One Piece: The Devil Fruit Collector-Chapter 247: The Collapse of the Warlord System! The Star Hunters Unit!
Chapter 247: The Collapse of the Warlord System! The Star Hunters Unit!
Bang!
As the memory before him shattered abruptly, Roy’s consciousness returned to his body, his expression grave.
"..."
Even he could not quite understand what had just happened.
Within a segment of memory, Imu could actually sense his existence?
"What kind of space-time police is this?"
Roy muttered to himself.
But soon, he vaguely understood.
He had pried into Doflamingo’s memory through the ’Paw-Paw Fruit’.
And all the fruits in the world come from the power of the Pillar of the World — in other words, theoretically, the Pillar of the World should contain the abilities of all the fruits in the world.
It was not strange that Imu could sense him, and even observe him through the memory.
It was just that...
"Only after I entered the Room of Flowers could Imu observe me — this shows that Doflamingo’s words were correct. His power is restricted."
"Only within the Room of Flowers is He the true ’God’."
"Upon leaving the Room of Flowers, His power declines, and He even has to descend just to send a portion of His power out of Mary Geoise."
This point could also be seen from Sabo’s encounter in the original work — he infiltrated Mary Geoise and was discovered by the Five Elders and Imu, even witnessing Imu kill Nefertari Cobra upon the Empty Throne, yet he actually managed to escape alive in the end.
This was enough to show that Imu was definitely not in a complete form at that time, otherwise there was no way He couldn’t kill Sabo.
This point made Roy relax a little — if the enemy had weaknesses, then there was room to maneuver.
But then again...
"Cobra..."
Roy thought of the wise King of Alabasta, whom he hadn’t seen for a long time.
Undoubtedly, after witnessing the ’Contract’ established between the twenty original kings and Imu from Doflamingo’s memory, Roy’s curiosity about Alabasta deepened once more.
He really wanted to know everything about that Queen Lily — his intuition told him it would be quite useful to him.
But before that...
"The Zodiac is over there!"
"It’s the Star Lord!"
"More than one!"
"Thank you!"
The Star Lord turned his head to see the surging crowd below.
The citizens of Dressrosa wore joy on their faces, running all the way up the King’s Plateau.
Thus...
"Let’s go. We still have someone to meet in Dressrosa."
The Star Lord silently turned around and took a step forward.
A spatial door opened in front of him, and the other Zodiac members hurriedly followed and stepped inside.
A moment later, they disappeared without a trace.
"They disappeared!"
"Don’t go, we came to thank you!"
Seeing this, the citizens called out again and again.
But soon...
"Look quickly! Over there by the Royal Palace, that’s..."
"Someone!?"
"Are those the executives of the Donquixote Family behind her?"
"It seems so — it’s the one codenamed ’Violet’, but dressed a bit differently... Hiss! Wait, the one she’s riding on seems to be..."
The citizens quickly noticed that above the King’s Plateau, right on top of the Royal Palace, there was a person.
That was exactly Viola.
And behind her, the corpses of the Donquixote Family executives were suspended below the Royal Palace.
"..."
Looking at the disappeared Zodiac members, Viola pursed her lips.
"Don’t treat us like boring guys like Doflamingo — we have no interest in controlling this country and will leave soon."
"We are just fighting the government. Don’t think we are good people."
Not long ago, Nezumi’s words still seemed to echo in her ears.
"And then again — you are royalty, your father is the King, right?"
"It is your responsibility to help this country recover from its trauma. Don’t even think about bothering us."
Yes.
Up until now, Viola still couldn’t believe it.
That unbelievably powerful organization had actually acted like righteous vigilantes — they came, destroyed evil and conspiracies, and then simply left.
They didn’t even give them a chance to repay them.
"Truly... cunning."
She bit her lip, her eyes feeling a little hot.
But looking at the citizens below, she forcibly held back the complex feelings in her heart.
"Hoo..."
She took a deep breath, her gaze already finding the gladiator standing in the crowd — that was her father.
"Citizens, I am Riku Viola, the daughter of the former King of this country!"
She opened her mouth and shouted loudly.
"As you can all see, Doflamingo and the members of the Donquixote Family have been executed — the disaster is over. Now..."
She had to take responsibility and work with her father to restore this country from its trauma.
However, in her heart, she also made a firm resolution.
The Zodiac had not expected any repayment.
But Dressrosa would never forget this day.
One day...
"We have something we must do!"
And undoubtedly, the events that occurred in Dressrosa quickly spread across the sea.
But what was astonishing was...
The World Economic Journal, which never missed big news, only published the newspaper after a considerable delay this time.
[’Heavenly Yaksha’ Doflamingo Falls, ’Three Disasters’ Also Perish]
[The Zodiac Reappears, Top Executive ’Saru’ Confirmed]
Moreover, the content of this particular issue was also somewhat unusual.
Especially for the gladiators and Dressrosa citizens who had truly experienced the situation firsthand.
They could tell almost at a glance — the entire report had omitted any mention of the God’s Knights and the subsequent abnormal dark night that had fallen over all of Dressrosa, without a single word about either.
On the contrary, the main text of the report detailed Doflamingo’s tyranny.
According to the newspaper, this incident was purely the tyrant Doflamingo using his identity as King to organize a fake dueling tournament, attempting to destroy his own country through it.
The report stated that behind this matter, the Three Disasters of the Beasts Pirates and The Zodiac were also involved, but eventually the three parties fought violently for reasons unknown, and ultimately Doflamingo and the Three Disasters were all killed by Saru of The Zodiac.
Simply put — this issue was a rare piece of pure fabrication released by the World Economic Journal.
At the same time, rumors spread across the sea that the original content of this issue had been very different.
But before it was published, it was said that members of CP0 had visited Newspaper Island to meet with ’Big News’ Morgans.
No one knew what happened during that meeting.
But in short, afterwards the original issue was urgently revised, and Morgans himself disappeared without a trace.
Of course, for the vast majority of people on the sea, they would naturally never know the truth — only lamenting Doflamingo’s evil, as well as the threat posed by the Beasts Pirates and The Zodiac.
For example, right now...
Drum Kingdom, Big Treehouse.
"How terrifying, to think someone would want to use their ability to destroy a country and kill all its citizens... Isn’t that madness?"
The Straw Hat Crew, currently accompanying Nami as she recuperated, were reading the newspaper.
Usopp rubbed his chin, unsettled — in the end, this sea was still too dangerous, wasn’t it?
"There are even people who can smash an island with one swing of a staff, so using an ability to destroy a country isn’t strange, right?"
Nami said plainly.
"That makes sense... Eh! Wait! Nami, what’s wrong with you? You can’t say things like that!"
Usopp nodded instinctively, then immediately realized something was wrong, looking panicked at Nami in the hospital bed beside him. In the past, Nami would clearly have joined him in lamenting how dangerous the sea was.
Could it be that the last sensible person on this ship had finally fallen as well? Was he truly all alone now?
"Mhmm..."
However, at this moment, Nami clearly wasn’t paying attention to Usopp at all. She was staring at the newspaper in her hands with stars in her eyes. "Three Disasters... I think I’ve heard of them before. They’re all super powerful pirates with bounties exceeding one billion, right?"
She licked her lips. "Damn it, if we’d been in Dressrosa at that time, maybe we could have..."
"We would have died! Absolutely died! Snap out of it — hey, Dr. Chopper! Is she really cured? Why do I feel like her brain is broken?"
Usopp let out a sharp screech.
"Eh!? Brain is broken?"
As his words fell, a certain reindeer who had been grinding medicine on the side hurriedly grabbed a stethoscope and leaned toward Nami. But then he suddenly caught himself, his hands waving frantically. "However — Usopp, did you just call me a doctor? Don’t think I’ll be happy just because you said that! You bastard!"
"Hehe~ Nami, stick your head over here, let me check if your head is broke—"
Bang!
Before he could finish, Nami hammered both him and Usopp into the ground, leaving matching lumps on their heads.
"Honestly... one says it, and the other believes it."
Nami blew on her still-smoking fist. "Keep it up and I’ll beat you both, you bastards."
Usopp, Chopper: "You already beat us!"
Amidst their complaints, Sanji also picked up the newspaper that had fallen from Nami’s hands. "However, this report seems a bit off — according to the newspaper, Saru alone killed the Three Disasters and a Warlord..."
"Hm? Stupid moss-head, what’s so strange about that?"
Zoro, who had been cleaning his swords nearby, looked over. "We already knew that back in Little Garden, right? That guy is a monster."
He didn’t think much of it.
The Three Disasters and the Warlords were indeed very famous on the sea.
But Zoro only believed his own eyes.
After witnessing Inoshi and Saru one after another, nothing The Zodiac did would surprise him.
Or to be more precise — since they were existences he looked up to as goals second only to Hawkeye, having this kind of strength was only to be expected.
"Idiot moss-head who only grows muscles and not brains... who’s talking to you about this?"
"Ha — you bastard, do you want to fight?"
"Who’s afraid of who!?"
"Yohohoho, you two are still so energetic."
Seeing those two on the verge of clashing again, Brook chuckled from the side. "However, I think what Sanji-san means is — since Lord Saru could handle the opponents alone, why does the report mention the appearance of four others: ’Nezumi’, ’Star Lord’, ’Toratora’, and ’Hitsuji’? And Neverland purportedly appeared as well."
He clearly understood Sanji’s meaning.
Or to be more precise — as someone who had briefly joined The Zodiac as a member, he knew very well...
"The other lords are one thing, but the ’Star Lord’... that is not an existence who would casually appear."
His voice deepened.
Star Lord — although he had never met the man, from Tatsu and Robin’s attitudes whenever the Star Lord was mentioned, he could be certain of that lord’s greatness.
"There’s something wrong with this report. Many things must have been hidden. It really makes one curious... Oh, although I’m a skeleton and don’t have a heart to be curious with! Yohohoho!"
"Neverland — is that the legendary island with the Fountain of Youth!?"
Chopper, who had only recently joined them, leaned in excitedly.
"Dr. Kureha mentioned it to me before, and I always wanted to go take a look... but then she said the entity associated with that island was too dangerous, and she stopped telling me about it."
He was still a little disappointed about that — as a doctor, he was naturally extremely curious about the Fountain of Youth.
Brook went with the flow, dodging Sanji and Zoro, who had already drawn swords and started kicking and slashing at each other, and handed the newspaper to Chopper.
Chopper excitedly snatched it up and took a look, then...
"Ehhhhh!"
His eyes instantly went wide.
"Th-this person — I’ve seen this person before!"
He pointed to a rare photo on the page — it showed three Zodiac members surrounding the Star Lord on the King’s Plateau.
And Chopper would never forget the man in that photo.
"You mean Lord Nezumi!?"
Brook took back the newspaper, glanced at it, and said in surprise.
"So he’s called Nezumi? Dr. Kureha never let anyone else tell me..."
Chopper caught himself and hurriedly nodded. "It’s him — he’s the one who killed the tyrant Wapol of this country. Everyone here is very grateful to him!"
"Speaking of which, I think I did read something about that recently... Ow!"
Brook scratched his head, but was then knocked to the ground by a slash from the side.
The newspaper flew into the air and landed on the face of Luffy, who was sound asleep nearby.
"Hm?"
Luffy opened his sleepy eyes and rubbed them.
He instinctively picked up the newspaper.
"Ah... Eh!?"
He let out an exclamation of surprise.
This instantly froze everyone else — there weren’t many things that could make Luffy react like that.
"Grandpa actually..."
"...Grandpa?" the others repeated in unison, confused, and all leaned in together.
Then they realized — because each of them had been interrupted partway through reading, not a single one had actually reached the final section of the newspaper.
That final section contained content that would, in a very real sense, detonate the entire sea.
[World Government Commander-in-Chief Kong and Navy Fleet Admiral Sengoku have issued an official announcement]
[In view of the heinous actions of former Seven Warlords of the Sea member ’Heavenly Yaksha’ Donquixote Doflamingo, who intended to destroy an allied nation — thereby violating the original intent and bottom line of the Warlord system and tarnishing the trust bestowed by the World Government —]
[After deliberation by the Five Elders, the Seven Warlords of the Sea system will be officially abolished, effective immediately.]
[The status and privileges of all former Warlord members are invalidated at once. The World Government and Navy will no longer recognize their right to legal plunder, and will pursue and capture them as ordinary pirates.]
[In addition, to combat the recent chaos on the sea, the Navy will cooperate with the Government to establish a brand-new force: the ’Star Hunters Unit’. This unit will gather the elites of the Navy and the Government, possess the most advanced equipment and weapons, and hold broad discretionary powers. Its sole mission is to combat the greatest threat on the sea today — The Zodiac.]
[This department will be commanded by ’Marine Hero’ Vice Admiral Monkey D. Garp, with ’Black Kaichi’ Vice Admiral Roy Amos serving as Deputy Commander. Specific appointments and jurisdictional authority are still under discussion.]
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