Wealth, fame, power—Gol D. Roger, the Pirate King who had once possessed the entire world, said these words to the crowd before his execution:
"Do you want my treasure?"
"If you want it, you can have it all! Go find it! I left everything I own in one place!"
Because of those words, people all over the world began risking everything and rushing toward the vast ocean. They were even willing to become pirates and be declared criminals!
Many great pirates began staking their claims and fighting one another to seize the mysterious "One Piece," creating the new order of the "Great Age of Piracy" that existed today.
And that was the main—and only—reason Monkey D. Luffy was sailing the seas with his companions, exploring the world and aspiring to become the Pirate King.
Of course, none of that mattered.
What mattered now was that a certain little girl, sleeping soundly and groggily, had suddenly been woken by a series of gentle rocking motions and noisy voices.
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Annie rubbed her eyes as she woke from her sleep. Outside the window, everything was bright, and the familiar sounds of noisy chatter continued to drift in.
"Haha!"
"Yeah~!"
"You're amazing, Chopper!"
"I'm first!"
"Don't rush!"
"Just you wait! Usopp's about to take off!"
"Move!"
"Watch this!"
"!!"
"Waaah~!"
"That's amazing!"
"My turn! My turn!"
Annie recognized the voices. The ones making all that noise outside were definitely Luffy, Chopper, and the long-nosed weirdo Usopp. She could never mistake their voices.
Annie didn't mind their racket. Things like that were inevitable.
Last night, they'd successfully found four ingredients representing spring, summer, autumn, and winter in the tower on that whatever-it-was island. And there was some kind of mango papaya, too?
Anyway, the details didn't matter. What mattered was that,