Conqueror's Infusion Realized, the United Front Against Rosha

Autumn gave way to spring, and time drifted by.

In the blink of an eye, the year had become Sea Circle Calendar 1493.

That year, the famed Gol D. Roger was diagnosed with an incurable disease. With little time left, the Roger Pirates invited Crocus aboard to stabilize his condition.

He was the fifth person to join the Roger Pirates in the past two years, following Kozuki Oden, Izo, Inuarashi, and Nekomamushi—and he was a ship doctor with little combat ability.

Yet Crocus's importance to the Roger Pirates went without saying.

Without him, Roger might not have held on long enough to become the Pirate King.

That same year, Garp, in a bad mood for various reasons, took a trip to the West Blue and ran into Conehead Chinjao in the Flower Country.

No one knew how the latter had offended Garp, but his pride and joy, that cone-shaped head, was beaten flat by Garp.

Because of that incident, the Flower Country had caused no small amount of trouble for the West Blue Marines lately.

It was not until Xia Luo personally made a trip there that the Flower Country finally settled down.

That was also the year Kuzan successfully graduated from the Elite Training Camp and took first place in the graduation assessment.

As a result, he became a colonel immediately upon graduation, just like Sakazuki.

Worth mentioning was that Sakazuki and Borsalino had both been promoted to commodore one after the other, thanks to their formidable strength and numerous achievements. They had one foot in the upper ranks of the Marines.

As for Xia Luo himself, he was still short on quite a bit of merit before he could be promoted to vice admiral, so he could not advance anytime soon.

Cangya and Glen, under his command, had