章 258: 258. Alexander Maxim D Universe - Dead or Alive

"Boys, you all have been accompanying me on my journey for such a long time. Many of you received promotions and yet returned to work with me. Bald Chad, you even rejected 2 promotions to stay on being my Captain. I am thankful to you all for showing such convictions for me.

"But, as all stories have an end, I have resigned from Marines because I caught the world government trying to destroy a kingdom because some people there found out some dirty secrets of theirs. I will soon be labeled an enemy of the government and they'll probably put a bounty on me. I am not a pirate and never will be but they will try to make me appear like that to the world.

"I respect and like you all, so I don't want to play with your lives. Please leave this ship on the next island. Your friends and family will stay in danger if you associate with me anymore." Alexander respectfully announced.

But no one out of the 40 Marines moved an inch. "I AM COMING WITH YOU, BOSS"

Bald Chad moved forward. He had already stopped calling him Admiral.

"I don't follow you because you are my superior, but because I respect you and agree with what you do and stand for, you bring true justice to the people." He said.

"YES, OLD BALDY IS RIGHT" Many of the men voiced.

"Please take us with you, Boss." More men shouted.

Soon it was all of them shouting to stay with him. Alexander was touched with their loyalty, "I hope you know what you are doing. Okay, I accept you all. We will be known as the Golden Justice Army. All the high ranking members will wear a Golden cape like mine but without stars. Everyone else will wear golden bandanas around your necks. Now, I allow Bald Chad to go with you all on this ship and bring your family to my safe territory that I will soon announce. Dismissed."

All the men erupted in loud cheers and hugged each other.

"Boss"

Suddenly a voice appeared near Alexander's ear, spooking him.

"Goddammit, Dobby. What?"

"Look, this is a copy of your newspaper. I've named it Daily Dawn. It also has your whole declaration." Dobby informed.

Alexander checked it out first and accepted it. Making the newspaper wasn't hard for him. He already had Kindheart Malls all around the world and they worked as news gatherers for him.

"Good, tomorrow's edition will be free for the world. Thrown it in as many places as possible. Price it at 1 Berry, 2 Berry less than other papers from the day after tomorrow."

...

Mary Geois,

The five Elders met together. But this time Fleet Admiral Sengoku and Vice Admiral Kuzan were there too.

"WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS" An elder angrily punched the giant marble table and it surprisingly broke down.

Sengoku was shocked seeing that, he didn't know that these 5 old fossils had any power outside their administrative powers.

"He has declared war on the World Government. What else did he say to you, Vice Admiral?" the Bald, mustached elder asked. For some reason, he always sat in the middle even though they were all equal.

"His exact words were 'Tell them to expect me... that every breath they take from now is a personal loan from me. A loan that I will come to claim myself, with due interest.'" Kuzan uninterestingly answered.

"You may leave now," the blonde elder ordered.

Both Sengoku and Kuzan started to leave, "Not you Sengoku. You stay."

"Tell us, how many men and what power will it take to take this man down?" The elders asked.

"I think you know that better than me. I don't think we can even make a scratch on him if all the Vice Admirals, Admirals, and I fight him at the same time. I don't know what his peak power is so I will just say that we will need at least 10 Admiral level people and some ancient weapons." Sengoku replied.

In all honesty, Sengoku was happy that Alexander stopped the buster call, he already knew the people on Ohara were innocent but even he couldn't overrule the decision of the 5 Elders. Now he truly realized how small and insignificant the position of Fleet Admiral was.

"Then we can at least keep an eye on whatever he is planning on doing. Put a bounty on him." The elder with Katana spoke.

"How much should the bounty be?" Sengoku asked.

All the elders looked at each other first and came to conclusions without even talking, One of them signed a paper, "Alexander Maxim D Universe - Dead or Alive - Ten billion Berries."

Sengoku's eyes widened in shock. This was double of what Roger's bounty was and that in itself was the highest in history.

"Ten Billion?" He asked to confirm.

"Yes, you heard us right, this bounty will encourage people to report him as soon as they see him. You can get to work now, Fleet Admiral." The Blond Elder stated.

Once they were alone they started discussing other things, "We can use the newspaper to start spreading the word that he is an evil demonic man. Should we inform Im-sama?"

All of them shook their heads after a while, "No, he hasn't done anything yet to disturb Im-sama. Let's try to deal with this ourselves."

...

The next day, the newspapers were sent out. The Daily Dawn immediately caught everyone's eye. First, it was free that day, and second, It was a colored Newspaper, unlike any other currently in circulation. So, people saw the first page. There were two big images. The first column was about Gold Roger and that his real name was Gol D Rogers and other things Gol D Rogers did in his adventures. He added many heroic stories about him saving people.

Then there was Alexander's photo with the caption in bold, "WORLD GOVERNMENT LIES! DISSAPOINTED ADMIRAL RESIGNS!"

The article mainly gave the reason why Alexander quit and that the government tried to destroy a kingdom because their people found secrets of the World Government. Then there was another thing added to make people angry, the existence of CP9 was revealed. People knew about CP 1-8 but this was new.

"A secret organization who has the authority to kill anyone, no matter innocent or criminal, man, woman, or child. If they suspected you of anything, you are dead. Everyone is a pest in front of the World Government's eyes."

Then there were many images of auction houses and World Nobles inhumanly buying and torturing slaves. This revealed the double standards of the World Government.

Then in the end Alexander's own words were, "I am Alexander Maxim D Universe, I joined Marines because I wanted to help people. Then I slowly realized that the World Government used Marines like their extortion racket. If your kingdom doesn't pay heavenly tribute then the Marines won't protect you.

But have you ever wondered why there are Pirates even after there are so many strong Marines, Vice Admirals, Admirals, who can destroy countries alone. I asked this question and got the answers. If the Marines destroyed all the pirates then no one would pay Heavenly tribute to the World Government.

"Then I saw the destruction of a small island of peaceful people because they found about the void century. A time between 900-800 years ago. All the records of that time have been banned by the government and made it illegal to study. But the people on that island did it out of curiosity.

"In the end, they received a buster call, a power of World Government and Marine that lets them call 5 Vice Admiral with warships and destroy the kingdom to the last human.

"Don't you wonder why the World Government doesn't want you to find out the truth? That is because the World Government miraculously came into existence in those 100 years called the void century. If the world government were good people then why are they trying to hide it? Ask yourself while you sleep tonight.

"I am forming the Golden Justice Army. Its purpose is to unmask the evil World Government and save the world from their evil motives. Whenever in trouble, go to any Kindheart Mall, I will protect you. I am your voice and I am your Shield.

"REMEMBER. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. If questioning is getting you killed, then they are hiding something."

Alexander's words made the whole world finally start questioning their stance on the world government. Those who already knew the truth smiled and those who didn't want it to come out, frowned.

His words were no less than those of Roger's words and the biggest thing was that Alexander was still alive. So everyone got excited, thinking about what was next to come.

But that wasn't the only earth-shattering news. Alexander's Wanted Poster was also spread and it made people question the world government even more after reading Alexander's words.

...

Foosha Village,

Roger picked up the newspaper and also read everything. He couldn't believe that the old man was taking such a direct approach. Then he saw the wanted poster.

"TEN BILLION BERRIES!?... goddamn, he broke my record so soon." He complained while sitting in his bar. He looked out of the window at the sky and smiled.

"I already miss my old days. I wonder what they all are doing," he reminisced about his crew.

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