I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

Garp did not participate in the Impel Down battle mainly because after Sengoku chose to personally lead the fleet away, the Marine Headquarters, a crucial location, also needed a strong person to oversee it.

"Then let's continue the discussion."

"Everyone has seen how those pirates performed on the battlefield. There are many strong pirates, but they are ultimately just a rabble."

The Warring States period solemnly stated:

"Even if we do nothing, we will still start a deadly fight."

"Then our strategy for dealing with Sig and the others is quite simple."

"Sow discord! Divide and separate!" Zhan Guo said decisively.

"Fleet Admiral Sengoku," Akainu suggested at this moment.

“We can start with Barrett. He doesn’t seem like the type to give up on Sieg.”

"As long as we find out Sig's whereabouts and manage to get that information to Barrett... even if Barrett can't defeat Sig, she can still cause a lot of trouble..."

"Hahahaha, Sengoku period, sorry, I couldn't help myself!"

Halfway through Akainu's sentence, Garp on the other side couldn't help but burst into laughter again, almost laughing until tears streamed down his face.

"Isn't the number fifty-six exactly equal to sixty minus four?"

Sengoku's eye twitched, and he finally couldn't hold back any longer. He slammed his fist on the table and roared:

"Karp! Are you a primary school student? Why are you suddenly talking about addition and subtraction? What's so funny about that?!"

Garp, however, shook his head.

"Speaking of which, this matter is also related to Sieg."

"You know Sengoku, back when Sig was still in the Goa Kingdom in the East Blue, he had contact with Shanks."

"I heard from Luffy that when Higuma was still in Windmill Village, he told Shanks about the Sixty Emperors of the Pirates."

"If we subtract four emperors from these sixty, doesn't that make fifty-six emperors? Hahahaha!"

"The...the Sixty Emperors of the Sea?"

Upon hearing this, Akainu and the others were also taken aback.

There are only four people on the high seas who are qualified to be called the Pirate Emperor, with at most one more, Golden Lion.

Sixty emperors—that sounds utterly absurd...

"Wait a minute." Sengoku frowned.

The number 56 happens to be the same as the number of prisoners who successfully escaped from Impel Down, which is probably just a coincidence.

However, Garp's words reminded Sengoku of what had happened before, and he immediately became alert.

"Karp, think it through carefully."

"Who exactly are the so-called...Sixty Emperors of the Pirates that Higuma once mentioned? What were Higuma's exact words?" Sengoku asked seriously.

Garp scratched his nose and said casually:

"Zhan Guo, are you getting senile? I've said this before."

"Aren't they just Lone Red Red Redfield, Barrett, the colossal battleship San Juan Wolf, the tyrannical king Abalo Pizarro, the crescent moon hunter Caterina Devon... these people?"

"It's actually quite funny, many of these great pirates were arrested by you and me, but at the time, Sig said... that he personally killed all of these great pirates, otherwise there wouldn't be four emperors on the sea, but sixty pirate emperors."

Karp said with a smile.

But Sengoku couldn't laugh at all. After thinking it over carefully, he broke out in a cold sweat.

The number 56 may just be a coincidence.

However, the fact that the sixty Emperors of the Sea correspond to the great pirates imprisoned in Impel Down is hardly a coincidence!

Powerful figures like Lone Redfield and World Destroyer Wald might have had a chance to compete for the title of Pirate Emperor if they hadn't been imprisoned in Impel Down.

"What does Sieg mean by this?"

"Back in the East Blue, he claimed that he personally defeated fifty-six great pirates and imprisoned them in Impel Down. Now he's attacking Impel Down and personally releasing these great pirates?"

"Could it be that he already had this intention to attack Impel Down back in Windmill Village in the East Blue?"

When Zhan Guo thought of this, he suddenly felt a chill.

He originally thought that the cause of this sudden Impel Down war was Teach.

The instigator of the war should be Whitebeard, who persuaded Shiki and Sigurd to participate.

But now it seems... something's very wrong with Sieg. He had already started planning this back in the East Blue.

"His plans even extend this far? They started as early as the East China Sea? No... that shouldn't be the case."

"It may not have been a clear plan, but it shows that Sieg had long harbored a vague intention to attack Impel Down."

Sengoku suddenly thought of the suddenly rising Golden Lion, who had gained a second Devil Fruit ability by eating the Angel Fruit, which allowed him to once again rise to the top of the sea.

And the Angel Fruit, isn't that the thing that Sig revealed?

From this perspective, the rise of the Golden Lion also has an unclear influence on Sieg.

As Sengoku pondered this with growing dread, General Tsuru spoke up:

"Warring States period, isn't the method of dividing these pirates already laid bare before us?"

Sengoku paused slightly, then signaled to Tsuru to continue.

"Sigurd once mentioned to Shanks that he had personally defeated the so-called... Fifty-Six Emperors, which were a group of escaped prisoners in Impel Down."

"This is clearly not true, because many of them were arrested and captured by our navy."

"This matter itself is a means to divide those pirates and deal with Sigurd."

Upon hearing General He's words, Sengoku suddenly understood.

The prisoners imprisoned in the city were all unruly individuals.

Let alone the current Sig, even if he faced the world's strongest Whitebeard, or Roger back then, he would not admit defeat.

Sieg once said that those people were all his defeated opponents...

"Fifty-six emperors?"

The Warring States period already had a plan in mind:

"Perhaps we should lend a hand and help them gain some fame."

"Furthermore... this incident is extremely serious. Assess the bounties on these notorious pirates as quickly as possible, contact major newspapers, and warn the public."

"Letting these great pirates run rampant will only shake the fragile balance of power we have just established... New turmoil is about to erupt on the high seas."

"We need to intensify our global conscription efforts..." Sengoku sighed softly.

After the Impel Down war, he felt more and more that the navy's manpower was already stretched thin.

Chapter 561 New Bounty

"This is huge news! Mary Geoise, the holy land of the Celestial Dragons, and Impel Down in the Calm Belt have both been attacked..."

At the headquarters of the World Economic News Agency, Morgans looked at the intelligence he had just acquired, and his desire to report on it gradually began to stir.

As a kingpin in the news media, Morgans had connections in both the legitimate and criminal worlds. His informants were all over the world, and most major news stories could not escape his notice.

After the Impel Down war ended, Morgans quickly obtained the latest intelligence from his informant... but due to the informant's status, Morgans' knowledge was very limited.

"Damn it! I really want to know more details!"

"Unfortunately, given the World Government's modus operandi, they might completely cover up such a major incident... just like they have done in the past."

Morgans whispered.

Level 6 of Impel Down houses the most dangerous criminals on the high seas. Many of them were so brutal that the World Government deliberately erased their existence.

dong dong dong...

At that moment, there was a knock on the door of the president's office.

A newspaper editor led in an official from the World Government.

"Morgans, this news has a huge impact, you must report it well."

The official handed over a stack of documents.

Morgans did not reach out to take it.

He glanced at the government official, already guessing his intentions.

"Don't underestimate me, 'King of News,' Morgans! Though I may be a miser, I'm also a 'journalist'! I'm also a word-based DJ who sometimes manipulates the world with lies! Freedom of the press is my principle, and I would rather die than..."

As Morgans roared, he glanced at the documents, and that one glance almost petrified him.

"Cough cough."

He coughed lightly, took the newspaper from his hand, and slowly digested the major news...

"Have you finished reading? This is this issue's wanted poster for escaped prisoners."

The government official said coldly, and handed over a thick stack of reward notices, dozens of them.

Morgans glanced at the bounty notice and his expression changed drastically.

The top of the reward poster features a familiar face.

Higuma, the pirate king of the seas, now has a bounty of 2.8 billion Berries!

"It hasn't been long since Sigurd's bounty was reissued, has it? It's already over two billion? That's a Yonko-level bounty..."

"And...could it be that all the world's most dangerous criminals have escaped over the past few decades?"

“No, that’s not it.” The World Government official shook his head.

As Morgans breathed a sigh of relief and drank a cup of coffee to calm his nerves, he heard the official explain:

"Human lifespan is only about a hundred years, but there are races in the world that can live for hundreds of years, such as the long-lived giants who can even live for more than three hundred years."

"And this time, there was more than one giant pirate who escaped from Impel Down."

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