The instant Hawkeye's little boat left Buggy Island's territorial waters, a mechanical News Coo a thousand meters overhead abruptly adjusted its lens.
World Economy News Paper headquarters, airship control room.
"President! President! Big news! Huge news!" A reporter wearing headphones stumbled through the doors, scattering the telegram sheets in his hands across the floor.
"Gahahaha! What's the panic? Have the Five Elders knelt before Lorne?!" Morgans waved his wings and laughed with an expensive cigar clenched in his beak.
"No! It's 'Hawkeye,' Dracule Mihawk!" The reporter pointed at the captured image on the screen, his voice almost cracking with excitement. "Mihawk hasn't assembled the Cross Guild's fleet. He's sailing alone in his coffin boat, heading at full speed toward the waters of Wano Country!"
The feathers on Morgans's face abruptly stood on end, and his cigar dropped onto the carpet with a soft thud.
"What did you say?! That World's Greatest Swordsman who always acts alone and has no interest in conflicts between powers is going to challenge the Fearless Empire by himself?!"
"It's absolutely true! His course is locked on Wano Country! He's expected to arrive within half a day!"
"Gahahahaha! Wonderful! This is the great age I've dreamed of!" Morgans pounded the desk in wild delight, making the entire airship shake violently. "The newly crowned Emperor of the Sea, Lorne, against the World's Greatest Swordsman, who reigns at the pinnacle of swordsmanship!"
"Quick! Activate all our special broadcast News Coos in the New World!" Morgans roared frantically at his entire staff. "Connect the Visual Den Den Mushi signals to the Sabaody Archipelago, Marineford, and every public square in the Four Blues!"
"I'm going to make every living human in the world witness this ultimate showdown that will reshape the balance of the seas!"
Within just a few hours,