On this day, the world underwent tremendous upheaval.
Dawn formally revealed the hidden history. After an uproar and great shock, people ultimately accepted it all.
Standing on Raftel, the island that had changed the course of history, Dawn held a Den Den Mushi and announced to the entire world—freedom had arrived!
"So this is what true freedom is." Shanks and Rayleigh stood together, laughing heartily.
Having witnessed everything told by Raftel's history, every pirate who pursued freedom could not help but feel an absurdity rise within their hearts.
For they, who had originally sought freedom, had willingly entered a cage!!
As for why that was, it was because the Grand Line itself was an enormous prison constructed by the World Government!!
In the past, the Red Line formed a closed loop from the South Pole to the North Pole, making it impossible for people to cross that towering wall.
At the same time, it divided the Four Seas, turning them into the World Government's backyard and pasture.
The equatorial belt perpendicular to the Red Line was the Grand Line, while the Calm Belt lay around its outermost edges, inhabited by countless enormous Sea Kings.
For ordinary people, it was a dead end. In other words, for the vast majority, they could only enter and never leave.
At the same time, the Grand Line was an exceptionally unique sea.
Its weather, geomagnetic forces, ocean currents, and air currents were all utterly chaotic, leaving people able to rely only on Log Poses.
It could be said that all common sense was useless in these waters, giving rise to countless strange nations, some of which had developed in ways that could only be called malformed.
It was not that they did not wish to develop, but that they could only live this way.