"We just received word that Whole Cake Island in Totto Land has been destroyed."
At Marine Headquarters, Fleet Admiral Kong sat at the head of a conference table more than ten meters long and tossed some photographs onto it as he spoke.
"Whole Cake Island was destroyed? How is that possible?"
"That's the monster Big Mom's home base! How could anyone destroy it? Was it Golden Lion or Whitebeard?"
"If it was Golden Lion or Whitebeard, that might be possible!"
Everyone present looked astonished at Kong's words.
Everyone present was an elite of Marine Headquarters, with even the lowest-ranking among them being Headquarters Vice Admirals or Rear Admirals.
Normally, there were very few things that could shock so many of those present, but what the Fleet Admiral had said was simply too astonishing for them not to be surprised.
"That enormous crater... what terrifying power!"
"Is... is this really Whole Cake Island? All the buildings on the island are completely gone."
"Could it have been Golden Lion?"
"With Golden Lion's Devil Fruit ability, he certainly could have done this!"
At first, the Marine officers present did not believe that Whole Cake Island had been destroyed.
Who was Big Mom? She was one of the New World's most powerful pirates.
Although she fell a little short of Roger, Golden Lion, and Whitebeard, the gap was not that great.
Yet the home base of such a top pirate, whose might loomed over the New World, had been destroyed overnight.
And they had heard nothing beforehand. How could they believe it?
But when they saw the photographs on the table, they had no choice but to believe it.
A third of Whole Cake Island had been blasted into an enormous crater.
Everything on Whole Cake Island had been wiped away.
"You guessed wrong. It was neither Golden Lion nor Whitebeard!" Kong said from the head of the table.
"Neither Golden Lion nor Whitebeard? Then was it Roger? Hahaha, now that's interesting. The whole world is looking for him. Who would've thought he'd gone to Totto Land!" Garp said with a laugh.
"Roger? He certainly has the strength, but the traces don't quite look like his work," Sengoku said.
"Stop guessing. It wasn't Roger. But although it wasn't him, it was someone connected to him. It was Natural Disaster Zesi of the Roger Pirates!" Kong said.
"Him?" Sengoku said in surprise.
Kuzan, who was already a Marine Vice Admiral, also raised his head.
"So it was that brat. Has he already grown this strong?" Garp said, looking at the crater that covered nearly two-thirds of the island in the photographs.
Even though Garp already had some understanding of Zesi's strength, the sight of that enormous crater forced him to reassess it.
"And according to the information our intelligence agents brought back, Big Mom was defeated. The one who defeated him was none other than Natural Disaster, and Big Mom suffered considerable injuries." Kong spoke.
At Kong's words, everyone present erupted into an uproar once again.
Big Mom. That was Big Mom!
Big Mom, who was called a monster-the monster known as the Iron Balloon.
Although, in terms of their pirate crews' strength, the Big Mom Pirates were not currently as renowned as the Roger Pirates, the Golden Lion Pirates, or the Whitebeard Pirates.
If Roger, Golden Lion, and Whitebeard had gold-tier pirate crews.
Then the Big Mom Pirates could only be considered silver-tier.
But that did not mean Big Mom was weak. Rather, those three were simply too strong.
On top of that, the members of the Big Mom Pirates were all Big Mom's sons, and none of them had fully grown yet.
But in the eyes of the Marines and the World Government, this kind of family-based pirate crew was even more dangerous.
Sooner or later, Big Mom would become one of the New World's foremost overlords.
Yet now, that very Big Mom had been defeated.
Wasn't this Big Mom, whose physical defenses alone could stop blades even without using Haki?
And the one who defeated her was neither Roger, Golden Lion, nor Whitebeard.
It was merely a crew member of the Roger Pirates.
Even if he bore the title of Natural Disaster, he was ultimately just a crew member.
Were the Roger Pirates really all monsters?
"Garp, you should be fairly familiar with this Natural Disaster. Tell us about him!" Kong asked.
"That brat? As everyone knows, he's a Tremor-Tremor Fruit user, and one of the few people on the seas who doesn't fear the damage from its backlash!" Garp said, picking his nose.
"I don't need to tell you how powerful the Tremor-Tremor Fruit is anymore. The name Natural Disaster says enough about how terrifying it is. But that brat's real strength isn't his Tremor-Tremor Fruit!" Garp suddenly grew serious.
At Garp's words, everyone present turned to him in astonishment.
"The truly terrifying thing isn't the Tremor-Tremor Fruit?"
"Isn't he called Natural Disaster precisely because of the threat his Tremor-Tremor Fruit poses?"
"Does he have something else to rely on?"
The Vice Admirals present looked puzzled.