"And what we need to be is the first."
"Burn away everything unreasonable in this world."
"A new world, a new government."
"Even thousands of years from now, people will remember you as the founders of the new government."
"You'll be role models in textbooks."
"When every new generation starts school and studies history..."
"When they open their books, the photographs they'll see..."
"Hmm..."
"The World Federation Government's strongest fighter, Bullet..."
"The World Federation Government's strongest fighter, Enel..."
"What do you think?"
Bullet grinned.
"Now that sounds pretty good."
Enel laughed.
"Indeed."
"What about you, old man?"
Sakazuki gazed at the screen, then suddenly smiled.
"A dictator... a tyrant..."
Whatever...
At the lighthouse at Twin Cape.
Inside the stomach of Laboon the whale.
Crocus lay in a lounge chair, reading the newspaper.
Rustle-
His expression froze.
"Hmm?"
After reading it carefully several times, he sighed.
"Another old friend has passed away..."
"Roger..."
The deaths of these old friends left Crocus grieving, with a sense that his own turn might come soon.
The world was changing too quickly. Even Roger probably hadn't foreseen this.
Only a few years after disbanding, the crew had been all but wiped out.
They hadn't even spared their shipwright, Mr. Tom... honestly...
"Only Shanks and Buggy are left..."
Boom! Boom!
Everything shook violently.
Crocus slowly got up.
"At it again, Laboon..."
He went to prepare the sedative...
On the Grand Line.
Baltigo, the island known as "White Soil Island."
Yellow sand swirled endlessly over the island, its harsh environment leaving it almost deserted.
Even among the Revolutionary Army, few people knew about it.
This was the true Revolutionary Army Headquarters.
The Fish-Man Karate master, Hack.
He was also a close friend of Jinbe, one of the current Shichibukai.
He was training the Revolutionary Army's