Hearing this, Gaban nearly fell to the ground in fright.
Makoto said with a smile, "I'm going to hold this secret over you for the rest of your life."
With that, Makoto turned and left, leaving Gaban questioning his life.
Actually, he was completely bluffing Gaban. He didn't have any recording.
But it didn't matter as long as the other party believed it.
With the execution of the Pirate King concluded, the millions of people on the scene had very mixed feelings.
After watching such a melodramatic and disgusting drama, many people's idealized image of the Pirate King was completely shattered.
But even so, it didn't diminish their enthusiasm for setting out to sea to find the One Piece.
Seeing this, Garp and Zephyr realized… this world was about to fall into complete chaos.
Looking at the frenzied civilians around him, Makoto, for once, took the initiative to speak to Yukino.
"This coming era is going to be tough."
Looking at these nearly insane civilians, Yukino remained silent.
She could already see… after these frantic people went to sea, the wails and grief of ordinary people, and the flames of war burning all over the world.
There was nothing interesting in Loguetown.
Makoto and his group found a restaurant, ate a meal, and were about to leave.
But it had been less than six hours since Roger's public execution.
When Makoto and his group walked out of the restaurant, they heard the commotion outside.
"Lads! Raise the sails! Hahaha!"
"The legendary One Piece is mine!"
"The age of pirates has arrived!"
"The sea is a man's true home!"
"I'm going to be the Pirate King!"
All sorts of shouts rose and fell, mixed with the roar of gunfire, the explosion of cannonballs, and the raucous revelry of pirates, sounding so harsh and ferocious.
On the streets, groups of young people, arms around each other's shoulders, carrying wine bottles and shouldering guns and swords, surged towards the port.
Their faces bore a frenzied light, as if as soon as they went to sea, the One Piece would automatically fall into their hands.
Someone smashed a wine bottle at the entrance of a tavern, drew a sword, and waved it at the sky.
Someone set off firecrackers at the dock to celebrate the arrival of a 'new era'.
Someone, carrying gold and valuables just stolen from home, rushed towards the pirate ships that were recruiting without looking back.
All of Loguetown was in chaos.
And Yu and Reze, the Gun Devil and Bomb Devil, couldn't help but smile.
They had already felt it. Because of Roger's final words, an era of war had fully arrived.
People's fear of pirates would generate fear of guns and ammunition, thereby strengthening their power.
However, not everyone was as happy as Reze and Yu.
For example, our comprehensive manga workhorse Yukinoshita Yukino had a very ugly expression on her face right now.
Her gaze was fixed on the other side of the street.
A woman with a slender figure but a noticeably bulging belly, clearly pregnant, was tightly gripping a man's arm. The man's face was flushed red, clearly drunk, and he was holding a bulging cloth bag.
"Don't go! Please don't go!"
The pregnant woman's sobs were broken, tears streaming continuously down her cheeks.
"I don't care about you anymore! Drink if you want! Gamble if you want! But please don't become a pirate! If you leave, what will happen to me and the child?"
"Get lost!"
The man impatiently shook his arm.
The pregnant woman stumbled and fell, her belly hitting the ground, pain making her face pale.
But she gritted her teeth, climbed back up, and desperately hugged the man's leg.
"Please! Don't go!"
"I'm going to sea! To become the freest man in the world!"
The man kicked her hand away, his face flushed with excitement.
"What would a woman like you know? Once I find the One Piece, you and the child can wait to enjoy a good life!"
"Enjoy a good life?"
The pregnant woman wept uncontrollably, her tone full of despair.
"You're taking the last Belly in the house! What are we supposed to eat tomorrow? The seas are full of pirates now. It's hard to say whether you'll even come back alive..."
The man didn't answer.
He picked up his money bag and turned to leave.
Seeing this, not only Yukino, but even the good-tempered Yuigahama mother and daughter felt their fists clench.
Miku and Yotsuba, also with good tempers, bit their lips, anger burning in their eyes.
"How can there be people like this?"
Chika looked exaggerated as she reached for her kanabo.
Seeing this, Makoto couldn't help but laugh.
"So this is the symbol of freedom, pirates?"
In his previous life, whenever Makoto heard Luffy shouted that pirates were the symbol of freedom, he couldn't help but want to laugh.
He didn't care if you liked being trash.
But a bunch of lowlifes who only wanted to do whatever they wanted, standing on the moral high ground and making their desires sound so righteous?
Makoto found it disgusting.
"Shut up!"
The drunkard, annoyed by the chatter, was furious and tried to slap the talkative man.
However, before his hand could fall—
A figure had already rushed in front of him.
Bang!
Yukino kicked the man away.
The man's body flew backwards like a kite with a broken string, several meters, hit the ground heavily, rolled twice, and stopped.
The money bag flew from his hand, the Belly inside scattering on the ground.
This was one of the few times Yukino had acted proactively.
She looked at the man lying on the ground groaning, her eyes full of disgust.
"Your wife is pregnant, and you still want to become a pirate? And you're taking all the family's money? Are you even human?"
The man got up from the ground, clutching his stomach, his face full of alcohol and anger.
"Who... who the f*ck are you? Why are you meddling in my business?"
But when he saw the smiling man behind Yukino—
The man's drunkenness immediately evaporated.
That face. He had seen it countless times in newspapers. The man who had trampled the World Government underfoot and made the Celestial Dragons kneel to lick his shoes was standing just meters away, smiling at him.
The man's legs began to tremble, cold sweat dripping down his back.
"N-Nishikawa-sama! I... I was just drunk! I... I wasn't really going to leave! We're going home now! Right now!"
With that, the man grabbed his wife's arm and prepared to run, eager to disappear from the King of the World's sight immediately.
But Makoto said with a smile, "It's fine. Go if you want. I'm not going to stop you."
Just in Loguetown alone, at least tens of millions of people were preparing to go to sea as pirates.
After the report got out, at least hundreds of millions of people worldwide would go to sea.
With so many people, could you stop them?
"No! You can't go!"
Yukino couldn't help but try to stop him.
Her voice carried a hint of urgency. Although she knew that with her limited ability, she couldn't stop this era from going berserk…
She hoped to at least help this family.
If this man left, what would happen to his wife and the child in her belly?
Her gaze fell on the pregnant woman… she was still slumped on the ground, tears streaming endlessly.
Makoto smiled and asked Yukino, "Can you watch him for the rest of his life?"
At these words, Yukino was speechless.
Yeah.
Even if, due to Makoto's intimidation, this man stayed for now, once Makoto left, would he obediently take care of his wife and child?
She opened her mouth to argue, but found she couldn't come up with any reason.
The man looked nervously at Makoto, his gaze darting back and forth between Makoto and Yukino.
He waited a moment, confirming that the man indeed didn't intend to stop him, then quickly bent down, picked up the cloth bag full of Belly, and ran away without looking back, amidst the heart-wrenching sobs of his pregnant wife.
"Honey—! Honey—! Don't go! Don't go—!"
The pregnant woman stretched out her hand, shouting desperately at the increasingly distant figure.
But the man didn't even turn his head.
Yukino stood there, opening her mouth, but ultimately said nothing.
This was just a microcosm of the entire world.