Imu had lived for eight hundred years.
It was as though he had long since lost his sense of self, becoming a numb, emotionless existence.
All he had left was the ability to make simple judgments and launch attacks~
"I originally thought that, as the strongest person in this world—someone who controls the Space-Space Fruit and has spent eight hundred years tempering all three forms of Haki to their absolute peak—you might at least let me enjoy myself one last time. But now it seems…"
Roy sighed softly.
He no longer bothered looking at Imu, who continued instinctively releasing spatial power against him over and over again.
Instead, Roy raised his head toward the pristine blue sky.
A faint gleam flashed through his eyes.
"It's time to wrap things up~!"
Roy gently closed his hand.
"It's over~"
"Bang!"
Before the stunned gazes of the Five Elders and all the World Government personnel, Imu, who had been seated upon the Empty Throne, directly shattered into countless specks of starlight and disappeared into the sky.
The Power of Destruction~
Across the sea, the waves gradually calmed.
The sky remained as blue as ever, but today, the sunlight seemed particularly bright.
"Is it… over?"
Across the Holy Land, now shattered beyond recognition after the battle, countless people stared at the scene and murmured those words.
It was over.
The World Government's rule of more than eight hundred years had finally come to an end.
…
Sea Circle Calendar, Year 1520.
Across the world, the flags symbolizing nations affiliated with the World Government were brought down one after another.
The World Government, which had ruled the world for eight hundred years, was finally destroyed by the all-out assault of the Thunder God Pirates—
No.
They were now known as the Thunder God Army.
Both the Holy Land and Marine Headquarters fell.
At Marine Headquarters, once Issho and Zephyr joined the Summit War, alongside Queen and Jack in their berserk states, the outcome of the battle had essentially already been decided.
And that wasn't even counting the later arrivals: Silvers Rayleigh, Scopper Gaban, Duke Inuarashi, and Master Nekomamushi.
Any one of those top-level fighters would have been enough to influence the course of the battle.
Even Red-Haired Shanks, one of the Three Emperors, arrived at the final moment and formally declared war on the Marines!
Marine Fleet Admiral Sengoku was defeated and severely injured even after transforming into his Great Buddha form.
Marine Admiral Aokiji was also severely injured.
Admiral Akainu, meanwhile, refused to retreat even if it meant death, continuing to fight until the final moment of his life.
After using the awakened power of the Mag-Mag Fruit to severely wound Whitebeard, Akainu was ultimately struck by the awakened power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit and had his body pulverized.
The central figure of the Summit War, Fire Fist Ace, was successfully rescued.
The battle ultimately ended in victory for the Whitebeard Pirates.
After the Thunder God Army wiped out the World Government's principal forces and its Cipher Pol agents, the remaining Marines sought to preserve order and peace throughout the world.
Led by Fleet Admiral Sengoku, Admiral Aokiji, and Chief of Staff Tsuru, the Marines formally surrendered to the Thunder God Army.
At the same time, news arrived from Impel Down.
Warden Magellan had single-handedly suppressed the Blackbeard Pirates and completely annihilated them.
When Whitebeard later learned what had happened, even he couldn't help but sigh.
Teach had ultimately died because of his own arrogance and overconfidence.
Even Ace, despite having been rescued, felt that a man like Blackbeard meeting such an inglorious end in poison was somehow a waste~
After the matter with the Marines was settled, the Celestial Dragons, the world's former rulers, completely disappeared from the world.
As the old order collapsed, small pockets of chaos appeared throughout the world.
However, the Thunder God Army moved swiftly and decisively.
The Revolutionary Army, led by Dragon, worked alongside Marine Headquarters and immediately began restoring order.
Before widespread chaos could truly erupt across the seas, it was suppressed.
The Revolutionary Army, which had spent years resisting the World Government, ultimately joined the Thunder God Army under the decision of its leader, Monkey D. Dragon.
Naturally, the entire organization was reorganized from the ground up.
The Marines, former members of the Thunder God Pirates, the Revolutionary Army, and personnel from various other forces were mixed together and reorganized.
Even the Revolutionary Army commanders were assigned to different fields according to their individual abilities.
As for Roy, the man who had built the Thunder God Pirates with one hand and conquered the world with the other—
By this point, he had already become a legend.
Roy's past deeds gradually began to be chronicled one after another.
Hero of Freedom.
The assault on Mary Geoise.
The liberation of the slaves.
Traveling across the seas in search of like-minded companions.
Conquering the Grand Line.
The One Emperor and Three Emperors dominating the New World.
The destruction of the World Government…
One event after another came together until they resembled an entirely new historical biography.
Roy also fulfilled the promise he had made to Dragon.
Roy became the first President of the World.
Dragon became Vice President.
Aokiji became the new Marine Fleet Admiral.
After the Summit War ended and the World Government collapsed, Sengoku finally let everything go.
He abandoned all his positions and responsibilities.
Every day, he would eat ramen with Issho, steal Garp's rice crackers, and reminisce and argue with Zephyr and Tsuru over whether the decisions they had made in the past had been right or wrong.
Issho had already fulfilled his ideals.
Aside from eating noodles and gambling with Sengoku, he once again picked up his cane sword and continued traveling from place to place, helping those in need~
As for his old friend Green Bull, Aramaki had happily thrown himself into the company of beautiful women.
After Aokiji inherited the position of Marine Fleet Admiral from Sengoku, he was no longer nearly as lazy as before.
He began diligently handling government affairs alongside Dragon.
Roy?
He was basically a hands-off leader~
After all, no political order remained fixed forever. What was divided could eventually unite, and what was united could eventually divide again.
Although a separation-of-powers system was currently the most suitable arrangement for the One Piece world, this was still a world where individual combat power could reach terrifying heights.
Another great conflict would inevitably break out someday.
As for exactly what the future would become…
Roy wouldn't even be in the One Piece world by then.
The problems of future generations could be left for future generations to solve~
Whitebeard had suffered severe injuries, and now that he believed his sons were capable of living safely and independently on the seas, he decided to retire.
Ace inherited the flag of the Whitebeard Pirates from him.
Because of the new world government established by Roy, the Whitebeard Pirates officially changed their name to either the Whitebeard Adventure Group or the Whitebeard Mercenary Group.
They also gathered bounty hunters and those who called themselves pirates but were, in reality, adventurers driven by dreams and a love of exploration.
Together, they established a Mercenary Guild.
Privately, however, they still called themselves the Whitebeard Pirates.
After Katakuri and the others realized that they no longer had any realistic hope of revenge, they could only establish a mercenary group of their own.
Carrying the blood of the Charlotte Family, they continued sailing across the seas.
As for the so-called Supernovas, every one of those who had committed truly heinous crimes was imprisoned in Impel Down.
Even the prisoners Buggy had released were captured and locked away again.
Buggy alone was spared.
Out of respect for Red-Haired Shanks, Magellan let him go.
Speaking of Shanks, he also established his own independent Adventure Group.
Now that the World Government had been overthrown, he could consider Roger's final wish properly fulfilled.
There was no longer any reason for his pirate crew to continue existing.
These days, aside from drinking and holding banquets with his companions, Shanks would occasionally exchange swordsmanship insights with Mihawk.
According to Shanks, he had wagered his arm on the new era.
Now that the new era had finally arrived, Roy naturally healed his arm.
As for Luffy and the others, they continued their adventures through the New World.
They kept moving forward toward dreams such as finding the One Piece and the All Blue.
Everything in this world was now gradually developing in a better direction~
Roy was extremely satisfied with the new world he had created.
Once the entire world had gradually settled onto the right path and could function normally and peacefully on its own—
Roy stood atop the highest point of the Red Line and looked down upon the reconstructed Holy Land below.
He smiled faintly.
In the blink of an eye, he used the power of the Time-Time Fruit to travel one hundred years into the future.
There, he collected every remaining Devil Fruit he had yet to obtain.
During his term as President, Roy had issued only a single order.
Whenever a Devil Fruit reincarnated after its user died, it was to be collected and placed inside a warehouse.
That way, when Roy arrived one hundred years later, he could simply take them all away.
It would also save him from having to kill people who had eaten those reincarnated Devil Fruits, allowing him to avoid unnecessary bloodshed.
Once Roy had finished collecting every Devil Fruit, the time had finally come to say goodbye to this world.
"Return to the main world!"
Floating high in the clear blue sky, Roy spoke softly.
The next second—
A flash of light appeared.
His figure disappeared from the One Piece world.
(End of Chapter)
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