"Admiral, the latest newspapers are here, meow."
(=ΦωΦ=)つ
That day, Xie Wen was taking turns massaging his cats on deck as usual when Hua Mei Meow jumped down from the mast with the newspapers she had just received.
Xie Wen hurriedly took the newspapers and began leafing through them...
Ever since his call with Morgans two days earlier, he had had a bad feeling. That birdman hadn't asked him anything about how the battle had gone. He had simply exchanged a few casual pleasantries, then left him with, "I've got a huge surprise for you," before hanging up.
Setting aside the Official Newspaper and the Wanted Posters for now, Xie Wen quickly opened "his own" World Economy News Paper.
As expected, photos of Xie Wen and Klee Meow, along with a photo of the golden wall Klee Meow had melted on Gran Tesoro, took up most of the entire front page of the World Economy News Paper.
The text occupied less than a quarter of the page, and a large portion of that was a single enlarged, bold front-page headline-
[Not a pirate! A fifth Emperor of the Sea is born!]
Xie Wen: "..."
I became Nika?!
Rolling his eyes in speechless exasperation, Xie Wen rubbed his brow with a slight headache.
He had never thought becoming an "Emperor of the Sea" was a good thing. Just looking at how all sorts of up-and-coming pirates troubled the Four Emperors in the manga made that clear. Those ambitious pirates wouldn't back off just because he had gained the title of Emperor of the Sea. Instead, they would come looking for trouble even more eagerly.
The only consolation was that Morgans, that birdman, had at least specifically pointed out that he was "not a pirate"...
Though Xie Wen didn't think that would