The Celestial Dragons were furious and dubbed the affair the Celestial Dragon Tragedy. The Marine brass were equally furious and called it the Goa Kingdom Incident. No secret stayed buried forever. Although the World Government wanted to suppress this scandal completely, word still got out. This time, Barn became truly infamous. At least in every nation under the World Government, there was no one who had not heard of him. Since Barn had killed the king of the Goa Kingdom, the kings of the other allied nations grew deeply wary as well, and all began taking precautions against this vicious criminal.
Meanwhile, at the World Government's headquarters in the Holy Land of Mary Geoise, where the Celestial Dragons gathered, the high-ranking Celestial Dragon Jelforin, who had just lost his son, was throwing a furious tantrum in his home. He had already killed three innocent beautiful slaves.
"Damn it! The Marines are all useless! Those supposedly famous figures are just as worthless! The Five Elders? The hero of the Marines? They're all useless! They can't even deal with one measly pirate, yet they have the gall to call themselves Marines!"
He hurled another exquisite vase worth over a hundred million beli to the floor. With a sharp crash, it shattered into pieces that scattered across the ground.
With the Celestial Dragons in such a state, things were hardly any better for the Marines. As it happened, Barn was the first person to openly defy the World Government in the several hundred years since its founding. And he was also the Marines' sworn enemy-a pirate.
In an office at Marine Headquarters, a livid Sengoku stared silently at an equally livid Garp. Sengoku could have accepted Garp being unable to defeat Barn alone. After all, he had fought Barn himself, and the Marines