Gales swept across the battlefield, where roars still rang out without pause. But at that moment, many eyes were fixed on the figure standing amid the fighting.
Codename: Daytime Tiger, the strongest Marine.
His immense fame rivaled that of Garp the Hero. In the previous era, his standing had been much like that of the three legendary pirates.
Roger, Shiki, and Whitebeard were hailed by the world as the three pirate legends. River, Garp, and Zephyr, meanwhile, were the Marines' three greatest fighters.
In a sense, they had held equal standing, and their struggles had been intertwined throughout the previous era.
In the blink of an eye, twenty years had passed.
Roger had died, and legend had it that Shiki had been sent to Impel Down. Only Whitebeard remained in the world, becoming one of the new Four Emperors and dominating the seas.
But today, it seemed the titans of that bygone era would face each other once again.
People always believed that each generation produced new talents, that the outstanding figures of a new era would surpass the old men of the last.
Yet now, with his utterly terrifying strength, River was proving to everyone just how fearsome the power of their era had been.
Whether pirates or Marines, legends were legends, after all.
Whooom!
His eyes flared wide, and River stepped forward again.
Once he broke through the pirates ahead, he would see his old rival, Edward Newgate.
He had come to this battle precisely for that man.
"Even if he's the strongest Marine, we have to stop him!"
"Our king isn't someone you can reach so easily!"
"Charge! We have to defeat anyone who stands in the way of rescuing Ace!"
After a brief moment of stunned silence, the Whitebeard Pirates went wild again, charging toward River