Their current location was in the first half of the Grand Line, a place called the Alabasta Kingdom. Li remembered that this was a location that had appeared in the original story—the place coveted by Crocodile, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea and wielder of the Sand-Sand Fruit, in his pursuit of the ancient weapon "Pluton." This country had a princess named Vivi, who, like this little girl, had blue hair. Judging by the timeline, Vivi was a year younger than Luffy and should now be around six years old.
"Trash, hand over the little girl in your hands!" Now that he had confirmed the little girl's identity, Li naturally intended to get involved. As he had said, it was merely out of interest. As someone who could control the fates of these weaklings, Li had every right to make them hand over everything they had.
Hearing Li's words, Colido nervously swallowed. After thinking for a moment, he hesitantly asked, "If I hand her over to you, will you let us leave?" Even as the overlord of the West Blue, he had to bow his head at this point. The gap in strength between the two sides was simply too great, leaving him with an unprecedented sense of defeat. He had eagerly gathered five thousand pirates and come to make his mark on the Grand Line, only to encounter such a powerful opponent after merely ten days. Just one person had acted, yet his five-thousand-man pirate crew had completely collapsed. Four thousand had been killed, while the remaining thousand had been starved until their faces were yellow and their bodies emaciated. If this continued, no one would need to kill them—they would starve to death on their own.
"How could that be? What right do you have to