On the far side of the Red Line, in the middle of the Grand Line, lay the Sabaody Archipelago—a beautiful, dreamlike place with the world's largest trees, the Yarukiman Mangroves, and their miraculous bubble culture. Today, in a conference room at the Marine base in Area 66, the World Government's highest leaders—the Five Elders, its chief pillars—and Kong, the Commander-in-Chief of the World Government's three military branches, had gathered with a number of top Marine officers for a meeting.
The matter they were discussing was, without a doubt, how to respond to the series of major incidents caused by the brat Annie Hastur when she passed through Fish-Man Island a few days ago.
By now, whether they were the Five Elders, the Commander-in-Chief, or the Marine bigwigs, they had all reached the same conclusion:
Whenever that brat got involved, things were bound to go wrong—and they were never minor matters!
From the Sabaody Archipelago at the beginning, to Impel Down, then Marineford, and now the vitally important undersea passage of Fish-Man Island, the string of incidents the brat had caused or taken part in had nearly left all the top brass in the room emotionally and physically exhausted.
But there was no helping it. Now that it had happened, they couldn't just run away from it. That was why they had gathered here in the Sabaody Archipelago for a meeting today!
"Is everyone here?"
"Then let's talk about Fish-Man Island..."
"What should we do about it?"
As everyone took their seats and the meeting began, the first to speak was one of the Five Elders: an old man in a black suit, with white curly hair, a thick white beard, a flat cap, and a scar on his left cheek.
"I assume you're all familiar with the situation, right?"
"So..."