Three Months Gone

In a daze.

Three months had passed.

Somewhere along the Grand Line, waves over ten meters high surged toward a warship, blotting out the sky.

"The Revolutionary Army."

On the warship.

Sakazuki's coat billowed wildly behind her. Her long hair and ample chest bounced with anger as she unleashed a fist of erupting magma, forcibly blasting a gap through the waves.

Beneath the sea, where currents churned.

Tiger was using his Fish-Man gift to control the seawater.

His aim was simple.

To hold Sakazuki back as long as possible and keep her from catching up with the Straw Hat Pirates.

If Tiger hadn't been using his tricks underwater these past three months, Sakazuki would have caught up with the Straw Hat Pirates long ago.

There was no denying that Fish-Men had a natural advantage in the sea.

For the time being, Sakazuki really had no way to deal with Tiger.

After all, Tiger only harassed her from a distance and never confronted her head-on, since that would have been tantamount to suicide.

Meanwhile, the Straw Hat Pirates had no idea danger was right behind them. Unbeknownst to them, someone had already held it at bay.

The Cultivation Era had also made the seas a chaotic place.

There were more pirate crews, merchant ships, and other vessels sailing about, and with them came all manner of danger, from murder to robbery.

As a result, the Straw Hat Pirates were sailing much more slowly than they had in the original story.

Take this time, for example.

It had taken them three months to reach this gloomy, devilish sea after the Enies Lobby incident.

"Ah! A skeleton!"

A scream rang out.

It echoed eerily through the lightless sea.

A pirate ship was moored beside a gigantic, battered sailing ship, the two vessels only