Explosive News

New World, ten thousand meters above the sea.

A colossal airship, as massive as a flying fortress, hovered steadily above the clouds. Its hull bore the iconic golden seal of the World Economy News, while at the most prominent spot on its bow stood a gigantic News Coo statue cast from Pure Gold, reflecting blinding light beneath the scorching sun.

Inside the airship, the printing workshop had long since turned into a sea of madness.

"Print more! Print even more! Bring out all the reserve pulp! This issue's circulation must exceed the total of the past ten years!"

Tens of thousands of massive rotary presses ran frantically at speeds beyond their design limits. Scalding ink vapor filled every inch of the air, shrouding the entire workshop in haze. Fresh newspapers, still hot to the touch, poured from the outlets like waterfalls, seized tightly by the claws of countless waiting News Coo.

The scene in the president's office at the top of the airship was even more unhinged.

"Big news! This is absolutely super big news, enough to completely paralyze eight hundred years of history—!"

Morgans, president of the World Economy News and known as "Big News," stood atop his desk, which had been carved from an entire ancient redwood trunk, wildly flapping his broad white wings. Every feather on his bird face trembled with extreme excitement. His beak was stretched to its limit, and his nearly hysterical shrieks made even the crystal chandelier in the office hum.

The desk, floor, and even the chandelier overhead were plastered with secret photographs sent from the Egghead front lines. Every single one was enough to give the World Government's top brass a stroke on the spot—

One showed Rain dressed in black, his right fist wrapped in black-and-red Conqueror's Haki Infusion, smashing the