Fujitora Issho's Journey to the Land of Light

The East Blue! This was nothing like the Grand Line. The World Government had always regarded it as its own backyard.

If the Assassin Brotherhood dared to send troops in and seize the entire East Blue, they would face the most brutal crackdown the world had ever seen.

By then, in the eyes of the World Government, the Assassin Brotherhood would be more dangerous than the Four Emperors and the Revolutionaries. It would become a target the World Government would stop at nothing to eliminate.

Pirates were no more than bandits on the run, while the Revolutionaries could barely be called rebels. In the World Government's eyes, the threat posed by either group was still manageable.

But what the Assassin Brotherhood had already done—and what it was about to do—was another matter entirely.

This was an open declaration of war!

At the thought, Fujitora Issho suddenly felt a little regretful. He'd joined the wrong ship without even realizing it!

Leave whenever he wanted? What good would that do? As far as the World Government was concerned, he was probably already a confirmed member of the Assassin Brotherhood.

The News Coo worked tirelessly, soaring through the sky with a new wanted poster in tow—one sure to shock the entire sea. They delivered it to every potential buyer willing to pay, whether noble, pirate, or Demi-human.

The World Government had identified the culprit behind the attack on the Holy Land Mary Geoise: "The Raging Ruffian" Fujitora Issho, suspected Paramecia user of the Press-Press Fruit, with a bounty of two billion.

Two billion! Fujitora Issho had set a new record for the highest bounty ever given to a pirate at the start of his career.

A shinobi from the Assassin Brotherhood, out gathering intelligence and selecting assassination targets, delivered the wanted poster to