It's Time to...

Two weeks later,

"What is the meaning of this photo?!"

"We never approved it!! And I thought we told you to remove the 'D.'!!" The Five Elders in Mary Geoise were furious while speaking through the Den Den Mushi.

"N-No, Sir…!! We weren't told about that!!" A Marine officer responded through the Den Den Mushi "The photo was sent in by CP0's Guernica-sama!!"

"Reprint it!! The world cannot be permitted to see this!!" Saint Topman Warcury of the Five Elders demanded.

"We've been trying to contact the printers but I'm afraid it's no use…!!"

[The Bombshell news of the defeat of the Emperor Kaido spread very rapidly around the world. The four Captains responsible for ending his decades of dominion…]

[…Were all issued an extraordinary bounty by the Government!!]

[Except Monkey D. Luffy who's head is now worth 3 Billion Berries…All the other three Captains, Eustass 'Captain' Kid, Trafalgar Law and Emma Helios are now worth 1.5 Billion Berries a piece!!]

Meanwhile, the whole Wano was celebrating their victory with the pirates,

"Let's drink and party 'til dawn!!"

"Cheers!!"

"Pirates sure are rowdy, this is the biggest and wildest festival I've ever seen!!" Hyogoro said while enjoying his drink.

"I want nothing to do with this crap!!" Kid said as he jumped at Luffy who was enjoying his meat and drink "See here!! I came to kill you!" Kid said while showing him the newspaper, Luffy's eyeballs popped out when he saw his name among the Emperors.

"Whaaat?!!"

The new Emperors now are…

['Demon of The Sea' Ashen]

['Red-Haired' Shanks]

['Blackbeard' Teach]

['Straw Hat' Luffy]

"Come on Kid, just enjoy the festival you might not now if you get to enjoy yourself like this ever again!" Emma said in jovial manner as she brought him a drink.

There is also a new player that is not considered an Emperor but in the eyes of the World Government have the statue and influence to become one, and that is none other than the previous Warlord The Bombastic Clown Buggy, who now runs the Cross Guild with Hawk-Eye and Crocodile working under him.

The Cross Guild now is issuing bounties on marines.

At the same time, while everyone was busy celebrating and having fun, Admiral of the Navy Ryokugyu already set foot in Wano and defeated the remanent of the Beasts Pirates including King and Queen who were imprisoned in the former prisoner mine Udon.

"Gyah!!"

"Ugh…"

"Ah…"

"King-san!!"

"Quenn-san!!"

"Hey, a post-diet physique doesn't suit me, you hear?!" Queen said in anger as his body was drained until he became thin by Ryokugyu's ability.

"Give it a rest already! At my rank, I'd lose face if I let a few commanders like you get the best of me" Ryokugyu said in arrogance while kicking down Queen "The Navy doesn't have manpower on the mess you've left us!! Not that I excepted much of you bozos…"

Immediately after that, Ryokugyu's Den Den Muchi rang.

"Yeah. I'm in Wano. Bring a warship over!!"

<Huh…?! Oh!! Ryokug-->

"Don't tell Sakazuki-san what I'm up to, got it?! See ya-*Click*" Ryokugyu hang up the Den Den Muchi before he took a look at Straw Hat Luffy's Wanted Poster and Yamato's Wanted Poster "I've always dug his style, no half measures. I'm itching to get his approval…He's sure to give me an 'Attaboy' if I bring him these brats heads"

Ryokugyu went looking for Luffy and Yamato after that, fortunately for him, he stumbled upon Yamato who was going to leave Wano since Ashen told her to leave before Straw Hat and the others, Yamato didn't know the reason exactly, but she did as he told. Of course, after Momonosuke and the Akazaya knew about the Admiral's presence they also confronted him.

"Right about time you Oni girl!" Ryokugyu said as his eyes landed on Yamato, he was smoking a cigar while speaking "Fucking Ashen, he's involved in everything…Taking you down, it'll bring back some face to the Navy after what happened two years ago! Captain of the third ship Yamato!"

[One of the 'Demonic Captains', captain of the third ship – 'The Oni Girl' Yamato, Dead or Alive 1,705,300,000 Berries]

"You Navy Admirals never learn, you know those two that were killed before you were as cocky and overconfident as you are—maybe it's just one of them. Anyway, better learn from history before it repeats itself" Yamato said with confidence while holding her Kanabō, of course she wasn't stupid enough to think that she will beat a Navy Admiral. She knows she's can't win, but with all the strong people present in Wano at the moment, she's confident that situation will get de-escalated eventually.

"I'll leave after I take your head and Straw Hat head as well!" Ryokugyu declared as he generated wood from his arms and manipulated it to shape a giant wooden golem rising to the surface that covered his original body.

"Forbidden Hate Forests!!"

"You want a fight, got it!" Yamato clenched her Kanabō tightly before she activated the fire dial attached to it, and hot purple flames engulfed her weapon before she infused it with Advanced Armament Haki (Emmision) and Advanced Conqueror's Haki, and then leaped in the air swinging her weapon diagonally which left a trail of black lightning, before she unleashed a powerful projectile, Haki-Coated fire slash.

"That hurt damn it!..." Ryokugyu stated as the attack hit him directly pushing him a few meters back, but he didn't look fazed that much from it and didn't suffer any injury "Hoi Hoi, that's a hell of an attack, no wonder you have that kind of bounty on your head. That Haki is something, looks like that Bozo Ashen wasn't just recruiting some nobodies"

Yamato's forehead veins instantly bulged after hearing him insulting her captain, but she knows better than to let her feelings to control her actions. It's a lesson that Ashen thought everyone, after all he doesn't want an Ace 2.0 from his crew.

"Yamato! You should stay back, do not touch him!" Momonosuke said, transforming to his dragon form "Up until now I have continued to rely on Luffy, Zoro and the others…!! But it's imperative to prove that those of us who are staying here can repel any enemy on our own!"

"Momonosuke-kun!!"

"Now begone, you demon tree! Get out of here!" Momonosuke shouted at Ryokugyu.

"So, you're just a spoiled kid. I guess even dragons can be pathetic…"

"I said leave!!" Momonosuke shouted again while gathering firing inside his mouth before he breath it out as a conical fire blast. Ryokugyu was directly hit cutting his wooden golem in half, he looked shocked as Momonosuke was doing the same attack again.

"Begone! Begone! Begone!"

"Hang on you crazy bastard…"

*BOOOM*

"What a pain…easy now…seriously, are you trying to burn down the whole town?" Ryokugyu questioned as his giant wooden golem was restored "Since you're so hell-bent on playing hardball, have it your way!! I'll skewer you and your wannabe Kaido routine from mouth to tail!"

Just as Ryokugyu declared that was about to attack him, a strong burst of Conqueror's Haki was shot at him from the outside of Wano.

"WOAH!! WAIT!! WAIT!!"

"That Conqueror's Haki…!! Who the hell…?!" Ryokugyu was shocked by the Conqueror's Haki and left his hands upwards "The Red Hair Pirates? You're here too?"

"'Red-Haired' is her?!" Yamato was also surprised.

Outside Wano, the ship of the Red Hair Pirates could be seen.

"Boss don't just go all out with your Haki like that! All the newbies are foaming at the mouth!" Lucky Roux said to Shanks who looked very angry at the Ryokugyu's actions.

"I won't call you marines cowardly…or underhanded for this but…wouldn't you agree it's bad to go after these worn-out saplings when they're exhausted from making pirate history?!"

"Does the new age frighten you that much?!"

"I get it already! It's not like I want to pick a fight with you guys, not today anyways"

Ryokugyu left Wano shortly after that. Yamato and the Red-Hair Pirates as well.

…

A few days later,

[Pirate Paradise, Hachinosu – New World],

Ashen proceeded to put on his black Captain's coat, black hat and his sword and gun in his belt, before he left the Skull Building and made his way to Rocky Port where dozens of ships were docked and thousands of pirates were getting ready to board, as well as a thousand zombie.

"Everything is ready Captain!" Calvin informed Ashen while standing on the ship's deck, the rest of the crew was on board as well.

"I see that you're in a good mood" Ashen said to him with a smile while boarding the Sword of Xebec, he obviously knows it's because of his daughter "We'll I guess I'll be proud if she was my daughter…"

"He's been talking about her all day" Ken said while standing near the helm.

"Well, can't blame him"

"We're really moving finally" Enel said while sitting on top of the ship's mast eating an apple.

"Kishishi! I can finally put these modified zombies into action, right Franky?" Moria asked Franky who was standing near him.

"Yeap, they are now SUUUUPPEER ZOMBIES!!!" Franky declared with enthusiasm "Those dials we found with Captain John's treasure are a great help as well"

"You really love your zombies Moria" Urouge said to him.

"Most be some weird fetish" Yamamoto said while arranging his blonde hair back.

"You wouldn't get it" Moria replied with a grin.

"Tch…I'm surrounded with freaks, I'm just grateful that we're finally getting a real fight. It's been ages dude, at least Yamato got to fight Kaido in Wano, I envy you the captain didn't let me go" Ian said while resting his metal bat on his shoulder.

"Hahaha! I'm lucky I witnessed the liberation of Wano as well" Yamato responded.

"Will the Navy be there as well?" Diana asked.

"Two Emperor's clashing in an island of the World Government. They are bound to appear" Amber stated.

"I'm certain the Navy will be involved, that's I prepared the fleet" Ashen responded, before he turned to calvin again "Did you contact Chinjao and Bege?" Ashen asked him as the pirates were loading the supplies into the ships docked in the port.

"Yeah, I told them to meet up with Shiki"

"Good, they'll do their thing, while we'll do ours… We're going to Egg Head!" Ashen declared

"By the way, did really mean that?...What you said before?" Calvin asked him with a serious face.

"Ah, I'm very serious…"

"…It's time to claim the One Piece"