New World, Delta Island.
At the center of the island lay a massive circular lake, connected to the outer sea by three great canals.
Boom! Boom! Boom! ...
A continuous stream of fireworks shrieked into the sky, blossoming into brilliant explosions of every color.
Cheerful music drifted over the entire island as pirate ships flying black sails continuously swaggered through the three canals into the harbor, docking along the piers of the central lake.
One wanted pirate after another disembarked amid laughter and horseplay, coming to join this pirate festival, which was held every few years on a randomly selected island.
"Pirates, are you having fun at the Pirate Expo?
I'm sure you all know that at our Pirate Expo, stealing, robbing, kidnapping, scamming... every kind of crime is permitted. But there is one rule that absolutely cannot be broken!
That is... the Marines must never learn about this festival. Any snitch will be hunted by every pirate here to the ends of hell!
Oh! I forgot to introduce myself. I am a dealer in recovered stolen goods and the host of this festival... Donner Modirat!"
On a stage specially built for the festival, a fat man in a pink suit with a wooden prosthetic right leg introduced the various events of the Pirate Expo while doing his best to fire up the crowd. A broadcasting Den Den Mushi carried his voice across the entire island.
On one of the canals south of Delta Island, a two-masted sailboat with a lion figurehead and a black flag bearing a straw-hat skull sailed amid the many pirate ships toward the island's central lake.
"Ah! If the Marines find out about this, all the pirates will hunt us down?"
Hearing the host's words through the Den Den Mushi, Luffy, who sat on the