I don't know how many familiar people are mixed in the crowd. Even though Marine has promised not to arrest anyone this time, you're too young if you really believe that.
When can you ever trust what Marine says?
Isn't a promise from the World Government just like a fart?
So the people who came here are either very strong or don't have many wanted posters. Even so, they're still hiding in the crowd.
Only people like Back Water and Toguro can obviously reveal their identities.
Back Water was in the crowd at first, but left soon after. It seems he just wanted to see Roger one last time and didn't want to see him executed.
So Marine focused the remaining energy on other people.
The main thing was to prevent former members of Roger's pirate crew from coming to save him, but none of them came.
Shanks and the others weren't really a concern so they don't count, but besides Shanks, it's not like no one came. For example, Ann noticed Mumei was also there.
It shouldn't be just her who noticed Mumei, but the others aren't really that interested in Mumei because Mumei's mobility is too strong.
But it's precisely because of Mumei's arrival that everyone is in a state of high tension, because Mumei has the ability to teleport, and may snatch Roger away with a moment's carelessness.
However, Ann knows that Mumei wouldn't do that. The Roger pirates all know Roger's will.
Roger could never be caught. The fact that he's here now only proves that this is his own idea.
"The time... is almost here."
Zephyr said softly.
His view of Roger is actually very complicated.
At first he didn't want to kill pirates, later he hated pirates, but Roger is really different from other pirates.
Roger became the Pirate King, and this event sparked pirate fever all over the world. He hates this point very much, but it has to be said that Roger himself does have a high degree of personal charm. If he could become a role model for all pirates, then this group might not be so hateful, right?
It's a pity that no matter what kind of person he was in the past, his life is finally coming to an end.
As Zephyr's voice fell, the executioner had already walked behind Roger.
In just the last few seconds, they will be able to receive the supreme honor of "killing the Pirate King."
"Roger! Where did you put your treasures!"
Roger seemed to have been waiting for this sentence for a long time, and he said the famous saying with a smile.
"Want my treasure? If you want it, you can have it..."
"Go find it! I put everything in the world there!"
The great pirate era has begun!
.........
Roger is dead.
His death represents the end of an era and the rise of an era.
His last words cheered up the pirates who had been badly hit by the Pirate King's arrest, and countless people embarked on the pirate path attracted by his treasure.
Just because of this sentence before his death, I don't know how many pirates will be created, and I don't know how many people will die at the hands of these pirates.
However, for the entire era, the existence of individuals is too small.
There has never been a savior in this world, but there really are gods and emperors.
From the beginning, this was not a fair world.
At least for now...
The savior of this world has not yet been born.
As for whether he can become a savior, it's not just his own problem.
However, they didn't know that after Roger died, his soul was taken away by Genichi.
"As expected, it's still very weak."
In Wano Country, Roger's soul is actually just a spark, most of his soul has dissipated, or has it entered the underworld to be reincarnated?
In short, only this small part, which seems to be affected by the laws of the death god world and thus condensed, remains in his hands as a weak soul.
With just this little bit of soul, Roger probably doesn't even have self-awareness.
"I wonder when he will wake up."
He threw this part of Roger's soul into the Hollow World scroll that he had previously fused with the Shikon Jewel.
This scroll will gradually nurture Roger's soul, restore his own injuries by absorbing outside soul power. Maybe as time passes, Roger can recover in this 'Hollow World'.
And he is not just absorbing Roger's soul, but is trying to absorb the souls of the dead as much as possible, strengthening the power of this scroll by absorbing their souls and making this scroll stronger.
And those souls, after entering the scroll and slowly merging, will become the lives in the Hollow World, that is, the so-called Hollows. Currently, Kuchiki Byakuya is guiding the development of the world in this scroll.
.........
Apart from Genichi's side, after Roger's death, time seemed to pass very quickly in the world.
There are more and more pirates, and Marine, who thought they could rest for a while, got busy again.
At first, Ann escorted Rugu to a relatively remote corner in East Blue, but because there were too many pirates growing, there was gradually no truly safe place in this world.
But she couldn't take Rugu to Marine Headquarters. In the end, she decided to send Rugu to the Cross religion branch in East Blue.
The Cross religion has developed very rapidly in these years. The headquarters is located in the first half of the Grand Line, and branches have been established in many places around the world. In areas like the four seas, there are also places like general branches.
It's just not the right time to send her now. Rugu is still pregnant, and now the whole world is looking for pregnant women. Sending Rugu out into the open now would be like sending her to her death.
Fortunately, in this timeline, because Ann exists, Rugu didn't keep running away like she did originally, and couldn't even give birth to Ace, because they would die like that.
With Ann's careful care and advance preparations, Rugu successfully gave birth to Ace, which made Ace one year older than in the original story.
Ann planned to send Rugu to the Cross religion when Ace was a little older.
But facts often exceeded her expectations. The development of the world is not in the hands of one person.
Two years have passed since Roger's death. In the year 1500 of the Sea Calendar, Back Water suddenly went to the headquarters of the Cross religion in the Grand Line, found the then Pope, and told him that he hoped to establish the 'God's Right Seat' in this era.
The Pope was of course overjoyed when he heard it and had no reason to refuse.
Because the Pope knew that he was actually a puppet pushed out by the World Government, just to win over Back Water and their sect so that they could develop so smoothly.
In these years, although the Cross religion has established its own country in the minds of many people, they don't have any 'force', so they can only act as puppets of the World Government.
Back Water's request was exactly what the Pope wanted.
It's just a pity that Back Water has extremely strict selection requirements for the God's Right Seat.
None of the dozens of members prepared by the Pope were selected by him.
Three months later, Back Water found Portgas D. Rugu, who was located on a remote island in East Blue.
In these two years, Rugu has become almost accustomed to this kind of life. After giving birth to Ace, she knew that she had to raise Ace, who was destined to inherit Roger's will, so she didn't indulge in grief for too long.
Although Ann occasionally came to see them, she was, after all, a Marine Admiral and always had to come secretly.
Ann chose a very remote island for them. There were so few people on the island, let alone animals.
Moreover, most of the animals are gathered in the forest on the west side of the island, while they live in the south of the island. This place is desolate and not suitable for people to live in at all.
Rugu planted some vegetables in this kind of place, but unfortunately most of them couldn't grow. If she wanted to live with Ace, she mainly had to rely on the supplies that Ann sent when she came here.
Ann didn't treat Rugu and her child poorly. She always sent a lot of food, and it was very rich. This made Rugu's hostility towards Ann disappear.
And today, Back Water set foot on this land.
The moment she saw Back Water, Rugu felt extremely flustered.
Because she knew this person. Roger had mentioned Back Water to her, so she knew how terrible Back Water was.
This is a man who even the Roger of the earlier days was no match for!
Why did he come here?!
He was Roger's enemy in the earlier days. Is he here now to kill her?
"Don't panic too much."
Back Water walked into her yard from the door. There were some vegetables planted in the yard. Looking at the somewhat sluggish Rugu, he said in a deep voice, "I don't have any malice towards you."
He said you, so that certainly means he knows of Ace, who is sleeping in the room at the moment.
"Back Water... Mr., may I ask why you came to see us?" Rugu said with some difficulty.
Ann is not here at the moment. She can only pretend.
No, even if Ann was here, she probably wouldn't be a match for Back Water.
"You have the power of fire on you, Portgas D. Rugu. Would you be willing to become the new 'God's Right Seat'?"
Back Water's words shocked Rugu. Although she is Roger's wife, she is just an ordinary person. But now Back Water is inviting her to become a God's Right Seat?!
Back Water himself is the God's Right Seat!
"No, no, how could I possibly..."
Rugu quickly shook her head. She only felt that this was Back Water's trick. How could she possibly become a God's Right Seat?
But Back Water said, "You should have realized the changes in your body in these two years, right?"
Rugu choked. She looked at Back Water in shock. "You... how do you know?"
She had never told anyone about the changes in her body.
It was after she gave birth to Ace. After her childbirth, Rugu found that a power gradually appeared in her body.
That power was transforming her body, not only greatly increasing her body strength, but also gradually creating a kind of power inside her body. That power is what the strong people on the sea call Haki.
Observation Haki, Armament Haki, Conqueror's Haki, the three types of Haki seemed to take the initiative to come to her door. Rugu learned them all without a teacher.
She didn't even tell Ann about this, because Ann is still a Marine no matter what. She is...
The person who captured Roger in the end!
When she thought of this, her heart was like a knife.
So, she didn't say anything.
However, what she had been hiding was revealed by Back Water in one word. How could she not be surprised?
But in front of Back Water, she didn't try to resist, because she knew that even if she obtained powerful Haki, she couldn't be Back Water's opponent.
"This is 'Idol Worship' and 'Miracle'." Back Water looked at the shocked Rugu and explained to her casually, "To some extent, you and Ace are extremely similar to me, a 'Saint' or rather a 'Holy Mother'."
Actually, this is what happened to Genichi recently. He found that extremely un-pirate like changes had happened on Rugu and Ace, and that was the 'Stigmata'!
When Back Water appeared in the earlier days, he mentioned that the massive amount of laws on his body are merging with the One Piece world, especially the laws related to his foundation of existence, such as 'Saint', 'Holy Mother', 'God's Right Seat', etc.
The so-called saint is a person who is born with some similarities to the holy child under the influence of idol worship. Because they have partial similarities to the holy child, they can obtain power far beyond ordinary people.
The holy child himself is the biggest miracle of the Cross religion!
And after these laws are integrated into the One Piece world, they produce the current phenomenon.
Roger, as the first person in ancient and modern times to reach and even break through the limit, his own existence is already equal to God.
Perhaps it's the world's own targeting, he eventually died, but perhaps because the world felt guilty for this, a miracle-like change occurred.
Rugu, who had intercourse with Roger and gave birth to Ace, gradually matched the 'Holy Mother', and Ace gradually matched the 'Holy Son'. Although it's definitely not a real Holy Mother and Holy Son, it can only be said that they are a bit similar to a 'Saint', but they still obtained great power under this law.
Even if the Holy Mother was just an ordinary woman before giving birth to the Holy Son, she would become the first and strongest saint after completing the Cross religion's greatest miracle after giving birth to the Holy Son.
And Rugu is about the same now. She could only be considered as an ordinary woman before, but after the Stigmata appeared, she obtained very powerful power, but this power is not achieved overnight, but slowly changes her.
Perhaps this is the world's first experiment?
All in all, the appearance of this phenomenon is not only because Roger's own strength is too strong, but also to a large extent because of idol worship.
Because Roger became the Pirate King, too many people in the world worshiped him. This worship completed the 'Idol Worship Ceremony', so it led to the changes in Rugu and Ace.
Because of this, the strengthening of Rugu and Ace also relies on the past Roger.
Anyway, it's a very complicated process.
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