"Sister, is this really all right?"
Hancock shook her head. "We have no choice. If anyone finds out, the Kuja Warriors will drive Ye Chen off Amazon Lily."
She turned to Ye Chen, her voice softening at once. "Ye Chen, I'm sorry to put you through this."
Ye Chen had been reluctant, but when Hancock looked at him so pitifully, longing and apology in her captivating eyes, he gritted his teeth and clenched his fists. "It's fine. I just have to stay in Back Mountain, right? What's so scary about that?"
Before the ship even reached shore, Ye Chen sprang from the Deck with an air of practiced ease. "Geppo!"
Leaving a striking afterimage behind, he kicked off the air again and again. In the blink of an eye, he landed on shore.
"Sister, Back Mountain is dangerous. There are lots of terrifying beasts up there."
Marigold hurried to warn Hancock, but by the time Hancock tried to tell Ye Chen, he had already vanished.
Granny Nyon sighed. Then she remembered Rayleigh's warning before they parted and shuddered. If anything happened to Ye Chen, that old man would never let her off lightly.
With time running short, Hancock had no choice but to accompany Granny Nyon and her sisters into Kuja Castle first.
Before long, the tale of the Gorgon spread across Amazon Lily. Granny Nyon helped the three sisters invent a story: they had defeated the Gorgon Witch in the Central Outer Sea and gained her powers.
But while gaining those formidable powers, the three sisters had also been cursed on their backs. No outsider could ever see the marks, or that person would turn to stone at once.
Because Amazon Lily lay in the Calm Belt, its residents were isolated and knew little about Devil Fruits. Granny Nyon