On this sea, no era had ever been so small that it could hold only one hero.
Even when Pirate King Roger stood above the rest, Whitebeard, Golden Lion, and Garp had been his equals.
After Roger's death, Ye Mu and the Sky Pirate Crew had ushered in a new era. But that did not make them its only heroes.
Marines or pirates, one thing this sea had never lacked was remarkable people!
Among the new legends spreading across the sea, there were plenty of stories besides those starring Ye Mu and the Sky Pirate Crew...
Bartholomew Kuma, the man known as Tyrant Kuma, was the hero of one of them.
Born in the South Blue, he had become king of the Sorbet Kingdom, one of the World Government Member States, while still a child. Yet when he grew up, he had surprised everyone by becoming a pirate.
No one knew what had happened. But that dramatic reversal alone was enough to make him the perfect subject for countless legends.
And after becoming a pirate, the former king had done remarkably well. His bounty of 140 million Beli proved just how wary the Marines and the World Government were of him!
But no one could have imagined that he would appear on the battlefield between the Sky Pirate Crew and the Marines.
According to every intelligence report, he was a solitary man of few words. He did everything alone, with no companions and no friends.
Yet here he was on barren Golden Crow Island, facing five enormous Marine warships by himself.
Clearly, he was not with the Marines. That left only one answer.
"Don't tell me Bartholomew Kuma joined the Sky Pirate Crew too?"
It was not just Hammond's thought. Everyone who saw Tyrant Kuma appear was thinking the same