The Best Doctor in the World

Somewhere on the seas of the New World.

Thick clouds covered the sky. Sunlight struggled through the gaps, casting dappled light and shadow over the sea.

The waves were mild, but an oppressive atmosphere hung in the air, like the calm before a storm.

Punk Hazard lay in these waters.

It was a small island near the beginning of the New World. Its most distinctive feature was its natural lack of magnetism—no Log Pose would ever point toward it.

Precisely because of this, the World Government had chosen it as a top-secret research base, allowing Doctor Vegapunk and several other leading scientists to establish laboratories here and conduct all manner of secret research and experiments.

Towering alloy defensive walls surrounded the island, their tops lined with surveillance Den Den Mushi and automated weapons. A watchtower stood every hundred meters, each manned by fully armed World Government guards.

Without some special means of navigation or sheer luck, ordinary ships sailing through the New World could never discover this island.

But for Dawn, who possessed all the nautical charts and documents Ohara had collected over five thousand years, finding it was no great challenge.

After thinking it over for the past few days, he had finally decided to save Ida.

When it came to saving lives, most people instinctively thought of the renowned doctors famous across the seas. But as someone who had transmigrated into this world, Dawn knew perfectly well that one man was the world's best at it.

Vegapunk.

This genius scientist, said to be "five hundred years ahead of the world," was not only unmatched in technological research and development, but had also reached the pinnacle of medicine.

In the original story, he had even cured blue jade scales disease, which had been deemed incurable. If anyone could quickly