The waters in the second half of the Grand Line were known as the New World.
It was the place every pirate who dreamed of finding the legendary One Piece and becoming the Pirate King yearned to reach, rushing to get there as fast as they could.
But...
In all of history, only one person had ever successfully conquered these waters: the former Pirate King, Gol D. Roger!
After Roger, the New World had crushed the dreams and ambitions of pirate after pirate. Now, after spending a few days on Fish-Man Island, Annie Hastur—the former Straw Hat Pirates crew member and current captain of the Brat Pirates—had finally boarded the Sunny. With her motley crew of Flying Fish Knights in tow, she had passed through the dangerous undersea route beneath Fish-Man Island, traveled through a trench ten thousand meters below the very bottom of the Red Line, and arrived here.
Boom!!
The sea, calm only moments before, suddenly began to churn. Then the Sunny, still coated in its bubble, burst through the surface. Amid the sparkling spray and glittering light, it leaped back above the waves and officially arrived in the New World.
"Ah..."
"We made it?"
"!!"
"Is this the New World?"
"Awesome!"
"Our Brat Pirates finally made it here!"
"Yeah!"
"Hooray!!"
"Long live the Queen!!"
"Long live the Brat!!!"
"Ahahahaha!!"
"New World, here we come! We see you, we conquer you!!"
On the Sunny's deck, the Flying Fish Knights "knights" were cheering and celebrating, thrilled to see the sky and sunlight again. Hachi, who had originally planned to stay on Fish-Man Island, had come along too. So had the mermaid Camie.
Camie had worked as a waitress at Hachi's takoyaki stand. Now that Hachi, the owner, had left, his waitress had lost her job and had no choice