Super Card System

Hearing Yonji say they were acquaintances, Ian, curious, followed him.

On the island of Biscuit Town east of Whole Cake Island, a number of Germa’s clone soldiers were surrounding the harbor. When Ian and Yonji arrived, the first thing they saw were two battered pirate ships.

Not only were the ships in tatters, but even the flags hanging from the masts were torn and ragged. Fortunately, they could still be recognized.

So when Ian saw the flags on these two ships, he was stunned.

Because one of the ships was flying the flag of the Hawkins Pirates—the scarecrow-like emblem was very distinctive. As for the other pirate ship’s flag, it belonged to the Kid Pirates!

Well, they were indeed acquaintances, at least one of them was.

Among the Eleven Supernovas, there were only three people Ian hadn’t met yet: Jewelry Bonney, Eustass Kid of the Kid Pirates, and his subordinate Killer.

But now, the Kid Pirates were appearing here together with the Hawkins Pirates. What was going on?

Could it be that they thought he had just become a Yonko and saw an opportunity to challenge him? But these dilapidated pirate ships didn’t look like it at all.

Because the condition on the deck was too miserable. All the members of the Hawkins Pirates were covered in scars, many with broken limbs. They were lying in disarray on the deck, with blood staining the ship everywhere.

As for the captain, Basil Hawkins, he was leaning against the mast, his body covered in blood, clutching a huge wound on his abdomen, panting heavily.

Not only the Hawkins Pirates, but the Kid Pirates were in a similar state, not any better. Killer’s mask had a huge crack, one arm and one leg bent at strange angles, clearly broken by immense force. Kid was missing an arm, with a bloody wound on his face.

Seeing Ian appear, Hawkins still had his usual expressionless look, but he laboriously lifted his eyelids, glanced at Ian, and said, “I… Ian-sama…”

“What happened?” Ian squatted down, frowning, and asked him.

“We came to seek your help…” Hawkins’s tone revealed helplessness and regret. “If I’d known it would come to this, back then… back on Sabaody Archipelago, we should have joined you like the Heart Pirates and the Mad Monk Pirates…”

Ian quickly switched to a card, changing to the Orihime Inoue card. He wiped his hand over the wound on Hawkins’s abdomen. The light of Sōten Kisshun enveloped his wound, and then he continued to ask, “Who did this to you?”

As the wound began to heal, Hawkins felt much better, and his speech became more coherent. He said, “It was the Beasts Pirates…”

It turned out that after the Battle of New Edd War, the Supernova pirates had also gradually entered the New World to make their mark.

However, like Capone Bege, in the past few months, almost all of the Supernova pirates had suffered huge setbacks!

Capone Bege was relatively lucky. After encountering the Big Mom Pirates, although he was defeated, Big Mom took a liking to the Fire Tank Pirates and recruited him. At that time, to save his life, Capone Bege naturally agreed, which led to his later marriage to Chiffon.

But the others were not so fortunate. Among them, Kid was the unluckiest!

Like Capone Bege, Kid first encountered the Big Mom Pirates. However, he met the Sweet Commander Snack—the one who was out on a mission and whom Ian didn’t meet. Snack was quite formidable, directly defeating the Kid Pirates and even cutting off Kid’s left arm.

The Kid Pirates suffered a crushing defeat and fled in panic. Snack didn’t pursue them and allowed them to escape.

Here, the course of history had changed significantly. According to the original story, Urouge would have also encountered this Sweet Commander, and after paying the price of severe injuries, he would have desperately defeated Snack. But because Urouge had joined the Dragon Hunter Pirates along with Ian and Enel, this storyline didn’t occur.

That’s why we say the Kid Pirates were unlucky. Perhaps due to the butterfly effect, after barely escaping from Snack, they ran into Queen the Plague, one of the Three Calamities of the Beasts Pirates, and were defeated again…

This time, Kid couldn’t escape. The entire pirate crew was captured.

As for Hawkins… he met Kid in prison! The reason was that his pirate crew also unfortunately encountered the Beasts Pirates…

In fact, Kaido’s Beasts Pirates had subdued a total of three Supernova pirate crews: the Hawkins Pirates, the Kid Pirates, and Scratchmen Apoo’s On Air Pirates!

Scratchmen Apoo, realizing the huge gap between himself and the Yonko, submitted and joined the Beasts Pirates. But Hawkins and Kid didn’t yield and were imprisoned. Kaido had been busy causing trouble in Wano Country recently, so he hadn’t had time to deal with them yet.

Originally, these Supernovas shouldn’t have encountered the Yonko’s pirate crews so soon. According to the original story, these events happened over one or two years. Whether it was Hawkins or Kid, they still had plenty of time to roam the New World, making a name for themselves and raising their bounties before being noticed by the Yonko and taught a lesson…

But… the problem was that there was a troublemaker like Ian! Ever since he clashed with Kaido in the Battle of New Edd War sea, Ian was considered the most likely candidate to become the new Yonko on the seas of the New World.

This led to both the Big Mom Pirates and the Beasts Pirates, besides the Whitebeard Pirates and the Red-Haired Pirates, becoming vigilant, feeling that their prestige as Yonko was being challenged.

With this perception, the consequence was that both pirate crews had an urge to establish their authority, to prove that their status as veteran Yonko was unshakable. So… the Supernovas were the unlucky ones!

Yes, this was indeed Ian’s fault. Although he wasn’t from the Supernovas, he was equally young. Among his peers, he was extraordinarily talented, which made the Big Mom Pirates and the Beasts Pirates very sensitive to the term “Supernova.”

As a result, Supernova members like Capone Bege, Hawkins, and Kid were almost immediately suppressed by the Yonko shortly after entering the New World!

Originally, Hawkins and Kid were imprisoned, and once Kaido had time, they would have to make a choice—either join the Beasts Pirates or be killed. But at this time, a turning point occurred.

About a week ago, which was around the time Ian came to Whole Cake Island to attend the tea party, Hawkins and Kid escaped!

The person who created the opportunity for them was “Red Flag” X Drake!

Previously, when Drake met Ian, he had mentioned his plan to join the Beasts Pirates, and he indeed did so. Thanks to the fact that he himself was a Zoan-type Devil Fruit user, he smoothly joined them. Upon discovering that Hawkins and Kid had been captured, he found an opportunity, opened their cell doors, and released them.

The reason he helped them escape wasn’t because Drake considered them his contemporaries but because he knew that Hawkins knew Ian. Back on Sabaody Archipelago, the two were rescued by Ian together. So when he released Hawkins and Kid, he also asked Hawkins to help deliver some information to Ian.

Although Hawkins and Kid escaped, their pirate crews had been severely battered. They could barely move, but almost everyone was injured. Moreover, on their ships, most of the supplies had been taken by the Beasts Pirates, and they couldn’t find any medicine.

Although Hawkins knew Ian, he didn’t know where Ian’s territory was. The world said that Ian had a Sky Island as his base, but Hawkins didn’t know where that Sky Island was located.

They drifted on the sea like this, originally planning to find an island to land on and seek medicine for their injuries. But heaven doesn’t cut off all paths. At this time, the News Coo brought them the news that Ian had defeated Big Mom and become the new Yonko.

Comparisons can be infuriating. The Supernovas were being crushed by the Yonko, while Ian had, with a single decisive move, directly taken down Big Mom and become a new Yonko!

Well, Hawkins also knew that Ian was indeed much stronger than them, so he wasn’t surprised. The key was that this newspaper pointed out Ian’s current location, so they headed towards the former territory of the Big Mom Pirates…

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