The impact of the Fish-Man Race's split spread to the Sabaody Archipelago just one day after Chiyue announced the founding of the New Fish-Man Race.
That morning!
The human traffickers alone sent as many as twenty slave-catching ships, not to mention the pirates hoping to get a share of the spoils.
More than fifty ships in total, after having their hulls coated at the Sabaody Archipelago, charged toward Fish-Man Island together.
There was no need to think about it. They were all going there to capture beautiful merfolk as slaves.
Here!
History seemed to be returning to the original storyline. Because of the Great Pirate Era, Fish-Man Island was once again subjected to all kinds of cruel persecution by humans.
As time passed!
The hatred between the Fish-Man Race and humanity would still return to how it had been in the original story.
Then...
As long as they remained under Eternal City's protection and maintained the Space Gates connecting them to Eternal City,
the exchange between the merfolk and humans would gradually become more harmonious over time, and more and more humans would come to accept the merfolk.
Just as people at sea, upon seeing Giants, would only marvel at how huge they were, they would likewise merely marvel that merfolk could breathe underwater, without any discrimination.
But why had Neptune rejected such a wonderful path?
The whole world was puzzled!
Luo Han, far away in Eternal City, was not.
"So it isn't the plot correcting itself. It's just someone who once saw the future correcting history!"
"If my guess is right, the reason Neptune—or rather, that Mermaid Princess—did this..."
"was probably to prepare for the future Luffy to become Fish-Man Island's savior!"
Luo Han thought so because if Fish-Man Island had not severed ties with Eternal City, no one