The New World, the second half of the Grand Line.
The Thousand Sunny, sailing across the sea, suddenly let out an extremely anguished wail.
A curly-browed pervert of a cook in a black suit, with golden hair, stared at the news printed in the newspaper in his hands and burst into repeated screams.
Hearing Sanji's wails, the other members of the Straw Hat Pirates rushed over from their stations, thinking something had happened.
But Nami couldn't stand Sanji's racket. She gave him a blow to the head with her strongest Armament Haki, then spread the newspaper out for everyone to see, revealing the reason behind his anguished cries.
Three days after the meeting on Dark Island ended, a piece of Big News was delivered by News Coo to every corner of the world, shocking the entire sea.
The most famous Diamond King Wood in the world had just announced, in a high-profile fashion, that he was getting engaged.
And his future spouses weren't ordinary people—in fact, they weren't even "a" group of ordinary people.
Yes, you heard right. The president of Wood's Weapon Company, Ancient Weapon Wood, who had inherited Whitebeard's title of "World's Strongest Man" after his death, was preparing to get engaged.
And his fiancées weren't just one or two people, but several!
The fact that Nico Robin, the Child of the Devil and second-in-command of Dark Island, would be one of Wood's fiancées hadn't come as much of a surprise.
After all, Nico Robin had been with Wood for over twenty years. As the person Ancient Weapon Wood trusted most, she managed all the affairs of Dark Island, big and small. No one would believe it if you said she hadn't been getting any special treatment.
But the other names on Wood's engagement list left plenty of