[World Economy News · Front-page headline "A world-shaking slash! A Marine 'shatters the sky'!! 'Heavenquake' Gern gravely wounds the captain of the Flying Pirates, pirate admiral Golden Lion Shiki! The curtain rises on a new era!" Subheading: "The untouchable sky shatters, and the Sky Admiral's blood stains the heavens!" News photo: Gern tears the world apart with Black Blade: Eight Desolations, the sky shattering as purple-black lightning coils around its edge. The instant the Golden Lion's eyes roll back and blood gushes from his chest. Caption beneath the photo: "This slash will change the world!"]
In the past, the spread of Gern's fame had always been deliberate.
Those scattered reports had appeared in the small newspapers of the Four Seas, which Big News Morgans had yet to monopolize. Like pebbles cast into the ocean, their ripples had vanished in an instant.
Yet fate was always full of irony.
This time, a slash he had unleashed without any such intention had sent the World Economy News's publicity machine roaring into action at full force.
Front-page headlines, special editions, maritime bulletins... every channel was spreading the same name like mad.
All on the strength of nearly killing a legendary pirate in his prime-the flying admiral, Golden Lion-with a single slash!
Within a mere twenty-four hours, the name "Heavenquake" swept across the entire Grand Line like a tsunami.
From Marine Headquarters to the New World, from Mary Geoise to Fish-Man Island, every corner of the world echoed with the name that had nearly changed the balance of power!
The New World, the Whitebeard Pirates' Moby Dick.
Over four years, the Whitebeard Pirates had taken shape.
Their future officers were already aboard, and Whitebeard thoroughly enjoyed taking in sons.
"Gurararara! Shiki, if he'd been just a little stronger, you really would've