As the broadcast ended.
Garp and Sengoku exchanged a look and obediently handed the collected newspapers to their field officer subordinates to take to the Crime Investigation Division office.
They then immediately rushed to the General Branch office for a meeting.
At this time, the person in charge of the New World G1 General Branch was precisely Admiral Kong.
Meanwhile, Fleet Admiral Kukulkan the Heavenly Snake still presided over the Marine Headquarters, Marineford.
Previously, to deal with the disorderly expansion of the Rocks Pirates, all three Marine Admirals had already moved into the New World.
As the strongest Admiral, Kong naturally became the supreme commander of the New World, possessing wartime authority over the other two Marine Admirals.
Kong was also the default next Fleet Admiral in the eyes of the Marine high command.
Admiral Walker had been tragically killed by Rocks at the Holy Land Mary Geoise.
Admiral Candidate Iron Hand Hande ascended to the position of Admiral, becoming the new Admiral.
Now, Kong, Se-gun the Copper-Skin, and Iron Hand Hande were known as the 'Steel, Copper, and Iron Three Admirals'.
However, Copper Skin General, who was previously on par with Kong, had been heavily injured by the invincible Rocks during the suppression of the Rocks Pirates in the New World, leaving behind some internal injuries.
This resulted in Copper Skin General being completely out of the running for the position of Fleet Admiral.
After all, for the position of Fleet Admiral, strength determines the seat.
With Copper Skin General suffering from internal injuries and Iron Hand Admiral having just ascended a few years ago, Kong was the undisputed candidate for Fleet Admiral.
As Kong's status became increasingly stable, the status of the three Marine Marine Rear Admirals from Kong's Admiral fleet—Sengoku, Garp, and Tsuru—was also rising rapidly.
Kong intended to cultivate Sengoku and Garp, both possessors of Conqueror's Haki, into Marine Admirals.
In that case, his Dove Faction direct descendants would all be core high-level figures, grasping the power of the entire Marine in their hands.
In the future, ascending to the position of General Commander-in-Chief above the Fleet Admiral might not be impossible.
That position had always been held by the strongest shield and loyal hound of the Celestial Dragons, the lineage of the CP Organization Chief.
However, Kong's plan to completely control the Marine and ascend to the position of General Commander-in-Chief was a bit idealistic.
After all, the Justice of the Marine had always had a fundamental conflict with the indulgence of the Celestial Dragons.
The Celestial Dragons did not fully trust the Marine, who still harbored a sense of Justice.
The position of General Commander-in-Chief could only be held by the most loyal of claws.
Unless a certain Fleet Admiral was completely loyal to the Celestial Dragons rather than to the Marine and Justice.
Only then would there be a slight chance to ascend to the position of General Commander-in-Chief.
One must know that even to ascend to the position of Marine Admiral, one must undergo the 'test' of the Celestial Dragons.
One had to perform some dark deeds that violated Justice, leaving a stain or breaking the bottom line of Justice, to pass the inspection of the Gorosei and ascend to the position of Admiral Candidate.
Within the Marine, even a Marine Vice Admiral is not considered a true core high-level figure.
A Marine Vice Admiral does not even have the qualification to know the secret of the 'Study Tour'.
Only after accepting the test of the Celestial Dragons' 'Dark Justice' and stepping into the position of Admiral Candidate can one barely be considered a confidant of the Celestial Dragons, capable of being dispatched to complete various dark missions.
In the future, even the two Admiral Candidates, Momousagi Gion and Chaton Tokikake, would have to complete various missions to protect the Celestial Dragons.
Following the Celestial Dragons, they would come into contact with all sorts of dark events.
This was obvious.
Even protecting the Celestial Dragons on their trip to Gild Tesoro's Golden Entertainment City, where there were game programs involving the public execution of pirates and gamblers almost every day.
Momousagi Gion and Chaton Tokikake had long since become accustomed to it, even being able to enjoy themselves leisurely.
Among the three Logia type Admirals, Aokiji was tormented and fell into confusion, degenerating from Burning Justice to Lazy Justice; Kizaru protected himself with Unclear Justice... As a group of generals entered the General Branch office.
Kong first looked at the serious-faced Sengoku and Garp, sighing inwardly.
These two direct subordinates who possessed Conqueror's Haki did not seem to be able to accept the darkness and brutality of the Celestial Dragons very well.
As a Marine Admiral, ever since he was promoted to Admiral Candidate back then, he had witnessed the endless darkness of the Celestial Dragons.
He hoped these two direct subordinates could adapt well.
Only if they ascended to higher positions together would they have a shred of qualification to change the Celestial Dragons.
"Sengoku! Garp! Tsuru! Sit behind Admiral Iron-Hand."
"From today onwards, you are officially promoted to Marine Vice Admiral!"
Perhaps previously, if Kong wanted to promote the young Sengoku and Garp to Marine Vice Admiral, he would have faced some objections from the Hawk Faction.
But now, no one could restrain him anymore.
The Hawk Faction Admiral, Se-gun the Copper-Skin, had taken the initiative to suppress the Rocks Pirates, but ended up heavily injured himself.
He was no longer a threat to Kong.
Even the Fleet Admiral was supporting him.
"Yes!"
Sengoku immediately responded, the haze in his heart dissipating slightly because of this promotion; he had finally stepped into the Marine high command.
But the crisis of the World Government and the Marine still existed.
Garp stepped past Sengoku and sat unceremoniously next to Admiral Iron-Hand.
He wasn't very polite even to this new Marine Admiral.
His Marine epithet was Iron Fist; he would surpass Admiral Iron-Hand sooner or later.
Sengoku was helpless and could only sit next to Garp, with Tsuru following closely behind.
The Vice Admirals in the office all felt as if they were sitting on pins and needles.
With a great enemy before them, was the conflict between the Marine's Dove Faction, Neutral Faction, and Hawk Faction about to break out again?
Admiral Iron-Hand, Hand, ignored Garp's battle-crazed gaze.
Barring any accidents, he could sit in the Admiral's seat for ten or twenty years.
Even if Garp's strength soared to Admiral level in the future, it would take Copper Skin General retiring or Kong being promoted to Fleet Admiral to vacate an Admiral's seat for this arrogant brute.
Admiral Iron-Hand hadn't expected Kong's command to produce two generals with Haoshoku Haki.
This was truly rare in history.
After all, within the Marine system, awakening Conqueror's Haki was an incredibly difficult thing.
Yet, two had appeared under Kong's command all at once.
Why hadn't such talent appeared in their Neutral Faction?
What Admiral Iron-Hand didn't know was that under one of his Captains, there was a Seaman Recruit named Zephyr, who was silently and diligently training, accumulating his potential, waiting for the day of a sudden breakthrough.
"Garp! Sit properly!"
Kong barked a reprimand at his trusted general, giving Admiral Iron-Hand and Admiral Copper-Skin an explanation.
But there was no other punishment.
Admiral Iron-Hand and Admiral Copper-Skin both accepted Kong's indulgence of Garp.
After all, this new Marine Vice Admiral with Conqueror's Haki indeed had the capital to be arrogant.
"Next, let's discuss how to deal with this 'fake news'."
After Garp sat up straight, Kong's face became extremely serious; these widely circulated newspapers had indeed caught him off guard.
Now, even the World Government and the Marine Headquarters could no longer stop the distribution of these newspapers.
Because these newspapers were not distributed by those major news agencies, and even the News Coos were not those raised by the news agencies under the World Government.
Was it really necessary to indiscriminately shoot down all News Coos now?
But what about the newspapers that had already been distributed all over the world?