The year 1121 of the Tianyuan calendar.

December 1st, the beginning of winter in New Tokyo, was just an uneventful weekend.

No, perhaps it can't be said to be mediocre.

Two big things happened on this day.

The first thing is that the pirate cadres who were publicly executed on Rising Sun Island were rescued by the members of the pirate group, and this time the two sides dispatched a total of more than 20 warships and nearly 1,000 troops, and after a shocking battle between the absolute abilities of the port, they also launched a unique sea chase.

In the end, nearly half of the ships were destroyed.

There were a large number of casualties on both sides of the thousand-man naval battle.

In the end, the remnants of the Sakamoto Dragon Pirates managed to rescue Ryunosuke Kamiya, the captain of the second detachment, and disappeared into the vast East China Sea.

It is said that Adams, one of the twelve rulings of the Division of Adjudication. Inquisitor Karl was furious, and in a fit of rage, he shot and shattered the ship at his feet!

At last....

The companions who were rushed were picked up from the sea.

It can be said that no matter what day of the year such sensational news occurs, it is probably the big news that the people can talk about after tea and dinner, and can talk about it for a year.

Unfortunately on the same day,

There was another big thing happening.

The Lords of the World Government, the iron-fisted Councilor Leighton who has risen like a meteor in recent years. Hope, assassinated by an unidentified human in Wano Country, died on the execution table on Rising Sun Island.

For a while, everyone's eyes converged on this news.

This human... How could he?

How dare you?!

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The west of the continent.

A small coastal town near the West Sea.

This is a fishermen's town with only a thousand people, and the first group of residents to establish the town are said to be the people of the deceased country of Luoning, which is tens of thousands of kilometers away.

In order to escape the war, they did not hesitate to migrate thousands of miles to this land by the sea, and it took several generations of multiplication to gradually become its current scale.

The people of the town, which are not part of any of the Union or non-Union countries, live a peaceful and happy life of self-sufficiency.

Kitts is an eight-year-old round-faced boy with freckles on his face.

His favorite time on weekdays is to go to the beach and watch the distant sea, and often tell his friends that this place is not free at all, and it is dull, and if he wants to go to sea to be a pirate in the future, he will be childish.

When other children heard this, they would only clap their hands around him and laugh at him.

However, if the other adults in the town heard it, they would often scold him harshly.

When their parents heard this, they would be beaten up, after all, pirates could be said to be an ominous disaster for their helpless fishing villages.

Only a little girl named Wendy seems to understand him in the town.

The other party is the same age as him, and they are both students in the small town school, and every time he says that he wants to be a pirate in the future, Wendy's little face will show a smile of encouragement and envy.

The only pity is...

Wendy is a deaf little girl,

Born unable to speak.

This suddenly made Kitts feel like a pearl was secretly cast, and the sense of accomplishment in his heart was greatly reduced, because he suspected that the other party couldn't understand what he was saying at all...

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Kitts was beaten this morning, and when he arrived at school, he was ridiculed by others for being late, so angry that he ran dozens of kilometers in a rage, and came to the beach to watch the sea wander aimlessly.

It would be nice if he could awaken his ability at some point, so that no one would look down on him in the future, and they would all listen carefully to what he said.

Kitts imagined in his mind that before he knew it, it would be noon, and his stomach was growling.

A child at this age will definitely not have a hard time with his stomach, so he will run back, anyway, his parents don't know that he didn't go to school.

When I got home, I slipped away after eating.

He had a ghost idea in his mind, but when he walked home along the seaside path... The closer I got to the town ahead, the stranger Kitts's became—the town seemed too quiet today, without the usual noisy shouts of families preparing lunch by noon.

The next moment, without warning!

Before Kitts could get close to the town, a blinding fire fell from the sky, hitting the town's mayor's house with precision, and the terrifying explosion destroyed all the surrounding buildings in an instant, and the burning heat ruthlessly turned the area into charred ruins.

Thick black smoke rose from the ruins and slowly drifted high into the air, and Kitts reacted quickly from his momentary stunned momentary astonishment and hurried up a nearby high slope.

Immediately afterward, he was stunned to find that there was more than a group of strangers with weapons outside the town, and everyone in the town was trembling and kneeling at the door, their eyes blank and frightened.

And on the streets of the town, countless corpses died tragically on the ground, blood stained the stone road that he had run countless times as a child, and the wind was full of scorched breath, and faintly brought a faint S moan.

A few turbaned and giggling strangers walked by on the street, casually raising their sailor's scimitars and slashing at the dying man, cruelly making up for the last desperate stab.

Kitts was stunned for a moment.

This is... What happened?

That's right!

What about Mom and Dad?

The young man was a little panicked, and quickly tried to sneak around the town and go back to his house to see if his parents were still there.

Unexpectedly, just a few steps after running, one of the strangers turned to look at him.

"Oh~! There's a little ghost. ”

The other party said with a chuckle.

Then, Kitts only felt a light step under his feet, and the whole person was lifted.

......

Bang!

The ground was filled with smoke and dust.

Kitts was thrown in front of the people of the town on his knees, and he was dizzy and dizzy, and a large piece of skin was rubbed against the ground where his arm hit the ground, and the pain was excruciating.

At this time, he was suddenly stunned for a moment.

In the pool of blood in the corner not far away, there seemed to be two familiar faces, the father standing in front of the mother, and a sailor's scimitar "stringed" them face to face.

Crimson blood...

It was left drop by drop along the tip of the knife.

Kitts' scalp was numb, and the sudden fear and anger made him speechless, and he clenched his fists so hard that his mouth was almost bitten open.

These gangs... Demon!!!

At this moment, he suddenly saw the man squatting on a chair behind the group of strangers, with short blue hair like the sea, windproof goggles around his neck, a coat and cropped pants, and a large cigar in his hand, which looked very strange and fashionable.

It's him!

Kitts, who often pays attention to the information of the pirates, immediately recognizes the man in front of him.

The notorious Celestial Pirate of the West Sea, Thiago who betrayed the Celestial Family. Murphy, known as the "Devil of the Deep Sea" in the West Sea, is said to have slaughtered several villages and towns in a year, and even helped the rebels attack a small coastal country.

And with the privileged background of the celestial aristocracy, Thiago. Murphy also has a complex network of relationships on the continent, and can often conduct all kinds of trade under the nose of the world government, so it can be said that black and white are both black and white.

This is the most shameless pirate he usually has.

But this guy has never been to this sea.

How did it end up in this town?

Kitts clenched his fists tightly, and was about to get up when he was kicked on the back again.

The man who caught him earlier laughed and teased, "Little ghost, did you see someone familiar?" Would you like to show me? ”

Plop!

Kitts slammed down on the ground again, gritting his teeth and not speaking—he wouldn't bow down to these damn pirates.

But gradually, as the foot behind his back stepped on his back more and more, Kitts's face became more and more red, and his consciousness was a little blurred.

Apparently he couldn't take it anymore.

The townspeople kneeling on the ground looked at this scene with trembling lips, but in the face of these murderous demons, they trembled for a while and dared not speak out.

At this moment, a little girl of seven or eight years old at the back of the crowd got up, she came anxiously and nervously grabbed the corner of her clothes to look at Kitts who was trampled on the ground.

It turned out to be Wendy, a deaf and dumb little girl from the town.

"Oh? Is there still a childhood sweetheart? ”

At this time, the pirate crowd in Tiago. Murphy suddenly took a step and looked at the timid in front of him with interest, "Childhood sweethearts, two little guesses, it's really a wonderful memory that makes people cry." ”

"Little girl, what's your name?"

Thiago. Murphy asked with a smile.

Wendy noticed that someone was talking to her, and looked up a little dazedly, looking at Thiago who was smiling in front of her. Murphy subconsciously took two steps back, opened his mouth but couldn't speak.

"Oh... Did you think I was too scary and refused to answer? ”

Thiago. Murphy muttered to himself and sat back down, "It's a pity... I don't have the patience to wait for someone..."

He waved his hand in annoyance.

The man who was stepping on Kitts not far in front of him smirked, turned around suddenly, and the sailor's scimitar in his hand slashed through a cold light like lightning!

Sneer——!

The little girl raised her face a little dazedly, blinked, and a fierce bloody arrow burst out of her immature neck, and then fell backwards weakly.

The pirates around him were accustomed to this, and the men who did it wiped the blood from the sailor's scimitar, smiled and turned his head and bent down respectfully to Thiago. Murphy asked:

"Boss, what should I do with this town?"

Thiago. Murphy looked at the ruins and smoke and the town, shook his head, and said, "Leave the belongings and women." ”

"Yes!"

The crowd cheered in response.

......

"Bastard bastard bastard! Wendy she... She can't speak. ”

Kitts was lying on the ground and witnessing this, tears overflowed his face, but no one listened to the pirates who had already begun to slaughter the spree.

Just like ever...

Anger overflowed his chest.

Suddenly, the dripping tears flashed with a glimmer of fire.

In the next moment, I saw that his eyes were red, as if two flames were burning, and he suddenly got up and angrily punched the man holding the scimitar with his back to him.

Hula—!

Crimson flames swelled out of the fist like a huge wave.

"Huh?!"

There was a soft sigh from among the pirates.

At this time, someone blew on the firelight, and suddenly the fire that bloomed on Kitts's fist dissipated like a powerful fire extinguishing agent, and he punched the man in the back dryly.

Perfunctory.

The man with the sailor's scimitar turned around with a gloomy face, stared at the angry Kitts fiercely, and slowly raised the cold flashing scimitar in his hand.

"Stinky little ghost... You are.... Want to die? ”

"Wait."

The moment the scimitar fell,

Thiago. Murphy suddenly raised his hand.

The man hurriedly withdrew his hand and quickly retreated, feeling a little scared in his heart.

He knew that the man in front of him not only didn't like others to ignore his words, but also his own people, whether intentionally or not, disobeying the tyrant would always be a dead end.

"Tsk, I didn't expect such a small fishing village... There are still children who have the ability to awaken..."

He rubbed his chin for two seconds, then turned to his men, who were happily slaughtering in the town, and shouted, "Add one more, and the child will stay, that's a fortune." ”

The crowd responded again.

In the miserable howl of the knife in his hand, the town was suddenly dyed with a layer of rich blood.

All that was left was the ignorant children, who had not yet reacted to their escape, huddled quietly in the corner, occasionally raising their heads from the crooks of their arms, staring blankly at their parents who were lying in pools of blood......

Thiago didn't like to see scenes of slaughter.

So he turned around.

Suddenly, the phone of the deputy captain next to him rang, and after answering, he said a few words, and quickly covered the phone and approached Thiago, who had his back to everyone. Murphy:

"Captain, it's from Shangjing, it seems that the family has entrusted you with something."

Thiago. Murphy raised an eyebrow when he heard this, "Oh? Those old guys finally remembered me? What's going on this time? ”

"It was Councilor Hope who died in the East China Sea and the country, and the family hopes that you can go to the East China Sea as soon as possible and cooperate with the special operation investigation team of the Adjudication Division to investigate the murderer under the mask in the country of Wano."

"Traveling?"

Thiago smirked, "But the way I investigated... It's not the same as those hounds of the Inquisitorial Division, and it needs enough money to make me happy..."

The deputy captain immediately replied, "The phone said... No matter what means you use, as long as you can find out as soon as possible, in return, the trade share that the Shangjing Tianhu Bart family originally purchased from the Corleone Pirates in the West Sea will be allocated a quarter to our pirates. ”

The moment he heard the "Corleone Pirates", the smile on Thiago's face disappeared without a trace in an instant, and a gloomy look appeared on his face.

The man with the surname Corleone, like him, broke out of the Celestial Family.

The difference is that the other party is a wealthy family from one of the "Nine Masters of Heaven and Man", and now he has been promoted to the eighth order of absolute ability and has become one of the "Four Kings of the West Sea".

's vicious vision and domineering style, coupled with eclectic means and delicate thoughts, make him a proud sea hero who stands out from the crowd in the West Sea.

In contrast, the Corleone Pirates are countless times more famous and respected in the Western Sea than Thiago's, and are a top pirate that countless pirates flock to.

The attitude of the World Government and the Celestial Nine in Shangjing towards Thiago is at most like treating a vicious dog, beating it with a stick if it goes too far, and throwing a piece of meat out when it is needed.

But the Corleone Pirates, one of the "Four Kings of the Western Sea"... To a certain extent, as a pirate, he really managed to talk to the big people in the clouds in Shangjing on an equal footing after breaking out of the family.

Why?!

That's what Thiago wanted to say.

He pondered for two seconds with a gloomy face, then suddenly regained a smile on his face, and slowly said to the deputy captain, "Tell that old fellow that I agreed to the matter of Wano Country." ”

After a pause, Thiago continued, "But the share of trade that the Sky Fox Bart family gave us from the Corleone Pirates is not a quarter, I want it, half!" ”

Speaking of this, Thiago rubbed his chin lightly and said with a smile, "I won't... It's been stuck at the seventh order..."

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At the same time,

The other side of the world.

Wano Country, New Tokyo.

The Cabinet Conference Center lights up.

An emergency meeting on how to deal with the special investigation team in Beijing, and how to arrest high-risk elements who called themselves "members of the Discipline Committee" when they assassinated Congressman Hope...

It's in full swing!

In the same city, Higashinohara carried a black handbag, stepped on the first snow after the beginning of winter in New Tokyo, and walked into the campus of Takehara Minami Private School Park with the belief that it would be higher, faster and stronger.

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