Seven days had shaken the entire sea.
Morgans seized this huge story and dispatched large numbers of News Coos toward Wano Country. Some fearless ones even charged straight into the battlefield, all for firsthand reports.
Countless News Coos were killed by the aftermath of the battle, but Morgans did not feel the slightest bit sorry.
This was a true blockbuster.
Kaido, a dominant overlord of the Grand Line, was a major figure with a bounty of 2.39 billion Beli.
Was a battle lasting this long against someone like him big enough news?
The newspaper sales were proof enough.
It had not been too obvious during the first two days, but as reports of the battle continued, newspaper sales surged wildly.
This was a truly earth-shaking story.
On the seventh day, a fearless News Coo finally broke in. With a Camera Den Den Mushi tied to its chest, it brought back a photograph clearer than any of the others.
Getting close enough to take a picture on a battlefield where Conqueror's Haki was clashing, then successfully bringing it back out, was no easy feat.
This photograph was extraordinarily precious.
At the headquarters of the World Economy News Paper.
Morgans, in his birdman form, stared at the faxed photograph, his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.
He knew very well that the photograph was genuine.
After all, it had never changed hands from beginning to end, making it highly reliable.
In the photograph, lightning flashed and thunder roared across the sky as two figures collided in midair.
One figure wielded a spiked club, had twin horns atop his head, one of them broken, and possessed a tall, powerful build. A dragon tail full of raw strength twisted behind him.
Kaido!
Though one of his horns had been broken, Morgans still recognized Kaido immediately.
But the figure punching Kaido's spiked club.
Compared with Kaido's size, this figure was very small.
Morgans knew Kaido well enough that, with a little estimation, he could determine the figure's approximate height.
Yet the aura revealed in the photograph was not the slightest bit weaker than Kaido's. It even seemed to faintly overwhelm him.
The photograph did not fully capture the person's face, but half of his profile showed that he was very young.
Morgans stared wide-eyed, knowing that what came next would absolutely shake the world.
A newcomer.
A powerhouse capable of matching a New World monster like Kaido had appeared just like that.
This was absolutely a true story that would shake the seas.
One could imagine it already: another great figure capable of shaking the world had emerged.
But that figure looked somewhat familiar.
Morgans used his remarkably flexible wing to stroke his beak, confusion filling his eyes.
"President, the Moria Pirates!"
A young human woman in uniform beside him offered a reminder. Morgans froze, then his eyes widened once again, as though they were about to burst from their sockets.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
Like a madman, Morgans rummaged through the pile of documents on the desk before him, throwing them into complete disarray.
After learning of the disappearance on the first day, he had pulled out the intelligence on the Moria Pirates. Naturally, their bounties had been the priority.
After all, with so many pirates aboard one ship, bounty posters would be issued for any pirate with sufficient strength.
As for the other fodder pirates, once their identities were confirmed, one could claim the reward without needing a bounty poster at all.
As a pirate crew that had become extremely famous over the past year, the Moria Pirates naturally had quite a few members with bounty posters.
But only two were worth noting.
One was the captain, Gecko Moria, with a bounty of 300 million.
The other was a youth—or rather, a child—who had only appeared on Gecko Moria's ship within the past year.
In one year, his bounty had climbed to 87 million. On the Grand Line, or even in the New World, that was not considered particularly high.
But he looked very young.
In other words, in the eyes of the Marines and Morgans, that meant he had enormous potential to become one of the sea's great pirates.
Morgans's wing trembled as he clutched a bounty poster. His eyes were bloodshot as he stared fixedly at the person on it.
Madman Lin Ye, bounty: 87 million Beli, dead or alive.
The accompanying image showed a cold-faced youth holding a sword.
Morgans swallowed and placed the bounty poster beside the photograph he had just received, his eyes shifting back and forth.
The next instant, Morgans felt a current surge from the feathers on his backside, race through his body, and shoot straight to the top of his head.
Every feather on his body stood on end.
It was him! It was definitely him!
Madman Lin Ye!
Morgans stared intensely at the bounty poster and the photograph.
They were indeed the same person.
But a bounty of 87 million?
For a moment, Morgans felt like the entire world was one enormous amateur production.
This was too absurd.
A small pirate with a Marine bounty below 100 million had fought Kaido, whose bounty exceeded two billion, for seven days without losing an inch in aura.
What the hell were the Marines doing?
But after silently cursing the Marines, Morgans found it strange as well.
If he was this strong, why had there been no news of him before?
Morgans's eyes were full of incomprehension.
This was truly beyond his understanding.
And then there was his age.
This Lin Ye was only a little over ten years old now, wasn't he?
At most, he could not be older than fifteen.
A monster!
This was a real monster!
None of those so-called monsters from before even deserved to be mentioned in the same breath.
"President!"
The alluring secretary's cautious reminder snapped Morgans awake.
"Yes, yes, yes! Big news, big news!"
Morgans abruptly came to his senses and remembered what he was supposed to do.
"Quickly! Notify all regional branches to prepare for printing immediately. I will write it myself. Today's issue will be a special report."
Morgans suddenly became high-spirited.
He could already imagine the shock this story would bring to the world once it was published.
The thought alone thrilled Morgans.
Before long, every newspaper office under the World Economy News Paper across the world put down its work. Today, they had only one task: distribute a special report personally written by their president across the entire world.
Countless News Coos, carrying bulging packages, spread their wings and flew into the sky.
Newspapers rained down toward islands and ships across the seas.
Whether they were island residents or people aboard ships, pirates or Marines, everyone who received a paper was left slack-jawed by its contents.
Over the past few days, the great battle in Wano Country had nearly spread across the entire sea.
In truth, many people had been waiting for the reports that would follow.
Even ordinary people who had never gone to sea knew about an event of this magnitude.
The only regrettable thing was that no one knew the identity of the powerful person who had fought Kaido, one of the Grand Line's overlords.
As for Gecko Moria, no one was speculating about him anymore.
Because someone had already discovered Thriller Bark fleeing from Wano Country.
And that ship was completely empty.
Some had even guessed that, even after the battle ended, the other party's identity would remain undiscovered.
After all, no one dared approach the area now.
Anyone without sufficient strength would be killed by the battle's aftermath even if they got close.
Who could have expected that on the seventh day, there would finally be an answer?
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