Chapter 76. 4 Billion Berry

On Amazon Lily, the Empress of this land, and the emperor of the sea, Boa Hancock was reading the news paper with a big smile on her face.

"Ufufufufu." She giggled as she read how her husband had defeated the strongest beast. The whole world had fallen into an uproar when Big Mom fell to Hancock, but now another Emperor, onanthat was titled as the strongest beast had fallen as well?

Kaidou had a bounty of 4.6 billion berry. He was considered own of the biggest threats to the world government and as an invincible beast, yet. Gol D. Ace had continuesly created miracles.

The world had witnesses Ace as he took down Crocodile, a celestial, Doflamingo, Shiki a d now the strongest beast, Kaidou.

Everyone that read the news, knew that they were inbetween to great generations. One that was ruled by Gold Roger, and now the tides are changing as his son is creating new legends.

Hancock lread throguht he other pages as well, and found two other interesting key points.

Marshall D. teach had betrayed the whiteboard pirates. The first division commander went after him and actually lost!!

Marshall handed over Marco to the Marines and Maroc was sent to Impel Down in exchange of become a warlord!

"Huh, why would the Marines take Marco?" Boa Hancock questioned their motives. To her understanding, the Marines wouldn't accept Marco in exchange to make Teach a warlord of the sea.

Boa Hancock frowned and realised that the Marines were up to something.

In Capital flower, Wano there was a big party. Where ethey ehoel country celebrated.

After Ace defeated the Beats Pirates and Kaidou, Ace made sure that everyone had food and helped the weak. He established fairness for the people and they all came forward to annoint him the the next Shogun.

But Ace refused.

That's when The most famous Oiran Komurasaki came forward and exposed her rela identity. She had waited to see if The Demon Ace Pirates were really good people or if they had just come to replace Kaidou as the oppressor.

She revealed that she was Kozuki Hiyori, and thanked Ace for what he had done. At first, the peoples reactions were mixed, but to seemed like Ace accepted her and believed her, so the others also did. She was then made the next Shogun.

Ace looked at the finely written letter with an eye twitch.

"Ah, our captain is finally popular eh?" Yennow said with smirk as he held onto Gaga in a romantic way.

Ronaldino Ronaldo was hugged by Baby 5 and agreed with Yennow.

Urouge's thought back tot he love of his life who is a Kuja pirate at the moment.

"That's good captain, you can't lag behind if you're going to be strongest." Cavendish said in pure joy. His popularity had increased a thousand fold since they defeated the Beats Pirates.

"So what does the letter say, Gaga asked not knowing what they were talking about.

"The Shogun want to marry our captain and lead Want by his side." Yennow smirked.

"Heh, not a lonely dog anymore ne captain?" Law smirked.

"I DONT WANT TO HEAR THAT FROM YOU YA BASTARD!" Ace got angry as he stood up. Law was the most moody teen he had seen. If he had eye powers he would instantly achieve the strongest form of that eye power.

"Captain, you're finally a man huh CHAHAHAH" Jojo Pojo laughed.

"Fine fine, keep talking like that, we'll see what Hancock will say when she hears about this." Ace said, making everyone shut their mouths instantly.

"Ah captain, let's forgive and forget, its better than others don't know our private matters right?" Yennow tried convincing Ace.

"Hmph." Ace ignored him.

"Captain... Its here..." Nami walked in happily.

In her hand she held new bounties.

"Flame Emperor Gold Ace: 4,000,000,000

Hammerfist Jojo Pojo: 1,000,000,000

Boss Yla, Yennow: 780,000,000"

"Eh why is there only three?"

"Wow boss you're the third most wanted man now, behind Whitebeard and Red-haired Shanks!"

The news also declared Gold Ace as a new Emperor.

All of them looked at their captain in admiration, they had reached a new peak. They, as the Demon Ace Pirates defeated the Beast pirates, and their captain defeated the strongest beast, Kaidou and prpved himself to be one of the strongest in the sea.

They partied.

Ace refused Shogun Hiyori's marriage proposal. But Wano was still under his protection and his home base from now on.

Ace later went to the remaining beast pirates who had been imprisoned and gave them the option of joining his fleet. In the end they agreed and the former fleet of Kaidou, had become the fleet of Ace.

Ace stayed at Wano for a month as he stabilised the country, he also sent his crew and fleet to stabilise the countries that had been under Kaidou.

During this time, Ace had learn about things that transpired on the outside world. Impel down had been visited by the Warlord Marshall D. Teach and he broke out countless dangerous and legendary pirates.

Teach received the title of Black Beard and was dissolved of his title as warlord just a month after receiving it, this caused a major wave around the world.

The one how took the brunt of all the changes was Sengoku. The Marines were were under a lot of scrutiny and Sengoku was forced to make a drastic move. He had decided to go after the "strongest man." And regain the glory and trust of the Marines. He had gathered his trusted underlings so speak about his plans.

"We should go after The Flame Emperor!" Akainu shouted angrily as he slammed his fist trough the table.

"..." The other admirals didn't voice their thoughts and opinions.

"We can't, if he defeated kaidou, even if it was out of pure luck, which it wasn't, he would still be a force to reckon with." Sengoku said, annoyed that Akainu was pushing back when he's already under so much stress.

Even though they didn't say it, the admirals seemed to agre with Akainu, and disagree with the idea of starting a war with Whitebeard.

They wanted to go after The Empress or The Flame Emperor, but they didn't say it aloud.

"Sengoku is right, Even if Ace wasn't so strong, it would still be an uphill battle. Wano is impossible to breach with a fleet. It's surrounded by natural disasters. And the remaining Beast Pirates have started sailing under Ace's flag." Garp, for the first time, spoke seriously.

His support for Sengoku seemed to work as Akainu shut up, although he wasn't happy. Garp's explanations seemed to make the others understand a bit.

"We need to remove an Emperor, and regain trust." Sengoku finished.

It might not seem important, but it is one of the most important missions as a fleet admiral, to keep face.

If people don't trust their strength as the marines, less people would join them every year, that would make the Marines fall in a few short generations.

They are the most widespread force and have lots of cannon fodder, they need to have steady income of recruits, and the primary factor that people are signing u, is that the Marines are a powerful force of justice. If the people lose faith in them, the marines will be in a sticky situation.

Constantly having an income of fresh blood is a major reason why the marines are so widespread and strong today. And every now and then, amongst the fresh blood, there is a potential beast that has the potential to grow into an admiral or vice admiral.

So one of The Fleet Admirals biggest challenged is to make sure that the public opinion is good.

"Then let's announce it." Sengoku said as he saw that every one agreed to initiating a war with Whitebeard.