"Hahahaha! This is already the third town! The Whitebeard Pirates controlled so many wealthy places, and now they're all ours!"
In the New World, a pirate crew with bounties exceeding a hundred million seized a medium-sized island before the Whitebeard Pirates returned. There were plenty of wealthy towns on it, but half the island had already been engulfed in burning, killing, and looting.
After word spread that Whitebeard had died in battle, a stretch of New World waters belonging to one of the Four Emperors instantly descended into turmoil.
Sengoku wanted to use Whitebeard's death to cow the Great Pirate Era, but he had overlooked two things; pirates were lawless to begin with, and the death of one of the Four Emperors would only stir their greed for power, fame, and treasure.
This island was no exception. The same thing was happening on more than half of the dozens of islands under Whitebeard's protection.
The Beasts Pirates were doing somewhat better. Although they had learned through the Image Den Den Mushi that Kaido of the Beasts' fate was unknown, at least the Marines had not directly announced his death. They had only said that Kaido of the Beasts had been defeated by the Magician, one of the Shichibukai, and that his whereabouts and whether he was alive remained unknown.
If he was not dead, there was hope.
Besides, the Beasts Pirates' main force was still intact: two of the All-Stars remained, along with over four hundred ability users, more than ten thousand combat-ready pirates, and ten thousand allied Samurai under Kurozumi Orochi's command.
The Beasts Pirates had essentially lost none of their strength. As long as another Emperor's pirate crew did not attack, they had nothing to fear.
The second reason for the turmoil in the New World was the