"The original Four Emperors. After Whitebeard, Edward Newgate, and Red-Haired Shanks, Kaido of the Beasts and Charlotte Linlin have now been captured as well. With this, the era of the four Emperors of the Sea is completely over. The pirates who ruled the seas and were called emperors are gone. Next comes the final step, destroying the Revolutionary Army and taking complete control of these seas!"
Sakazuki sat in his office with two cigars clenched between his teeth, smoking nonstop as clouds of smoke drifted above his head.
"Whew."
Sakazuki exhaled a turbid breath, and his eyes sharpened.
"Then let's fight. This will be the final battle..."
Sakazuki made his decision. It was time for the final decisive battle against the Revolutionary Army.
Meanwhile...
After the two Emperors of the Sea, Charlotte Linlin and Kaido, were thrown into Impel Down, the Marines deployed nearly two hundred thousand troops and rapidly seized control of Wano Country and Totto Land.
Because Charlotte Linlin was not dead, Totto Land did not collapse. It still maintained its dreamlike islands, like something out of a fairy-tale kingdom. Since it was impossible to throw every person in an entire nation into prison, the Marines directly absorbed everyone who intended to submit to the World Government. Whether they had criminal records or not, the World Government was willing to give them one chance. As for those who had never been on any bounty list, the Marines decided to let bygones be bygones, allowing them to continue making a living through sweets and cakes, as long as they handed over the Heavenly Tribute on time every year.
As for Wano Country, if Big Mom's capture still left Charlotte Linlin's children behind to maintain control over everything on the islands and prevent order from collapsing, then from the moment Orochi and Kaido were defeated, and the Beasts Pirates were all thrown into Impel Down, leaving the prison more packed than ever before, all of Wano Country spun out of control. It became like loose sand with no one holding it together, filthy, chaotic, and utterly disordered.
Because of this, Jovian deliberately stayed in Wano Country for three days. He intended to settle Wano's problems completely.
On the first day, Jovian summoned Red Flag Drake, who had just infiltrated Wano Country and become one of Kaido's men, only to have no chance to make any moves because Jovian had already taken Kaido down. He also summoned Who's-Who, the former CP9 member who had been thrown into the sea by Aramaki, then woken up only after the war was already over.
"Kaido has been defeated. No matter how you look at it, Drake, you contributed to that. In light of this, I plan to promote you directly from Rear Admiral to Vice Admiral. What do you think?"
Jovian looked at Drake and asked.
"If that is your decision, then I accept..."
After hearing Jovian's words, Drake nodded deeply, indicating that he was willing.
"Remember, being a Vice Admiral does not grant you greater rights. It gives you greater responsibilities. I hope you keep that firmly in mind..."
"As for you, I know you. You were a CP9 member dismissed by the World Government because of Red-Haired Shanks. Originally, for a Cipher Pol agent like you who failed a mission, there would be only one fate, hell. But I can give you a brand-new opportunity. You will serve as a Marine Headquarters Rear Admiral and remain stationed in Wano Country, assisting Drake with Wano's many problems..."
After promoting Drake to Vice Admiral of Marine Headquarters, Jovian promoted Who's-Who to Rear Admiral. Who's-Who was a man with enormous ambition. After Jovian promoted him to Rear Admiral, he would definitely be unwilling to submit to Drake. The two of them would fight and scheme against each other every day while stationed in Wano Country.
"Yes, sir!"
Who's-Who knew this meant Jovian intended to use him heavily. He straightened his back and saluted Jovian seriously.
At the same time, he was already making his own little calculations, planning to find a chance to replace his superior, Drake.
"Whew."
Jovian could see exactly what Who's-Who was thinking. He exhaled a puff of smoke from his mouth.
"You will not be stationed in Wano Country with nothing to do. The first task I'm giving you is simple. Enforce a sword ban across all of Wano Country. Anyone carrying a katana and calling himself a samurai is to be arrested. Anyone who resists violently is to be executed on the spot!"
Jovian paused slightly, then continued speaking. The first task he gave Drake and Who's-Who was to arrest every samurai in Wano Country.
"We're arresting every samurai?"
After hearing Jovian's words, Drake's eyes trembled, and he asked the question.
"Isn't that obvious? Letting those foolish beings carry weapons is far too dangerous for the civilians!"
Jovian saw Drake's hesitation and spoke coldly.
"But..."
Drake gritted his teeth, as if there was something in his heart he wanted to say.
"That's enough, Drake. You really are disgraceful. You actually want to argue against an order from your superior. This is exactly why you Marines have terrifyingly poor execution!"
Who's-Who seemed to see Drake's weakness. Believing this was his moment to show off, he seized that point and attacked Drake relentlessly.
"Who's-Who..."
Drake's expression looked somewhat unpleasant. Who's-Who's constant provocation irritated him, and from Who's-Who's provocative posture, he roughly understood one thing. This guy in front of him was not on the same side as him.
"At least we Marines don't produce traitors like you. That proves CP9's management system really has problems..."
Drake looked coldly at Who's-Who and shot back.
"You bastard..."
Who's-Who's face turned ashen, and he became irritated.
"Well, well, who is this?"
"I never expected to see our great senior here. How strange. He was clearly a dog of the Celestial Dragons, just like us, so why is he helping the Marines now? Did he switch jobs? Ahaha, that's hilarious..."
Just as Who's-Who was glaring fiercely at Drake, a mocking voice entered the ears of Who's-Who and Drake.
In the next second, several people wearing black uniforms appeared before Drake.
"You're... Damn it, why were CP9 agents sent here?"
When Who's-Who heard them, he turned around and looked over. The sight of those uniforms, which were far too familiar to him, and the man leading them, a man wearing a top hat with a white pigeon perched on his wrist, made his expression change violently.
"Lucci, looks like our great senior still remembers us!"
The long-nosed man in a hat, who had been chattering from the very beginning, turned toward their cold leader and laughed after hearing Who's-Who's words.
"Kaku, be quiet. You're being noisy..."
The man called Lucci glanced at Who's-Who, then directly ignored him and turned to speak to the long-nosed man.
"Admiral Jovian, who are these people?"
Who's-Who looked at Jovian with an ugly expression and asked.
"Lucci, Kaku, Jabra, Kumadori, Fukurou, and Blueno. Former CP9 members. They failed at Enies Lobby, but just as I intend to give you a chance, I also intend to give them a chance, so they can continue working for the World Government and for justice. Simply put, they are a special anti-samurai task force. Each of them will lead one hundred World Government powerhouses to help capture powerful samurai. This is the Anti-Samurai Shinsengumi I personally selected. I hope you like it..."
Jovian introduced the CP agents behind him to everyone present. Or rather, former CP agents.
"Is that really necessary? Aren't we enough?" Who's-Who felt unwilling, but after seeing Jovian's eyes, he ultimately said nothing more. He could only move to Drake's side and whisper, "Hey! Drake, our ceasefire starts now. Let's deal with those damn guys first. They're harder to handle!"
"Who said I'm teaming up with you against them?" Drake glared at Who's-Who, then walked up to Lucci and extended a hand. "Then I hope we can cooperate with each other in our future work!"
"Sorry, I don't have the habit of shaking hands with people like you. As for future work, just make sure you don't hold me back."
Lucci looked coldly at Drake, then led the more than six hundred World Government elite combatants and thousands of craftsmen behind him away with a swagger. He was going to build his own work unit.
"Understand now?"
Watching Lucci leave, Who's-Who walked to Drake's side and spoke.
"I think I roughly understand..."
Drake finally understood exactly what kind of person Lucci was. That man was far too arrogant.
Just as Drake let out a breath, with the sound of whistles, one Marine warship after another arrived in Wano Country.
"What is this now?"
Drake stared wide-eyed as large numbers of soldiers entered Wano Country.
"Oh, Drake, did I not tell you? We are going to remodel Wano Country, located in the second half of the New World, into a massive fortress of justice, corresponding to Marineford in the first half. The site for the fortress will be Onigashima. We will rebuild it on the existing foundation of Kaido's fortress..."
Jovian spoke to Drake.
"You never mentioned that at all..."
Drake said to Jovian speechlessly.
"But is this huge fortress going to be managed by me alone? I'm afraid I don't have that ability."
When Drake thought about going directly from a mere Rear Admiral to the top commander of a Marine fortress with tens of thousands of troops, he admitted he did not have the ability.
"Huh? Did I not say that you, Drake, are the commanding officer of the Flower Capital branch, and Who's-Who is the deputy commanding officer of the Flower Capital branch? The commanding officers of the other locations, including the commander of the new Marine Justice Base, are all other people."
Jovian looked at Drake with some surprise and asked.
"You never said that at all!"
This time, before Drake could speak, Who's-Who cut in first, because he had suddenly gone from deputy commander of the Wano Marine Base to deputy commander of the Flower Capital branch. His authority had been weakened to the extreme, and that made him truly unhappy.
"I didn't say it? Then I'll give a brief introduction."
"Vice Admiral Drake, you and Rear Admiral Who's-Who are the commanders of the Flower Capital branch. Vice Admiral Bastille, Rear Admiral Kamida, and Rear Admiral Puen are responsible for the Kuri and Kibi regions. Newly appointed Vice Admiral Smoker, Rear Admiral Kadar, and Rear Admiral Dicien are responsible for the Ringo and Hakumai regions. As for the mining region of Udon, it will be fully handled by CP0, dispatched by the World Government. Oh, right. As for the former CP9 members, like you, they are only responsible for the security of the Flower Capital."
Jovian explained the personnel arrangement for the other regions of Wano Country to Drake.
"For a small Wano Country, you actually deployed three Vice Admirals and five Rear Admirals. Isn't this lineup way too luxurious?"
Several drops of sweat dripped down Drake's forehead. He seemed somewhat frightened by the lineup Jovian had arranged in Wano Country.
"That just shows how much importance I place on the samurai of Wano. Oh, and if absolutely necessary, we will directly launch a Buster Call against Wano Country..."
Jovian smiled and said words that made Drake feel a chill down his spine.
"A Buster Call? But that requires five Vice Admirals and a Marine Admiral holding a Golden Den Den Mushi to activate!"
"We only have three Vice Admirals here, don't we? Wait, don't tell me..."
Drake seemed to realize something, and his face changed abruptly. His attention had been focused only on the Marines stationed throughout Wano Country. From beginning to end, Jovian had never introduced who would be stationed at the Marine fortress.
The moment he thought of this, Drake's expression changed violently.
"This place really is hot."
"Jovian, you really tricked me into a very unfun place."
Just as Drake guessed something, a teasing voice sounded beside his ear.
"You are..."
Drake lifted his head and saw a man in a yellow suit, draped in a Marine Justice coat.
"Allow me to introduce him. The person in charge of the Marine fortress in the second half of the New World, former Marine Admiral and current Marine Inspector General, Mr. Borsalino."
Jovian smiled faintly at Drake and introduced the person in charge of the Marine fortress, where tens of thousands of Marines were stationed.
"At the same time, the Marine fortress also has a full five Marine Vice Admirals attached to it. In other words, Drake, Borsalino can launch a Buster Call without needing approval from the Vice Admirals stationed at your Marine branches in Wano Country."
Jovian deliberately reminded Drake.
"This..."
Drake felt his head begin to ache. He did not know why Jovian had arranged three Vice Admirals on Wano's mainland, then arranged five more Vice Admirals at the fortress, gathering a full eight Vice Admirals in total. Was he preparing to go to war with some Emperor crew?
As for the five Vice Admirals Jovian had arranged at the fortress, they were Maynard, Cancer, Jonathan, Komei, and Vergo, whom he had directly bribed into working loyally for him by giving Doflamingo in prison an extra chicken drumstick tomorrow.
All five were fairly strong. In addition to those five Vice Admirals on the surface, Jovian had also obtained Chaton Tokikake from Sakazuki and hidden him inside the fortress. Add Borsalino and fifty thousand Marines to that, and they could even clash with some peak Emperor crews!
"In short, work hard!"
Jovian patted Drake on the shoulder and returned to the fortress on Onigashima, which should now be called Justice Island.
Someone was waiting for him there.
"Ara-ra..."
"You actually dared to leave me here, and you even went straight to Commander-in-Chief Kong, the World Government Commander-in-Chief over all military forces and Sakazuki's superior, to get me the position of commander-in-chief of the Marine Justice Fortress. I really don't understand what you're trying to do. Won't Sakazuki lose his mind over this?"
In the office, a stubbly man holding a bottle of liquor sat on the sofa, drinking alone.
Sitting across from him was the current Marine Headquarters Admiral, Aramaki. Aramaki had not taken a single sip. He really did not want to drink with a rough man. In his words, that would make good liquor taste bad.
"Looks like everyone is here..."
"It's been a long time, Kuzan..."
After Borsalino and Jovian entered the room, Borsalino was the first to greet Kuzan.
Yes, he was not the true commander of this base. He was still the Inspector General, merely temporarily assigned. The real commander-in-chief of the fortress was former Marine Admiral Aokiji, Kuzan.
"If Boss Sakazuki saw this lineup, he'd be furious, ahaha..."
Just as everyone took their seats, the late-arriving Tokikake walked into the room and closed the door behind him.
"Looks like everyone is here..."
Seeing that all the major figures in the base had gathered, Jovian smiled faintly.
"Next, we will discuss something interesting in this room..."
Jovian's eyes gradually turned serious. He was preparing to gather everyone in the room to do something big.
"I'd like to see what you're planning after gathering this many powerhouses. With this much massive combat strength, even overthrowing the World Government wouldn't be impossible..."
Kuzan's eyes swept over everyone in the room. He was someone who had left the World Government once before, after all, and he had started saying things that could be called treasonous. Perhaps to the current Kuzan, none of it mattered anymore.
"Hey, hey, hey, Boss Kuzan, listen to the treasonous things you're saying. If Boss Sakazuki heard that, he'd fire you on the spot!"
Tokikake listened to Kuzan's words and spoke with an exaggerated expression, as if he were clowning around.
"Ah, is that so? Then pretend I didn't say it."
Kuzan scratched the back of his head, acting as if he had never said anything at all.
"You really scare me..."
Tokikake sighed helplessly. This man in front of him really was exactly like Mr. Garp.
"Anyway, well, none of you are actually afraid of Sakazuki, are you?"
Kuzan thought for a moment, then asked everyone in the room.
"Pfft..."
"Hahaha..."
After hearing Kuzan's words, everyone in the room laughed. There was not a single person in this room who actually listened to Sakazuki.
Even Aramaki only said with his mouth that he admired Sakazuki the most, while everything he did was something Sakazuki had told him not to do.
"In short, I gathered all of you here for only one thing. It's simple, really. We're going to send Monkey D. Garp, Monkey D. Dragon, Monkey D. Luffy, Portgas D. Ace, and Sabo..."
"We're sending the whole Monkey family, neatly and completely, into Impel Down..."
Jovian finally revealed his goal.
For a moment, the entire room fell cold and silent.
A moment later, Jovian seemed to remember something and changed his words. "Ah, right. I forgot to mention it. Since Monkey D. Garp is the Hero of the Marines, maybe we should leave him out of it?"
"Agreed!"
"No problem..."
"Sounds good..."
Very quickly, everyone reached a consensus.
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