A week before the execution, Golden Lion Shiki attacked Marineford, destroying half of it; in the end, he was stopped by Sengoku and Garp and was imprisoned in Impel Down.
Raeven, Enel, and Mihawk appeared on the streets of Lougetown like ghosts, which attracted a lot of pirates currently on the island; the Marines are already in full alert because tomorrow the execution will happen.
As the men of the Dracule Family are walking around Lougetown, other pirates appear too. Crocodile appears at the edge of the town, sitting on the roof of one of the houses. Gecko Moria, a super rookie this year, is here too, and Monkey D. Dragon is here on this island too.
While Raeven and the others were eating the island's specialties, they heard sounds of footsteps coming towards them. Raeven already knew who it was. Mihawk looked at the guy walking towards them while laughing fufufufufu.
"We met again, Shinigami, and you, Hawk-Eyes," he said while sporting his savage grin.
"I can see that you never change at all, Donquixote Doflamingo," Raeven said as he looked at him, which made Doflamingo's legs nearly give out.
"I just came to say hello; after all, East Blue is your family territory, fufufufu," he said as he walked away.
Mihawk just continued eating; with Doflamingo's current strength, Mihawk is not interested in him at all. Enel, on the other hand, is confused; with just a look, his big bro scared that man away.
"No one will dare to cause trouble here as long as the execution is not done; the elites of the Marines are already here," Raeven said.
The next day, the center of Lougetown, where an execution platform is made, is currently packed with people. Two rows of Marines divided the human tide, which made a straight way towards the execution platform. After waiting for a while, the star of the show appeared. Roger, wearing his iconic red pirate coat, entered; his hands were cuffed, but his face was smiling like this was nothing, and his aura was still as strong.
Soon he reached the platform, and he kneeled there waiting for Garp to start the execution, when someone in the crowd broke the silence.
"Hey Pirate King, where is your treasure? Where did you leave it? The treasure that can buy the whole world?" a man shouted.
"If you want my treasure... then it's yours for the taking. Go find it! I left everything I gathered in one place," Roger said, and Garp commanded the executioners to execute Roger, but when the blades punctured Roger's heart, it was already too late.
Everyone who heard what Roger shouted became excited; the agents of newspaper companies hurriedly reported this to their higher-ups, as everyone is getting hyped up and trying to set sail. Garp took Roger's body, and he vanished on the island mysteriously.
Raeven and the others quickly left too to return to Sixis Island. The seas will be chaotic right now; the whole world became hyped at the final words of Roger, and a massive number of pirates are heading towards the Grand Line and the New World. While this is happening, Whitebeard, Big Mom, and Kaidou are called Emperors of the Sea as they begin to divide the New World by themselves.
The number of pirates at East Blue became high too, but no one dared to get close to the region of Sixis Island, the publicly known territory of the Dracule Family. No one wants to anger them, or else they will die, so the peace on Sixis Island continued. This was only broken when Marine Vice Admiral Borsalino, codename Kizaru, visited the island.
"The Seven Warlords of the Seas?" Raeven asked, as he was not surprised that the World Government offered him a warlord seat.
"Yes, the Marines and the world government are going to pick 7 strong pirates to become legal pirates. Your bounty will be frozen as long as you are a warlord. The only thing you will do is that when the government or the Marines call for help, then you will help us," Kizaru said.
"Who are the other pirates in this warlords group?" Raeven asked.
"Currently you and Mihawk, just yet, but there are already pirates who are in our watch list," Kizaru said. When Raeven heard that Mihawk was still a member, he was surprised, but when he thought about it, it was a good thing too, so he accepted the position of warlord.
When Kizaru saw that Raeven accepted, he sighed in relief; he didn't want to fight with this monstrous man at all.
Mihawk, currently on the Sabaody Archipelago, accepted the Warlord position too; after that, the pirate known as Lizard King Hanafuda accepted the position of a warlord too.
When Morgans made this the headline, everyone was surprised, especially the pirates. They know how terrifying those two Dracule brothers can be, and to suddenly accept and be the dog of world government is shocking to them.
They began to call them cowards, but when they heard the news that a warlord is on the move, every pirate will try hard to avoid them.
The small fries will always say something, while the rookies entering the Grand Line have a different view about this Warlord thing.
As one of the 3 superpowers, the warlord is a force designed to help when a battle against an emperor happens; their bounty will be frozen, and they will be able to pillage and do anything they want as long as they don't attack the world government, the Marines, and the affiliated countries.
When ambitious pirates heard this, many of them tried to become a warlord, but being a candidate is easy; being one is another. A warlord must be strong. Hanafuda is known as the Lizard King, a pirate and a user of an Ancient Zoan Devil Fruit. His bounty before becoming a warlord is 310 million beli. As for Mihawk, his strength is currently on par with Vice Admiral Kizaru, an admiral candidate of the Marines. Currently, he is the man who is the nearest to the throne of the strongest swordsman.
Then there is Raeven. Influence-wise, he was well known across the world for his liquor and for his strength. His liquor business can say it; without strength, how can he sell that liquor the way he wants? No one saw him battle in full force, but he once made Vice Admiral Akainu hug a slab of sea stone without taking a scratch. Currently, his strength is the most mysterious among the 3 named warlords.
As for why Raeven accepted the position, it's to have a peaceful year of development. Now he can relax for a while, relax but not completely let his guard down, so after he accepted the position of a warlord, he began to plan his next move.
Raeven really wants to go and explore the Boin Archipelago, but he is waiting for now; after Rouge gives birth successfully, he will go and collect a bunch of pop green.
January 1st, 1501
Sixis Island
It's the new year, and the Sixis Island is currently celebrating the birth of Portgas D. Ace. Rouge successfully gave birth to a boy who she named Ace.
With the help of the doctors from Kuja Pirates, Rouge successfully gave birth without a problem. After she gave birth, a huge banquet followed as a celebration of Ace's birth and the celebration of the new year. Shakky and Rayleigh were present too, and Raeven talked to Shakky to monitor something for him, and she gave him 200 million beli.
Shakky was surprised at first, but when Rayleigh told her the reason why Raeven said that, she finally understood it, and she hurriedly contacted her eyes on that sea.
7 days later, Mihawk and Raeven left. Rayleigh said that he will stay on the island for a while because the Marines are searching for the remnants of the Roger Pirates at Sabaody. Raeven said nothing; he told Rayleigh that if he had free time, he could teach the trainees too, and in return, Raeven would give him booze, and Rayleigh accepted it without hesitation.
After that Mihawk dropped Raeven on the Boin Archipelago. Mihawk is going to the New World, while Raeven will stay here to explore the island.
In the manga and anime, Heracles the beetle cosplayer said that this island is alive and being obese here is a death sentence. The design of this island is like a Venus flytrap; once in a while the island will close, and the overweight animals on the island will be eaten by the island.
Everyone who tried to explore one of these islands didn't make it back alive. As for the pop greens, those are special seeds that you can only get here on this island, and the deeper you go, the more pop greens you will have, but the more you advance towards the center of the island, the more dangerous it will become.
That can only be applied to others; Raeven already scanned this island, and the threat level of this island to him is zero. No animal can hurt him here.