I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

"Finally back here."

When Sieg returned to Water Seven, it felt like a lifetime had passed.

Water City is the starting point for a journey through time.

In order to make it easier for Tenzuki and the others to use the Time-Time Fruit's power to make their final time travel, Water Seven will also be their destination.

"Roger, can't we really take Ace with us?" Rouge was still a little worried.

She found it hard to feel at ease entrusting her child to the carefree Garp.

“Listen to Wang Xige. Wang Xige’s abilities are also limited. He has already helped us a lot. We are already satisfied that we are alive and will have the opportunity to see Ace again in the future.”

Roger said seriously.

It has been one year and three months since Roger was executed.

But for Roger, only a few days had passed.

During these past few days, he had been traveling through time continuously with Sig and Tengetsu.

Having personally experienced this strange ability, he has let down his guard.

"No need to thank me, it's an equal exchange." Sieg remained unmoved.

"Consider Rouge's matter as compensation for the time I ruined your egg."

"You tried to hide it before, but that egg must have been very important to you too."

"This time, we're even again."

Sieg said that.

Beside them, Toki and Rouge's expressions became subtle as they stared blankly at Sieg.

“No.” Roger shook his head again: “That egg was just a reserve food.”

grain reserves...

Sieg didn't argue anymore, but turned to look at Amaterasu Toki.

"You remember the exact time of the last time travel, right?"

"If something goes wrong this time, and we arrive too late, even by just one day..."

“I understand.” Tianyue Shi nodded, staring intently at Xige:

"Time travel is a long and lonely journey. Only I can truly understand that."

"After I left, you went through so many journeys across time all by yourself. It must have been very hard."

Sieg was slightly startled, but remained silent.

"This endless journey through time should come to an end. I'll give you one last hand." Amatsuki Toki smiled.

"So when we meet again, please remember to keep your promise and send me to Wano Country, okay?"

Sieg instinctively turned his face away to avoid eye contact and replied:

"I'll definitely do it next time."

He looked at Tenzuki and Roger and his wife, and the three of them disappeared into thin air.

The system panel in front of him floated up, and Sieg took one last look at the system notification.

After Tianyue Shi and the others left, a system notification appeared again.

"Interfered with the fate of the character Portgas D. Rouge in the storyline, consuming 3 units of causal power."

"Is there 11 points left? More than I expected."

What Sieg should have done at that point in time, he has already done.

The true treasure of ANOTHERPIECE, or the remaining six of the Seven Emperors carrying the coffin... these things are still unfounded lies "now," unlike the treasures that have been discovered "now," or the legend of Dracula being impaled that has already spread.

"It's finally over... but I'm so tired."

Sieg, disregarding his image, fell backward onto the sandy beach, gazing at the twinkling stars in the night sky.

He stood there quietly watching the stars, and after an unknown amount of time, he activated his [First Hero] ability, and his figure gradually disappeared.

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

Half an hour later, at the port of Water Seven, a beautiful woman with long pink hair looked at the small bottle containing the Vivre Card in her hand and sighed.

"Why has it turned gray again? How many times has this happened?"

"Why are you always late? It must be because you run too slowly!"

The pink-haired woman glared behind her at the white Pegasus, which was suffering terribly from being weighed down by a large bundle, and looked somewhat angry.

But then, her gaze sharpened slightly as she looked towards a distant point in another direction.

..........

Another port in the City of Seven Waters.

Despite being covered in wounds, Hale was in high spirits. He stood beside a pile of naval corpses, coldly watching the wreckage of the warship slowly sink.

"Even the Navy can't defeat the Undying King."

Hale let out a low laugh.

"Lox is dead."

"Wang Xige is also dead."

"The Golden Lion has entered Impel Down."

Even Roger, who had become the Pirate King, died in the end.

He chuckled softly.

"Whether they are overlords or pirate kings, they all eventually die or fail."

"The winner takes all?"

"The one who remains is the true king!"

"Is my era finally about to begin?"

He had just finished laughing when a voice filled with anger suddenly came from behind him.

"Who did you say died?"

Hale glanced sideways.

A tall figure with long pink hair stood out, coldly staring at him as she held a giant sword.

Most notably, the figure wore an adorable panda face mask.

"Who are you?" Hale asked, frowning, secretly preparing for battle.

The panda-face mask sneered:

"Have you forgotten my name so quickly? Cockroach Bully."

"You shameless bastards should all be sent to the Navy's Impel Down prison!"

Hale's face immediately darkened:

"Where did you hear that nickname from...? Who are you?"

“Remember this! My name is... Wang Xige!” the panda-faced mask said menacingly.

“Wang Xige? Impersonating that guy’s copycat? Impersonating that guy is not a good idea.”

"You'll die."

Hale gave a cold laugh, clenched his fists, and charged out.

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

After several hours of fierce fighting.

Blackie, his face bruised and swollen, wore a serious expression:

"Lord Wang Xige, didn't you want to beat up those shameless bastards? I know where those shameless bastards are..."

The two walked away into the night.

This city of seven waters has returned to tranquility.

End-of-volume summary & requesting a day off

At the end of the volume, I'll give a brief summary and also explain why the past chapters are so long.

Yes, they're imitating bandits. Even asking for leave is the same.

This volume is the longest volume in the book to date, and also the most difficult volume for me to write.

As you can probably tell, the theme of this volume is filling in the plot holes, so I was very tired after finishing it and took a day off to brainstorm the outline and plot of the next volume.

The combined word count of the outline and detailed outline of this book exceeds 10, and it is an outline with multiple levels of hierarchical table of contents.

This number cannot represent the quality of the book, but it can at least show that I spent a lot of time and energy writing this book with care.

This book starts with a silly joke, but beneath the silly exterior, it tells a serious story, very seriously.

If the first 120 million words of the preceding text subtly foreshadow events, then this volume is where those events are being resolved.

Therefore, this volume, which fills in the gaps, is more difficult to write, and the fatigue after finishing it is also greater.

I need time to rest... well, not really rest, I still need to work on the plot for the next volume today.

...........

Here I'd like to mention a few difficulties I encountered while writing this volume, and their solutions. Consider this a little venting.

The specific problems are the original work's chaotic timeline, fictional setting, the handling of Roger's death at the end, and the length of this volume.

As an author with a relatively detailed outline, I anticipated the aforementioned problems before I even began writing this volume, and they indeed proved to be true.

1. The chaotic timeline of the original work in online sources

I suspect that when this volume was being written, nobody cared about the specific time or the year in the Haiyuan calendar.