"Where is the One Piece?"
While everyone was still reeling in shock, Ling'er's voice rang out at an inopportune moment.
As news of Sabo's public execution spread around the world.
The entire Pirate World was shaken.
Anyone with even half a brain knew what a major event was about to unfold.
Perhaps the entire world would cease to exist.
Foosha Village, East Blue.
Makino's tavern.
"Wh... what?! What's going on? Why has Sabo been captured by the World Government?" A burly man with a yellow beard stared at the newspaper in his hands, his face full of shock.
The newspaper prominently featured the recent public announcement of Sabo's impending execution.
It also included one of Sabo's Wanted Posters.
DEAD OR ALIVE. SABO 1774000000
But unlike an ordinary Wanted Poster, this one of Sabo had a huge red X drawn across it.
Everyone familiar with the rules governing Wanted Posters issued by the Marines and the World Government knew what that meant.
Ordinarily, a normal Wanted Poster would have no other special markings.
A huge red X meant that the Wanted Poster was no longer valid.
The meaning was self-evident.
The person on that Wanted Poster had either been captured or died.
"Sabo! Why?! We only just found out that Sabo was still alive, and now the World Government is going to execute him?"
Another short, stout old man with several steel spikes through his nose also held a newspaper, his face filled with indignation.
"It can't be true~ This can't be real..." said a rather pretty woman with a face full of freckles.
Behind the tavern counter, Makino had already dissolved into tears.
Even the village chief, who normally hated seeing these villagers cry over a scoundrel, sat to one side drinking morosely.
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