Taoist priest, who is so popular in One Piece

In the deep sea outside the Mermaid Island, Shirahoshi, who was once called a coward by Luffy, is now swimming in this uninhabited sea area.

And beside her, there were several sea kings following her.

If people on the sea saw this scene, they would be shocked.

Because those beings known as the overlords of the ocean now looked like bodyguards, guarding the [small] figure in front.

After the Straw Hat Pirates left, Shirahoshi decided to master the power in his body.

After such a long time, she has made considerable progress, although she still does not have the legendary ability to command all sea kings.

But it is still possible to command some super-large sea kings.

In order to exercise his abilities, Shirahoshi would come out from time to time to communicate with the sea kings and enhance his affinity.

"Okay, I'm going back now. Goodbye everyone~"

As fishmen and sea kings, their speed in the ocean is extremely fast.

But after a moment, they returned to the vicinity of Fishman Island.

Shirahoshi waved her fair little hand, said goodbye to the sea king in front of her, then turned and entered Fishman Island.

The sea kings also swayed their bodies slightly to bid farewell to their king, but they did not leave. Instead, they rested near Fishman Island.

In a sense, Fishman Island has become the place with the most terrifying defense force in this ocean.

If there was no mission to carry out, Xinghuo would have wanted to withdraw the Liaoyuan Army base here.

After all, no one would be stupid enough to cause trouble for Fishman Island.

Shirahoshi entered Fishman Island and greeted the islanders warmly.

Now she is no longer the lonely girl who had to stay in the tower without any friends.

The residents on the island are also quite friendly to the cute White Star.

"Princess Shirahoshi, you seem very happy today!"

Someone shouted to Shirahoshi.

"Well, because there is good news."

Bai Xing nodded to the fishman aunt, humming a little tune he had learned from somewhere, and headed towards Ryugu Castle.

As for the good news she mentioned, it was naturally the latest bounty order announced by the World Government.

Among them, Jinbe, who was born in Fishman Island, finally has a new bounty.

[Sea Knight] Jinbe: Former Shichibukai and captain of the Sun Pirates, now joins the Straw Hat Pirates as the helmsman.

Reward: 970 million Baileys!!!

The accompanying news paper briefly introduces the latest news about Jinbe.

[This former Shichibukai, together with the Heavenly Master Byakuya and Blackfoot Sanji, landed on Cake Island five days ago and defeated Smoothie, one of the Three Generals of Dessert, and a group of Big Mom Pirates. Afterwards, they joined forces to repel the World Government's latest combat machine Seraph and five CP0s who rushed to Cake Island. ]

In just a few sentences, he described Jinpei's battle record in detail.

Perhaps Morgans did it on purpose, and later mocked the World Government.

[Interestingly, facing the S. Shark developed by himself, Sea Knight Jinbei showed an overwhelming advantage. Obviously, the Seraphim that the World Government said was a replacement for the Seven Warlords of the Sea is not as good as they say. ]

Bai Xing was naturally happy about such news.

At least in his opinion, his own Jinbe is also a very important person in Mr. Luffy's team.

It is worth mentioning that after joining the Seven Warlords of the Sea, Jinbe's bounty was fixed at 438 million.

Now it has more than doubled, which is a huge change.

In terms of the extent of the increase this time, Jinbe alone surpassed the total of Nami, Usopp and others.

After all, just defeating the 930 million Smoothie head-on is enough for the World Government to offer such a bounty.

However, after that, Jinbe's bounty will not increase so dramatically.

This amount of money is already within the realm of the most core cadres even among the Four Emperors.

Unless Jinbe later defeats a higher-level opponent, the bounty will hardly change that drastically.

-

On a research island somewhere in Starfire, Vinsmoke Judge was holding the bounty order in his hand, unable to come back to his senses for a long time.

At this moment, the man who had wanted to restore the glory of Germa all his life finally began to regret his decision.

But it was too late.

The person he once thought was a waste has now spread his wings and soared into the sky. How could he ever lower his head to look at him again?

"Ugh."

After a long time, the man, who seemed to have aged ten years, let out a long sigh.

"Never mind, at least he accepted the item."

"I'm not as good as you, Sora."

"Your son has become a strong man after all."

Because of Sora, Judge hates Sanji so much, but now...

Shaking his head, Judge turned and left.

It’s too late to say anything now, so you might as well let go of everything.

The sea breeze blew, carrying the bounty to the farther sea.

As the documents were flipped, the photo and text on the wanted poster were revealed.

[Blackfoot] Sanji, bounty: 1.13 billion Baileys!!!

The one-time increase from 890 million berries to 240 million may not be that big, but in the entire ocean, there are only a few pirates whose bounties exceed 1 billion.

This is enough to prove the World Government's special attention to Sanji.

After all, judging from the battle record alone, excluding the battle against Seraph, the strongest opponent Sanji defeated, Cracker, had a bounty of only over 800 million.

It stands to reason that there shouldn't be such an increase, but there are reasons for it.

On the one hand, Sanji's performance when defeating Cracker on Cake Island was too eye-catching. He almost kicked Cracker seriously with one kick, and his combat power was overwhelming.

On the other hand, the World Government, through Vegapunk's judgment, became interested in Sanji himself.

【Perfect bloodline factor awakener.】

This is what Vegapunk said about Sanji.

In his words, if Sanji's body could be used in the research of Seraph and another key project, the results would far exceed expectations.

After all, the Seraph is said to be a humanoid machine, but the prototype is still a living creature.

The bear's body may be good, but for someone like Sanji who can perfectly accommodate various genes, he is simply the experimental material that scientists dream of.

This is also the reason why the World Government attaches great importance to him. In the bounty order, they even specially added the note "If in good health, the bounty will be doubled."

Simply put, the World Government wants his body.

Jiazhi also saw through this, which is why he felt so regretful.

Of course, besides Jiazhi, there were others who were quite unhappy with this bounty.

-

Zou, aboard the Merry.

"Hey, hey, hey, Zoro, calm down!!!"

Usopp hugged Zoro's waist tightly and shouted:

"Sanji isn't even here, you can't hit him even if you want to!!!"

However, Usopp's body, which had been tempered by thousands of trials and tribulations, seemed so fragile in front of Zoro.

Zoro swung him around like a kite.

Chopper also enlarged his body at this time and locked Zoro's head tightly to prevent him from going berserk.

Merry also hugged Zoro's thighs tightly and shouted at him to calm down.

He was really afraid that Zoro would get angry and draw his sword to damage the Merry.

"Really? This guy actually cares so much about this kind of thing?"

On the side, Nami covered her forehead with her hands and said helplessly: "Isn't it just that the bounty is a little less than Sanji's?"

In his hand was the bounty order that Zoro had nearly cut off.

In addition to Sanji's, there is also his own.

[Shura] Zoro, bounty: 1.5 billion Baileys!!!

"Haha, after all, the relationship between the two of them is quite good."

Robin chuckled and teased as he stood next to Nami.

In fact, everyone knew that Zoro was not attracted by Sanji simply because his bounty was higher than his.

More importantly, Zoro could already foresee how Sanji would laugh at him after he joined them.

After all, that's what he had done before.

More than once.

At this moment, Sanji's sarcastic face had already appeared in Zoro's mind.

Even the lines were figured out.

"Hey, isn't this Little Old Four?"

Yes, after the bounty for all members increased this time, his long-held third place in the group is no longer secure.

In fact, Zoro was quite devastated inside, but he did not think that Sanji was not worthy of such a high bounty.

Instead, he thought his reward was too small.

If we count by battle record, he injured Quinn with a single blow at his peak, and even his explosion in the later period left a scar on Kaido.

Quinn's bounty is 1.32 billion.

He estimated that his guaranteed bounty should be at least 1.3 billion, but this is it?

Zoro now wants to chop down Marijoa's heart.

He wanted to grab the guy who set the bounty by the collar and ask him:

"What's wrong with you?!!!"

After a lot of chaos, it was Nami who finally took action to suppress Zoro.

After all, that guy Luffy was laughing beside me and never stopped.

The reason why he laughed was very simple, that was the bounty amount for him and Bai Ye.

Although the World Government had always intended to control their bounties before, this time under the influence of [Defeated Two Emperors], the bounties of the two people still experienced an epic surge.

【Straw Hat Boy】Luffy, bounty: 30 billion berries!!!

[Tianshi] Bai Ye, bounty: 30 billion Baileys!!!

Yes, the captain and deputy captain of the Straw Hat Pirates both have bounties that are enough to make them kings in this ocean.

-

After the bounty spread throughout the ocean, more voices were heard on the sea.

Especially the Sabaody Archipelago. Since it became a buffer zone between Spark and the World Government, people from all over the world have gathered here.

"Two emperors on one ship! This is a ship with two emperors! How amazing!!"

Some people admired.

"Even the Red Hair Pirates, who are known for having the most equal bounties, haven't received such treatment."

someone exclaimed.

"Beasts and Lingling are about to become history! This sea will once again usher in the era of the Four Emperors!!!"

Some people are already eager to pull the old emperor off the altar and support the new emperor to ascend the throne.

"What Four Emperors? They're the Five Emperors! The Straw Hat Pirates have two emperors!"

Some people want to see history rewritten.

"Where do you put the Crusade? The bounties on the four founders have already been posted."

Someone held four bounty warrants and reminded everyone:

"【Devil's Heir】Barrett: 43 billion berries!"

"【Hawkeye】Mihawk: 39 billion berries!"

"【Sand Crocodile】Crocodile: 28 billion berries!"

"【Thousand-Ryo Transformation】Baki: 17 billion Baileys!"

"This is the most terrifying force in the ocean, okay!!!"

"What about the Four Emperors and the Five Emperors? The Cross Union is the top force in the New World!!!"

Perhaps the Crusaders Guild did not sound like a pirate group, so everyone subconsciously ignored this newly emerging organization.

Now that someone has reminded them, they suddenly realize that this organization, which has brought together two former subordinates of the Pirate King and two former Seven Warlords of the Sea, has become a behemoth.

However, despite this, some people still refuse to accept.

"Has the Whitebeard Pirates been silent for too long? The strongest man in the world has a bounty of 60 billion. Who dares to claim to be invincible in front of him?!!"

This is a loyal fan of the Whitebeard Pirates, and of course, he himself is from Whitebeard's territory.

"Whitebeard is already a pirate from the last era. When it comes to the newly rising king, have you all forgotten Blackbeard? He is an unprecedented dual-fruit ability user. And your so-called Whitebeard, the killing order has been issued for so long, but Blackbeard is still alive and well, isn't he?"

Blackbeard naturally has followers.

"Heh, Blackbeard just took advantage of the war. Don't forget, if the Straw Hat Pirates hadn't started that war, Blackbeard would have been killed by the Navy long ago! And in terms of the speed of rise, if the Straw Hat Pirates are second, who dares to say they are first?!"

The Straw Hat Pirates' fans naturally refused to be outdone.

"Heh, so what?"

"To become the emperor, it's not just about top combat power, it also depends on the power and territory you control. What do you think of the Straw Hat Pirates? There are only a dozen of them, how can they be called the emperor?!"

The man who touted Blackbeard directly refuted.

"It was your so-called dozen people. It only took three people to wipe out Cake Island."

The Straw Hat Pirates' supporters delivered the winning goal with ease.

"You!" The man's face instantly turned black. "It was just a sneak attack. If they were really as powerful as you said, why did they leave in the end instead of turning the world into their own territory? Because they knew they couldn't hold it!"

"You are making excuses!"

"I think you are the one making trouble!"

...

The quarrel became louder and louder, and the two sides refused to give in, and they almost came to blows.

There was no clear result until the end.

Even though they praised the pirate group they supported in every possible way, they also knew that it was impossible to completely suppress the other side.

Because what the other party said makes sense.

The Whitebeard Pirates have indeed been keeping a low profile recently, and there has even been very little news of a major battle.

Apart from showing their strength in the [Five Emperors' Battle], the Blackbeard Pirates kept a low profile the rest of the time.

The same is true for the Red Hair Pirates. Compared to the Black and White Beard Pirates, they even seem a bit nonconfrontational.

Although the Beasts Pirates and Big Mom Pirates are the most active and influential, the defeat of the Two Emperors is also their biggest stain.

The Cross Guild had just been established, so it was hard to predict its future development. After all, such a force could easily be targeted by both the Navy and the Liaoyuan Army.

As for the Straw Hat Pirates, although they rose rapidly, they did have the disadvantages of insufficient personnel and almost no territory.

But one thing they can be sure of is that today's new world has undergone tremendous changes.

Perhaps in the next period of time, they will see——

【Emperors fight for supremacy】

Some even believe that if a pirate group seizes the throne of Pirate King in such an environment, it will surpass Roger's position in history.