January, 1519.
Two consecutive months without any "big news" felt almost unreal to the World Government.
Granted, the seas had never truly been peaceful since Roger's shout ushered in the Great Pirate Era.
But for roughly the past four years, some degree of big news had broken almost every month.
And on average, one Shichibukai had been used up each year.
There were only seven Shichibukai in total, and four had crashed and burned within four years.
Their defeats had stripped them of every shred of dignity.
The Five Elders hurried Vegapunk along with his work while parading Satellite Shining and Jinbe, the two model Shichibukai, to aggressively promote the merits of the Seven Warlords of the Sea system.
Then Bondrewd had appeared, taken a massive dump, and followed it up by pissing himself... more than once.
It was a complete headache.
The clamor on the seas had not stopped over these two months, but without those "world-class headlines," everything suddenly seemed much quieter.
During this "quiet spell," Morgans suffered the most.
Still, it was not as though nothing had happened-
The pirate prince Cavendish had successfully entered the New World, making his debut as the "glamorous Supernova" with a bounty of 280 million and causing a worldwide sensation.
It had people in the World Government "crying out"-now this was what normal big news looked like!
Those previous stories that dragged in Shichibukai, Admirals, or the Four Emperors at the drop of a hat were the abnormal ones!
... On an island somewhere in the New World.
A gaudy, bizarre pirate ship was docking at the harbor.
Its figurehead depicted the front half of a white horse, its main sail was pink, its hull pale purple, and crystal lamps hung everywhere.
Normally, a horse's head as a figurehead would have