The next day, newspapers around the world exploded with the news.
The front-page headline blazed in eye-catching type: [Fire Fist Ace declares-I'm going to be the Adventure King!]
The subheading beneath it was just as painfully bold: [Rising Navy star Monkey D. Luffy: My goal is to become the Marine King!]
In the Fleet Admiral's Office at Marineford, Sengoku clutched the newspaper, his face as black as the bottom of an iron pot.
"One wants to be an Adventure King, a title that doesn't even exist, and the other wants to be a Marine King, something no one's ever heard of-"
He slammed his palm onto the desk, making the ink bottle jump. "Why does the whole world know about this?!"
On the nearby sofa, Garp laughed and slapped his thigh so hard that even the table rattled.
"Hahahaha! Doesn't that sound exciting?"
"What's exciting about it?!"
Rock leaned against the window, brushing his fingertips across the newspaper, and smiled too.
"Let them have their fun. This is the young generation's age now."
Sengoku turned to glare at him. "You've got the nerve to laugh?" "What else should I do?" Rock tossed another document in front of him. "Read this first."
Sengoku looked down. A bold title was printed on the cover: [World Blank Chart Project]
Once the Four Seas were connected, vast stretches of the sailing routes humanity had spent centuries barely managing to chart had lost their usefulness within a single year.
New currents surged through the oceans. Undiscovered routes lay beneath the sea, unrecorded air routes crossed the skies, and the migration paths of Sea Kings and other enormous sea creatures were constantly shifting with the new currents...
Even islands that no one had ever truly reached, cut off by water levels and currents, appeared on navigators'