justice League" to deal with them. He was more than happy to take it easy.
Besides the two outsiders, many other things had happened as well.
The biggest of them was naturally the current struggle among the three major powers.
Namely, the World Government, the Revolutionary Army, and the New National Alliance!
There was no need to say much about the World Government. It was the most legitimate and most