Sea Year 1495

Can a single person's change in life trajectory have a major impact on the world?

The butterfly effect is a widely known concept.

A tiny butterfly flutters its wings in the sky above some place, gently stirring the air.

Over a long time, the faint currents it brings might trigger a storm in a distant land.

Later generations use this as a metaphor for how a minuscule factor can lead to unpredictable, severe consequences.

So can an ordinary person change the entire world?

The answer is yes, but only if you know what will happen to this world in the future. Then, when an unexpected little butterfly flaps its wings here, what it stirs up might be a tidal wave that detonates the world.

But for Abraham Dawn, he would rather not know any of this, and he would rather never have come to this world.

Sea Year 1495.

Somewhere in the unknown regions of the Grand Line lies an incredibly miraculous island.

Seagulls cry and circle endlessly in the sky above. The salty sea breeze blows, and even at the very center of this island, Dawn can smell the unique ocean scent in the wind.

Compared to the violent sea, this place feels like a home that can put one's heart at ease.

After all, no matter how harsh the weather, it never sinks the land, allowing terrestrial creatures to survive and thrive.

If you were to ask where the world's most brutal weather is, everyone on this planet would give you the same answer.

That's the second half of the Grand Line—the New World.

If it were just bad weather, you could chalk it up to normal oceanic climate shifts.

After all, the sea is always merciless.

But the second half of the Grand Line is something people pale at the mere mention of—a true embodiment of "hell."

It's a convergence point for every disaster imaginable. Even if the sun is warm and pleasant one second, a blizzard might strike the next.

Gale-force winds, tidal waves, hailstorms, undercurrents, thunderstorms—countless catastrophes beyond imagination.

And on this bizarre sea, islands are as numerous as the stars.

Coupled with the New World's fickle weather, almost every island has a unique ecosystem.

On each island, due to differing environments, the evolution of life varies. You could even say every island forms its own little world.

Though Dawn is on this remote, uninhabited island, at least the weather here is relatively gentle, very suitable for human survival.

Not only is the climate pleasant, but food is also no concern.

Because food is everywhere—ramen waterfalls, meatball trees, juice fountains, and other bizarre edibles he never saw in his past life are all available here.

You could say this place, covered in delicacies, is like a vacation paradise.

Of course, that's if you set aside the island's dangers...

The reality is that this island is actually made up of several massive carnivorous plants floating on the sea, known as the Stomach Baron.

Inside the island, plants grow everywhere that bear incredibly delicious, tempting food.

The aroma released by this food attracts a large number of sea beasts that come sniffing it out, even including ferocious Sea Kings.

If you could look down at the island from above, you'd see it shaped like a blooming flower.

But the center of the flower is the Stomach Baron's mouth. When it feeds, it opens wide and closes its outer "petals," causing prey to fall into its maw.

Thus, a peculiar rule has formed here.

The farther out on the island you go, the stronger the creatures become. The closer to the center, the safer it is.

Because the deeper inside, the more creatures have indulged in the food, grown obese, and naturally pose little threat.

You could say that without immense willpower, this is an island you can enter but never leave.

But for Abraham Dawn, this might count as a decent start.

After all, the child he's been reborn into was an unlucky kid captured by Slave Catchers.

As for how he ended up here, that's a story that made Dawn's emotions swing like a roller coaster.

In his memory, he only has the last two years. Anything earlier is a complete blank.

At first, this unlucky brat was just an ordinary kid who had to steal and scavenge to survive. The only thing proving his identity was a nameplate around his neck with his name engraved on it.

Aside from being made of an extremely hard, special material, the nameplate had no other unique features.

But one time, the kid had bad luck and stole from a dead-drunk pirate, and tragedy struck.

The pirate, who the kid thought was too drunk to notice, easily caught him and knocked him out with a single punch, leaving him powerless to resist.

He probably would have been beaten to death on the spot by the enraged drunk pirate, but luckily, he had a clean, handsome face. So the pirate cheerfully sold him to a known Slave Catcher in exchange for booze.

Later, just as the despairing Abraham Dawn thought he was doomed to become a slave, the Slave Catchers were attacked by a Marine Commodore leading a warship.

The kid was beaten to the brink of death in the chaos, allowing the soul of Zhang Dawn from another world to cross over.

After being rescued, he inherited his name, and for a time afterward, he spent his days on the deck watching the Marines train in the Six Powers.

Perhaps in their eyes, there was no need to be wary of a mere brat.

On top of that, during the voyage, the warship encountered several pirate crews.

Faced with injured soldiers, Dawn understood the principle of demonstrating his own value. When the ship's doctor was overwhelmed, he took the initiative to show off his skilled surgical suturing.

After that, Dawn used his mature mindset to get along with the people around him. Over time, everyone grew accustomed to him watching the training nearby.

After all, in the eyes of those around him, this kid would most likely be sent to a Marine base for training sooner or later. He would inevitably learn the Six Powers and was destined to become a Marine.

At the very least, with his skilled surgical suturing at such a young age, he could become an excellent military doctor in the future. So no one drove him away.

But no one imagined that Abraham Dawn, who looked only five or six years old, actually housed an adult soul inside his body.

Already possessing an adult's mindset, he had long since memorized the training methods.

Although only three techniques—Shave, Kami-e, and Iron Body—had detailed training methods, Dawn was already satisfied.

After all, transmigrating into the world of One Piece, the safest start was within the Marines.

Not only were resources abundant, allowing for systematic development of his strength, but the Marine training period was also very safe.

Having transmigrated, Abraham Dawn initially thought he had stumbled upon a good start. Holding this thought, he was happily met with tragedy.

Simply put, the Slave Catcher ship that had been wiped out was clearly backed by someone—the kind where "if you beat the small fry, the big shots come."

During the battle between the two sides, they were cheerfully caught off guard when Sea Kings, lured by the aroma wafting from the Boin Archipelago, crashed into the battlefield.

Thus, Abraham Dawn, whose fate could be described as full of twists and turns, had no choice but to desperately swim toward that tempting island after falling into the sea.

Fortunately, because the island was full of food, the surrounding carnivorous sea beasts and Sea Kings had little interest in him, a mere scrap of meat between their teeth.

So Dawn was able to stumble his way to the inner ring of the Boin Archipelago.

Although he was stranded on a deserted island, it was surrounded by countless kinds of food, and the weather was pleasant, like a vacation spot.

But the young man could not be happy no matter how he looked at the beautiful and wondrous scenery, because this was no longer his original world.

And this place was not as wonderful as he had imagined!

As a former One Piece fan, Abraham Dawn naturally identified this island based on its features and the spherical sea beasts around it—this was the island Usopp had been stranded on in his past life: the Boin Archipelago!