Origins

Boom!

Uranus folded its three pairs of enormous wings and landed, whipping up a violent gust. It lay quietly prone on the ground without moving, lowering its proud head.

A humanoid figure, tiny as an ant yet emanating an oppressive aura, walked step by step from Uranus's back toward the giant dragon's head.

Her wheat-colored skin was exposed beneath medieval armor, and her long, shapely legs were toned and slender.

She wore no helmet, revealing the third eye split open on her forehead and her dark red hair streaming in the air.

"Im-sama!"

"Im-sama!"

The Five Elders and every member of the Knights of God dropped to their knees at the dragon's feet, facing the woman.

The woman's identity shocked everyone.

Steel Bone Kong, Monroe, Nami, and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers all wore expressions of utter disbelief.

The Knights of God held an unparalleled status among the Celestial Dragons, while the Five Elders were the rulers of the world.

Just who was that woman, to make them willingly kneel before her?

It was utterly astonishing, and everyone was stunned.

"Im, after all these years, you're still the same."

Seeing Im again after eight hundred years, Joy Boy, who controlled Luffy's body, wore an incomparably complicated expression.

Beside him, Sabo and Ace stared strangely at Luffy. Why did it feel like Luffy knew this woman?

Joy Boy's thoughts were drawn back to countless years ago.

Countless ages ago, the seas were still an undeveloped wilderness, and the culture throughout the Four Seas remained in a medieval age.

Back then, flintlock pistols had only just been invented, and there was not even electricity.

People lived in an unimaginably ignorant and backward world. Very few could ever leave their own sea.

There were no Log Poses then, and the Grand Line