"Extra! Extra! The greatest exclusive scoop of the century!"
In the New World, at News Coo headquarters, World Economy News Paper president Big News Morgans was dancing with excitement. His signature beak opened and closed violently with sheer excitement, letting out strange, cackling laughter.
"Keh heh heh heh! Wonderful! This is material sent by the gods!"
Before him lay a freshly developed, top-secret photograph, taken at mortal risk by a top-of-the-line Visual Den Den Mushi.
The photograph's background was a chaotic stretch of sea, torn to pieces by spatial rifts like a scene from the end of the world.
At its center were two legendary figures who had fought to exhaustion, their bodies drenched in blood-Pirate King Gol D. Roger, imposing and formidable with the Famous Sword Ace in hand, and the Devil's Heir, Douglas Bullet, hideous and terrifying in the form of a hundred-meter-tall dark Demon God.
Yet they were not the true stars.
It was the young Marine floating above them, his white clothes purer than snow and untouched by dust, not even a strand of his hair out of place.
A trace of languor and impatience rested on his face, as though he had merely swatted two buzzing flies to death.
That lofty stance, that gaze that regarded the Pirate King as nothing, that sense of absolute dominion over the entire world!
The visual impact of this photograph was a hundred times more terrifying than the earlier images of Yas tearing Queen apart with his bare hands and bombarding Totto Land!
"The headline! What should the headline be?"
Morgans excitedly clutched his feathers, pacing back and forth in his office.
"'Roger Pirates suffer crushing defeat: is the Pirate King's era nearing its end?' No! Too restrained!"
"'Devil's Heir awakens, fights Pirate King to a draw in a