[The Buster Call Has Been Launched!]

  [Major I! A World Noble Has Fallen!]

  [The Destroyed Isnd of Sin – Sabaody Archipego Reduced to Ashes!]

  [Sky-High Bounty! “The Demolitionist” Farkas Lemm Now Worth 1 Billion Berries!]

  [Colteral Damage? Tens of Thousands of Civilians Uo Escape, Mercilessly Bombarded by the Navy’s Buster Call]

  [Marine Headquarters: The Fallen Angel Pirates Must Surrehe Killer of the World Noble—Or Face All-Out War!]

  [Totto Land Decres: The 3 Billion Bounty Has Been Paid—The Hero Who Slew a Celestial Dragon Will Be Given Sanctuary—No promise!]

  Within just three or four days, as news spread like wildfire, the entire world erupted in shock.

  No one expected that a Celestial Dragon would actually be assassinated—much less that the bounty aid by the Hell Trading pany and that the Fallen Angel Pirates had offered prote to the assassin.

  Even more unbelievable was that in its fury, the Wover unched a Buster Call on the Sabaody Archipego—annihiting it pletely.

  The fires raged for three days and nights before finally dying down.

  By then, not a single living soul remained on the isnd.

  The Totto Land Daily exposed the horrifying truth:

  The Navy had showreme cruelty— the Buster Call before civilians had fully evacuated.

  Not only were pirates and bounty hunters left with no escape—

  Tens of thousands of i citizens were burned alive, obliterated by Marine bombardment.

  The brutality sent chills down spines across the world.

  Fear spread like a pgue.

  “Is this real?!”

  “‘The Demolitionist’ Farkas Lemm? He really assassinated a Celestial Dragon…?”

  “CRACK! I ’t believe it… The Wover actually issued a Buster Call and wiped out the entire isnd!”

  “Sabaody Archipego… that magical isnd formed from the roots of the world’s rgest Yarukiman Mangrove… gone?”

  “So now, the only way to the New World is through Mariejois?!”

  “Hiss… Tens of thousands of i civilians burned alive by the Buster Call?!”

  “Damn the Wover! Damn the Navy! They’re monsters!”

  “Finally! A Celestial Dragon is dead! Those filthy beasts finally got what they deserved!”

  “The Marines… always spouting ‘justice’… but they’re nothing but the Wover’s pdogs!”

  “Right! A dog that barks about ‘justice’ all day is disgusting to listen to!”

  “The Marines are executioners! They don’t care about i lives!”

  “From beginning to end, they’ve been nothing more than a bde held against the throats of the on people!”

  “Otherwise, why do they op the atrocities itted by Celestial Dragons?”

  “The Celestial Dragons are far crueler than any pirate! Ahe so-called ‘righteous’ Marines never lift a finger against them!”

  Citize not only anger but also fear.

  “What if a Celestial Dragon is killed near our isnd one day?”

  “Would the Marines wipe out our entire try ?”

  “Would we be o a Buster Call too?”

  For those suffog uhe burden of the Heavenly Tribute— for those who had suffered uhe cruelty of the Celestial Dragons—

  the news of a siial Dragon was met with cheers, celebrations, and even tears of joy.

  People danced ireets, ughing and g.

  For the first time in their lives, they felt justice had been served.

  …

  “Totto Land Kingdom, Atntis…”

  “El-sama…”

  The Cat Girl Sisters reported to El, the King of Totto Land, as well as to the heavily pregnant Sally, Baka, and the others:

  “With the destru of the Sabaody Archipego and the world’s rgest Yarukiman Mangrove…”

  “The market price of Yarukiman Mangrove sap has skyrocketed on the bck market. In the first half of the Grand Li’s practically unavaible—factories he former Sabaody Archipego are being overwhelmed by demand.”

  “Pirates and merts who ’t use the official routes between the first half of the Grand Line and the New World now rely on Yarukiman Mangrove sap for coating their ships to shrough the giant undersea passage beh the Red Line.”

  “Although Yarukiman Mangrove trees exist in other parts of the world, the rgest mangrove pntation in the New World is uotto Land’s trol, thanks to your botanical abilities, El-sama.”

  “Currently, most of the ship-coating factories in the New World and in the first half of the Grand Line are uhe trol of our Hell Trading pany. Pirates and merts have been reag out, exorbitant prices for our coating services!”

  “Additionally, we’ve already solidated all the ship-coating craftsmen from Fish-Man Isnd, giving us a monopoly oire industry!”

  “Hmm…” El nodded slightly.

  “That’s a lucrative business,” Sally said with a smirk.

  inally, El had cultivated Yarukiman Mangroves primarily for business within the New World and to aid the Hell Trading pany’s shipping operations.

  Who could have predicted that the Wover would erase the Sabaody Archipego with a Buster Call, redug it to ashes?

  Now, Totto Land held a plete monopoly on Yarukiman Mangrove sap exports, with an easy, tralized shipping route.

  What was once a modest operation had transformed into a golden goose, ying endless golden eggs.

  “However, sidering the transportation difficulties between the New World and the first half of the Grand Liain from the Tain pany requests your assistance, El-sama.”

  “He asks whether you could travel to the Calm Belt of the Grand Line aablish a new Yarukiman Mangrove pntation there.”

  “That be arranged,” El replied, nodding.

  In theory, that giant from the Hell Trading pany with the Grow-Grow Fruit could cultivate the trees as well.

  However, for security reasons, El preferred to keep that individual stationed in the New World, ensuring his talents weren’t wasted—or, worse, lost to an enemy fa.

  Such a valuable “tool” needed careful ma.

  “Tell Tain I’ll ha when I have time.”

  “Uood, El-sama.”

  “One more thing, El-sama…” Rena tinued.

  “The Wover is still demanding we hand over the assassin of the Celestial Dragon!”

  El scoffed coldly.

  “Ighem. Reject their demands ht.”

  “Also—ensure our people protect that man well. I don’t want any acts. Not yet.”

  “But… if we refuse, the Wover will only increase its suppression,” said Luna, the younger Cat Girl Sister, hesitating.

  “They might not just target the Hell Trading pany anymore…”

  “There’s a good ce the Marines will gather a fleet and directly attack our isnds.”

  Luna and Rena had matured greatly over the years.

  They were no longer na?ve girls trapped in a cage.

  They fully uood the terrifying might of the Wover.

  It was not invincible, but it was hardly ao be uimated.

  “That’s of no ,” El said, waving his hand dismissively.

  “We’ve already tested the depths of the Wover’s strength.”

  “They no longer have the ce to wage an all-out war against us.”

  “And if they try… I’ll personally put them in their pce.”

  Totto Land was no longer a weak force that could be crushed easily.

  Though not yet the equal of the Wover, it was no small fish in the vast o.

  El’s strategy was clear:

  Boil the frog slowly.

  Bit by bit, he would rot the Wover from within.

  There was o rush.

  Yes, the Wover was also rapidly solidating its power.

  But Totto Land’s growth was outpag it.

  With every passing day, Totto Land grew stronger.

  Ohor, Sif, Dal, Willie, Medusa, Eden, and Frey— just a handful of the many desdants of the Kukulkan lineage— had fully matured…

  that would be the day the Wover fell.

  Bleam