For others, the Calm Belt might have been an ocean graveyard, a forbidden zone for life.
But for Roy, this perpetually windless region of the Calm Belt was the best place to use his abilities, without question.
As vast seas of clouds blotted out the sky and drifted through the Calm Belt toward East Blue.
The shadows cast by the enormous white clouds caused many Sea Kings below to leap from the water.
Roy paid them no mind, but for the fish-men on the cloud island, this was a sight they had never seen before.
Thus, amid the vast sea of clouds, one could often see such a scene.
Countless fish-men gathered at the edge of the cloud sea, looking down at the massive Sea Kings leaping from the calm ocean below.
The soldiers of Sky City did not mock these bumpkin-like people.
After all, when they had first witnessed such a sight, they had worn exactly the same expressions.
And perhaps because Wings of Freedom existed.
The fish-men of Fish-Man Island felt equality and an utter lack of discrimination from the Sky City soldiers.
At the same time, the Sky City soldiers found these fish-men, who had lived beneath the sea all their lives, just as easy to get along with as their companions in Wings of Freedom.
Their initial contact gradually led both sides to accept each other.
So the fish-men, who had originally felt somewhat saddened about leaving Fish-Man Island.
Now could not help but look forward to the lives they would lead after arriving in East Blue.
This was precisely the scene Roy, Neptune, and the others wished to see.
And this harmonious sight made Shirahoshi especially happy.
Bringing the fish-men to live beneath the sunlight on the sea's surface had been the dream of the