More than a month had passed since the major incident at the Reverie.
Many major events had taken place during that time.
One of them was the Five Elders holding Garp and Dawn accountable.
Garp put on an attitude of, "I'm retired, so do whatever the hell you want," leaving the Five Elders with no way to deal with that old bastard who feared no consequences.
So, the Five Elders turned their attention toward the "mastermind" in their eyes.
Compared to Garp, what Dawn had done was far more infuriating to them.
Not only had he refused to provide aid, he had even driven back the CP0 agents who had found the two men and demanded that they return for support. At the same time, he had used his ability to escort the kings to Sabaody.
In their eyes, that had been completely unnecessary. If not for Dawn's actions, they could have salvaged the situation afterward and mitigated the consequences.
Instead, the kings had departed separately, causing the World Government's influence to plummet. That outcome directly enraged the Five Elders.
Yet when the Five Elders had intended to demand an explanation, they received an unexpectedly forceful response.
Dawn bluntly declared that he would not take the blame. Then, in the midst of the Five Elders' fury, he directly fell out with them and resigned from the Marines to take responsibility.
After all, they were speaking through Den Den Mushi. The Five Elders could not exactly crawl through the line and beat him up.
Once news of Dawn's resignation from the Marines spread, it once again swept across the world, and the newspapers naturally made a huge fuss over it.
Its overall message could be summed up in one central point:
During the conference, Dawn had represented a king rather than