One Piece Nine Tails

In the Marine headquarters, Garp was eating a doughnut when Sengoku came to his room.

"Have you turned it in?"

Garp said while reading the newspaper. Sengoku nodded and said, "From that fragment alone, I am afraid that Jewel of Four Souls can really fulfill people's wishes."

In the battle of God's Valley, Garp managed to snatch a fragment from the broken Jewel of Four Souls, but unlike pirates, they couldn't keep it to themselves.

Moreover, knowing Garp's personality, he didn't care about this kind of thing. He handed it over to Fleet Admiral Kong first. Then, Kong entrusted Sengoku to personally deliver the fragment to Mary Geoise, where the Five Elders resided. Since Sengoku had returned, Jewel of Four Souls' Fragments should have already been handed over to Five Elders.

"Even if it can really fulfill your wish and the World Government wants to collect all the fragments, it is nothing but a dream as things stand."

Garp didn't really care. After all, most of the fragments had been scattered to unknown places. Moreover, the people who could get it in the future would inevitably be the strong, such as the World Government, Roger, Whitebeard, Shiki, and the others. The number of Jewel of Four Souls' Fragments that they had would definitely increase. If they wanted to get the complete Jewel of Four Souls, they would have to snatch it from them. Just what kind of wish one would have if they had to face those powerhouses?

"That's right." Sengoku sat on the side and said in a low voice, "I am more worried about you than Jewel of Four Souls."

"Me?" Garp put down the newspaper in surprise. He looked at Sengoku with widened eyes and suddenly laughed. "What are you talking about? What do you have to worry about?"

"I am not worried about you. I am talking about the power of the Nine-Tailed Fox in your body. Is it weakening?" said Sengoku.

"Ah that..." Garp nodded, "I did eat Nine-Tails' flesh, and then for some reason its power manifested in me. But to put it bluntly, it is similar to the effect of Jewel of Four Souls' Fragments on me."

Sengoku already knew that Garp could harness Nine-Tailed Fox's power, but neither of them reported about Garp's power. Garp was too lazy to say it, and Sengoku did not want his old friend to be isolated in the laboratory before Garp showed any abnormalities.

Therefore, this was like an unwritten agreement between them. During the battle in God's Valley, Sengoku noticed that Nine-Tails' strength was weakening, so he specifically came here to ask if Garp could overpower Nine-Tails' power.

Although Garp would be a little weaker because of this, Sengoku would rather Garp become weaker than the possibility of him transforming into Nine-Tails.

"It will completely dissipate soon. You and I both know that the source of Nine-Tails' power is resentment. When the resentment disappears, Nine-Tails' power will naturally disappear." Garp said softly.

He also didn't care if the power of Nine-Tails in his body dissipated, as he didn't have to bear the resentment of those people.

"But as long as the darkness in Sabaodi Archipelago remains, this resentment will never stop. Sooner or later, Nine-Tails will come back." Sengoku now understood more and more about those so-called monsters. They used certain negative emotions as the source of power. As long as there was still darkness in this world, then they would always exist.

They killed Nine-Tailed Fox, but a new resentment gave birth to a new Nine-Tails that appeared in Mary Geoise. Although it was much weaker than before, it was Nine-Tails nonetheless.

It was still alive, but it was weaker than before. However, it would not last for too long. Sooner or later, it will return from human's resentment and razed to this world again.

"The so-called 'Invisible Empire' refers to them always being by our side. They are the negative emotions that exist in our bodies. They're always by our side, but we can't see them. That is why it is called the Invisible Empire. Are they mocking us?"

"This world has been safe for nearly eight hundred years. Are we about to enter the turning point of this era?" Garp smiled and looked at Sengoku. Like Roger, both of them could see that this world was entering a new era.

Be it monsters or Jewel of Four Souls, they were unprecedented in the past hundred years. Now that they appeared one after another, it might mean that they were about to enter a new era.

"Whether we're about to face light or darkness. we will see this through to the end." Sengoku was wearing a cloak with the word "Justice" engraved on his back, but when he thought of Nine-Tails, he felt that this word sounded extremely ironic.

He stood up and walked out of the door. Soon, he disappeared from Garp's sight.

Garp ate the doughnut and picked up the newspaper again. He read the news about former Rocks Pirates crews that formed their own crew after losing Rocks.

...

"This fragment indeed possess a certain magical power."

At the same time, in Pangaea Castle, Mary Geoise, Five Elders also gathered together and observed Jewel of Four Souls' Fragments that Sengoku brought.

"Only World Government may possess this."

"Have the Marines and the Cipher Pol and all countries that are affiliated with us search for it. The more fragments we gather, the more advantageous it is for us."

"We can even give gold in exchange for the fragment!"

"Not a bad idea."

"Should we report this matter to Im-sama?" Suddenly, a long-legged Five Elders spoke, causing the meeting to fall into silence.

Did the true king of this world have to know about this?

The Five Elders were the highest authority in the world government on the surface, but in fact, it was Im who held the absolute power in World Government.

"Im-sama must have already known what happened recently. Before His Excellency gives the order, we only need to do what we should do."

"Then... let's do as we said before and gather as many fragments as possible."

They had made a decision. During the successive incidents, they also smelled a trace of unusual smell, because even if there were powerful pirates out there, their strength and ability were not beyond Five Elders' expectation, but now...

The world was becoming strange, which was not good news for them!