"Brrr, brrr, brrr..."
Navy Headquarters.
"It's me."
Sakazuki had been waiting for a long time when he answered the phone, only to hear a single sentence. His brows furrowed as his large hand erupted with magma, melting the receiver.
Bam!
A magma-laden fist slammed onto the desk, melting a hole into it.
"Oh~"
Beside him, Kizaru pursed his lips in surprise and said, "They actually won, how terrifying."
The sentence was simple.
Sage won. Big Mom was submerged by the sea, her life and death unknown.
That disaster... actually won!
"The balance has long been broken!"
Akainu stood up, walked to the front balcony, gazing at the navy buildings below and the waves ahead, with the cigar in his mouth hanging down, exhaling smoke.
He clenched his fist tightly, looking ahead for a moment, finally gritting his teeth, biting the cigar off, and said in a deep voice:
"The era of great pirates should have ended with Whitebeard's death!"
Kizaru came over, shrugged, "The timing is perfect, at this stage, we can't do anything."
He also looked toward the sea, sighed, "Took down one of the Four Emperors... just like you, Sakazuki."
Taking down a Four Emperor is not something new for Sage.
Two years ago, during the Summit War period, Sakazuki was the first one to take down a Four Emperor.
Although the end of life was not done by him, such things are not important, by the way he fought, Whitebeard was certainly going to die at Akainu's hands.
Now there is another one...
Akainu snorted coldly, "A naturally wicked brat, already grown uncontrollable, the guys above are playing with fire, let them, let them! When this sea can no longer maintain order, let's see what they'll do!"
...
For Sage, defeating Big Mom signifies the end of the battle, no matter if they won or not.
The widespread thunder and fire, like a world-ending disaster, descended upon the entire sea area, marking the complete end of the fight.
The people of the Big Mom Pirates, whether they had given up resistance or not, ultimately fell into the hands of the Disaster Pirates.
The Cake Ship in the sea got struck by thunder, instantly split into two, those lucky not struck by thunder didn't have time to catch their breath before a huge fireball descended onto the Cake Ship, setting the entire ship ablaze.
If they didn't want to die with the ship, they could only jump into the sea, and once in the sea, they would still be captured by the Disaster Warship lurking nearby.
Sage didn't give them the chance to surrender, nor did he need them to surrender; those who survived had the qualification to be recruited by him.
A day later, near Cake Island on a Cookie Island, the Death Star anchored nearby with a fleet, the town within the island had been taken over by the Disaster Pirates, changed to their flag.
In a tall cookie house at the town center, Sage kicked over the throne made from sandwich cookies, letting his subordinates bring the throne from the ship over and sat there casually.
"What the hell is this..."
He broke off a piece of the remaining sandwich cookie throne, stuffed a piece into his mouth, nodded, "Tastes good, but it's not for sitting. Food is food, put on a plate, held in hand, rather than construction material or sold as clothes... right, gentlemen."
In front of him were several people bound by chains.
There was Katakuri, wrapped in bandages, even around his head.
Beside him was Smoothie, with bandages wrapping her abdomen, along with Cracker, having bandages from his forehead to his left shoulder down to his chest.
Besides the standard Three Commanders, there was Perospero, whose right hand had been blown off, and Snack wrapped like a dumpling, as well as Oven and Daifuku...
The last one hadn't been defeated by anyone, he was locked in a fierce battle with Gin, right until Sage took down Charlotte Linlin and the thunder descended, directly striking him down.
Daifuku was similar, he narrowly dodged the thunder but couldn't escape the ensuing fireball, jumped into the sea only to be salvaged later.
The many children of the Charlotte family, more than half were captured, a small part were lost due to war or accident, there's nothing that can be done.
"What was that?!"
Before Cracker could speak, Perospero couldn't hold back, "Never mind the Homiez of the thunder cloud, you took Mother's, what about that fireball?!"
The fireball that suddenly appeared yesterday had scared him badly, rather than saying he was captured, it's more like the appearance of the thunder and fireball made him surrender directly out of fear.
"You said it was snatched, so what else could it be?"
Sage supported his chin with one hand, raised the wrist with the golden bracelet, as the bracelet opened and transformed, a scimitar appeared in his hand.
"Thunderfire Sword, three major elements, are already in my hands!"
He laughed and said, "We're all pirates, let's be straightforward, surrender or die, choose."
He wanted the territory, he also wanted the subordinates.
This place is huge, even if he splits his forces, it's not enough to oversee, but these people of the Charlotte family are ready-made, no reason not to use them.
They didn't have any claim over sovereignty, because essentially they were like Sage, occupying a kingdom with great force and letting their subordinates administrate, no worry about any tricky issues.
After all, the boss is dead, there's nothing to cause a stir.
"Are you kidding! Even if Mom is gone, this is still the Charlotte family's territory!"
Before anyone else could finish, the most hot-tempered Oven shouted, "Brother Katakuri is the new Captain, Disaster, we will not submit!"
Katakuri, Daifuku, Oven...
The three were triplets, Oven respected Katakuri a lot.
As for the big brother...
Although their relationship was good, he lacked strength.
"Didn't ask you to submit."
Sage chuckled, "If you were truly to abandon your flag and pledge loyalty to me, that would be problematic. As for you, I have a different plan."
"To be honest, forcefully seizing this place would be a bit difficult, so I need you."
He did not hide his intentions at all, reaching out to them, saying:
"So, become my subsidiary pirate group. I'll grant you the same privileges as the Fur Race; they retained territorial autonomy, and you will be the first pirate group under my command to keep your flag and name. You can continue as the Big Mom Pirates. But the territory here belongs to me, and of your loot, I don't care, just hand over 40% to me."
Sage bared his cold white teeth, "After all, for a pirate group of the Four Emperors to completely disappear, wouldn't that be a pity?"
Counting all the personnel of this family, they could indeed fill a ship, each one elite.
If killed all, even replacing their abilities one by one like Teach takes time and luck to cultivate them to their current power.
Better to use them directly.
As for the influence...
While he's alive, there will be no impact at all.