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REAR ADMIRAL MONKEY D LUFFY KILLED BY WHITEBEARD!!

PIRATE PORTGAS D ACE ESCAPES PUNISHMENT!

[...] ... but, before Admiral Akainu Sakazuki could take Monkey D Luffy into custody, the Yonko Whitebeard did the unexpected. He pierced the Rear Admiral through the chest and threw him in the sea, never to be rescued again. And the pirate, Second Division Commander, Portgas D Ace, had already been exchanged. They fled, leaving the Marine Corp. without an incredible hero that saved countless countries from the pirates' siege.

He was, as you know, the nephew... [...]

Izo crumpled the paper and launched it on the floor of the deck. He paid the crow, waiting on the railing, and read the first page.

REAR ADMIRAL MONKEY D LUFFY REPORTED DEAD BY THE MARINES

It's with great horror and unfathomable grieve that we report the possible death of our favourite marine. The official newspaper says it's the Whitebeard's pirates' fault. We know it's not possible. Whitebeard is a man that keeps his words. He's honourable. He doesn't betray the only key he has to free one of his sons.

Let's be honest. If Monkey D Luffy wanted, he could have escaped their custody easily and without flaws. He was there because, as we know, this marine loathes executions. He hates that people have to endure hardships because of blood. We can't say the truth about Portgas D Ace, the one for which the Rear Admiral was going to be exchanged, without sending to hell what Luffy has done. We won't. But we'll say that the pirate was hunted down not only for being pirate, but because of his lineage. Isn't it idiotic? Isn't it unjustified?

However, the marines won't give such an announcement without proofs backing it up. Someone saw the Rear Admiral die, Akainu Sakazuki, and we know how his absolute justice works. He stops at nothing in order to achieve it. This may be a hazardous hypothesis, but we think he has something to do with this mess.

Plus, we want to make an announcement.

How do you, dear readers, think we knew everything about him? Where he was, with who, doing what...

We have a piece of his Vivre Card.

We know he's alive.

Fear not, because he is still alive.

His hands lost the grip on the paper and Izo blinked, wide"eyed.

Alive...

Was... was he... really...?

"Son, what's the matter?"

Izo swallowed, took the black newspaper and offered it to his Captain. Whitebeard's eyebrows shot up as he read the last part of the article. A wide smirk took place under the white moustache.

"Well, well... The brat still hasn't kicked the bucket yet." He looked down at Izo. "Make everyone read it."

The cross-dresser took the paper and swallowed again. "And what then, Oyaji?"

"Gurararara..." Whitebeard's eyes glinted. "That newspaper has a seat, right?"

Izo nodded. "But it's a secret location. No one has ever found it."

He stroked his moustache. "Maybe because it's a ship, not an island... We'll begin from the place where you found the first lead to it."

"... What for, Oyaji?"

Whitebeard smirked fully. "To take the Vivre Card, of course."

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