A week after the Navy meeting, a piece of news once again shocked countless people.
However, unlike Roger Roger's execution, this news made countless civilians cheer and countless pirates terrified.
At the same time, many princes and nobles took it for granted.
The system of the three admirals of the navy has not been fully staffed for more than a decade, but the navy unexpectedly promoted three admirals to become the new three admirals of the navy. At the same time, the former admiral of the navy, Sengoku, was promoted to become the new marshal of the navy, and Zephyr the black-armed man became the dean of the Naval Academy.
The former Navy Grand Marshal Kong was promoted to Commander-in-Chief of the entire army.
However, the most eye-catching thing was not the position transfer of Sengoku and Cyborg, but the twenty-three new admirals of the navy.
Sakaski, Borsalino, and Kuzan became household names in a very short period of time.
However, the fact that these three men became the new admirals of the navy did not come as a surprise to the major pirate forces.
After all, before the Great Pirate Era, the three of them were already the top fighting force in the navy and had some outstanding military exploits.
Countless pirates were defeated by them and taken to Impelton.
On a certain sea area on the Grand Line, on a small boat that looked like a coffin, a man wearing a black coat, a round hat, and a pair of sharp eagle eyes was reading a newspaper in his hand.
"Borsalino? I heard that the new admiral is a master swordsman with superb swordsmanship. I'll go ask him for advice if I get a chance."
This man's name is Joracle Mihawk, and he is a great swordsman whose goal is to become the world's greatest swordsman.
Because he pursues the ultimate in kendo, he constantly challenges pirates or ordinary civilians who are famous for their swordsmanship on the sea.
Every time he duels, he destroys the honesty of his enemies, so he is put on a bounty list by the navy and becomes a pirate.
However, because he did not cause too much substantial damage besides pursuing swordsmanship and challenging various kendo masters and always acted alone, the navy did not send generals to hunt him down.
As Mihawk was concentrating on reading the newspaper, a huge pirate ship sailed past him.
"Eh? Isn't that guy a famous swordsman recently? What's his name? Oh, right, Mihawk!"
After a pirate saw Mihawk, he thought for a while and finally remembered the other party's name.
"Hehe! How arrogant of you to dare to sail the Grand Line alone in a small shabby boat!"
The pirate said sarcastically, then dragged over a cannon and aimed it at Mihawk.
"If you are so arrogant, then go die! Hahahaha!"
The pirate laughed wildly and lit the cannon, and then a shell flew straight towards Mihawk.
"Um?"
Mihawk looked up at the flying cannonball, picked up the sword beside him, and swung it with a blow, destroying the cannonball in mid-air.
"What an annoying pirate."
Mihawk's sharp eagle eyes glanced coldly at the pirate ship, then he raised his sword high.
"Buzz!"
As he swung his sword, a huge blue slash shot out instantly, and under the pirates' horrified eyes, it instantly cut the pirate ship in half.
Many innocent pirates fell into the sea with screams of grief. They had no idea what had happened, their pirate ship was inexplicably cut in half and slowly sank into the sea.
The captain of the pirate ship staggered out of the captain's room and saw Mihawk sheathing his sword.
"You bastard! How dare you destroy my dream ship! I'll kill you!"
The pirate captain roared angrily and turned into a giant gorilla several meters tall, constantly beating his chest.
Perhaps feeling that it was a bit noisy, Mihawk drew his sword once again.
"What a noisy pirate group."
As Mihawk's words fell, several huge blue flying slashes completely cut the pirate ship into several pieces and sank it into the sea.
The angry and roaring pirate captain also sank to the bottom of the sea along with his pirate ship.
After sinking the pirate ship, Mihawk put his sword back into the scabbard as if he had done a very small thing and continued to read the newspaper.
"I heard that the captain of the Rocks Pirates is Shiki the Golden Lion, the world's strongest swordsman. So, let's go to the New World and take a look."
After whispering, Mihawk picked up the oars and rowed the boat leisurely...
Rocks, who was targeted by Mihawk, was currently in the South China Sea, living a quiet life in a quiet village with Roger's wife, Portgas D. Lujiu.
It’s not that Rocks doesn’t want to take Lujiu back to the New World of Grims, but because Lujiu hopes that his child can be born in the South China Sea.
In order to fulfill his wish, Rocks brought wine to such a remote and quiet village.
Originally, Rocks wanted to take the wine back to her hometown, Baterila Island, to produce it. However, after seeing more than a dozen naval warships docked at the dock, Rocks gave up this plan.
He didn't want to cause any more trouble at this time.
At this time, Rocks was alone on the beach, fishing out of boredom.
"Hey! Uncle! Do you know how to fish? How come you haven't caught a single fish yet? You are so useless!"
Next to Rocks, a little girl with pink hair tied into two ponytails and wearing a tattered skirt, who looked only two or three years old, was sitting on the ground, kicking her short legs constantly and mocking Rocks.
Her name is Perona, an orphan picked up by Rocks and Lujiu in a village.
Lujiu felt pity for the cute little daughter and asked Rocks to adopt her.
However, as for Perona, even if Lujiu didn't say it, Rocks planned to take her back to Grims.
After all, Rocks liked Perona very much in his previous life.
"Tsk, Perona, if you think I can't fish, then you can do it, otherwise stop talking nonsense."
Rocks said to Perona with a chuckle.
"Humph! I'm really good at fishing! The reason I don't go fishing is because I don't want you to feel too inferior to me, uncle!"
Perona raised her head proudly, looking like the young lady was thinking about you.
However, her clenched fists at her waist and the look she secretly gave Rocks all revealed her nervousness.
Rocks smiled and ruffled Perona's hair until her twin ponytails were completely messed up before letting go.
"Okay, little Perona, just be quiet for a while, and I'll catch a big fish and make soup for you."
"Humph, I don't believe it!"
"Blu blu blu"
Just as Rocks was teasing Perona, the Den Den Mushi in Rocks' arms rang.
Putting down the fishing rod, Rocks took out the Den Den Mushi from his arms, and when he saw that it was King calling, he answered the call.
"Boss Rocks, we have found the person you asked us to find. However, that guy seems to have been stimulated by something and is now a little crazy. He keeps talking about becoming the richest man in the world."
After hearing what Jhin said, Rocks laughed.
"Is that so? That guy is still a step too late. Albert, give him the Gold-Gold Fruit."
After hearing what Rocks said, Jhin hesitated.
"Do you really want to give it to this lunatic?"
"Ah, I believe him. He will never let this devil fruit go to waste. Tell him that I will help him become the richest man in the world."
"Ah, I see."
After hanging up the phone, Rocks looked up at the sea in the distance.
"Hey, Gild Tesoro, don't let me down."