"Jinbe?"
Lina withdrew the undead he had been preparing to send into battle. Seeing Jinbe swim over, he jumped down from the second floor to the deck.
"What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be with Ace and the others?"
"Long time no see."
Jinbe stepped onto the deck and greeted everyone after glancing around. Then he turned to Lina and replied, "I came this time to deal with the unrest on Fish-Man Island."
"What happened to Fish-Man Island?" Nami asked.
"It's a rebellion."
"A fellow named Hody Jones led the fish-men of Fish-Man District in a revolt..." Jinbe didn't treat them like outsiders and told them everything honestly.
Lina listened, lost in thought. They had agreed to train for two years after the Impel Down incident, which had taken place a few days later than in the original timeline. That had also delayed their reunion by a few days.
According to Jinbe, about a month ago, Hody had begun capturing pirates arriving on Fish-Man Island and enslaving them.
He gathered a large force and launched a surprise attack on Ryugu Palace a few days ago.
The King's Army had already been defeated, and the members of the Royal Family had been captured. Only Princess Shirahoshi remained inside the Hard-Shell Tower, where Hody had sent people to surround her.
All the island's civilians were under surveillance, and anyone who resisted had been locked up in the Prison Tower.
These were the details Hachi had secretly relayed to Jinbe while hiding among Hody's forces.
After learning what had happened, the Whitebeard Pirates had naturally rushed over from the New World. After all, Fish-Man Island was under their protection.
Whitebeard was dead, but the crew hadn't disbanded.
They were doing their best to protect the territories Whitebeard had once sheltered. As a