From a Pirate to a Revolutionary Mentor

Chapter 185: Contents of the New Era Newspaper

"Hahahaha!"

"Ace, Luffy, your beloved grandpa is back!"

The excited Cap pushed open the door of the tavern and opened his arms, waiting for a hug from his grandson.

But the next moment...

"The great devil Garp is back!"

"Luffy, run!"

The two kids jumped down from the bar, turned around and ran behind the bar.

"Ace, Luffy, that's the kitchen!"

Makino stretched out his hand, but it was obviously futile for the two agile little ghosts.

Seeing that his enthusiasm was in vain, Karp withdrew his hand somewhat embarrassedly and picked his nose: "It seems that the education of love is still not enough."

Makino bowed slightly: "Is Mr. Karp back from vacation to see his grandson again?"

Many villagers in the tavern stood up and greeted Cap, but only one person shrank his head, trying to hide his presence.

"What are you hiding from? Can you hide from it?"

An old man used his cane to knock out the man who had previously said he wanted to be Ace's father.

At this time, he had stopped drinking alcohol and started drinking juice instead. He lowered his head and looked a little aggrieved: "I've been beaten three times! I've even quit drinking, why don't you let me go?"

He raised his head slightly, his eyes met Garp's, and then he quickly looked back.

"Snapped."

Karp put a hand on his shoulder: "What's wrong? Is this a crime?"

The man hesitated and dared not speak clearly.

The villagers who were drinking immediately spoke up for him.

"This bastard wanted to be Ace's father not long ago, but Ace hit him on the head with two bottles. Later, he was beaten three more times in the middle of the night, and now he doesn't even dare to drink."

“Hahahaha… I heard that every time he was beaten he screamed and begged for mercy.”

"Mr. Karp is back from vacation. Maybe he will get beaten up again today."

……

Karp, who understood, chuckled and patted the middle-aged man: "You want to be my son?"

The man raised his head slightly and laughed dryly: "I dare not, Mr. Karp, I am just drunk and what I said is nonsense."

After glaring at him, Karp snorted and walked out.

He also had to educate his two grandsons. Besides, this guy had obviously been taught a lesson by Lu Jiu's new man, so he didn't need to do anything about it.

With Karp's perception, he quickly found the two little ghosts, picked them up, and brought them back to the yard of his residence, one in each hand.

Karp brought out a recliner from the house and put the two kids down. He said kindly, "So your dream is to become a general?"

Ace and little Luffy looked at each other.

"We want to be a general like Black Arm! To protect the people and be respected by everyone!"

"And me! I have to protect everyone too. I'm very powerful, and my fists are like bullets!"

Black wrist?

Garp looked puzzled. Why did this name sound so much like the nickname of that old man Zephyr?
"Who is Black Wrist? How do you know him?"

Ace put his hands on his hips and said, "Black Arm is a hero of the people. He protects the good people and is a great general who brings all pirates to justice!"

???

Garp was stunned. How come he didn't know that Zefa, who had been in the youth training for many years, had a reputation that had spread to the East China Sea?
At this time, little Luffy on the side snapped out a newspaper.

"True justice is to abide by the basic moral bottom line of mankind. The definition of good and evil should be determined by morality, not by those in power."

The short Luffy's voice hasn't changed yet, so these remarks made in his childish voice sound awkward.

Karp grabbed the newspaper and saw three big words "New Era" on it.

Below the title is a line of words: [The awakening of youth means the awakening of the times]

This part made Karp stunned.

The awakening of youth? The awakening of the times?
This is not the World Economic News, nor is it the newspaper produced by that bird Morgans.

So how did this thing come from the East China Sea? And how did it end up in Luffy's hands?
Just when Karp was about to ask about his grandson, he was attracted by the headline on the front page of the newspaper.

[Using the Four Emperors as bait to lure pirates into a fight]

The Four Emperors...

Soon, Karp was attracted by the title and began to read the text below.

In one photo, the pirates in the New World challenged Whitebeard, BiGMOM and Kaido, and after their failure, they saw the broken ships and the dead and wounded bodies.

What follows is the reason why the title of the Four Emperors was thrown out, as well as the analysis and conclusions therein.

It was explained in detail that those who attacked civilians and ordinary people on the island would not be able to obtain the title of the Four Emperors.

The purpose of throwing out the title of the Four Emperors, removing three of them and leaving only one is to make pirates fight with each other.

There is no point in attacking civilians and ordinary islands. The strength cannot be proven. The Navy and the World Government will not easily let the bait be eaten, and the pirates of the New World will not recognize such a pirate emperor.

The second half of the article clearly points out two ways to become the fourth emperor of pirates.

One is to challenge the three confirmed Four Emperors, namely Whitebeard, BiGMOM, and Kaido.

Not only did the newspaper mention the names, it also clearly analyzed the power of the three of the Four Emperors.

Whitebeard's three-color domineering and the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, and BiGMOM's domineering and the Soul-Soul Fruit, are specifically marked as having a chance of winning only if one does not have the slightest fear of them in one's heart, otherwise one's soul will be taken away.

Finally, there is the Immortal Kaido, a being that cannot be killed or even injured.

Any injury will be recovered in the next moment. Even if the head is cut off, sunk to the bottom of the sea, or burned in fire, it cannot be killed and will recover quickly.

Karp frowned and continued reading.

After introducing the three of the Four Emperors, the newspaper proposed a second way to become one of the Four Emperors.

That is, to complete the goal of throwing bait to the World Government, to eliminate a large number of pirates, to fight and fight among their own kind, and to prove that they have the ability to become one of the Four Emperors.

Massacring a town can only prove one's own cruelty. Pirates who attack ordinary people cannot prove their own strength. The World Government will not let the title of the so-called Four Emperors become a joke.

If a pirate group without strength is destroyed the day after becoming emperor, then the title of the so-called emperor will become a joke.

Once the name becomes a joke, no matter Whitebeard, BiGMOM or Kaido, they will no longer acknowledge the sweetness of this bait.

The descriptive style in the newspaper is very precise and easy to understand, and the words take up a large portion of the page, so it is not as simple as the summary.

Cap frowned.

He knew very well that anyone with a little common sense would be able to understand that what the newspaper said was true.

The true purpose of the Navy is clearly written here, and the pirates who massacred the town want to increase the bounty in order to obtain the title of the Four Emperors. The Navy and the World Government will definitely not do as they wish.

The reason was also made clear.

In this way, the newspaper actually achieved the purpose of being the bait for the Four Emperors.

However...at the same time, the content of this newspaper also clearly reveals the intention to protect ordinary people.

It makes some sense.

Garp flipped the newspaper over and saw several headlines on the second page: [Collision with BiGMOM, only Vice Admiral Sakaski survives]

The first half of the content describes in detail the sharp words and tenacious attitude of Vice Admiral Sakaski in the recent negotiations with BiGMOM in the Wan Guo waters.

But soon, the second half came as a slap in the face.

The strong image in the first half is directly transformed into a stupid image in the second half.

All the sailors on the warship were killed, and only Vice Admiral Sakaski escaped alone, and he kept calling for support with Den Den Mushi along the way.

In the end, he was knocked away by BiGMOM's sword and the matter ended there.

At the end of this page, Sakaski's specialness is mentioned, because he is a rare natural disaster devil fruit user, and his lava ability is very strong.

As the Navy's top combat force who is a candidate for admiral or even the designated future admiral, BiGMOM, who does not want to actually go to war with the Navy, naturally will not really kill this vice admiral.

But throughout the incident, the newspapers felt that the dead sailors needed attention.

[We are not naturalists, nor are we vice admirals, and certainly not future admirals. ]

[We are just ordinary people among the vast majority of people. Maybe one day we will become navy soldiers because we want to protect our hometown.]

[So for those ordinary sailors who died, perhaps we should think about this. Such meaningless deaths due to the recklessness of their superiors may also be our future.]

Cap quickly finished reading the contents of a page, his brows furrowed.

New Era... The content about the Four Emperors helped the Navy achieve its goals to some extent, but soon the content about Sakaski directly pulled Sakaski's pants down.

The title really hits the nail on the head. It doesn't curse explicitly, but it points out that Wei Sakaski is still alive.

The word "living in misery" is really cleverly used...

Cap doesn't quite agree with this guy who has always insisted on absolute justice.

But on the other hand, the sacrifice of ordinary navy men was the most normal thing in Marinford's view.

This world belongs to the strong. Compared to the powerful domineering users and the countless people with special abilities in the Grand Line, ordinary marines are too fragile.

The warships cannot withstand the impact of the Conqueror's Haki, and the aftermath of the battle can destroy them.

Under such circumstances, too many grassroots navy soldiers die every day.

But this newspaper, for the first time, told all ordinary people the other side of this bloody reality.

I told them not to focus on the strong, because most of the people in this world are ordinary people at the bottom of society. Instead of caring about the life and death of the strong, it is better to see what happened to the ordinary navy who followed the strong.

The descriptions on both pages are vivid, the words used are able to evoke emotions and every sentence is true.

But the more this happened, the more uneasy Karp became.

Soon, there was a page in the last corner of the newspaper, which recorded a puzzling story.

A child of ordinary birth, after witnessing the port being looted by pirates, joined the country's guard, trained hard every day, and was finally hailed as the Black Arm General.

The story of the general's growth from weak to strong is not long, and a large part of it is used to describe what the general named Black Wrist said.

“It’s been substituted…”

Cap muttered.

He understood why he was so engrossed in reading the story, because the entire article was told from the perspective of an ordinary person, glos- ing over the hardships of training, and it seemed as if he himself was the one who became stronger through training.

After a long moment, Karp put the newspaper down.

Who made this thing?
On the side, two little kids were whispering to each other.

"What happened to the big devil?"

"Is it possible that he was frightened by the name of the Black Arm General?"

"What are you thinking? Let's take this opportunity to run."

As soon as Ace finished speaking, the two of them looked at each other and prepared to run away.

As a result, just as he started, he was grabbed by the back of his neck.

"Tell me, where did you get this newspaper from?"

The two captured men waved their arms wildly to try to break free, but it was no use under Garp's restraint.

After struggling in vain for a while, Ace could only reply dejectedly: "A bird delivered it last night, and I spent a hundred Baileys on it."

Luffy on the side quickly said: "There are my fifty Baileys in it. That's the pocket money Aunt Bell-mère gave me!"

Newsbird?
Karp put the two men down. He didn't have time to deal with these two unruly grandsons at the moment.

As soon as the two little kids were put down, they ran away. After running for a while, Luffy turned back, looked at his grandfather cautiously, picked up the newspaper on the ground, and ran away even faster.

In the courtyard, Garp took out the Den Den Mushi that was connected to the Admiral's office at the Navy Headquarters.

"Bulu Bulu... Bulu Bulu..."

The Den Den Mushi rang for a long time but was not answered. After Garp hung up, he thought for a while.

If it was a newspaper delivered by the news bird, since the Kingdom of Goa in the East China Sea received it, then it is obvious that the newspaper must be found throughout the entire ocean.

The above reports on the plot to use the position of the Four Emperors as bait, and also records in detail the abilities of the three Four Emperors, as well as Sakaski's black material.

In this case, I guess that guy Zhan Guo will definitely receive the message, so there is no need for me to tell him.

Thinking of this, Garp threw the Den Den Mushi into the corner of the house.

Fortunately I didn't answer the phone. With such a big thing happening, if I had answered the phone, he would have asked me to cancel my vacation, which would have been a waste of time.

Well. Go find the two grandchildren and give them some strength.

To become a general, it requires hard training.

……

At the same time, in the Marshal's office in Marinford.

The Den Den Mushi in front of Zhan Guo was ringing, but he was still on the phone with the other party.

"So far, I only know that the newspaper is delivered by owl. The price is the same as the World Economic News, one hundred Baileys per copy."

A deep voice came from the Den Den Mushi: "The World Government has launched an investigation. Although their report on the Four Emperors has put the plan back on track, the words in their report are clearly biased."

Zhan Guo's face was serious: "That's true. The report about Sakaski will also cause the public to misunderstand the navy."

Den Den Mushi imitated Satan Saint and said: "Find out the people behind the New Era Newspaper. They need to be regulated by the World Government just like the World Economic Newspaper."

……

After talking with Marijoa, Sengoku sighed and sat down.

He felt that the years since he became a marshal were the most tiring years of his life, as he was constantly worrying about the future of the navy.

And that bastard who just called me should be basking in the sun in the East China Sea now.

Frowning, Sengoku stood up and called back directly, requesting to be connected via Den Den Mushi.

But after waiting for a long time, no one answered the phone.

"Old bastard!"

After cursing, Zhan Guo gave up reluctantly.

After a while, there was a knock on the door.

"Come in."

Kuzan, who had sent Sakaski back to the headquarters for treatment, was called over by Sengoku.

"Marshal of the Warring States Period."

Zhan Guo pointed at the newspaper on the table and said, "You should have read it, right? Since last night, owls have been delivering this newspaper all over the ocean."

Kuzan scratched his head, his eyes looking as if he had just woken up: "One hundred Baileys per copy, I bought one too. Yawn..."

A yawn broke out, making Zhan Guo feel his head buzzing.

He has not slept since last night, ever since he got the news in the newspaper. He has been busy with inquiries from above and investigations from below.

As a result, this...

This future admiral of the navy, who basically rested all the time after returning to the headquarters except for hammering warships every day, was not awake yet.

"boom."

The table was slapped, and Zhan Guo stared with a pair of red eyes: "Sakaski was rescued by you and Kevin, so I need to know if there were other people present at the time."

After the Great Pirate Era began, Kuzan, who was already used to the Marshal's state, didn't care at all. He spread his hands and replied: "The waves formed by BiGMOM's sword swing could form a tsunami. I rushed there alone, and Kevin also kept the warship far away and went there by moon step."

"In that situation, all the attention was on BiGMOM, and we didn't notice if there were other people. So..."

Upon hearing this, Zhan Guo sighed, waved his hand and let Kuzan, who knew nothing, leave.

Facing an existence like BiGMOM, it is understandable that even the three monster lieutenant generals who came out of the youth training camp would not dare to be careless.

But this newspaper...

Black-armed general?

That guy Zefa?
Although the backgrounds are different, we can still reveal something from the other party's attitude and position.

But none of this is important. What’s important is the channel through which owls deliver newspapers. This is also what the world government cares about.

Morgans' World Economic News, Newsbird can issue bounties from the Navy, which in some form means it is cooperating with the Navy and the World Government, or in other words, it is controlling them.

Although the bird was also not very honest, it was also aware of the power of the World Government and the Navy and would not cross the line.

As for the New Era newspaper, they don’t know which organization distributes this newspaper, nor do they know what the other party will say in the newspaper next time.

"call……"

After exhaling, Zhan Guo leaned back and was slightly absent-minded. At this time, Ku Zan had already left the office.

The Four Emperors' bait has been cast, and after reading the contents of the New Era Newspaper, the number of pirates attacking towns should decrease, and the sea will be balanced again after the pirates have eliminated each other.

But... the feeling of undercurrent is becoming more and more obvious.

"Dong dong dong."

……

(End of this chapter)