To be honest, Kizaru quite liked the atmosphere of the New World. It was a pirate's paradise, a garden for the strong, and a gathering place for scum.
Here, Kizaru had nothing to worry about. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call the entire New World his playground.
After checking on the progress of Buggy's project, Kizaru left Kuraigana Island and headed to a famous island: Hachinosu.
This was where the pirate game had begun, a paradise for pirates. Rocks D. Zebek, captain of the Rocks Pirates, had once been the island's master.
After the Battle of God Valley, the Rocks Pirates had fallen apart. One of its members, Ochoku, had taken over Rocks' leadership on Hachinosu and become the island's new master.
In the original One Piece timeline, after the Paramount War, Blackbeard had seized Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit and become a two-Devil-Fruit User. His strength had increased further, and he had replaced the Whitebeard Pirates as a new Emperor of the Sea. Relying on his formidable power, he had also wrested control of Hachinosu from Ochoku and become its new master.
Now, with Kizaru and the Land of Light's arrival, the course of the Paramount War had changed completely. Thanks to Kizaru's intervention, the Whitebeard Pirates had won a complete victory. They had not only rescued Ace, but had suffered almost no casualties.
Whitebeard had even gone to the Land of Light after the Paramount War and been cured of his old ailments, recovering much of his strength and stamina.
Free of illness, Whitebeard was no longer the sick tiger from the Paramount War, capable of exploding into action only a few times in a short span. He was a monster who could unleash his full strength at any moment and fight for long stretches—the man hailed as the