Sabaody Archipelago, 52nd Island.
Three pirate ships flying different flags slowly docked along a secluded stretch of shore.
On a two-masted sailing ship, a Longarm Tribe man with dreadlocks, standing two and a half meters tall and sporting a full beard, spoke sternly to his crew.
"Brothers, we have more than enough food and fresh water, and Pirate Hunter Roronoa Zoro often shows up around the Sabaody Archipelago, so none of you are getting off the ship.
Once I find a coating craftsman and get our ship coated, we'll head straight for Fish-Man Island."
"Hahaha! Victor, I never thought you were such a scaredy-cat...
Did that Pirate Hunter scare the guts out of you?
No wonder you asked the two of us to form an alliance with you... Back then, you said we'd join forces and seize territory in the New World.
Don't tell me you're just plain cowardly?"
The speaker was a rotund, two-meter-tall fat man. As he spoke, he snapped a long saber into several pieces with a series of crunches and swallowed them into his stomach.
While mocking the bearded man, Victor, he led his subordinates off a three-masted sailing ship clad in iron plating and onto the shore.
"Hahaha! Jones is right. Victor, you're actually this timid? I'm really curious how you got that 160 million Beli bounty...
How about this?
Since your bounty is still fairly decent, why don't you just join my pirate crew?"
The speaker was a muscular brute standing two-point-nine meters tall, bare-chested and wearing black shorts, with close-cropped black hair.
His name was Gielman, a Supernova Pirate with a bounty of 210 million Beli and the user of the Paramecia Quick-Cut Fruit.
The fat man mocking Victor alongside him was Artur Jones, with a bounty of 180 million Beli and the