The End

Two days later, Dane and his wife left Hawaii and set foot once more on the long-lost homeland of the United States' West Coast.

He had already transferred the Hawaiian bar to one of the staff members, making him the manager. The couple themselves would no longer run the bar. Back home, they would be closer to their daughter, wouldn't they?

The world of One Piece was peaceful now.

During the days after his return, Kino traveled back and forth between the two worlds. Whenever he grew tired of living in one place, he changed to another. Yet for some reason, he never returned to Marvel Earth. Perhaps, deep down, he felt that Marvel Earth had copied the Earth from his first life, leaving him with a certain... distaste?

After all, that Earth was fake.

Though it gave him a faint sense of familiarity, it also made him resist it even more.

After all, it was not the Earth from his first life.

[Sea Circle Calendar, March 19, 1580]

This was a very special day. It was also the day that marked Kino's farewell to the world of One Piece. Starting this year, the people he knew began to die one after another, fading into the river of history. Their figures would no longer appear in the world of One Piece. All that remained would be countless legends... sung by the people of the world.

That year, long-nosed Usopp permanently closed his eyes in Syrup Village.

His three grandsons, Radish Head, Pepper Head, and Onion Head, lay beside his bed and wailed.

Yes, they were not the three from the Usopp Pirates.

Those three had long since died. To commemorate his former companions, Usopp had given his grandsons those pet names.

Who would have thought that, decades later, the