"The stretch of sea we're in right now is a place with no wind."
"In this place, our ship will stay still forever. It can't move at all."
The deck beneath their feet suddenly shuddered, and tremor after tremor rose from deep beneath the sea.
Nami hurriedly nodded, over and over without stopping.
"Hurry up and adjust the sails! Take the ship back to where we were before!"
Long Nose's eyes brimmed with resentment.
"Why should we go back? If we really do, they might catch us!"
Nami's expression turned grim.
"Stop arguing and do what I say! This isn't the time to worry about that!"
Naruto couldn't help shaking his head helplessly.
Seeing how calm they all still were, he couldn't even be bothered to keep lecturing them.
"Nami, their brains just can't grasp it. You'd better explain it to them properly..."
Nami nodded helplessly and rested both hands on the support frame...
"If you want me to explain, then I'll explain it properly."
"Listen carefully. Because we were in such a hurry to escape, our ship has now reached a position south of our planned course."
Luffy blinked twice.
"Huh? Isn't that a good thing? Doesn't that mean we've reached the Grand Line?"
Everyone's eyes shone with even greater excitement. Surely that meant they had entered a safe area.
Nami's face darkened with exasperation.
"If it were that easy to get in, everyone would be sailing the Grand Line!"
"Listen carefully. The Grand Line we're trying to enter is sandwiched between two other stretches of sea."
"But we've entered one of the stretches on either side instead, the Calm Belt."
"For some reason, this stretch of sea has neither wind nor currents."
"It's completely still. There aren't even any waves."
"Do you understand now?"
Luffy and the others'