At Rock's instruction, Morgans, the News King, went completely mad.
The giant bird stood atop the highest point of the newspaper headquarters, looking as though he had just been jolted awake by lightning. His feathers stood on end, his eyes shone, and his wings flapped noisily.
"Front page!"
"All front pages!"
"Get every News Coo in the world out there!"
"This is news big enough to rewrite the balance of the seas—!!!"
The staff broke out in cold sweat as bundle after bundle of newspapers was stuffed into the News Coos' mailbags.
The next moment.
Flocks of News Coos shot into the sky from headquarters, sweeping toward every corner of the world like a white storm.
Before long, newspapers were delivered to the Four Seas, the Grand Line, and the New World.
They were sent to kingdoms, ports, pirate ships, and islands that had spent years beneath Emperor flags, too afraid to raise their heads.
[Heaven-Shaking Battle on Ink Tide Island!]
[Azure Dragon Rock Gravely Wounds the World's Strongest Man! The Whitebeard Pirates Flee in Defeat!]
[Kaido of the Beasts Invades the Battlefield, Then Is Defeated and Flees!]
[Sunken Ink Auction House Destroyed! Karma and All His Criminal Underlings Brought to Justice!]
[An Emperor of the Sea's Flag Is No Longer a Get-Out-of-Death-Free Card!]
The news swept across the seas like a storm.
This time, even the World Government did not forcibly suppress the news.
And so, the entire sea erupted.
The pirates who had once flaunted Whitebeard's flag were all terrified pale.
"Pops Whitebeard lost?"
"What kind of joke is that?!"
"That's the world's strongest man!"
"If even Whitebeard's flag can't protect people anymore, what are we supposed to do?!"
Some tore down the Whitebeard flags from their ships overnight.
Some frantically destroyed their account books and lists of