Compared with the utterly unpredictable weather of the New World, the first half of the Grand Line really could only be called Paradise.
The wind howled, carrying fine rain along with hailstones, freezing rain, and all sorts of other things.
Teabeard even suspected that some of it had fallen off the Red Line.
Otherwise, how could the sky be raining so many strange things?
He even saw a glass dome suddenly smack onto the deck of his Pirate Ship.
"Damn it, we really do need to take over an island," he muttered.
Ever since Whitebeard's death, the whole New World had been thrown into a partial reshuffling of power.
The Beasts Pirates and BIG MOM Pirates, two of the Yonko crews, were rampaging through islands that had once been under Whitebeard's protection.
The Blackbeard Pirates had also risen to power, and were even hunting down the remnants of the Whitebeard Pirates.
The Red Hair Pirates hadn't shown their faces much. He'd only heard that they were fighting the BIG MOM Pirates over Fish-Man Island.
That place was practically the New World pirates' only link to Paradise.
"Otherwise, we won't have anywhere to store our spoils, Captain!"
A crewman wearing an eyepatch joined in.
They had just ransacked a pirate crew that had only recently entered the New World.
They had brought the crew and their cargo aboard in chains.
The members of this pirate crew were quite an interesting bunch.
They even had an animal trainer and a circus performer.
And there was also an especially alluring beauty!
"Of course, of course! Uhohoho!"
Peachbeard stroked his brown beard, which was split into three prongs, and laughed heartily.
The fat bulging from his body visibly jiggled.
"Once we've taken out one more clueless rookie pirate crew,"
"we'll join the contest for