As Caro quietly left Turtle Island with the patrol, a battle broke out deep in the New World.
The combatants were two of the most famous figures in the New World: two Yonko!
Charlotte Linlin and Shanks!
No one else could join this fight. Yasopp, Katakuri, and the others could only watch from afar. The Yonko stood above even Admirals, and each was more destructive than the last! Merely watching put them at risk of being caught in the crossfire and killed. How could they possibly help?
After Loa helped Charlotte Linlin reclaim her body, and Katakuri pledged his allegiance to him, she had effectively joined Loa's side.
True, there was still blood between them. However distant she had become from the children Loa had killed, they were still her flesh and blood. That was no small grudge.
But free of Carmel's influence and fully in control of herself, Charlotte Linlin understood what mattered most. She was willing to set aside her hatred and fight alongside Loa.
Yes, if Loa had invited Aokiji and the others, then the more powerful Yonko of the New World had naturally received invitations too.
Teach, however, had been busy lately. When Catarina left, she took a fleet with her. After the Corrupt King awoke, he failed to take another fleet, but he refused to keep following a captain who had abandoned his dignity as a Yonko just to save himself. He fought Teach, then escaped at the cost of an arm.
Teach had fallen back into his old predicament. The Blackbeard Pirates he had worked so hard to assemble had dwindled to a handful again. If not for his own strength and the fact that Jot the Drunkard had stayed, someone would probably have challenged his Yonko throne by now.
Naturally, Teach had no