One Piece: The user of the Nen-Nen Fruit, who overturned the sea.

The Red Earl remained silent for a moment, a complex light flashing in his blood-red eyes.

"Roy, have you ever considered that this battle might be beyond anyone's control?"

Whitebeard isn't stupid, the Marines aren't pushovers, and with Shanks and Kaido both eyeing the battlefield—this is no longer just the Marineford War; it's a complete reshuffling of the maritime power.

Roy turned to look at him, a slow smile creeping onto his lips.

"Redfield, you're right. This is a reshuffling."

Roy withdrew his hand, put both hands in his pockets, and the sea breeze ruffled the stray hairs on his forehead.

"And I've been preparing for ten years, just to get this hand of cards shuffled to where I want it to be."

The Red Earl did not speak again.

As he watched Roy's retreating figure, he suddenly felt that this young man was even more unfathomable than when he first arrived in the New World ten years ago.

The young pirate who once needed to use schemes and tactics to navigate various forces has now become someone who can control the world's chessboard.

And this game has only just entered its most exciting phase.

In the deepest part of the ocean, in a place unseen by all, various forces are secretly preparing for battle.

Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit is poised to unleash its power, the Navy's 100,000 elite troops are urgently assembling, and the Seven Warlords of the Sea are advancing towards Marineford, each with their own agenda.

Shanks traverses the storm, while Kaido sharpens his sword in Wano Country.

Roy stood at the highest point of Beehive Island, looking down at everything.

He is the player, not the piece.

A month later, he met Marineford.

Just as undercurrents surged on the sea in preparation for Ace's execution...

Beehive Island, Roy's office.

Roy leaned back in his chair, holding a document that had just been delivered from the intelligence department, a slight smile playing on his lips.

This document records the Straw Hat Pirates' recent itinerary in such detail that it's like someone was writing a diary for Luffy.

That's pretty much true. Every few days, Robin would send back a message via an encrypted Den Den Mushi, clearly reporting the Straw Hat crew's movements.

"Sky Island, huh?" Roy flipped to the first page of the document and chuckled softly.

Luffy and his crew rode the Sky Current from Jaya Island to a height of 10,000 meters and caused a great disturbance on the White Sea.

Robin's report was written in vivid detail.

Enel's early recruitment of Luffy and his crew made Nolan, the giant serpent and ruler of Skypiea, their greatest adversary.

Luffy and his crew defeated the gold that Nolan brought down from Skypiea.

Robin reported that Luffy and his crew disembarked in Water 7, and the first thing they did was exchange their gold for Berries before excitedly running off to find the shipbuilder.

Luffy's original words were, "We're going to build a ship even better than the Going Merry." When he said this, he was standing at the dock entrance, hands on his hips, his eyes shining like they were filled with light bulbs.

However, the Straw Hat Pirates had bad luck in Water Seven.

It wasn't that he encountered any powerful enemy, but rather that the World Government's CP agents planted on the island had their eyes on Franky.

The cyborg wearing shorts, due to Roy's interference, had his master, the fishman Tom, taken to Beehive Island by Roy more than a decade ago.

Even without Tom, Franky remains a shipwright and gangster in Water Seven, with CP agents secretly monitoring him, hoping to extract information about the whereabouts of the Hades blueprints from him.

Things got interesting when Luffy and his crew came to build a ship.

When Robin recounted this, he was barely suppressing a laugh.

The agents from CP discovered the Straw Hat Pirates' whereabouts and tried to sabotage them from the shadows, but they were beaten to a pulp by Zoro and Sanji working together.

After the CP agents escaped, Luffy and his crew could finally finish building the ship in peace.

Roy almost burst out laughing when he saw this part.

The fates of these CP agents aren't much better than in the original story; at least they're still alive, since Enies Lobby was already completely destroyed by him beforehand.

Originally, Lucci and the others on Enies Lobby had already been recruited by Roy, so those who remained in Water Seven were just small fry.

The new ship "Sunshine" was successfully completed under Frankie's supervision.

"It's much bigger than the Going Merry. Franky installed a lot of strange functions on the ship. Luffy especially likes the lion head-shaped turret at the bow."

Franky himself also boarded the ship, saying he wanted to see the ship he built sail to the ends of the earth with his own eyes.

Roy nodded when he saw this.

Franky boarded the ship, and the Straw Hat Pirates' shipwright arrived.

Although Tom is still alive and well on Beehive Island, his disciple still went down the path of shipbuilding and became Luffy's partner.

After leaving Water 7, the Straw Hat crew plunged into the Devil's Triangle.

As the Sunny entered that eerie, fog-shrouded sea, Robin received instructions from Roy:

Moria will attack the Straw Hat crew with all his might, pushing them to the brink of death, but he won't actually kill them.

Robin's mission is to remain neutral throughout, avoid fighting, and not be too conspicuous.

Robin carried out the order strictly.

When Moria's zombie army surged out of the thick fog, Robin immediately found a corner to sit down and read.

While Zoro was fighting the zombie swordsman in the castle, Robin was drinking coffee.

While Sanji was being chased around by the Shadow Bats, Robin strolled leisurely down the corridor, pretending to be lost.

Luffy was beaten black and blue by Moria's shadow clone, while Nami screamed in terror.

Usopp nearly fainted from fright at his own shadow, and Chopper barely managed to hold off a wave of zombies by transforming into his monster form.

Zoro was cornered by Moria's shadow mage, suffering over a dozen cuts all over his body, his clothes stained red with blood.

"Moria, that's about it," Roy said into the Den Den Mushi.

Moria then began to "let loose".

He pretended to be exhausted, causing a flaw in his control of the shadow. Zoro seized the opportunity and found a glimmer of hope, cleaving the shadow mage's core with a single strike.

Luffy used Gear Second to knock Moria's true form out from deep within the castle, and then used Gum-Gum Giant Pistol to blast Moria into the wall.

Moria lay amidst the ruins, looking at Luffy's swollen yet still smiling face, with only one thought in his mind:

Roy's script is so stupid. I got beaten up like this by a supernova. How am I supposed to face anyone on Beehive Island now?

After the battle, Luffy and his crew were all badly injured.

Zoro had the most wounds, Sanji almost had a leg cramp, and Chopper was so tired he couldn't even move.

Only Robin was completely unharmed, not even a speck of dust on her body.

Nami lay slumped on the deck, looking at Robin's clean clothes, and asked weakly, "Why aren't you hurt at all?"

Robin smiled slightly and closed the book in his hand: "I was lucky."

Moria reported the battle situation to Roy from deep within the castle using an encrypted Den Den Mushi:

"Boss, the performance is over."

I've taken countless punches from that Luffy kid.

The script said we should "go easy" on him, but that kid really went all out.

Roy smiled and told him to stay put; the Marineford War was about to begin.