Punk Hazard

"Marshall..."

After listening carefully to Kozuki Oden's account of the vanished hundred years, Buggy couldn't help but mutter the name.

Eight hundred years ago, a man surnamed Marshall from the Clan of D had accidentally eaten the Dark-Dark Fruit, planting a tremendous hidden danger for the war that would come later. After that war ended, One Piece vanished as well.

What was One Piece?

It was not treasure, but an idea—an idea capable of resonating with everyone...

Buggy hung up the Den Den Mushi and fell into deep thought.

A year passed quietly.

The seas had been remarkably calm that year. No earth-shattering events occurred again. Like the eve of a storm, everything had settled into a deathly still tranquility.

On Punk Hazard, the island where Akainu and Aokiji had fought for nine days and nine nights over the position of Fleet Admiral—

The arrogant scientist M. Caesar Clown was battling the Straw Hat crew. The island, half ice and half fire, was swallowed up and blanketed by vast quantities of poisonous gas.

Suddenly, the energy fluctuated. A violently surging airflow formed out of nowhere, scattering all the poisonous gas outward in an instant like a tornado. The surroundings became clear again.

"Caesar..."

At the center of the airflow, Buggy's gaze fell upon the gigantic laboratory in the distance. He had spent the past year gathering and organizing information on Laugh Tale, and only now had the opportunity to come to this island.

Buggy said to Nilek beside him, "Let's go, mutt. We're taking those documents back."

"Okay." Nilek nodded, and the two continued onward.

Central Laboratory.

"Gum-Gum—"

Luffy rushed toward Caesar. His enormous hands, stretched back behind him, were coated in Armament Haki. In the blink of an eye, he closed in on Caesar. Propelled by