New World Situation

"2998, 2999, 3000!" Sig finished his three thousand punches for the day.

Sig could now stably throw punches with an output of 1400 watts, and the last three punches, gritting his teeth, each reached 1500 watts!

Because he utilized the power of the sea, Sig's "Fish-Man Karate" maintained an extremely high rate of progress, only recently slowing down... or rather, slowing down to a normal pace.

If not being too harsh, Sig's current "Fish-Man Karate" was already at the 50th dan!

If Kuroobi knew, he would probably be deeply discouraged, so Boss Jinbe told Sig not to rush to show off—wait until later to surprise him and make him fully realize!

Climbing out of the sea cage hanging on the ship and back onto the deck via the rope ladder, Sig suddenly heard crying.

He didn't find it particularly creepy, as Sig had been hearing it frequently lately.

After nearly three months at sea, the shipmates, especially the slaves who hadn't willingly joined, were gradually experiencing psychological pressure.

Recently, Sig often heard mermaids or fish-men crying at night.

Everyone seemed to implicitly agree that the deck at night was a place with fewer people, forgetting that there was still one person sleeping in a hammock on the deck.

Whenever this happened, Sig would first observe secretly, using his companions' micro-expressions to judge whether they needed someone to talk to or genuinely wanted to be left alone to vent.

Judging by the sound, it should be a mermaid, so Sig tiptoed up, not wanting to startle her.

Sig then recognized the crying person, and if he remembered correctly, her name was Triton—her tail suggested she was a treasure fish-man or a filefish-man.

However, Sig wasn't familiar with her, only knowing that she was a slightly chubby mermaid girl with a few freckles on her face, but very cute and with a good personality.

After observing for a while longer and confirming her helplessness, Sig deliberately made footsteps.

Triton was startled and quickly stifled her sobs.

"Triton? What are you doing here, getting some air?" Sig pretended not to have seen her earlier state.

"Zig, Sig?" Triton breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing who it was.

Well, if it were Arlong or the others, although they were kind to their companions, they might have started mocking her after discovering this situation—likely thinking that a bit of ridicule would help her figure things out herself... their emotional intelligence barely exceeding fourteen years old.

In comparison, Sig was considered a rare normal person on the ship.

When he lost control before, the fish-men without combat power hid in the ship's cabins, so it was the combat personnel from Fish-Man District who had a psychological shadow from Sig!

Sig walked over and leaned against the ship's side with Triton...

"I remember your home wasn't on Fish-Man Island, right? In which direction of the moon?" Sig asked casually.

Of course, using the moon and stars as directional guides was inaccurate; on the Grand Line, the abnormal atmosphere distorted the refraction of the starry sky, making them merely symbolic.

Many mermaids abducted into slavery were not originally from Fish-Man Island.

Although some were caught while visiting outside the island, or were quietly abducted by bold slaver crews who infiltrated Fish-Man Island, a considerable portion were fish-men or their descendants who had already relocated to other islands.

Fisher Tiger had previously compiled statistics on these compatriots; if their routes could later be traced to small islands that could record a Log Pose, they could be sent back along the way.

Hearing this, Triton became even more dejected: "My home... is in the Kingdom of Prodence in the New World. My mother met my father and they fell in love there."

The New World...

Sig could only offer comfort: "Don't worry! With Boss Fisher Tiger and Boss Jinbe, the New World... we will definitely be able to go there too!"

The latter half of the Grand Line, the "New World," was even more chaotic now than it would be more than a decade later in the original story!

It was about 8 to 10 years before Shanks, one of the Four Emperors in the original story, would conquer the seas; the current Shanks was merely the "strongest rookie" famous in the first half.

The Four Emperors system had not yet been established; the rulers of the New World at this time were the "Hachinosu Pirate Alliance"—it was said that the six major overlord pirate crews within it possessed the strength to contend with Marine Headquarters.

Legend had it that the overlords were once members of a legendary pirate crew based on Hachinosu Island... however, both the World Government and the overlords remained tight-lipped about this.

Among the names Sig was relatively familiar with were Whitebeard, Big Mom, Kaido, and less familiar ones like Ochoku, John, and Klaus...

It was also worth mentioning that in the public's perception, Whitebeard and Big Mom were the most famous of the six major overlord pirate crews, widely considered the kings of the New World, with Kaido being in a different tier from the other three.

Despite the feat of being trapped at Marine Headquarters and surviving, his reputation had declined significantly as he had rarely appeared since entering Wano Country many years ago. His most recent famous exploit was many years ago, shortly after Roger's death, when another great pirate, Gecko Moria, attacked Wano Country and was completely annihilated...

Sig, who read books and newspapers daily, knew that there was previously a seventh pirate overlord—Silver Axe of the Giant Axe Pirates, whose base was currently in the first half of the Grand Line, and who had been granted the title of one of the Shichibukai by the World Government.

Sig's previous captain had failed in an assassination attempt on the third-in-command of the Giant Axe Pirates, was captured, and became a slave of the Celestial Dragons.

Sig had no impression of the name "Hachinosu" itself, but he did recall Whitebeard, Kaido, and Big Mom being in pirate crews—although he hadn't seen that part of the story, Sig had read analyses on forums.

The legendary "Rocks Pirates" were ultimately defeated by Roger and Garp together at God Valley, and three of the Four Emperors were once subordinates of Rocks!

And if nothing unexpected happened, John, Ochoku, and Klaus should be the zombie extras used by Gecko Moria in the original story. Sig hadn't watched that closely himself, but the omniscient netizens had posted screenshots of "Invisible Leopard" referring to a certain zombie as "Captain John"—of course, they clearly no longer had the strength to rule at that time.

Moria's failed challenge against Kaido many years ago was rumored to have resulted in his complete annihilation.

The act of recruiting that genius surgeon and beginning to research zombies had not yet happened.

And with his strength, it was unlikely he defeated these legendary pirates; it was speculated that he stole the corpses from Kaido...

Well, Sig could infer that if the original causal chain continued, in a few years, four of the Seven Pirate Overlords would become corpses, and these corpses would ultimately be obtained by Moria!

And the so-called "Pirate Alliance" at that time would have completely fallen apart, with Whitebeard, Big Mom, and Kaido, who made the world recognize his terror, along with the rapidly rising "Newcomer King" Shanks, forming a new landscape of Four Emperors to awe the entire sea.

The World Government, due to the activity of the Revolutionary Army and the power of the Four Emperors, had strategically abandoned the New World!

Thinking of it this way, the seas wouldn't be peaceful for the next few years...

Currently, any newcomer entering the New World basically had to pledge allegiance to one of the overlords, otherwise, it would be difficult to survive!

And even with nominal alliance relations, the infighting among the major overlord powers had not ceased.

Even for the Sun Pirates, the New World was a very dangerous place...