Is It Really So Hard to Find a Pair of Normal Parents?

"Yes, Five Elders. I guarantee that I will complete the mission!"

Click!

The Den Den Mushi hung up. Spandam, hiding outside Tom's Workers, glared viciously toward the distant workshop. His previously comical face was now obscured by the leather straps securing his wounds.

"You lowly old fish-man, you violent freak who knows nothing but violence—you actually dared to drive us away by force and defy the World Government! Damn bastard!!!"

Continuously cursing to vent the resentment in his heart, Spandam glared venomously at the workshop, only for his gaze to inadvertently land on something.

"Those things... I remember those are ships made by that freak. Hehehe, I suddenly have a brilliant idea..."

Spandam raised a hand in signal. Several CP5 agents leaned in to listen, while the sinister smile on his face exposed his intentions.

"You all sail those warships over, return to Enies Lobby, and then do this, this..."

Several days later, a scandal erupted around Tom's Workers, the shipyard that had once built the vessel which carried Pirate King Gold Roger around the world and created the sea train.

The warships produced under its name had attacked Enies Lobby some time earlier. Together with Tom's Workers, they were deemed to have supplied weapons to rebels against the World Government and would soon be escorted to the World Court for trial.

Compared to that "insignificant" matter, which spread only widely through Paradise in the first half of the Grand Line, the news distributed worldwide through the World Economy News Paper shocked countless people.

"What? One of the Four Emperors, Uchiha Hanazuki, attacked Dressrosa, kidnapped Princess Violet, daughter of the current Riku King, and stole tens of billions of Berries!"

"Hey, hey, hey, is the sea about to stir once more? One of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, Heavenly