Marine Headquarters, Marineford
With Vice Admiral Doberman's assistance, Momonga returned to Marineford with a ship full of petrified soldiers.
Originally, Momonga had been tasked with summoning one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea—Boa Hancock—to assist the Navy.
However, that madwoman completely ignored the summons and turned every Marine except Momonga into stone.
Unable to sail the warship back alone, Momonga had no choice but to report the situation to Sengoku.
After learning of this, Sengoku dispatched Doberman to support him.
As a result—
two of the Seven Warlords would not participate in the war:
"Knight of the Sea" Jinbe"Pirate Empress" Boa Hancock
After the war, both would inevitably be stripped of their Warlord titles.
"We don't have time to deal with the Pirate Empress now. Ace's execution is imminent—we must focus entirely on this war."
Walking side by side, Momonga spoke solemnly:
"Five of the Seven Warlords have already arrived. That's more than we expected."
WOOO! WOOO! WOOO!!!
Suddenly, a deafening alarm rang throughout Marineford.
Momonga and Doberman's expressions changed instantly.
This was the Navy's highest-level alert.
The two quickly rushed toward the central Marine headquarters building.
Along the way, more and more officers gathered.
They ran into Kizaru and Vice Admiral Strawberry. Momonga stepped forward urgently:
"Admiral Kizaru! What happened?"
"Oh~ that?"
Kizaru scratched his head lazily, still carrying his usual laid-back demeanor.
"Xia Te and Kaido are causing trouble in the New World~"
"What?!"
Momonga and Doberman were shocked.
They were about to go to war with the Whitebeard Pirates—
and now the New World was in chaos too?
One was a world-famous suicidal maniac.
The other, a newcomer bold enough to kidnap Celestial Dragons.
How did those two end up working together?!
—
Soon, the top brass—three Admirals and multiple Vice Admirals—gathered in the conference room.
Fleet Admiral Sengoku got straight to the point:
"Their target… is the Whitebeard Pirates."
"More precisely," Tsuru added calmly, hands folded under her chin, "their territory."
"The whole world knows Whitebeard has mobilized his forces for war. His territories are currently left unguarded."
"So they're planning to strike while he's away? How scary~"
Kizaru remarked casually, legs crossed.
"We don't have forces to spare for that, do we?"
Garp, who usually slept through meetings, was unusually serious this time.
"Correct. But just now, we received intel from CP0."
Sengoku frowned deeply.
"The Red-Haired Pirates… are heading there as well."
Everyone's expressions changed.
Red-Haired Pirates—
another Yonko!
What is he planning?
—
Meanwhile, news of the alliance between the Xia Te Pirates and the Beasts Pirates spread rapidly across the seas.
By the next day, the entire world knew.
The scale of their movement was impossible to hide.
With Xia Te floating the Flower Capital above Kaido's fleet—
even a blind man could notice.
The Beasts Pirates alone were terrifying:
Kaido himself leading the chargeTwo of the Three CalamitiesOver 3,000 troops
As for the Xia Te Pirates—
they seemed small in comparison.
Xia Te had already reassigned Law's crew, including Bepo, to logistics.
Only five fighters remained.
Yet those five—
were enough to disregard any pirate crew below Yonko level.
At the same time, the Beasts Pirates received confirmation:
The Red-Haired Pirates were indeed coming to interfere.
—
But even before the Navy learned of all this—
another force had already gotten the news:
The Revolutionary Army.
Their intelligence network spanned the entire world.
Even the World Government couldn't confidently claim superiority over them in that regard.
—
Sabaody Archipelago, Grove 13 — Shakky's Rip-off Bar
Aside from their captured captain, Monkey D. Luffy—
the Straw Hat crew had all gathered here.
And standing before Zoro, Nami, and the others—
was a tall man with a tattoo on the left side of his face.
Monkey D. Dragon—Leader of the Revolutionary Army.
That's right.
After Luffy was captured and sent to Impel Down by Akainu—
the Revolutionary Army quickly made contact.
And Dragon himself—
had come in person to meet the Straw Hat Pirates.
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