Over the azure sea, the warship's sails billowed as it rode the wind and waves toward the distance.
Seagulls circled overhead, and the seawater was crystal clear. Every now and then, several fish leaped from the water, their scales glimmering beneath the sunlight.
On the warship's deck.
Sephiroth leaned against the railing, holding a newspaper in both hands as he leisurely flipped through it.
"Any big news lately?"
Tokikake leaned over and glanced at the newspaper's front-page headline.
"Kaido of the Beasts fought Edward Newgate, Whitebeard, in the Ed War Sea of the New World over ownership of an island under Whitebeard's command...
In the end, Kaido was defeated and retreated!"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk! Kaido really has some nerve... It's only because Whitebeard has no interest in expanding his territory everywhere.
Otherwise, he'd have brought most of the New World under his command long ago."
Sephiroth nodded in deep agreement.
Whitebeard was only fifty-six years old now, still in his prime. His strength remained at its peak; even if it had declined somewhat, the change was negligible.
His Haki and Physical Prowess were still among the finest in the world, not to mention that he had already developed his Tremor-Tremor Fruit ability to the level of a natural disaster!
With Whitebeard's current strength, overturning seas and splitting skies, shattering earth and collapsing mountains were no great feat!
This was neither a figure of speech nor an exaggeration. It was fact!
If he went all out with his Tremor-Tremor Fruit ability, destroying an island and wiping it off the map would basically take just one punch...
One punch not enough?
Then he could casually throw another!
That was why, with Whitebeard as a strategic-level humanoid nuclear warhead, ordinary people would not go out of their way to provoke the Whitebeard Pirates...