Chapter 141: The Ever-Changing Situation
The characters on the bounty poster confirmed the crew's thoughts. On the colorful poster, it was written in neat script:
"Siren" Uta
Bounty: 695,000,000 Berries
Dead or Alive
...
After a long while, Shanks and the others gradually calmed down and accepted this fact.
"I see. So Louis gave that Siren Fruit to Uta to eat. Is that why she gained the ability to transform into a mermaid?" A flash of understanding crossed Shanks's eyes as he quickly guessed the truth of the matter.
Nearby, the slightly chubby Lucky Roux took a large bite of meat from the bone in his hand and said in a muffled voice, "Mythical Zoans are very strong! And the Siren is a pretty good match for Uta-chan!"
The others heard him, looked at the number on the bounty, and nodded in agreement.
Shanks heard them, looked down at the beautiful girl in the photo and the sky-high number, and smiled with relief. "Uta once said she didn't want to be a burden. Now she's done it—"
"But... 'Siren'? They actually gave my daughter such an epithet." A hint of displeasure flashed in Shanks's eyes. "I really want to beat up the person who came up with this title!"
Just then, Hongo's face was filled with a bit of worry. "Uta is so young, yet she has such a high bounty. Will the pressure be a bit too much for her—" he said with a frown.
To this, Shanks turned his head and gave Hongo a reassuring smile. "It's fine! Uta is now a great pirate with a bounty of nearly 700 million Berries. Besides, with Louis around, she's much safer than when she was with us!"
A piece of news that shocked the world, under the deliberate spread of the World Economic News Agency, had reached almost every corner of the globe.
"Archangel" Louis, with an original bounty of 1,865,000,000 Berries, had powerfully defeated a Marine Headquarters encirclement operation targeted at him, injuring two Admirals and causing multiple flag officers to be killed or go missing.
This battle had even drawn the attention of one of the world's top pirates, Kaido of the Beasts, and an elderly man of a special race that was quite unfamiliar to the world. The battle resulted in heavy casualties for the ambushing Marine forces, while the Archangel Pirates, Kaido of the Beasts, and the others left at their leisure.
In the end, Archangel Louis was issued a bounty of 3,764,000,000 Berries by the World Government!
His two top commanders, "Nation-Destroyer" and "Siren" Uta, were given bounties of 1,470,000,000 Berries and 695,000,000 Berries respectively!
They had leaped to become one of the top pirate crews in the depths of the New World. They had surpassed the recently famous Red Hair Pirates, becoming the most outstanding rookie pirates since the beginning of the Great Pirate Era.
In the depths of the New World, another strong contender for the fourth pinnacle existence had appeared.
Ochoku, the ruler who had occupied Hachinosu since the era of the three legends.
Prince Loki, the legendary giant who was rumored to have crushed the entire giant race with his own hands.
The pirate who had risen to fame several years ago, Red-Haired Shanks.
And the one who had appeared out of nowhere, the most outstanding rookie since the Great Pirate Era, "Archangel" Louis.
At this moment, many ambitious people in the depths of the New World could smell it. A great change was coming to the New World. A new order would present itself to the world before the World Government could even react.
In the depths of the New World, on the giant, whale-headed ship.
The World's Strongest Man, Whitebeard - Edward Newgate, looked at the bounty poster in his hand and fell into thought.
Whitebeard felt his own body weakening day by day, and then he looked at the contents of the newspaper. He inconspicuously glanced at his "sons" below, who were looking on in disbelief, and a faint anxiety quietly rose in his heart.
At this moment, Whitebeard finally felt the drastic change in the seas. A new era was coming, and the New World was about to be plunged into a violent storm. But he, in his old age, was gradually growing weaker. It was foreseeable that in the future, there would come a time when he would be unable to protect his sons. And what was worse, among his sons, there was not one who was strong enough to carry the flag after he was gone. Once he fell, his sons' futures might be filled with much suffering.
Gradually, a look of worry also appeared on Whitebeard's face. This also made Marco, who was discussing this major event with the others, notice the abnormality. "What's wrong, Pops?"
Whitebeard heard him and smiled faintly, gradually concealing the worry on his face. "It's nothing. I was just thinking about what we will experience in the future."
Hearing his words, the pirate ship instantly became quiet. Then, it erupted in peals of laughter.
"Do you even need to think about that, Pops?"
"Of course it'll be the same as now!"
"Gurararara!" Whitebeard heard them, and a kind smile appeared on his face. But the worry in his heart grew a little deeper.
Dressrosa - King's Plateau.
Doflamingo stood at the top of the castle, quietly looking at the more detailed intelligence he had obtained from the underworld, his brow tightly furrowed. After a long while, Doflamingo whispered in the cold wind, "To think they left such terrifying injuries on two Marine Admirals... 'Archangel' Louis..." A deep shadow of gloom flashed in the eyes behind Doflamingo's sunglasses.
An unknown island - at the edge of a town.
A man with eyes like a hawk stood before his defeated opponent, casually flicking the blood from the Supreme Grade sword, Yoru. Then, under the awed and admiring gazes of the crowd, he placed the black blade, Yoru, on his back. After doing all this, he quietly stepped over the corpse lying in a pool of blood and the broken katana, and walked straight toward the town. This person was the great swordsman at the pinnacle of the world, a man with epithets such as "Marine Hunter" and "Hawkeye"—Mihawk.
Suddenly, the wind whistled, blowing a stack of bounty posters from the hands of a few pirates, and they fluttered past his eyes. "Hm?" Mihawk's sharp gaze seemed to have caught something of interest. He casually caught a few of the posters. He looked at the black-haired girl in the blood-red kimono and the white katana in her hand, and said to himself, "Wado Ichimonji. The heirloom of the Shimotsuki family from the Land of Wano."
Then, his hawk-like eyes fell on Louis's bounty poster. He carefully examined the double-edged sword, which was glowing with a gloomy green light, held in the Archangel's palm. Soon, from the patterns on the blade and the gloomy green light, he found the answer in his mind.
"The cursed sword - Seven Star Sword," Hawkeye said softly on the street where no one dared to speak. The pirates and residents heard him and all realized what he meant. The sword in the Archangel's hand is also a famous blade? A cursed sword named the Seven Star Sword?
In an archipelago of floating islands stretching far in the East Blue sky.
In a magnificent Japanese-style palace complex, an old man in a golden kimono with a ship's wheel on his head and two swords for legs sat on a throne, quietly looking at the intelligence in his hands. After a long while, he slowly looked up, a sharp glint in his eyes. "A healing power, you say?"
East Blue - in the jungle of the island publicly known as Katachan.
Dozens of men and women in camouflage uniforms with paint on their faces looked at the bounty posters of Yelena, Uta, Louis, and the others, and genuine smiles appeared on their faces.
"Long live Her Majesty Yelena!"
"Long live Lord Louis!"
"In the names of our two lords, let's kill those fish-men who dare to attack this place!" an old, withered man led the crowd in a cheer.
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