Spurred on by some explosive news, countless people flooded into Little Garden in less than a month.
Most of them headed straight for Dorry and Brogy as soon as they landed on the island.
Their fate was usually to be killed by Dorry and Brogy, before eventually becoming a feast for the creatures of the island.
But after witnessing the risks firsthand, even more people began thinking about turning back.
However,
Whenever someone tried to sail away from Little Garden, a gigantic goldfish monster would surface and swallow every ship that had not yet left the coastal waters.
The first people to witness this scene were scared witless on the spot.
When they had come to Little Garden, they had not even seen the shadow of a goldfish monster.
Yet whenever they tried to leave, the goldfish monster would always appear right on time, opening its huge maw and happily swallowing the departing ships as though savoring an afternoon dessert.
To this day, the number of ships devoured by that goldfish monster was at least twenty, if not thirty.
Although one or two ships had luckily escaped the goldfish monster's maw, no one was willing to gamble against such minuscule odds.
Only then did this group of people, who had arrived full of excitement, finally realize that Little Garden was a massive trap you could enter but never leave.
Even if they managed to obtain Dorry and Brogy's heads, or happened to find an Ancient Zoan Dragon-Dragon Fruit, or even dug up countless treasures...
What meaning would any of those gains have if they could not leave Little Garden?
Having given up on moving forward but unable to leave, they had no choice but to stay near the coastline, where the danger was lowest.
As time passed, all the lush