XX-level Hokage

Mashiro was unaware that a proposal regarding how to deal with Ohara had already appeared on the Five Elders' desks. Since Mashiro and the others couldn't easily defeat it, they decided to first eliminate those connected to Mashiro.

"I'm taking this Poneglyph with me." Mashiro said to Charlotte Linlin, then flipped her hand, and the coordinate Poneglyph vanished instantly, stored in Mashiro's personal space.

“One day, I will get it back.” Charlotte Linlin said with great reluctance, looking at the vanished Poneglyph. “I’m ready anytime,” Mashiro said with a smile.

"So you can leave now?" Charlotte Linlin asked coldly. "There's one more thing."

Mashiro looked at Charlotte Linlin and asked with a smile, "Could you tell me about the Locke Pirates? I'm a little curious." "What's there to tell? A bunch of scheming pirates and an ambitious captain."

Rocks, nobody knows where he came from, he's very mysterious. The reason I chose to join the Rocks Pirates is purely because he has strong interests with the World Government and the Navy.

Whitebeard and Shiki were already renowned powerful figures before joining the Rocks Pirates. As for why they joined the Rocks Pirates, I have no idea.

Kaido, a mere intern brat, is quite remarkable. I gave him a great gift when we were on God's Island, and I estimate that in a few years, he'll be a renowned figure.

John, a greedy fellow who loves treasure, is not strong enough to support his desires. After leaving the Rocks Pirates, he might have already been killed.

I don't know much about Wang Zhi. After the Rocks Pirates disbanded, he stayed on Beehive Island.

Silver Axe is quite strong, but his personality is too flamboyant, and his talent is not high, which means his achievements are destined to be limited.

Gloriosa, a girl from Kuja, was on our way to Kuja Island to resupply when we passed through the Calm Belt. She fell in love with Rocks and secretly ran to our ship. I don't know if Rocks also liked her, but he didn't send her away. Instead, he let her join the Rocks Pirates.

Stussy is a very ambitious girl, but I quite like her. She seems to have joined the Rocks Pirates for scientific research. She is very interested in Whitebeard. Just when Whitebeard was about to fall in love with her, she discovered that she seemed to only care about Whitebeard's genes. She wanted to use cloning technology to create a Whitebeard.

"Long Panel, my family member. He joined the Rocks Pirates because of me and is also a veteran of the Big Mom Pirates." Charlotte Linlin said impatiently, only softening slightly when she mentioned Long Panel at the end.

"Stusi..."

Upon hearing this name, Mashiro instantly realized something.

"Do you know where Stussy is right now?" Mashiro asked softly.

“You should ask Whitebeard about that,” Charlotte Linlin replied.

"Okay, thank you for your reply. We'll be leaving now." With that, Mashiro led Amatsuki Toki away from the castle and soon after left Whole Cake Island.

After Mashiro and Kanzuki left, a somewhat short and stout middle-aged man approached. "Are you alright, Lingling? Who was that guy who just came?" the middle-aged man asked.

"It's nothing. Long panel, tell the rest of the pirate crew to keep an eye on the news lately, and remember to let me know if there are any major events," Charlotte Linlin said.

"Okay, I'll pass the message on right away."

The first half of the Grand Line, the East Blue. The Sun Pirates are sailing the seas.

These days, Tiger has sent all the slaves who wanted to leave to where they wanted to go.

Now, only the slaves who were willing to stay with the Sun Pirates and the tribesmen from Fish-Man Island who had come to join Tiger remained on the ship. Helmsman Jinbe, doctor Aladdin, executive Arlong, musician Reese—all the crew members had found their place. Of course, some were dissatisfied with their positions.

"I can't believe it, Boss Tiger actually handed over the vice-captain of the Sun Pirates to a human." Arlong said with great dissatisfaction.

The captain of the Sun Pirates is Tiger, a hero of the fish-men, and most of the important positions in the pirate crew are also held by fish-men. However, the vice-captain, a position second only to the captain, is held by a human, which makes Arlong, who has a hidden belief in the supremacy of fish-men, quite dissatisfied.

"That's right, both in terms of strength and ability, it should be Jinbe who takes on that role," Hachi chimed in.

"Stop discussing this. Since Boss Tiger made this decision, there must be a reason for it. Haven't you asked the other crew members?"

"Our first mate saved everyone, including Tiger, single-handedly holding off the Marines. Without him, Tiger might have been captured, and the heroic act of freeing the slaves wouldn't have been possible," Jinbe said.

"Heh, don't listen to those humans. They're just trying to glorify their own people," Alon said nonchalantly.

Just then, a huge shadow enveloped the entire ship. Jinbe and the others also emerged from the room.

At this moment, all the crew members were on deck, looking up at the sky. Soon, Tiger also came out of the captain's cabin.

Looking at the giant pink bird high in the sky, Tiger smiled and said, "Look, your first mate is back." Hearing this, Aaron and the others watched even more intently.

Soon, the giant bird fell, gradually shrinking as it fell until it turned into a cloud of pink smoke. Then, two girls appeared on the deck.

"How's it going, Izumi? Is everything alright? Have Hancock and the others made it back to Amazon Lily?" Tiger asked.

"It went quite smoothly. As for Hancock and the others, they're probably already in Amazon Lily by now," Makoto said softly. "Also, let me introduce you. These people came to me from Fish-Man Island; they're all very powerful Fish-Men."

"This is Jinbe, this is Arlong, and this is Hachi." Tiger called Jinbe and the others over and introduced them to Mashiro one by one.

Upon hearing Jinbe's name, Mashiro glanced at him with considerable surprise. Jinbe the fish-man, the future Shichibukai?

Then Mashiro looked at Ryu. Her eyes became intrigued. "We meet again, Ryu."

Under Mashiro's gaze, A-Long felt a sudden surge of fear and silently lowered his head.

Chapter 89: The Science Five

“Okay, I understand,” Mashiro said calmly.

“Well then, welcome back again, Quan,” Tiger said with a smile.

"I don't think I'll be staying too long this time. Is the position of first mate really a good fit for me? If I had to say, I'd recommend this guy named Shen..."

"A flat-faced fishman is the first mate; he seems very reliable," Mashiro said softly.

Upon hearing this, Jinbe was stunned for a moment, quite surprised by the evaluation of him by the first mate he had just met.

"No need to say anything more. I promised you. You not only saved my life, but also the lives of many slaves. Not to mention, you were the original founder of the Sun Pirates. Let alone the vice-captain position, if you're willing, I can even give you the captain's position," Tiger said decisively.

In Tiger's eyes, Mashiro is more important to the Sun Pirates than he is to himself.

"Okay, I understand." Having said all that Tiger had to say, Mashiro had no further comment. Soon after, the captain hosted a welcome banquet.

As always, after exchanging a few brief words, Mashiro left the banquet center and silently walked onto the deck. A moment later, Arlong quietly approached Mashiro.

"I apologize for my rudeness this morning, please forgive me, Lord Izumi!" A-Long said earnestly, bowing deeply.

At this time, Tiger had not yet been killed by humans, and Arlong's "fishman supremacy" ideology had not yet fully taken root. Although he disliked humans, he was far from hating them.

Adding to that the glance Mashiro gave him when he first arrived, although Arlong didn't have the same sense of strength as Whitebeard and Rayleigh, his survival instinct told him that Mashiro could easily kill him.

After much deliberation, Ah Long decided to talk to Masashi.

"This? You don't need to worry about it too much. I didn't take your words seriously. In a sense, you're like a child in my eyes, and I don't have the habit of arguing with children." Mashiro said with a hint of sarcasm as she looked at A-Long.

At this moment, Ah Long did not understand that Qi Bai's words were a sarcastic remark directed at his future self.

After all, in his future life in Cocoyasi Village, he even deceived Nami when she was still a child.

"Thank you, Lord Izumi!" Although A-Long didn't understand the meaning behind the words, he could still hear the sarcasm in them, but compared to his own life, none of that mattered.

"And also, Ah Long, you must live well," Zhen Ri suddenly said with a smile.

As for Mashiro's sudden words of concern, Ryu was quite puzzled, but he still responded respectfully.

"Thank you for your concern, Lord Quan." After saying that, he turned and left.

"Mashiro seems quite interested in that fishman named Arlong?" Just then, Toki Amatsuki, holding an apple, walked over and asked. After asking, she took a bite out of the apple with a "crack."

"If nothing unexpected happens, we'll have a chance to meet again some decades from now," Mashiro explained softly.

"An old friend?" Amatsuki asked with a smile. She was already used to Mashiro's mystery.

“No, I will kill him then,” Mashiro said softly, taking the apple from Amatsuki's hand and taking a bite. The next few days passed uneventfully.

Tiger led the Sun Pirates in a search for the slave ship.

Mashiro was in the room flipping through the newspaper, trying to find information about the location of the Whitebeard Pirates or Stussy's whereabouts.

The five members were: Vegapunk, Kaiser Courland, Vinsmoke Judge, Quinn, and a female scientist named Miss Bagin.

When Mashiro was in Mary Geoise, she used her identity as the Queen of the Izumi Palace to review a lot of important information about the World Government and the Navy. Therefore, she also knew about the other three members of the group besides Queen and Stussy.

Vegapunk, a scientist at the Navy Headquarters, a member of the World Government, the head of the Navy's Special Science Class, a user of the Brain-Brain Fruit, is 500 years ahead of current technology and is known as a scientist who surpasses human wisdom by 500 years.

He unlocked the conditions for transmitting Devil Fruit abilities and can imbue objects with Devil Fruit powers. Several years ago, he also invented a method that utilizes Seastone.

The method to allow naval warships to cross the doldrums would allow naval vessels to freely travel to other seas.

However, he never appears in the Navy or the World Government and is an extremely mysterious scientist.

Furthermore, Vegapunk is a perfectionist. For him, even the slightest deviation in research results constitutes failure. He is constantly troubled by the problem of research funding, and many of his research discoveries could not be realized due to a lack of funds. The biggest reason he joined the World Government was to have ample resources.

Vegabank possesses basic scientific ethics and opposes dangerous research into biological and chemical weapons, which is why he is disliked by the World Government's top brass. It is said that he is currently researching a "peace weapon" for the Navy that could bring world peace.

Kaiser Courant, a former member of the MADS research team and the World Government Science Class, worked with Begabank and ranked second in the science class.

It is the "supreme authority on weapons of mass destruction".

He was later arrested due to an explosion, escaped and went to Punk Hazard to conduct secret research. He is a Logia-type Devil Fruit user with the Gas-Gas Fruit ability and has a bounty of 3 million Berries.

Caesar's main research areas are artificial Devil Fruits, human gigantification, and weapons of mass destruction.

Unlike Vegapunk, Caesar Courland is an extremely mad scientist, a cruel, arrogant, cunning, and insidious scoundrel.

To achieve his research goals, he would use children as lab rats and control their actions, regardless of the severe environmental impact. To test the lethality of weapons, he would use his subordinates as test subjects.

Vinsmoke Judge, also known as "The Strange Bird Judge," is the head of the Vinsmoke family and the King of Germa Kingdom.

He is also a scientist, the founder of the research team NEOMADS, and formerly belonged to the research team MADS. His dream is to make the declining Germa Kingdom dominate the North Blue again.

In his youth, Vinsmoke Judge left the Germa Kingdom and joined the illegal research group MADS. He worked with Vegapunk on weapons development and later led the team to discover the "bloodline factor".

The World Government deemed the discovery too dangerous and arrested Vegapunk, bribing his team. Judge, however, successfully escaped from the government and is said to have begun implementing his own lineage factor army plan. The World Government, wanting to know the results of the experiment, did not seek out Judge.

Quinn, formerly a member of the research team MADS, was a scientist who developed bioweapons such as mummies and ice demons, and also modified his own body.

After the MADS research team disbanded, they disappeared without a trace.

"Judging from this, that so-called Miss Bakkin should be the future Stusi. If nothing unexpected happens, she must have used some kind of technology to prolong her life."

"Lifespan, or perhaps the creation of a clone with its own memories," Mashiro muttered to herself.

Mashiro is very interested in both of these technologies.

Chapter 90: Aokiji

In the East China Sea, near Rogge Town, Aokiji, then a candidate for admiral, was leisurely riding his bicycle across the sea, leaving an incredibly long trail of ice on the surface.

Just then, the Den Den Mushi (transparent media unit) rang. "Gurgle gurgle gurgle..."

Hearing the Den Den Mushi's voice, Aokiji gripped the handlebars of his bicycle with one hand and pulled a mini Den Den Mushi from his pocket. "Hello~, is this Fleet Admiral?" Aokiji greeted as he answered the Den Den Mushi.

"Hey Aokiji, according to the G35 branch of the Marines, the Sun Pirates should be near the Blue Sea to the left of Loguetown. Go there and capture the criminal Fisher Tiger and his crew." Kong said through the Den Den Mushi.

“Okay, I understand. I’ll be right there,” Aokiji replied.

"Oh, right, the vice-captain of the Sun Pirates, Sassarian Izumi, capture her if you can, otherwise just leave her alone. The main thing is to capture Fisher Tiger and send him to Impel Down." After a moment's hesitation, Kong continued.

“Okay, I understand, Master Kong.” With that, Aokiji hung up the Den Den Mushi. “Sassaria's Soul Spring? Izumi Palace…”

Aokiji muttered to himself, recalling something his teacher Garp had casually mentioned not long ago: "Celestial Dragons?"