It was just beginning to get light.
When the bell rang in the ship's cabin, the man named Rob Lucci awoke in the cramped four-man cabin. While the other three were still fast asleep, he put on his sailor's uniform, revealing his well-built muscles, washed up, and left the crew quarters for the deck.
Under the early morning light, a massive cargo ship appeared on the sea—the kind that could only be seen in the North Blue.
How large was this cargo ship? Even the Navy's largest warship would look like a small boat beside it.
The humans aboard this ship were as tiny as ants.
A cargo ship like this could never appear in the Grand Line.
That was because the cargo aboard this ship came from all over the North Blue. Its total value was around ten billion Beli, and after being distributed at Golden Crow Island's port, it would be shipped to other seas through various means for sale.
Only the North Blue's stable climate could support the safe operation of such a cargo ship.
If this were the Grand Line...
Looking out across the deck, Lucci was not the only one who had arrived and begun working. The other crewmen were busy as well.
There were not many crewmen, and most were humans and Fish-Men working at their respective posts. Among them, Fish-Men were the most popular crewmen.
The reason was simple. Their immense strength and ability to move freely through the sea made them more suited than humans to serve aboard cargo ships like this.
Of course, not all humans were inferior to Fish-Men. On this cargo ship—or rather, within the North Blue National Long-Distance Freight Company that owned it—Lucci, despite being human, was an absolute star. He was no weaker than a Fish-Man in