I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

Roger was speechless for a moment, and his eyes were somewhat blank.

He turned to look at Rouge, whose confused and bewildered expression mirrored his own.

The last time the bounty was increased was when the bandit king who shattered the void returned to the world, and the World Government raised his bounty to five billion.

On that occasion, Rouge asked him why Sieg's bounty was so high.

Roger laughed and said that Rouge had underestimated Sieg.

"Who knows what Sieg has been doing behind our back, using another name and identity?"

"If one day everything he has done becomes known to the world, I'm really curious to see what an astronomical figure it would be?"

That's what he said at the time.

just now.

The astronomical figure finally came out, but even Roger himself at the time could not have imagined that Sieg would give him such a big surprise.

Why did Sieg's bounty suddenly increase so much when he did nothing?

Because the world government actually underestimated his danger level, and now it is just exposing more of his past misdeeds.

"That Sig guy is really terrifying," Jabba exclaimed.

"Just like General Higuma back then, there is no real person named Rocks in this world. His essence is just another mask and identity of Sig, and he will eventually turn into smoke and disappear."

"As an admiral, Higuma fooled and deceived the entire World Government and Navy."

"As the Seagull of Rocks, wouldn't he have outwitted all the great pirates of the old era?"

Jabba shook his head.

As pirates who had been to the final island and witnessed the truth of history, he and Roger were well-informed, but this incident could be said to have shaken their worldview.

At this point, he could somewhat understand the immense psychological impact the Navy had suffered during the Marineford War, which indirectly led to the defection of two admirals.

“And that’s not the worst part,” Jabba said.

"But the scariest thing is... no one knows whether what the World Government has revealed is the whole truth."

"Perhaps, there are even more outrageous and outrageous things that Sieg has done that we don't know about?"

Roger didn't speak. He swirled the wine in his glass, watching the liquid swirl within, slightly lost in thought.

......................................

Somewhere in the new world.

At this moment, a banquet was being held on the island's coast, where many pirates were toasting and laughing loudly.

"The Undying King!"

"The Undying King!"

Amidst the cheers and jeers of the crowd, Hale laughed heartily as he tore a large piece of meat from the big stick, eating it and drinking heartily.

"This is what life is all about, this is what pirates are all about, this is what freedom is all about!"

Hale was quite excited and in high spirits.

After delivering the earrings to Whitebeard, he did not return to Elbaf, but instead took the opportunity to escape.

Shortly after leaving, he ran into a fellow inmate from Impel Down and ended up here.

Being around Sig is so exciting; there are always formidable enemies ahead, and he will always just be the cockroach bully.

But it's different here.

"Kaido, the Beast, who was universally acknowledged as immortal on the high seas, is dead." Hale said mournfully.

"Kaido was once a crew member on the same ship as me, but in the end, he couldn't escape the passage of time."

"There are fewer and fewer people of my generation."

Hale held a wine glass in one hand and put the other behind his back, looking up at the sky with a somewhat melancholic tone.

His silhouette fell into the eyes of the pirates, and naturally, they showered him with praise, making him secretly delighted.

"What do you mean by 'the immortal king'...?"

"As it turns out, brains are far more important than physical constitution or Devil Fruit abilities."

"Only those who understand the times can maximize their gains and minimize their losses, and thus become kings!"

Just as he was feeling pleased with himself, a commotion broke out elsewhere in the banquet.

"Rox has been resurrected?"

"What do you mean by resurrection? He didn't die at all, but is still alive in a different guise. That's too absurd."

"But the report above... it makes so much sense, it's terrifying to think about..."

“Sigurd...Lox..…”

It seemed that someone was discussing the newly arrived newspaper, and in the blink of an eye, the pirates' focus had shifted from Hale to the top of the newspaper.

This new information caused a huge uproar at the banquet. Every pirate who had read the newspaper turned pale, and they even forgot to drink and eat.

The name Rocks had been deliberately erased by the World Government, and only a few people from the old era still remembered it.

However, due to the excessive activity of Sig and the Fifty-Six Emperors, quite a few people still remember this name.

"What happened?" Hale asked, somewhat displeased. He snatched the newspaper from the pirate next to him and glanced at it briefly.

Ok?

His eyes widened suddenly, and the wine glass in his hand fell to the ground and shattered, but he was completely unaware of it.

"We've been calling him the first mate for so long, so it turns out... the first mate and the captain are the same person?"

Hale was momentarily at a loss, and the drunkenness from before vanished completely.

"Rocks was the captain of three Yonko! I never thought he was still alive..."

"An 8 billion bounty! This is an unprecedented astronomical bounty. If we kill him, we'll immediately become famous, right?"

"It's not just about making a name for oneself; one's fame has surpassed that of the sea emperors of the New World in an instant!"

"Don't forget that Sigurd still has treasures in his possession. Among the five great treasures of Another Piece, even the Celestial Dragons' treasure vault and the Angel-Angel Fruit are only one of them!"

"The ultimate treasure must be some kind of extremely precious item. If we kill Sieg, we can force him to reveal the treasure."

The pirates were excited by this new information, and some even started planning to assassinate Higuma.

Adventure and treasure are the eternal themes of One Piece.

Even the mighty Four Emperors will never lack challengers; the world is full of hotheads.

"Kill Sig?" Hale gazed at the sky in silence, speechless for a moment.

"By the way, what was Boss Shiki's reaction to such a big thing?" someone asked.

“Ski... Boss?” Hale’s expression changed.

Just then, he saw islands breaking through the clouds and hovering hundreds of meters above the coast.

The golden lion descended from the sky, its legs, formed from ice crystals, landing on the ground, while the other pirates bowed in greeting.

"Hale, you've come too." The Golden Lion nodded slightly.

Normally, he might have made a sarcastic remark about the cockroach bully, but he wasn't in the mood for it now.

He bypassed Hale and took the latest newspaper from the fifty-sixth Emperor who came from Impel Down.

After reading it, his expression shifted from doubt and disbelief to confusion and wavering, and he remained silent for a long time.

"Lox was Sieg? Perhaps there was never any Lox, he was just a phantom..."

"How can I believe this? It's absurd."

"If that's the case, then what is he plotting after Big Mom and Kaido's deaths...?"

The golden lion frowned.

Among Rocks' former subordinates, those still active and reigning supreme in the New World are Big Mom, Kaido, who died in recent years, and Shiki and Whitebeard.

So, what is his next goal?

The golden lion remained silent for a long time.

He floated into the air, drifting all the way to the surface of the sea, where he looked at his aged self through the water.

What is the cruelest thing?

To give an ambitious old man a new lease on life, to restore the strength of his prime, and then watch him grow old and lose his strength.

He waited for many years.

But to this day, he still hasn't seen the day when his grand plan to raise a glass and discuss things online would be fully realized.

It now seems that Sieg will outlive him, and he can't wait any longer.

...............................

10,000 meters above the ground.

On the vast, iron-gray trunk of the World Tree, a figure was running wildly, carrying a thick World Tree branch hundreds of meters high, almost like a walking mountain rushing across the ground.

The engine roared like a war drum, and sweat dripped like syrup onto the tree trunks beneath our feet.

After a long while, Sieg finally put the note back into his body. Exhausted, he lay down on the ground, sweat streaming down his body, leaving a large "wood" character on the tree trunk.

In the distance, the Rainbow Bridge meanders downwards, and several bandits ride on a sky boat on the Rainbow Bridge, disappearing into the clouds below.

"Is it time to pick up the newspaper again this week?" Sieg thought.

Newspapers are only the size of a normal person's newspaper, so while giants can read them, it is still inconvenient for them.

The bandits lived at the top of the World Tree, which was ten thousand meters high, a place the newsbirds couldn't fly to.

So they made a deal with the giants of Elbaf below, with the giants providing newspapers and the bandits reading them to the giants.

After it's all over, the newspaper will be taken to the Sky Island on the World Tree and circulated among the bandits.

"The newspapers should be reporting on the coffin this week, right? Let's go down and take a look, just to relax a bit."

Sieg wasn't interested in his coffin, but he was very interested in who used it for fishing.