Fish-Man Island, Gyoncorde Plaza.
Atop a cliff stood a great white shark fish-man dressed in the gray uniform of the Neptune Royal Army guards, a rifle in hand. With cold eyes, he stared down at Queen Otohime, who was delivering an impassioned speech advocating for fish-men to move to the surface.
His name was Hody Jones, a small-time thug born in the Fish-Man District.
Hody utterly scoffed at Queen Otohime's ideals of peaceful coexistence between humans and fish-men.
Having grown up in the Fish-Man District, the most chaotic place on Fish-Man Island, he had always been surrounded by fish-men filled with hatred toward humans.
Raised on all kinds of tales about humans persecuting fish-men, Hody had developed deep-seated hostility and hatred toward humanity...
Moreover, he had always believed that the Fish-Man Race was the perfect superior race, while inferior creatures like humans deserved only to be slaves of fish-men!
Thus, Hody Jones's greatest dream was to become a hero of the fish-men, lead them into war against humanity, and ultimately rule the entire world!
However...
Recently, Otohime had brought back a letter personally signed by the Celestial Dragons from Holy Land Mariejois. Her petition to relocate to the surface, which had originally drawn almost no support, had suddenly gained the backing of countless fish-men. In just a few days, it had already gathered tens of thousands of signatures...
Hody believed that with Queen Otohime's ability to sway and rally people, coupled with her status as a member of the royal family, all the fish-men of Fish-Man Island would answer her call, apply to relocate to the surface, and reach an agreement of peaceful coexistence with humans.
To stop this from progressing, Hody secretly bribed a human and had him set fire to the signed petitions...
Soon, he saw the petitions