Day gave way to night!
A new day dawned.
Isolated from the world, Nine Snake Island lay in the Calm Belt, enjoying the same peaceful, harmonious life as always.
It was an island inhabited only by women. From birth, they were raised as warriors, shouldering all the household work and labor. Even when they became pregnant, they gave birth only to girls.
The women of the country awakened to Haki with extraordinary ease.
Almost everyone had it.
Though many remained at an ordinary level.
Curiously, the architecture on Nine Snake Island was distinctly Chinese in style.
The island also had an absolute rule, dating back hundreds of years, that forbade men. Any man who entered was eliminated.
Recently, only Hancock, Gloriosa, Marigold, Margaret, and the other guardian warriors had been troubled. The common people had no idea that their empress, Hancock, had provoked a huge problem.
One careless step, and disaster could wipe them all out.
Boom~
It was a beautiful, cloudless day, but when a suffocating, scalp-prickling BGM rang out, the entire island of Nine Snake fell into a panic.
Even the Sea Kings in the surrounding waters were roused.
"This aura..."
Hancock had been bathing when she heard the BGM. Her face turned pale, and she hurriedly dressed and rushed out of her room.
The thing she had feared most had finally happened.
Elsewhere.
On the balcony of a small building, Gloriosa, who had barely eaten or slept lately, was equally aghast. Her hands and feet turned cold.
She turned toward the distant horizon. A golden rainbow was racing toward them.
"Oh no, he really came."
Gloriosa rose in a panic, not even bothering to grab her cane before turning and rushing inside to make a call.
At that moment, the residents of Daughter Country had also put