"Are you sure?"
"Reporting, Fleet Admiral, I have re-interviewed everyone present at the time, and their accounts are consistent."
"Good, invite everyone who was present at the time to the headquarters to assist with the investigation."
"Yes, Fleet Admiral!"
After hanging up the phone, Fleet Admiral Sengoku's expression darkened.
He didn't care about Hawkeye or the Straw Hat Pirates, but the giant gate mentioned in the report and the person who walked out of it made him ponder.
Supreme Deity? The great lord of the moon?
The two words "moon" instantly made him recall the activity on the moon these past two days, and the magnificent, boundless, terrifying phantom that rose from it!
Such a scene, where everyone felt insignificant, how could it not move Sengoku.
"Sengoku, ask again, what happened to the Straw Hat Pirates!"
Garp, who was munching on rice crackers nearby, immediately became anxious. What did he just hear?
His grandson entered that great gate and disappeared without a trace?
Unfortunately, Garp didn't even have time to prepare Luffy's Vivre Card. Now that Luffy had become a pirate and disappeared, one could imagine how anxious Garp was.
His grandson, that was his life!
"Just a small pirate crew that just set sail, what does it have to do with you?"
Sengoku glanced at the abnormal Garp, ignoring him.
He immediately looked at the people in the office and said, "Notify all Marines in the Grand Line and the Four Seas: if you encounter a giant gate descending from the sky or a Dog-headed man in a black suit, report it immediately."
"Borsalino, notify the Science Unit to see if they can develop technology to go to the moon."
There was no time to lose. For some reason, whenever the word "moon" was mentioned now, Sengoku felt a sense of crisis in his heart.
It was as if a slight oversight would cause the Marine or even the World Government to collapse.
"Oh my, the lord of the moon, so scary..."
Kizaru grinned, his deadpan eyes behind his sunglasses full of interest.
Punching in and out of work every day was so boring. He really wanted to say to Sengoku: "A hundred times the salary, and the moon can be scrapped!"
After flipping through the report information more than a dozen times, Sengoku looked to the side: "Tsuru, what do you think?"
"There's too little information currently to make a good judgment, but..."
Vice Admiral Tsuru pondered slightly, glanced at the worried Garp, and then said, "Leaving aside what this lord of the moon has to do with the moon, but the first target that appeared was Hawkeye, so there are two possibilities!"
"First, this person is interested in swordsmanship!"
"Second, this person is interested in strong individuals!"
"But no matter which one, choosing Hawkeye as a target proves that this person is extremely powerful, and it won't just be about making friends. It's either to recruit him to strengthen their forces or to eliminate him to prevent exposure."
Hearing this, Sengoku's eyes lit up: "You mean, he is likely to continue looking for targets to strengthen his forces?"
Tsuru nodded and said, "Based on this deduction, all strong individuals in the current world whose forces are not strong could be his targets. Once he has enough foundation, this force will definitely surface."
"If that's the case, aside from the Four Emperors, the Shichibukai are the most likely! If all the Shichibukai are brought under his control, his power would be no weaker than the Four Emperors..." Aokiji, who had been napping, pulled down his eye mask, also sensing a "conspiracy"!
"Forget it, let's report it first. We don't need to worry about such matters."
After a brief thought, Sengoku decided to throw the matter to the Gorosei. He couldn't even manage the pirates, so he didn't have the energy to deal with anything related to the moon; he just needed to pay a little more attention.
"Luffy..."
Watching everyone's discussion, Garp's heart was already flying to the moon.
But Luffy had entered the giant gate and disappeared without a trace. Garp could only worry anxiously, even considering whether to contact Dragon to ask for his help in finding him.
On the other side,
The moon!
The empty and desolate moon gave everyone an immense sense of oppression.
"Zoro! Are you okay?"
"Damn bastard, I'm going to punch him!"
On the barren surface of the moon, Luffy, who was jumping around excitedly, saw Zoro, who was heavily injured and bleeding, and immediately exploded!
"Luffy! Calm down!"
Nami punched Luffy hard, gritting her teeth and saying, "You can mess around as much as you want usually, but this time you have to shut your mouth..."
"If you dare to make a move, none of us will survive!"
Looking at the silent and distraught Zoro and the trembling Usopp, Luffy clenched his fists,
Staring intently at the Baratie that had passed through the large gate and landed on the ground in front of them, he said unwillingly, "Why! That person isn't that strong!"
Well, Luffy's intuition was very accurate. Anas, who was at the level of an ordinary Marine Vice Admiral, was not enough to make Luffy, with his overflowing protagonist's aura, feel despair.
But... "You need to take a good look, look at where this is!"
"This is the moon, how do you expect me to go back!"
Nami, who had passed through the giant gate and landed on the moon, felt utterly desperate when she saw the endless desolation and the pitch-black space... As if someone was whispering in her ear, telling her this was the moon.
She never dreamed that one day she would come to the moon. At this distance, she would never be able to go back in her lifetime.
"Is this really... the moon?"
Mihawk, not far away, was equally shocked.
If there were no exceptions, that blue sphere in the extreme distance was the Blue Sea. The small water sphere that seemed like it could be cut open with a single sword was actually the vast world he had lived in for decades... For the first time, he felt his own powerlessness.
Even the incredibly vast Pirate World was so tiny, what about him in that world? An ant?!
"You guys hurry up and get down here!"
The Baratie passed through the giant gate and landed on the moon. Anas looked at the stunned crowd and said proudly, "A bunch of natives, are you scared by just the moon?"
"I've been to more than a dozen planets, am I proud?"
Everyone: "..."
Mihawk couldn't help but frown slightly. Even this kind of person had been to more than a dozen planets?
Indeed, have I been a frog in a well?
"Don't just stand there, follow me, the Adult is waiting!"
Anas waved his hand, signaling everyone to follow. As he passed Luffy, he saw Luffy's angry gaze and sneered, "What? Want to kill me?"
"Let me tell you clearly, if you dare to make a move, you'll never go back in this lifetime!"
"Luffy!"
Nami pulled Luffy, Usopp desperately covered Luffy's mouth, and Zoro also stood up, blocking Luffy, his veins bulging as he gripped his sword tightly, suppressing his killing intent.
If he could, Zoro really wanted to draw his sword and kill this Dog-headed man!
But he couldn't!
Insult or serious injury, all their dreams were in the Pirate World... If they couldn't go back, that would be worse than death!
"Hmph!"
Feeling their killing intent, Anas snorted coldly, then ignored them and continued forward.
Mihawk glanced at Luffy and the others, also ignoring them, and followed Anas.
"Sanji, take them, don't let them run around..."
Zeff couldn't help but remind him. He had understood Luffy too well these past few days and was genuinely afraid this guy would mess things up.
"Miss Nami, are you alright?"
Sanji immediately ran over eagerly. Nami remained silent.
Looking at the extremely heavy-hearted group, Sanji shook his head slightly and said, "Although it's a bit unpleasant to say this, I still need to remind you all: no matter what happens later, as long as it's not asking you to die, absolutely do not make a move."
"This isn't the East Blue, no one will collect your corpses. Staying alive is the most important thing."
The moment Sanji confirmed this was the Moon, he accepted reality.
Resistance was futile; even if they won, they couldn't go back, and would still have to wait to die. It was better to understand the situation first.
"Ha, I won't die..."
Zoro grinned, and as he spoke, the wound on his abdomen split open a bit more.
"Hey, Moss-Head, aren't you going to bandage that?"
"None of your business, you damn cook!"
"...!"