PS1:
The class was having a get-together today, and I had originally planned to write only one chapter.
But I'd taken too many days off and felt rather embarrassed about it. ==
So I slipped away from the gathering early and came back to write.
Having no backlog really sucks. (;￣ェ￣)
PS2:
Suddenly, so many Grand Line locals have been telling me their planet doesn't allow flying...
So I have no choice but to explain properly:
1. Cumulonimbus clouds (thunderclouds) only reach around three thousand meters at most. Airships would definitely fly above them, and they would certainly have all kinds of lightning protection measures.
So airships simply couldn't be struck by lightning due to the weather like Golden Lion was.
There really were places in the pirate world with extremely harsh climates, but those were only local regions. Most areas had climates suitable for human habitation.
Otherwise, it shouldn't be called "Pirate King." It should be renamed "Wasteland" or "Frostpunk."
Besides, even Earth's old-fashioned airships from seventy or eighty years ago could overcome the Arctic's extreme weather.
Modern weather balloons could even fly up to 40 kilometers, serving as substitutes for low-orbit satellites;
With so much black technology in the pirate world, where people could reach the moon holding nothing but a balloon, why couldn't they fly?
This was a place where people could sail the seas in wooden barrels without dying, for crying out loud! (#Д)
2. As for sky pirates.
There would definitely be sky pirates, but hadn't anyone noticed that the cost and difficulty of becoming a pirate had clearly increased?
In the original pirate era, anyone with a bit of strength could grab a wooden barrel and head out to sea to become a pirate;
Now, if you wanted to become a pirate, you first