"The legendary great pirate Whitebeard has been defeated!"
"Marine Headquarters has won!"
The people of the Sabaody Archipelago, who already hated war and longed for peace, broke into loud cheers the moment they heard Sengoku's words from the giant screen. For them, this was truly something worth celebrating.
Yet near Mary Geoise, at the heart of the incident, seven ships still floated on the sea. The people standing aboard them showed none of the joy that had greeted the news of the Marines' victory on the Sabaody Archipelago. Their faces were grave...
They were the Supernovas who had briefly crossed paths on the Sabaody Archipelago. Apart from Law, who had gone to rescue someone, Luffy, who had been rescued, and Jig, who had actually fought in the war, all the other Supernovas had come to these waters.
As the ones who would shoulder the new pirate era, they naturally would not miss this momentous point in history...
They stared unblinkingly at the thick smoke rising above Mary Geoise, the "proof of order" in the Great Pirate Era, and felt firsthand the shifting currents of an age steeped in bloodlust...
"It's finally over..."
"The Marines will have to change, too..."
The former Marine and current Supernova, "Red Flag" X Drake, watched Mary Geoise with a dark expression as the fighting gradually subsided. There was not a trace of joy on his face...
Not far from Drake stood an enormous castle-like structure: the Flame Tank, belonging to the man known as "Gangster" Capone Bege. His face remained stern, a cigar clenched between his lips. As he watched the thick smoke rising from Mary Geoise, his thoughts turned to the distant New World...
"In the blink of an eye, Whitebeard's territorial waters will become a sea of blood..."
"Blackbeard is the key. There's