The latter half of the Grand Line, the New World.
At the border between the Ettol Sea and the Totto Land Sea.
There was a country here called Elegia. With a population of just over fifty thousand, it was merely a small nation in the New World by population alone.
But...
Because the Elegia Kingdom had gathered the world's finest musicians, its musical atmosphere was exceptionally rich, and its citizens received widespread music education, it earned the title of Kingdom of Music.
On a remote stretch of coast on Elegia Island, a sailing ship flying a black skull flag and bearing a red dragon-headed figurehead slowly docked by the shore and dropped anchor.
This ship was called the Red Force, and it belonged to the Red Hair Pirates. Its captain, Red-Haired Shanks, was merely a somewhat famous pirate with a bounty of 260 million.
In this era of the seas, where pirates emerged one after another, those with bounties exceeding a hundred million were everywhere. At least twenty or thirty appeared every year. A bounty of just over two hundred million could not even rank among the countless strong figures of the New World.
Those pirates with bounties over a hundred million might receive a few extra glances when their bounties first crossed that mark, but after two or three years, if they had not caused any major incidents, ordinary people would not even remember who the hell they were...
As a result, after some pirates entered the New World and discovered the brutal competition there, they very knowingly withdrew and returned to the Four Seas to live in seclusion.
After some time, aside from the Marines and bounty hunters, practically no one recognized them anymore!
A red-haired young man wearing a straw hat, with three claw marks over his