The Most Evil People

The Marines moved quickly. In just three days, the Sky Pirates' wanted posters had spread across the entire world.

If, before the wanted posters were issued, the name of the Sky Pirates had only circulated around Loguetown, then after their release, the Sky Pirates' name instantly spread across the world.

East Blue, on a small boat heading for Loguetown...

"Buggy... come look, quick..."

Shanks suddenly burst in, shouting at the top of his lungs, startling Buggy, who was excitedly studying a treasure map inside the room. He nearly knocked over the ink on the table and ruined the treasure map.

"Shanks, you bastard! What are you yelling for..."

"Cut the crap... look at this..."

Shanks directly took out the wanted posters he had just received.

Buggy took them and looked.

"Hmm... they look kind of familiar... Fi... five hundred million berries..."

"Idiot... that's not the point! Did you forget... Sky Island! We saw these two guys on Sky Island with the captain..."

"Ehhh!!!!"

Buggy instantly remembered everything, his jaw dropping in shock.

Inside a certain tavern in Loguetown...

Doflamingo looked at the wanted posters in his hand, his fingers clenched tight, veins bulging on his forehead.

Beside him, his subordinates Seka, Trebol, and Diamante looked at their king with some concern.

Ever since this wanted poster appeared today, Doflamingo's mood had been a little off.

"Are you all right... Doffy..."

Trebol asked shakily.

"I'm fine... I'm just too excited... Fufufufufu... the most evil people, huh... Flame-Flame Fruit... Rumble-Rumble Fruit... Conqueror's Haki... Fufufufufu, they really are monsters... No wonder they dared to kill that fool Saint Mjosgard... Fufufufufu... Are the Celestial Dragons finally going to fall from their altar..."

At this point, Doflamingo activated his ability, tearing the wanted posters to shreds. Then he turned his head and said to Trebol, "Send a message to Vergo. I want detailed information on these two guys..."

"I... I understand..."

Sabaody Archipelago, Area 13.

Half a year ago, a bar called Shakky's Rip-off Bar appeared here.

Appearing along with it were an extremely beautiful woman and a handsome blond uncle.

This handsome blond uncle was Dark King Rayleigh.

Ever since the Roger Pirates disbanded and the members of the Roger Pirates returned from the New World, Rayleigh had gotten off the ship at Sabaody Archipelago and lived here under the name Old Ray the coating mechanic.

His daily life, aside from coating ships, consisted of drinking and gambling.

Rayleigh was the first to know about Roger's plan to turn himself in. Though it saddened him somewhat, he still supported Roger's choice.

However, as the day of the public execution drew closer and closer, Rayleigh's mood inevitably grew heavy, and he drank more and more.

That day, after finishing a coating job, he returned home.

"Looks like business hasn't been too good these past couple of days..."

Looking at the empty bar, Rayleigh also sighed with some emotion. But whether the reason for his sigh was really the bar's business or Roger, there was no way to know.

Shakky, who stood behind the counter, did not care in the slightest. However, she did not take out any alcohol for Rayleigh from behind the counter. Instead, she took out three wanted posters.

"They just came in today. Take a look. Maybe you'll be interested..."

Rayleigh's gaze swept over them. When he saw the photos on the wanted posters, his expression showed some surprise, but it quickly turned reminiscent. He took the wanted posters and said somewhat happily, "It's been five years... I didn't expect little brother Ye Mu and little brother Enel to have gone out to sea too... But... isn't this bounty amount a bit too high... I remember this is the highest bounty for newcomers in the first half of the Grand Line in over a decade, right..."

That made Shakky somewhat surprised.

"You actually know the two of them?"

"Mm."

Rayleigh nodded.

"I met them on Sky Island five years ago..."

"I see..."

Shakky did not ask further, and instead said directly, "These two guys are truly audacious... Do you know why they made history with their very first bounty, and were even given the title by the Marines: the most evil people..."

Rayleigh shook his head.

"Because they killed a Celestial Dragon..."

"..."

Ten thousand meters beneath the Holy Land Mary Geoise was Fish-Man Island, known as the "Undersea Paradise."

Although it was called Fish-Man Island, the fish-men on the island were actually divided into two races: the fish-men and the merfolk.

Unlike the merfolk, who tried to live peacefully with humans, most fish-men hated humans deeply, and they lived in Fish-Man District.

As recently as ten years ago, this place had been synonymous with chaos and darkness. Even the merfolk on the island would not come here lightly.

It was not until twelve years ago, when a fish-man named Fisher Tiger appeared and used his overwhelming strength to unite all the chaotic forces in Fish-Man District, becoming the boss of every fish-man here, that Fish-Man District finally became orderly and gradually began to accept other merfolk and humans.

But a year ago, the situation in Fish-Man District began to worsen again.

The reason was simple: their boss, Fisher Tiger, had vanished without a trace.

Although six years ago Fisher Tiger had left Fish-Man District to complete his travels and adventures, back then he would report his safety to his friends in Fish-Man District through a transponder snail from time to time.

Until a year ago, when they suddenly could no longer contact Tiger.

No matter what method they tried, they could not reach him, and that threw the entire Fish-Man District into chaos.

The fish-men who harbored hatred for humans in their hearts began making their little moves again, even spreading rumors that Tiger had been captured by humans.

After Tiger left Fish-Man District and began his journey around the world, the one who inherited his will and managed Fish-Man District in his place was the whale shark fish-man, Jinbe.

Jinbe's strength was more than sufficient, but in terms of reputation, he fell far short of Tiger. When Tiger was still around, Jinbe could use Tiger's name to keep Fish-Man District under control, but now...

But no matter what, Jinbe would not let the Fish-Man District his big brother had painstakingly built return to the way it used to be. So every day, he brought some fish-men with him to patrol the streets, warning those fish-men with ill intentions.

Until this day, while Jinbe was patrolling the street, he suddenly heard a loud shout.

"Brother Jinbe, Boss Tiger... there's news of Boss Tiger..."

"!!!"

That voice not only lifted Jinbe's spirits, it made the entire Fish-Man District stir restlessly.

Fisher Tiger was a legend of all Fish-Man District, even all of Fish-Man Island.

Everyone looked over and saw a merman flicking his fish tail as he swam over quickly.

Seeing this figure, Jinbe became even more excited.

"Aladdin... there's news of Boss Tiger...??"

"Yeah."

Without the slightest hesitation, Aladdin took out the bounty poster in his hand and handed it to Jinbe, saying excitedly at the same time, "Boss Tiger... he became a pirate, and his first bounty is 380 million Berries..."

In an instant, whether it was Jinbe or the fish-men, merfolk, and humans of Fish-Man District, all of them were shocked.

Although many of the fish-men hated the human world, as one of the only two passages connecting the Grand Line and the New World, everyone here knew what that amount meant.

In an instant, the entire Fish-Man District became lively...