When the world war that had swept through the Totto Land waters of the New World—drawing in the Bear Kid Pirates, the Big Mom Pirates, the Beast Pirates, the Whitebeard Pirates, the Red Hair Pirates, and the other Yonko forces, along with countless other pirates, nearly the entire New World Navy, the Revolutionary Army, and intelligence agencies such as CP0—slowly drew to a close and ended in the Bear Kid's complete victory, the remaining Navy fleets dispatched to carry out the Buster Call in the first half of the Grand Line, on the other side of the Red Line, had also more or less finished their rather inglorious battles.
Amazon Lily, also known as the Island of Women, was a country inhabited entirely by the female warrior tribe known as the Kuja. Located in the Calm Belt beside the Grand Line, it had always remained safe thanks to the enormous Sea Kings lurking in the waters around it. But now, flames and smoke rose everywhere across the island, showing that it had recently endured a considerable bombardment.
After a day and a night of fierce fighting, the Marines who had come to carry out the Buster Call were in an even worse state than the island. They had been driven to the very end of their rope.
Compared to the fleet that had arrived in such high spirits, with ten of the Navy's most advanced warships and more than ten thousand elite Marines, only five vice admirals—Momonga, Strawberry, Doberman, Onigumo, and Stainless—and a handful of surviving Marines remained.
Worse still, they were trapped aboard their last battered flagship, which was still belching smoke in places and had even lost its mast.
As for the other nine ships, they still looked intact and had not sunk. But given that not the