Empress Boa Hancock's plan had seemed good at first. She had gone to great lengths to keep Luffy there, making all sorts of little moves—intercepting the carrier pigeons, deliberately distorting the proper way to train Haki, and intentionally slowing Luffy's training progress. Everything had gone smoothly, but unfortunately, just three days after she intercepted the carrier pigeons, an unwelcome guest arrived on Amazon Lily and disrupted some of her plans.
"Who are you?"
"How did you get onto the island?"
"Speak!"
On the beach, she and her two sisters, along with a group of Amazon warrior guards, surrounded the man who had appeared on the island at some unknown time and was now grilling fish beside a bonfire. He had long, curly hair, a beard, white hair and beard, glasses, and a vertical scar over his right eye. Before the empress could speak, Kikyo, captain of the warrior guards, stepped forward, her brows raised, and shouted at him.
"Me?"
The old man seemed completely unfazed by the Amazonian women surrounding him, all clearly hostile and ready to attack at any moment. He simply continued grilling the fish in his hands, which was sizzling with grease.
"Hmm..."
"Let me think..."
"Ah!"
"I remember now!"
"I got here the day before yesterday. I swam all the way from the Sabaody Archipelago. To be honest, those Sea Kings around Amazon Lily were a real pain to deal with. It took me ages to shake them off."
"Oh, right!"
"I actually came to see Luffy. Could you let him know I'm here waiting for him?"
The white-haired, bespectacled old man with the vertical scar over his right eye turned to Hancock and the others, smiling cheerfully as he spoke, completely unconcerned by his predicament.
"!!"
"How do you know Luffy?"
Hancock had been about