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While Jaya Island was celebrating, another fierce struggle broke out on the Grand Line.
Big Mom Pirates split directly into the Candy Pirates and the Sweets Pirates.
However, because of Big Mom, they did not immediately turn on each other. Instead, they divided Big Mom's territory between themselves and became allies of a sort. Shanks launched attacks against both of them at the same time. If they did not unite properly, they would be swallowed by Shanks.
No one knew what Red-Haired was thinking. He seemed to merely want to maintain the balance in the latter half of the Grand Line. After forcing the Candy Pirates and the Sweets Pirates to unite, he stopped his fierce offensive. He appeared to fear the combined strength of the two pirate crews.
But Big Mom's children understood even more clearly: Red-Haired Shanks, a man who stood alongside their mother as one of the Four Emperors, was no ordinary man. His strength had repeatedly held back Kaido of the Beasts. In terms of combat power, he should have been the strongest person without a Devil Fruit, perhaps even faintly surpassing their mother and Kaido. Among the Four Emperors, he ranked below only Whitebeard.
And now that Whitebeard, their mother, and Kaido were all dead or missing, he was the strongest man in the world.
It was said that many people had seen him lead his flagship into Jaya Island, home of the Revolutionary Army Headquarters, to meet Leo, the commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Army.
If that was true, Red-Haired had likely reached some kind of agreement with the Revolutionary Army. In that case, their two pirate crews might very well be caught in a pincer attack between the Revolutionary Army and Red-Haired.
Expanding their own territory was