January 2nd, Sea Circle Calendar 1520.
A very memorable year, month, and day.
Because from this day forward, Karl was an adult.
Eighteen years since he had crossed over, Karl welcomed his second coming-of-age ceremony.
To celebrate Karl's coming of age, Nami and the other girls held a grand banquet in the city of gold.
Yesterday was a day of carnival in Gran Tesoro.
Because for one day, all the food and drinks in the city of gold were paid for by the city's master.
All the guests in the city of gold, and even people from many factions, knew that the fifth overlord of the seas of the New World had come of age on this day.
When they learned of this news, many people felt a wave of shock.
Because of Karl's immense strength and numerous legendary achievements, people had subconsciously ignored his age for the past two years.
So... he's only just come of age now?
But except for a few individuals, no one knew that the grand coming-of-age ceremony last night was actually not just for Dragon Knight Karl.
It was the coming-of-age ceremony for the master of the city of gold, Karl, and the deputy master, Carina.
Entering the orphanage on the same day, leaving the orphanage on the same day, and then always being by each other's side...
The relationship between Karl and Carina had always made Nami and the other girls very envious and full of longing.
At the same time, because of this relationship, Carina's position in the crew, except for the little dragon who was soul-bound to Karl and could be on equal footing with him in some aspects, could not be shaken by any of the other girls.
Especially the few girls who had a close relationship with Karl, they knew even better why Karl had remained so chaste for these few years.
And so...
After the coming-of-age ceremony for the two of them ended, Nami and the other girls were very self-aware and left the time for the childhood sweethearts.
On this day, Karl and Carina disguised themselves and went on a date in the city of gold, where a grand banquet was being held.
Ashamedly, this was actually their first date.
Karl, who had grown up with Carina, had never confessed to her.
The two had not been separated since they had self-awareness, so they naturally skipped the stage of being lovers.
Not to mention...
Karl, who was on a date with a girl for the first time in his life, his heartbeat had actually accelerated for the first time in a long while.
The same was true for Carina, who was holding Karl's arm and walking on the golden road.
She had never even had a first love, and had already given herself to the young man beside her.
In these years, Carina, who was used to the young man's lecherous side, had not felt so shy in years.
With strange emotions, Karl and Carina simply strolled through the city of gold, not doing anything, not eating anything, and even their words were N times fewer than usual.
It wasn't until midnight that Karl and Carina returned to the Golden Hotel, to the top floor which was now surprisingly empty.
And then...
It was a natural progression, a night without words.
After coming of age, besides being a little shy on his birthday.
After his birthday, this lecher began to let himself go.
Karl, who had long been eyeing the few "fresh flowers" in his home with whom he had a close relationship, began to extend his "demonic claws."
After Carina, the second to fall was not Nami, who had joined in the East Blue.
Although it was now Sea Circle Calendar 1520, Nami still needed to finish her birthday on July 3rd to be truly of age.
The second to fall was Perona, who, in these few years, had had that childishness of hers corrected by Carina, becoming more and more ladylike, full of a dark princess style.
The third was Robin.
They had all joined Karl's crew in the first half of the Grand Line and had a close relationship with him.
As for the last one who had a close relationship with Karl, Yamato, because she had not been completely corrected, Karl did not make a move on her.
From then on...
Among the five girls who had a close relationship with Karl, three had been truly corrected, and there was no distinction between them.
While Karl was letting himself go.
Morgans, who had received permission, also began to prepare for the monumental news.
First, he used his power as a King of the Underworld to contact his newspaper underlings all over the world.
Whether it was the Four Seas, or the large and small newspaper companies in the first and second halves of the Grand Line, they all received orders from their boss.
Then, they all took out their newspaper's Visual Den Den Mushi, went to the nearby prosperous islands, and set up white screens for projection in the squares.
The actions of these newspaper companies quickly attracted local attention.
In the following week, some people discovered that the prosperous islands all seemed to have newspaper companies setting up screens, and they all had a premonition that a storm was coming.
Just as they had predicted.
After all the large and small newspaper companies had set up projection screens on the nearby prosperous islands, Morgans began to take up his pen and create the bomb that was about to shake the world.
In the early morning of January 8th, Sea Circle Calendar 1520.
Countless news coos, carrying mailbags filled with freshly printed newspapers, flew to all parts of the world.
To maximize the publicity, for today's World Economic Journal, Morgans actually did not adopt a paid system.
He had the news coos, whenever they passed an island, drop the newspapers from the sky.
After dropping all the newspapers, they would fly to other newspaper strongholds, pick up the rushed-out newspapers from there, and continue to drop them on the next island.
Whether it was a prosperous island, a backward island, or even an uninhabited island...
As long as it wasn't an island in the Calm Belt, they were all showered with a large number of newspapers.
This method of distributing newspapers had appeared in the original story during the execution of Portgas D. Ace, and had an impact after the Summit War.
Without a doubt, this money-burning publicity method quickly attracted the attention of the entire world.
When everyone looked at the headline on the front page of the newspaper, their eyes all widened, and then their faces showed various expressions.
Shock, terror, disbelief, excitement, and so on...
The headline on the front page of the newspaper read—"The Namer of the New Era: A 500 Billion Berry Challenge!"
Below this headline were five enlarged wanted posters.
The five highest peaks standing at the pinnacle of the world:
["Whitebeard" Edward Newgate, Bounty: 5,046,000,000 Berries, Dead or Alive.]
["Kaido of the Beasts," Bounty: 4,611,100,000 Berries, Dead or Alive.]
["Big Mom" Charlotte Linlin, Bounty: 4,388,000,000 Berries, Dead or Alive.]
["Red-Haired" Shanks, Bounty: 4,048,900,000 Berries, Dead or Alive.]
[Dragon Knight Karl, Bounty: 2,511,000,000 Berries, Dead or Alive.]
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